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Damask rose (Rosa damascena Mill) commonly known as Damask rose (Gulab) is the most important source of rose products like rose oil, rose concrete, absolute and rose water. They are highly expensive base materials for perfumery, flavor, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and food industries. The oil has antibacterial, antidepressant, antispasmodic properties. It is a wonderful skin toner and anti-wrinkling agent. Rose oil is used for compounding and to give characteristic rose odour with distinctive floral tonality. Rose products have good demand in India as well in other countries. Rose products Besides rose oil other value added products are obtained from rose flowers. Rose attar is used in perfumery based on sandalwood or paraffin oil. Gul-e-Roghan is prepared from dry rose petals for making hair oils. Gul-kand is prepared by mixing fresh rose petals with sugar used as laxative and in Kashmiri Khawa. Rose hips are a good source of Vitamin C. Rose concrete is produced by extracting fresh rose flowers with the organic solvent, (Perfumery grade hexane). Rose absolute is prepared from rose concrete by refluxing with 90% alcohol followed by filtration and removal of undesired fats and solvent traces. Rose water of different grades is prepared by distilling rose petals. In India 60-70% damask rose is used for preparation of rose water used in religious ceremonies and as a coolant in soft drinks. Rose water and dry rose flowers are also used in traditional system of Indian medicine, sometimes they are also used as food adjuvants. Various rose preparations are being used as an astringent, tonic, mild laxative, antibacterial in the treatment of sore throat, enlarged tonsils, cardiac troubles, eye diseases, gall stones, cooling effect and as vehicle for other medicines Economics Flower yield 35-40 qtls/hac Oil recovery 0.025-0.03 % Oil yield 0.75 -- 1.0 kg Sale price of oil Rs. 2.25 lakhs/ kg Gross return 1.68-2.25 Cost of production 0.60 -- 0.70 lakhs Net profit/ hac 1.08- 1.55 lakhs Besides lavender and rose other aromatic plants like clarysage, rosemary, geranium, peppermint and tagetes can be also processed for essential oils. These aromatic plants have been selected on the basis of harvesting periods under temperate climatic conditions so that 6-7 essential oils and their value added products could be produced in one distillation plant. Thus this bio business is better protected from market fluctuations at national and international level. Web: http://www.natureherbs.org Blog: http://natureherbsorg.blogspot.in/ Email : natureherbs@ymail.com, sales@natureherbs.org Mob: +91 841 888 5555 Skype: nature.herbs