"My father applies rose attar on his hands ... Rose attars from Bulgaria and Turkey are highly esteemed, but the ruh al gulab from Kannauj is recognised as something unique - a tola (an ancient ...

For over 200 years, Gulabsingh Johrimal, a tiny shop in old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk has been serving a steady stream of connoisseurs from across the globe looking for ruh and attar made from ...

“I will take bottles and bottles of my best oudh and gulab attar to smear on the ghilaf (the cloth covering of the Kaaba),” he says, seated behind his marble desk at Md Daud Md Yaqub, a ...

and base oil in which the attar is mixed, attars can be expensive, too. Examples of expensive attars include varieties of oudh, and ruh gulab attars, like the one Gulab Singh Johrimal is famous for.