Free State of Mind

When we first started Andante Home in Asia, I carried with me a quiet longing, one I did not often speak of, but which lived in the corners of my heart. I wished to create a fragrance that would capture the very soul of my home, Kansas. You might think that, after years spent so far away, homesickness would fade, but it does not. It lingers, like the scent of something familiar carried on the wind. And whenever I saw a friend’s photograph of the sunflower fields near Lawrence, shared on social media, the longing would return, soft but certain, as if the golden blooms themselves were calling me back.

My husband, Nate, however, did not share in my nostalgia, for he had yet to witness those endless fields with his own eyes. He believed that no description, however lovingly recounted, could compare to the experience of standing among them. And so, when fate led us back to Kansas in 2024, he finally beheld their brilliance. In that moment, he understood.

Thus moved, we set to work without delay, determined to capture in fragrance what words so often fail to convey, the feeling of standing amidst those golden fields, beneath an endless sky, with the crisp Kansas air whispering all around.