Autumn 23

I forgot all about this one! At first, was a bit underwhelmed with it - felt a bit 'thin'. I put it the dark cupboard and got on with life lol! During a clear out - I rediscovered it. It would seem that age/maceration has proven very successful. Given that it's one of the hottest days and this is meant to be an 'autumnal' fragrance - I didn't think too much as I spritzed - by jings... All the notes I'd wanted way back then are there.. And then some! It's actually lovely, peppery and natural - reminds me of jumping around the hay fields in the sun as a tiny wee girl - but not rotten stinky hay... Clean, earthy with a bit of sweetness. It's incredibly wholesome! It's certainly unique and after 6 hours I can still smell it - the dry down is simply lovely! I've just rejoined the ledger 😅 Edit to add: This layers spectacularly well with my beloved/sig scent 'Knowing' from Estee Lauder. Maybe a nice little add for seasonal dimension 👍👌

This scent is so, SO beautiful. For me, it starts so unexpectedly with the dry sharpness of lemon, and grassiness of fig (which I initially thought was too harsh on my skin) and (oddly) the pencil-sharpening scent of cedar. Still, it settles within 15 minutes into the floral, gently spicy mid-notes. Within an hour the hay, vetiver and labdanum are pronounced and the scent smells gorgeously creamy, warm and resinous. I can't express how surprising and lovely I find this fragrance. Being on the Ffern Ledger for almost 3 years has taught me so much about what natural scents smell like, after many prior years of nose-numbingly generic synthetic fragrances.

i am just starting to figure out "fragrance" and finding scents that i want to wear and will draw me in... i know at 28 years old i'm blooming a bit late on this one... but as someone who is just getting into the idea of wearing perfume, finding something like this was a dream come true. this one is smoky, almost, very leathery, but it feels at the same time restrained, feminine, and soft. my husband, who notoriously gets headaches around my beloved essential oil diffuser, would always comment on how wonderful i smelled when i put this one. i have a few sprays of it left and i know it will be hard to part with it.

unfortunately, this is my all time favorite perfume that i have ever worn in my entire life (unfortunate because this scent, as is true of all ffern seasonal scents, is extremely limited and cannot be bought again once it sells out). the top notes of spice and pepper and citrus make way for this breathtaking blend of orris, basil, hay, and vetiver. the lemon, bergamot, and orange keep things buoyant while that tar notes helps keep you firmly planted with earth between your toes. i still haven’t smelled anything like it and i think i’ll search for this smell in everything i ever whiff of.

If I could get past the punch in the face that is the pepper I’d probably like this perfume more. Only thing I can say is avoid spraying it around your neck unless you love smelling straight peppercorn for the first 10 minutes or so. Dry down is better but that first spray is just too much for me. Edit; It has since grown on me a lot, I just hold my breath :)