Sandalwood vs Oud for Car Perfume India (Which Wood Wins in 2026?)

Founder Diaries · Car Fragrance · 2026

Two Indian woods, two philosophies, one closed cabin at 70°C. A perfumer's honest head-to-head of Mysore sandalwood and Aquilaria oud as car fragrances — cabin behaviour, projection ladder, who each suits, no-headache profile, longevity, scent-memory — and why most drivers end up wanting both.

By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA, Versailles-trained perfumer · Founder, SOSA Home & Body · Updated May 2026

TL;DR — the perfumer's verdict

I get a version of this question in my inbox almost every week: "I want a wood car perfume for my Indian cabin — do I go Sandalwood or Oud?" It is a fair question, and a slightly underrated one, because the two woods sit on opposite ends of the wood spectrum. Both survive the 70°C Indian cabin. Both are heat-stable in ways florals and gourmands can only dream of. Both are heritage Indian materials with deep cultural roots. But they are doing different jobs. Sandalwood is the calm, creamy, grounding wood — Mysore chandan, the smell of a prayer room. Oud is the resinous, luxurious, projecting wood — Arabic agarwood, the smell of an attar bazaar in old Delhi. Picking between them is not a quality choice; it is a personality choice.

This piece is my honest, perfumer-written head-to-head. I made both SOSA Sandalwood and SOSA Oud, so I have no incentive to push you toward one or the other. What I do want to do is tell you which wood suits which driver, where each one wins, where each one is the wrong call, and why the Sandalwood + Oud Combo (₹949) is genuinely our most-shipped wood pairing — because half the time the right answer is just both.

Sandalwood at a glance / Oud at a glance

Before the deep dive, here are the two woods side by side in plain terms — what each one is optimised for in an Indian car cabin.

The shape of the difference should already be visible. Sandalwood is the calmer, more universal wood — the one that suits the widest range of Indian drivers, especially anyone who has had a bad experience with strong fresheners. Oud is the louder, more luxurious wood — the one that suits the driver who has already done a few rounds of fragrance and wants something that feels like an event. Neither is wrong. They serve different cabin moods. The rest of this piece is about figuring out which mood is yours.

The big head-to-head table

Here is the full comparison across the dimensions that actually decide a wood car-perfume purchase in India. Both are SOSA products, both are tested to the same SOSA standard, both are hand-blended in Pune by an ISIPCA, Versailles-trained perfumer, so the spec rows are honest like-for-like.

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Where Sandalwood wins

Sandalwood is the wood I quietly recommend more often, simply because it suits more drivers. Here is where chandan genuinely beats oud in an Indian car cabin.

1 · The no-headache profile — the gentlest wood in perfumery

Real Indian sandalwood is one of the most well-behaved aromatic materials in the world. Its dominant santalol molecules are large, slow-evaporating sesquiterpene alcohols that release scent steadily rather than in spikes, and the wood lacks the high-pitched aldehydes that trigger sinus reactions. For headache-prone drivers, motion-sickness-sensitive passengers, kids in the back seat, pregnant partners, or anyone who has ever said "I can't sit in cars with strong fresheners," sandalwood is the safer first wood. It is the closest you can get to the SOSA no-headache ideal in a single ingredient. Oud is calibrated to be no-headache too, but it is intrinsically bolder.

2 · Universal cultural readability — chandan is pre-approved

Almost every Indian I have ever met has a chandan memory: a prayer room, a grandmother's puja box, a wedding ceremony, a freshly mixed sandalwood paste at a temple. That cultural pre-approval matters in a shared car. When you put a SOSA Sandalwood in the rear-view mirror, your passengers do not have to like an unfamiliar profile — they already know this smell, and they already associate it with calm and reverence. Oud is more polarising. Some passengers love it instantly; others find it too rich, too smoky, too "perfume-y." Sandalwood is the wood that gets passenger consensus the fastest.

3 · The quiet-luxury register — old money, not new

Quiet luxury is a real fragrance register. It means present, unmistakable, expensive-feeling, but never loud. Sandalwood does this better than almost any other material. A SOSA Sandalwood cabin smells like an executive boutique hotel lobby, or the inside of a well-kept luxury sedan that has had real wood trim aged in for ten years. It does not announce a brand or a budget. It just feels grown-up and considered. For the driver who reads quiet luxury as a positive value, this is the wood.

4 · Family-car friendliness — passenger consensus

If you drive a family car — kids in the back, in-laws on weekend trips, multiple opinions every commute — sandalwood gets consensus faster than oud. It is calming for anxious passengers, neutral enough for kids, culturally familiar for older relatives, and never strong enough to trigger the "can you turn that down" comment. Oud will get one or two strong reactions in a five-person cabin; sandalwood almost never does.

5 · The entry price — ₹479 vs ₹509

Sandalwood is ₹479, oud is ₹509. The ₹30 gap reflects raw-material cost (Aquilaria agarwood is one of the most expensive ingredients in perfumery) rather than any quality difference. But if you are buying your first wood hanging and have not yet decided whether wood fragrances are for you, sandalwood is the friendlier entry point. It is also the wood I recommend first to anyone moving up from a SOSA Lemon or Jasmine to their first wood scent. Once you know you love wood, the next step is usually Oud or the combo.

The honest summary on Sandalwood: if your decision is driven by no-headache safety, universal cultural readability, quiet luxury, family-car consensus or first-wood entry price, Sandalwood is the right wood. It is the wood I would put in your car if you asked me to pick one and one only without asking any follow-up questions. See our full best sandalwood car perfume India pillar for the deep sandalwood-only treatment.

Where Oud wins

And now the other side — equally honest. Oud is not the safer wood; it is the more interesting one. It wins on everything sandalwood deliberately does not try to do.

1 · Projection and presence — the most cinematic SOSA scent

Oud is the loudest of the eight SOSA car perfumes by design. Its resin compounds are dense, persistent and built to fill an enclosed space the way a heavy attar fills a room. You open your car door after a SOSA Oud has been hanging for a day, and the scent walks out to greet you. For drivers who genuinely want their cabin to announce itself — who want fragrance as a sensory event rather than an ambient background — oud is the wood. Sandalwood will never give you that announcement. It is built to whisper. Oud is built to greet.

2 · Luxury signalling — Arabic five-star register

If quiet luxury is sandalwood's territory, projected luxury is oud's. A SOSA Oud cabin smells like the lobby of a high-end Arabic hotel, a private members' club, a luxury attar bazaar in old Hyderabad or Lucknow. It is the wood that signals you have arrived rather than the wood that signals you have always been here. For drivers of luxury sedans and gentleman SUVs, or for executives who want the car to match their formal attar or oud-based fine fragrance, this is the wood. See also our best executive car perfume piece for the wider executive context.

3 · Evening and night drives — the formal hour wood

Sandalwood is daytime. Oud is night. The warming resin character feels exactly right after dark, on the highway, on the way to a formal dinner, at the end of a long working day when you want the cabin to feel like a reward. There is a reason traditional Arabic fragrance culture leans heavily into oud for evening occasions and into lighter citrus for daytime. The same logic applies in your car. Many of our customers report that after they buy the combo, they unconsciously rotate — sandalwood through the morning week, oud on Friday and Saturday evenings.

4 · Highway tenacity — the six-hour-drive wood

For long highway runs, oud has a small but real advantage. Its resin density gives it more perceptible base through hours two, three, four and beyond of a long drive, where sandalwood can fade slightly into the cabin background. If you spend a lot of time on long winding-road drives or you regularly run SUV highway distance, oud will reward you more across the trip. Sandalwood will still be there, but oud will feel more there.

5 · Scent-memory and personality — the wood you do not forget

Oud makes a stronger memory imprint. A passenger who has been in your car for thirty minutes will remember a SOSA Oud cabin a week later. They might remember a SOSA Sandalwood cabin too, but more as a feeling of calm than as a specific scent. If you want your car to be memorable as your car, oud is the answer. It also reads as a more mature, sophisticated and confident scent profile — for drivers who have moved past needing the wood to be friendly and are ready for the wood to be itself.

The honest summary on Oud: if your decision is driven by projection, luxury signalling, evening/night-drive feel, highway tenacity or memorable scent-personality, Oud is the wood. It is the more confident, more dramatic, more luxurious of the two — the wood for the driver who already knows what they want.

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SVG chart — eight cabin dimensions

Here is the head-to-head drawn on a single chart. The muted-tan bar is Sandalwood; the espresso bar is Oud. Higher is "more of that dimension" rather than "better" — because higher projection is sometimes wrong and lower projection is sometimes right. Read each row by what you actually want in your cabin.

Reading the chart: Sandalwood leads on no-headache, family-car consensus, universal readability and cost-per-month value. Oud leads on projection, luxury signalling, evening feel and highway tenacity. Both are essentially tied on 70°C cabin stability (because both are built on heat-stable heavy molecules — the whole reason we picked these woods). The split is precisely the wood-vs-wood split, drawn out.

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The cost-per-month argument

Both woods last up to 2.5 months per 12ml hanging. That means SOSA Sandalwood (₹479) works out to roughly ₹192 per month of real Indian chandan, and SOSA Oud (₹509) works out to roughly ₹204 per month of naturally-derived agarwood. The cost-per-month gap is ₹12. Practically a rounding error. Compare that to a typical ₹200-₹300 mass-market vent clip or gel can that runs a 30-day refill cycle — you are paying the same per month, or more, for a single-molecule synthetic version of the same scent family with none of the climate testing, no named perfumer, no published carrier and no documented 70°C survival.

The Combo math is even friendlier. The Sandalwood + Oud Combo at ₹949 saves you ₹39 versus buying both separately (₹479 + ₹509 = ₹988), and gives you up to five months of total rotation. That works out to roughly ₹190 per month across the pair — the same per-month price as Sandalwood alone, with two woods to swap between. For drivers who want to skip the decision entirely, that is the value play. See our deeper long-lasting car perfume piece for the full cost-per-month framework.

Five ways a cheap wood freshener fails in Indian cars

If you have ever bought a "sandalwood" or "oud" hanging from a petrol pump or kirana shop and been disappointed within a week, this is why. The failure modes are the same whichever wood is on the label, and they are exactly what SOSA was built to avoid.

Founder note — why I built both

When I was building out the SOSA car range after coming back to Pune from ISIPCA in Versailles, the wood question was one of the first I had to settle. India is a wood country. Chandan is in our temples and our wedding rituals. Oud is in our luxury attars and our Mughal heritage. I knew I had to do both, and I knew they had to behave differently from the synthetic "sandalwood" and "oud" stickers that dominate the petrol-pump shelf.

Sandalwood came first. I built it around real Indian Santalum album material because nothing else smells like chandan, and because I needed a wood that any Indian driver could live with for 2.5 months without complaint. It had to pass the SOSA No-Headache Calibration, the 70°C Cabin Test, and an unscientific test I run quietly on every scent: "would my own mother be happy sitting in a car with this for two hours?" Sandalwood passed all three. It is the wood I quietly recommend more often, simply because it is harder to get wrong.

Oud came next. I built it because I have customers who already love agarwood — they wear oud attars, they own oud fine fragrances, they want the cabin to match the rest of their wardrobe — and they deserve a real, naturally-derived oud rather than a hookah-lounge approximation. SOSA Oud is the answer to that brief. It is louder, more dramatic, more polarising than sandalwood by design, and it is exactly right for the drivers who want that. It also passes the 70°C Cabin Test, the No-Headache Calibration and the mother test, but it is the wood for the driver who has already done a few rounds of fragrance and knows their cabin should make a statement.

The honest truth is that most of our wood-buying customers eventually end up with both. They buy Sandalwood first, fall in love, and come back six weeks later for Oud. Or they buy Oud first, love it for evenings, and come back for Sandalwood for the daily commute. The Combo at ₹949 just lets you do that in one transaction and save ₹39 in the process. I built it for the customer who already knows themselves well enough to skip the choice.

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— Sonal Sahani, Founder & Perfumer, SOSA Home & Body · ISIPCA, Versailles-trained · Pune, May 2026. SOSA Sandalwood and SOSA Oud are independently developed, hand-blended in Pune, IFRA-compliant and phthalate-free. SOSA is independent and all trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Who this comparison is really for

• The Indian driver who knows they want a wood scent but is stuck between sandalwood and oud
• The luxury sedan owner trying to decide between quiet luxury (sandalwood) and projected luxury (oud)
• The SUV or Thar driver who wants a bigger, more cinematic cabin scent
• The headache-prone or motion-sickness-prone driver who needs the gentler wood
• The family-car commuter who needs passenger consensus more than they need scent drama
• The oud wardrobe owner whose attars and fine fragrances are agarwood-based and wants the car to match
• The gifter choosing a single wood hanging for someone whose taste they do not fully know yet
• The driver who already owns SOSA Lemon and is ready to layer a real wood on top

Final verdict — which wood wins in 2026?

The answer is rarely a single wood. For most Indian drivers in 2026, SOSA Sandalwood (₹479) is the right first wood — gentle, universal, calming, family-car friendly, hotel-lobby quiet, and impossible to get wrong. It is the wood I would put in your car if you let me pick one without asking any questions. For drivers who already love agarwood, drive luxury SUVs, want their cabin to project, or do a lot of evening driving, SOSA Oud (₹509) is the right wood — bold, formal, Arabic-luxury, the cinematic option.

But the most honest answer, and the way most of our wood customers end up shopping, is to take both. The Sandalwood + Oud Combo (₹949) gives you up to five months of rotation, saves you ₹39 versus separate hangings, and resolves the wood-vs-wood question by removing it. Sandalwood for the morning commute. Oud for the Friday-night drive. That is not a compromise; that is the actual luxury of owning both registers of Indian wood and getting to choose by mood. Whichever you go with, you will be driving a 70°C-tested, phthalate-free, IFRA-compliant, real-essential-oil hanging composed by an ISIPCA, Versailles-trained perfumer and lasting up to 2.5 months per bottle — the SOSA standard, calibrated for Indian cabins.

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Frequently asked questions

Sandalwood vs Oud for a car perfume in India — which wins in 2026?

For most drivers, Sandalwood wins on first purchase. SOSA Sandalwood (₹479) is the easier, friendlier, more universally readable wood. It survives a 70°C cabin, calms the nervous system without sedating, and never feels too formal for a daily commute. Oud is the bigger, more dramatic, more polarising wood. SOSA Oud (₹509) is for the driver who already loves agarwood and wants their car to feel like an Arabic boutique hotel. The honest answer, and what we actually ship most often, is to skip the choice with the Sandalwood + Oud Combo (₹949) — Sandalwood for daytime and city traffic, Oud for evening and highway, swapped by mood.

What is the difference between sandalwood and oud in perfumery?

Sandalwood is the heartwood of Santalum album, the classical Mysore chandan tree, dominated by santalol molecules that smell creamy, milky, buttery, calmly warm and grounded. Oud (also called agarwood or oudh) is the resinous, infected heartwood of Aquilaria trees, produced when the tree responds to fungal injury by saturating its core with dark aromatic resin. Sandalwood smells like a prayer room, a cashmere shawl, a freshly drawn chandan paste. Oud smells like an Arabic palace lobby, smoky animal leather, deep balsamic resin. Sandalwood is the calmer wood; oud is the louder, more luxurious, more polarising one.

Which wood handles a 70°C Indian car cabin better — sandalwood or oud?

Both survive 70°C beautifully because both are built on heavy, slow-evaporating molecules. Sandalwood's santalols and oud's sesquiterpene resin compounds are some of the most heat-stable materials in perfumery, which is exactly why we pick these woods for Indian cabins and why florals and gourmands collapse at the same temperature. In our SOSA 70°C Cabin Test both score in the top tier. Sandalwood holds its creamy character more linearly; oud's resin actually deepens and gets richer through the heat cycle, which some drivers love and a few find too much. Either way you are not buying a wood that is going to turn sour in May.

Which is more no-headache friendly — sandalwood or oud?

Sandalwood is the safer no-headache pick. Real Indian sandalwood is one of the gentlest materials in perfumery and almost never triggers sinus reactions or migraines on its own. Oud is heavier, more projecting, more resinous and slightly more polarising for sensitive noses, especially in a closed AC cabin. Both SOSA Sandalwood and SOSA Oud are built through our No-Headache Calibration with low-projection dosing, real essential oils, a phthalate-free CCT carrier and IFRA-compliant strength, so neither is harsh in the way a typical synthetic freshener can be. But if your passenger is genuinely fragrance-sensitive, start with Sandalwood and add Oud later for solo evening drives.

Which projects more in a closed car cabin — sandalwood or oud?

Oud projects significantly more. Oud is built on dense resin compounds that fill a small enclosed space the way a heavy attar fills a room — you walk into a SOSA Oud cabin and the scent announces itself within seconds. Sandalwood projects far more quietly. It is present in the cabin you are sitting in, unmistakable when you open the door after parking, but it does not push itself forward. On a projection ladder from 1 to 10, SOSA Sandalwood sits around 4 (calm, ambient), SOSA Oud sits around 7.5 (rich, present, formal). For drivers who want their car to smell like an event, Oud. For drivers who want their car to smell like a quiet luxury hotel lobby, Sandalwood.

Who is sandalwood car perfume best for?

Sandalwood suits four drivers especially well. One: the everyday commuter who wants a calm, grown-up cabin without the scent shouting. Two: the spiritual driver who reads chandan as prayer-room peace. Three: the anxiety-prone or traffic-stressed commuter who needs the nervous system steadied without going sleepy. Four: the mixed-passenger family car where everyone has to agree. It is the safer first wood for anyone moving up from a citrus or floral. SOSA Sandalwood is calibrated as a soft, sophisticated unisex scent that suits executive women and men equally.

Who is oud car perfume best for?

Oud suits four drivers especially well. One: the luxury-sedan or SUV driver who wants the cabin to feel like an Arabic five-star hotel. Two: the evening and night driver who wants something formal and warming after dark. Three: the confident dresser who already wears agarwood attars or oud-based fine fragrances and wants the car to match. Four: the long highway driver who wants a deeply persistent base that holds through six-hour runs. SOSA Oud (₹509) is the answer for that driver — refined Arabic profile, naturally-derived, calibrated for Indian cabins.

Which lasts longer in a 12ml hanging — sandalwood or oud?

Both SOSA hangings are calibrated to last up to 2.5 months per 12ml bottle through our published 70°C cabin testing, real essential oils and phthalate-free CCT carrier. In practice oud's heavier, denser molecular profile gives it a slightly longer perceptible tail, while sandalwood's tail is softer and more even across the bottle. The headline number for both is the same 2.5 months. Cost-per-month works out to roughly ₹192 for Sandalwood (₹479 ÷ 2.5) and ₹204 for Oud (₹509 ÷ 2.5), so the value gap is essentially a rounding error.

Sandalwood is cheaper than oud — does that mean it is worse?

No. Oud (₹509) costs ₹30 more than Sandalwood (₹479) because agarwood is one of the most expensive raw materials in perfumery — wild Aquilaria is rarer than wild Santalum album and the resin-forming process is slow and unpredictable. The price difference reflects raw-material cost, not a quality verdict. Both are built to the same SOSA standard — IFRA-compliant, phthalate-free, low-VOC, 70°C cabin-tested, hand-blended in Pune by an ISIPCA, Versailles-trained perfumer. Sandalwood is not a lesser wood. It is a different wood, with a different job, at a friendlier entry price.

Which wood pairs better with a lemon or fresh car perfume?

Sandalwood is the easier pairing with citrus. Sandalwood plus Lemon becomes a creamy-citrus cologne effect, bright on top and grounded underneath, beautiful for morning commutes. Oud plus Lemon is more dramatic — it becomes a smoky Arabic cologne, oud underneath and bright lemon cutting through it, which is exactly what the Oud + Lemon Combo (₹949) is built for. If you already have a SOSA Lemon hanging, layer Sandalwood for daily calm or Oud for evening drama. Either works; they just work differently.

Does oud car perfume smell like a hookah or smoky cabin?

No. Cheap synthetic oud accords smell like a hookah lounge — burnt, acrid, smoky-plasticky — because they over-dose one or two resin molecules to fake the depth. Real naturally-derived oud is smoky in the way a fine leather is smoky: warm, balsamic, deeply resinous, animal but not aggressive. SOSA Oud is built on naturally-derived agarwood material with our No-Headache Calibration, so it smells like an Arabic luxury hotel lobby, not a smoking room. If you have only smelled cheap synthetic oud before, the SOSA version will reset your expectations.

Is sandalwood or oud better for monsoon driving in India?

Both excel in monsoon, for opposite reasons. Sandalwood's creamy santalols actually deepen in 80% humidity, smelling slightly milkier and more comforting when paired with the smell of wet earth through the AC vents. Oud's resin compounds get richer and more luxurious in humid conditions, which is part of why agarwood is so historically tied to humid tropical climates in Southeast Asia. In our SOSA Indian Driving Index monsoon panel, Sandalwood is the gentler monsoon pick and Oud is the more dramatic. Either works; neither thins out the way citrus can.

Sandalwood vs oud for a luxury sedan or SUV — which is more premium?

Both read as premium, but they signal different kinds of luxury. Sandalwood reads as quiet luxury — old money, hotel-lobby calm, considered. Oud reads as projected luxury — Arabic five-star, formal, present. For a Mercedes S-Class or a quiet executive ride, Sandalwood. For a BMW X5, a Range Rover, a Thar or a Fortuner where the cabin wants presence, Oud. For a luxury sedan owner who wants both registers available, the Sandalwood + Oud Combo (₹949) lets you swap by occasion. See our luxury gentleman car perfume and best executive car perfume pieces for the broader luxury context.

What is the SOSA No-Headache Calibration for these two woods?

The SOSA No-Headache Calibration is our deliberate, low-projection, real-ingredient formulation approach for the closed Indian cabin. For Sandalwood it means a calm chandan profile dosed below the cloying threshold, real Indian sandalwood material rather than a single synthetic santalol substitute, a phthalate-free CCT carrier and IFRA-compliant strength. For Oud it means using naturally-derived agarwood material instead of one or two over-dosed resin molecules that smell harsh, plus low-projection blending so the oud is present without flooding the cabin. Every batch of both passes our 70°C Cabin Test before shipping.

Can I use sandalwood in summer and oud in winter, or are both year-round?

Both are year-round in India. Both survive 70°C summer cabins, both deepen pleasantly in monsoon, both feel right in mild north-Indian winters. That said, many of our customers naturally drift toward Sandalwood in the hot months — the creamy calm reads as cooling in heat — and toward Oud in the cooler post-monsoon months and into winter, when the resin warmth feels right. Owning both lets you rotate by season, by time of day, by mood. The Sandalwood + Oud Combo (₹949) is the cleanest way to do that.

What does SOSA Sandalwood smell like in the first ten minutes?

Soft creamy chandan warmth, the smell of a freshly mixed sandalwood paste, with a slightly milky sweetness on top. It does not announce itself loudly. By the next morning it has settled into a quiet base note that you only really notice when you open the car door after parking. Most drivers describe it as smelling like an expensive boutique hotel lobby, a clean prayer room, or a luxury cashmere shawl.

What does SOSA Oud smell like in the first ten minutes?

Deep, resinous, warm, slightly smoky, with a balsamic richness that fills the cabin within minutes. There is a hint of leather and dark honey in the opening, a long quiet resin base underneath. Most drivers describe it as smelling like an Arabic five-star hotel lobby, a high-end attar bazaar, or a luxury leather workshop. It is the most cinematic of the eight SOSA scents.

Is the Sandalwood + Oud Combo better value than buying separately?

Yes. The Sandalwood + Oud Combo is ₹949, versus ₹479 + ₹509 = ₹988 buying the two hangings separately. You save ₹39, and you get two 12ml hangings (5 months of total scent rotation), so you can run one in the car and keep the other for a swap by mood, occasion or season. It is the single most popular wood pairing in the SOSA range and our most-bought way to skip the sandalwood-vs-oud choice altogether.

Related reading

• Ultimate Guide to Hanging Car Fresheners in India (car-fragrance pillar)
• SOSA Car Freshener Guide India 2026 — model-by-model pillar
• Every ingredient in a SOSA car freshener — full disclosure
• Best sandalwood car perfume in India — the complete 2026 guide
• Luxury gentleman car perfume India — the considered cabin
• Best executive car perfume India — the boardroom-to-car wood
• Best masculine car perfume India — the wood register guide
• Best car perfume for the confident Indian driver
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• SOSA Sandalwood + Oud Combo — ₹949
• SOSA Sandalwood Hanging Car Freshener — ₹479
• SOSA Oud Hanging Car Freshener — ₹509
• Founder story — Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles

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