![]() ![]() “I use it for various purposes – I put it in the washing machine when I wash my bedsheets, often put a few drops on my pillow before I sleep and sometimes just dab it behind my ears to feel good.” Bolar got her first bottle years ago, as a gift from her husband, and ordered this bottle online. “I have been hoarding my 100 ml bottle for about four years now because I love how amazing it smells,” says Suman Bolar, 45, a freelance writer from Bangalore. ![]() Mitti attar is used as a fragrance, an air freshener, an essential oil - and in aromatherapy, because the smell of it is so calming. Typically, we don’t produce mitti attar in the rains as a result.” Mitti attar is used as a fragrance, an air freshener, an essential oil and in aromatherapy, because the smell of it is so calming. “Ironically, monsoon is the most difficult time to produce mitti attar, because the procedure involves baking clay extracted from topsoil, all of which is hard to do with squelchy monsoon earth. ![]() “The process takes about 15 working days,” says Akhilesh Pathak, a fourth generation perfumer who has inherited one of Kannauj’s oldest attar-manufacturing companies, Munna Lal Sons. There are about 400 attar perfumeries in Kannauj but only about 10 per cent of them make the mitti attar, according to the government-run Fragrance & Flavour Development Centre (FFDC). Read: How the word ‘petrichor’ was coined In the perfume capital of India - Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh - a century-old process is used to recreate that loamy smell of the first shower, as an attar. But did you know you could get it in a bottle? Mitti attar is made using clay extracted from the topsoil and baked in a kiln. Songs have been sung and poems written about it. Even the word for it is beautiful - petrichor, the fragrance of the first rain. ![]()
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