ATTAR OF ROSES, a perfume prepared by macerating or distilling roses, mainly the Rosa damascena. The essential oil obtained is a beautiful, precious and very costly material, costing as much as £50 a pound. Some 25o lbs. of roses are needed to make a single ounce of the attar, which means that several ac. of land yield only that small quantity of the perfume. The word attar, sometimes corrupted as "otto," is from the Persian `attar, essence. The manufacture is chiefly oriental, in India and Persia, but it is also carried on in France and the Balkans.