"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys." Song of Solomon 2:1  

"There is a valley in Romania, where roses are grown for the Vienna market
in great profusion and with much distillation of fragrance. We are told that if
you were to visit that valley at the time of the rose crop, wherever you would
go the rest of the day, the fragrance you would carry with you would betray
where you had been.... If we company with the One who is the Rose of Sharon,
something of the fragrance of His life will pass into ours. Then we will be a
freshening and a sweetening influence to the world around us."
(from Portraits of Christ by Henry Gariepy)