Lavenders are of the Labiatae family, or labiates and of the Lavandula genus. Nectar- producing plants, they are well liked by bees and butterflies.
We can count 4 main varieties of lavender :
........Lavandula angustifolia
........Lavandula latifolia
........Lavandula stœchas
........Lavandula X intermedia
Largely used in perfumery, pharmacology, herbal medicine, aromathology...
A plant with healing, antiseptic and antivenin virtues.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Provence counted a large number of family-run distilleries, most of them gone today because of industrialisation.