{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "lavandin-essential-oil",
 "type": "Material",
 "version": 3,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 2,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "HV-4",
  "EU-2023-1545"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "lavandin essential oil",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:41",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Si l’on compare avec la lavande fine, son huile essentielle est de moins bonne qualité, car elle est très camphrée.",
  "date": "2018-12-12",
  "note": "the sentence’s « son huile essentielle » is lavandin’s (the sentence before names it)"
 },
 "kind": {
  "value": "natural",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "note": "a distillate of the flowering plant",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "botanical": {
  "value": "lavandin",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:41",
  "quote": "Si l’on compare avec la lavande fine, son huile essentielle est de moins bonne qualité, car elle est très camphrée.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "part": {
  "value": "the cut plant (lavandin coupé)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:68",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "L’alambic peut contenir 2 balles par cuve (entre 1000 et 1200 kg de lavandin coupé) par distillation.",
  "date": "2018-12-12"
 },
 "extraction": {
  "value": "steam-distillation",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:68",
  "quote": "L’alambic peut contenir 2 balles par cuve (entre 1000 et 1200 kg de lavandin coupé) par distillation.",
  "note": "HV-4 documents lavandin distilled in a still (or, at the Valensole cooperative, an autoclave); the steam route is the one it describes at Argens",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "processes": [
  "lavender-harvest"
 ],
 "grade": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no grade on record"
 },
 "descriptors": {
  "value": [
   "very camphoraceous (très camphrée)"
  ],
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:41",
  "confidence": "B",
  "quote": "Si l’on compare avec la lavande fine, son huile essentielle est de moins bonne qualité, car elle est très camphrée.",
  "date": "2018-12-12",
  "note": "the heritage record’s word, comparing it with fine lavender’s oil"
 },
 "constituents": [],
 "regulation": {
  "value": [
   "eu-2023-1545"
  ],
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "EU-2023-1545",
  "where": "docs/sources/EU-2023-1545-fragrance-allergen-labelling.md:47",
  "quote": "Lavandula intermedia oil/extract; Lavandula Intermedia Flower/Leaf/Stem Extract; Lavandula Intermedia Flower/Leaf/Stem Oil; Lavandula Intermedia Oil",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "Lane 20: the Regulation records that apply to it (educational summaries as of 2026-09-30; not compliance advice)"
 },
 "price_band": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "nothing on the site is for sale and raw-material prices are left out until the sourcing phase (DECISIONS_LOG P2-2); HV-4 quotes 2017 lavandin prices, not used"
 },
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-lavender",
  "extraction": "/science#extraction"
 },
 "notes": "constituents: none on record. “Camphrée” is an odour word, not a named molecule, so camphor is not recorded.",
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Lavandin essential oil is distilled from the cut hybrid. The French heritage record calls it very camphoraceous and of lower quality than fine lavender’s oil, and says lavandin gives almost three times as much of it.",
  "body": [
   "Its yield is not shown as a figure, and no constituent is on record."
  ]
 },
 "descriptor_links": [
  {
   "as_used": "very camphoraceous (très camphrée)",
   "descriptor": "camphoraceous"
  }
 ]
}