Bakhoor Attar:-

Bakhoor Attar, has a penetrating woody floral and slightly spicy depth to it. Containing wood from Mimusops elengi or the Indian Medlar (sometimes known as Spanish Cherry) and its heady rich flowers in Sandalwood.

Attars, and Bakhoor Attar in particular, by their very nature are expensive – why? The ingredients used are some of the most expensive in the world.

Attars are some of the oldest known perfume combinations in the world going back to ancient Egypt where they were originally made using what we would now call “enfleurage” which involves the steeping of botanical material in vast quantities in a neutral base oil and then ageing the result for up to ten years which improves and matures the aromatic quality. With the advent of Abi Ali al Sina and his remarkable heat water distillation process, however, which he invented and  introduced a thousand years ago they have become very much more affordable since although they are still aged in the same fashion. They were most popular during the Mughal period.

They are usually distillations of highly prized floral and botanical oils in Sandalwood, Agarwood and other rich, rare and epensive wood oils.

They are strong, alcohol free so much favoured in those societies where alcohol is not regarded well, and they are long lasting and penetrating – a small amount goes a very long way. It depends on your skin chemistry but a drop might last all day on you.

This Bakhoor Attar lasted all day and much of the night on me – Its strong, complex and long lasting.

They are usually sold at high prices for quite small amounts in Ittardans ( elaborate shaped perfume bottles ) which are quite impractical in the modern world so we sell ours which we buy direct from the manufacturing perfume company in India each time we travel there in modern cobalt blue rollerball stick bottles which makes it easy to control how much you use, are easy to carry around without leakage  and ensures no wastage.