Аттар шамама
Shamama is a traditional Indian attar made in Kannauj from herbs and spices with sandalwood oil. It is a leathery, deeply warming fragrance.
- Type
- Складник
- Olfactive family
- Смолисті
- Source
- Several Indian spices and Mysore sandalwood oil
- Chemical class
- Attar (natural aromatic oil)
Запах
Молекула: виробники й варіанти
Докладно
Цікавий факт
Many nawabs were too feeble to bear a heavy quilt in freezing winters, so they had shamama smeared between the cotton layers of a lighter quilt to gain the warmth of a heavy one. Mirza Ghalib would smear shamama on his flowing beard during winter while writing poetry.
Отримання й хімія
Спосіб отримання
In this method the material is suspended over water in large copper vats called degs, which stand on wood or charcoal fires. The steam is carried through bamboo pipes to round copper vessels with a long neck, called bhapkas. The distilled extract is then passed over sandalwood oil, which captures its fragrance and fixes it. For shamama, the base is prepared in a large container called a deg and then stirred with sandalwood oil in a special container called a pateela, often together with other natural ingredients such as rose oil or saffron. The process takes around 15 days.
- Формула
- Complex natural mixture
- Сила запаху
- Виразна
- Синоніми
- shamamatul amber
No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)
У парфумерії
Shamama was once used on its own as a perfume. It later became a key ingredient in traditional Khaleeji, or Gulf Arabian, perfumery. No traditional khaltah, an Arabian fragrance blend, is complete without the Indian shamama, called shamamatul amber in Arabic.
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