A perfume compounded, with alcohol and ambergris, from the distilled flowers of lavender.
1563. Hyll, Art Garden. (1593), 99. Distil it in a limbek of glas … into which put a little Lauender water & peper.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 294. They bathed the Part with Lavender Water.
a. 1863. Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle’s Prof., Misc. Wks. IV. 21. What a fine odour of lavender-water!
