Winter 19

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.

We harvest Douglas fir needles in Canada and transport them to France, where we extract the absolute. The branches are cut in the morning, for as they warm up during the day they release more of their precious oil. The note is very long-lasting, balsamic and fresh.

We press our sweet orange oil from the rind of cold-pressed Hamlin oranges grown in the mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Hamlin orange trees are among the most tolerant of cold and their fruit comes early, the season beginning in October.

Red juniper, also called red cedar, is a coniferous evergreen native to the north-eastern United States. We harvest red cedar in Virginia, when the plant is young, and steam distil the wood to extract a pure red juniper oil.

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.

Peppermint is a cross between watermint and spearmint, a familiar sparkly note with a slight peppery edge. We partner with farmers in India's northerly Mint Regions to grow and steam distill our high grade peppermint oil.

Believed to come from the Latin ros marinus, which means ‘dew of the sea’, rosemary grows wild in abundance on Mediterranean coastlines. At Ffern, we work with a local firm to bid on wild harvesting rights, and extract the oil at source.

The La Faces are a third-generation citrus farming family, growing our lemons on the northeastern tip of Sicily - just across the 3km straight of Messina and in sight of our bergamot on the Calabrian shores. The fruit is picked by hand, and the rinds cold pressed on site.

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.

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.

Ffern’s tarragon is grown in the South of France. The plants do not produce fertile seeds - instead the roots are hand-split in early spring. In June, the leaves are trimmed and the oil distilled. Our variety has a distinctive aniseed facet, with an earthy undertone.⁠

Présente dans les forêts montagneuses tempérées de l'hémisphère nord, la mousse de chêne est un lichen ramifié qui pousse sur les branches et les troncs des chênes. La nôtre est récoltée sur des chênes sauvages à Samokov, en Macédoine, avant d'être acheminée à Grasse, où l'huile est extraite par une distillerie familiale.

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.