Delhis Family of Noses
Its a 205-year-old perfume house but when you step into either of the two shops of the legendary Gulabsingh Johrimal in Old Delhi, it could be just another dusty old store. A sense of history wafts across, however, when one of its owner-partners, the affable Praful Gundhi, 56, tells you the carved wooden frames and cabinets encasing the glass shelves behind him are over a hundred years old. Then Mukul, 50, his seemingly more outgoing brother, points to a glass shelf with tall, luxuriously shaped-and-cut glass ttar decanters, saying they have been around since perhaps his grandfather's times.
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