The Character Archive
Lavender
The Old Witness
Linen drawers, herbal mountains, and the calm of being kept.
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Lavender is the herb of every grandmother and every priest — clean, slightly camphorous, with a soft floral underside that smells of pressed sheets and convalescence. She has been in the room longer than anyone.
She works the top and heart, a luminous aromatic that calms compositions while keeping them awake.
- Role
- Aromatic top note
- Smells like
- Herbal flower, soft camphor, dried linen, blue air
- Used in
- Pairs well with
- Tonka, hay, vetiver, rosemary, oakmoss
