The Rose Festival is a festival held every year in Taif city called the Taif Rose Festival initially started in 2005. There are about 860 farms in Taif, mostly in Al-Shifa and Al-Hada area. The festival attracts visitors every year in order to watch Taif roses and learn about the way of making different kinds of perfumes made of Taif roses and buy some of its products. The festival started to coincide with the date of harvesting roses in mid-March until early April, and the festival comes to introduce visitors to Taif rose and the stages of picking, distillation, and producing.