Lavender vs. Jasmine — What's the Difference?

A small aromatic evergreen shrub of the mint family, with narrow leaves and bluish-purple flowers, used in perfumery and medicine.

Jasmine (taxonomic name Jasminum YASS-min-əm) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae). It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia and Oceania.

A pale blue colour with a trace of mauve

An Old World shrub or climbing plant which is popular as an ornamental and bears fragrant white, pink, or yellow flowers.

Perfume with lavender

Any of several vines or shrubs of the genus Jasminum, native chiefly to Asia and having usually compound leaves and white or yellow flowers. Some of the fragrant species are used in making perfume.

Any of various aromatic plants of the genus Lavandula of the mint family, native chiefly to the Mediterranean region, especially L. angustifolia, having clusters of small purplish flowers. Lavender is widely cultivated as an ornamental and for its essential oil, used in perfumery and cosmetics.

The perfume obtained from these plants.

The fragrant dried leaves, stems, and flowers of this plant.

See yellow jessamine.

A pale to light purple to very light or very pale violet.

Any of several plants or shrubs having fragrant flowers.

Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.

A light to brilliant yellow.

(color) A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.

A kind of film stock for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

The perfume obtained from these plants.

(color) Having a pale purple colour.

Any of several not closely related plants having a similar perfume.

(politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.

A yellow colour.

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A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The Jasminum officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is Jasminum Sambac, and, with Jasminum angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea.

(transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.

Any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia

An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (Lavandula vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (Lavandula Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.

The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac.

Any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated

Of a pale purple color