Distilled.
Never Manufactured.
Sixty days in copper stills. Eight hours on your skin. A single drop carries a thousand years of Kannauj perfumery.
Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh
Ruh Gulab
The Essence of Rose
The fragrance Noor Jahan wore in the palace gardens. Sixty kilograms of rose petals distilled at dawn to yield a single tola. This is the scent royalty kept in crystal flacons.
Fragrance Composition
3ml
₹3,800
Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
Ruh Khus
Vetiver from the River Beds
Harvested from roots that have drunk from the Ganges for three years. The fragrance of a forest floor after rain — grounding, ancient, impossibly alive.
Fragrance Composition
3ml
₹4,200
Assam, Northeast India
Dehn Al Oud
Agarwood from the Assam Forests
From trees that required forty years of patience and a wound to produce resin. The heaviest fragrance in our collection — a scent that arrives before you do and lingers after you have gone.
Fragrance Composition
2ml
₹12,500
Raw Materials
Before the Bottle.
Saffron Threads
Pampore, Kashmir
Harvested at dawn before the petals close
Agarwood Chips
Assam, Northeast India
Resin-grade, forty-year-old Aquilaria trees
Vetiver Roots
Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
Three years in the soil before harvest
Copper Deg Still
Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh
The same design used for a thousand years
GI Tag · Kannauj, 2014
A Craft Older Than
Grasse, France.
The deg-bhapka method has distilled the soul of flowers in Kannauj since the 7th century — predating European perfumery by a thousand years.
The Harvest
Flowers collected at 4am, when essential oil concentration peaks. Rose petals must reach the deg within two hours or the heart note changes.
The Deg
Copper stills — unchanged in design since the Mughal era — are loaded with botanicals and sealed with clay. Only cow-dung fires provide the slow, even heat required.
The Bhapka
Aromatic steam travels through bamboo pipes into condenser pots submerged in river water. The fragrance infuses into pure sandalwood oil, drop by drop.
The Aging
Sealed in copper vessels for 18 to 36 months. Time is the final ingredient — the one that cannot be rushed or replicated.
Registered Origin
Kannauj GI Tag
Geographical Indication, 2014
The Numbers
Seven generations.
One method.
Attar-making families in Kannauj have practiced the deg-bhapka craft for over seven generations. The same copper stills. The same bamboo pipes. The same river water cooling the bhapka.
700+
Distilleries in Kannauj
At peak heritage
60
Days per batch
Cannot be shortened
40kg
Rose petals
Per single tola of Ruh Gulab
1300
Years of craft
Since Emperor Harshavardhana
Collector Voices
Those Who
Know the Difference.
Priya Venkataraman
Fragrance collector, Chennai
Dehn Al Oud — aged 36 months
I have worn Creed, Amouage, and Clive Christian. None of them do what a single drop of this oud does at hour seven, when the sandalwood base fully opens. This is not a perfume. This is a conversation with a forest.
Arjun Mehrotra
Collector, Delhi — 12-year aged musk trader
Ruh Khus — 24-month copper aged
I have been sourcing attars from Kannauj for fifteen years. What this marketplace curates is different — every batch is documented, every origin verified. The Ruh Khus they carry is the real Bijnor harvest, not the Rajasthan substitute most sellers pass off.
Zara Farooqui
Bride, Lucknow — married February 2026
Ruh Gulab — Royal Reserve
My mother wore rose attar on her wedding day. I wanted the same — not a rose perfume, the actual ruh. On my mehndi night I applied three drops to my wrists and my husband could still smell it the next morning. That is not chemistry. That is something older.
The Connoisseur's Start
Complete Your
Collection.
Three attars. Three categories. The full arc of Kannauj perfumery — from the lightest rose to the heaviest oud.
Included in Bundle
Ruh Gulab
3ml · Kannauj origin
₹3,800
Ruh Khus
3ml · Kannauj origin
₹4,200
Dehn Al Oud
2ml · Kannauj origin
₹12,500
Bundle Price Save ₹3,000
₹17,500
Value
₹20,500
