I’m Anna Khaykov.

I’m a certified aromatherapist, author, educator, and the creator of the Aromanna Method.

My path here was not linear. My business-school background taught me to look for structure and make sense of things. But nothing prepared me for the time I was hospitalized with a rare autoimmune disease that caused inflammation in my brain.

I had to learn to walk again. To feed myself again. Things I had once done without a second thought became things I had to relearn. It is hard to put into words what it feels like when the most ordinary parts of your life are no longer ordinary.

That experience made my questions deeply personal: how do we find our way back to ourselves when life changes everything?

That chapter is part of why this work matters so much to me. Behind every pattern is a person with a story—not a number to be defined by, but a life to be understood with care.

My work began with scent and a simple curiosity: why can two people smell the same essential oil and have completely different reactions? That question led me deeper into emotion, memory, and the patterns we carry.

Numerology gave me another language for recognizing those patterns. Subconscious work gave me another. Scent gave me a way to bring the work out of the intellectual mind and into everyday practice.

That intersection became the Aromanna Method.

Today, my work combines the Triangle and Matrix of Destiny with subconscious pattern exploration and intentional scent practices. I don’t believe a number defines you; I believe it gives you another way to observe yourself and choose how a pattern is expressed.

I am also the author of The Scent Code, which explores the emotional language of essential oils and what attraction or resistance to an aroma may invite us to examine.

I am currently developing the Aromanna Method Practitioner Training for those who want to learn these tools more deeply and eventually incorporate them into their own work with others.