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Culinary Lavender — Melissa
The cultivar bakers ask for, by the bag.
$124 oz bag
5.0 from 21 Google reviews of the farm
Two people, five acres, Sequim WA
By the scoop, for making things.
Melissa is the lavender to cook with. It is an English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) that carries almost no camphor, so it tastes sweet and floral instead of soapy — which is the thing that goes wrong when people bake with the wrong lavender. We grow it in our own rows, dry it in the barn, strip the buds by hand and bag them clean, nothing else in the bag. Four ounces goes a very long way: shortbread and scones, infused honey and syrup, lemonade, ice cream, a pinch in a rub for lamb or chicken. Start with less than you think. It is lovely in sachets and simmer pots too, if you would rather smell it than eat it.
One ingredient
Stripped on the farm
Wedding toss favourite
Sachets & simmer pots
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Gifts ride along with bigger orders. A free lavender sachet at $50, $75 and $100 · free Sweet & Cozy hand lotion at $150 · free canvas tote at $200. They stack. Flat $8 shipping, always — no threshold games.
What people write to us
“I love love love Lit Lavender’s products. We visited their farm and fell in love with everything. The smells are divine!”
Kelly P. — written to Joe & Susie
“This is the best smelling lavender I’ve ever experienced. It is not your average lavender.”
Samantha L. — written to Joe & Susie
How it smells
The scent profile
Our own tasting notes, written at the bench — not a lab report. Lavender shifts a little every season, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.
Dried lavenderDominant
Sweet floralPresent
Green herbA whisper
Hay & burlapA whisper
“Concentrated dry lavender. Open the bag once and the room knows.”
Joe & Susie · Lit Lavender Farm
What's inside
Every ingredient, and why it is there
Grown, dried and stripped on the farm. One ingredient.
Clean dried lavender buds
Screened free of stem. 4 oz bag.
How to use it
The ritual
Small things, done properly. This is how we use it on the farm.
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Sachets
Any small breathable bag. Two tablespoons is plenty.
2
Simmer pot
A spoonful with a lemon half and a cinnamon stick, low heat, top up the water.
3
Wedding toss
Biodegradable, smells extraordinary underfoot, and venues allow it where they ban confetti.
4
Kitchen
A pinch, ground, into shortbread or a sugar jar. Start with less than you think.
Two lavenders, two jobs
Royal Velvet or Super?
We grow two very different lavenders, and picking the wrong one is the most common lavender mistake there is. Here is the short version.
English lavender
Royal Velvet
Lavandula angustifoliaSweeter, softer, rounder. The one for skin and for winding down.
- Pillows and sleep rituals
- Anything going on skin
- Aromatherapy and unwinding
- Baking and culinary use
Low camphor, honey-floral, almost powdery at the finish. It is the lavender people mean when they say lavender smells calming.
Shop the Royal Velvet oil →
French lavandin (a hybrid)
Super
Lavandula × intermediaBolder, brighter, more camphorous. The one for cleaning, linens and bug season.
- Laundry and linen closets
- Cleaning sprays and surfaces
- Diffusers and big rooms
- Keeping mosquitoes off the porch
Higher camphor gives it that spa-clean, almost eucalyptus edge — the smell most people picture as classic lavender. It also yields far more oil per plant, which is why it costs less.
Shop the Super oil →This one is made with lavender grown in our own rows. Where we can name the cultivar on the label we do — where a batch draws on both sides of the farm, we say that rather than guess.
Bought together
The set most people end up with
Add all three in one tap. Every dollar counts toward your milestone gifts — and it all ships in the same $8 box.
Before you buy
Shipping, returns, and the people packing it
Flat $8 shipping, every order
However big the box. No free-shipping threshold with fine print — we tuck real gifts into bigger orders instead. Ships in 3–5 business days from Sequim, Washington.
Packed by hand, between chores
There is no warehouse. Your order is picked, wrapped and labelled on a table in the farm store, and the animals get fed before and after.
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Our word
The two-person guarantee
There is no customer service department here — there is Joe and there is Susie. If your order shows up broken, wrong, or just not what you hoped for, email us a photo and we will replace it or refund it, your pick. No form, no ticket number, no restocking fee.
— Joe & Susie · Lit Lavender Farm, Sequim WA
Questions
Answered before you have to ask
These are the same buds we grow, dry and strip ourselves, with nothing sprayed on them after harvest. People bake with them. Use your own judgement, use a light hand, and if you want a formal culinary certification we do not carry one.
Enough for roughly a dozen small sachets, with plenty left for a simmer pot.
Scale and distance. Most lavender product is blended from bulk oil bought on a commodity market, filled in the thousands. Ours is distilled from our own rows in a copper still on the property and bottled in runs small enough to hand-label in an afternoon. When a batch is gone it is gone until the next harvest.
A flat $8 anywhere in the US, however big the box. Instead of a free-shipping threshold with fine print, we tuck real gifts into bigger orders — a lavender sachet at $50, $75 and $100, hand lotion at $150, a canvas tote at $200. They stack.
Within 3–5 business days, packed by hand between farm chores in Sequim, Washington. You will get an email the moment yours leaves.
Email info@lit-lavender.com with a photo and we will make it right — replacement or refund, your choice. You will hear back from Joe or Susie, not a help desk.
Checkout runs on Stripe. Your card details go straight to Stripe and never touch our servers. Promo codes like WELCOME10 are entered on that same secure page.
