Rose oil the aromatics unaltered by heat. Because CO is gas at normal atmospheric pressure, it leaves no trace of itself in the final product. The equipment for CO extraction is expensive, which is reflected in the price of the essential oils obtained from the process. It takes a large amount of rose petals to distill a small amount of essential oil. Depending on extraction method and plant species, the typical yield can be approximately 1:3,000. To mitigate the cost, some dishonest dealers will dilute rose oil with geranium ("Pelargonium graveolens") or palmarosa ("Cymbopogon martinii") essential oils, both of which are rich
Najah al-Attar by the secular Ba'ath Party, her brother, Issam al-Attar, is the leader of the Damascus faction of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and has lived in exile in Aachen, West Germany since the 1970s, which saw a government persecution of various Islamist political movements. Najah al-Attar Najah Al-Attar (; born 10 January 1933) is the Vice President of Syria, in office since 2006. She is the first Arab woman to have held the post. Previously she was Minister of Culture from 1976 to 2000. Attar was born on 10 January 1933 and raised in Damascus as a member of a Sunni