10/17/2022
Rose otto essential oil is distilled from the petals. If the volume of the petals needed wasn’t enough to steep the price, you might be interested to know that rose essential oil doesn’t smell like roses when distilled. The component with the beautiful fragrance, phenyl ethyl, remains in the rosewater, so then it has to be distilled a second time, using a process called cohabitation to put the sweetness and beauty back into the oil.
A second oil, rose absolute, is obtained using solvent extraction. The absolute is more decadent, golden, and achingly sensuous, but both oils do the same thing. That is to nourish the skin's surface and absorb through to the granular layer, where new cells are forming to nourish and plump new cells.