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A traditional Indian attar is a single-note or classical blend distilled the old way, most of it at Kannauj, and carried in oil rather than alcohol. Mitti after rain, mogra, kewda, rose and oud are the ones people know by name. These are 8ml alcohol-free roll-ons, blended in India in small batches, with notes and intended wearer published on each product page. The full guide to what attar is covers the deg and bhapka method and what is honestly in a bottle sold as attar today.

Roll-on attars and eau de parfumsNotes listed on every product88 fragrances
88 products

Products in Traditional

Essent Oud Mood 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

Bold Bhai

Oud Mood

Oud, on the days he means it.

From $10.20
Essent Musk 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — musk

Chill Bhai

Musk

The brother who never asks for anything.

From $10.20
Essent Cambodian Oud 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

The Elder

Cambodian Oud

Cambodian oud, poured slowly.

From $10.20
Essent Gul-e-Laila 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Traditional Didi

Gul-e-Laila

Rose and rivayat. She keeps the rituals alive.

From $10.20
Essent Red Vampire 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

Boss Didi

Red Vampire

Wins arguments in two lines.

From $10.20
Essent Musk Tahara 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — musk

The Devout

Musk Tahara

Tahara. Clean, in the oldest sense.

From $10.20
Essent Panch Fool 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Pooja Mummy

Panch Fool

Five flowers, for her morning thali.

From $10.20
Essent Parijaat 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Pooja Mummy

Parijaat

Parijaat, the flower that only falls at dawn.

From $10.20
Essent Panch Ratna 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

The Devout

Panch Ratna

Five sacred notes, one small bottle.

From $10.20
Essent Braj Ras 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — signature blend

The Devout

Braj Ras

Braj, and everything that happened there.

From $10.20
Essent Orange Delight 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — fresh citrus

Sweet Behna

Orange Delight

Shares the last piece, every time.

From $10.20
Essent Pineapple 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — fruity floral

Sweet Behna

Pineapple

Loud laugh, brighter clothes.

From $10.20
Essent Strawberry 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — fruity floral

Sweet Behna

Strawberry

For the didi who still steals your fries.

From $10.20
Essent Miss X 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Party Didi

Miss X

Never tells you where she is going.

From $10.20
Essent Shanaya 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Party Didi

Shanaya

First on the floor, last to leave.

From $10.20
Essent Jasmine 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — white floral

Quiet Didi

Jasmine

Mogra in her hair, always.

From $10.20
Essent Significant 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — woody

The Colleague

Significant

For the promotion nobody announced.

From $10.20
Essent Musk Eau de Parfum 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — musk

Pooja Mummy

Ponds

The powder tin on her dressing table.

From $10.20
Essent Cigar 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

Bold Bhai

Cigar

He would rather be respected than fussed over.

From $10.20
Essent Evening in Paris 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — white floral

Traditional Didi

Evening in Paris

Mummy's perfume, and now hers.

From $10.20
Essent Do Love 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — white floral

Party Didi

Do Love

Dressed up for no reason at all.

From $10.20
Essent Rajnigandha 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — white floral

Pooja Mummy

Rajnigandha

Rajnigandha, the flowers she buys every Friday.

From $10.20
Essent Musk Kasturi 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — musk

The Devout

Musk Kasturi

Kasturi musk, old as the ritual itself.

From $10.20
Concentrated attar oil being decanted from a glass vial

Why attar?

An oil outlasts a spray.

An alcohol spray pushes scent outward fast, then fades. An attar is the oil on its own, with no ethanol, so it stays where you put it and unfolds over hours instead of minutes. That is why a small roll-on outlasts a much larger bottle of eau de toilette.

Read the full guide

About the Traditional collection

These are the scents India has worn for centuries: petrichor mitti, temple mogra, monsoon kewda, pressed into modern roll-ons without losing their soul.

Alcohol-free by tradition and by design: suitable for pooja, prayer and every day after.