Description:

Appearance - Only transparent liquid or heterogeneous mass below 23 degrees  C .

Color - Yellow to yellow-green.

Aroma - Warm, floral, specifically dense, fine, with faint peppery and honey notes, specific for the Bulgarian attar of roses.

Physic-Chemical indices:

Density at 30 degrees C :    0,8480 - 0,8610 

Refraction number at 25 degrees C: 1.4530 - 1.4640.

Polarization in a 100 mm tube:  -2,2 to  -4,6 degrees  C

Freezing point: 16,5 - 23,0 degrees  C 

Acid number:   Max. 3,75

Ester number: 7,3 - 17,1

Acetyl number: 202,6 - 244,8

Free alcohols (such as geraniol), % 62,9 - 75,5

Bound alcohols (such a geraniol), % 2,0 - 4,7

Total alcohols (such a geraniol), % 64,9 - 80,2

Stearoptene, % 14 - 33,0

Composition: Citronellol, geraniol, nerol, linalool, saturated fatty alcohols, beta-phenyl-ethyl alcohol, farnezole, terpinene-1-ol-4, acetates of the indicated alcohols, such as geranilacetate, citronelylacetate, nerylacetate, linalylacetate, etc., free acids, aldehydes fatty and aromatic, geranial, neral, ketones, phenols and phenol esters, hydrocarbons, rose oxide and stearoptene.

Expiry term: Unlimited

Packing: Tin-plated copper sheet iron containers of 0,1 - 5 kg and glass phials of 0,5 and 1,0 g

Storage: In dark and cool premises at 15 - 20 degrees  C

Application: In fine perfumery, cosmetics and pharmacy.

Rose Concrete: Rose concrete is obtained from the fresh flowers of the Bulgarian oil-bearings rose (Rosa damascena) through petroleum-ether extraction.

Rose Absolute: Rose absolute is obtained from rose concrete through ethyl-alcohol extraction at -18 degrees  C.