attar (noun) - meaning? http://bit.ly/9AhzWf

1. A perfume or essential oil obtained from flowers or petals.

2. Also called attar of roses; rose oil.

e.g. "As I saw no one I stood bewildered, my hair on end in a kind of ecstatic delight, and a faint scent of attar and unguents almost effected by age lingered in my nostrils." Rabindranath Tagore, The Hungry Stones & Other Stories

Attar is a shortened version of the Persian atar-gul, meaning "essence of roses."

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