The desert rose is a flower quite unlike any other. It is a rare thing, found only in certain seclusive parts of the desert, loving, as its name may state, a dry, warm climate above any other. Although delicate in form, it is hardy enough to survive the bluster of its harsh climate, from scorching sun to wind and sandstorm.

Its appearance is not striking--a lush, if somewhat bedraggled flower not dissimilar to its more temperate cousins, with rich, dry, dark green leaves growing in profusion about the stem--but its odor, however is. Despite its rather plain appeance in comparison to some of the more exotic examples of the rose family, the fragrance of the desert rose is like the siren's call of the desert: a sweet, light perfume possessing of almost intoxicating allure.

Some say it smells like rain there in the desert, other of a garden lurking like a mirage out of sight beyond the unending sand dunes. Scientists and naturalists have examined this tiny, peculiar dryland flower at great length and still no explanation has come of quite what produces this striking aroma from an otherwise nondescript desert plant."