Product Overview
Our gorgeous Lavender Absolute from France is the ultimate Lavender for use in natural perfumery. It is smooth, suave and luscious and most closely resembles the fresh botanical material, with a coumarin-like sweetness that captures the spirit of those iconic mounds of purple Lavender populating the French countryside. This is a perfumery must-have and a unanimous favorite of Eden’s staff!
Lavender is the most popular and most often used essential oil, particularly here in the United States. It can be blended into many formulas and has been a part of fine fragrances for centuries. Lavender Absolute is a middle note that is sweeter but less floral than Lavender essential oil, however the two together can form a very pleasant combination; it can also be used as a modifier to help mask unpleasant aromas of oils that are used in perfumery formulas. It takes approximately 130 kilos of Lavender flowers to make 1 kilo of Lavender Absolute.[1]
Lavandula angustifolia is the true Lavender, as opposed to Spike Lavender (L. latifolia) or the hybrid Lavandins. It is produced throughout the world, although France is considered the premier growing region, and is the source of our best-selling Lavender essential oils: High Elevation, France - Organic, Maillette, and Wild.
1 Naturals Compendium, International Flavors and Fragrances, 2009, p. 82.
2 Arctander, Steffen. Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, 1960, p. 345.
3 Tisserand, Robert and Rodney Young. Essential Oil Safety, 2nd ed., 2014, pp. 325-6.
