Divrina Dhingra - “Everyone has scents that they associate with home”
Hindustan TimesI guess most people who wear perfume rarely think about the labour-intensive process that goes into making it. Personally, I would say that it has made me less likely to straight up dismiss a perfume even if it isn’t one that I would buy or wear. Eventually, I think that non-smell was a mixture of the absence of odours I took for granted both within, and without the home, and of certain detergents and surface cleaners that I associate with the US My visits to the Bronx and Staten Island were too brief and busy for me to have paid enough attention to scents because I was likely on some deadline. For me there were the home smells of course – dusty books, fresh roti, mom’s perfume on her saris and so on – but I took for granted the idea that every place you could go to in the city would be crowded with smells of all kinds, and that you would recognise most of them. It’s also called destructive distillation and is a chemical process in which a material is heated, the fumes condense in the neck of the retort and are collected in another vessel placed underneath.
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