What is the ruling on using intoxicants for medical treatment, and what is the ruling on using them for perfumery?

The questioner : It is forbidden to possess intoxicants for any purpose. Alcoholic beverages are intoxicants because they cause intoxication. The question is: what is the basis for the permissibility of using them for perfumery? They say that the proportion does not reach a small amount. If it does not reach the level of intoxication, it does not harm.

The Shaykh : If it reaches the level of intoxication, there is no doubt that it is not permissible to drink it. As for using it for perfumery, it is a matter of consideration, but scrupulousness dictates leaving it, because the forbidden aspect of intoxicants is drinking them.

The questioner : Shaykh, the problem for the man is: if he possesses intoxicants for something other than drinking, does that represent this for him or not?

The Shaykh : For what purpose? For something other than drinking, for what purpose? Pickling is not permissible.

The presenter : Prepared by the Project of the Senior Scholars of Kuwait, may Allah honor it with tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the Sunnah.