Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
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Attarअत्तर, عطر
Traditional natural perfume oil distilled from flowers, herbs, and spices
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Flower craft
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rose oil
Essential oil distilled from rose petals, prized in perfume and tradition
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 4 more · Flower craft
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Rose waterگلاب
Flavoured water made by steeping or distilling rose petals
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 more · Offering or rite
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Enfleurage
A traditional French method for capturing flower fragrance in fat
🇫🇷 France · Flower craft
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Absolute
A concentrated aromatic plant extract used in perfumery
Flower craft
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Essential oil
Fragrant plant oils used for scent, flavour, and traditional remedies
🇵🇪 Peru · Flower craft
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Concrete (perfumery)
A waxy extract from flowers used to make perfume absolutes
Flower craft
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Monoï oil
Traditional Tahitian scented oil made from tiaré flowers and coconut oil
Flower craft
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Orange flower water
A fragrant distillate from bitter-orange blossoms used in food, drink, and tradition
🇩🇿 Algeria and 7 more · Flower craft
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Kewraकेवड़ा
A fragrant extract from screwpine flowers used in food, worship, and perfume
🇮🇳 India · Offering or rite
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Attar: Kerina yin, CC0, source
- rose oil: Itineranttrader, Public domain, source
- Rose water: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Absolute: Itineranttrader, Public domain, source
- Essential oil: JJ Georges, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Concrete (perfumery): Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Monoï oil: Verodemortillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Orange flower water: Amadalvarez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kewra: Miansari66, Public domain, source