(Rosaceae)

We all know what a rose smells like and what it looks like. Did you know that the scent of a rose has a balancing, anti-depressant, calming, harmonizing and comforting effect on us? Does a rose have a decongestant, antibacterial, antiviral, cooling, wound-healing and pain-relieving effect on our skin?
Indulging in roses and their scent has always been something special; just think of Cleopatra, who covered the floor of her palace with rose petals for Marc Antony and scented the sails of her ship as she traveled to see him.