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The supplier to our shop is Eyüp Sabri Tuncer, one of the foremost Kolonya producers in Turkey, and they export to more than 70 countries. One of their most recognizable products is the lemon scented Kolonya used across Turkey today. TBB. 2020. “Koronavirüs Enfeksiyonundan Korunmaya İlişkin Bilgi Notu. [Information Sheet Regarding Coronavirus Infection Protection Türk Tabipleri Birliği [Turkish Medical Association].” March 11. Accessed 18 December 2020. https://www.ttb.org.tr/haber_goster.php?Guid=574ba56a-637b-11ea-897f-e0b4e354fcf1. [Google Scholar] A traditional fragrance has found new popularity in Turkey since the start of the COVID-19 health crisis.

Kolonya (from Turkish: cologne) is a type of perfume. It is a famous product of Turkey, its country of origin. Kolonya is commonly used as a cologne, perfume, or as hand sanitizer. It is sometimes used as surrogate alcohol by poor alcoholics and teenagers, usually resulting in fatal poisonings or blindness. Since 2018 Kolonya contains a bitterant agent. [1] Cheap Kolonya or off brands contains methyl alcohol which is absorbable by skin causing Methanol toxicity, safe Kolonya is denatured with isopropyl alcohol instead of methanol. Hirschkind, Charles. 2006. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics. New York: Columbia University Press. [Google Scholar] Duru, Selin or Rebul, or Eyüp Sabri Tuncer Colognes are the best brands. These Colognes are the most popular and top-quality Turkish Kolonya Brands. You may use French perfume on your good days, but Turkish Kolonya is by your side through the bad ones.” – Renk MagazineTurks reinvented Cologne and made modifications to it. For this reason, Turkish Kolonya is not similar to Eau de Cologne. Cologne kills bacteria by dissolving their oily membrane and neutralizing their cell structure. Can cologne be used as a mosquito repellent? Up until that time, rose water was offered to the guests to clean their hands, or rose water was served with Turkish Delight, Turkish Coffee and rose water had a prominent place in our culture. The kolonya as we know it has been prevalent in Turkey since the Ottoman Empire and the reign of Abdülhamit II. While kolonya gets its name from the German town of Cologne, it’s usage in Turkish culture has always been quite unique. Though it may seem to simply be a personal care product due to its aromatics, it is so much more to the Turks who have historically also used it as a sterilizing agent and antiseptic and regularly as a medicinal product that is even dribbled on sugar cubes to aid in digestion. In practice, it is drizzled onto the hands of guests upon entering a home or restaurant, or after finishing a meal. It is offered to customers as they enter shops and especially barbershops. Even on long-distance buses in Turkey, every single person seated is given a drizzle of the ever-so-refreshing kolonya to wipe their hands and face. Grosz, Elizabeth. 1987. “Notes towards a Corporeal Feminism.” Australian Feminist Studies 2 ( 5): 1–16. doi:10.1080/08164649.1987.9961562 [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]

But long before vats upon vats of alcohol were being mixed to meet pandemic demand, traditional cologne took off during the Ottoman Empire. It was imported from Germany in the 19th century.Rebul is a company that was established in 1895. They are known for cologne products reflecting Turkish traditions and fragrances. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.

Eau de Cologne or cologne, in Turkish kolonya, takes its name from the German town of Cologne, where it originated as a branded product in the early eighteenth century. It emerged in Western Europe during the second plague pandemic in the fourteenth century, when European alchemists learned how to produce concentrated ethanol by distillation and subsequently developed a number of ethanol-containing healing waters based on aromatic plant extracts from thyme, lavender, neroli or rosemary, whose healing and antibacterial capacities were well-known in the pharmacies of European monasteries and cloisters, where these waters were first sold (Rosenbohm Citation1951). At the Ottoman court, locally produced rosewater was commonly used alongside such scented waters from Europe, which were widely marketed by French producers from the late seventeenth century (ibid., 136ff.). Thus, in his 1855 publication The Art of Perfumery the London perfumer Septimus Piesse already mentions the “Oriental” gesture of hospitality by offering perfumes and scented waters (quoted from Jung Citation2011, 4). Ahmad (or Ahmet) Faruki, an Istanbul resident of Egyptian origin, produced the first local product ( odikolon, later kolonya) in the late nineteenth century, which he sold alongside other cosmetics and fragrances in his own chic boutique in the modern district of Feriköy (Yentürk Citation2015). Another local producer of kolonya was Eyüp Sabri Tuncer, born in 1898 to a Bosnian family, who in the 1920s began selling his lemon-scented fragrance in the new capital of the republic, Ankara (Süngü Citation2020). In present-day Turkey, most producers are micro- and small-scale enterprises that produce kolonya alongside other products such as soaps, washing powder, and, to a lesser extent, cleaning materials and cosmetics (Özey and Çalışkan Citation2018). Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. Turkish Cologne is not bad for you unless you drink it. The methyl alcohol in cologne is harmful to our bodies if consumed.

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