That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Romeo and Juliet

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The rose looks fair, but fairer it deems

For that sweet odor which doth in it live.

Sonnet 54

Rosewater was an ingredient in countless cosmetic recipes, while Christmas roses were prescribed to treat madness and melancholy. Roses also had symbolic value. At the end of the War of the Roses, the white rose of the York family and the red rose of Lancaster were combined to form the striped Tudor rose.