• Shellbeach@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    You mean… You can … Bottle up petrichore ??? How come is there no wide range of perfume/candle/lotion and whatnot?

    Can I make it at home, if so, how would I go about it with everyday items? Can streptomyces cause health issues?

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      1 month ago

      There’s like an indian family/company that’s been making some hiqh quality petrichor perfume for idk at least 100 years, probably several hundreds, if not a thousand or more idk.

      I forget what it’s called you can probably look it up with perfume pertrichor india

      edit it’s called “Mitti Attar”

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        1 month ago

        They might’ve been making it for 10,000 years for all I know. I don’t know shit.

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        1 month ago

        That’s the romanticized, traditional Indian cowshit mix trying to approximate it. (Not doing a disparaging stereotype here, that’s just literally how the article says they make it.)

        I’d be surprised if it actually contains the compound we’re talking about.

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          i Kind of doubt it. in a video i saw if the process they were using hardfired bricks. i don’t believe any organic compounds would survive the heat.

          (dung might be a better term for what you were referring to. i seem to remember that because of the way they feed their cattle the dung has a very high fibre content which makes it a good source for building material. it’s nowhere as gross as the diarrhea like consistency we get from cows in Europe)