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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 🫛🌿

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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