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Lavandin essential oil
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.
Its yield is not shown as a figure, and no constituent is on record.
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The record
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- Name
- lavandin essential oil
documented · 2018
Si l’on compare avec la lavande fine, son huile essentielle est de moins bonne qualité, car elle est très camphrée.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30
the sentence’s « son huile essentielle » is lavandin’s (the sentence before names it)
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 x intermedia Emeric ex Loisel
documented
Si l’on compare avec la lavande fine, son huile essentielle est de moins bonne qualité, car elle est très camphrée.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Part
- the cut plant (lavandin coupé)
documented · 2018
L’alambic peut contenir 2 balles par cuve (entre 1000 et 1200 kg de lavandin coupé) par distillation.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Extraction
- steam distillation
documented
L’alambic peut contenir 2 balles par cuve (entre 1000 et 1200 kg de lavandin coupé) par distillation.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30
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
- Grade
- not on record
not on record
no grade on record
- Descriptors
- very camphoraceous (très camphrée)
documented · 2018
Si l’on compare avec la lavande fine, son huile essentielle est de moins bonne qualité, car elle est très camphrée.
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30
the heritage record’s word, comparing it with fine lavender’s oil
confidence B
- 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
- Wikidata
- Q4251973
documented
essential oil
WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30
the Wikidata item’s English description; a label match: the item is “lavandin essential oils”, described as “essential oil”; chosen from a name search (2026-09-30)
confidence B
- 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, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · 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
Claims register
Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.
- softened · lavandin gives almost three times as much essential oil as fine lavender, and a good deal of what is sold as “lavender” is lavandin. (was: lavandin produces 10 times the essential oil per hectare. Much of what is sold as “lavender” in the market is lavandin.)
documented · the claims register
HV-4 · Rosati-Marzetti C, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · read 2026-09-30
HV-4 says “quasiment trois fois plus d’huile essentielle” (HV-4), which contradicts the old “10 times” and supports “far more”; the market sentence (“a good deal of what is sold”) has no source. the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): “almost three times as much” restored with HV-4 (HV-4); the market sentence stays unsourced
where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”
confidence B
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 · Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 (the site’s default: “sauf mention contraire”)
- WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0
Our text and structure are CC BY 4.0; quoted source text stays under its owners’ terms.
this record as data: /data/material/lavandin-essential-oil.json · version 5 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence B