Le Saunier de Camargue — Fleur de Sel

At a glance

What the label says

Quoted as printed, so the claims can be read for what they are.

• Fleur de Sel · Finishing Sea Salt · 100% natural · Fleur de Sel de Camargue / Hand Harvested Sea Salt from Camargue
• Discover this unique, delicate flaky Camargue Fleur de Sel from the pristine provinces of Southern France. Only a few weeks of the year when the sea, air and winds balance perfectly, the salt “fleur” rises to the top. It is harvested by hand the same way it has been for 2,000 years.
• Since ancient times, the harvesting of Camargue salt has allowed the wild expanse to be protected and the biodiversity of the Aigues-Mortes salt marshes to be preserved.
• Product of France · Harvested in Aigues-Mortes · Valentin Fangier, Master Salt Maker (printed on the cork lid)
• This salt does not supply iodide, a necessary nutrient.

What we can add

This is the most documented jar in the guide. The panel carries the EU Protected Geographical Indication roundel beside the registered name Sel de Camargue / Fleur de sel de Camargue; the drum names the producing operation and its address at Aigues-Mortes; and the cork lid names the master salt maker — Valentin Fangier — personally. “Fleur de sel” on its own is an unprotected phrase anyone may print; a PGI mark tied to a named place is a different class of claim, and it is checkable.

The claims are also unusually restrained for the category. Nothing on the drum says the salt is richer in minerals, lower in sodium, or better for you — the panel actually declares more sodium per gram than any other entry here. What the label sells is the harvest — hand-raked surface crystal, a few weeks a year — and the place. Those are the two things a fleur de sel can honestly sell.

The sodium arithmetic

The panel declares 410 mg of sodium in a ¼ tsp serving weighing 1.1 g, which works out to about 373 mg per gram. Pure sodium chloride is 393. Allowing for the rounding the label is permitted, the true figure sits somewhere in the 350–395 band, or roughly 95% of the sodium a gram of table salt would carry.

That is the highest sodium per gram in the guide so far, and it fits the style: Camargue fleur de sel is sold dry — far drier than a Guérande grey salt — so more of each gram is salt. Our fleur de sel guide covers why the two French styles differ and what the harvest actually is.

The price

$10.99 for 125 g (4.4 oz) is $2.49 an ounce, or $39.88 a pound — $8.79 per 100 g, $87.92 a kilo. We paid retail at Sunset Foods in Highland Park, IL, on August 25, 2026.

Tasting notes

None yet. We publish tasting notes only against a stated method — how many tasters, in what order, on what food — and we have not run that panel on this salt. When we do, they go here.