Ruh Rajnigandha Gulabsingh Johrimal

See through the eyes of Indian bugs. The light in the roofs of rotting grasses in the scorching sun after summer monsoons. Walk in shades of brown broccoli florets through the haze in the pots of cooked spinach leaves into the beams of light of spearmints. Look at the veils of fleshy-silk flowers. They fall like flakes over indian clay pots, in which herbs gradually ferment into hays and henna powder on hair and hands in huts with pollen on damp clay floors.
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Gulabsingh Johrimal from Delhi is one of the oldest traditional fragrance houses still in existence in India, the country where the foundations of perfume production are believed to have been laid over 5,000 years ago. Since 1816, Gulabsingh Johrimal has been producing attars, oil essences, and perfumes, among other things, using time-honored methods. The products have an effect like forces of nature that reach far back into India's fragrance memory.
Rajnigandha oils and attars also have a very long tradition in India, where essences are extracted from tuberose flowers, sometimes with the addition of herbs, using time-honored distillation methods. The result in this case is a long-lasting variety of aromas that I have never experienced before in this form from tuberoses.
The first impressions are not easy to classify. There are sharp, grassy-green notes, familiar in a more unpleasant form from bugs, then aromas of flowering broccoli and cooked spinach in the typical fresh-green, spearmint-chewing gum-like and at the same time fleshy-silky-narcotic scent of tuberose blossoms. As time passes, henna-like hay aromas, rather dried flower pollen, clay, and fermented herbs emerge, transporting you to a henna ritual among lush white flowers on the floor of a mud hut or dancing with pollen at an Indian festival.

(Thanks to Snoopyelfi)