It takes 60,000 rose blooms to produce an ounce of attar of roses, or rose oil. Great care must be taken to pick the freshly opened blooms while the . dew is still on them, and before the heat of the day has begun. The odour of the roses is volatile, and the heat of the sun causes the blooms to lose their strength.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17728, 3 April 1923, Page 5
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