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This long, thin, clear glass bottle from Turkey originally contained
‘attar’, the essential oil extracted from roses. Attar
of roses was one of the most precious ingredients for perfumiers.
The main centres of production included Turkey and the South of
France, where flowers were gathered at dawn for optimum fragrance.
The manufacturing process was costly and labour intensive: it takes
two and a half tons of rose petals to yield a single pound of essential
oil.
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database record 1931.29.14
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