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Stewardship

Cultivation, sourcing, sustainability, biodiversity, provenance and our responsibilities towards the plants and environments we use.

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The True Cost of Rose Oil: What Responsible Sourcing Really Means

Rose oil is one of perfumery’s most celebrated natural materials, yet the beauty of the finished ingredient can obscure the extraordinary agricultural and industrial system required to produce it. From hand-picked flowers and exceptionally low essential-oil yields to distillation energy and changing harvest seasons, understanding rose properly means looking beyond the bottle.

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