In short
Spike lavender oil is distilled from Lavandula latifolia. It contains more cineole and camphor than true lavender and smells sharper and more camphoraceous.
What Spike Lavender Oil smells like
Spike lavender oil (Lavandula latifolia) is fresh, camphoraceous and herbal, loaded with 1,8-cineole and camphor and with essentially no linalyl acetate. It is the sharpest and most medicinal of the lavender oils — more eucalyptus than flower — and one of the parents of lavandin. Perfumers use it in small doses; it is useful in soap but rarely in fine fragrance.
- Leading note
- Camphoraceous lavender
- Clear facets
- Eucalyptus, cineole
- Supporting facets
- Herbal, medicinal
- Character
- Sharp, cool, medicinal, fresh
What makes Spike Lavender Oil distinctive
Lavender's medicinal extreme: eucalyptus and camphor in front, with little of the floral sweetness of true lavender.
How Spike Lavender Oil is used
Used in small doses for a fresh, camphoraceous lift, mostly in soap and functional products.
Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend).
How Spike Lavender Oil differs from similar materials
- Lavender Oil
- True lavender is floral and sweet, rich in linalyl acetate; spike is cineole- and camphor-led, with almost none. (compared directly by a cited source)
- Lavandin Oil (Grosso)
- Lavandin, its hybrid offspring, keeps more floral lavender; spike is more medicinal and eucalyptus-like. (compared directly by a cited source)
- Eucalyptol
- Eucalyptol is the cool note alone; spike lavender carries a cineole-camphor freshness inside a lavender.
An asterisk marks a difference that a cited source states directly. The others compare the published descriptions of each material. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.
Identity and classification
- Type
- Essential oil
- Origin
- Natural
- Odour family
- Aromatic / Floral
- Note position
- Top to heart note
- Physical form at room temperature
- Liquid
- Also known as
- Lavandula latifolia oil, Aspic oil
- Botanical source
- Lavandula latifolia
- CAS number
- 8016-78-2
The CAS number was checked on 19 October 2026 against a PubChem substance record that gives it for this material. A natural material is a mixture, so it has no single formula; its composition varies with origin and processing.
Safety and compliance
Cornelissen's safety data sheet for oil of spike, from 2014, gives H226, H304 (aspiration hazard), H315, H317 (skin sensitiser), H371 and H411. Kremer's 2015 sheet for spike lavender oil gives H226, H302, H319 and H411 instead. The sheets disagree, so use your own supplier's.
This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.
Materials it works with
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Lavender Oil
Essential oil · Aromatic / Floral — lavender, herbal, floral, fresh
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Lavandin Oil (Grosso)
Essential oil · Aromatic / Floral — lavender, camphoraceous, herbal, fresh
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Eucalyptol
Aroma chemical · Aromatic / Green — camphoraceous, cool, medicinal
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Camphor
Aroma chemical · Aromatic / Woody — camphoraceous, medicinal, cooling
Used in formulas and accords
Used in 1 published formula
Spike Lavender Oil is an ingredient in 1 perfume formula in the Formula & Accord Library.
RUŌOD House Originals
Original compositions by RUŌOD House.
Further reading
Questions about Spike Lavender Oil
Is Spike Lavender Oil natural or synthetic?
Spike Lavender Oil is natural. It is a volatile oil obtained from plant material by steam distillation or, for citrus peels, by cold expression.
What is the CAS number of Spike Lavender Oil?
8016-78-2, the registry number for the essential oil as a substance rather than a single molecule. It was checked against PubChem on 19 October 2026.
Which published formulas use Spike Lavender Oil?
Spike Lavender Oil is used in 1 published formula in the RUŌOD Lab Formula & Accord Library: Lavender in Silk. Each is listed with a link under "Used in formulas and accords" on this page.
Sources
- PubChem — substance 135303755, checked 19 October 2026.
- Cornelissen — Oil of spike safety data sheet — safety information, read 26 October 2026.
- Kremer — Spike lavender oil safety data sheet (via Making and Knowing) — safety information, read 26 October 2026.
- Premiere Peau — Lavender — published perfumery reference.
- AromaWeb — Lavender essential oil differences — published perfumery reference.
- Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 21 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.