JAPANESE ROSE OTTO (ROSA RUGOSA) - ESSENTIAL OILS

Botanical Name: Rosa Rugosa

Common Method of Extraction: Steam distilled

Part Typically Used: Flowers

Color: Clear / Light yellow

Consistency: Mobile liquid that congeals upon cooling

Perfumery Note: Middle / Top

Strength of Initial Aroma: Deep, soft, honey-spicy

Japanese Rose is called “Hamanasu” in Japan. The flowers have a rose-like scent. It is a wild rose which is native to the coast of northern Japan and it is characteristic in that only one flower blooms per plant.

Japanese Rose oil is among the rarest essential oils in the world. It doesn’t take much to find the finest Bulgarian, Turkish, or French rose oil, but very few essential oil suppliers ever have Japanese Rose oil.

Applied to the smell strip the aroma of this Japanese Rose otto is initially messy, showcasing a crisp rose freshness in the top, somewhat green weedy. As time progresses on the strip, the aroma as having a rose and fruit character, this eventually and perhaps bizarrely transitions into a dewy early morning rose profile with slight rose powdery undertones.

If you love rose oils, you’d know that ottos are generally yellow/gold in profile (and color), distinguished in degrees by a certain citrus/lemony not that is more pronounced, more dense, smoother or sharper, depending on the freshness of the petals and the quality of the extraction. A fine rose otto is as good as rose oil gets.