Kashan Distillery

The Kashan Distillery draws its rosewater from a single spring harvest — Damask roses picked at dawn in the fields around Kashan and moved to copper stills within hours, before the heat of the day breaks down the oil. Distillation runs around the clock for the length of the harvest, a matter of a few intense weeks rather than a year-round operation, since the flower doesn't keep. The distillery sells green cardamom pods alongside the rosewater, sourced rather than grown in-house, chosen for the same kitchen pairing that shows up in Persian sweets and tea across the year. Both products are unblended and unadulterated — no synthetic rose oil cut in, no added scent. Product reaches All The Good Things through a screened exporter working out of Kashan.

The Kashan Distillery captures the two defining scents of a Persian kitchen — rosewater distilled each spring during the rose harvest, and green cardamom sold alongside it.

Kashan, Iran

That a scent this specific only exists for a few weeks a year, and can't be manufactured to order.