Aurana/Our Story

Our Story

Flavour,transformed.

Aurana was born from a fascination with flavour — how it builds, how it contrasts, and how a single unexpected element can completely transform something familiar.

A cube of Aurana herb butter melting into a thick slice of toasted sourdough
Warm bread. One cube. Nothing else on the plate. This is usually where a conversation about Aurana starts.

The beginning

We believe great flavour is built in layers.

Richness against acidity. Sweetness against heat. Smoke against brightness. Familiarity interrupted by something you didn’t expect.

Nothing goes into a jar to fill it. If an ingredient is in there, it is doing work — holding a note down, cutting one open, or arriving late and changing the whole thing.

Aurana Fig & Smoked Cinnamon preserve beside a halved fig and cinnamon bark

Flavour without borders

We aren’t bound by a single cuisine.

Our creations take inspiration from ingredients, techniques and food cultures from around the world. We aren’t bound by a single cuisine or category. Instead, we take those influences and reinterpret them through a chef’s perspective to create something distinctly Aurana.

That could mean transforming butter with makhani spices and truffle, pairing apricot with saffron, bringing smoke and black lime into harissa, or balancing the sweetness of honey with heat.

Seared scallops with a cube of Aurana butter melting into the pan

Four of those ideas, in jars

See every creation

The philosophy

Built in
layers

Every ingredient has a purpose. Every combination is considered. Four tensions do most of the work — get them right and you go back for a second slice.

01

RichnessagainstAcidity

Fat is generous, but it is slow. A squeeze of citrus, the bitter edge of grapefruit, a peppery leaf of rocket — that is what stops a rich butter sitting still on the tongue.

02

SweetnessagainstHeat

Honey arrives first. Chilli stays after. The gap between the two is the whole point, and it is why hot honey ends up on pizza, on cheese, on fried chicken, on everything.

03

SmokeagainstBrightness

Char and smoked spice build depth quickly. Black lime, pomegranate and a caramelised edge cut back through it, so a dark flavour never turns heavy.

04

Familiarityinterrupted byThe unexpected

Butter you have known your whole life, rebuilt with makhani spices and truffle. Apricot, until the saffron lands. The same shape on the table — a completely different memory.

The wider world

And butter is
only the beginning

Take something familiar and make it extraordinary.

Aurana is an evolving world of butters, preserves, honeys, condiments, gifts and culinary creations, united by that one idea. We want the excitement of discovering an incredible new flavour to land in people’s homes — without anyone needing to be a chef to get there.

Explore our creations

Butters

Savoury and sweet. The first collection, and still the loudest one in the fridge.

Preserves

Pear with ginger. Fig with smoked cinnamon. Spoonable, and never shy.

Honeys

Natural honey layered with chilli heat. Drizzle it. Then put it on everything.

Condiments

Chutneys and finishing jars built for the middle of the table, where the sharing happens.

Gifting

Boxes that cross categories, because flavour does. Give good taste.

What comes next In the kitchen

Seasonal editions and whole new categories, still being tasted, argued over and rewritten.

Beautifully layered.
Unexpectedly bold.
Effortlessly enjoyed.

This is Aurana

Keep
reading

Where this way of thinking came from, and everything it has produced so far.

Chef Keerthana Srinivas, founder of Aurana
The Chef

Singapore, London, Dubai — the journey behind the jars

Rigatoni finished with a cube of Aurana butter and parmesan
Creations

Every flavour we have built so far