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Perfumer’s Candle • Summer 26

This season’s Perfumer’s Candle evokes a walled garden where, amid warming air, emerald vines unfurl in a cascading series of green notes.

Resinous galbanum is almost sap-like in texture, its sharper tones softened by buchu, whose blackcurrant-leaf facets create the impression of crushed stems and tomato vines. Lifting the accord, basil brings aromatic freshness - a tangle of green that parts for a rare flower, a peach-coloured rose.

The stories behind each ingredient can be found on our website 🌱 🌹

Clementine rind | Corsica, France
Rose geranium | Nile Valley, Egypt
Basil grand vert | Nile Valley, Egypt
Galbanum | Mersin Province, Turkey
Buchu leaf | Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Carrot seed | Brittany, France
White grapefruit rind | Florida, USA
Gurjun balsam | Kalimantan, Indonesia
Petitgrain | San Pedro, Paraguay
Ho wood | Fujian, China
Peru balsam | Cordillera del Bálsamo, Guatemala
Lavender Maillette | Provence, France
Bitter orange rind | San Pedro, Brazil
Palmarosa | Radjmahal Mountains, India
Red cedar | Virginia, USA

The Green Knight • Summer 26

As we count down the days to the solstice and the release of Summer 26, we are delighted to introduce you to the central character at the heart of our summer world. Inspired by one of the jewels of medieval poetry.

⚔️ Our Summer 26 film, The Green Knight, will arrive on the summer solstice, 21st June

🌹 Thank you to .skai who created this beautiful Green Knight from plants for Ffern

Textures of rose • Summer 26

For the peach-coloured flower of our Summer 26 scent, we called on damask roses - deep and jammy - and Rose de Mai, with its honeyed, powdery delicacy. A marriage of equals that evokes our romantic bloom, rambling between branches and over the crumbling stones of an old ruin.

Richly textured, the scent of roses can vary through the course of a single day. Who knew that these flowers, much like humans, are governed by deep, internal rhythms, instructing them to release their scents when bees and butterflies are near - which is why you’ll find their perfumes sweetest when walking through the garden in the early morning or at dusk.

Celebrating the sweetpea • Summer 26

One of our favourite summertime flowers, sweetpeas seem so quintessentially British it’s easy to forget that they aren’t native to these islands at all.

With their fragrant frills and curling tendrils of green, sweetpeas originated in Sicily as wild flowers, first recorded by the monk Franciscus Cupani in 1695. Entranced by their beauty, he sent their seeds to plantsmen throughout Europe, where they have been grown for centuries 🫛🌿

June roses • Summer 26

Newly sprung in June, roses in the northern hemisphere are at the peak of their bloom. From neatly clipped terraces to tumbling climbers, claiming warm stony walls, their palette spans soft blush pinks, buttery yellows, velvety crimsons, pure white…

One of our favourites, the Rose de Mai - or centifolia, meaning hundred-petalled - is rich and honeyed, the very essence of an imagined rose. At the heart of our Summer 26 fragrance, it brings a touch of delicacy ✨ 🌹

🔔 Sound on! 🔔

The latest episode of our podcast, As the Season Turns, is out now. For June, we are by the creek watching eels, dragonflies, damselflies and bright blue demoiselles. We hear a midsummer love song that calls upon us to get outside, and bask in the light of the Rose Moon.

Listen wherever you find your podcasts 🌝

Illustrations by .c.illustration