ATTAR OF ROSES

ătˈər, ăˈtär, or rose oil, fragrant essential oil obtained from roses and used in making perfume. It is one of the most valuable of the volatile oils. Rose water is water in which a small amount of the oil is dissolved.

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books on: Attar of Roses  - 200 results

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The Ocean of the Soul: Man, the World, and God in the Stories of Farid Al-Din 'Attar
Book by Hellmut Ritter, John O'Kane; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Attar, Farid Al-Din--D. Ca. 1230--Criticism And Interpretation
...contents of frame-story 18-30; 31; 137; 145; Attar on his MN 163; 287; 331; 528; 530; 634 ff. musician...to music: 137; 456; and dancing 507-17. musk: attar of roses and - 50, blood of --deer 50, 272; 90; sewer...
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The Symbolic Rose
Book by Barbara Seward; Columbia University Press, 1960
Subjects: Drama, English Literature--History And Criticism, Literature--History And Criticism, Roses In Literature, Symbolism In Literature
...live roseate flames on the bare rose briers: "the briers wreathed...it creates for him another rose of the girl he is just beginning to love: "her breath an attar of roses on his deep sun-red cheek...alive, for he could see each rose-glowing separate strand...
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A Lady's Experiences in the Wild West in 1883
Book by Rose Pender; University of Nebraska Press, 1978
Subjects: Pender, Rose--Lady, West (U.S.)--Description And Travel, West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890
...lovely flowers were growing, and at one place we drove through and over a perfect thicket of wild roses; the scent was delicious, like attar of roses, and very strong. We halted at Mr. Ferdans new ranche. Two men were building it; at least...
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How Plants Get Their Names
Book by L. H. Bailey; Dover Publications, 1963
Subjects: Botany--Nomenclature
...Crimson ramblers; R. alba , attar roses; R. Penzanceana , the Penzance briar- roses. These names represent roses unknown in a natural or native...mutants of long standing. Other roses, well recognized as parents...R. odorata , of China, tea rose; R. chinensis , also of China...
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How Plants Get Their Names
Book by L. H. Bailey; The Macmillan Company, 1933
Subjects: Botany--Nomenclature
...Crimson ramblers; R. alba , attar roses; R. Penzanceana , the Penzance...briarroses. These names represent roses unknown in a natural or native...mutants of long standing. Other roses, well recognized as parents...R. odorata , of China, tea rose; R. chinensis , also of China...
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journal articles on: Attar of Roses  - 15 results

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Ben Stoltzfus: Valley of Roses
Journal article by Erik Nakjavani; International Fiction Review, Vol. 31, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Valley of Roses Victoria (Book)--Book reviews
...authorial discourse of Valley of Roses and Aarons remembrances to make...pressure is the distilling of attar of roses. It is noteworthy that the rose, that most easily recognized...passing of the olfactory magic of roses last as a condensed gel-like...
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Herman Melville, Immortality, St. Paul, and Resurrection: From Rose-Bud to Billy Budd
Journal article by Gordon V. Boudreau; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 52, 2003
Subjects: Flower symbolism--Religious aspects, Immortality, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Religious aspects, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Influence, Resurrection--Portrayals, Roses--Portrayals, Symbolism of flowers--Religious aspects
...disciples of the Order Whose rose-vine twines the Cross, Who have drained the roses chalice Never heeding gain or...sorrow come, anew we twine The Rose-Vine round the Cross. (CP...and incorruption, fetor and attar, potatoes and roses. In a chapter titled "The...
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Coleridge's Captain Derkheim
Journal article by Morton D. Paley; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 40, 2009
Subjects: Authors, English--Records and correspondence, Authors, English--Social aspects, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--Records and correspondence, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor--Social aspects, Derkheim, Moses Myers--Social aspects, English writers--Records and correspondence, English writers--Social aspects, Ship captains--Social aspects
...Captain Derkheim to have stolen his attar of roses! On October 2 he wrote to Mrs...accept of them / but reserved the Attar of Roses, which (I know) he got...supposing, that he had given away the Attar of Roses to his mistress, was ashamed...
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Tennyson and the Ladies
Journal article by Linda H. Peterson; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009
Subjects: Erotic literature--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Works
...hush thee, Airy Lilian, Like a rose-leaf I will crush thee, Fairy...unreal," Hallam compares the "roses and lilies that bloom around thee...streams of music, and incense and attar of roses," but nonetheless is "a good book...
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Dusky Comments of Silence: Language, Race and Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno."
Journal article by Gavin Jones; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 32, 1995
Subjects: Language and culture--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Melville, Herman--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Slavery--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...so that Gee, being a subtle distillation from that word, stands, in point of relative intensity to it, as attar of roses does to rose-water. (347) At first glance, this passage suggests that the primitivism of the Gee is continuous with...
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magazine articles on: Attar of Roses  - 11 results

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1.
Rose: The Queen of Fragrance
Magazine article by Rhona Wells; The Middle East, July 1997
Subjects: Attar of roses--History, Morocco--Business and industry, Perfumes industry--Morocco, Roses--Processing
...petals and several bouquets of roses were found in the 3,000...Saadi waxed lyrical about the rose, the flower of Islamic culture...the Gulistan, or Garden of Roses. The Sufis encouraged the practice of meditation in a rose garden, and these gardens feature...flower in a still produced the attar of rose. The word attar is...
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Scents of Arabia Inspire New European Fragrance
Magazine article; The Middle East, October 2008
Subjects: Cosmetics industry--Product introduction, Lancome Parfumes et Cie.--Product introduction, Perfumes--Product introduction
...rose ILLUSTRATION OMITTED THE ROSE WAS the first flower to be distilled...a still produced the famous attar of roses The word "attar" is derived...meaning perfume. The scent of rose remains strong in the distillation...Islamic literature "attar" of roses refers both to and pure rose...
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The Perfumes of Arabia
Magazine article by Juliet Highet; The Middle East, January 1999
Subjects: Egypt--History, Middle East--History, Perfumes industry--Middle East, Perfumes--History
...Nigeria the odour of attar of roses, sweet jasmine and...like jasmine and rose. Frankincense was...the most popular attars are amber, jasmine...perfume blending. Attar of roses comes from Istanbul...and although the rose is considered a common...as well as flower attars, became part of...
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Closure and Roadkill on the Life's Highway
Magazine article by William Gay; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, October 1999
...wishing pool, and the odor of the roses had even saturated her hair...just too Goddamned much." He rose and took a drop cloth from the...When he didnt answer, she rose, slowly so that the bed would...in the room. It smelled like attar of roses, like climate-controlled...
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Perfuming the Garden
Magazine article by Sharon Cohoon; Sunset, Vol. 207, August 2001
Subjects: Flowers & plants, Gardens & gardening, Odors, Western states
...with a single spritz of attar of roses. She would have used...single sweetly scented rose--even one named...such as lemon verbena or rose-scented geranium...those with scents of rose, lemon, and peppermint...virginalis, zones 1-17. Roses. Many old roses are...
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newspaper articles on: Attar of Roses  - 15 results

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Scent of Success; for a Dizzying Range of Garden-Filling Fragrances, Nothing Performs like Scented-Leaf Pelargoniums
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 9, 2011
...lavender, apples, oranges, roses, almonds or even cinnamon...dizzying: everything from rose, lemon, lime, orange...beginner, is Pelargonium Attar of Roses. It smells deliciously of...Constance Craig Smith Pelargonium Attar of Roses
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Your Garden ...with Charles Lyte
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), September 20, 1998
...perfumed flowers is huge. Some, like roses and sweet peas - both of which can...so does `Imperial Butterfly. `Attar of Roses smells like its name. Herbs can...is. Most of the old-fashioned roses are sweetly scented but only flower...
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Desde Tiempos Ancestrales, Las Rosas Has Sido Cultivada Por la Belleza Y Fraganc
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 9, 2009
...Rose hips, the berrylike fruits of the rose plant, are usually red or orange in color. Attar of roses, a richly fragrant oil obtained from rose blossoms, is important to the perfume industry. Roses are also used in various cuisines of the...
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Troop the Colour
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), June 20, 2004
...reaching their peak, annuals are bursting into bloom and roses are at their best at this time of year - but you may...the leaves to release their fantastic scent. Go for Attar of Roses for a good fragrance, which bears clusters of small...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 22, 2011
...June 22LISTEN carefully. Are those violins you can hear in the background? And whats that smell? Could it be attar of roses? Hmmm... but you are Gemini. You dont go in for any of this soppy stuff. I must be mistaken. Now, lets get...
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encyclopedia articles on: Attar of Roses  - 6 results

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Attar of Roses
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ATTAR OF ROSES at r, a tar, or rose oil, fragrant essential oil obtained from roses and used in making perfume. It is one of the most valuable of the volatile oils. Rose water is water in which a small amount of the oil...
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Rose
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...species are the cabbage rose and the damask rose, both native to the Caucasus; the latter especially is cultivated for the perfume oil attar of roses . The famous roses of England include the white rose that was the emblem of the house of York...
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Isparta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...706), capital of Isparta prov., W central Turkey. It is a manufacturing center producing cotton, carpets, and attar of roses. A picturesque city, it was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1889. ____________________ Copyright...
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Kazanluk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...019), central Bulgaria, in the Kazanluk valley, a region famous for its rose fields. Kazanluk developed in the 17th cent. as a manufacturing center for attar of roses. Other manufactures include textiles and musical instruments. The Kazanluk...
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Perfume
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Leading producers of perfume oils are the East Indies, Reunion island, and S France. Bulgaria and Turkey are noted for attar of roses , Algeria for geranium oils, Italy for citrus oils, and England for lavender and mint. The great fashion houses...
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