Mmmmm...wonderful Rose Oil! This fine absolute has one of the most divine scents in all our collection. It is the Bulgarian 'damask' Rose, cultivated since the 16th century, which is considered to produce the finest quality essence. The aroma of this oil is full and rich, intoxicating and aphrodisiac. Rose may bring balance and harmony, perhaps helping one overcome insecurities. Rose can be elevating to the mind and spirit, being considered the essential oil of the 'highest vibration'.

The scent is divinely sweet, rich, and deeply floral - exclusive to the extract of history's most revered flower. Though the rose is renown for it's fragrance, the flower actually contains very little aromatic oil by weight. Some 60,000 roses are needed to distill a single ounce of oil, or about 60 roses PER DROP, a fact which brings the seemly high cost of rose oil into perspective.

Rose oil is a gentle tonic for the heart, with the key to Rose's psychological properties being its effect on the center of emotional being. Rose calms and supports the heart, helping to nourish 'heart-yin' and restore a sense of well-being. The flower has been considered great in its ability to heal emotional wounds by bringing warmth to the soul.

Rose oil was first distilled by the Arabic Physician Avicenna, who wrote an entire book on its many healing properties. Rose makes a great skin oil for all skin types, and especially for dry, sensitive, or aging skin - for this we recommend a 5% dilution in Jojoba oil. It is currently one of our bestsellers, often being diffused to bring the magical scent of Rose to a room or house. Adding a very small amount of oil to a bath or other essential oil blends goes a long way to bringing it's fantastic qualities into one's life. It's uplifting aroma will blend well with many other oils, including Jasmine, Sandalwood, Lavender, and Amber.

Rose oil absolute is made with a delicate process. Similar in a way to 'effleurage' (the pressing of petals in fat to produce an extract), the flower essence is extracted, with a wax-like 'concrete' being produced. Through a second extraction of the concrete, rose oil absolute is yielded. This method is more efficient than steam distillation, producing nearly 7 pounds of oil per 10,000 pounds of roses (distillation yields 1 pound oil per 10,000 pounds of roses), with a corresponding lower cost than a steam distilled variety - some find the absolute has a more 'complete' aroma, with more depth true to the Rose flower.

Oil of rose can be utilized in a number of ways; it is very gentle, being suitable for use on the skin 'neat', in massage oil, and in a bath, as well as in a diffuser. As a perfume, the absolute can be worn directly on the skin – it's 'tenacious' quality will have the aroma slowly released for many hours. For therapeutic use for the emotions, a dilution of 10% of in jojoba oil is often used, being massaged into the heart area – a diffuser is very effective for this purpose as well. The absolute can also be added in small amounts to any skin cream, though using a home-made natural recipe is often the nicest.

We've added a 1.75 milliliter size of the oil to make it easy to produce your own inexpensive dilutions - Rose is commonly offered mixed at 10% with a carrier - simply mix 1 milliliter of Rose with 9 milliliters of carrier oil and voila! - A long lasting therapeutic concentration (and of course, wonderfully smelling) of the oil of Bulgarian Rose.