Rosa damascena Mill.

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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fragrance material

A red rose

A 3D model of a garden red rose by Lassi Kaukonen (CC BY 4.0), not a botanical specimen of Rosa × damascena; simplified and scaled to about life size here.

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A single red rose on its stem, a 3D model by Lassi Kaukonen ("Red rose", CC BY 4.0) - the same model the site’s rose renders use. It is a garden rose, not a specimen of the Damask rose (Rosa × damascena) grown for rose oil; it shows the flower whose petals are distilled for rose otto and extracted for rose absolute. Simplified for the web and scaled to about life size (45 cm): the size is a choice, not a measurement.

In the room

45 cm tall, 27.8 cm across. No measurement: scaled to 45 cm, about life size (a choice)

Source

Lassi Kaukonen (sketchfab.com/thesidekick), "Red rose"

Licence

CC BY 4.0 · credit: "Red rose" by Lassi Kaukonen, CC BY 4.0, simplified and rescaled (changes made)

Model

13,222 triangles (simplified from 214,660)

The files GLB 696 KB · USDZ 1.3 MB

The record

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Latin name

Rosa damascena Mill.

documented

damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.)

S6 · Kumar et al. (2023). Phenotyping floral traits and essential oil profiling revealed considerable variations in clonal selections of damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.) · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Common name

damask rose

documented

damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.)

S6 · Kumar et al. (2023). Phenotyping floral traits and essential oil profiling revealed considerable variations in clonal selections of damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill.) · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Family

not on record

not on record

no botanical authority (POWO, Wikidata) is filed in the source pages for the family; not stated by the sources on record

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 (‘Българско розово масло’… · 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

Wikidata

Q578904

documented

P225 taxon name: Rosa × damascena

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item’s taxon name (P225) is “Rosa × damascena”, the record’s botanical name without its author

confidence A

Origins on record

• Kazanlak, Rose Valley (Rozovata Dolina)
  documented

  nothing on record 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

• rose otto (rose oil; Bulgarsko rozovo maslo, PGI) · by steam distillation
• rose absolute · by solvent extraction

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 has been rendered

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 4.0
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 · EU reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU): reuse for commercial or non-commercial purposes, with acknowledgement of the source
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 · all rights reserved (© Ministry of Media, Saudipedia); quotation permitted for non-commercial scientific, research or public-awareness purposes with attribution; commercial reproduction needs written approval (quoted, not reproduced)
4. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0

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