For centuries, the city of Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh has supplied India’s most prized natural perfumes. Here’s how an ancient craft turned this small city into the country’s fragrance capital.

Discover why Kannauj, India's perfume capital, deserves a place on your travel list with its centuries-old attar heritage, ...

BBC's Perfume Makers podcast explores perfumery through expert stories. Shyamala Maisondieu and Caroline Gaillardot share ...

Kannauj perfume or attar-making is not a modern art of perfumery. In fact, in India, the art dates back to thousands of years. One of the oldest, one can safely say. In Kannauj, perfumery is a skill ...

Muhammad Ayaz plans to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his family next year. “I will take bottles and bottles of my best oudh and gulab attar to smear on the ghilaf (the cloth covering of the Kaaba), ...

KARACHI: Attar [also called ittar] has been a popularly used and loved fragrance for centuries. Extracted from flower petals, herbs and spices, this natural perfume oil is distilled in water using low ...

In India’s state of Uttar Pradesh, the village of Kannauj lies a dusty four-hour drive east of the Taj Mahal, the white-marbled wonder built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third and ...

Even the word for it is beautiful — petrichor, the fragrance of the first rain. Songs have been sung and poems written about it. But did you know you could get it in a bottle? Mitti attar is made ...

Your perfume should change with the seasons, just like your wardrobe. Temperature, humidity and even your skin chemistry can ...