English Freesia by Yardley London Perfume. English Freesia, which hit stores in 2017, will have you feeling like you are strolling through a British garden. Besides freesia, it includes a variety of other floral ingredients, including top notes of lemon, mandarin orange, bergamot, lavender and cypress. Spicy pepper and ginger combine with lily-of-the-valley in the heart of the fragrance, and the woody base features olibanum, crystal amber, sandalwood and musk.
Yardley London has been making and selling fragrances since the 1700s, and it sent its first products over to the U.S. in 1880. While it also produces soap and body wash, the company is best known for its affordable perfumes. Most of its collections emphasize a single ingredient such as peony or iris. Lavender has been the signature ingredient of Yardley fragrances for centuries, and the company even sent scientists around the world to find the best species. The brand eventually settled on Lavandula Augustifolia, a rare plant grown in English fields, as the base ingredient for its creations.
