Zillion times different regional languages or vernaculars have been used to name a perfume, an attar or an oud oil. I thought, there should be place to discuss all of these and more.
I always found myself fascinated about the names of certain ouds and what was going through the artist's mind while choosing that particular name. Like Oud Musa, Oud Nuh, Ertugrul Gazi, Raja Hindutani, Mahabali, Makhauta etc. Everytime a new offering is live on the websites, these questions comes to my mind all the time, How it came to existense ? Why was it named so ? Why that name ? How does the name and the stuff in the bottle relate ?
I know these oils are cream of the crop but if I get know the story behind the oil, I could relate to the creation even more. On top of that, It would be a nice history lesson, for instance, in case of Ertugrul Gazi, people would know about him, if they don't know him.
Not only that, if you come rove away a bit from emotional side of it, there are a lot of people on here who do not speak arabic or urdu or persian and I am sure they would be pretty eager to know that the stuff they are putting on skin not only smells heavenly, but the message behind the name is even more enamoring.
I always found myself fascinated about the names of certain ouds and what was going through the artist's mind while choosing that particular name. Like Oud Musa, Oud Nuh, Ertugrul Gazi, Raja Hindutani, Mahabali, Makhauta etc. Everytime a new offering is live on the websites, these questions comes to my mind all the time, How it came to existense ? Why was it named so ? Why that name ? How does the name and the stuff in the bottle relate ?
I know these oils are cream of the crop but if I get know the story behind the oil, I could relate to the creation even more. On top of that, It would be a nice history lesson, for instance, in case of Ertugrul Gazi, people would know about him, if they don't know him.
Not only that, if you come rove away a bit from emotional side of it, there are a lot of people on here who do not speak arabic or urdu or persian and I am sure they would be pretty eager to know that the stuff they are putting on skin not only smells heavenly, but the message behind the name is even more enamoring.
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