Red clay distilled into pure oil of Mysore White Sandalwood ( Santalum Album ). No additives, no synthetics, not diluted.
Mitty Attar captures the petrichor effect of rain soaking the red, cracked earth. A woody, earthy aroma, with a certain "red" dustiness that is associated with terracotta pots. In distilling this batch, the clay was distilled into the oil of the legendary Sandal of Mysore. The classic creamy aroma of this type of Sandal reveals itself on the skin a little later, when the base note of earthy terracotta petrichor becomes quieter.
Mitti is an extraordinary fragrance that makes one marvel at the ingenuity of man and his determination to extract fragrances from everything. Mitti is a traditional attar extracted from the dry, cracked soil of India at the end of the dry season, and it smells of the moment when the first raindrops of the monsoon season fall and soak the cracked earth. For many Indians, mitti is the flavor of longing.
The process of making attar mitti is complex and labor-intensive. The pieces of soil are taken to the pottery, where the potter uses water to knead them into dough or clay, from which he then forms cup-shaped vessels. The potter partially fires the cups in kilns, after which they are sent to the distillery.
The clay cups are stacked one on top of the other in a copper cauldron for distillation. The sealed cauldron is first heated without water to allow molecules from the earth to evaporate and infuse the sandalwood oil more strongly with its aroma. Water is added only later through a small hole, rather than opening up the entire cauldron by exposing the earth to the air. The resulting steam is condensed, and the condensate is passed through a container of sandalwood oil, which perfectly absorbs any fragrance. The cauldron is heated on the fire for only two hours a day and then left to cool and rest. After the hydropath is separated from the Sandalwood Oil, new clay cups are loaded into the cauldron, baked dry, and the hydrolat from the previous day is added later. The process is repeated for twenty days and stopped when the Sandalwood Oil is strongly scented with the smell of earth dry and wet.
Totally natural, rare, undiluted 100% essential oil concentration, no synthetics
Volume 3 ml
The oil is bottled in branded bottles made of thick glass with a glass stick and a cap made of hand-fired oak wood
Store in a dry dark place. Shelf life is not limited