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Rose
Floral, rosy, honey, fruity, animalic.
Rose absolutes offer a variation of floral, spicy rose, more or less sweet, animalic or fruity according to origins.
Used in Fine Fragrance to gives a sweet floral rosy note.
Very complex and long-lasting.
A primary extraction with a volatile solvent on fresh or dry biomass yields to a Concrete or Resinoid.
The Absolute is obtained via a second purification step in the process.
Extracted part: flowers.
350 flowers app. harvested in 1 Kg.
2 000 flowers app. harvested per hour per person.
300 000 flowers app. to produce 1 Kg of absolute.
800 kg of flowers are necessary to obtain 1 Kg of absolute.
dsm-firmenich’s main supplier of Rose Damascena is Turkey, Bulgaria, Morocco and Iran. Rose Damascena blooms once a year, in early summer. The flowers are harvested early in the morning in order to preserve olfactive components in the petals. Rose Damascena is used in both Rose Oil and Rose Absolute at FIRMENICH. Both Turkey and Bulgaria are growing around 13,000MT of petals per year.
-3500kg of flowers gives1 kg of oil
-350kg of flowers gives 1 kg of concrete / concrete to ABS yield is 60%
-1 flower of Damascena = 3g => 330 flowers to get 1kg
-Main component of Rose Damascena oil: Citronellol, Nerol and Geraniol
Morocco
Since the 40’s, Rose Damascena has been picked and extracted in south Morocco around the M’Goun and Daddes rivers. Morocco there is a large focus on Morocco for concrete and absolute requirements. Flowers are harvested manually early in the morning in order to preserve olfactive components in the petals.