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Lavender essential oil (huile essentielle de lavande)
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.
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.
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The record
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- Name
- lavender essential oil (huile essentielle de lavande)
documented · 2018
Ill. 7. L’huile essentielle de lavande plus légère que l’eau de lavande flotte à la surface.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Kind
- natural
perfumery convention
the trade’s shared vocabulary; no single source
a distillate of the flowering plant
confidence B
- Botanical
- Lavandula angustifolia Mill.
documented
La lavande fine est cultivée en altitude, au-dessus de 800 m dans le périmètre de l’AOC créée en 1981.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30
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
- the flowering stems, cut above the leaves
documented · 2018
Les tiges fleuries sont déversées au pied des cuves de distillation (ill. 4) pour y être enfournées à l’aide de fourches.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Extraction
- steam distillation
documented
Cette grille laisse passer la vapeur d’eau, qui se condense et passe par le col de cygne.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Grade
- not on record
not on record
no grade on record; the AOC « Lavande de Haute Provence » (1981) is on the origin record
- Descriptors
- not on record
not on record
no descriptor on record for the oil; the essay’s “refined, slightly sweet” is given to linalyl acetate
- Regulation
documented
EU-2023-1545: each record above quotes its entry.
- Price band
- not on record
not on record
nothing on the site is for sale and raw-material prices are left out until the sourcing phase (the decisions log); HV-4 quotes 2017 lavandin prices, not used
- Harvest and processing
- cutting of the flowering stems (harvest): the shears cut the plant at the stems, above the leaves; the cut lavender is left to pre-wilt before distillationrecord
documented
Les cisailles coupent la plante au ras des tiges, avant les feuilles.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30
pre-wilting: “Elle est aussi mise à pré-faner afin d’obtenir une huile essentielle moins riche en alpha-terpinéol, et donc de meilleure qualité.” (HV-4, quote 10)
confidence A
- cutting of the flowering stems (harvest): the shears cut the plant at the stems, above the leaves; the cut lavender is left to pre-wilt before distillation
- Constituents
- linalool · share not on record
identity: perfumery convention
the trade’s shared vocabulary; no single source
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
where the site says it: /materials, “Aquilaria malaccensis”
confidence B
share: not on record
no analysis of the oil is filed; no share or ratio is given
- linalyl acetate · share not on record
identity: perfumery convention
the trade’s shared vocabulary; no single source
as linalool: named in the page’s essay, no filed analysis
where the site says it: /materials, “Aquilaria malaccensis”
confidence B
share: not on record
no analysis of the oil is filed; no share or ratio is given
- α-terpineol · share not on record
identity: documented · 2018
Elle est aussi mise à pré-faner afin d’obtenir une huile essentielle moins riche en alpha-terpinéol, et donc de meilleure qualité.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C · read 2026-09-30
HV-4 records the growers’ practice: the cut lavender is pre-wilted so the oil is less rich in α-terpineol. Named, not measured
confidence B
share: not on record
HV-4 gives no figure
- linalool · share not on record
- In teaching accords
Films and plates
- SPEC-3 · lavender: the /materials specimen still · still
- OR-3 · lavender: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-3 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
the ground texture (a render input only): "Gravelly Sand", Dario Barresi (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0
Sources
- HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C. (anthropologist), “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche d’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Ministère de la Culture (France), fiche no. 2018_67717_INV_PCI_FRANCE_00418, ARK ark:/67717/nvhdhrrvswvk2ml, submitted 12 December 2018 (fieldwork February–August 2018). www.culture.gouv.fr/Media/Thematiques/Patrimoine… · read 2026-09-30
- EU-2023-1545 · Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1545 of 26 July 2023 (labelling of fragrance allergens). OJ L 188, 27.7.2023, p. 1. eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1545/oj · read 2026-09-30 · EU legislation; reuse terms not re-read (UNVERIFIED); quoted
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this record as data: /data/material/lavender-essential-oil.json · version 3 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B