Ffern perfume Spring 2025 / Vernal Equinox

As I finish this post up, here, we’ve done the winter to summer time change over Saturday night into Sunday morning. I am hugely discombobulated. Not only is my brain in a bit of a muddle, once I was up and doing early AM stuff I realised my shoulders were all tight and uncomfortable and my right ankle was complaining. No idea why all of this decided to pop up at the same time. Because we weren’t there last night.

It’s pretty much properly spring now. It’s been sunny. The tulips are up and starting to bloom. The daphne is still blooming and spewing beauty all over the garden. It’s now actually comfortable to be outside for periods without a coat. I am anticipating the lily of the valley making themselves known – and if they don’t I’ll visit the garden centre and buy more. Doing that is within the allowed spending parameters.

Anyway, I talked about the Ffern perfume concept a few months ago when I signed up and received my first perfume, Winter/Winter Solstice here. A number of Posse commenters had also signed up at various times and talked about their experiences.

I was not taken with the Winter fragrance and returned my bottle (you receive a box with another sealed bottle containing the perfume, a sample to try, and some bits and pieces – tea bag, Xmas ornament, etc). I used my Winter sample and pretty promptly reboxed everything else and sent it back to Ffern.

The process is that if you don’t keep a fragrance your payment moves along in the system to cover the next release.

I recently received the Spring 2025 / Vernal Equinox release. I opened the box, spritzed on a bit from the sample, and promptly logged into the return portal to initiate the return and ask for my money to be released back to me as I don’t see the point of continuing to receive fragrances based on my two recent experiences.

There are other things I could throw £90 at or indeed just let it return to my current account and percolate.

The notes for the Spring perfume are as follows: blue gum eucalyptus, peppermint, bergamot rind, lemon rind, violet leaf, rose de mai, jonquil daffodil, ylang ylang, lavender, jasmine sambac, orris, vetiver root and red cedar.

I like the smell of citrus rinds as much as I like the smell of citrus. You get something less juicy and more defined. I love ylang, jasmine and orris. Vetiver, cedar and lavender are not my favourite notes.

The reason I returned Spring and gave up on this concept is that both fragrances I’ve tried have been wan and fairly banal. Given how much many perfumes cost now I can’t see a reason to throw any money at all at anything that isn’t pretty outstanding.

What is this like on me? Well, it smells like lemon drop hard candies. If you haven’t ever had the experience, these are very sweet, gently lemony and unless you get really properly made ones utterly forgettable.

This sits quietly on my skin and doesn’t develop a great deal. And as with the Winter fragrance not relating to the smell of winter, I don’t really ‘get’ how this relates to the Vernal Equinox. I’m perplexed by the notes list regarding spring and certainly, as noted above, this does not jibe with my sense of spring smells.

So, farewell. And I look forward to the refund.

If your world is springing, how’s that developing? If you’re still wintering, I hope it’s not too mad and cold.

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