LAST CHANCE ** Rose Otto (Rosa damascena) - Distillation Year 2005

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Hi y'all,

 

A repeat .. a FINAL REPEAT because the oils will be poured and the

bureaucratic export documentation will be prepared early next week. At

that time I will NOT be able to change the shipment because of the fees

I must pay with each application to Customs, etc. Any changes incur

additional costs .. very bureaucratic system here.

 

Plus .. the producer is NOT willing to hold this Rose Otto for me beyond

Monday .. there are buyers waiting and the only reason I am getting

preferential treatment is because I have dealt with them since 1995.

 

The quality of the 2005 Rose Otto is outstanding .. as has been the case

in ALL the previous years .. there are a few hundreds of you now reading

this post who will agree with this statement.

 

If anyone is putting off ordering now they will be disappointed later

because I will NOT be offering wholesale/bulk Rose Otto after this one

time shot .. its not possible to ship one time small orders (and 500

grams is a small order) from Turkey and make a profit even if the Rose

Otto is available (which is not likely to be the case) because we can't

use Turkish Postal .. must use FedEx or DHL and they are EXPENSIVE from

here .. plus there are Customs Broker fees.

 

But .. no problem .. I'll have it for a bit more in retail. ;-)

 

I am also notifying all of my customers off line .. so if you get a post

from me and you have already read this information on Oils & Herbs ..

I'll apologize in advance for the double whammy .. but I cannot know who

all of the folks are on this list .. but I do know that I will get many

dozens of requests for bulk Rose Otto after this sale is closed .. it

happens each year. :-( If you want Rose Otto .. order it now!

 

On to the original post ......

 

As many of you know .. the Rose Harvest/Distillation has just been

completed. And many of you also know that I was unable to get a single

drop of Rose Otto last year. There was no Turkish Rose Otto available.

The entire crop was sold prior to harvest/distillation. The previous

year I sold over 25 kilos .. but in 2004 I was not able to obtain a

single kilo. For the entire year lots of folks asked how it would go

this year. Well .. I am happy as a pig at a slop trough to announce

that .. even though there was again a shortage of Rose Otto .. I was

able to get five kilos this year. :-p

 

Don't even think of trying to negotiate a price. ;-)

 

The run on Turkish Rose Otto began in 2003 .. prices went up .. in 2004

the perfumery companies paid in advance and the entire crop was not

enough to satisfy their needs .. they were actually bidding on it and

the BULK (over 10 kilo) prices went as high as $6,750 a kilo. There

were no SINGLE kilo offers accepted. The reason for this run on Turkish

Rose Otto was that in 2003 a lot of badly adulterated Rose Otto was sold

from Bulgaria so they all turned to Turkish.

 

This is not to say that Bulgarian Rose Otto is all adulterated .. it is

to say that buyers are forced to exercise more caution than they did

when the Soviet Union was running the show .. now there is a fair amount

of mafia involvement in the business. This is even more reason for you

small buyers to know your source .. and there are some good sources for

Bulgarian Rose Otto on this list .. I am NOT one of them. I don't deal

in Bulgarian Rose Otto.

 

I have written to those who asked me about Bulk Rose Otto .. and I am

telling you folks now (ONE LAST TIME) that it is available. I am one

broke puppy cause I had to pay in advance for this oil. Therefore, I'm

gonna let some folks help me get back in the Black. ;-)

 

Prices are ..

 

25 grams ....... $ 280.00

50 grams ....... $ 520.00

100 grams ....... $ 980.00

250 grams ....... $2,300.00

500 grams ....... $4,400.00

 

For obvious reasons .. I will NOT sell Kilo (1,000 gram) sizes.

 

The above prices are FOB Maryland and do NOT include shipping/insurance

to the buyer's location. Orders from the USA will be sent via US Postal

Priority Mail .. insured .. with Return Receipt required. International

orders will be sent via Global Express Mail. As y'all also know .. we

charge only actual costs for shipping .. there is no profit made from

shipping on ANY ORDER from my company .. and there are no Mickey Mouse

handling charges.

 

Of the 5 kilos available .. I am offering the 3 kilos to bulk buyers ..

after that the door is closed .. the last 2 kilos will be sold by me ..

retail .. from my company in Maryland!

 

At this time .. of the three kilos (3,000 grams) available .. 2,200

grams are purchased .. there is but 800 grams left.

 

I can not " hold " any Rose Otto on promises to buy .. I can hold it for

50% down!

 

Those who wish to order must pay 50% in advance and the remaining 50% at

the time the Rose Otto is shipped .. it will be sent from Turkey to

Maryland next week and sent out to buyers the following week. It will

take a week to clear all the bureaucratic hurtles for entry in the USA.

 

Those who have already ordered .. your CC has not yet been charged the

50% .. that will happen today and tomorrow (Friday).

 

Somebody is gonna ask about Rose Hydrosol .. the answer is .. I was able

to get 300 kilos .. not much considering that in 2003 I purchased (and

sold) 3,500 kilos (3.5 metric tons) and have but a tad left of the 1,000

kilos I was able to get in 2004 .. but I am not complaining. And I am

not able to get it in barrels this year .. the Rose Hydrosol will be

shipped in 1/2 liter containers .. a bit costly.

 

That's all folks. ;-)

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com

 

PS 1: I mentioned in my original post that Chris was putting some info

together for my site .. its not on the site yet but its below.

 

http://www.av-at.com/stuff/Rose-Page1.pdf

http://www.av-at.com/stuff/Rose-Page2.pdf

http://www.av-at.com/stuff/Rose-Page3.pdf

 

PS 2: If the new folks would like to take a trip through the Rose

Fields and Stills of Turkey, go to the following URLs ...

 

My writings/photos on distillation of Rose Otto can be found at this

URL http://www.av-at.com/distillation/rosadamascena1.html

 

Here is a URL with lots of good photos of wild aromatic plants of

Turkey .. http://www.av-at.com/stuff/triptoturkey.html

 

Martin Watt visited the Turkish Rose Fields in Summer 2000 - following

was published in the Winter 2000 edition of the magazine " Aromatica " .

http://www.aromamedical.com/articles/rosedistillation.htm