Spring 24

Closely related to cardamom and turmeric, ginger root is crowned by clusters of jewel-coloured flowers and green leaves. At Ffern, we source our ginger root in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, where it is extracted using the CO2 process.

Timut pepper is a berry, plucked from the steep mountains of the Mahabharats in southern Nepal. It is made up of a hard, bitter black seed encased in a pericarp casing like the zest of a tangerine. Ffern timut pepper is extracted using the CO2 process.

Narcissus is used in perfumery in three varieties: jonquil, tazetta and poeticus. The white flowers of our Narcissus poeticus variety have a small frill of red around their trumpets. Cultivated in the flower farms around Grasse, their scent is extracted at source using the solvent method.

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’.

Davana belongs to the silver-leafed Artemisia family, and many tiny yellow flowers grow against its soft greenery. Native to India, the dried herb has a sweet, dried-fruit aroma that is reminiscent of tea.

Buchu leaf oil is made by drying and steam distilling the leaves from the small, thorny buchu bush. Native to South Africa, buchu grows wild near streams in the fynbos, a belt of coastal shrubland in the Eastern and Western Cape.

Notre basilic Grand Vert égyptien est réputé pour sa forte teneur en linalol et ses notes d'anis caractéristiques. Les feuilles sont coupées puis distillées immédiatement ; si on les laisse sécher, leur parfum se perd en grande partie.

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.

Our bitter oranges are grown in a third-generation family orchard in Bauru, Brazil, where they are hand-picked in the early summer of the Southern Hemisphere. The rind is cold pressed on site to produce a juicy, uplifting oil.

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.

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.

Hand-picked at night to preserve intensity, our jasmine sambac is native to the Eastern Himalayas. Also known as Arabian jasmine, jasmine sambac has a long history of connection with Persia and the Middle East. The oil is extracted at source using Joseph Robert’ solvent extraction process.

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.

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.

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.