With Sorelle Sucere: From "Bad-ass: Living & Spells, --- How To Harvest Attar of Roses...

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"Bad-ass: Living & Spells" will be published with a deadline of October 31, 2026... AND, --- while you are being MAGICAL >>> This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. --- Walt Whitman

Monday, April 27, 2026

From "Bad-ass: Living & Spells, --- How To Harvest Attar of Roses...

Attar of roses was first harvested in Persia, very long ago, when someone noticed that rose blossoms hanging over water dropped their petals into a pool. There was formed on the surface of the water a very fragrant oil. This was attar of roses. The way the oil is extracted today is the same as it was back then... The petals of wild roses, damask roses or Old World roses, are floated in a tray of water that is left in the sun. With a cotton ball, the oil that floats on the surface of the water is soaked up and squeezed into a bottle. Attar of rose is extremely precious for it's rarity. I collected only 1/4 of an oz. of it the year I decided to harvest it, --- only 1/4 an oz. from all my roses! Some of the most expensive perfumes contain attar of roses. The perfume "Joy" is one. ❤... 😃