The refined cocktails incorporate traditional spirits, fresh-squeezed juices and aromatics, such as rose water, to stimulate your sense of smell.
Some of the traditional products made there are: tsamarella, hoiromeri, posyrti and lountza pitsilias, zivania, soutsioukkos, ppalouzes, kkiofterka, traditional sweets and the well-known Agros rose water.
"We play it safe because rose water is the best for sensitive skin, " Mr. Georgiou says, before wrapping the obligatory hot towel around my face.
Rose petals, fresh, dried and crystallized, as well as rose water and rose syrup, are still widely used in the cuisines of the Middle East.
Instead of using regular water as the base of their brew, they distilled their own base of rose water, and added that to a mix of dried lavender, hibiscus, jasmine, rosebuds.
Each is accented with Persian carpets, glass-beaded chandeliers, and Jacuzzis equipped with urns full of bath salts from the Dead Sea, as well as a welcome pitcher of lemonade sweetened with rose water.
The most popular gift is mithai (Indian sweets), and shops are filled with a spectacular array specially prepared for this festival, from thickly cut squares of barfi (a fudge-like sweet, often coated with a thin film of edible silver leaf) , to soft syrupy gulab jamuns (deep-fried balls of dough) and spongy rasgullas (sweetened cream cheese balls flavoured with rose water).
At about 11.30 a.m. we felt a strange phenomenon as water rose and fell.
Resident Michael Gill said the water rose "much quicker than in the floods of 2007".
She is about 5-feet-8-inches tall, and the water rose past her knees, nearly reaching her waist, she said.
Customers were unable to get through as the level of water rose halfway up the office, he explained.
Flood levels on the San Antonio River reached a new record at Loop 410, when water rose to 34.2 feet at 10 a.m.
Neighbour Ian Govier from Haul Fryn, who captured the floods on video, said one car had tried to get through the water but had become trapped as the water rose.
As Saturday's rains pushed creeks over their banks -- Neshaminy Creek crested at nearly twice its 9-foot flood stage -- water rose into dozens of homes, and several motorists were left stranded.
Water from Hurricane Sandy rose almost 7 feet above normal, threatening the water intake structure that pumps cooling water through the plant.
The water table rose several years ago completely flooding the island and the incoming saltwater killed off the trees.
Many think they proved a point because for a short time the water level rose by four metres.
In 2009 the water level rose and the change in pressure released yet more crude from the bottom.
Peter Hounslow , from Acorn Antiques, said the water levels rose "very quickly" and caught people "by surprise".
Thatcham was devastated by severe floods in July 2007 with about 1, 000 homes damaged by flood water which rose to 4ft (1.2m) in places.
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But over the years, as soda increasingly came under fire for fueling the nation's rising obesity rates, water quietly rose to knock it off the top spot.
Related problems were evidenced by the closures of central power plants across Europe during the heat wave of 2003 because river water temperatures rose to levels where cooling was not possible or environmentally acceptable.
Nevertheless, on a day where the stock markets essentially treaded water, Timken rose 3.4% on the news.
For the ultimate touch of true romance, run her a bath and float rose petal soaps on the water.
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As it gained speed, it rose up out of the water on four sets of blades, like the slats found on venetian blinds.
The whale rose about 5ft above the water, showing a sliver of its back and a cluster of cream coloured barnacles, and then dove back down.
Our children, Isabelle, Sophia, and Daniel, were creating islands and moats in the sand as the ocean slowly rose, sending a trail of water through their creations.
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