The Perfume of a Princess!

Advantages: Smells Very Distinctive, Long Lasting, Beautiful Bottle, Very Feminine
Disadvantages: May be too sweet and floral for some

...One of my favourite things to treat myself to is perfume and those who have read my earlier reviews will know that I am a self confessed perfume addict. I love the different varieties you can buy all with their own distinctive scents and pretty bottles. I have worked hard at my perfume addiction though and have really cut back on the amount that I buy ? these days I adopt a one in one out rule as I started getting far too many bottles of half used fragrances sat in my wardrobe (any perfume lover knows that you keep bottles out of daylight to keep them smelling fresh). Before we went on honeymoon I used up a couple of bottles of perfume and so I decided to treat myself to something new rather than buy a replacement for the fragrances that I just finished from the duty free shop at the airport. I had already been and tested a few...

shazzaspannered 18.03.2009 · Read review
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Lovely Lavender

Advantages: pretty smells good
Disadvantages: none

...across the cottage/hut floor to make it smell nice and kill/hide the germs. It is used in many a furniture wax, used in scented candles, draw liners, incense /joss sticks. Used in many a perfume or bath preparation what woman has not received a lavender scented gift? It can be used in many crafts paper can be scented with it or lavender bags made lavender wands made by plaiting the lavender like a corn dolly. To be honest I am not too keen on the smell it's a bit sweet and heady in excess.I think I had too much of it as a child. It can be used in cooking in teas with poultry in salads in sweet dishes but I have never tried any Thanks for reading there is so much about lavender I could go on forever. Sadly this lavender bush will have to go next week we are having a front porch added tp the house and poor old lavender is in...

mumsymary 21.10.2002 (28.04.2006) · Read review
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Lavender in my English country garden

Advantages: Look and smell lovely. Insects are attracted to the flowers
Disadvantages: Don't last for ever

...Lavender is a quintessential English country garden shrub. In our ever increasing warmer and dryer climes they are probably going to thrive even better over the coming years than the other traditional plants such as hollyhocks, honeysuckle, rose or delphiniums. Lavender looks good, smells lovely and has many practical uses. Indeed lavenders have been recorded in this country since the Roman times. They are a very versatile plant, valued for their aesthetic, aromatic, medicinal and culinary uses. In my opinion they make a lovely edging to a path so, as you brush past, their perfume is released. ☼ Growing ☼ Lavender can be grown from seed but they are not very easy; the seeds germinate slowly and they are not guaranteed to come up true to the parent plant, so in effect you could get any colour flower. They...

perfectlypolished 12.06.2007 · Read review
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Lavenders blue....

Advantages: lots of healing properties
Disadvantages: none

...Lavender There are around twenty eight species of lavender and it is one of the most commonest plants that we all associate with essential oils and bathroom products, when we buy toilet blocks, air freshener, essential oils and room deodorises, you can always find lavender as one of the scents. It can be found in most well established gardens and in garden centres as it is a great plant for adding colour to the garden display. This is a hardy evergreen plant, with fragrant flowers, it grows as a shrub which spread and set into the ground well in most soils and in most area's of the garden. Although they do like a sunny position they will grow well in part shady area's. The plants usually grow to around a 3-4 ft spread so give them room when you position them in the garden. They will flower from July to September and the flowers...

Sunnysmiles 05.11.2006 · Read review
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The Princess and the Perfume

Advantages: Light and delicate scent, sexy
Disadvantages: Slightly expensive

...If you've already read my Vera Wang Princess Satiny Body Lotion review, you will know I recieved this perfume along with the gift set from my boyfriend for my Birthday last November. And as promised, I said I would write a review about the Vera Wang Princess perfume, so here I am now. Vera Wang, if you haven't heard of her, is a lady from New York. At frist she was an editor for Vogue magazine,then going on to do other things. She started designing dresses for celebrities and now owns her own Wedding Dress collection. She has her own Vera Wang accessorie collection and more importantly her own fragrance collection, including more scents than just the Princess collection. As the story goes, Vera Wang Princess collection is a new spirit in fragrance, inspired by a modern-day princess. Confident, indipendent, with a total zest...

loise007 01.02.2009 · Read review
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  There's so much more to lavender than you think!

Advantages: Has multiple uses around the home, smells lovely
Disadvantages: Can attract bees (which isn't that bad!)

...the home. Firstly, flowers can be harvested on the stalk, and gathered into bunches. Apart from the simple things, such as a simple posy there many other uses for the flowers, leaves, and wood. Scented sachets ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I would say that scented bags are the most popular and well-known of home uses for lavender. The flower heads can be taken from the plant, dried in an airing cupboard (or somewhere warm and dry), and then the flowers removed. Drying may only take a few days, and make sure you have laid them in something suitable to catch the flowers. The flowers should come off pretty easily once dried, and can be gathered into smallish cotton bags or paper sachets and added to drawers to fragrance clothing, as room-scenters, or hung/placed anywhere that you think needs freshening up! A nice idea is to make a cotton bag, about 5cm x 5...

drawcabia 26.02.2007 · Read review
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With Government Approved Lavender!!

Advantages: authentic scent, lathers well
Disadvantages: Too average for the price

...using the shower gel I have found that it lathers up fairly well and gives what I would describe as an adequate lather. It's certainly much better than the L'Occitane verbena shower gel I used not so long ago which gave no lather at all. Even so, I tend to use this product with a shower puff, as that way I can get an even better lather and use less, making my little bottle last longer. In fact, my 75ml bottle has lasted me the best part of two weeks and still has some left - and yes, I do wash regularly!! I'd say if you want to use this to shave your legs (or other places!) then it would probably be best to use with a shower puff. After use, the lavender scent does linger on my skin but it's very gentle compared to the fragrance when I'm using the gel. In fact the fragrance can only really be detected if you get close up to the skin...

pink_champagne 22.11.2009 · Read review
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lavender and versatility

Advantages: It has many uses this plant & has been used for many years in different ways
Disadvantages: none

...Having an allotment means hard heavy work and one of the best uses I have found for lavender is against carrot fly. We have a large allotment and every year we lose lots carrots to the fly, it is a real pest. I have found that picking the flower stalks of lavender and crumbling them over the ground after pulling up carrots stops the scent of the carrots escaping and the fly does not get into them. I have done this for 2 years very successfully and really look forward to good veggies now. Further uses of this plant is that it is supposed to help keep greenfly off the roses when planted nearby and it is a lovely sweet scented flower and gorgeous colour, well worth buying but it does go woody and needs to be replaced every couple of years. It does appear to seed itself though....

cinderhill 26.03.2009 · Read review
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dwarf lavender great for small gardens

Advantages: smell and look great
Disadvantages: nothing

...Lavender (Lavendula)is a great aromatic shrub and there are varieties suitable for most gardens. Small gardens where space is at a premium like mine benefit from dwarf varieties. A dwarf lavender I can recommend from experience that won't get much about two feet in height is one called Lavender angustifolia " Munstead". This is my favourite variety of lavender .The plant is evergreen , compact and won't get out of control like some varieties such as L "Grappenhall" which can romp away to over five feet in height if left unchecked. Mind you all lavenders regardless of variety need cutting back to prevent them becoming woody and to keep them compact and healthy. I trim mine once every six weeks at least in the growing season and they really respond to this .It prolongs the life of the plant considerably and makes the appearance so...

Gardenex 04.02.2001 · Read review
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lovely lavender. some info on how to use too

Advantages: smells great, and works for period pain too
Disadvantages: do not use in the 1st 3 months of pregnancy

...Lavender As im sure everyone knows, lavender has been used for centuries in the perfume industry, with its sweet smelling aroma with woody undertones its just perfect. Although it has many other uses too, from treating depression to pain relief, and as a bug repellent. As a plant, I have seen lavender used to create a boarder in much the same way as a hedgerow is used. And I must say that it looks stunning when it is in full bloom. And the smell as you walk past is just out of this world. I love the smell of it, especially as it always reminds me of my nana. Her house always smelled of moth balls and lavender. Though I think it would have been much preferable for her to have made her own mothballs with the vast amounts of lavender that she always had about the house. To do this add a few drops of the pure essential oil to...

stezatois1 13.07.2007 · Read review
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