Summer 26

La clementina è un agrume ibrido, nato dall’incrocio tra un mandarino willowleaf e un’arancia dolce. Le nostre clementine sono coltivate in Corsica, dove questo frutto è tutelato. L’olio essenziale viene estratto per spremitura a freddo della scorza, preservando l’aroma vivace e naturale del frutto.

Il geranio di Ffern, Pelargonium graveolens, è noto anche come geranio rosa. Secondo la leggenda, questo fiore nacque quando il profeta Maometto, dopo essersi bagnato in un fiume, stese la sua camicia su un ramo di malva ad asciugare. La malva si sentì così onorata da trasformarsi nello splendido geranio rosa.

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.

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.

Distillato dalle foglie e dai rami dell’albero della canfora, l’olio di legno di Ho è una nota legnosa leggera con sfumature floreali e agrumate. Visto che il palissandro è purtroppo a rischio di estinzione, il legno di Ho viene spesso utilizzato in profumeria come alternativa sostenibile.

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.

L’olio essenziale di lavanda Maillette è considerato una delle varietà più pregiate in profumeria. Pur condividendo il carattere familiare della Lavandula angustifolia, il suo profumo è notevolmente più morbido, dolce e ricco di sfumature. La nostra lavanda Maillette viene raccolta in Provenza, dove questo fiore viene coltivato fin dal XV secolo.

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.

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.