If there's one thing nicer than laying your head down on a freshly-laundered pillow-slip after a long muggy day, it's laying your head down on a freshly laundered pillow-slip that smells of lavender (left), after a long etc. The folks at Naturally Ireland are just getting ready to harvest this year's lavender crop down in Kilmacanogue, Co Wicklow. Pick up a bottle for that Provencal effect. Sweet dreams are made of this.

Naturally Ireland lavender water, £7.50, Kilkenny, Nassau Street, Dublin 2 and good chemists countrywide