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attar of roses

NOUN
  1. a volatile fragrant oil obtained from fresh roses by steam distillation

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  • The cove made a fine bathing place, and the boathouse was his dressing room, though the fragrance of the ancient fish nets stored within it was not that of attar of roses. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights
  • Cleopatra would never have set off to woo Mark Anthony armed with a single spritz of attar of roses.
  • This is because they contain the same essential oils as attar of roses.
  • Kazanlik, by the way, is the rose grown in fields all over Bulgaria to produce the famous attar of roses so important to the perfume industry.
  • The famous crop of the dry and dusty Tundzha Valley makes Bulgaria the world's largest exporter of attar of roses.
  • The valuable article of commerce known as attar of roses is made here in the following manner: -- On 40 pounds of roses are poured 60 pounds of water, and they are then distilled over a slow fire, and 30 pounds of rose water obtained. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • ‘Nutmeg’, ‘Attar of Roses’, ‘Strawberry’, ‘Lemon Meringue’, ‘Apple Mint’, and ‘Ginger’ cultivars all smell like their descriptors and just scratch the surface when it comes to the world of flavor possibilities in the pelargonium world. Rose Geranium Unmasked
  • A stable is their delight, almost their home, and their olfactories are refreshed by nothing so much as by the smell of old litter, to which attar of roses is assafoetida in comparison. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
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