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The Journal

Notes on Living Well, Together

Craft stories, seasonal guides and the occasional opinion — on rituals, materials, and the small things worth being deliberate about.

A perfumer's workbench in Kannauj with glass vials of attar

Inside Kannauj, India's Perfume Capital

We spent three days with the attar distillers who supply our fragrance house, watching six centuries of technique compressed into a single copper still. This is what we learned about patience, and why it's so hard to fake.

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