I was lucky. One of the names which cropped up was "ISAK." This is a family perfumer in Lucknow which has existed for six generations. Originally creating perfumes for royalty across India - for Maharajas and Maharani, Nawabs and Begums and Raja and Rani - the company expanded and is now making these dazzling aromas available to a wider audience worldwide.
Unisex perfumes have been niche market for a very long time but their popularity is on the rise now. The artificial divide between masculine & feminine perfumes has started to blur and unisex perfumes are becoming more common.
Unlike their designer cousins, these are perfumes which have been crafted and mixed by hand in small quantities and in traditional methods, handed down from generation to generation or passed on from perfumer to perfumer by demonstration and practice.