Crafting Buds (Dried Flowers/Florets)
Regular price $33.00French Lavender Crafting Buds: Potent Aroma for Your Projects
Sourced directly from aromatic Lavandula Intermedia (French Lavender), our crafting buds are meticulously cleaned to ensure you receive only 100% pure fragrant florets with zero stems, leaves, or plant debris. Known for its robust, long-lasting scent, French lavender is the ideal natural ingredient for all your DIY home projects, sachets, potpourri, and drawer fresheners.
Important Usage Note: These buds are specifically intended for crafting, home fragrance, and linen protection. They are not for culinary use or consumption. For baking, teas, and cooking, please explore our (Check out our Culinary Lavender Here)
Key Features for Crafters
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100% Pure Flower Florets: Cleaned to contain purely the scented flower heads—no woody stems or dusty filler.
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Intensely Aromatic: Sourced from high-camphor French varieties (Grosso and Phenomenal) for a strong, invigorating aroma that naturally deters moths and freshens enclosed spaces.
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Long-Lasting Fragrance: The natural essential oils within the buds remain potent for years. Simply scrunch or squeeze your finished craft projects to crush the buds and release a fresh burst of aroma.
Varieties & Available Sizes
| Lavender Variety | Aromatic Profile | Available Pack Sizes |
| Grosso (French Lavender) | Robust, strong, classic, and highly aromatic. | 100 Grams, 200 Grams, 500 Grams, 1 Kilogram |
| Phenomenal (French Lavender) | Specialty cultivar featuring a bright, crisp, and vibrant scent. | 500 Grams |
DIY Crafting Tip: How Much to Order?
Planning a sachet, eye pillow, or craft project and need to figure out your ordering quantity? Use this simple volume test:
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Fill your sample sachet, bag, or pillow container with dry grain (like rice) to your desired fullness.
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Pour the grain into a standard kitchen measuring cup to measure the total volume.
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Volume-to-Weight Conversion: 1 measuring cup of dried lavender buds weighs approximately 40 grams.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use French Lavender Crafting Buds for baking, cooking, or making tea?
No. French lavender (Lavandula Intermedia) contains naturally higher camphor levels, giving it a strong aroma ideal for crafts, but a bitter, soapy, or harsh taste when eaten. For cooking, baking, teas, or simple syrups, please purchase our Culinary English Lavender Buds (Lavandula Angustifolia).
How do I calculate how many grams of loose lavender buds to buy for my sachet project?
To find your total needed weight, test one sachet container with dry rice to determine its volume in cups. Use our conversion rule: 1 cup of dried lavender buds weighs approximately 40 grams. Multiply 40 grams by the number of cups your project requires.
What makes French lavender (Lavandula Intermedia) superior for crafting and sachets?
French lavender varieties like Grosso and Phenomenal contain higher levels of natural essential oils and camphor. This gives them a powerful scent throw that fills closets, drawers, and rooms while acting as a natural, non-toxic moth and pest repellent for stored textiles.
What is the difference between Grosso and Phenomenal crafting buds?
Grosso is the gold standard for French lavender—delivering a deep, robust, classic herbal fragrance. Phenomenal is a premium specialty French cultivar known for its bright, clean, crisp floral aroma and exceptionally bright color retention.
How do I refresh the scent of my lavender craft projects over time?
Lavender essential oil is stored inside microscopic glands on each dried flower bud. Whenever your sachets or pillows begin to lose fragrance, roll and squeeze (scrunch) the project in your hands. Squeezing crushes the buds, releasing a new wave of pure essential oil.
Lavender is not simply a single scent. For most of us, we pick products based on both scent and use.
If using around the house (our linen spray, room spray, sachets, house cleaner ... see house collection ... then we tend to use the French Lavender (Lavandin). This is a sharp scent that is robust and so will linger longer. Sometimes we'll soften the French with a bit of English Lavender (e.g. our room spray) and if using dried flowers for decoration -- you'll find we carry both English and French lavender ... see dried flowers
When using as a cream, soap, etc. ... you can choose based on scent ... e.g. the lemony / fresh scent of French Lavender (Lavandin) or the softer / sweeter scent of English Lavender. If you are looking for a product that may have more therapeutic properties, then look for the English Lavender. Going for a hike or sitting in your garden and want to repel bugs? Then use one of our body mists with French lavender (or our outdoor mist). Wanting something for your purse with an antiseptic properties? Try one of our French lavender essences.
Explore our lavender for body and face.
Are you cooking? Answer is simple. Only use English lavender.
For culinary buds and delights click here.
What follows is a longer description of the differences between English and French Lavender.
Interested in knowing more about the oils we use in our products? Click here to go to the page on our oils. What we commonly refer to as 'lavender' is more than one species -- there are tons of them! There is much confusion over what is and is not lavender, including sorting through the many Latin names.
The two most popular varieties are Lavandula Angustifolia (what we call 'English Lavender') and Lavandula Intermedia (what we call 'French Lavender'). English Lavender is commonly referred to as English because historically it was developed for the English perfume industry. French lavender gets its name historically as it was developed for the the French perfume industry.
Do not let these terms fool you into thinking that only English grows in England and French grows in France! To the contrary -- both are grown everywhere. Each variety has a different scent and preference is a matter of choice. Both varieties:
- are believed to help you relax, sleep, relieve body aches, relieve anxiety, and may encourage blood flow.
- are considered to be an antiseptic and can clean the body and the home
- can help repel moths, spiders, and other bugs
English Lavender, Lavandula angustifolia
The most popular and hardiest garden lavender in North America. Lavender species (e.g. Munstead, Hidcote, Royal Velvet, Vera) are from the "true" variety and have the most medicinal properties. This is the better lavender for cooking purposes but not all varieties work well in cooking. It has sweeter scented flowers because it contains less camphor (than French).
English Lavenders are used more for therapeutic properties and are believed to help with digestion, tension headaches, bug bites, burns, and minor skin irritations. Some of these properties have been well studied -- others have just been observed and therefore the scientific evidence is lacking.
French Lavender, Lavandula intermedia
French Lavender (Lavandin) species (e.g. Grosso, Provence, Giant Hidcote, Phenomenal) are a cross between the English Lavender and spike lavender varieties. Abrialii was a mainstay of the French industry until 1970s when it was ravaged by a disease. Grosso was discovered in 1972 and is now the dominant cultivar. Quickly emerging however is Phenomenal. The French Lavender plants are bigger plants (producing more lavender per plant). Aroma is sweet with slightly camphorous scent. The French Lavender scent is used more for its aromatic properties and considered good in cleaning products and products designed to freshen your home. Because of their high camphor content, French Lavender may help with sinus and snoring issues. It is believed that essential oil from French Lavender should not be used by pregnant women in the first trimester nor by individuals with epilepsy.
What essential oils do we offer and/or use in our products, and from where do they come? First and foremost we are a small batch producer and we care about quality! We used to grow lavender and so we know a thing or two about what makes for a good essential oil.
We source all of our lavender essential oils directly from family run farms that properly test their oils and can provide us with a consistent volume year after year. We source our hydrosols from Ontario lavender farms.
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What to know more about the difference between English & French Oil? Click Here.
