attar of roses
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For the opening of her first film, Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1918, he had the theater ventilating system loaded with attar of roses, bathing the audience in florid scent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brooklyn, N. Y., makes attar of roses; Bulgaria suffers.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had been bathed in rose water, massaged with scented sandalwood oil, perfumed with attar of roses; her nails, the palms of her hands and the soles of her feet were stained with henna.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of a powder puff, there was a chamois leather bag with powdered chalk in it, scented with attar of roses from the crusades.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
When Lowell speaks of the attar of roses, he reminds us of the whole fields of crimson blossoms that have been swept together in one tiny vial.
From A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character by Hillis, Newell Dwight
