Thankfully, that was not my experience, but I guess many things have changed since, people were poorer then, they might also wear more polyester clothes (which are cheaper) and those tend to smell, yuck! Classic Lemon Cologne 200ml with its refreshing ripe fruits of lemon trees, where you will feel the awakening and refreshing effect throughout the day, combines the quality of its content with visuals with its modern packaging design, eye-catching new glass bottle and cap. It is sometimes used as surrogate alcohol by poor alcoholics and teenagers, usually resulting in fatal poisonings or blindness.

Products are frequently improving, the product information, ingredients, nutritional guides and dietary or allergy advice may occasionally change. Hosts offer you this tangy, zingy liquid, usually from a gigantic bottle with a blue or green label, to put on your hands like a runny disinfectant (instead of the gel-like substances full of triclosan and other dubious ingredients so popular in the west).

Traditionally, the aroma derives from fig blossoms, jasmine, rose or citrus ingredients (usually contains limonene and linalool). Here people don't do cologne that much but there's an universal ointment made mainly of lanolin, I think, with a bit of lavender oil. The small alleys of Izmir, languid by the sea that floats endlessly under the afternoon silvery sun rays, and the cobblestone maze of Istanbul, hide in their bowels a fresh, zingy and insouciant smell of innocent childhood. Among the cologne varieties, the perfumed cologne product is also known as one of the most preferred ones.

v=1654114838","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24775946862752,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1. Ingredients: Aqua, %80 Ethyl Alcohol, Perfum, Benzyl Benzoate, Citral, geraniol, isoeugenol, linalool, limonene. I have been rubbing down with the Selin cologne after a shower (and following with whatever perfume took my fancy; both chypres and orientals went very well with it) for a couple months now and I'm running out. The 50ml bottle fits perfectly in the palm of your hand, making it ideal for travelling and sharing.The Turkish, you see, not only use it as a general purpose mild disinfectant for their skin (as it is 80proof alcohol after all) but to wipe clean anything from toilets and sinks to bathtubs and tiles as a finishing touch of freshness, after a soapy lather, instead of the artificial potent scent of the cleaning fluids advertised on TV.

Just to let you know, some 'Limon Kolonasi' contain ethyl alcohol, which, if you are a Muslim, it is Haraam, as it contains alcohol. Please always read labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming.Known for it’s crisp and wonderful lemony scent, a little bit of this cologne brings instant coolness, freshness, cleanness and hygiene to the skin. You might also spot huge 1 LT plastic bottles shaped like laundry detergents at Turkish bathrooms and wonder if these people consume it by the gallon in secret. gr, the leader in fragrance information in Greek, as well as a Senior Editor for the top English-speaking Fragrantica. Jophielle Angel’s Light Perfectly Clean Tonic for Normal Skin has an effective formula with Herbal extract.

It starts with the traditional greeting of a guest, when you get some of this pleasant Limon Kolonya poured into your hands; rub it in your hands and face. I also love what you said about the west and its too frequent usage of chemicals to mask odors and kill germs. The familiar scent is well recognised and conjures up an almost nostalgic effect for those who have ever lived in or even visited Turkey.Cheap Kolonya or off brands contains methyl alcohol which is absorbable by skin causing Methanol toxicity, safe Kolonya is denatured with isopropyl alcohol instead of methanol. The Ottomans had an established ritual of cleansing with lemon-scented alcohol; since they didn't drink it they found other uses for it. As commercial hand sanitizers run dry in the US and Europe, people in Turkey are turning to a traditional, aromatic fragrance that has taken on a whole new relevance amid the coronavirus pandemic: kolonya.