Summer 25

We grow our *Tagetes* marigold on the hillsides of South Africa’s Eastern Cape, where the orange-gold blooms flourish in the warm, semi-arid climate. Hand-picked at the height of their bloom, when their aroma is strongest, the flowers’ petals, stems and leaves are steam-distilled onsite immediately.

We grow our pink grapefruit in sustainable groves in Veracruz, Mexico, where generations of farmers have perfected the practice of citrus cultivation. Each fruit is carefully handpicked before the rind is cold-pressed while still fresh.

We harvest our turmeric leaf in Tamil Nadu, India, where the spice is native and has been grown for over 5,000 years. The leaves, typically a byproduct of the turmeric root harvest, are hydro-distilled to extract the essential oil.

Our blood orange rind comes from the sun-drenched groves of Sicily, where the island’s unique microclimate, with its volcanic soil and temperate coastal breezes, create the perfect conditions for these distinctive fruits to grow.

This member of the magnolia family has orange and yellow petals, attracting bees and birds with its fragrant flowers. Its oil is extracted using a solvent extraction method. Our red champaca is sourced from the Indian Himalayas, where the flowers are often floated in bowls of water to scent a room.

Cardamom is a tall, reed-like shrub native to South India and Sri Lanka. The mature fruit takes the form of a capsule-like pod that holds within it small aromatic seeds. The cardamom we use is grown in Guatemala and the essential oil is extracted by steam distillating the seeds.

La nostra assoluta di fieno deriva dalle erbe Lolium perenne. Tagliate nel pieno dell’estate, vengono lasciate essiccare al sole come fieno, un processo che libera la cumarina dai germogli.

Una volta essiccato, il fieno viene sottoposto a estrazione con solvente, ottenendo un liquido scuro e viscoso con una base erbacea e mielata.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.⁠ ⁠

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.

Il benzoino del Siam è una resina balsamica ricavata dalla corteccia dello storace, che cresce sui monti Annamiti, in Laos. A settembre viene praticata un’incisione a V nella corteccia dell’albero e, nell’arco di tre settimane, si formano fragili «lacrime» bianche di resina di benzoino. Questo processo è noto come «tapping», ovvero spillatura.

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.

With peach’s high water content, traditional extraction methods often fall short. To overcome this, our nose experimented with a bespoke white peach water; using a spinning cone column process, the fruit’s aromatic molecules are isolated and distilled to preserve the juicy, velvety scent of peach.