Beltane

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 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.

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.

Il gelsomino grandiflorum è uno degli ingredienti più ricercati in profumeria. Per produrre un chilogrammo di assoluta sono necessari otto milioni di fiori. Questi fiori delicati, che sbocciano di notte, vengono raccolti a mano all’alba tra giugno e settembre sull’Himalaya indiano, dove sono considerati sacri.

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.

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’.

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.

Coltivato sulle colline calabresi affacciate sul Mar Ionio, il frutto viene raccolto a mano e l’olio estratto direttamente sul posto. La famiglia La Face piantò i suoi primi alberi di bergamotto negli anni Trenta e da allora ha continuato a perfezionare l’arte della produzione degli oli essenziali di agrumi.

Orange flower is made from the blossoms of the bitter orange tree, but unlike neroli, it is extracted using the solvent method, avoiding heat. This allows the blossoms to keep their rich, deep scent; where neroli has delicate, light, green facets, orange flower absolute is seductive, intense.

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.

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.

Ffern’s pink peppercorn oil is extracted from plants grown on the volcanic Réunion Island, 680km east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Our 100% pure oil is extracted with the CO2 extraction process.

Il nostro legno di cedro rosso (noto anche come ginepro rosso) viene coltivato e raccolto in Virginia, negli Stati Uniti. L’olio viene estratto tramite distillazione a vapore direttamente dagli scarti di lavorazione di un ebanista. Condivide le classiche note legnose del cedro dell’Atlante, ma introduce una caratteristica sfumatura che ricorda il profumo delle matite temperate.

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.