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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.

Read the essay · The card · Next station: extraction · The molecule

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An engraved still of the model: a tied bunch of dried lavender sprigs, drawn in hatched lines on parchment.

fragrance material

Lavender sprigs, dried and tied

A tied bunch of dried lavender sprigs, the house’s own model. Modelled in-house (procedural, in Blender); its size is typical of the material, not a measurement; not a photograph or a scan.

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Seven sprigs of dried lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) tied with jute: the flowering stems, cut above the leaves, with the whorls of small calyces along the head - the part distilled for lavender oil, fresh. Dried lavender is a dull grey-violet. Modelled in-house from the sprigs on the Materials page’s specimen shelf.

In the room
about 20 cm long, 8 cm wide, 1 cm high. Modelled, not measured: a typical size
Source
HombreOils, in-house: modelled, textured and baked in Blender from the forms of the specimen shelf on the Materials page
Licence
in-house
Model
13,986 triangles (simplified from 16,128)

The files GLB 1.5 MB · USDZ 2.6 MB

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, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · 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, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · 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, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · 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, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · 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

Wikidata
Q900534
documented

essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of lavender flower

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the Wikidata item’s English description; a label match: the item is “lavender oil”, described as “essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of lavender flower”; 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 distillation
    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

    record
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, anthropologist: “Les pratiques de culture des lavandes dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence”, Fiche… · 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

In teaching accords
In history

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

  1. 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”)
  2. 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

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this record as data: /data/material/lavender-essential-oil.json · version 5 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence B