Rooh Afza has been made since 1906 and it is the taste of summer across the entire subcontinent. Deep red, floral, sweet, and completely unlike anything else.

Rose, khus and a long list of botanicals. Nobody has quite replicated it.

Two tablespoons into a glass of cold milk or water with ice. It is what breaks the fast in a great many households during Ramadan, and it goes into falooda, kulfi and milkshakes the rest of the year.

Available at Curry Corner in North Melbourne.