spike lavender oil
- noun
- /spaɪk ˈlævəndər ɔɪl/
:
aceite de lavanda espigada
- She added a drop of spike lavender oil to her homemade soap for a calming fragrance.
Examples
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Unlike regular lavender oil, spike lavender oil has a sharper scent and is often used in perfumery.
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I love the scent of spike lavender oil in my soaps.
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Some artists use spike lavender oil as a natural solvent in oil painting.
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Have you tried spike lavender oil in your cosmetics?
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She added a drop of spike lavender oil to her homemade soap for a calming fragrance.
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Unlike regular lavender oil, spike lavender oil has a sharper scent and is often used in perfumery.
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Have you tried spike lavender oil in your cosmetics for a refreshing aroma?
Synonyms
A pale yellow oil from spike lavender used to scent soap and beauty products
How Scented
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'spike' modifies 'lavender' to indicate a particular variety and 'oil' denotes a liquid extracted from that plant, so the meaning 'oil obtained from spike lavender' is directly derivable from the parts. The 'X oil' pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would understand it.
Etymology
Spike lavender oil comes from a type of lavender whose flowers grow on long, pointed stems called spikes, and these spikes give the plant a stronger, sharper smell than common lavender. Because of that stronger scent, the pale yellow oil is often used to 'scent' soaps and cosmetics.