Shiv Shakti Arts Present Brass Gulab Pash - an elongated vase with a perforated sprinkler top is a rose water container widely used in royal courts (durbars) during ceremonies and festivals. It is of Persian origin and introduced in medieval India widely in the Mughal courts. Originally an article of everyday use it attained a special place and with fine embellishments it reached the stature of paraphernalia widely in every Muslim or Hindu court. The cultivation of various fragrant flowers for obtaining perfumes including rose dates back to Sassanian Persia. Locally it was known as gulag in Middle Persia and as zoulápin in Byzantine Greek. The present day production of rose water through steam distillation was refined by Persian chemists in the medieval Islamic world which led to more efficient economic uses for perfumery industries. In ancient times roses were used medicinally nutritionally and as a source of perfume. The ancient Greeks Romans and Phoenicians considered large public rose gardens to be as important as croplands such as orchards and wheat fields. Rose perfumes are made from rose oil also called its of roses which is a mixture of volatile essential oils obtained by steam-distilling the crushed petals of roses. This was first developed in Iran(Persia)
