Being
born in the Brahmin family makes you habitual of lots of fragrances. Moreover,
if you
are
born in the village then you will surely knit some of your childhood memories
with fragrances. Blessed by the both, whenever I recall my childhood life of
village I can start feeling the mixed fragrances. As my day usually starts
late, I always have aroma of incense sticks around me. At my home you will
always have some different incense stick aroma in morning and evening time.
Those sweet sandal smell when amalgamates with aroma of tea kick starts my day
and if it’s the month of monsoon then you will continuously receive fine
fragrances of soil. One of my favorite fragrances is of one thelawala who sells
potato chips and other snacks. As I was a kid I can’t name the person or
fragrance but I enjoyed it. Whenever my uncle took me to market I visit that thela
to buy some random stuff.
It’s
not only the places that have different fragrances many people too carry
different fragrances. One of our family friends is fond of ‘khas itra’ and it was so heavy that it
transfers from his cloths to other’s cloth if he hugged him. Similarly Rameshwar
bhaiya (school sweeper) was characterized by his jasmine oil fragrances. Most of
the people were fond of eating pan and
hence they are always surrounded by mint and kimam fragrances. Sadly, time and childhood both are gone and
everything changed.
Now
when I visit my village I get different smell around me. Luckily I could still
get the same sandal incense stick fragrances with a cup of tea in the morning
but apart from this I can’t expect to have any other childhood fragrance. Empty
lands are now having homes and cemented roads increases number of vehicles
which yields the same smell as I have in my city. Pans are now been replaced by
cigarettes which again annoyed me. Only few people are still using itra and hence it’s really difficult to
get that fragrance too. The only improvement in the fragrance area is the
fragrance of my car. Thanks to ambi pure
( www.facebook.com/AmbiPurIndia) I don’t
have to bear any odor while driving. Though
the fragrances are died but I can still cherish them in my memories.
