#KANNAUJ MITTI ATTAR HOW TO#
All these steps require years of experience to know how to run the process to perfection. Before removing the bhapka, the deg has to be cooled with wet cloth to stop the vapourisation. One has to remove the bhapka after the desired amount of fragrance is collected. The water in the cooling tank has to be changed so that the water maintains the required temperature. The fire for the deg has to be just right and controlled by adding or removing the fuel.
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Even the distillate is not wasted but used for making agarbatti or incense sticks.Ī post shared by Aromatic And Allied Chemicals on at 3:31am PST to flavouring agents for food and even for medicine. That is because a large number of families in the town are engaged, for generations, in the making of ‘attar’ or natural fragrant oils and extracts, which are widely used from making perfumes and essential oils for consumer products such as soap, shampoo, etc.
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But even as you walk through the streets of the old town, you cannot miss the fragrant note in the air even the sludge flowing through the roadside drains sometimes reminds you of a floral note.
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Little remains of the once glorious city-state that traces its antiquity to the days of the Mahabharata and which rose to its greatest height as the capital of Emperor Harsha (590 to 647 CE) when it was called Kanyakubja. Known as ‘mitti-attar’, it is one of the most sought-after perfumes of Kannauj.Īround three to four hours’ drive (depending on the traffic) from Agra, Kannauj looks like any other dusty north Indian town. Did you know that the perfumers of Kannauj, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, had mastered the art of capturing the delicate smell of the fresh rain on dry soil into a perfume many years back? Long before two Australian mineralogists, Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas, discovered the chemistry behind the heady smell and name it ‘petrichor’.