FFERN × CASA ITALIANA
For our Italy-inspired season, Summer 24, London's oldest Italian club welcomed us into their world - and we now invite you to join us there, at Casa Italiana San Vincenzo Pallotti.
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Summer 24
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Summer 24 captures a high blue day. Golden light on the afternoon hills. A meadow filled with wild herbs and citrus trees, deep in the valley. The scent is champagne and fruit and spices and hot earth - made from a blend of red champaca, sweet fennel seeds, blood orange and bay.
Organic Eau de Parfum twice aged and bottled in Somerset, England. 32ml.
Our Summer 24 film follows folk musician Sam Lee as he travels through the Tuscan hills. As he goes he gathers impressions, sounds and objects from the landscape - singing the old song ‘Sweet Lemeney’ in dialogue with nightingales.
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Summer 24 is composed of 19 natural ingredients: 7 top notes, 7 mid notes, and 5 base notes. Click on an ingredient below to find out more about our sourcing approach, and the ingredient's history.
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High blue skies. Meadows, sweet and honeyed. A valley shaded by orange groves. Water pouring from a terracotta jug. Time passing, slow and easy.
For Summer 24, we sought to work with the hourly evolution of natural oils, capturing the scent of an entire day amongst the Tuscan hills, as it gently simmers and unfolds.
And so we awaken to citrus top notes - lemons and blood oranges, the oil itself harvested from Sicily’s lush groves. To achieve a culinary opening accord that is distinctly Tuscan in flavour, we paired these fruits with spiced bay leaf and fennel seed, sweet and herbaceous.
Imagining the morning sun glancing off cool, fresh water, we added pink peppercorn, instantly clean and sparkling.
Noon comes, the height of the day, and with it the scent of herbs and flowers, giving out their best. The star is red champaca, a new ingredient for us. This member of the magnolia family has beautiful bright flowers, whose scent captures our deep, plush midday fragrance with its shades of green tea, champagne, honey and nectar.
As we move into the afternoon, coriander seed, patchouli and nutmeg bring a dry, herbal accord - a bare foot pressing upon golden meadow grasses.
Evening settles. The earth is baked and cracked, the light mellow. Woodier notes join with the brown eyed rock rose, their heavier molecules reducing the volatility of the mixture and drawing out the lighter notes - so that echoes of the day’s fresh citrus acidity and sunny florals follow us long into the night.
This gentle progression of notes, quietening and coming to the fore, is a unique feature of natural perfumery, enabled by the immense molecular complexity of natural ingredients.
This very same complexity explains the subtle ways in which the scent will adapt to the wearer, and age in the bottle - a path dictated by the particular combinations of light and temperature that your fragrance experiences. We hope you find joy in this process.
Mine arrived today and it’s my favourite! I seem to say that with each new fragrance that is sent to me. I have 5 now in my collection and am already looking forward to Autumn 24!
I'm blown away - a sweet hay note really shines through for me, it's so pleasant. It dries down on my skin like a sweet tea, it's very transportative and feels exactly like the visuals. Pure art! Thank you!
This scent is simply delicious. From the first spray to the lingering scent. You have outdone yourself.
Just received my Summer 24 bottle. First time ordering from you and I have to say I am in love. This is not just a beautiful perfume - it’s an experience! From opening the packaging, to trying the sample, it blew me away. The most beautiful packaging and attention to detail that I ever have seen and experienced!
I've just got my bottle and it reminds me of home! We used to have champaca in our garden. It's a totally different vibe than other perfumes I have. Very fresh and unique and dries down (to me) as some sort of fresh/floral skin scent - love it.
I received this today and it's blown me away with how beautiful this fragrance is. It has to be my favourite perfume of all time, Summer 24. Thank you Ffern!
I so love this one! So different every time, always surprises me. Beautiful scent again, well done - such skills to evoke the seasons so sublimely.
From the first breath of this season’s perfume, I caught myself smiling widely, and then overwhelmed with the urge to cry for some long-forgotten happy memory. I’ve never felt such a visceral reaction to a fragrance. You must have bottled the most joyful part of my early childhood. Thank you so much.
Wow…just received the Summer scent! This is my first Ffern purchase and if I’m honest I only did it as I had an option to return, but I’ve been blown away and 100% keeping and look forward to the next scent already.
It’s absolutely stunning! It’s my 4th seasonal bottle and it’s the best one yet! Congratulations Ffern team, you truly nailed this one!
This one is incredible…I have been on your ledger for a few years now and think this might be my absolute favourite. So reminiscent of the layers of hot day; so many layers and all beautiful.
Love the scent and how it develops, and the artwork is just beautiful…Definitely one to pin up and gaze at through the Summer.
This really is a beautiful perfume. Perfumes smell different on each individual and also we each prefer different scents, spicy, woody, sweet etc. For me, this is just perfect. As for longevity, a few times yesterday in early evening I caught a whiff of the scent so it was very much still active. I loved everything that arrived with Summer 24.
Just received my Summer scent and oh my word... It’s how I imagine a Tuscan spa would smell. Deeply relaxing and uplifting too with the zesty orange. Definitely keeping my little bottle of magic.
My Summer 24 fragrance has just arrived, and I am absolutely delighted with it! Such an unusual, evocative fragrance, and I think it is one of the nicest perfumes I have ever had!
Just received my first ever Ffern package, and wow, what an experience - even just opening the box and watching the video. Amazing. And the smell of the tester so far… wow. Very happy to be a new ledger member! I look forward to seeing what else you amazing people produce!
I love it! It truly smells of summer adventures - no matter if you’re hiking in Norway, on the beach in Greece, walking through the downs in the UK. Thank you for this sublime scent.
There is something nostalgic about this fragrance. The citrus comes through but so does the warmth of evening sunlight as the sun sets in the field. The aromas of wildflowers swaying in the hot summer breeze also pierce through. This takes me back to a simpler time of homemade noodles, fresh lemonade and Sunday night family dinners.
This is perfect for me. Blends and brightens onto my skin so well. So clean! Very spicy with citrus herbs. Mentally clearing and stimulating. With a touch of meadow. Very refreshing on these hot sweaty days.
Each scent I have received really moves me into the season. I love your fragrances. They encourage me to live in the joys of the moment. Thank you! Summer ‘24 is “summer”!
I can’t get enough of this scent! By far my favorite to date. I was in love after the first spritz. So layered and complex, a new note with every whiff. And as always, the most beautiful packaging. I particularly love this seasons artwork.
This is my absolute favourite! It is so lovely and makes me feel warm and understood and nostalgic. It’s personality in a perfume encapsulating all of the memories that made who you are today.
Summer 24 is a total delight and full of the warm, sensual, earthy scents of Summer.
I keep having a sneaky sniff of my scarf or sleeve during the day to remember how gorgeous it is.
Thank you to your ' nose' for putting together such a delicious selection for us... It's memorable!
I don’t even have words to express how beautiful I find the experience your team has created.
I received my first experience/ summer this week and opened it super slowly, listening to the song/ cinema, and savoring each moment.
I just wanted to send a note to say thank you for the slow golden beautiful poem you’ve created.
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Claire Basler
Oil on gold leaf
2024-03-28
Claire Basler is a French artist who specialises in painting flowers. After studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in the Seventies, Claire has spent the forty years since developing her captivating style. Delicately painted plants unfurl across dreamlike backdrops, the brushwork energetic and distinctive.
For Summer 24, Ffern has been lucky to work with Claire on two works, one on gold leaf for our seasonal poster and one on large-scale panels for Kent Wildflower Seeds' stand at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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