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Category Archives: India
Gifts from India
My lovely friend Josie, occasionally indulges my passion of all things aromatic and brings me intriguing items back from her travels. This time aromatics from India. Unfortunately many oils can be adulterated or you could be sold a fragrance … Continue reading
Posted in Attars, Flowers, India
Tagged adulterated oils, Attars, Cananga odorata, Champa, Devotion, fragrance oils, Garlands, India, Khus, magnolia, Perfume, Polianthes tuberosa, tuberose, vetiver, ylang ylang
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Attars and Choyas
I am the taste in the water, the light of the sun and the moon, the sound in the ether, the ability in the man, the fragrance of the earth, the life of all that lives, the strength of the … Continue reading
Posted in Distillation, Extraction methods, Fragrance themes, India
Tagged Attars, Chameli, Choya nakh, Choyas, Frankincense, Genda, Gulab, Jasmine, Loban, Mitti, Motia, Rhu khus, rosa bourbonia, rosa damascena, vetiver, White Lotus Aromatic
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