Why I started Rowin Scents
Three years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer.
At the time, I was working full time, raising my family and doing what so many of us do — keeping everything moving, even when life suddenly felt very different.
After treatment, I was fortunate to be given the all-clear. But around nine months later, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness.
It brought a different kind of challenge. Pain, fatigue and days when I simply couldn’t do everything I normally would made me realise how little time I’d ever really made to stop.
How I discovered aromatherapy
During this time, a nurse introduced me to aromatherapy.
I started learning about essential oils, experimenting with different combinations and discovering how much I enjoyed the process of blending scents.
Eventually, that curiosity led me to candle making.
Something unexpected happened when I started making them: for that little bit of time, my mind wasn’t on work, appointments, jobs around the house or everything else I needed to do.
I was just focused on what was in front of me.
Choosing the oils. Blending. Pouring. Creating.
It became my way of switching off.
How Rowin Scents began
That experience became the starting point for Rowin Scents.
I wanted to create products that could become small cues in everyday life — something you could light or spray when you wanted to change the mood of a room, mark the end of the working day or simply create a moment for yourself.
I began with a collection of hand-poured candles, made with soy wax and 100% essential oils, each created around a different need or moment.
Since then, Rowin Scents has grown to include essential-oil room sprays too, but the idea behind the brand hasn’t changed.
What do I need today?
Some days it might be help winding down. Other days you might want to reset after work, lift the atmosphere around you or simply make home feel like somewhere you can switch off.
What Rowin Scents means to me now
I’m still working full time. I’m still a mum. Life is still busy, and I certainly haven’t mastered the art of slowing down.
That’s partly why I want Rowin Scents to feel realistic.
Wellbeing doesn’t always need to mean finding an hour for yourself, following the perfect routine or completely changing your lifestyle.
Sometimes it’s much smaller than that.
Light the candle. Spray the room. Put the kettle on. Close the laptop.
Take the moment when you can.
That’s the kind of wellbeing Rowin Scents was created for — and it’s still at the heart of everything I’m building today.