Gulab
Pure dawn-picked Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood.
Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh · Est. 1931
Alcohol-free attars, hydro-distilled over pure sandalwood in copper degs — the way Kannauj has perfumed emperors, poets and pilgrims for four hundred years. One drop lasts from Fajr to midnight.
Noor — Attar No. 01 · Rose, Saffron & Oud
Top note · 01
Damask roses picked before sunrise in Hasayan, when the dew still holds their oil. Two hundred kilograms of petals surrender a single tola of rooh gulab — bright, dewy, almost drinkable.
Heart note · 02
Hand-plucked stigmas from Pampore, steeped whole into the deg. Kesar warms the rose the way late-afternoon light warms a courtyard — honeyed, leathery, faintly medicinal in the old, beautiful way.
Base note · 03
Wild-harvested agarwood from the hills of Hojai, aged seven years before it meets fire. The dry-down is where Noor lives longest on skin — smoked amber, worn leather, temple wood after rain.
The Collection
Every attar is matured in camel-skin kuppis for a minimum of six months before it is bottled. Prices are for pure oil — no dilution, no alcohol, ever.
Pure dawn-picked Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood.
Pampore saffron folded into seven-year Assam agarwood.
Night-blooming Indian jasmine, heady and moon-white.
Baked Kannauj earth after the first monsoon rain — petrichor, bottled.
Heritage
"My great-grandfather said the deg must breathe like a sleeping animal — slow fire, slow steam, slow attar. We have never hurried it since."
— Faiz Ahmed Warsi, fourth-generation attar-saaz
Word of mouth
"I wore Kesar Oud to my sister's nikah in Lucknow. Three people stopped me to ask what it was — including the qazi. One drop at 8am, still glowing at midnight."
"Mitti is genuinely the smell of first rain on hot earth. My mother cried when she smelled it — said it was the courtyard of her childhood home in Farrukhabad."
"I've bought attars from Mumbai's Mohammed Ali Road for twenty years. Noor's Gulab is the first that smells like the flower and not the factory. Worth every rupee."