Ingredients · Florals · top note

Kewda attar & oil

Say itKAYV-duh AT-ur & oil

Sweet, penetrating honeyed-hyacinth floral with green, salty-solar radiance.

What it is

Natural oil from male screwpine flower spikes distilled, often into sandalwood.

Where it comes from

Bay of Bengal coast, India

When you smell it

Top notes: when you spray it.

What perfumers do with it

Radiant green-honey floral for attars, orientals and rose-saffron accords.

Worth knowing

Its by-product, kewra water, perfumes biryanis and Indian sweets.

Also called

Kewra; screwpine flower (Pandanus odoratissimus)