"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 ...

Naso Profumi and Jade by Monica and Karishma collaborated to create a scent infused with dried petrichor, mitti attar and ruh gulab. It’s a mild aphrodistic and emotional fragrance. Credit ...

“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.

However, those who practice Greek medicine (Tibb-e-Unani) say that natural fragrances, attar in particular, have been used for their remedial properties since ancient times. Gulab and kewra attar ...