The story behind
our oils.
From Bareilly's mentha fields to the world's finest perfume houses.

Sheetal Patel
Founder & Perfumer- 2018ISIPCA, France — Advanced Perfumery
- 2019Symrise, Paris — Fragrance Evaluation
- 2020Founded Sevana Naturals
- 202430+ Countries Served
I grew up in the aromatics trade — not by choice, but by osmosis. My father ran a distillery in Bareilly when I was a child; my earliest memories include the sharp green of spearmint and the earthy damp of ruh khus lifted out of copper degs.
After a business degree and a few years in corporate finance, I found myself drawn back. I enrolled at ISIPCA in Versailles — the premier school for perfumery — not to become a fine-fragrance perfumer but to understand the language and the standards of the people we sell to. That training changed everything.
What I learned in France — about evaluation, about documentation, about the trust deficit international buyers face with Indian supply — shaped the way Sevana operates. We don't just test for adulterants; we test for olfactive integrity. We don't just ship documents; we ship the story of every batch.
Sevana was founded in 2020, during a time when global supply chains were breaking and traceability suddenly mattered more than ever. We were ready. Our procurement network — built across three generations — was already structured for the transparency that buyers began demanding.
Today we supply perfumers, aromatherapists, and flavour houses across twenty-five countries. Every shipment carries my personal evaluation. If I wouldn't formulate with it, we don't ship it.
Three generations of Indian aromatics.
The Patel family has been in the Indian aromatics trade since 1986. My father, Yadvendra Patel, founded Sona Chemicals in Bareilly — one of the first companies in the region to move from crude distillation to refined, export-grade production.
My brother-in-law, Prateek Patel, now runs Sona Mint Overseas, expanding the family's reach into international markets. Sevana is the third chapter — built on the same procurement network, but structured specifically for quality-first buyers who need documentation, traceability, and olfactive integrity at the source.
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