Burns wrote Tam O'Shanter in a single day in 1790. It's a poem about a night ride, whisky, and what happens when you linger too long before heading home. It has always been read as comic, but there's something darker underneath - the ride through the dark, the narrow escape, the cost of it.

The perfume takes the mood rather than the story. Whisky and leather as the opening notes, wild oak and rosemary through the middle. It's a cold night fragrance - best in autumn, best worn when there's some distance to cover.

Loch Leven Castle sits on an island in the loch, visible from the farm on a clear day. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned there. It has that quality some old places have - quietly consequential, easy to overlook.