Lavender PURE JUNGLE ESSENCE™

Other comments :

Note that there is a French PDO designation, obtained for a lavender produced at 800 meters above the sea level, guaranteed 100% pure and natural, produced in a defined area and having specific chromatographic characteristics. The label is awarded by a jury of experts after an olfactory evaluation. Other labels such as the ECO-Cert, Qualité-France and SOCOTEC labels can be attributed to organic lavender absolute productions.
On the lavender plant population, the leafhopper, an insect feeding on plant sap, bites the plants causing their death. Kaolin is a pesticide used to control this insect, which does not attack clonal lavender plants.
Many adulterations can occur regarding the absolute lavender. It can be adulterated by other types of lavender with a lower cost, by a Lavandin Absolute, by addition of synthetic compounds such as Linalyl Acetate, Linalool, Coumarin, Ocimene or other terpenes. Compliance with production standards is validated by chromatographic analysis.
Each molecule must have a minimum and maximum rate in the produces absolute.

Stability :

Stable oil in perfumes and in diverse functional bases

Uses in perfumery :

Data not available.

Chemotypes :

There are several varieties of lavender: the population and the clonal. The difference comes mainly from genetics and historical crosses. The population lavender is the historical variety. It has never been crossed and is therefore recognizable by plants of various aspects and very heterogeneous fields as the reproduction is sexed and made from seeds. The clonal lavender comes from population lavender cuttings. Very homogeneous fields and similar plants are obtained with this method. It is mainly produced in Bulgaria, but it is possible to find some in France. Olfactively, the difference is notable. Clonal lavender is poorer, less varied. Among the clonals, there are three major species: the maillete, the matherone and the diva, differentiated by their Ocimene level. Among the populations, we distinguish the rapido, the sara and the carla, which contain an intermediate rate of Ocimene.
Overall, lavender has 32 different species linked to the genus Lavandula, not counting hybrids.
In perfumery, there are especially hybrid species such as Lavandin Grosso EO with a terpenic and camphorated smell, and the Aspic EO, even more camphorated (see Lavandin and Aspic).

Extraction process :

Data not available.

Geographic origin :

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