rockroses

The base, originally, was spikenard (a musty root that is reminiscent of wet soil), costus (a musky root that smells like goats), and labdanum (the resin from the same rockroses that grew on the mountains that were my inspiration).

Archive 2006-11-01 Ayala Sender 2006

The base, originally, was spikenard (a musty root that is reminiscent of wet soil), costus (a musky root that smells like goats), and labdanum (the resin from the same rockroses that grew on the mountains that were my inspiration).

Perfume News: Razala Ayala Sender 2006

The bushes, and the long grasses, between the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage and the marjoram, and the yellow rockroses all vanished, and they found themselves at the top of a wide steep slope of fallen stones, the remains of a landslide.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

Apparently the Cytinus plant grows entirely inside the roots of Cistus plants - i.e. rockroses; the pink petals in the picture are from a Cistus - and only produces an external growth when it flowers.

Heraclitean Fire 2010

Apparently the Cytinus plant grows entirely inside the roots of Cistus plants - i.e. rockroses; the pink petals in the picture are from a Cistus - and only produces an external growth when it flowers.

Heraclitean Fire 2010

Then, jump, we're in modern-day Lisbon, with a mysterious Italian in a cafe sipping fine wine with a "hint of raspberry and cassis with overtones of rockroses and violets."

Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2009

In sunny, unirrigated areas, evergreen rockroses (Cistus) and California lilac (Ceanothus) are excellent choices.

Kitsap Sun Stories 2009

I have also been privileged to walk along the water, drinking in the sight and scent of rockroses in full profusion, in my awe reminded of Dylan Thomas’s wonderful line, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

Reminders 2005