The essential oils produced by Bulgarska Rosa are steam distilled. Every year in May Bulgaria celebrates the roses with the Festival of Roses. Bulgarian rose oil is distilled from Rosa Damascena. During collection period distilleries work around the clock to extract the valuable oil from the fragile rose.
Distillation never stops until the last rose surrenders the precious oil.
The rose oil if used for its aroma will last a lifetime. Rose oil is not soluble in water. The history of rose oil production and the allied aromatic industries can be traced through four periods, starting from the mid-17th c. Different in length as they may be, each of these periods is characterized by a specific method, or technology employed, and tools of production, or equipment, used, as well as by the way the production was organized. The First Period marks the beginning of rose production in the Rose Valley, which is accepted to have been around 1664.