{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "lavender-essential-oil",
 "type": "Material",
 "version": 3,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 2,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "HV-4",
  "EU-2023-1545"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "lavender essential oil (huile essentielle de lavande)",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:65",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Ill. 7. L’huile essentielle de lavande plus légère que l’eau de lavande flotte à la surface.",
  "date": "2018-12-12"
 },
 "kind": {
  "value": "natural",
  "evidence": "perfumery convention",
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "note": "a distillate of the flowering plant",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "botanical": {
  "value": "lavandula-angustifolia",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:47",
  "quote": "La lavande fine est cultivée en altitude, au-dessus de 800 m dans le périmètre de l’AOC créée en 1981.",
  "note": "the Argens section of HV-4: fine lavender grown at altitude and distilled on the farm; the fiche’s « lavande » is generic elsewhere",
  "confidence": "B"
 },
 "part": {
  "value": "the flowering stems, cut above the leaves",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:56",
  "confidence": "A",
  "quote": "Les tiges fleuries sont déversées au pied des cuves de distillation (ill. 4) pour y être enfournées à l’aide de fourches.",
  "date": "2018-12-12"
 },
 "extraction": {
  "value": "steam-distillation",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-4",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:59",
  "quote": "Cette grille laisse passer la vapeur d’eau, qui se condense et passe par le col de cygne.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "processes": [
  "lavender-harvest"
 ],
 "grade": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no grade on record; the AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence » (1981) is on the origin record"
 },
 "descriptors": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no descriptor on record for the oil; the essay’s “refined, slightly sweet” is given to linalyl acetate"
 },
 "constituents": [
  {
   "molecule": "linalool",
   "identity": {
    "value": true,
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": "radlerboutique.html:9330",
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "the page’s essay names linalool beside linalyl acetate as fine lavender’s pair; no analysis or specification of the oil is filed (the AOP/ISO specification would be the source), so this stays the trade’s convention"
   },
   "share": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no analysis of the oil is filed; no share or ratio is given"
   },
   "rank": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no analysis filed"
   }
  },
  {
   "molecule": "linalyl-acetate",
   "identity": {
    "value": true,
    "evidence": "perfumery convention",
    "source": null,
    "where": "radlerboutique.html:9330",
    "confidence": "B",
    "note": "as linalool: named in the page’s essay, no filed analysis"
   },
   "share": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no analysis of the oil is filed; no share or ratio is given"
   },
   "rank": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no analysis filed"
   }
  },
  {
   "molecule": "alpha-terpineol",
   "identity": {
    "value": true,
    "evidence": "documented",
    "source": "HV-4",
    "where": "docs/sources/HV-4-culture-gouv-lavande-pci.md:53",
    "confidence": "B",
    "quote": "Elle est aussi mise à pré-faner afin d’obtenir une huile essentielle moins riche en alpha-terpinéol, et donc de meilleure qualité.",
    "date": "2018-12-12",
    "note": "HV-4 records the growers’ practice: the cut lavender is pre-wilted so the oil is less rich in α-terpineol. Named, not measured"
   },
   "share": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "HV-4 gives no figure"
   },
   "rank": {
    "value": null,
    "evidence": null,
    "source": null,
    "where": null,
    "confidence": null,
    "note": "no analysis filed"
   }
  }
 ],
 "regulation": {
  "value": [
   "eu-2023-1545"
  ],
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "EU-2023-1545",
  "where": "docs/sources/EU-2023-1545-fragrance-allergen-labelling.md:50",
  "quote": "Lavandula angustifolia oil/extract (*4) Lavandula Angustifolia 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": [
  "spec-lavender",
  "or-3-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-lavender",
  "card": "/materials#naturals",
  "extraction": "/science#extraction",
  "molecule": "/molecule/linalool"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Lavender essential oil is steam-distilled from the flowering stems of fine lavender. In the Haute-Provence distilleries the cut lavender is first left to wilt, which the growers say gives an oil less rich in α-terpineol and so of better quality.",
  "body": [
   "Linalool and linalyl acetate, the two molecules the house’s essay names, are the trade’s convention here: no analysis of the oil is filed, so no share or ratio is given."
  ]
 }
}