Rose Day 2025: Red, Blue, and More, What Different Rose Colors Symbolize

Rose Day 2025: Valentine’s Day is just around the corner with the exhilaration for the beginning of Valentine's week in the air. Valentine's week kickstarts with the Rose day marking the first expression of love by gifting rose to your crush or secret love. From the array of colorful roses, people opt for the ones they feel describe their feelings most appropriately. 

Rose is the flower of love, passion, and companionship making it popular among romantic partners. But its wide variety of colors make it a favoured flower amongst all that even platonic friends, or admirers present to each other. 

So as you gear up for Rose day, here is a complete guide for you to choose the most appropriate rose for your partner, friends or confidant. 

Different Rose Colors and Their Meanings 

Red Rose: Red rose indicates love, and passion. It is usually exchanged between lovers as an insignia of their desire and admiration for each other. It is the most popular color of the roses on this day as it represents passionate romantic love. 

White Rose: A simple of purity, honor and respect, white rose is often given to friends, people who you look up with reverence, and have hopes of staying long with. White rose is also a significant part of decorations across settings. 

Yellow Rose: An optimistic, and warm color of rose, yellow rose is given to express one’s friendship and happiness with each other. It is a popular one among friends with strong bonds. 

Peach Rose: A marker of sincerity and gratitude, peach roses are underrated as not many are aware of their meaning. Giving someone a peach rose denotes your sincerity, devotion and thankfulness towards that person. 

Pink Rose: Pink rose is like the stage before the red rose. It indicates a deep admiration for a person and is usually exchanged during the wooing periods of a relationship to confess one’s feelings of finding a companion in the person to whom they present the pink rose. It is also the color of elegance and femininity.   

Blue Rose: Not so commonly found, Blue roses are special for their rarity. Blue rose represents emotional strength and longing for a person. They also represent a person's aspiration to “reach for the skies” for the person they present the blue rose to.