A very traditional 100% pure Damask rose flower essential oil from a single estate artisan distiller near Astara. This is a truly epic, deep peridot green, traditionally single-distilled rose essential oil that has been carefully aged to perfection since 2018.

production: 2018, 100% pure hydro-distilled rose oil. Single-distilled “first distillation” in a wood-fired copper still with a glass condenser.

species: Rosa x damascena

scent description: Starts off as a cool, fresh, green, rose bouquet; deep, stoic, night-rose with mineral and petrichor notes, and well as the green notes of freshly trimmed rose bush. Slowly warms and expands through the drydown, eventually transforming into a clean, bright, warm, and solar classic Damask rose aura with no distractions.

special features: typical of “first distillations” (single-distilled) this rose oil congeals to a semi-solid gel texture and creamy chrysoprase-green color at room temperature and becomes liquid upward of 24 degrees Celsius.

More on the history of the Damacena rose and this traditional growing region…
Also known as the Damask rose, the Rosa x damascenea species is a natural hybrid that occurred most likely by chance through cross-pollination, roughly where Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan meet, an estimated 7000 years ago. (Rosa gallica, Rosa fedschenkoana, and Rosa moschata are implicated.) Probably noticed by humans in the region for its remarkable scent and special medicinal properties, archeological studies have uncovered evidence of crude distillation and press extraction of Damascena rose flowers going back an unbelievable 6000 years. Thus began the journey of this exquisite scent into aromatic history as it spread into the surrounding lands and cultures over millennia to take its place as a now renowned and revered aromatic for the well-being and sheer joy of body, mind, and spirit.