PURVEYORS OF PRACTICAL WONDERUK DELIVERY · 3–7 WORKING DAYSFREE DELIVERY OVER £50
Wunderwurld
TRY: No wonders by that name. Yet.
High Alpine Lavender Essential Oil 10ml — apothecary hero
In Stock

High Alpine Lavender Essential Oil

Your saved-escapes folder is a museum of trips you'll take 'when things calm down'.
The view economy charges by the metre of altitude: sky bars, summit fees, rooftop supplements. Clear high air got a price band. Grown high where the ester runs light and sweet, this alpine lavender undercuts the whole sector from a shelf. Altitude, decoupled from the booking platform.

KEPT FOR:

  • Airiness
  • Escape
  • Height
  • Dusk
Botanical Lavandula angustifolia
Origin High altitude
From Flowering tips
Process Steam distillation
One-time purchase £14
Subscribe monthly SAVE 10% a bottle on your doorstep every month · skip or cancel anytime
£12.60£14
SMALL-BATCH FREE UK OVER £50 UK DELIVERY · 3–7 WORKING DAYS

WHAT YOU'VE BEEN SOLD

Clear high air, now sold to you in tiers.

The view economy worked out that people will pay by the metre of altitude, and priced accordingly: the rooftop bar with the supplement, the summit access fee, the higher room at the higher rate, clear high air sold back to you in tiers. And somewhere on your phone sits a folder of saved escapes, screenshots of thin bright mountain air, all captioned, in effect, 'when things calm down.' Things are not going to announce their calming.

Altitude, decoupled from the booking platform.

WHAT THIS ACTUALLY IS

High Alpine Lavender, Lavandula angustifolia grown high, where thinner air and stronger light push up the light, powdery, sweet ester the flower is loved for. Steam distilled from the flowering tips. Lighter, sweeter and airier than lowland lavender, cooler and more delicate, less the herb drawer and more the thin bright air of somewhere high and clear. The country hardly matters. The altitude is the point.

Aroma profile
Airy floral
Sweet light
High-clear
Booking fee

The high-clear version of the flower. The view, minus the platform.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS

Down in the Scent Sanctum, high alpine lavender is what Vetta keeps on the High Ledge, for the ones whose saved-escapes folder has quietly become a museum of trips they'll take 'when things calm down'.

  • Altitude, unbooked: Kept for the intention to have the high, clear, airy feeling of somewhere far without waiting for the right time to book it.
  • The escape you keep deferring: For when the trip you keep saving for 'when things calm down' could, in some small way, be this evening instead.
  • High-clear air: Light, sweet, airy floral air that gives a space the thin, clear quiet of high places.
  • The mountain-window hour: For the high-clear dusk, the airy evening, the window open on somewhere far.

SPIRIT & MOOD

  • Airiness
  • Escape
  • Height
  • Dusk

WHY YOU NEED IT

The high-clear dusk. Available tonight.

Kept for the high-clear dusk, the airy floral evening, the mountain-window hour. A few drops when you want the room to have the thin bright quiet of somewhere far and high, and the escape you keep saving for 'when things calm down' to happen, in some small way, this evening, pending nothing.

The view was never waiting for the right time. It was waiting for a diffuser.

SAFETY NOTICE AROMA USE ONLY FILED THE SENSIBLE DESK

The sensible bit

For aroma use only with suitable diffuser or aromatherapy equipment. Do not ingest; do not add to food or drink; do not use in baths; do not apply to skin, even diluted or on broken skin; and do not use for massage or personal care. Avoid use during pregnancy and around children under 3. Avoid eyes and sensitive areas. Keep away from children, pets, heat, sparks and open flames. Store upright and tightly closed. Use in a well-ventilated space and never leave heated equipment unattended. Seek professional guidance if breastfeeding, taking medication, managing a health condition, or using around vulnerable people. Discontinue use if irritation occurs.

GIFT · THE DEFERRED-ESCAPE ONE

Has a folder full of saved trips they'll take 'when things calm down'. Things won't announce their calming. Give them a little of the height tonight.

To the one always about to go

The escape, this evening.

GIFT · THE HIGH-AIR LOVER

Comes alive somewhere high, clear and thin-aired, and misses it at sea level. Bottle a little of the altitude for them.

To the mountain sort

Height, on a shelf.

GIFT · THE AIRY-FLORAL SORT

Loves lavender but the light, sweet, delicate kind rather than the heavy herb-drawer sort. This is the high, airy version.

To the light-floral one

Sweeter, higher, clearer.

DO NOT GIVE TO

The person currently booking the rooftop bar with the altitude supplement to feel far away for ninety minutes. They've paid the price band. This one skips it.

Altitude, unbilled.

Clear high air, now sold to you in tiers.

PORTRAIT · VETTA
ON THE HIGH LEDGE
VETTA

Vetta has never seen things calm down. Go anyway.

Vetta is an oread, one of the mountain nymphs who keep the high, thin-aired, clear places where the light is stronger and the world falls away below. She keeps the High Ledge of the Sanctum, where the alpine lavender is, and she trusts it because it carries the height in it: light, sweet, airy, the flower grown high enough that the thin air changed its very scent.

She has watched the Surfacefolk build a whole economy on selling height back by the metre, and, sadder still, watched them fill their pockets with saved pictures of high clear places they'll visit 'when things calm down.' Vetta has kept the high places a long time. She has never once seen things calm down. That was never how it worked.

So she keeps a little of the altitude on the ledge, unbilled, for the ones who keep deferring the going. The dusk is already high and clear. It is only waiting to be let in.

Keeps the high clear air; never saw things 'calm down'; keeps a little of the height unbilled.

Two crates, high and clear

High Alpine keeps company. All of it airy.

LOOSE CALCULATING
SAVE 20%
BEFORE YOU GOA WORD FROM THE HIGH LEDGE
About that folder of saved escapes:

Things are not going to announce their calming.

There's a folder on your phone, or one in your head, full of high clear places you're saving for when life quiets down: the trip, the view, the thin bright air, all filed under 'later, when things calm down.' They won't. Nothing sends up a flare to say the calm has arrived and you may now go. The right time was always a story.

WAIT FOR CALM.SAVE IT FOR LATER.BOOK THE SUPPLEMENT.
Your saved-escapes folder is, if you're honest, a small museum of postponed lives.

You can't book the mountain tonight. You can have a little of its air. Set the high, sweet, clear lavender going and let the room go thin and bright and far, this evening, pending nothing. The view was never waiting for the right time. It was waiting for a diffuser.

High Alpine Lavender Essential Oil 10ml — apothecary detail ALTITUDE, UNBOOKED
Nº 0091 · LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA · ALTITUDE, UNBOOKED£14 10ML
In Stock FREE UK OVER £50