Create a peaceful and cosy setting with our artisan candles with vegetal wax. Melted and hand poured using centuries old techniques.
❀ BOTANICAL NAME: Lavandula angustifolia
❀ ORIGIN: Lavender has been known since Antiquity and the Romans already used it to perfume linen and baths. From the Middle Ages, it was used in Provence in the manufacture of medicines and perfumes. It is said that the glove makers of Grasse, using the essence of lavender to perfume leather, were spared the plague which encouraged people to wear lavender.
Its essence, obtained by steam distillation of freshly cut flowers, is often used in Perfumery as a dominant note. In France, Lavender is mainly cultivated in the Alpes de Haute-Provence and Drôme.
❀ SYMBOL: Lavender is a symbol of purity and tranquility. In the traditional language of flowers, she evokes tender love when she is purple and respectful love when she is blue.
❀ VIRTUES: It has antiseptic, calming, and healing properties used since Antiquity.
Candle burns for 40 hours