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What could be more blissful than picking beautiful organic roses in sun-drenched Turkey for our organic Rosa damascena oil!
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We headed to Isparta, a small city in western Turkey, also known as City of Roses. For a few weeks every year at the end of May the roses bloom and are gathered daily, always by hand. |
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Picking the roses begins at dawn when the blossoms are fresh and the oil yield the highest, and is usually finished before 11am. The harvesting season starts as soon as the flowers begin to open and continues until all the roses have been gathered. The rose blossoms are still collected by hand in the time-honoured way, and are nipped just below the calyx (the green outer protective cover).
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Getting on with the locals is always important! |
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It takes a while to fill a sack with roses! The sacks weigh about 25 kg when full. It takes an average of 4,000 kg of roses to to produce 1 kg of oil. I'm nowhere close to filling my sack! Maybe I've been too distracted. |
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Gorgeous organic roses! |
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Distilling the oil. Always organic. |
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