March 2015 Emails fly between scientific departments across the globe. Researchers from Iran, Switzerland and Thailand excitedly discuss their findings about how men they have treated with extracts of rose have recovered lost sexual function and started to rise out of deep depression after just eight weeks.

Their work follows an equally ground breaking paper published in a 2012 edition of Chemical Senses. Japanese researchers studied the effects that rose essential oil had on stress related skin flare ups. Carefully plotting the neurochemical pathways triggered by the rose they were able...