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Rosa damascena Mill.

The damask rose, Rosa damascena Mill., is the perfumer’s rose. Its flowers are picked with the sepals, in the early morning, for a few weeks each spring; from them come rose otto by distillation and rose absolute by solvent extraction.

Two of its places are on record here: the Valley of Roses around Kazanlak in Bulgaria, whose rose oil is a protected name, and Taif in Saudi Arabia, where the picking season begins at the end of March. The family, the cultivars and the other growing regions are not filed until a source is.

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Latin name
Rosa damascena Mill.
documented

damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.)

S6 · Kumar A, Gautam RD, Singh S, Chauhan R, Kumar M, Kumar D, Kumar A, Singh S · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Common name
damask rose
documented

damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.)

S6 · Kumar A, Gautam RD, Singh S, Chauhan R, Kumar M, Kumar D, Kumar A, Singh S · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Family
not on record
not on record

no botanical authority (POWO, Wikidata) is filed in for the family; not stated by the sources in the repository

Part used
the flowers (rose blossom), picked with the sepals
documented · 2014

only blossoms with at least one open petal are picked with the sepals, without damaging the stem or the branches

HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Cultivars
not on record
not on record

S6 profiles one study’s Indian clonal selections (‘Jwala’/‘Himroz’ progeny), not cultivars of the origins on record; no cultivar list is filed

Origins on record
  • Kazanlak, Rose Valley (Rozovata Dolina)
    documented

    nothing in the repository supports a value; none is invented

    confidence A

  • Taif
    inferred

    HV-2 says "rose" and "Taif rose" without a species; the identification as R. damascena is inferred (Galal et al. 2022 says so, but was not used)

    confidence C

Materials

Films and plates

  • S5 · the rose dive: from the field into one bloom, down to one molecule · film
    the rose (its bloom only): Lassi Kaukonen, "Red rose", CC BY 4.0, credited on /credits
  • MAT-1 · the rose field: the /materials masthead film · film
    the rose (its bloom only): Lassi Kaukonen, "Red rose", CC BY 4.0, credited on /credits
  • S1 · the opening film: distillation · film
    the rose (its bloom only): Lassi Kaukonen, "Red rose", CC BY 4.0, credited on /credits; the copper still (its pot and helm, tinted): District Museum in Tarnów, "Vodka distillation set" (MT-E/3446), published by the Virtual Museums of Małopolska, CC0 1.0; a historic copper still, not a perfume alembic
  • the rose specimen still (does not exist) · Open: no rose specimen still is rendered or planned in spec.json; a SPEC-10 for the rose is a queue decision (one GPU job), not this lane’s

Sources

  1. S6 · Kumar A, Gautam RD, Singh S, Chauhan R, Kumar M, Kumar D, Kumar A, Singh S. Phenotyping floral traits and essential oil profiling revealed considerable variations in clonal selections of damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.). Scientific Reports 2023;13:8101. DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-34972-5. PMID 37208367. PMCID PMC10198992. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34972-5 · read 2026-09-27 · CC BY (Europe PMC)
  2. HV-1 · Publication of an application pursuant to Article 50(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 (‘Българско розово масло’ (Bulgarsko rozovo maslo), PGI), Official Journal of the European Union C 122, 25.4.2014, p. 12 (2014/C 122/05), CELEX 52014XC0425(02). Registered by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1020/2014. eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri… · read 2026-09-27
  3. HV-2 · Saudipedia, ‘Rose Cultivation in the Kingdom’ (national encyclopedia launched by the Ministry of Media on 24 February 2024 "to serve as a national reference and a source for documentation"). Authors not named; year not shown. saudipedia.com/en/rose-cultivation-in-the-kingdo… · read 2026-09-27

These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

this record as data: /data/botanical/rosa-damascena.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A