[Sca-cooks] rose-infused oil vs. rose otto?

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:19 AM 11/14/2006, you wrote:
>Sydney commented:
><<< I'm wondering if rose oils
>refers to rose-infused oil or actuall rose otto (from what I have
>researched, both were available).>>>
>
>What is the difference between "rose-infused oil" and "rose otto"? I
>don't think I've heard of the latter. Is the first rose essence which
>has been extracted by soaking rose petals in an oil? And the second
>is the obtained by pressing the oil out of rose petals using weight?
>I assume steaming rose petals and distilling the vapors gets you rose
>water, not rose oil.

Stefan, try _attar_ of roses. Google came up with some 99,000 hits, and the 
first few have more information than you need, I'm sure.

'Lainie
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