Khushbu

Fragrance, sweet scent, pleasant smell.

Literally: sweet scent, perfume

Khushboo is sweet fragrance — the pleasant perfume of flowers borne on the breeze, the loveliest and most fleeting of the garden's gifts, present everywhere and graspable nowhere. It stands for the spreading of beauty and the trace a presence leaves behind. Iqbal draws on it for the way an essence radiates outward, a self or a spirit that fills the air the way scent outlasts and travels beyond its flower.