Duru Kolonya Lemon, Turkish fragrance water, eau de kolonya, Zitrone, 200 ml (Pack of 1)

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Ingredient-wise, there’s not much difference between eau de cologne and Turkish kolonya. Both use roughly the same ethanol-to-essential-oil ratio and often incorporate citrus oils like orange and lemon. But what makes kolonya so unique is how it’s used, both culturally and practically. Hürriyet. 2020e. “Almanya’da Türk kolonyasında talep patlaması yaşanıyor [In Germany, growing demand for Turkish cologne].” March 18. Accessed 17 December 2020. https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/avrupa/almanyada-turk-kolonyasinda-talep-patlamasi-yasaniyor-41472019. [Google Scholar] Turkey’s Scientific Board listed the [Kolonya] liquid, with its 80% ethyl alcohol base, as an official preventive measure against Covid-19.” – The Independent Recent studies in material religion have shown that both religion and secularism are far from being immaterial ideas, as they both form embodied material realities (Scheer, Fadil, and Schepelern Johansen Citation2019). This should lead us to consider more comprehensively the sensual underpinnings of everyday (religious) experience, including the olfactorial. If we think of evidence as embodied and “the religious” as the extraordinary, disrupting the usual flow of everyday life, as suggested by Meyer ( Citation2014), we will certainly learn much from a deeper understanding of the moral configuration and the affective power of scents and fragrances. Fleeting and ephemeral in their materiality, invisible, yet perceptible, they draw attention not only to the relationality of the material and spiritual worlds, but also to that of the human body. They are transgressive, “intra-active,” in the way that they intrude on our embodied reality and the boundaries we create for ourselves; they may linger on in the form of sensations and may haunt us as the mediators of memories—both nostalgic ones, of long-gone Muslim holidays, and dreaded ones, in the case of Sakine quoted above, of patriarchal structures one would rather flee or change. Selin has been produced by Eczacıbaşı (a Turkish pharmaceutical company) since 1912. I love their Juniper Blue Spruce fragrance.

When someone comes to the door the first thing you do after they sit down is offer them kolonya," said Engin Tuncer, CEO at Eyüp Sabri Tuncer, a well known kolonya producer. "This was the task of any home's youngest child — 'Come, give your uncles and aunties a sprinkle of kolonya.'" Ibn Quayyim al-Jawziyya. 1998. Medicine of the Prophet, transl. by Penelope Johnstone. Cambridge: The Islamic Texts Society. [Google Scholar]

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Hürriyet. 2020d. “Doğal dezenfektan nasıl yapılır işte evde dezenfektan yapımı [How to make natural disinfectants at home].” March 17. Accessed 17 December 2020. https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/dogal-dezenfektan-nasil-yapilir-iste-evde-dezenfektan-yapimi-41470532. [Google Scholar] For these reasons, Turkish Colognes are not long-lasting. What are the best Turkish Cologne brands? The fragrance also plays an important role because lavender essence is a natural insect repellent. The other colognes will not be effective as lavender cologne. Yet, they offer some degree of protection. Timeturk. 2020. “Kolonya abdesti bozar mı? Koronavirüse karşı kullanılan kolonya caiz mi? [Does Cologne Break Ablution? Is it Permitted to Use Cologne against the Coronavirus?].” March 14. Accessed 17 December 2020. https://www.timeturk.com/kolonya-abdesti-bozar-mi-koronaviruse-karsi-kullanilan-kolonya-caiz-mi/haber-1390449. [Google Scholar] Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.

As a deep-rooted custom of hospitality and symbol of good health, kolonya provides more than a practical disinfectant – it’s a source of comfort for many of my Turkish friends here at a time of uncertainty. In the year and a half I’ve lived in Istanbul, I’ve had my palms doused with it at countless restaurants, shops and homes. And now, even as many of us apply kolonya alone while self-quarantining, it evokes a nostalgic sense of closeness and taking care of one another. Kolonya originated in Turkey–then part of the Ottoman Empire–in the 19th century, when cologne was first imported from Germany. The new perfume inspired new methods of scent-making, and supplanted rosewater as the primary fragrance in Turkey. Other scents were later added to the imported perfume, creating a uniquely Turkish product. [2] [3] Make-up and usage [ edit ] Sabah. 2020a. “Koronavirüs kolonya üretimini yüzde 600 arttırdı” [The Coronavirus cologne production increased by 600 (percent)]. September 14. Accessed December 17, 2020. https://www.sabah.com.tr/ekonomi/2020/09/14/koronavirus-kolonya-uretimini-yuzde-600-arttirdi. [Google Scholar] Liebelt, Claudia. 2023. Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. [Google Scholar] Most of the aromas are very hard to find outside of Turkey. For these reasons, they can be excellent souvenirs., What is Turkish cologne used for?

Kisa, Sezer, and AdnanKisa. 2020. “Under-Reporting of COVID-19 Cases in Turkey.” The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 35 ( 5): 1009–1013. doi:10.1002/hpm.3031. [Crossref] [PubMed] [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] Alcohol in Cologne also acts as a disinfectant which helps faster healing mosquito bites. What do Turkish barbers spray after a haircut? This holiday, in our cologne [ kolonya], there’s not only your beloved smell of lemon. This holiday, it also includes the scent of your beloved grandparents and great-grandparents that you cannot go to visit. It also includes the scents of the feast table. It also includes the scents of sweets from your homeland [ memleket], where you cannot go. This holiday, our cologne includes the scents of our loved ones, the ones we miss, and the ones we wait for as well as of wonderful days in the future. [Brand name] wishes a happy holiday to all of Turkey! Footnote 4

Meyer, Birgit. 2014. “Mediation and the Genesis of Presence: Toward a Material Approach to Religion.” Religion and Society: Advances in Research 5: 205–254. doi:10.3167/arrs.2014.050114. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] Günal, Zeki. 2020. “Ve dağıtımına başlandı! İçinde Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’ın mektubu var… [The Distribution has been Started! There’s a letter from President Erdoğan in it…].”Hürriyet DHA, April 7. Accessed 17 December 2020. https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/ve-dagitimina-baslandi-icinde-cumhurbaskani-erdoganin-mektubu-var-41488893. [Google Scholar] Turkish Cologne is not bad for you unless you drink it. The methyl alcohol in cologne is harmful to our bodies if consumed.Scheer, M., N.Fadil, and B.Schepelern Johansen, eds. 2019. Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions: European Configurations. London: Bloomsbury. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]

Alyanak, Oğuz. 2020. “Faith, Politics and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Turkish Response.” Medical Anthropology 39 ( 5): 374–375. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2020.1745482. [Taylor & Francis Online] [PubMed] [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] Kolonya means Cologne. It was born in Köln, Germany in the 18th century. However, it is best known internationally after its French pronunciation Cologne or “Eau de Cologne” – water from Cologne. While cologne is primarily a light perfume, Kolonya has been applied as a refresher and hand cleanser in the Balkans and Anatolia for centuries. Corbin, Alain. 1986. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination. Leamington Spa, Hamburg, New York: Berg. [Google Scholar] The kolonya as we know it has been prevalent in Turkey since the Ottoman Empire and the reign of Abdülhamit II. While kolonya gets its name from the German town of Cologne, it’s usage in Turkish culture has always been quite unique. Though it may seem to simply be a personal care product due to its aromatics, it is so much more to the Turks who have historically also used it as a sterilizing agent and antiseptic and regularly as a medicinal product that is even dribbled on sugar cubes to aid in digestion. In practice, it is drizzled onto the hands of guests upon entering a home or restaurant, or after finishing a meal. It is offered to customers as they enter shops and especially barbershops. Even on long-distance buses in Turkey, every single person seated is given a drizzle of the ever-so-refreshing kolonya to wipe their hands and face. Eser, Emre. 2020. “Kolonyaya tarihi talep [Historical Demand for Cologne].”Hürriyet, March 12. Accessed 17December 2020. https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/kolonyaya-tarihi-talep-41466831. [Google Scholar]

Eau de Cologne or cologne, in Turkish kolonya, takes its name from the German town of Cologne, where it originated as a branded product in the early eighteenth century. It emerged in Western Europe during the second plague pandemic in the fourteenth century, when European alchemists learned how to produce concentrated ethanol by distillation and subsequently developed a number of ethanol-containing healing waters based on aromatic plant extracts from thyme, lavender, neroli or rosemary, whose healing and antibacterial capacities were well-known in the pharmacies of European monasteries and cloisters, where these waters were first sold (Rosenbohm Citation1951). At the Ottoman court, locally produced rosewater was commonly used alongside such scented waters from Europe, which were widely marketed by French producers from the late seventeenth century (ibid., 136ff.). Thus, in his 1855 publication The Art of Perfumery the London perfumer Septimus Piesse already mentions the “Oriental” gesture of hospitality by offering perfumes and scented waters (quoted from Jung Citation2011, 4). Ahmad (or Ahmet) Faruki, an Istanbul resident of Egyptian origin, produced the first local product ( odikolon, later kolonya) in the late nineteenth century, which he sold alongside other cosmetics and fragrances in his own chic boutique in the modern district of Feriköy (Yentürk Citation2015). Another local producer of kolonya was Eyüp Sabri Tuncer, born in 1898 to a Bosnian family, who in the 1920s began selling his lemon-scented fragrance in the new capital of the republic, Ankara (Süngü Citation2020). In present-day Turkey, most producers are micro- and small-scale enterprises that produce kolonya alongside other products such as soaps, washing powder, and, to a lesser extent, cleaning materials and cosmetics (Özey and Çalışkan Citation2018). The aromas of Turkish Kolonya are very eclectic, reflecting the richness of the Turkish climate and its culture. There are many tips for making Kolonya, but the most important is fragrance. If you do not have good-smelling oil, you will have no chance of making a good Kolonya. Evered, E. Ö., and K. T.Evered. 2016. “A Geopolitics of Drinking: Debating the Place of Alcohol in Early Republican Turkey.” Political Geography 50: 48–60. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.06.006 [Crossref] [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] Otherwise, Turkish Cologne is pretty safe. Turkish Cologne is typically made of %80 also alcohol, and for this reason, it is a perfect sterilizer and disinfectant.