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Our coffee beans are grown in Colombia’s famed Coffee Axis. The beans are roasted and ground to develop their natural sugars, giving the essential oil a rich and nutty character. Roasting the coffee bean allows the essential oil to linger longer, anchoring the lighter ingredients.

Membre de la famille des Lamiacées, ou famille de la menthe, et originaire d'Asie, le patchouli frais n'a pas d'odeur. Le nôtre est récolté à la main sur l'île indonésienne de Java. Il est ensuite séché à l'ombre et soumis à une brève fermentation, ce qui contribue à briser les parois cellulaires avant l'hydrodistillation dans un alambic en cuivre.

Sourced from evergreen *Aquilaria agallocha* trees in Trat, eastern Thailand, our agarwood is rich and complex, with deep, woody, leathery base notes. An ancient and sacred material, so prized that it was once referred to as ‘black gold’, this fragrant wood is formed when a protective resin seeps into the tree’s heartwood to safeguard it from threat.

Our Madagascan vanilla absolute is the most concentrated form of natural vanilla on earth. Extracted from the cured pods of the evergreen, climbing orchid, vanilla planifolia, it has an aromatic profile that is woody, warm, gourmand and sweet. Ours is sourced from a terroir that is considered the benchmark for vanilla quality in perfumery.

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.

Our nutmeg grows on the Banda islands of eastern Indonesia. The fruit is harvested with handheld telescopic pickers and left to dry in the shade - the seed oil is then steam distilled at source.

Olibanum (also known as frankincense) is a resin taken from the bark of the Boswellia tree. At Ffern we use Boswellia carterii. The trees grow wild along the Gulf of Aden in northern Somalia, and the resin ‘tears’ are harvested by local collectors over a period of weeks.⁠ ⁠

Our cinnamon is grown along the southwest coast of Sri Lanka, where sandy soils lead to higher quality oil. To produce this scented oil, the inner bark of the cinnamon tree is stripped and hung to dry for five days before undergoing steam distillation.

Grown in Northeastern Madagascar, our clove trees are lush with reddish brown buds which burst into many-headed white flowers. It is from these buds that our clove oil is extracted - using a water distillation process.

Cultivés sur les collines calabraises surplombant la mer Ionienne, les fruits sont récoltés à la main et l'huile est extraite sur place. La famille La Face a planté son premier bergamotier dans les années 1930 et n'a cessé depuis lors de perfectionner l'art de la production d'huiles d'agrumes.

Myrrh is a bitter-tasting gum taken from the small thorn tree Commiphora myrrha. These flowering trees can be found amid dry, rocky hills - at Ffern we harvest our myrrh in the highlands of northern Somalia.

Nos fèves de tonka sont récoltées à la main en Amérique du Sud, lorsque les fruits du Dipteryx odorata tombent pendant la saison sèche. Les graines sont séchées, trempées dans du rhum, puis broyées et transformées en huile par extraction au solvant.

Ffern tolu balsam is wild harvested by a network of families in northern Columbia. Small incisions are made in the bark of the Myroxylon toluiferum tree, from which ‘drops’ of thick, amber resin are collected.

Notre bois de cèdre rouge (également appelé genévrier rouge) est cultivé et récolté en Virginie, aux États-Unis, d'où il est originaire. L’huile est distillée à la vapeur directement à partir des chutes de bois issues de l’ébénisterie. Elle partage les notes boisées classiques du cèdre de l’Atlas, tout en apportant une touche caractéristique rappelant le crayon.

Peru balsam is drawn from the forests of El Salvador and Guatemala, where the Myroxylon balsamum tree was once traded through Peruvian ports. The tree bark is gently scored, releasing a dark, honeyed resin, then steam distilled and transformed into an oil that is sweet and woody.