Summer 26

La clémentine est un hybride d'agrumes, issu du croisement entre une mandarine à feuilles de saule et une orange douce. Les nôtres sont cultivées en Corse, où le fruit est protégé. L'huile essentielle est extraite par pression à froid de l'écorce externe, ce qui permet de préserver l'arôme vif et naturel du fruit.

Le géranium de Ffern, Pelargonium graveolens, est également connu sous le nom de géranium rosat. La légende raconte que cette fleur est apparue lorsque le prophète Mahomet, après s'être baigné dans une rivière, posa sa chemise sur une branche de mauve pour la faire sécher. La mauve fut si honorée qu'elle se transforma en ce magnifique géranium rosat.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

Gurjun balsam is a natural resin drawn from trees of the Dipterocarpus genus, native to Southeast Asia. It’s obtained through tapping the tree bark - a traditional extraction method that allows each tree to rest and replenish for months or even years before being tapped again. It carries a woody depth with smooth, slightly leathery undertones.

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.

Distillée à partir des feuilles et des branches du camphrier, l'huile de bois de Hô dégage une note boisée légère et très agréable, aux accents floraux et d'agrumes. Le bois de rose étant malheureusement menacé d'extinction, le bois de Hô est souvent utilisé comme alternative durable en parfumerie.

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.

Lavender Maillette essential oil is considered one of the finest varieties in perfumery. While it shares the familiar character of Lavandula angustifolia, its scent is notably softer, sweeter, and more nuanced. Our lavender Maillette is grown and harvested in Provence, where the flower has been cultivated since the 15th century.

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.

Our palmarosa grows wild in the Himalayas and in the Radjmahal Mountains on India’s Afghan border, where it is harvested by indigenous tribes. The grasses are then dried for a week to increase the essential oil yield before undergoing steam distillation.

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.