RRP Festival Fragrance 250ml

RRP: Rose Rhubarb Peppermint is a sharp green blast of herby refreshment. Rhubarb seems to be quite the perfumery thing at the moment, and in Sarah’s garden, it grows next to the blue Goodwin rose and the furry mint, so for us it's a symbol of summer.

250ml bottle

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Our Festival Fragrances body sprays were created to keep wearers feeling fresh, light, and ready for anything, first inspired by the cleansing herbal colognes Victorian travellers used for a refreshing rub down when water was scarce. 4160Tuesdays’ long-lasting sprays are made for festivals, busy days, or any time you fancy feeling a little fresher. A quick spritz on skin or clothes gives you fragrance that sticks around.

They're refillable and bottled in recycled PET, so you're allowed to take them with you into festivals.

Our Festival Fragrances are a modern water-saving take on a 200-year-old tradition: bathing with cologne. Inspired by Napoleon's legendary two-litre-a-day Eau de Cologne habit, we first made a special edition fragrance for Arthur McBain - our part-time bottler, actor, and filmmaker - to wear on set while filming Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix. 

To make it, we updated a 1920s-style blend by replacing the animal ingredients of the time with modern cruelty-free synthetics. This is made with oakmoss, labdanum, coumarin, musks, Ambrox Super, bergamot and Hedione.

Here’s the plot twist: although it was our original festival fragrance creation, Arthur’s Napoleon-inspired fragrance turned out to work far better as a higher-strength Eau de Toilette, so that’s exactly what it became. Le Bain de McBain is now a well-loved 4160Tuesdays fragrance.

But we weren’t ready to give up on our body sprays. So, drawing inspiration from British summer gardens, Sarah created RRP - Rose Rhubarb Peppermint, and BAL - Blackcurrant Apple Lavender for wearing at UK summer festivals.

The third, MCK - Mandora Cedar Kumquat, has more of a Mediterranean feel, with mandora from Cyprus, two Moroccan and Mexican cedar woods and Kumquat citrus essential oil. It brings us sunshine on days which lack the actual thing.

We recommend 100ml for one person per festival, if you're sharing a tent, get the 250ml bottle. We also have a litre tour bus size for £150, so you can top up your spray bottles. Let us know if you need one and we'll fill it for you.

The stunning typography on the bottles is by our friend Sarah Hyndman at TypeTasting, based on 19th-century poster fonts, via 1970s festivals.