Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender Essential Oil is a timeless fougere scent with sweet, herbaceous notes. Renowned for its relaxing and balancing properties, it’s perfect for promoting restful sleep, reducing stress, and soothing skin irritations. Ideal for candles, diffusers, soaps, and skincare products, this oil adds a calming, luxurious touch to your creations. Blends beautifully with bergamot, cedarwood, and vanilla for a serene, floral-woody aroma that soothes the senses.
Ambiance: Calm / Floral / Herbal / Soothing
Please note
This is a pure, undiluted essential oil designed for crafting end products such as candles, diffusers, soaps, bath products, and other personal care items. Essential oils are highly concentrated and should not be applied directly to the skin without proper dilution in a carrier oil. All our essential oils are measured in grams, not milliliters. Bottle fill levels may vary due to differences in oil density, which affects volume.
For specific usage limits, please refer to the Lavender Essential Oil IFRA guidelines or consult the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) included in the “Related Documents” tab. Compliance of the final product remains the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Packaging note: 10g testers are supplied in PET bottles for affordable evaluation and are not intended for long-term archival storage. Production sizes from 50g upwards are supplied in premium aluminium bottles for improved long-term protection. Read more
Olfactive Profile
- Note classification: Middle note
- Scent family: Floral / Herbal / Aromatic / Fougere
Lavender Essential Oil has a soft floral-herbal profile with sweet, clean, aromatic, and lightly camphoraceous facets. It feels more floral and rounded than rosemary, softer and more comforting than eucalyptus, and more aromatic than most delicate floral oils. Its character is classic, calming, and instantly recognisable, making it especially useful in spa, wellness, fougere, herbal, floral, and clean aromatic compositions.
The opening is fresh, floral, and herbal, while the drydown becomes smoother, softer, and gently woody. Compared to sharper aromatic oils, lavender brings more balance and emotional softness, making it valuable when a formula needs calmness, natural elegance, and a familiar botanical heart.
Technical Data & IFRA limits
- Product type: 100% pure essential oil
- Botanical name: Lavandula Angustifolia
- CAS number: 8000-28-0
- EC number: 289-995-2
- Plant part: Flowering Tips
- Extraction method: Steam Distillation
- Origin: Greece
- Flashpoint: 74°C
- Density: 0.862–0.902 g/cm³ at 20°C
- Main natural constituents: Rich in linalool, with naturally occurring geraniol, limonene, coumarin, citral, eugenol, and related lavender aromatic constituents. Exact composition may vary by batch.
IFRA Maximum Usage Levels
Candles: 100%
Diffusers: 100%
Perfumes: 0.40%
Soaps: 100%
For full category-specific limits, refer to the Lavender Essential Oil IFRA certificate available in the “Related Documents” tab.
Formulation & Creative Uses
Lavender Essential Oil works as a soft floral-aromatic heart note. It adds calmness, freshness, herbal elegance, and gentle floral diffusion to a formula, helping sharper citrus oils, cool herbs, woods, resins, musks, and vanilla-like materials feel more balanced and connected. It is especially useful when a blend needs a familiar natural softness without becoming too sweet, powdery, or heavy.
Common applications
- Diffusers: Excellent for calming, spa-like, bedtime, herbal, floral, meditative, and clean aromatic blends.
- Candles & wax melts: Adds soft herbal-floral freshness, especially in relaxation, spa, linen, fougere, botanical, and cozy home fragrance compositions.
- Soaps: Brings a classic clean lavender character, with testing required for scent retention and process stability.
- Bath & body products: Suitable when used within IFRA limits and proper dilution guidelines.
- Perfumery: Useful in fougere accords, aromatic florals, clean musks, lavender-vanilla blends, herbal colognes, soft woods, and natural wellness perfumes.
Creative directions
Use Lavender Essential Oil when a formula needs calmness, softness, and a clean floral-herbal heart. It works especially well in blends that feel too sharp, medicinal, dry, citrusy, woody, or emotionally cold, helping the composition become more rounded, familiar, and comforting.
For spa and relaxation blends, combine lavender with bergamot, cedarwood, frankincense, amyris, eucalyptus, or clary sage to create a calm and polished atmosphere. For soft floral directions, use it with geranium, rose, ylang ylang, neroli, or palmarosa to give the formula a more natural botanical heart. For cozy and comforting blends, pair it with vanilla-like materials, benzoin, tonka-style notes, soft woods, or gentle musks.
Lavender is also useful in fougere, linen, herbal tea, bedtime, clean floral, and soft aromatic compositions. Because it is familiar and highly recognisable, it can make a formula feel too traditional or medicinal if overdosed. It performs best when balanced with citrus oils, woods, soft resins, musks, or gentle sweet materials that frame its floral-herbal character with more depth and refinement.
Storage & Natural Variations
Lavender Essential Oil is classified as irritating to the skin, irritating to the eyes, sensitising, hazardous if swallowed and enters the airways, and harmful to aquatic life with long lasting effects. Always follow the IFRA guidance and SDS for the intended product category. The final safety assessment, dilution level, labeling, and regulatory compliance remain the responsibility of the manufacturer.
Essential oils are natural aromatic materials, and slight variations in scent, colour, density, and appearance may occur from batch to batch. These differences are normal and can be influenced by harvest conditions, climate, origin, plant material, and natural compositional variation.
Scent perception may also vary depending on individual sensitivity, dilution level, formulation base, and application method. Essential oils may not smell exactly the same in the bottle as they do in a finished product. We strongly recommend testing a 10g bottle before committing to larger quantities, especially for commercial production.
To preserve quality, store tightly sealed in the original container, away from heat, light, air, and moisture. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place and avoid release into drains, surface water, or the environment.
Order processing times
Standard lead time is 1-2 business days. Processing times may be longer during peak holiday seasons—please plan accordingly.
Bulk Orders
For larger quantities, we offer bulk production starting from 5kg per fragrance code, with a 10% discount per kilogram. Customers who need more than 5kgs per scent, can contact us to arrange a proforma invoice. Bulk orders are produced in multipliers of 5 (5kg, 10kg, 15kg, etc.) and lead times vary depending on fragrance and time of the year, usually within the range of 3 to 8 weeks.
Product Suitability Guide
Comparison of typical formulation levels with the maximum permitted use for each application based on IFRA 51st amdt.
| Application | Typical Use | Suitability |
|---|---|---|
Candles & Wax Melts
|
7–12% | Suitable |
Electric Diffusers
|
Up to 100%* | Suitable* |
Pillow Mists
|
1–5% | Below Range |
Room Sprays
|
2–5% | Below Range |
Reed Diffusers
|
15–25% | Suitable |
Soaps & Rinse-off
|
1–3% | Suitable |
Hair Fragrance
|
1–3% | Below Range |
Lotions & Body Oils
|
0.5–2% | Below Range |
Fine Fragrance
|
10–15% | Below Range |
Facial Makeup
|
0.1–1% | Limited |
Body Mist & Deodorant
|
1–5% | Below Range |
How to Read the Suitability Statements
✓ Suitable: the permitted concentration reaches or exceeds the average typical-use range. △ Limited: the permitted concentration falls within the typical-use range but remains below its midpoint. × Below Range: the permitted concentration falls below the typical-use range. × Not Permitted: the applicable limit is 0%.
Please Note
Typical-use ranges are general formulation benchmarks, not product-specific recommendations. Suitability is determined by comparing the stated typical-use range with the maximum permitted concentration shown in the current supplier IFRA document.
This guide does not confirm scent performance, base compatibility, stability, device compatibility or complete finished-product compliance. Appropriate testing and all applicable safety, labelling and regulatory requirements remain the responsibility of the finished-product manufacturer.
*Electric diffusers: Up to 100% fragrance may be used only in equipment designed for undiluted fragrance oil. Dilution, carrier and compatibility requirements vary by device. Always follow the equipment manufacturer’s instructions.
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TheUser (verified owner) –
This is a good quality lavender EO for a reasonable price. Lavender is one of those raw materials where different variables play a big role in the scent and its quality. This lavender EO doesn’t have any major “off” notes. It is smooth, pleasant, characteristic and lasts over 8h on a blotter.
steass101 (verified owner) –
A very gentle lavender scent.
marianiorga67 (verified owner) –
Minunat! Mirosul autentic al lavandei, curat, fin, delicat. Am uleiuri de lavanda si din alte surse, nu asa de bune.
dimon97 (verified owner) –
This was amazing — it felt like stepping into the garden at the end of summer and crushing a dry, faded plant in your hand.
bloomshinestudio (verified owner) –
This fragrance is a timeless classic! So fresh, clean, and most importantly, natural. Always highly requested by my customers.