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Susan Costner-Kenward is a woman of many passions and a self-professed Bohemian. Creator and designer of OLIVINA Napa Valley botanicals, her life is a celebration of the sensory experience. With an imaginative, artistic nature tempered by sharp business acumen and an earthy wit, her path has transitioned from the culinary to the fashion to the beauty world in a series of creative endeavors. Susan has authored five books on cooking and entertaining (garnering two prestigious James Beard awards), has been a high-end retailer of gourmet foods and home decoration in the lauded Loaves & Fishes and C & W Mercantile in the Hamptons, and now has created the benchmark bath and beauty company, Flora Napa Valley.


Her signature fragrances OLIVINA and CIELO, a collection of personal care botanicals inspired by the natural beauty of the wine country, embody the natural luxury and bounty of the place she calls home. Susan is married to winemaker Tor Kenward, is the mother of two children and lives in St. Helena, Napa Valley.