Attar of roses is literally'worth a good deal more than its weight in gold. Solid gold is priced at about £4 per ounce, but the same quantity of attar would cost the purchaser £20 to £30. like all other commodities of the expensive order, attar of roses is liable to the abuse of adulteration. Its own properties, however, are such as to make a certain amount of dilution necessary. In its original purity the perfume is altogether too powerful for use. A single drop of the essence is sufficient to impregnate a whole pint of hair oil with the well-known odour For this reason it not infrequently happens that a purchaser of so-called pure attar of roses really gets nothing but a, measure of olive oil with a few drops of the powerful scent added.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)
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