Victorian Amelia Wise and her stepmother go to live in the derelict house she has inherited from her father. In the overgrown Cumberland garden, she finds a beautiful perfume bottle. Fifty years earlier, sisters Daisy and Mary-Jane tend the garden and Daisy learns to make perfume, but tragedy strikes and life changes forever. Back in Amelia's time, she meets members of her family and several events in her life mirrors those from the past. A persistent cousin, Michael Wise, reveals a secret that might mean the end of her new life.