Instead of using regular water as the base of their brew, they distilled their own base of rose water, and added that to a mix of dried lavender, hibiscus, jasmine, rosebuds.
The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.