Summer 26

The Green Knight

Spring 26

This Wild Land

Winter 26

The Lighthouse Keeper

Autumn 25

Cloud Orchard

Summer 25

Pink Sky At Night with Bill Nighy

By the Cloud Appreciation Society

Summer 25 Reviews

Spring 25

A Ffern Fairytale

 Winter 25

Snow Dance

with Ffern Artist Florence Sweryda

How To Make A Tunnel Book

Autumn 24

Quince Kitchen

A short documentary

When Life Gives You Oranges

Ffern Artists

Claire Basler

with folk singer Sam Lee

A Tuscan Summer

By the Italian Community

Summer 24 Reviews

The Rhubarb Triangle

A Song for Spring 24

Rhubarb Rhubarb...

Winter 24

Charleston

Autumn 23

Julius Roberts

A short film

Summer 23

Spring 23

The Flowers of Spring

Winter 23

The Myth of Holda

Autumn 22

Samhain with Boss Morris

Summer 22

Spring 22

Winter 22

Autumn 21

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Spring 21

Winter 21

Autumn 20

Summer 20

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Wild Land

For Spring 26, Sophie has created ‘The Illuminated Herbarium’, a shimmering tangle of spring wildflowers including Lady’s-smock, Vetch, Groundsel, Buttercup and Shepherds Purse.

Sophie Coryndon

Our Ffern Artist for Spring 26 is Sophie Coryndon. Inspired by a wide array of traditional crafts and decorative techniques, Sophie’s often sculptural work illuminates the beauty of nature – and shines light on what we stand to lose.

For Spring 26, Sophie has created ‘The Illuminated Herbarium’, a shimmering tangle of spring wildflowers including Lady’s-smock, Vetch, Groundsel, Buttercup and Shepherds Purse. Each stem, petal and leaf is gilded with intricate needle-etched 23.5 ct gold, cut and pinned with meticulous precision onto textured paper. 

Liv and Dom are artists and identical twins who live in Lewes, East Sussex. They are Ffern candle enamel artists for 2026.

Liv and Dom Cave-Sutherland

Spring 26 was created in partnership with Knepp Wilding in Sussex, capturing the heady tangle of green and white that crowns the rewilded land in spring. Petitgrain and timut pepper evoke the luminous dawn, while broom and tuberose call up clouds of blossom. For the wild meadows we paired valerian and elemi.

The scent of tangled blossom at first light

Broom shrubs bloom in late spring, revealing butter-yellow petals. They are hand-harvested at the height of their bloom, when their scent is most intense, then transformed into an absolute through solvent extraction. The scent is deliciously bitter and honeyed, reminiscent of orange blossom and dried fruit. 

Broom

Base

White-floral

Honey

Herbal tobacco

Tuberose is an intensely-scented flower, only blooming at night when its colours are invisible to pollinators. Over the centuries, extraction of tuberose absolute has evolved significantly. At Ffern, we use solvent extraction to yield a much higher concentration of fragrance. 


Tuberose

Animalic

Creamy

Sensual

Valerian is a flowering herb whose essential oil is extracted from the plant’s root. On its own, its scent is powerful and is therefore rarely used in perfumery. Our nose, Elodie, uses the oil with careful restraint, for the distinctive herbaceous and earthy depth it lends to a composition.

Valerian root

Herbaceous

Undergrowth

Agrestic

Buttery

Native to the Philippines, Elemi cannot be harvested until its tree is seven years old. During the wet season, an incision is made in the tree bark and the resin is collected using palm fronds. From this, the essential oil is extracted using steam distillation. 


Elemi

Spice

Lemon

Amber

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. 

Petitgrain

Green

Floral

Wood

Grown on Calabrian hills overlooking the Ionian Sea, the fruit is harvested by hand and the oil extracted at source. The La Face family planted their first bergamot in the 1930s and have been mastering the craft of producing citrus oils ever since. 


Bergamot rind

Earl grey

Citrus

Our red cedar wood (also known as red juniper) is grown and harvested in its native Virginia, USA. The oil is steam distilled directly from a cabinet maker’s offcuts. It shares the classic woody notes of atlas cedar, but introduces a distinctive ‘pencil’ facet.

Red cedar

Pencils

Our chamomile comes from the rich soils of Egypt’s Nile Valley, where wild or blue chamomile has been grown for centuries. Though the flower is white and gold, once it has undergone steam distillation the resulting oil is blue. Its warm and herbaceous scent is earthy with apple-like undertones.


Blue chamomile

Coumarin

Yellow-fruits

Closely related to cardamom and turmeric, ginger root is crowned by clusters of jewel-coloured flowers and green leaves. At Ffern, we source our ginger root in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, where it is extracted using the CO2 process. 


Ginger root

Earth

Warm

Distilled from the leaves and branches of the camphor tree, ho wood oil is a light, very pleasant woody note with floral and citrus facets. Rosewood sadly being endangered, ho wood is often used as a sustainable alternative in perfumery.


Ho wood

Sweet

Balsamic

Rose

The La Faces are a third-generation citrus farming family, growing our lemons on the northeastern tip of Sicily - just across the 3km straight of Messina and in sight of our bergamot on the Calabrian shores. The fruit is picked by hand, and the rinds cold pressed on site. 


Lemon rind

Fresh

Sparkling

The cognac oil we have sourced is a byproduct of winemaking in Romania - a land with its own distinctive climate and soil. The oil itself is obtained by distillation during the fermentation of the grape juice.⁠ 


Cognac oil

Fruit

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.

Neroli

Orange flower

Orange flower is made from the blossoms of the bitter orange tree, but unlike neroli, it is extracted using the solvent method, avoiding heat. This allows the blossoms to keep their rich, deep scent; where neroli has delicate, light, green facets, orange flower absolute is seductive, intense. 


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. 


Bitter orange rind

Bitter

Juicy

Orange

Timut pepper is a berry, plucked from the steep mountains of the Mahabharats in southern Nepal. It is made up of a hard, bitter black seed encased in a pericarp casing like the zest of a tangerine. Ffern timut pepper is extracted using the CO2 process. 


Timut pepper

Grapefruit

Zest

Originally developed in eighteenth-century Holland, Ffern’s Rose de Mai is grown in Morocco. Traditionally picked only in the month of May, our rose petals undergo solvent extraction immediately, to produce a dark, fragrant wax that can be processed into an absolute or oil. 
