Why is garlic called the stinking rose?

Garlic is known universally as the stinking rose, the term reportedly going back to Greek and Roman times. One possibility is that if looked at from underneath a bulb of garlic does slightly resemble a white rose with the large ends of the cloves forming the petals. read more

Garlic has been called the stinking rose for nearly a century, thanks to a French writer and physician, Henri Leclerc, who in 1918 roughly translated garlic’s ancient Greek name, scorodon, to skaion rodon, and then to rose puante, or stinking rose. read more

Open your senses to garlic. The Stinking Rose is a garlic themed restaurant. You will see garlic, taste garlic, smell garlic.. then smell like garlic lol. You get the idea. Garlic is literally everywhere in here. Right when you walk in they have merchandise from garlic oils, to shirts, garlic figurines and much more. read more