Values
We believe in the integrity of creation.
What has been joined — soil and skin, seed and soul, the health of the living world and the health of the human person — cannot be separated without cost to both. Every choice Hildegaard makes, from seed to creation to packaging, is accountable to this understanding.
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion. — Hildegard von Bingen
Nature, in her primeval state, offers incomparably sophisticated insights into aesthetic and philosophical Beauty. Unadorned, she reveals the wisdom the Creator has placed in the universe — beauty as the primary language through which the divine addresses the human person. By faithfully presenting Nature, we facilitate transformative encounters with these inner realities.
Haute Botanical elevates the pursuit of beauty into an art form and a devotional journey of restoration — introducing a heightened level of nobility in materials and passion in technique, as a path to enlightening encounter.
Our creative process is centered on the preservation of the innate molecular complexities and unique energetic signatures of plants, so that you might experience for yourself how Nature can guide us toward luminous being. Our creations are composed purely from plants of conscious provenance.
Stewardship
The art of contemplation is central to Haute Botanical.
We are proud to collaborate with the foremost artists and scientists in regenerative agriculture to source the most extraordinary botanical ingredients on earth. Our meticulously curated partners practice cultivation, extraction, and distillation with the utmost reverence for life — preserving the most delicate, precious, and beneficial aspects of whole plants, and presenting the luminous intelligence the Creator has concentrated within them.
Hildegaard creations are composed mindfully, by hand, at our atelier in Brookhaven Hamlet, New York.
An Unparalleled Level of Provenance
LMR Naturals by International Flavors and Fragrances — the preeminent supplier of sustainable raw materials to haute perfumery — provides our exceptional plant essences. Isabella Rossellini's Mama Farm is Hildegaard's regenerative farming partner for cultivating incomparable heirloom medicinal plants for our extracts — where artisanal permaculture, heirloom seed stewardship, and rigorous botanical experimentation ensure each plant reaches the full zenith of its medicinal expression.
The Greening Power of the Divine
Hildegaard Haute Botanical creations are one hundred percent botanical — never incorporating animal ingredients, animal-derived byproducts, synthetics, or GMOs. By taking this approach, we illuminate the immaculate splendor of Nature as the Creator made it.
We have committed to a future of non-harming through our partnership with the Leaping Bunny Program.
The central principle of ingredient bioavailability from the science of nutrition guides the design of each Hildegaard formulation. Plants scientifically proven to magnify beauty and wellness form the core of every composition.
Packaging
At Hildegaard, aesthetic and environmental integrity are inseparable — each an expression of the same reverence for creation that animates every botanical choice we make.
The unboxing of every Hildegaard creation is conceived as a work of art in itself — a ritual of unveiling designed to honor the extraordinary botanical within. Our packaging is conceived by Founder and artist Lia Chavez, its every surface an original work of art. Our limited-edition bottles are individually hand-etched with edition numbers, exquisitely crafted and undeniably collectible. Each Haute Botanical creation arrives with a limited-edition seasonal poster extending the world of each collection beyond the bottle. Our boxes are designed with equal intentionality for reuse — objects of such beauty and utility that discarding them would be unthinkable.
Every element is designed for a full-circle life: our bottles are glass, our accessories aluminum, our boxes fabricated from one hundred percent recycled fiberboard and FSC-certified paper, our shipping materials from one hundred percent post-consumer cardboard. The same commitment to wholeness we bring to the plant applies, without exception, to everything that carries it.
Our Charitable Commitments
Hildegaard is dedicated to the mission of United Plant Savers — the international authority on protecting wild medicinal plants and their native habitats, established by our founder's mentor, the legendary herbalist Rosemary Gladstar. Through 1% for the Planet, we donate a minimum of one percent of annual revenue to their work: the propagation of endangered native medicinal plant species, the establishment of botanical sanctuaries, the restoration of wild plant populations, the promotion of sustainable harvesting practices, and the preservation of the ancient botanical knowledge industrial agriculture has so carelessly eroded.
Every Hildegaard purchase becomes an act of earth stewardship — a contribution to the living botanical heritage upon which all true healing depends.
