Our perfumes containing Rose

Uses of roses as a fragrance were adopted by the early civilizations like Romans, Chinese, and Egyptians who grew the flowers widely around 5000 years ago. In India, since the time of Mughal Emperor Jahangir, rose attars have been distilled in the city “Kannauj” (the attar capital in India) for more than 400 years. Nur Jahan, the wife of Emperor Jahangir, was an avid enthusiast of roses that she used to bathe in a water pool packed with rose petals. 

The production process of rose attar is very labor-intensive and very low content of oil can be collected from the rose blooms. Roses are picked by hand in the early morning before sunrise and processed on the same day.

According to experts, on average to produce 180 ml of rose attar oil, approximately 400 kg of rose petals are required. Therefore, 1 Kg of oil can be produced from 4 to 6 tons of rose flowers, which’s huge.