Follow the mesmerizing scents of Bulgarian rose and lavender If you were to follow the mesmerizing scents of Bulgarian rose and lavender to their source, they would lead you over Bulgaria\\\'s soaring Balkan Mountains to a hidden and protected valley speckled with rows of breathtaking flowers. Walk through these fields and you will see men and women cutting the flowers with their sharp, moon-shaped sickles. Donkey-pulled carts bring you through the open fields. Visit the town of Kazanlak, a successor of the ancient Thracian capital Seuthopolis, built by the Thracian King Seuthes III in 6th - 5th centuris BC. Enjoy a tour in Ethar Architectural and Ethnographic Complex, an open air museum with an operative display/lay-out that is unique both in Bulgaria and the whole Southeastern Europe.