Petrichor isn't a note, in India it's a 400 year old attar

Saw the petrichor thread and thought this deserved its own post.In Kannauj, a few hours from where I live in U.P., they've been distilling the smell of first rain for centuries.It's called mitti attar.

No flowers in it, no synthetics either. They dig clay from the riverbank, bake it into pots, smash them up, then steam distil the shards over sandalwood oil in copper vessels heated by cow dung fire.Takes weeks.The sandalwood soaks up the clay vapour and that's your attar. Wet earth on dry ground in a bottle.Most petrichor recommendations you see are synthetics built to imitate this. Kannauj is where the actual thing comes from.Curious whether anyone here has tried it and how the Western petrichor releases compare.

This sounds incredible! I wonder if there’s a way I can get my hands on this in the US. Very interesting, thanks for sharing

Fraterworks has it for sale.

I haven't tried it, so I can't say how good it is.  I have an order on the way from them for a compound that *allegedly* smells like pre-reformulation Chanel No 5.    

I'm definitely interested in trying this attar, since I adore petrichor.  I have a night blooming cereus attar that it might harmonize with nicely to create the smell of the desert after the rain.  The ones I've seen around here in America don't smell right to me.       

BTW, thanks to the OP (abieUP15) for starting this thread - that's amazing that you live so close to the source of this attar!   

Wow, this sounds so amazing, thanks a million for sharing! 🤩🙏 I'd love to get an opportunity to test this.