The flower tips or the leaves are harvested and then dried. Thyme is then used both as an aromatic herb and for its medicinal properties. Branches of thyme are used in cooking as “bouquets garnis” either on their own or associated with other herbs.

The leaves are used by herbalists to produce herbal teas or in the pharmaceutical industry. The plant is also distilled to produce essential oil to add flavour to other products such as toothpaste, chewing gum and fruit squashes.

The leaves are used in the food industry, whilst the essential oil is used in perfume making and in the pharmaceutical industry.

Lavandin essential oil is mainly used to make soaps, detergents and washing powder.

Lavender is either distilled to make essential oil or dried. Essential oil of lavender is essentially used in perfume making and secondly in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and in aromatherapy.

The essential oil is used in the perfume and cosmetics industry for its characteristic "nutty” scent. A paste called “la concrete” is obtained from the whole plant or from the residual straw following distillation. The oil is extracted by using solvents such as hexane. Sage base or paste serves as the raw material from which sclareol is extracted; the base is 40-60% of the content. This is a crystallised product, beige in colour, used in a second transformation to form ambrox, an alternative to the grey amber of the sperm whale. Ambrox has notes of amber and can be used as a fixative. Sclareol is used to lend aroma to tobacco. The entire plant is also used as a flavouring agent for vermouth.

Meadowsweet's principal use is the pharmaceutical industry where it is used for its anti-inflammatory properties, particularly in the treatment of rheumatism in the joints.

It is a powerful aromatic plant whose leaves are used in cooking and flower heads in aromatherapy, liquoristerie and in perfume-making. It acts as a mosquito repellent.

Lime-blossom has aromatic, gustative and pharmacological properties. It has, in fact neurosedative qualities (tranquilising), it is anti-spasmodic and can be used to cure migraine, indigestion or diziness and can of course be made into herbal tea.