Italian Lavender

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Lavender grown in Italy, sold as the smooth one. Herbal and hay-sweet, with the camphor edge of the French and English oils taken out.

Scent Profile

Aromatic_herbal leads and both sources put it there independently. Hermitage calls the herbal nuance present and fulsome, and a Nature's Gift reviewer says the material is more herb-like than floral, which sets the order of the top two facets rather than merely naming them. Tobacco_hay is above the parent's 0.22 on one direct quote: the hay and coumarin undertones are present. Coumarin is also why sweet_vanillic sits, since that is the facet coumarin reads as, and it is the sweetness Hermitage means by rich and deep rather than sugary. Powdery comes from creamy, powdery, elegant, one sentence with three words for the same soft texture. Floral is below the parent's because the only source that ranks the two facets ranks floral second. Dry_woody is the woody nuance Hermitage names alongside the herbal one., cooling_mentholic is cut hard from the parent's 0.35 to 0.12. That cut is a stated absence, not an assumed one: the seller writes without the classic turpentine note that its counterparts have, and a buyer writes that they had searched a long time for a non-camphorous lavender and this is it. Two people say the camphor is missing, so it goes down, but not to zero, because linalool-rich lavender always keeps a trace and nobody claims none. Fruity and clean_musk are carried from the parent at reduced weight with wide spreads, because no Italian source mentions or denies them. Warm_spice is the subtly spicy note Nature's Gift loves and could not trace to a constituent on the GC, which is honest reporting and worth a small value. Creamy_woody splits the word creamy with powdery.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Lavandula angustifolia distilled in Tuscany, sold by Hermitage Oils as an organic specialty lavender. A second Italian material trades under overlapping names: Nature's Gift sells an Italian Lavandula x intermedia its grower calls Lavandin Grosso, and lists it under Italian lavender too. So the commercial term covers at least two botanicals. This vector is scored on the Tuscan angustifolia, because that source gives the fuller olfactive description and shares a species with the published lavender note.

Usage in Perfumery

15 Parfumo placements across 8 brands. No Fragrantica attestation. Used where a perfumer wants lavender without the sharp camphoraceous opening, so it lands in fougeres and soft aromatics rather than in the barbershop register.