Scent of an Island

By Regina Hoo

March 2018 FEATURE
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Smell is apparently our most sensitive sense, evocative of deep emotions and memories. Perfumers use this to their advantage – and to ours.Making Scents for a Hundred YearsSheikh Muhammad Badjenid.Located at the corner of Lebuh Pantai and Lebuh Chulia, S.M. Badjenid & Son is the country's oldest retailer of perfume compounds, attar oils, bakhoor1 and oudh2The family business was founded in 1917 by Sheikh Mohammed Ahmad Badjenid, a Yemeni from Hadhramaut, and is now run by third-generation family members. Known...

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Regina Hoo

is the deputy editor of Penang Monthly.

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