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Have the people of knowledge reached a consensus on the ritual impurity of ethyl alcohol, and what is the ruling on using compound perfumes of unknown ingredients?

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"Ethyl alcohol is an intoxicant and a Khamr (wine/alcoholic beverage). Khamr is considered impure by the majority of scholars, while some scholars hold the view of its purity, and the original principle regarding things is purity. Therefore, if it is not proven that perfumes contain intoxicating alcohol or impurity, their use is permissible."

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