Amrita Chattopadhyay is a final-year PhD Research Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the Centre for Historical Studies. She finished her graduation (2010-2013) and post-graduation (2013-2015) in History from Jadavpur University. For her MPhil, from CHS, JNU, she had worked on the Perfumery Culture in Mughal India (2015-2017). Her current PhD thesis focuses on Mughal material culture, production, consumption and circulation of objects of ‘value’, located in the socio-economic milieu of an Indo-Islamicate polity. Her recent publication includes ‘A Study of Aromatic-Woods in Seventeenth-Century India: Circulation of Aloewood and Sandalwood through Facilitating Port-cities and Trade Networks’ in Crossroads (Brill), 20:1-2, 2022 and ‘Perfumes in Early Modern India: Ephemeral Materiality and Aromatic Mobility’ in Anne Gerritsen and Burton Cleetus Ed. Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade,1600-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2023) and ‘Perfumes in 16th–18th century India: A ‘Religious-Cultural’ Artefact and the Formation of a Scent-landscape’ in Tilottoma Mukherjee and Nupur DasGupta Ed. Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Premodern South Asia (Routledge, 2023). Her research has been supported by DAAD-BMBF funded Namaste+ fellowship awarded by the University of Gottingen. She is currently conducting archival research on historical documents and literary texts composed between 1600-1850 CE on behalf of the research project Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia hosted by the Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin, Germany.