Snowy River Lavender Essential Oils

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Lavender: a holistic approach form soil to bottle Lavenders of the angustifolia species dominate Snowy River Lavender’s essential oil production and coming to terms with what constitutes quality in these essential oils has been necessary to our ‘stock and trade’.  At Snowy River Lavender, aromatic beauty and essential oil chemistry are both key factors in […]

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Diversity: A Tale of two Lavenders

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    The bountiful and beautiful lavender cultivar, Avice Hill, consistently produces an essential oil which balances toward the ester compounds with low linalool content. Avice Hill, summer 2013, being harvested from Roo paddock   Deviations and chemotypes The Standards present the biodiversity of lavender as part of a predefined chemical balance and range of […]

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Lavender Essential Oil Chemistry & Standards

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Gas Chromatography (GC) is a technical process for reading essential oil chemistry and presents each compound as peaks on a graph as they emerge across time. Each peak represents a phyto-chemical compound and mass spectrometry (MS) calculates the area under those peaks as an itemised and listed percentage of that compound in the overall composition […]

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Machine Harvesting Process

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MACHINE HARVESTING LAVENDER Since 2009 our primary means of harvesting is by way of a tractor mounted machine from Clier, a French agricultural engineering company located in the lavender growing region of Provence. Snowy River Lavender is definitely not a broad acre farm with many different sized plantings dotted opportunistically around our steep property. Thus […]

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