It has become a symbol of Provence in southern France, but there is a warning that it’s under threat from climate change. Lavender is in decline because of drought-like conditions and disease-carrying ...

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, ...

“I sometimes run counter to tradition,” says Laurent Fages. "At one point I was giving horse-back rides, I brew beer. Now it’s lavender. I've been known to do things a little differently!” Fages runs ...

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 ...

The sweet smell of lavender is tinged with bitterness this year in the south of France, as farmers who harvest the flower protest at European regulations linking the plant to chemical toxins. Posters ...

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 ...