attar

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian عطر ('ater, “scent”), from Arabic عِطْر (ʕiṭr, “perfume”).

noun

1. An essential oil extracted from flowers.
   Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli. 1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants,[…], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78
   I bequeath to you my literary work. Useless though these might be commercially, they are the attar-drops distilled from the long and futile ebullience of my life. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 125
2. A perfume made from this oil.