Name: How India's Perfumers Recreate The Smell Of Rain On Earth | Still Standing
Uploaded: 2022-10-31T14:31:12.000Z
Duration: 7 min 46 s
Description: 我們參觀了印度的香水之都坎瑙伊，了解工匠如何使用具有數百年曆史的蒸汽蒸餾法製作“香水”或天然香水。Learn the English Usage: narrator,perfume,smell,india,steam,water,earth,kilogram,fragrance,lot,ancient,recreate,clay,middle...

Narrator: Fresh roses  are the main ingredient

The tradition is  thousands of years old,

and this small city in India is one of the only places

One batch can take weeks  or even months to prepare.

also called attar, the  Arabic word for fragrance.

The time-consuming process is hard to sustain.

We visited India's  perfume capital, Kannauj,

Workers gather roses in  these fields near Kannauj

and deliver them to distilleries while they're still fresh.

It's owned by M. L.  Ramnarain Perfumers.

There is no electricity and  no industrial machinery here.

filling them with just the right amount of water,

It took me five years to learn this craft.

Narrator: The roses  are evenly spread out,

and it takes two men to carry and pour them into the degs.

As the petals begin  to seep in the water,

The heat boils the water and  flowers until they emit steam.

a smaller container filled with sandalwood oil

The straps loosen after a while, so we try to keep them tight,

so that the bhapka  captures the water vapor.

of fragrant water will gather over six hours.

In the meantime, workers constantly check

the temperatures of  the different vessels,

using their hands and years of experience

They monitor the fire to make sure the degs

But not too much — otherwise it can destroy the scent.

They also have to make sure  the bhapka stays cool enough

This is a job which  requires a lot of patience.

The input has to be good to get great outcomes,

and to be done with a lot of concentration.

And any slip off can  have negative results.

Narrator: And the result  is the all-natural attar,

free from any alcohol or artificial chemicals,

Here, they make over 15  different kinds of oils.

But one of their most  prized is mitti attar,

the sweet, soothing  smell that one gets,

so that's the smell that you can expect from attar mitti.

Narrator: To recreate the smell of earth,

they use old clay pots that  were used for spices or tea.

They crush the pots and add them to the water,

others can take weeks or even months to produce.

Expensive attars can sell for 10,000 Indian rupees,

And that's the price for just 2 teaspoons of it.

and it takes a lot to make just a little amount of perfume.

costs more than 1 lakh  rupees [per kilogram].

We also use flowers that cost between 50 and 250 rupees per kilogram,

Narrator: Kannauj has been known to produce attar