But a heatwave has slashed this year's harvest of rose petals, labour is hard to find and the global surge in energy prices has increased costs for a product so precious that it is dubbed "liquid gold".
This year's oil will be "considerably more expensive," Plamen Stankovski, a partner at rose oil producer and exporter Bulattars, told AFP in his distillery near Pavel Banya, in Bulgaria's famed Rose Valley.
— Read more in Inflation a thorn in the side of Bulgaria rose oil makers at Yahoo! News.
French niche line Pierre Guillaume has launched three new fragrances in the light-and-sun inspired White Collection: Dialogue with Venus, Intime.Extime and Oshiso…
The Lush Garden gift set, with five x 10 ml travel sprays: "Choose from five bestselling perfumes featuring the sweet, spicy and fresh fragrances of our favorite florals. For those who love heady, sexy scents, you'll gravitate toward the gourmand lemon-rose of Rose Jam, the rich violet of V and the heady jasmine and sandalwood of Lust. Those seeking earthier tones will take comfort in the light citrus of Orange Blossom or the homey rosemary-orange of Pansy. Now you always have time to stop and smell the roses." $95 at Lush USA.
Guerlain perfumer Thierry Wasser in Grasse, for the L’Art & La Matière fragrances.
It’s Hump Day, National Camera Day, World Industrial Design Day and International Day of the Tropics. Birthdays: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Stokely Carmichael. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in roses from Dawn Spencer Hurwitz: Countess Olenska on one arm, and Rosé (a repeat from yesterday) on the other.
Reminder: on 7/1, Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It’s July, and Canada Day…