Eau de problème

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hana loves perfume, and there’s a long heritage of traditional perfume making in Sudan. But sometimes, sweet smells come with some controversy. As she explores the history of racism and colonialism in the global perfume industry with perfume enthusiast and historian Razan Idris, she discovers an intriguing story about an iconic Sudanese scent that has her bothered.

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0:00.0	Hello, Hannah. Hey Lila, this is Asma Howard, and she's in her kitchen.
0:16.4	And she's mixing ingredients together in a bowl on a stove.
0:21.5	But it's not food. I'm not food. a food food
0:24.0	it's sand all
0:25.0	it's sand all
0:26.0	it's musk powder
0:28.0	sandalwood powder
0:30.0	sandalwood oil
0:32.0	sugar oh yeah Sandalwood oil, sugar.
0:33.0	Oh, yeah, I know what that is.
0:36.0	You are obsessed with this.
0:39.0	You know I love perfume.
0:42.0	But traditional Sudanese perfumes are just something else,
0:46.7	Lila. They're actually cooked and made from these fragrant ingredients like these.
0:52.4	Asma is here in California but it
0:55.9	smells like Sudan. I wish I could smell the sound right now.
1:03.0	Let me try to describe it.
1:04.3	It's earthy, but it's sweet.
1:07.9	You can smell like the sugary, woody scent.
1:11.8	It's everywhere in this room.
1:13.7	And perfume culture like you know is huge in Sudan.
1:17.1	We're raised with all these scents around us,
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