Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note

Spike lavender oil

Camphoraceous, eucalyptus-like lavender; sharp, medicinal, herbal.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled flowering tops.

Where it comes from

Spain

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

Adds fresh camphor-cineole sharpness to lavender and aromatic accords, especially masculine fougères.

Worth knowing

Painters have long used spike oil as a solvent for oil paints and porcelain enamels.

Also called

Lavandula latifolia; aspic