rose water

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So Mr Jain decided to turn his roses into rose water and rose oil.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2023

Malabi is rose water milk pudding — delicate in flavor, firm but creamy, not too sweet — most often topped with a simple berry sauce and chopped pistachios.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

Seven days later, in accordance with Hindu cremation rites, he lay in a coffin bedecked in incense, rose water and honey.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

The flavor also appears elsewhere in Asia, in Persian dishes like sohan, a saffron brittle topped with pistachios, and bastani, an ice cream typically scented with saffron, pistachio, vanilla and rose water.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2022

One morning she poured the contents of an inkwell over the boy's head thinking that it was rose water.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez