Lavender oil is an essential oil obtained by distillation from the flower spikes of certain species of lavender.

Lavender flower oil is a designation of the National Formulary and the British Pharmacopoeia.

Kashmir Lavender oil is famous for being produced from lavender at the foothills of the Himalayas.

Lavender oil may also be used as a mosquito repellent when worn as perfume or when added to lotions or hair products.

In terms of phototoxicity, a 2007 investigative report from European researchers stated that, " Lavender oil and sandalwood oil did not induce photohaemolysis in our test system.

Lavender oil has recently been implicated in gynecomastia, the abnormal development of breasts in young boys.

In practical courses at colleges, students sometimes get acquainted to the GC by studying the contents of Lavender oil or measuring the ethylene that is secreted by Nicotiana benthamiana plants after artificially injuring their leaves.

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The band were able to showcase their ability on the album to juxtapose pert pop ballads (" Kayleigh ", charting at No. 2 in the United Kingdom, behind charity fundraiser " You'll Never Walk Alone " by The Crowd, and " Lavender ", which charted at No. 5 ) with longer song cycles of lost youth, first love, drug abuse, drink, prostitution and, ultimately, rebirth and redemption, all inspired by Fish's life experiences.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

Over the past two decades, Sequim has become famous for growing lavender and holds a Sequim Lavender Weekend ( always the third weekend in July ), which attracts tens of thousands of people.

Ealing is best known for its film studios, which are the oldest in the world and are known especially for the Ealing comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets, Passport to Pimlico, The Ladykillers and The Lavender Hill Mob.

" Lavender Blue ," also called " Lavender's Blue ," is an English folk song and nursery rhyme dating to the seventeenth century, which has been recorded in various forms since the twentieth century.

On their 1985 album Misplaced Childhood, the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion recorded a song called " Lavender ," which was derived from the folk song and became a number 5 hit on the British singles chart.

At Culver Junction it joined the 1858 to Uckfield line ( part of which is now restored as the nearby Heritage Lavender Line ), thereby gaining access to Lewes.

There, he produced and starred as Dick Phenyl in Arthur Wing Pinero's Sweet Lavender, which was perhaps his greatest success, running for 670 nights.

She has platinum hair ( that looks like a Lavender sometimes blue and silver hybrid ), amber colored eyes ( which prompts one antagonist in The Prince of Darkness to call her " Amber Fairy ".

But in One Man's West, Lavender remembered " not the cold and the cruel fatigue, but rather the multitude of tiny things which in their sum make up the elemental poetry of rock and ice and snow.

Wheen wrote a docudrama, The Lavender List for BBC Four on the final period of Harold Wilson's premiership, concentrating on his relationship with Marcia Williams, which first screened in March 2006.

The undeveloped Cochise deposit, located immediately north of the Lavender pit, contains an estimated 190 million tons of rock containing 0. 4 % acid-soluble copper, which may be mined in the future.

In 2007 he released 2 fragrances, the range consists of a female fragrance, Hope By Ronan, which is based upon musk and amber scents and a male scent, Believe by Ronan, based on Sicilian Lemon, Lavender and Clary Sage smells.

* Sotheby's holds the world record for most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold at auction, with Mark Rothko's quintessential 1950 White Center ( Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose ), which grossed $ 72. 8 million in May 2007 and was famously offered by David Rockefeller as well as the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist with Damien Hirst's " Lullaby Spring " pill cabinet, which grossed roughly $ 19 million in a June 2007 London sale.

During the early part of the century, the village became famous for its Violet and Lavender cultivation, which was centred around Violet Farm.

Uninvited, they lined up on stage wearing matching T-shirts inscribed with the words " Lavender Menace ", and demanded the microphone to read aloud to an audience of 400 their essay The Woman-Identified Woman, which laid out the main precepts of their movement.

When Wilson resigned, Haines accused Lady Falkender of writing the first draft of his Resignation Honours List on lavender paper, which Haines styled as the " Lavender List ".

The campus has 16 hostels ( Blocks 1-11, Kurnji, Tulip & Lavender and other blocks ), of which five are exclusively for women.

Other translations include Lavender, as used by Edward Seidensticker in his English version of the Genji Monogatari ; Violet ; and Violet Root, which in Japanese poetry denotes Love and Constancy.

* The Lavender Dragon is the name of a 1923 Fantasy novel by Eden Phillpotts which is an " Ironic mock-medieval romance in which a benevolent dragon steals lonely humans to populate his utopian community, in spite of the attempts of knights errant to keep them in a world ruled by intolerance and injustice.

* A Lavender marriage is a marriage between a man and a woman in which one, or both, parties are, or are assumed to be, homosexual.

In 2005, Wood appeared in the Mike Binder-directed The Upside of Anger, opposite Kevin Costner and Joan Allen, a well-reviewed film in which Wood played Lavender " Popeye " Wolfmeyer, one of four sisters dealing with their father's absence.

In the Harry Potter series, a character named Pansy Parkinson is a bully, and just one of the characters in the novels who has a flower related name, including Lavender Brown and Lily Potter.

Mona also has an annual Lavender Festival.

By the late 1990s lavender farming began to be popular and has grown into a major part of the local economy as well as a large tourist attraction, culminating every July with the Sequim Lavender Weekend.

The Sequim Lavender Festival and the Sequim Lavender Farm Faire, now expanded to become the Sequim Lavender Weekend, has been held every July since 1996.

The lavender stripe, mixing blue and pink ( traditional male and female colors, also present on the trans flag ) is meant to represent those under the GQ umbrella who feel they are both male and female in identity as well as “ queerness .” Lavender has long been associated with homosexuality and bisexuality.

While Matilda and Lavender are friends in the novel, Matilda has no direct interaction with Bruce and Amanda, and in her and Lavender's only encounter with Hortensia, she insults them, while in the film, she is nice to them.

She has stated that Tipping the Velvet is a female version of Street Lavender, with a plot similar to James Kincaid's My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London.

Punk Planet Books has published four titles as of May 2006: " Hairstyles of the Damned " by Joe Meno ( August 2004, ISBN 1-888451-70-X ), “ All the Power: Revolution Without Illusion ” by Mark Andersen ( September 2004, ISBN 1-888451-72-6 ), “ Lessons in Taxidermy ” by Bee Lavender ( March 2005 )( ISBN 1-888451-79-3 ), and " 100 Posters, 134 Squirrels " by Jay Ryan ( November 2005, ISBN 1-888451-93-9 ).

Any reopening might affect the operations of the Lavender Line or entail a move to a new location, however there is no definite statement on this point and in any event the campaign has not succeeded.

Lavender has continued to be associated with the series, and still takes part in occasional fan conventions and cast reunions.

On this, Lavender has said " We had been living together for 16 years and it was something I should have done a long time before, these things change you, they help you to see what is important in life.

" The bladder tumour was operated on successfully and, although Lavender has regular check-ups, doctors seem confident the cancer will not return.

" Lavender Mafia " has been used to describe perceived homosexual elements within the Catholic church.

The Lavender Mafia has been used as well as the gay mafia to refer to an informal network of homosexual executives in the entertainment industry.

Lavender Mafia has also been used to refer to a faction within the leadership and clergy of the Catholic Church that allegedly protects and advocates for the acceptance of homosexuality within the Church and its culture.

On six occasions Lavender has been honored ( Distinguished Citizen Award, Key to the City, Certificate of Apprecation ) for his civic activities in Miami Beach.

Lavender also has close ties to Charleston, South Carolina, his " second home ," where he has lived part time, has many relatives and friends, visits frequently, has been a speaker at the historic ( founded in the 1740s ) Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue, has conducted extensive research at the Hugugenot Society, and was involved with the International Huguenot Conference held in Charleston in 1997.