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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 🌝

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Bran • Summer 26

A traditional byproduct of stone milled grains, bran has been around for thousands of years. When treated carefully, its outer husks can be dried and warmed to yield a beautiful vanillic scent. Hazy, ambery and honeyed, it’s a wonder bran has been overlooked, rarely used in perfumery.

This summer, we paired bran, a new ingredient in our palette, with the sweet sparkling scents of clementine, rose and a spiralling green vine. Lingering on the skin, bran brings longevity to our fragrance - conjuring fields burnished with barley, summer harvests and dry heat 🌾 ✨

A twist of green • Summer 26

Twining between the sun-warmed roses at the heart of Summer 26, winds a joyful green vine wending its way towards the sun.
Here we imagined the fresh green curlicues of a sweetpea. After much experimenting, we captured its delicate scent with aromatic basil, galbanum, petitgrain and blackcurrant bud.

The result is bright and verdant, as if these shoots have just let drip their drink of dew 🌱

Fragrant accords • Summer 26

For Summer 26, we have been wandering among the epic landscapes of Arthurian tales - designing a mouthwatering citrus-floral fragrance that sings of sunlit days.

Corsican clementine, dewy and glittering, opens amid the sharper notes of green mandarin and white grapefruit. For the romantic heart of our fragrance, we blended essential oil of damask, deep and jammy, with the hundred-petalled Rose de Mai.

Amid these flowers, a joyful green vine twines, curlicued and climbing. Woven from aromatic basil, galbanum and blackcurrant bud, it wends its way towards the sun.

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