Bulgaria, one of the world's leading exporters of rose oil, is facing a challenging season as a late cold snap follows last year’s early harvest, damaging delicate Damascena rose buds. Producers ...

Video. At dawn in Bulgaria’s rose valley, farmers are harvesting blooms with growing concern over US trade policies and erratic weather threatening this year’s rose oil output.

An curved arrow pointing right. Bulgarian rose oil is the most valuable rose oil on the market. Buyers are willing to pay $15,000 for a single kilogram. But to make the highest-quality Bulgarian ...

Rose oil is a key ingredient in luxury perfumes. Lissicharov says SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Luxury perfume makers around the world can expect a bumper yield of rose oil from Bulgaria this year.

Bulgarian farmers were busy harvesting rose petals for their renowned oil this week, ... The process of making the 2 to 3.5 tons of rose oil produced in Bulgaria annually is not easy.

Business is not a bed of roses for Bulgaria's rose oil makers these days. Made from Damask roses grown in the aptly named Rose Valley, the oil is a vital ingredient in the perfumes made by the ...

Bulgaria’s annual production of about 1,500 kilograms of rose oil requires 5.25 tonnes of petals, grown on 9,390 acres of plantations, mostly in the valley around the central Bulgaria town of ...

Total rose oil production could reach a record 3,000 kilograms compared to 2,000 kilograms last year, said Nedko Nedkov, director of the Institute of the Rose in Kazanlak, the centre of Bulgaria ...

The production of rose oil in Bulgaria for 2007 is expected to reach record high amounts, the head of the oil rose research institute Nedko Nedkov said Friday. The production is expected to reach ...

A man prepares a distiller in a rose oil factory in the village of Tarnicheni, some 170 kilometers from Sofia, Bulgaria, 26 May 2017. The oil rose (rosa damascena) had been brought to Bulgaria in ...

Bulgaria, one of the world's leading exporters of rose oil, is facing a challenging season as a late cold snap follows last year’s early harvest, damaging delicate Damascena rose buds. Producers like ...