Named the Green Knight, Ffern's Summer 26 fragrance is a blend of Corsican clementine, honeyed rose and hazy bran. From their website: Come, traveller. Adventure awaits in a land of myth and legend, where the world sparkles with light so vivid it seems ground from precious jewels. For Summer 26, we have designed a heady citrus-floral fragrance, sweet with dewy clementine and sun-warmed roses. Threaded by vines of basil, galbanum and blackcurrant bud.The sunlight calls us on. Through the trees, yellow heat burns the dew off lucent grasses. We cross into wide fields, burnished with bearded barley, radiating dry heat. Searching for these toasted notes, we came across bran, vanillic and hazy, deeply reminiscent of the French fields in which it grows. Another new ingredient for Ffern, bran lingers on the skin, bringing longevity to our vibrant and more volatile heart notes. Across the meads, what journeys await us? Summer is a questing season - follow your instincts, and take the winding path.
Using only the finest natural ingredients, sourced responsibly and extracted using pioneering techniques, Ffern blends, barrel-ages and bottles a new natural fragrance for every season. In natural perfumery, ingredients correspond directly with the notes you detect – top, middle, base – as a fragrance unfolds. Summer 26 features top notes of Corsican clementine rind, white grapefruit rind, green mandarin rind, petitgrain and galbanum; middle notes of rose otto, rose de Mai, blackcurrant bud, basil grand vert, rose geranium, carrot seed, ho wood, neroli and bergamot rind; and base notes of bran, Siam benzoin, jasmine grandiflorum, brown-eyed rock rose, red cedar and vetiver root. Summer 26 is an eau de parfum, edp.
FFERN SUMMER 26 REVIEWS
Fragrantica: "I adoreeeeee this. I loved Winter '26, and I needed some time to come around on Spring '26 but this is so bright and I can detect EVERY note listed vividly. When I first sprayed it, I got all giddy. Closer to the skin, all of the ingredients blend together in such harmony that I can only call impressive. I understand why a lot of people think Ffern's fragrances smell the same, because there *are* common herbal and citrus notes, but I find it very easy to pick apart every small and large difference, and the smells and experiences all end up feeling very singular, very special. For example, this citrus is a lot more juicy and tart compared to Spring '26, and overall the composition smells less grassy and more like sunshine. Smells like a bright Cocteau Twins melody and the sun rays that peek through the trees. A freshly picked peach - just one - that still needs a little time before it ripens. Freckled skin that has soaked up most of the bug spray, and ever so slightly sweaty (affectionate). Summer '26 is far more beautiful than I am capable of describing lol - writing reviews always makes me feel so ridiculous!!!!"
Fragrantica: "Opens with a beautiful intense grapefruit with a hint of bergamot and orange rind… you feel as if you are picking citrus fruit from a tree, the wind in your hair as an airy ozonic note wisps around you… the smell quickly dries down to smell like dry field, when the sun has been radiating for days on end, turning the grass into grey hay-like strands… and the hay smells so prominent, probably the vétiver… regardless I think it is a very summery sent that would not be out of place at almost any daytime occasion, my favorite Ffern by FAR! Love it and wear it a lot."
Fragrantica: "Soooo juicy and delicious with the jammy citrus notes, then the basil and bran forms a gorgeous earthy background for the bright fruity floralness of it all. I've only tried the 2026 Ffern perfumes so far, but this one really stands out to me! I don't normally like fruity scents, because they often feel "generic" to me, but this scent is so addictive and complex. I just wish it lasted more than 15 minutes on me... I'm probably gonna go through my bottle really fast."
Fragrantica: "Gosh, this is the loveliest Ffern perfume I've had so far. I find them hit and miss, but I feel like Elodie has been on a winning streak for a while: Winter 26 was extraordinary, and I also loved Summer 25 (I have skipped or returned the ones in between). But this one is really something special. It's a sweet perfume. There is sweet clementine, like candied clementine, in the opening. Then there is sweet pea, sweet basil, sweet jammy rose, and a sweet wheaty, powdery base, which is probably the bran note. The whole thing is sweet through and through, in a fresh, nuanced, well-composed way. It smells like jam: it's both fresh and full-bodied. It's very sweet for a Ffern perfume. It doesn't have that citrus sourness that can make them smell like cat pee when it gets too hot. The rose also works far better than I expected. It all smells like a summer garden party, something with cake and pitchers of elderflower juice. It's fantastic."
Fragrantica: "Upon completing her perilous quest, the female knight victoriously rides her white horse back to her village's town square. She is greeted with thunderous applause as her community drapes her in garlands and wreaths of floppy, fragrant roses, heavy with dew. Later in the evening, the townspeople come together to enjoy a banquet in the knight's honor, complete with a dessert of refreshing clementine and blackcurrant sherbet. The dragons have been slain, the kingdom has been saved, and now it's time for everyone to dance to the lute underneath the glittering lanterns hanging from the willow trees. They all lived happily ever after..."
