Flawed Fern

The scent The artist Try a sample first!  Classic fougère, meet the salad course. A mid-century inspired fragrance with a twist. Set around the 1960’s, Authur McBain spent autumn of 2024 filming The Flaw. His bespoke suits were so stunning that 4160 Tuesdays made him a matching fragrance. It starts with the familiar polish of bergamot, lavender, coumarin and oakmoss, then Sarah McCartney deliberately messes with tradition by throwing kumquat, fennel and basil on top; a nod to his favorite salad. The result is green, aromatic and wonderfully offbeat—part impeccably tailored suit, part freshly crushed herb garden. Exactly the kind of flaw we can get behind.   Notes include bergamot, coumarin, lavender, oakmoss, kumquat, fennel, and basil. We've met a lot of people in the perfume world, and Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays is one of our very favorites. Want to know why? Sarah, in her own words: "As a little girl, I did not make perfumes from rose petals. That was for softies. I made magic spells and wanted to be a witch when I grew up. When I was 16 I bought a bottle of Diorella. I studied maths and sciences, practised music and French, wrote books on brands and their evil twin—counterfeiting—and online marketing, and learned to dance Argentinean tango. "For 14 years I was the head writer for Lush while the company grew from four shops—one in Poole and three in London—to 700 worldwide. I was writing 50,000 words every three months for the Lush Times, aiming to encapsulate the products' scents in their descriptions. During that time, I bought and read 200 books on essential oils and herbalism and learned the essential oils the founders gave me to educate myself. "At the end of the 14 years, I took some time off to write a novel featuring a problem-solving perfumer. In it, I described the scents that she made and I wanted to have them available for people to smell. So I set off on a quest to see if I could buy them. This turned out to be impossible - and pretty expensive - because no one was making exactly what I wanted, so I started another quest to see of I could make them instead. Of course that turned out to be even more difficult, but once I'd started, I just kept going. 4160 Tuesdays perfumes is the result." Read more about 4160 Tuesdays on our BLOG.