Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
The first thing your sense of smell picks up in an Arab house is the heady aroma of Oudh wafting in the air.
Oudh was inaccessible to the common man for centuries and instead was a privilege of royalty, nobles and religious figures.
IN the Arab world, Oudh is still used as a remedy for chest ailments, as an expectorant in coughs, as a cure for insomnia and to calm infants.
Burning incense is a tradition that dates back thousands of years in almost all of the ancient civilisations.
