Cultivated for almost 5000 years, the rose is the most mythical of flowers. Cultivated for almost 5000 years, it became the attribute of the goddesses Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Aphrodite, Venus and Lakshmi, each time being a symbol of femininity, beauty and eternal love. It is an essential ingredient in perfumery, but it is also rare because it takes about 4 tons of petals to obtain 1 kilo of essence – she’s not the Queen of Flowers for nothing. The Turkish rose absolute we used in our Rose adds its sickly waxy and honeyed facet to an otherwise dewy bouquet.