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The bottle remembers
An empty bottle weighs very little. The work inside it does not.
Every bottle, a single season’s vintage.™
A season of tending. Days spent watching the bloom. A harvest gathered at precisely the right moment. Hours beside a warm copper still, waiting for steam to become essential oil.
One bottle carries all of it.
Months after the harvest has ended, a single drop still remembers the summer it came from. Perhaps that is why we are slow to call it a product. It feels closer to a season that found a way to stay.
For twenty years, every bottle has begun in the same place: lavender grown on our organic estate on California's Central Coast, cut by hand at first light while the field is still cool, and distilled slowly in a copper still. Nothing hurried. Nothing outsourced.
This is Lavandin, Lavandula × intermedia 'True Grosso', a naturally occurring hybrid, loved for a fuller, more resinous aroma than its softer cousin. Sweet and floral, with a soft balsamic, woody finish.
The reward is found in ordinary hours. A drop or two warmed between the palms before bed. A calmer massage at the end of a long day. Linen sprayed and waiting before guests arrive. A bath drawn after an afternoon in the garden.
These small rituals ask little. Over time, they become part of how a home feels. Ritual begins with one drop.
Living with it
Before bed, warm one or two drops between the palms, or rest a drop at the edge of the pillow.
For the body, blend a few drops into a spoonful of carrier oil for a calming massage, or add to a warm bath (mixed into carrier first).
For the home, a few drops in the diffuser, or into unscented linen and room sprays.
The making
Grown on our organic estate, hand harvested, and steam distilled in a copper alembic pot still on our family estate. No fillers, nothing synthetic, no additives, a complete, unadulterated essential oil, given time to rest before it reaches you. Lavandula × intermedia 'True Grosso', flower buds only, Paso Robles, California.
For aromatic and topical use only; never for internal use. If pregnant, nursing, or under medical care, consult a qualified practitioner before use. Keep out of reach of children. Offered for the senses and for ritual, not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition.
A season of lavandin, kept true and released under its own name.