A few leaves of salad burnet gives cucumber flavor to tossed salad. Add fresh tarragon or basil to white vinegar.
Purple basil makes a vinegar as beautiful as it is good.
Cut white base from fragrant red rose petals, add 2 cups to a quart of simple syrup - a rare treat with waffles. Jean Gordon gives many recipes for such taste treats. A few blades of Buffalo grass in a bottle of vodka makes the traditional Zubvodka of Poland, or lay them among linens. Sweet wormwood among woolens give moth protection and a warm sweet scent. Put a sprig of thyme in stew for flavor.