Gulhina, better with age

I’ve had about an ounce of gulhina attar for 4 years, and check in on it infrequently. I had to uncap and use a faint smidge when I made up another batch of Hekate recently, and it has really improved since I first got it. Maybe it was a relatively fresh attar in 2004?

Gulhina is made with henna flowers, Lawsonia inermis which are distilled into a receiving vessel of sandalwood, over a period of days.

When I first got my hands on this stuff, it had a dusty antiquated library book sort of bouquet to it. After some years, the flowery aspect is starting to manifest a bit. And it is dewy faintly bittersweet flowers.

We’ll just say this is the happy aromatic surprise of the spring, eh.