Collaborations
The Sources
The botanical intelligence at the heart of every Hildegaard creation begins in the earth — in the hands of those who have devoted themselves to understanding what a medicinal plant requires to reach its full luminous potential.
Our botanical essences are sourced exclusively from LMR Naturals by IFF — the preeminent supplier of raw materials to haute perfumery, and the standard by which botanical excellence is measured. Founded by Monique Remy in Grasse in 1983, LMR Naturals works with a devoted network of cultivators across the globe whose commitment to heirloom seeds, regenerative agriculture, green chemistry, and low-temperature molecular distillation ensures that what reaches us is unadulterated: the medicinal plant at the height of its power, its viriditas intact. Every essence is 100% pure, natural, and traceable. LMR Naturals is certified Fair For Life.
For the living plants at the heart of our extracts, Hildegaard is honored to partner with Mama Farm — the luminous agricultural estate of Isabella Rossellini. Under the direction of founder Lia Chavez, Hildegaard's contemplative botanists tend the gardens at Mama Farm with the same devotion and rigor that governs every aspect of the maison: heirloom cultivation, artisanal regenerative practice, and the patient attentiveness that allows each plant to reach its zenith. No pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, or harmful fertilizers touch this land. What grows here grows in integrity — receiving from soil and light and season everything it needs, and nothing it does not.
This is where viriditas begins: not in the laboratory, but in the earth.
Artistic commissions
Every Hildegaard creation exists within a larger world — one composed not only of botanical intelligence but of sound, image, and form. The maison collaborates with artists of singular vision whose work deepens and extends the living encounter at the heart of our practice.
The sonic world of Hildegaard is composed by Erika Spring — musician, sonic visionary, and a creative intelligence long devoted to the territory where sound meets the sacred. Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen's own musical genius and her understanding of the divine life moving through all created things, Spring has composed original works for the maison, including the immersive sonic environment for our permanent collection.
Hildegaard's visual universe is brought into being by Ioulex — the celebrated photography duo renowned for their portraiture and their capacity to render the sublime visible. Long creative companions of founder Lia Chavez, Ioulex bring to every image the same quality the maison seeks in every creation: beauty encountered not as surface, but as revelation.
The botanical costuming that moves through our campaigns is the work of designer Elanur Erdogan — whose apprenticeship with couture atelier Iris Van Herpen gave way to a practice of her own, devoted to sustainability through experimental materials and the most exacting fabric manipulation.
