Bulgarian rose oil is the best rose essence in the world and an important part of its production goes to Chanel. The famous perfumes from Rue Cambon are not exactly built around the rose, but it's their market share that placed the couture house at the heart of the Rose Valley. Now, a surprise even bigger comes from Bulgaria and Afghanistan.
"A project started in 2004 with Bulgarian help to replace opium plantations in Afghanistan with Bulgarian Roses appears to be bearing fruit. Back in 2004, a project supported by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry and then Foreign Minister Solomon Passy and German NGO Welthungerhilfe initiated the cultivation of Bulgarian Rose, a unique sort of roses grown for oil for the perfume industry, in Afghanistan as a way of providing an alternative to the growing of opium. The seedlings donated by Bulgaria in 2004 have caught ground in Afghanistan's Eastern province of Nangarhar. In 2010, the total amount of rose oil distilled in Afghanistan was 30 kg."
Iran, Afghanistan and several former soviet republics share something unique - their ground is special for the rose and the beautiful flower was / is cultivated. In fact on the map, they are all quite close to the former garden of Eden and these unknown regions still share a lot of aromatic plants, once known and used, today abandoned or in small production. There are many things that could be cultivated in Afghanistan for the perfume industry but rose, orange flower and orris are the most important.
In this picture you have the famous producer of bulgarian rose oil in the 20's and 30's, D. Batzouroff. His rose oil entered several masterpieces of the 8th Art, as it was indicated in the original formulae.
In this picture you have the famous producer of bulgarian rose oil in the 20's and 30's, D. Batzouroff. His rose oil entered several masterpieces of the 8th Art, as it was indicated in the original formulae.
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