Ruh Motia

RUH MOTIA

Long before night fell into stillness, it bloomed — a white star opening in the dark, releasing its breath into the warm air. Ruh Motia is the soul of jasmine sambac captured at its most tender hour — not loud, not ornate, but sacred, silken, and luminous, like moonlight resting on skin.

This oil is born in the heat of Indian summer, when the jasmine flowers — motia — are plucked by hand just before dawn, while their scent is still wrapped in coolness. It is then that they are placed into sandalwood oil through traditional enfleurage or slow hydro-distillation, where their spirit is coaxed out over days — sometimes weeks. The result is not just floral — it is alive.

At first touch, Ruh Motia sings in bright white petals, soft yet full-bodied. It smells like warm night air, like skin kissed by jasmine, like the breath of a garden after evening prayers. There is something both deeply feminine and universal in its opening — a sweetness that leans toward the divine, without ever losing its wildness.

But then it begins to settle — soft, creamy, almost honeyed — and beneath the bloom lies a whisper of green stems, dewy leaves, and the round, grounding warmth of aged sandalwood. It does not evolve so much as it reveals — layer by layer — a heart that is both romantic and devotional, erotic and serene. A scent that belongs not just on the skin, but in memory.

Ruh Motia is a perfume of grace, of intimacy, of spirit dressed in white. It is worn best in the quiet of the evening, when the heart softens and the world slows. Wear it when you long to be close to beauty — not the kind that dazzles, but the kind that lingers, like a prayer said in silence, like a flower left blooming in the dark.