Hengyuan Roses Garden located in Qiandeng town, East China's Jiangsu province, boasts a wide range of Damask roses. Visitors can detect their fragrance a hundred meters away.
The essential oil made from Damask roses not only moisturizes your skin and soothes your emotions, but is also good for the body's respiratory and circulatory systems. It also can help relieve asthma, cough, high blood pressure and heart palpitations.
Damask roses in full blossom in Qiandeng town. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
A gardener picks up roses which are to be made into essential oil at Hengyuan Roses Garden in Qiandeng town. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
