Essential oils · Floral family
Rose otto essential oil
Rosa × damascena
Hoa hồng Damask · Rosaceae
Fresh rose: sweet, honeyed, a little lemon at the edges and a very thin trace of spice. Rounder and deeper than any “rose scent” you have met in cosmetics.
Most of the bottle is citronellol and geraniol, but those two are also found in geranium and palmarosa. What makes real rose are a few compounds present only in parts per thousand, among them damascenone, which the nose picks up at extremely low concentrations.
It takes several tonnes of petals for a kilo of oil. And real rose oil sets like wax when it is cold, because it carries the natural wax of the petals; warm it in your palm and it turns liquid again. A bottle that never sets is a bottle worth asking more about.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Vietnamese name
- Hoa hồng Damask
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Rosaceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Rose otto
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Same plant family: Rosaceae Rose absolute
Also from the flowers Champaca · Clove bud · Immortelle Madagascar · Jasmine sambac · Lotus · Osmanthus · Rose absolute · Saffron
Same method: direct steam distillation Cupressus · Douglas fir · Frankincense sacra · Honey myrtle · Lavandin · May chang · Patchouli · Spearmint