Common name: Lavender Maillette (France)
Genus Name: Lavandula augustifolia “Maillette” a.k.a. English Lavender “Maillette”
Supplier: John Steele
Note: mid-top
Some interesting bits: This variety is used extensively in the production of perfumes and essential oils. Considered one of the most precious types of lavender.
It is drought tolerant, resistant to deer and attractive to bees — in fact, we bought the most most amazingly fragrant lavender honey while in Croatia this year and anyone who tastes it can’t believe it wasn’t altered by the locals with lavender essential oil.
Has a shelf life of up to three years.
It is a French variety of lavender which also grows in England
Main Chemical Components: Linalool, linalyl acetate, 3-octanone, d-limonene, Trans-B-ocimene, Cis-B-ocimene, Camphor, Terpinen-4-ol, a-terpineol, Lavandulyl acetate.
Their nose: This essential oil has a soft, sweet, fruity, spicy, herbaceous bouquet with an green, woody undertone. (White Lotus Aromatics)
My nose: This is so light! This is my first impression. Bright and uplifting like the first warm spring days, sweet. Cool, luminous, pungent, even tart! I can pick out the linalool in this.
After the 1st hour it smells more like dried twigs, has lost most of its zing which was probably due to the alcohol effect (not me, the dilution), sweeter, paler, beginning to exit.
After 3 hours strange, but, do I smell coconuts?! Dry, brittle, still faintly sweet, now beginning to fade into the paper, I can smell the smell of paper (is that even possible?!).
1 day later it is still noticeable but now only a whisper remains.
Her Two Scents 