Recently at an outdoor rally, a familiar aroma hit my senses. It has been a long time since I smelled patchouli oil, but there it was conjuring all kinds of memories from my youth. Patchouli is an ...

Long before patchouli was adopted as the signature scent of hippies everywhere, the flowering herb, with its warm, woody, musky smell, was a symbol of opulence and prestige – rumour has it that King ...