12/22/2025
Last Spring, I joined the Ffern ledger because the scent they were describing was guided by violets, and I have a treasured friend for whom violets means something so very tender. Also, it was releasing in her birthday month, and so there couldn’t have been a more perfect gift to send to her from far away. It arrived in the mail, and without opening the main box full of the bottle and accompanying gifts, I got to test out the scent with a sample.
✨ It was perfect. ✨
I sent it along to her. And it was just as right for her as I had hoped.
Ever since, I have been receiving the Ffern fragrance each season. Summer was so completely splendid that I used up the whole bottle just days before the Autumn one arrived. I was using it daily, and spraying it on pillowcases, on Summer dresses hanging in the closet, on the couch. Autumn was Quince-inspired and so magical too, and came just in time for picking apples, and lasted through taking the last leaf-strewn, amber-coloured walks through the city.
Each scent comes with a tea, and a piece of seasonal art. But there is also the podcast that I listen to on the first of each month — As the Wheel Turns — which I have surely shared with you here; and there is a short film made too, the preview clips of which enchant me for weeks before the box arrives. There is the music of Sam Lee, whom I thoroughly adore, and all the photography shared along the way — images that evoke the heart of the coming scent through landscape, weather, and the simple textures of seasonal life.
What the Ffern team has created — through the artfulness of their fragrances, and through the beauty that surrounds each arrival — is magic.
It has become part of how I welcome the turning of the seasons — something extra to look forward to, something sensory to help mark the passage of the year. I feel genuinely grateful for the way it has woven itself into my life.
And now there is Winter — inspired by a lighthouse, and a safe harbour, with its bright beacon capable of changing fate — arriving just as the Solstice comes to restore the light.
Thank you, Ffern. 🌿
