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Attar of Roses has pale pink flowers with a delicious rose scent from the leaves.Balcon Red is a red cascading geranium and one of the most popular - perfect for window boxes where it will tumble downwards with its scarlet blooms.

Attar of Roses Credit: www.crocus.co.uk If you want to plant trailing geraniums for display in hanging baskets, look for ivyleaved varieties.

Attar of Roses Credit: www.crocus.co.uk Their essential oil is extracted and used in the perfume industry, and they are also used as culinary herbs.

Bulgarian attar of roses gets a status of protected geographical indication, said the European Commission in a press statement.

Rose perfumes are made from attar of roses or rose oil, which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam distilling the crushed petals of roses.

There he sat while I rubbed his face with attar of roses, tea tree oil,

Described as pure Bulgarian Rose Oil, also referred to as Rose Otto and Attar of Roses, the oil is from the valley of the roses in Kazanlik, Bulgaria, home of the famous rosa damascena.

Two decades later, writing about Spencer Gore in The New Age, he described an artist as a person 'who can take a piece of flint and wring out of it drops of attar of roses'.