AtlasAromatic
Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia Mill.
The atlas door to lavender, spike lavender and lavandin: the oils by type and origin, the absolutes and concretes.
- Place in the wear
- Heart
- The middle of the wear. Where most of the idea lives.
- Office
- Heart
- Carries the idea of the composition.
- Family
- Aromatic
- Type
- Essential oil
- Origin
- Provence, Bulgaria, England and Tasmania
- Span
- Hours. Bright herb and flower, then a soft hay.
- Odor
- Herb, sweet flower, a little camphor, soft hay
- Also called
- True lavender, English lavender
- Botanical family
- Lamiaceae
- Plant part
- Flowering top
True lavender grows best at altitude and smells sweet and floral, herbal rather than sharp, with a soft hay as it dries. Linalool and linalyl acetate make up most of the oil. It is the heart of the fougère and a quiet support in a great many other structures.
Spike lavender, from lower ground, is far more camphoraceous. Lavandin, a hybrid of the two, yields much more oil and sits between them, with grosso, abrial and super its main clones. Population lavender is grown from seed, maillette is a single clone, and the Bulgarian oil is a major origin of its own.
This page is the atlas door to lavender. The entries listed beside it go deeper: true lavender oils by type and origin, spike lavender, the lavandin clones, the absolutes and concretes.
Sources
- Fairamour editorial (original)
- GBIF: Lavandula angustifolia Mill.