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Charting the constellations • Autumn 26

This season, we’ve been turning towards the night sky, obsidian, boundless, velvety - speckled by stars that guide our way.

For those searching for answers, we’ve consulted the constellations, unrolled our charts and dusted off our compasses, piling the desk high with age-old tomes. All to create a playful horoscope for each star sign, inspired by the fragrant notes in our moonlit autumn scent.

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Falling into longer nights • Autumn 26

With September underway, we’ve noticed the twilight stretching longer - that inky violet hour after the sun has set. To welcome these expansive nights, we’re relying on soothing autumn rituals - chamomile is an ingredient we have turned to for its relaxing qualities.

In our Perfumer’s Candle, chamomile melts into other sleep-inducing ingredients such as lavender Maillette, creamy sandalwood and Peru and gurjun balsams. Our Autumn tea is similarly mellow, blending calming, caffeine-free herbs and spices with chamomile and oatstraw flower. Best enjoyed in the hours before darkness falls and envelops us completely.

🔔 Sound on! 🔔

The September episode of As the Season Turns, our podcast with Lia Leendertz, is out now.

For September, we’re on a shingle beach, where the shifting pebbles reveal unexpected life. Tall stalks of wild fennel have long memories to share, while above us black-headed gulls call insistently in the fading sky.

At sea, tiger-striped mackerel slip and shimmer through the waves, displacing the water as our feet dislodge small lichens on shore, where we listen out for story and song. This is an edgeland, where nothing stays the same for long... 🐟

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Illustrations by Maya Chessman

Moonlit rituals • Autumn 26

This season’s Perfumer’s Candle speaks of autumn evenings on a heather moor, deep colours blooming in the luminous moonlight.

To help you settle into the more restful half of the year, we chose ingredients for their relaxing qualities. Soothing lavender Maillette sits at the heart, cocooned in the herbal warmth of chamomile, while creamy sandalwood ushers in the amber softness of Peru and gurjun balsams.

Take a moment to light your candle an hour or so before bedtime. Perhaps this is your time to relax with a book, or a gentle craft, as you shake off the day and let our beautiful natural fragrance oils soothe you.

Lavandin Grosso • Autumn 26

For the shimmering lilac tones of our first fougère fragrance, we turned to Lavandin Grosso, a natural hybrid of true lavender and spike lavender. Grown for centuries in Provence, France, the flower yields a scent that’s more herbaceous than true lavender’s, distinctly brighter with cleansing touches of camphor. In Autumn 26, Lavandin Grosso evokes wild herbs among the heather, flowering like a carpet across the moonlit moor.

Immortelle • Autumn 26

An evergreen shrub whose yellow flowers have no petals, immortelle grows across the Mediterranean’s wild scrubland. Called ‘gold sun’ by the Ancient Greeks, it is a hardy plant that thrives amid craggy rocks and sun-baked soil. This autumn, we turned to immortelle, a new ingredient in our palette, for its earthy, syrupy, grassy scent, to capture sun-dried heather on the moors.