I had received a jar of this lavender honey for this past Christmas and it was so good, I could not wait to order another jar. When I received the new jar, I opened it right away to smell the aroma of the lavender in the honey and to my horror, the honey wasn't honey. I looked like some kind of spread. It was not fluid at all, it was hard as a paste. The taste was off also. I wrote to complain but never heard a word about it. This honey is not inexpensive. For the money it should always be good. Was it the very cold weather that ruined it or was it already like that when it was shipped from France? I won't be ordering this item anymore.