Uses of Indian Rose and Essential Oil of Rose
~ a list for cultural awareness ~
1. To ease a garlanded politician’s passage into hell
2. Wristlets of dewy rose, limbs burnished with rose oil, and roses pooled in hair, for both courtesan and socialite alike
3. …And what else could make an impetuous monsoon dusk so painfully voluptuous?
4. Turns a hesitant wedding night into aromatic splendor!
5. Great equalizer of graveyard and wedding hall… Drenched with thorn and scent
6. Behold! A hunchback, a drunk white horse, festoons of jasmine and rose, and a child-bride
7. For a sepulchral man: to make a triumphal return from Mecca indelible
8. One rose sets aflame marigolds and makes a constellation of jasmines happy
9. As a testament to the paradox of timelessness and transience of beauty
10. Sweet and pennywise unguent for my tired country…
Farida Haque
