Turkish Rose Oil Market

Isparta is the heart of the Turkish Rose Oil industry. This is where Roses are grown and distilled Damascena rose has a deep, rosy, fresh aroma, the color ranges from clear to a pale yellow or greenish tint. It has a lot benefit in large area and are used in our daily life, also has spiritual meaning .it is a symbol for to tell our precious feelings.
It is a small prickly shrub up to two metres high, with perfumed pink flowers. Native to the Orient but widely cultivated in ,Turkey , Morocco ,and Bulgaria…It takes about 120,000 roses to make one kg.of rose oil. Are used a scent source , skin care , body care , foods kinds , cosmetic, hair caring , medicine,etc.

Oil rose is the main source of the rose oil and other materials including concrete, absolute and rose water, the most important commercial products especially in the flavour and fragrance industry. Rose oil is produced by water steam distillation of fresh rose flowers. Concrete is a waxy product extracted from fresh rose flowers with volatile solvents. Absolute and bioabsolute are alcohol extracts of the concretes from fresh and residue flowers, respectively. Rose water is a byproduct obtained during the distillation of rose flowers.
The rose blossoms are picked from very early in the morning (when they open) until 10-11 a.m. Later in the day the oil contained in the rose petals loses its delicate aroma. The amount of rose blossoms collected daily by one worker is about 20-25 kg, 30 kg may only be picked by a very skilled hand. The flowers are gathered by holding the petals with three fingers and gently lifting up the blossom before picking it off. Put in sacks and stored in a shady place, the blossoms are transported to the rose distilleries as quickly as possible in order to obtain a maximum quantity of essential oil.

The distilling installation consists of a still, a steam-leading pipe, a cooling container and vessels for collecting the produce - rose oil and rose water. The overall distillation process takes about two hours. On the average, 3.5 tons of rose blossoms are needed to produce 1 kg of rose oil. Depending on the quality of flowers and the method of distillation, however, yields can vary between 3.0 and 5.0 tons (which equals more than one million flowers) to produce just 1 kg of rose oil. Following the distillation, the droplets of pure rose oil left floating on the surface of the condensed liquid are separated from the rose water using special equipment.