★ Vetiver · the answer is no
No. We do not make one, we are not going to sell you something adjacent, and khus deserves better than that.
No. SOSA makes no vetiver attar, no vetiver solid and no vetiver personal fragrance of any kind.
No vetiver attar
There is a SOSA vetiver car perfume. It is a car product, formulated for a hot enclosed cabin, and it does not go on skin.
Car only
Vetiver is not a wood. It is the root of a grass — khus — and it smells of cool wet earth, green smoke and a little bitterness.
A root, not a wood
India has made khus attar for centuries, distilled into sandalwood oil in Kannauj. A vetiver lover should be buying from people who do that.
Buy khus elsewhere
The nearest honest thing in our range is Adaa — dry, cool and unsweet — but it is cedar and musk, not vetiver, and it will not satisfy someone who wants the root.
Adjacent, not equal
Losing this sale is the correct outcome. A rose-sandalwood attar sold to someone searching for vetiver is a failure, not a conversion.
We would rather lose it
No. SOSA makes no vetiver attar, no vetiver solid and no vetiver personal fragrance of any kind.
No vetiver attar
There is a SOSA vetiver car perfume. It is a car product, formulated for a hot enclosed cabin, and it does not go on skin.
Car only
Vetiver is not a wood. It is the root of a grass — khus — and it smells of cool wet earth, green smoke and a little bitterness.
A root, not a wood
India has made khus attar for centuries, distilled into sandalwood oil in Kannauj. A vetiver lover should be buying from people who do that.
Buy khus elsewhere
The nearest honest thing in our range is Adaa — dry, cool and unsweet — but it is cedar and musk, not vetiver, and it will not satisfy someone who wants the root.
Adjacent, not equal
Losing this sale is the correct outcome. A rose-sandalwood attar sold to someone searching for vetiver is a failure, not a conversion.
We would rather lose it
✓ Four woods, not one — cedar, sandalwood, oud and vetiver behave differently ✓ Alcohol-free, DPG-free, dab applicator · 3ml from ₹379 · 6–8 hours on skin ✓ We will tell you when SOSA does not make the wood you are asking for
Founder Diaries · Woody fragrance
What about the vetiver car perfume? It is a car product. It is not formulated for skin and we will not recommend it as one.
What should I buy instead? A khus attar from a house that distils one — India has made them for centuries — or a vetiver eau de parfum from a Western house.
Is anything here close? Adaa is dry, cool and unsweet, but it is cedar and white musk. Adjacent is not the same as equivalent.
AdaaFrom ₹379Before you go shopping, check which part of it you love. If the answer is the coolness and the absence of sweetness, several dry woody fragrances will satisfy you and Adaa at ₹379 is one of them. If the answer is the earth — wet soil, roots, the smell after rain — nothing but vetiver will do, and you should stop reading our range pages. If the answer is the smoke, you may actually want a burnt-wood accord rather than a root at all. These three briefs go to three different shops.
Adaa · daytimeFrom ₹379Shop → Nawaab · eveningFrom ₹399Shop → Pack of 3 · try the rangeFrom ₹1,055Shop →
SOSA products & prices (verified September 2026): Attars (concentrated perfume oil, alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, dab applicator): Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149; Ameeri 3ml ₹385 · 6ml ₹679 · 12ml ₹1,165; Mastani 3ml ₹389 · 6ml ₹685 · 12ml ₹1,179; Nawaab 3ml ₹399 · 6ml ₹699 · 12ml ₹1,199; Pack of 3 (Ameeri, Nawaab, Mastani) 3ml ₹1,055 · 6ml ₹1,859 · 12ml ₹3,189. Solid body perfumes (15g balm): Sway ₹459 · Sterling ₹469 · Velour ₹479 · Lust ₹479 · Desire ₹489 · Siren ₹489 · titan ₹500 · Fire ₹509 · Storm ₹529. Carried on sandalwood oil and jojoba, hand-blended in Pune by an ISIPCA Versailles-trained perfumer; 6–8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. Fragrance sensitivity is individual — patch-test if your skin reacts to new products. Prices and availability subject to change — see the live product pages.
No. SOSA does not make a vetiver attar, a vetiver solid perfume, or any vetiver personal fragrance at all. There is one vetiver product in the house and it is a car perfume — a different category entirely, formulated for a hot enclosed cabin rather than for skin, and not something we are going to suggest you dab on your wrist. If vetiver is genuinely the note you want, you should buy it from a house that makes one, and this page will tell you what to look for. That answer costs us the sale, and it is the only version of this page worth publishing — because vetiver is a specific, unmistakable material and nothing else in our range is a substitute for it.
Quick answers — read this first
Does SOSA make a vetiver attar? No. No attar, no solid, no wearable vetiver of any kind.What about the vetiver car perfume? It is a car product. It is not formulated for skin and we will not recommend it as one.
What should I buy instead? A khus attar from a house that distils one — India has made them for centuries — or a vetiver eau de parfum from a Western house.
Is anything here close? Adaa is dry, cool and unsweet, but it is cedar and white musk. Adjacent is not the same as equivalent.
The short answer
Short answer: No. There is no vetiver attar in the SOSA range, no vetiver solid perfume, and no vetiver in any product you can wear. The only vetiver item we make is a car perfume, which is a different product category, is formulated for a hot enclosed cabin and is not for skin.
What to buy instead: A proper khus attar. India has distilled vetiver roots into sandalwood oil for centuries — the traditional centre for it is Kannauj — and a well-made khus is one of the great Indian fragrances. If you prefer Western perfumery, vetiver is a mainstay there too and there are excellent vetiver eaux de parfum. Either way, buy from someone who specialises in it.
Is anything in our range close? Not really, and it is worth being exact about why. Adaa (3ml ₹379) has a cedarwood and white musk base, which gives you the dry, cool, unsweet end of the woody family. What it does not give you is the rooty, earthy, green-smoky quality that is the entire point of vetiver. If that quality is what you are after, Adaa will disappoint you and we would rather say so now.
In this guide
Straight answer
Does SOSA make a vetiver attar?
1. No, and there is no qualified version of that answer. There is no vetiver attar in the SOSA range. There is no vetiver solid perfume. There is no vetiver hiding as a supporting note in Adaa, Ameeri, Nawaab or Mastani, and there is none in the titan, Siren, Sterling or Beast solids. The only product in this house that contains vetiver is a car perfume, and a car perfume is not a personal fragrance. It is formulated for a hot enclosed cabin and a completely different set of performance and safety requirements, and no amount of enthusiasm for the note makes it appropriate to put on your skin. We will not recommend it for that, and you should be sceptical of anyone who does.
2. What vetiver actually is, since we owe you the education even without the sale. Vetiver is the root system of a tall tropical grass — khus in India, Chrysopogon zizanioides in the literature. The roots are dug, washed, dried and distilled, and what comes out is a dense, dark, viscous oil dominated by heavy alcohols and ketones with names like khusimol and vetiverol. It is not a wood at all, though it is filed with them because it behaves like one in a composition: heavy, slow, structural, long-lasting. What it smells of is cool wet earth, green smoke, a little bitterness, and something faintly nutty underneath — and on skin it has a genuine cooling quality that is one of the reasons khus screens and khus sharbat exist in Indian summers.
3. Why it cannot be substituted, which is the whole argument of this page. Every other material in the woody family is warm or dry or dense. Vetiver is the only one that is cool and earthy, and that quality is unmistakable to anyone who has worn it. A person who asks for vetiver and is handed cedar gets dryness without earth. Handed sandalwood, they get creaminess, which is the opposite. Handed oud, they get density and resin. None of these is close, and the standard trade practice of pointing a vetiver customer at the nearest woody thing in stock is a way of making a sale rather than answering a question.
4. So buy a khus attar, and here is what to look for. India has been distilling vetiver into sandalwood oil for centuries; the traditional centre of that craft is Kannauj, and a properly made khus attar — sometimes sold as ruh khus — is one of the great fragrances of the subcontinent. When you buy one, look for the distillation origin, ask whether the carrier is sandalwood oil or a neutral base, and expect the good ones to be dark and viscous rather than pale. Haitian vetiver tends to be smokier and cleaner, Java vetiver heavier and more roasted, Indian khus greener and more earthy. If you prefer an alcohol format, vetiver is also a pillar of Western perfumery and there are excellent eaux de parfum built on it.
5. And the nearest honest thing we have, described accurately. Adaa (3ml ₹379) has cedarwood and white musk in its base under bergamot, green cardamom and neroli. It occupies the same region as vetiver — dry, cool, unsweet, gender-neutral, office-safe — and it is what we would hand someone who liked the coolness of vetiver but not the earth. It is not a vetiver substitute and we will not describe it as one. If the rooty, wet-soil quality is the part you love, Adaa is the wrong purchase and the right advice is the one at the top of this page.
2. What vetiver actually is, since we owe you the education even without the sale. Vetiver is the root system of a tall tropical grass — khus in India, Chrysopogon zizanioides in the literature. The roots are dug, washed, dried and distilled, and what comes out is a dense, dark, viscous oil dominated by heavy alcohols and ketones with names like khusimol and vetiverol. It is not a wood at all, though it is filed with them because it behaves like one in a composition: heavy, slow, structural, long-lasting. What it smells of is cool wet earth, green smoke, a little bitterness, and something faintly nutty underneath — and on skin it has a genuine cooling quality that is one of the reasons khus screens and khus sharbat exist in Indian summers.
3. Why it cannot be substituted, which is the whole argument of this page. Every other material in the woody family is warm or dry or dense. Vetiver is the only one that is cool and earthy, and that quality is unmistakable to anyone who has worn it. A person who asks for vetiver and is handed cedar gets dryness without earth. Handed sandalwood, they get creaminess, which is the opposite. Handed oud, they get density and resin. None of these is close, and the standard trade practice of pointing a vetiver customer at the nearest woody thing in stock is a way of making a sale rather than answering a question.
4. So buy a khus attar, and here is what to look for. India has been distilling vetiver into sandalwood oil for centuries; the traditional centre of that craft is Kannauj, and a properly made khus attar — sometimes sold as ruh khus — is one of the great fragrances of the subcontinent. When you buy one, look for the distillation origin, ask whether the carrier is sandalwood oil or a neutral base, and expect the good ones to be dark and viscous rather than pale. Haitian vetiver tends to be smokier and cleaner, Java vetiver heavier and more roasted, Indian khus greener and more earthy. If you prefer an alcohol format, vetiver is also a pillar of Western perfumery and there are excellent eaux de parfum built on it.
5. And the nearest honest thing we have, described accurately. Adaa (3ml ₹379) has cedarwood and white musk in its base under bergamot, green cardamom and neroli. It occupies the same region as vetiver — dry, cool, unsweet, gender-neutral, office-safe — and it is what we would hand someone who liked the coolness of vetiver but not the earth. It is not a vetiver substitute and we will not describe it as one. If the rooty, wet-soil quality is the part you love, Adaa is the wrong purchase and the right advice is the one at the top of this page.
TL;DR: no. SOSA makes no vetiver attar, no vetiver solid and no wearable vetiver at all — only a vetiver car perfume, which is a car product and not for skin. Vetiver is the root of a grass, cool and earthy, and nothing in our range substitutes for it. Buy a khus attar from a house that distils one, or a vetiver eau de parfum. Adaa (from ₹379) is dry and cool but it is cedar and musk, not vetiver.
The closest thing we have to earth
titan solid perfume ₹500
One product here comes near vetiver from a different direction. titan is a 15g solid balm of Arabica coffee, burnt wood and black pepper over frankincense resin and warm cedar smoke — ₹500, alcohol-free, 6–8 hours, heat-stable. If what you liked about vetiver was the green smoke rather than the wet soil, this reaches some of the same ground by way of burnt wood and resin. If what you liked was the earth, it does not, and you should not buy it.
What vetiver is, and why perfumers value it so highly
Vetiver is one of the few materials that is simultaneously a top-quality raw ingredient, a fixative and a structural element. It lasts for days on a blotter, it holds lighter materials in place, and it has enough internal complexity to carry a fragrance on its own — which is why vetiver soliflores exist and cedar soliflores mostly do not. It is also one of the very few perfumery materials that reads as cool rather than warm, and that single property makes it indispensable in hot climates and in any composition that needs to avoid feeling heavy. There is a reason it has been used in Indian summer for centuries, from woven khus screens hung in doorways to the drink.
The material varies enormously by origin, which is worth knowing before you spend. Haitian vetiver is generally the cleanest and smokiest and is the one most Western fragrances are built on. Java vetiver is heavier, darker and more roasted. Indian khus is greener and more overtly earthy, closer to the smell of wet soil after the first rain, and it is the version most Indian noses actually recognise. So "vetiver" on a label tells you less than you would like, and two vetiver fragrances can smell as different from each other as two cedars do. If you have loved one vetiver and disliked another, you were probably meeting two different origins rather than being inconsistent.
The three decisions for someone who wants vetiver
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DECISION ONE · CONFIRM IT IS ACTUALLY VETIVER
Half of vetiver requests are something else
AdaaFrom ₹379Before you go shopping, check which part of it you love. If the answer is the coolness and the absence of sweetness, several dry woody fragrances will satisfy you and Adaa at ₹379 is one of them. If the answer is the earth — wet soil, roots, the smell after rain — nothing but vetiver will do, and you should stop reading our range pages. If the answer is the smoke, you may actually want a burnt-wood accord rather than a root at all. These three briefs go to three different shops.
Quick test: if the phrase "smells like the ground after rain" is a compliment in your mouth, you want real vetiver and no substitute will do.
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DECISION TWO · KHUS OR WESTERN VETIVER
Two traditions, two very different products
An Indian khus attar is distilled from the roots into a sandalwood or neutral base, is dark and viscous, and is worn close to the skin for many hours — greener and earthier than most people expect. A Western vetiver eau de parfum is usually built on Haitian material, is cleaner and smokier, and projects in a way no oil does. Choose the tradition before you choose the bottle, because they are not competing versions of the same thing. A person who buys a khus expecting a crisp Western vetiver will be disappointed, and the reverse is equally true.
What we would not do: take your vetiver search and quietly answer it with a rose sandalwood attar because it is also filed under woody.
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DECISION THREE · WHAT TO DO WITH THE CAR PERFUME QUESTION
It comes up, so here is the answer
People who discover that SOSA makes a vetiver car perfume sometimes ask whether they could just wear it. The answer is no. Car fragrance is formulated for a hot enclosed cabin and a hard surface, on a different set of assumptions from anything intended for skin, and a perfumer who tells you otherwise is selling rather than advising. It is also beside the point: it would not give you the experience of a khus attar even if it were appropriate. Buy a personal fragrance made as a personal fragrance, from someone who makes vetiver ones.
The four woods, and where each one is in the SOSA range
The row that matters on this page is the fourth one. We have printed the whole table so you can see exactly how little of it we can offer a vetiver lover.
The woody family
Four woods, and the one we do not make
| The wood | What it actually smells like | Where it is in the SOSA range |
|---|---|---|
| Vetiver (rooty, earthy) ★ | a grass root rather than a wood at all — earthy, smoky-green, slightly bitter, cooling on skin; grouped with woods because it behaves like one in a composition | nothing wearable. SOSA makes a vetiver car perfume and nothing else with vetiver in it. There is no vetiver attar and no vetiver solid |
| Cedar (dry wood) | dry, pencil-shaving, slightly pencil-box and slightly resinous — the driest of the common woods, with no creaminess and no sweetness of its own | a base note in Adaa, sitting under bergamot, cardamom and white musk; and as cedar smoke in the titan and Siren solid perfumes |
| Sandalwood (creamy wood) | creamy, milky, soft-edged, faintly lactonic — the opposite of dry; it rounds everything it is put beside and is the reason a woody fragrance can feel comforting rather than austere | Indian sandalwood in Ameeri, beside Taif rose; and Mysore sandalwood in Nawaab, beside white royal oud and Kashmir saffron. It is also the carrier oil under every SOSA attar |
| Oud / agarwood (dark wood) | dense, resinous, animalic at the edges, medicinal in some distillations — the heaviest wood in common use and the one most people either love immediately or find suffocating | white royal oud leads Nawaab; a soft oudh sits deep in Ameeri |
| Woody musk | not a wood and not quite a smell — a soft, warm, skin-like diffusion that makes everything above it read cleaner and last longer; "woody musk" means a musk with a dry woody facet rather than a powdery or soapy one | white musk with cedarwood in the Adaa base — the closest thing in the range to a clean woody-musk skin scent |
| Read the third column before the second. Four of the five entries above are notes SOSA uses, and one is a note SOSA does not make in any wearable form. We would rather lose the sale than sell you a rose-sandalwood attar because you searched for vetiver. The starred row is the one you came for and the one where the third column says nothing wearable. That is the honest shape of this page. | ||
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What we do have, for the reader who is now curious anyway
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The SOSA principle
Vetiver is the only common perfumery material that reads as cool.
Cedar is dry, sandalwood is creamy, oud is dense, amber is warm. Vetiver is cold and earthy, and that is exactly why nothing else in the woody family substitutes for it — and why we will not pretend otherwise to keep your order.
How to buy and wear a khus attar well, when you buy it elsewhere
Buy the smallest size and look at the oil. A good khus is dark — brown to almost black — and viscous enough to move slowly in the bottle. Pale, thin, bright-green oil usually means dilution or a reconstruction. Ask the seller about the distillation origin; Indian khus, Haitian and Java vetiver smell noticeably different and the good sellers will know which they have.
Use less than you think, and put it somewhere warm. Vetiver is a heavy, tenacious material and a khus attar is concentrated, so one small dab on the inner wrist or the hollow of the throat is a full application. Do not rub it in. Give it half an hour before you judge it: the first minutes of a root distillate can be surprisingly rough, and what settles afterwards is the fragrance you actually bought.
Expect it to persist rather than project, like any oil. An attar of any kind sits close to the skin for hours instead of filling a room — that is the format, not the material. If you want vetiver that announces itself from across a room, buy an alcohol-based vetiver eau de parfum instead, and treat the attar as the close-range version. Owning both is a perfectly sensible outcome and neither one is the compromise.
We would rather you bought a superb khus from someone else than a compromise from us.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
What to buy
The ladder on this page is upside down on purpose: the starred row is the one that sends you out of our shop, because that is the right answer to the question in the title.
The vetiver edit
What to buy when the note you want is one we do not make
| Buy | What it is | Wears | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaa | Cedarwood and white musk under a fresh top — if what you love about vetiver is the coolness and the absence of sweetness rather than the earth — dry, pale and unsweet, but cedar and white musk, not a root | 6–8 hours per dab | 3ml ₹379 |
| Nawaab | White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron — if the vetiver interest was really about depth and you would be happier with a dark wood — oud, Mysore sandalwood and saffron | 6–8 hours per dab | 3ml ₹399 |
| Ameeri | Taif rose over Indian sandalwood — if the warmth of an attar is what appeals and the specific note matters less than you thought — rose over Indian sandalwood | 6–8 hours per dab | 3ml ₹385 |
| titan (solid) | Burnt wood, black pepper, cedar smoke — if what you liked in vetiver was the green smoke rather than the wet soil — burnt wood, pepper and cedar smoke, in a solid | 6–8 hours | ₹500 |
| Buy nothing here ★ | ★ Buy a khus attar, or a vetiver eau de parfum, from a house that makes one. This is the correct answer for anyone who genuinely wants vetiver. We do not make one, our vetiver car perfume is not for skin, and every other row on this list is a substitute you did not ask for | Not our sale to make | ₹0 |
Honest notes before you buy: three things before you spend anything. First, “woody” is four different smells wearing one word. Dry woods (cedar) are pale and unsweet; creamy woods (sandalwood) are soft and milky; dark woods (oud) are dense and resinous; and vetiver is not a wood at all but a root that behaves like one. People who say they love woody perfume and then dislike everything we suggest have almost always fallen into the gap between two of those four. Work out which one you mean before you buy, and the purchase gets easy. Second, an attar persists rather than projects. There is no alcohol to launch it, so a SOSA attar sits close to the skin for six to eight hours instead of filling a room — if you want a woody scent noticed from across an office, an eau de parfum does that job better and we will say so. Third, we do not make every wood. There is no vetiver in any SOSA wearable and no cedar-led attar; cedar is a base note in Adaa and cedar smoke in the titan solid. Where the honest answer is that we have nothing for you, that is what the page will say. All SOSA attars are alcohol-free, DPG-free and IFRA-compliant, carried on sandalwood oil and jojoba, hand-blended in Pune, applied with a dab applicator rather than sprayed. Fragrance sensitivity is individual; patch-test if your skin reacts to new products. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The dry, cool end of the range
SOSA Adaa From ₹379
Adaa is the SOSA attar people mean when they say they want woody but light. Bergamot, green cardamom and neroli on top; jasmine sambac and magnolia through the middle; white musk and cedarwood underneath, which is where the woodiness actually lives. It reads as composed rather than sweet, wears equally on any skin, and is the lightest thing in the range. 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149, alcohol-free and DPG-free, 6–8 hours on skin.
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A note from Sonal
I love vetiver and I have not made one. Those two statements sit together uncomfortably and the honest reason is a matter of range-building rather than of principle: I built SOSA around sandalwood, rose, oud and jasmine, on a carrier of sandalwood oil and jojoba, and a khus does not fit that architecture without a great deal of rethinking. Rather than make a weak vetiver, I have made none. I would rather a customer bought a superb khus from someone in Kannauj than a compromised one from me.
What I will not do is what the trade usually does with this question, which is to answer a vetiver search with whatever woody thing is in stock. Somebody who asks for vetiver and leaves with Ameeri has been sold a rose-sandalwood attar, and they will notice within a day. The closest thing I have to the region is Adaa, and even that I would only offer to someone who tells me it was the coolness they liked, not the earth. If it is the earth, there is nothing here for you and I would rather say it in a page title than in an email after you have paid.
The one thing I would add, for anyone about to buy their first khus: buy small, and buy from someone who can tell you where the roots were distilled. The differences between Indian, Haitian and Java material are large enough that you can love one and dislike another, which is not inconsistency on your part. And if you come back to us afterwards for something else, that is a better relationship than the one that starts with a substitution. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Does SOSA make a vetiver attar?
No. There is no vetiver attar, no vetiver solid perfume and no vetiver in any SOSA product you can wear. The only vetiver item in the house is a car perfume, which is a different product category, is formulated for a hot enclosed cabin rather than for skin, and is not something we will recommend you apply to your body.
Can I wear the SOSA vetiver car perfume on my skin?
No, and we would say the same about any car fragrance. Car products are built on a different set of assumptions from personal fragrance — different concentration, different performance requirements, a hard surface and an enclosed hot cabin. It also would not give you what a khus attar gives you even if it were appropriate. Buy a personal fragrance made as one.
What should I buy instead of a SOSA vetiver attar?
A proper khus attar from a house that distils one — India has made them for centuries and the traditional centre is Kannauj — or a vetiver eau de parfum if you prefer an alcohol format and want projection. Look for a dark, viscous oil and ask about the distillation origin: Indian khus is greener and earthier, Haitian is cleaner and smokier, Java is heavier and more roasted.
Is anything in the SOSA range similar to vetiver?
Adjacent, not similar. Adaa (3ml ₹379) has cedarwood and white musk in the base, which gives you the dry, cool, unsweet end of the woody family. What it does not have is the rooty, earthy, wet-soil quality that is the whole point of vetiver. If that is what you want, Adaa will disappoint you.
What does vetiver actually smell like?
Cool wet earth, green smoke, a slight bitterness and something faintly nutty underneath. It is the root of a tropical grass rather than a wood, though it is grouped with woods because it behaves like one — heavy, slow and structural. On skin it has a genuinely cooling quality, which is why khus has been used through Indian summers for centuries.
The answer is no
We do not make a vetiver attar — buy one from a house that does
SOSA attars hand-blended in Pune by an ISIPCA Versailles-trained perfumer, none of which contains vetiver: Adaa from ₹379 with cedarwood and white musk in the base; Ameeri from ₹385 on Taif rose and Indian sandalwood; Nawaab from ₹399 on white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and Kashmir saffron. The titan solid at ₹500 for burnt wood and cedar smoke. Alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, dab applicator, 6–8 hours on skin. Our only vetiver product is a car perfume and it is not for skin.
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Continue the read
More on the woody family
- What vetiver smells like — the note taught in full.
- Cedar vs vetiver — the two dry directions compared.
- Does SOSA make a cedar-led attar? — the other honest no.
- Vetiver as an office fragrance — if you buy one elsewhere.
- Brand: the SOSA founder story.
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body, on the woody fragrance family and what the SOSA range does and does not contain within it. Note descriptions and wear-time are SOSA’s own for the stated products; how any fragrance performs varies with skin chemistry, temperature and humidity. Fragrance sensitivity is individual and this is general guidance, not medical advice.SOSA products & prices (verified September 2026): Attars (concentrated perfume oil, alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, dab applicator): Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149; Ameeri 3ml ₹385 · 6ml ₹679 · 12ml ₹1,165; Mastani 3ml ₹389 · 6ml ₹685 · 12ml ₹1,179; Nawaab 3ml ₹399 · 6ml ₹699 · 12ml ₹1,199; Pack of 3 (Ameeri, Nawaab, Mastani) 3ml ₹1,055 · 6ml ₹1,859 · 12ml ₹3,189. Solid body perfumes (15g balm): Sway ₹459 · Sterling ₹469 · Velour ₹479 · Lust ₹479 · Desire ₹489 · Siren ₹489 · titan ₹500 · Fire ₹509 · Storm ₹529. Carried on sandalwood oil and jojoba, hand-blended in Pune by an ISIPCA Versailles-trained perfumer; 6–8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. Fragrance sensitivity is individual — patch-test if your skin reacts to new products. Prices and availability subject to change — see the live product pages.