On Monday, we headed to downtown Mysore to replenish our book supply at a 3-story bookstore, eat a South Indian Thali (set vegetarian all-you-can-eat meal) at our favorite local place (Das Prakash Hotel) ($.90), and wonder around Devaraja Market, an everything market -- veggies, fruit, flowers, cane sugar, pots and pans, plastic-ware, incense, essential oils, wood carvings, everything everything everything else. The essential oils sales guy sucked us in with lots of lovely scents. He claimed the oils were all natural, from flowers and fruits and such, and that many scents of famous western-brand perfumes are really based on these oils. He explains these are pure oils, just the essense, so long-lasting and lovely. After letting us smell multiple lovely scents (like lotus flower, orange blossom, jasmine, etc), he put a sample on my forearm. As
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