to think that lavender is overrated?

[grovel]

And that its byproducts are generally horrid?

I dread getting old and getting lavender pillow every christmas. yanbu

I like lavender.

I gave birth to a 12lb baby using just lavender to calm me!!

I like lavender plants but hate lavender products. They always smell like stale piss.

Yes, lavender plants are lovely. Not sure I'd want to douse myself in Yardley every day though!!

YABVVU.
Real proper lavender smells now't like the icky sweet powdery stuff.
Real lavender oil products are so therapeutic.....
It's the one "beauty" ish product I am never ever without.

LAvender products are old lady-ish and I always half expect them to have ammonia undertones... However, lavender essential oil is AMAZING. Especially on burns AND as a mild analgesic. I've got a bottle packed in my hospital bag madmommamemoo for that very reason :)

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Therapeutic vs smelling of piss

Are these actually mutually exclusive?

Lavender in food - eew! Especially creme brulee and ice cream.

I use lavender oil in DD's nappy bucket. Actually reduces the smell of ammonia!

Agree about it being ace on burns. I keep a bottle handy in my kitchen especially for the many occasions I try to remove baking trays from hot ovens without remembering to put on gloves.

Ouch.

I can't stand the stuff it gives me a headache.

i love real lavender have several plants in my garden smells lovely in the summer when your drinking a brew on the patio and they encourage bummble bees and butterflies too

I've tried the essential oil on burns and it did nothing. And my dds have heated lavender bags which don't seem to help them get to sleep. But I do like the smell.

All my lavenders died in the harsh winter :( I was really surprised, one of them was huge! DH loves them though so I will be replanting. I like the smell but it can be a bit overbearing, and I certainly wouldn't have it in food! [boak]

I've just got one for my patio too! The essential oil is great, the fake lavender scented stuff not so! Thinks "lavender scented stuffed padded coathangers made in the day centre...."

I was at the garden centre with my Dad today in fact, and he found lavender in with the edible herbs. He said surely that's wrong, people don't eat it do they? Yes I said. His face said it all

I love lavender and lavender oil is my magic go to sleep cure. But I couldn't stand the smell in pregnancy, and don't get anything else lavender smelling (except maybe home-made real lavender bags).

yabu i like it, and i am not old.
wouldnt like it in food though that seems weird

I love lavender, but only the real stuff and essential oil. Fake stuff is vile.

Lavender is lovely. But agree that only the real thing will do. Anything fake smells vile.

BTW, for all you ladies using lavender in pregnancy - please ensure it is Lavandula Angustifolia and not Lavandula Stoechas. The latter is potentially dangerous during pregnancy.

I love it - the real not the fake. Blokes love it too, oddly. I put it on my wrists when I knackered and need to smell something soothing, and always get men telling me I'm wearing a really nice perfume.

Sorry everyone ... if your DH has bought you a bottle of Yardley it's probably my fault!

I love lavender - especially Yardley's .

Anyone tried the new Yardley's limited edition 'Daisy' fragrance?

I love lavender oil, but not lavender products. same with rose.

Oh I love Lavender. I always have done - loved it in the National Trust shops I'd visit with my mother when I was a kid. I was born with the tastes of a 70 year old.

lavender blue dilly dilly

bees love it don't they