A monthly dispatch from the rose fields of Aydın Gülyağı — on the soil, the season, the people who work the land, and the science behind every drop of oil.
For thirty-seven years our family has tended Rosa damascena in Isparta. We have learned that a rose is never just a rose. It is a soil, a season, a worker who arrived at dawn, a chemistry no laboratory can fully reproduce. Field Notes is the place where we will share what we see, what we test, and what we change — each month, in plain language, with the people behind the work in the foreground.
Across our fields in Isparta the buds have begun to swell. We expect the first open flowers within the week. Here is what the next forty-eight days will look like — from the first dawn pick to the last petal in the still.
Three hours from picking to still, or the bloom forgets itself. A short note on the geometry of the morning shift.
StewardshipAfter distillation, our petals don't go to waste. They go through the composting machines and back into the field, season after season.
CommunitySince 2021 we run ÇOEDM during harvest: meals, supervised play, basic learning. The line is simple — no child in the rose field.
HeritageA centuries-old propagation technique we still trust. Cane cuttings, ditches, hedgerows — and one reason it has not been replaced by anything modern.
KnowledgeCitronellol over geraniol — the C/G ratio that decides whether a rose oil reaches premium grade. A reader-friendly walk through the chemistry.
StewardshipWhen we spray, what we spray, why it matters. Notes from a rare DEMETER-certified rose farm, taken between the rows.
“A rose is a season — five hundred mornings of weather, fifty thousand hands at dawn, and one window of forty-eight days in which the field decides what kind of year it will be.”Editorial — Field Notes from Ardıçlı
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Published by the Sustainability Department of Aydın Gülyağı · Isparta, Türkiye