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Lemongrass Oil · Koraput, Odisha

Born from fire.
Rooted in Koraput.

Origin-locked essential oils — indigenously grown, indigenously distilled, and owned in part by the hands that make them.

Meet the lemongrass oil Our story
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Direct from origin

Odisha grew the ingredient.
Now it grows the brand.

A direct-from-origin essential oils house built on the Koraput forest belt — where the plant, the process, and the profit stay attached to the community that produces them.

See the impact Meet the founders
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More than an oil

This was never just an oil.

It's Koraput, bottled — with the people who earned the right to put their soil in it.

Get in touch How it's made

Why Suparnaa

Five things we won't compromise on

Wild-harvested

Grown without chemicals in Koraput's forest belt, gathered by hand at peak potency.

Women-led, always

Every stage — harvest to bottling — is run by a women's collective from the district.

Single-origin potency

No blends, no fillers — one plant, distilled slow, for real strength.

Fully traceable

Trace your bottle back to the exact village and harvest season.

Livelihood, not charity

Fair, direct pay for tribal artisans — steady income, not a donation.

The old model

The extraction economy was never broken. It was just never fair.

Exploited producers

Tribal harvesters in Koraput produce some of India's purest raw material — and get paid rates that reflect their leverage, not the value of their work.

Anonymous middlemen

Middlemen buy raw extract cheap, repackage it, and sell it back under someone else's name, at someone else's price.

Erased origin

No name on the label points back to origin. No part of the price reflects the labour, the knowledge, or the land it came from.

The oil kept its purity. The story around it kept getting rewritten by whoever bought it cheapest.

Suparnaa lemongrass essential oil box opened flat, showing the dropper bottle and dried lemongrass

Our story

Odisha grew the ingredient. Now it grows the brand.

The lemongrass, the citronella, the eucalyptus were already growing wild in Koraput's forests — and the women of the district already knew how to work with them. What was missing was a market that let the plant, the process, and the profit stay attached to the people who made it.

Suparnaa is that market: a direct-from-origin house where nothing is repackaged and resold as a product of somewhere else.

How it's made

We start narrow, on purpose.

Suparnaa lemongrass essential oil with dried lemongrass stalks
01

Pre-dawn harvest

Harvested before sunrise, when citral content is highest — the same logic tea specialists use to explain why first flush matters.

02

Wood-flame distillation

Distilled using traditional wood-flame boilers at government-run distillation units, with harvesters present on-site through the process.

03

Mandatory lab testing

Every batch is lab-tested before it can carry the brand name — not a certification exercise, a mandatory checkpoint.

Anyone who understands first flush tea will understand this oil. Get there before the day does.

One arrived through inheritance — continuing work her father began, upliftment of tribal communities in this same region. The other arrived through the plantation floor — a lifelong connection to soil, seasons, and tea. This brand is what happened when those two roots met.
The founders, Suparnaa Essentials
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The hero product

Lemongrass, at full strength

Steam-distilled from grass harvested at its most fragrant — the plant Koraput's women know best, distilled within a day of harvest so nothing is lost to time.

Origin
Koraput, Odisha
Extraction
Steam-distilled
Vessel
Recycled amber glass

Visibility → income → stability

The hands behind every bottle

Suparnaa works directly with 12 families and 25+ households across Koraput's tribal villages — harvest and distillation paid on the spot, in cash, at the time of collection. Bottling is run entirely by a team of women from the collective.

Education is the first social outcome the collective has funded, and out-migration from the region has started to slow as household income stabilises.

No names, no faces, no individual stories used as marketing material — the community's privacy comes before the reach a personal story would generate.
12
Families engaged directly, today
25+
Households supported across the district
6
Women running bottling, start to finish
200+
Households — where this is headed
The collective, together

Early word

What people are saying

★★★★★

"The lemongrass is nothing like the diffuser oils I've used before — stronger, brighter, and it actually lasts. Knowing where it came from makes it feel worth the price."

Early customer, Bhubaneswar
★★★★★

"Gifted the boxed set to a friend who's particular about packaging — she messaged me the same evening asking where to buy more."

Early customer, Hyderabad
★★★★★

"What sold me wasn't the scent, it was the story — a bottle that actually tells you which collective made it. That's rare."

Early customer, Bengaluru
Amber glass bottle with tribal Gond art label, tied with jute twine
What's next

More from the collective

Further single-origin oils are already in distillation — each carrying its own label, hand-drawn in the Warli and Gond art traditions the collective has always worked in.

This was never just an oil.

It's Koraput, bottled with the people who earned the right to put their soil in it. Write to us to enquire about the lemongrass oil, gifting boxes, or partnering with the collective.

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