![]() ![]() Every few hours, the receiver is switched and the deg cooled down with wet cloths, to stop the condensation. The deg and bhapka are connected with a hollow bamboo pipe that carries the heady vapours from the simmering pot into the receiver, where it mixes with the sandalwood oil base. They light a wood or cow-dung fire underneath, before filling the bhapka with sandalwood oil and sinking it into the water trough. The craftsmen put these shards of half-baked clay (instead of vetiver roots and flower petals) into the deg, cover them with water, hammer a lid down on top, and seal it with mud. Little clay shards are made in neighbouring villages before they are sun baked and placed in the degs. It is connected to a bulbous condenser called bhapka, which receives the fragrant liquid after distillation. The copper deg is built atop its own fireplace and has its own trough of water. The distillation process, called deg bhapka, is painstakingly slow and long, with no trace of industrial machinery or modernity. Mitti attar is made even today in Kannauj’s traditional perfumeries, where sinewy craftsmen tend to fires under ageing copper cauldrons or degs to make this remarkable perfume. The man, who was from Kannauj, figured that the oil was accidentally produced when rose petals came in contact with warm water, and presumably devised the steam-and-condense process to extract it. Add to Favourites Wax Melt Sample Packs, Your Choice of 3 Scents, Witchy Wax Melts, Ritual Wax Melts. fresh, clean, spring scented soy wax candle (3k) CA 32.26.This is how it goes: A servant at Jahangir’s palace in Agra noticed some drops of rose oil floating on the surface of Noor Jehan’s bathing pool. Wild Mysore Sandalwood Mitti Attar-Perfume Oil - Petrichor -Co-distilled in 1990 - Mitti Attar - The scent of rain or Earth Perfume (279) CA 90.59. There is a legend in the historical biography of Akbar, Ain-I-Akbari, written by Abul Fazl, about how the city’s perfume industry started. The perfumers of Kannauj also made the scented oils Mughal Emperors were so immensely fond of. Situated on the historical scent trade route that brought perfumes from India to the Middle East, Kannauj’s perfumeries were famed for their magnificent attars. The fragrant credentials of this city, known as the ‘Grasse of the East’ and ‘India’s Perfume Capital’, are age old. ![]() ![]()
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