Divrina Dhingra News Today

In an era where hair perfumes are available on the shelves of beauty stores, why are traditional methods seeing interest?

A memoir that spotlights the lives of tawaifs and dancing girls in 1980s India and a volume on the continuing vitality of the ancient Indian perfume trade and the skilled craftsmen at the centre of it

Natural perfumes are seeing a resurgence thanks to a handful of start-ups offering old and new fragrances.

Divrina Dhingra’s book ‘The Perfume Project’ offers history and insights into India’s contemporary perfume trade.

Divrina Dhingras debut work traces India’s affection for certain aromas through millennia. Highlights include intricate myths, links to ancient Greece and Rome

On the reading list this week are short stories that articulate the true cost of living, a book that blends the science of aromatics with travel writing, history and insights into India’s contemporary perfume trade, and a collection of the 24 Gitas from the Mahabharata

An excerpt from ‘The Perfume Project: Journeys Through Indian Fragrance’, by Divrina Dhingra.