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Escentia KISSED BYA ROSE We all know that sometimes, a rose means more than words. Thanks to their beauty and magical scent roses have helped people for hundreds of years to say "I love you". But why do roses symbolize love? And which roses are scented enough to be used in perfumery? ACCORDING TO GREEK mythology, roses were created by the goddess of Love: Aphrodite cried over her lover’s blood on the ground from where the red roses grew. And yet the red roses offered to represent affection, passion and love are not the most fragrant. Only the rose ‘Centifolia’ or ‘Rose de Mai’ from Grasse and the ‘Damascena’ Rose from the Balkans are the ones present in the perfumer’s palette, and they are indeed smaller bushy pink roses with a magical scent worth more than gold. Rose is almost a perfume by itself. Rose extracts can have scents ranging from citrusy notes to green,fruity, spicy, ambery and sweet facets, all in one single ingredient. The one and only ingredient that is often described as ‘rosy, typical of the flower itself’ and presents itself as a role model for other scents. The word attar, which is today a synonym for rose oil, comes from the Arabic 'itr, meaning "perfume" or "essence." The Damask Rose, originally grown in Turkey and Bulgaria has been transplanted to Saudi Arabia by the Ottomans in the 16th century 22