Made in Wiltshire. Grown in England.
Handcrafted ceramics and 100% English-grown essential oils. Small rituals for the everyday.
WHAT WE DO
Scent and clay, composed together.
Tussie makes handcrafted ceramic aromatherapy pieces for everyday life. Each one pairs our own essential oil blends with ceramic forms designed to be held and for them to hold you.
Our oils are grown and distilled in the UK and our ceramics are made by hand in our Wiltshire studio. From soil to oil every ingredient is traceable, pure and chosen with care.
We make beautiful honest things that bring a small moment of calm and beauty to the days that need it most.
Meet the founder
Our Story
Tussie began with a longing to make something by hand.
After years working as a Product Manager and UX designer, Marysia found herself craving a slower, more tangible kind of creativity. Pottery became a quiet escape during difficult years of IVF, drawing her back to memories of time spent in her father’s art studio in Wiltshire.
In 2019, Marysia and her father created their first ceramic aromatherapy pieces. She named the business Nocturne Botanicals.
Soon after, Marysia became pregnant with her son. Complications led to months of bed rest and the business was gently set aside while she immersed herself fully in motherhood.
Years later, with her son at school and a little more space to breathe, the desire to create returned with a clearer sense of purpose. Tussie was born from a wish to make thoughtful things for women like herself. Women carrying too much, asking a lot of themselves, and quietly longing for small moments of joy.
Not wellness promises. Simply beautiful rituals inspired by the English countryside.
Nature has always shaped Marysia’s world. As a child, she made perfume from garden petals and herbs. Growing up in Wiltshire instilled a deep connection to the landscape and, after working with B Corps in her career, she knew any business she built should tread lightly on the earth.
Today, Tussie works exclusively with botanicals grown in the UK, supporting local growers and celebrating the beauty of native plants. Every scent is rooted in the English landscape itself, crafted without exotic oils and with care for both people and planet.
The name Tussie comes from a Middle English word for the small posies of herbs and wildflowers once carried for meaning, memory and comfort.
A little gathering of nature, held close.
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Handcrafted
Made by hand in our Wiltshire studio
Soil to Oil
100% UK-grown and distilled botanicals
Sustainably Made
Small batch. No waste. Planet considered.
OUR STORY
Why terracotta. Why English botanicals.
The aromatherapy market has two problems. Materials that lose their scent within hours. And an oil supply chain where adulteration is more common than most people realise.
Rose terracotta
Rose terracotta is a material with real character. Warm in colour and naturally porous, its microscopic structure allows it to slowly absorb and release liquid over time. That is why it is such an extraordinary material for scent.
At Tussie we work with rose terracotta for our aromatherapy products. Each piece is finished by hand using a combination of special glazes and hand-mixed underglazes, fired to create surfaces that are joyful and completely individual. Every glaze and every unglazed surface is chosen with purpose, for how it looks and for how it performs.
English-grown oils
We work exclusively with botanicals grown and distilled in the UK, sourcing directly from small growers wherever possible. This keeps our oils traceable, transparent and closely connected to the landscapes they come from.
The palette of botanicals that can be cultivated and distilled in Britain is naturally smaller than those grown in warmer climates. Rather than recreate traditional aromatherapy blends built around imported oils, we embrace what grows well here. The result is a fragrance profile that feels green, herbaceous and quietly wild.
Our long-term dream is to grow and distil more of our own plants. We have begun with scented pelargoniums, beloved by Victorian gardeners and often included in traditional tussie-mussies. It felt like a fitting place to start.
You can follow our pelargonium diaries on Instagram and discover more about each of our thirteen English botanicals in our glossary.