Hina

Hina is traditional Indian Perfume and is centuries old , the formulation or the method of production is very well kept and closely guarded. Handed over from generations.
The odour of Hina is spicy floral herbal mossy sweet.It is basically distillation of various Herbs , Spices , Florals , Musk , Amber over Sandalwood Oil.
Sandalwood Oil serves as a base and also works as a fixative. If a GCMS were to be done , Sandalwood Oil could make upto 95% and yet the overall odour has practically no smell of sandalwood.
In present times since the price and availability of sandalwood oil has become prohibitive , different material both natural and synthetic are being used. Sadly the most popuplar being DOP , a totally banned material.
In some cases also synthetic sandalwood molecules like ICCH , IBCH , SMC (KAO Corpn , Japan) are also being used.
Henna is known as a traditional Ayurveda medicine. It shows various health benefits such as hypoglycaemic and hypolipidemic activities, inhibits the tuberculosis bacteria, and useful in skin diseases.