English Lavender
Yardley

This is not a particularly accurate lavender scent at all as far as I'm concerned. And I do concern myself when it comes to lavender...quite a lot. I do tend to be a lavender snob, but I've grown up around it and it's a huge deal where I'm from (there's even a "Lavender Festival" near where I live annually). I didn't set out to test this, but the opportunity presented itself.

If you would assume this to be a soapy, herbal, but a contrived "lavender" you'd be correct. It's a *body product* type of scent, almost like bath salts or some sort of generic hand lotion. Something that comes in green-washed packaging, looks like it would be naturalistic, but smells utterly unlike real essential oils. Like, generic off-brand products you get in a gift basket from your inlaws.

I actually think more vanilla would've helped soften this, but it's not apparent to me at all. There's something oddly harsh about this.

This isn't *awful*, and I think it could be a nice ambient scent, maybe for a room spray. I just didn't enjoy wearing it.

Nice relaxing fragrance that works well as a pillow spray before sleeping.

A galaxy away from the original Lavender by Yardley that for me was the gold standard of Lavender fragrances in terms of quality and character.

This reformulated version seems to be more of a relaxing aid with average longevity than a true classic.

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