A few years ago, we hosted a Bulgarian professor and his wife for several weeks while he was conducting a seminar at the university where my husband taught at the time. As a hostess gift, they brought me a 1/2 oz vial of highly concentrated Bulgarian rose essence nestled in the most cunning carved wooden box. What a marvelous aroma! Such a large and commanding fragrance…a few drops on a light bulb would perfume a room all day… and glorious in a manner to which my humble garden roses could never hope to aspire.

HE is not nearly such a diva as my Bulgarian rose was. HE is an ‘old money’ sophisticate with understated taste and just a tiny hint of unseen passions that might lie within. And yet, the Turkish roses must be very similar to the Bulgarian ones, because HE immediately brings my fragrant hostess gift to mind.

So pleased to see this fragrance treasure appreciated by so many of your cognescenti!