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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.

Scentless when fresh and native to Asia, patchouli is a member of the Lamiaceae or Mint family. Our patchouli is hand-harvested on the Indonesian Island of Java. It’s then dried in the shade and briefly fermented, helping to break down the cell walls before the copper still hydrodistillation.

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.

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.

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.

Le nostre fave tonka vengono raccolte a mano in Sud America, quando i frutti dell’albero Dipteryx odorata cadono durante la stagione secca. I semi vengono essiccati, lasciati in ammollo nel rum, quindi macinati e trasformati in un olio tramite estrazione con solvente.

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.

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.

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.