Kolkata's perfume lovers are embracing traditional ittar, a natural, alcohol-free fragrance. Crafted from flowers, herbs, and woods, these concentrated oils offer unique, long-lasting scents that ...

A youngster takes a whiff of a perfume at a shop in Patna’s Sabzibagh on Wednesday. Picture by Ashok Sinha Id fragrance is all around. As Muslims throng the markets in Patna to prepare for ...

The traditional art of making herbal ittar(fragrance) is gradually getting replaced with chemical-based, not so labour-intensive perfume industry, finds out Shaheen ...