Every year in August the Provence town of Sault is drenched in the scent of lavender. Mothers and their babies, schoolchildren, cranky old men and their dogs, everybody smells of lavender. In Sault, ...

With its swathes of waving blue flowers, delicious scent and squadrons of butterflies and bees, I am standing in a field that could be in Provence in the South of France. A great plantation of ...

SIMIANE-LA-ROTONDE, France, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Here and there in the highest plateaus of Haute-Provence, the scent of heady lavender still mixes with sun-baked pine, as tractors slice through last of ...

If something smells delicious, don't you immediately want to taste it? Makes sense for so many foods. Except, in my opinion, for lavender. Soapy and assertive, culinary lavender (as opposed to ...