Summer 26

The Green Knight

Spring 26

This Wild Land

Winter 26

The Lighthouse Keeper

Autumn 25

Cloud Orchard

Summer 25

Pink Sky At Night with Bill Nighy

By the Cloud Appreciation Society

Summer 25 Reviews

Spring 25

A Ffern Fairytale

 Winter 25

Snow Dance

with Ffern Artist Florence Sweryda

How To Make A Tunnel Book

Autumn 24

Quince Kitchen

A short documentary

When Life Gives You Oranges

Ffern Artists

Claire Basler

with folk singer Sam Lee

A Tuscan Summer

By the Italian Community

Summer 24 Reviews

The Rhubarb Triangle

A Song for Spring 24

Rhubarb Rhubarb...

Winter 24

Charleston

Autumn 23

Julius Roberts

A short film

Summer 23

Spring 23

The Flowers of Spring

Winter 23

The Myth of Holda

Autumn 22

Samhain with Boss Morris

Summer 22

Spring 22

Winter 22

Autumn 21

Summer 21

Spring 21

Winter 21

Autumn 20

Summer 20

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Green Knight

For Summer 26, we have designed a citrus-floral fragrance, with cooling bergamot, sweet clementine and peach rose. Threaded by vines of basil, galbanum and blackcurrant bud.

Summer 26 Film

A rambling rose amid sunlit ruins

The clementine is a citrus hybrid, born from the crossing of a willowleaf mandarin and a sweet orange. Ours are grown on the French island of Corsica, where the fruit is protected. The essential oil is extracted by cold expression of the outer peel, preserving the fruit’s vivid, natural aroma. 

Clementine rind

Orange

Juicy

Zest

Sparkling

Our damask roses are grown in the Rose Valley in Bulgaria. They are hand-picked in the early mornings and must be quickly distilled - some pickers even take their copper stills to the fields, heating the roses over wood fires to extract the precious drops that each bloom yields. 


Rose otto

Rose

Floral

Sweet-floral

Our wheat bran absolute comes from Hauts-de-France, France’s main wheat-producing region. It comes from the outer husk of the grain - a byproduct of milling - and is typically dried and warmed to draw out its scent, before being transformed into an absolute through solvent extraction. Its notes are honeyed, nutty and coumarinic.

Bran

Base

Coumarinic

Honey

Cereal

Nutty

Gourmand

Originally developed in eighteenth-century Holland, Ffern’s Rose de Mai is grown in Morocco. Traditionally picked only in the month of May, our rose petals undergo solvent extraction immediately, to produce a dark, fragrant wax that can be processed into an absolute or oil. 


Rose de Mai

Green

Warm

Blackcurrant bud absolute is one of the few natural fruity materials in perfumery. Harvested from new leaf buds from the blackcurrant bush, ours is grown in the historic heartland of cassis perfumery in Burgundy. New leaf buds are picked in the coldest months of winter when the plant’s aromatic compounds are most concentrated.

Blackcurrant bud

Fruit

Grapefruit oil is cold pressed from the fruit’s golden rind. Native to the Caribbean, grapefruit is thought to have been born from an accidental union of pomelo, the largest citrus fruit, and sweet orange. An eighteenth-century Welsh sailor described it as one of the ‘seven wonders of Barbados’. 


White grapefruit rind

Citrus

Sweet

Sharp

Herbaceous

Mint

Our Egyptian basil grand vert is renowned for its high linalool composition and its distinctive aniseed notes. The leaves are cut and immediately distilled - if they are allowed to dry, the scent is largely lost.


Basil grand vert

Aniseed

Basil

Ffern’s geranium, _Pelargonium graveolens_, is also known as the rose geranium. Legend has it that this flower was created when the prophet Mohammed, after bathing in a river, laid his shirt upon a mallow branch to dry. The mallow was so honoured that it transformed into the beautiful rose geranium. 


Rose geranium

Aromatic

The frilled, lacy umbels of wild carrot create that pale, high summer froth along hedgerows, in meadows and coastal dunes - and though their roots are edible, they are not as palatable as the plant's familiar cultivar. A sweet, earthy, woody oil can be extracted from the plant's seeds.


Carrot seed

Fresh

Musk

Earth

Spice

Powder

Distilled from the leaves and branches of the camphor tree, ho wood oil is a light, very pleasant woody note with floral and citrus facets. Rosewood sadly being endangered, ho wood is often used as a sustainable alternative in perfumery.


Ho wood

Wood

Balsamic

Ffern mandarins are harvested in the months before ripening. Whilst still green, they are cold pressed on site to preserve their delicate top notes. The scent is notably sharper and more floral than their ripe counterparts.


Green mandarin rind

Ffern petitgrain is harvested in Paraguay from a hybrid tree - a cross between a sweet Citrus x sinensis and a bitter Citrus x aurantium. Grown by a network of family farmers, the tree’s leaves and branches are cut and immediately distilled in hand built, clay sealed wooden distilleries. 

Petitgrain

Benzoin Siam is a balsamic resin taken from the bark of the styrax tree, growing wild in the Annamite mountains of Laos. In September, a v-shaped cut is made in the tree bark, and brittle white ‘tears’ of benzoin resin accumulate over three-weeks. This process is known as ‘tapping’. 


Benzoin Siam

Vanilla

Jasmine grandiflorum is one of the most sought after ingredients in perfumery. To make a kilogram of the absolute takes eight million flowers - these delicate, night-flowering blooms are hand-picked at dawn between June and September in the Indian Himalayas, where the flowers are sacred. 


Jasmine grandiflorum

Our neroli oil is extracted from the blossom of bitter Seville Orange trees on Cape Bon in northern Tunisia. The blossoms are hand-picked in the spring at daybreak, once dew has formed. The flowers are immediately pressed and distilled.

Neroli

Orange flower

Our rock rose grows wild on the plains of Almaden de la Plata outside Seville, Spain. In late summer, the leafy stems of the plant are sickle harvested and plunged into hot carbonated water. This mixture is distilled to obtain a honeyed, amber resin - labdanum. 


Brown-eyed rock rose

Leather

Plum

Amber

Grown on Calabrian hills overlooking the Ionian Sea, the fruit is harvested by hand and the oil extracted at source. The La Face family planted their first bergamot in the 1930s and have been mastering the craft of producing citrus oils ever since. 


Bergamot rind

Earl grey

Our red cedar wood (also known as red juniper) is grown and harvested in its native Virginia, USA. The oil is steam distilled directly from a cabinet maker’s offcuts. It shares the classic woody notes of atlas cedar, but introduces a distinctive ‘pencil’ facet.

Red cedar

Pencils

Galbanum is a fragrant gum resin obtained from the root of the Ferula gummosa plant. The roots are hand-scored with a traditional wrought iron galbanum tool, yielding resin which hardens into small droplets to be collected and transformed into an essential oil. 

Galbanum

Bitter

We chose Haitian vetiver over Javan competitors for its fresh, sparkling notes, and because the root provides sustainable employment for south Haitian communities. One year after planting, the roots are excavated, washed, cut, and sun-dried before they can be steam distilled at source.
