| ATTAR | Oil distilled from eg damask rose petals... makes a tart (5) |
| PASTRY | Father's attempt to make a tart (6) |
| TURPS | Volatile oil distilled from pine wood (5) |
| LOTTO | Venetian painter whose Portrait of a Young Man in his Study includes a detail of scattered rose petals thought to allude to the transience of love; or, bingo, a draw or housey-housey (5) |
| DESKS | Aroma coming from Damask Rose by writing tables (5) |
| STREW | Scatter rose petals |
| LEAPT | Rose petal arrangement (5) |
| APHID | Rose petal pest |
| NEROLI | Oil distilled from a fruit used for marmalade or studded with cloves for a festive pomander (6) |
| KEROSENE | Thin oil distilled from petroleum (8) |
| ASCENDED | A perfume that's endless from heads of decorative, elegant damask rose (8) |
| OTTO | Oil extracted from the Damask rose (4) |
| FFORDE | Author of a number of romance novels including A Vintage Wedding, A Country Escape and A Rose Petal Summer (6) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian mathematician, astronomer, historian, philosopher and poet (1048-1131), and a cultivar of both a damask rose and saxifrage (4,7) |
| SHERBET | Turkish and Persian word for an exotic drink or refresher prepared from fruit juice, herbs, rose petals etc; sweet fizzy powder eaten with liquorice or a lolly or used to make an early form of pop; wa |
| PRESSE | French word for "squeezed", hence a drink of squeezed apples, citron, elderflowers, lemons or rose petals, often with a slightly fizzy lift (6) |
| MAESTRO | A hellebore with creamy-rose petals turning pink - 'Virtuoso'? (7) |
| CLOSEUP | Photo of a raindrop on a rose petal, e.g. |
| ESSENTIAL | ___ oil, distilled plant extract (9) |
| HARISSA | Traditional Maghrebi paste of red chillies pounded with garlic, rose petals, spices ... (7) |
