This is another shop that sells religious goods primarily to Muslims, but it has something added – they create perfume.
Muslims are prohibited from drinking or using alcohol in anything (even perfume). That means that they can’t go to the department store to buy perfume – it’s primarily alcohol. Instead, they go to these perfume shops where you can either have a signature fragrance made or you can pick from something that’s out there that they have duplicated. These are based in mineral oil and therefore comply with Islamic requirements.
They also sell prayer caps, rugs, prayer beads and lots of other stuff. For a tiny shop, it was fascinating that they had so much stuff in there and were happy to explain all about it to us.
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