Giti is a PhD candidate at the School of Culture, History & Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific. Her research project involves an ethnographic study of the Indian attar (perfume oil) industry, in order to better understand the contemporary significance of this material to the people who make, buy and use it. Giti's motivation for this project stems from her work as a perfumer, having worked with attars and natural aromatics for close to a decade, as well as her work in the not-for-profit sector, which focused on grassroots community settings. Through this project, Giti hopes to shed light on the contributions of different people across the attar industry, on their specialised skills, and to increase people's understanding and appreciation of the material more broadly.