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Should I buy a single versatile attar for professional use or keep separate fragrances for client meetings and after-work events?
This is an arithmetic question wearing a taste question's clothes, and the arithmetic is unusually friendly. The smallest published size is 3ml and it runs ₹379 to ₹399 across the four attars, which means two different attars cost ₹768 to ₹798 - less than a single 12ml bottle of any of them. The 3ml band is the whole reason two is a sensible answer here.
Answer in brief
- Is one attar or two the better buy? Two is cheaper than you think, which is the whole answer. Adaa 3ml at ₹379 plus Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 comes to ₹778, and a single 12ml of Adaa alone is ₹1,149. So two published occasion lines cost less than one large bottle.
- What does the second bottle actually buy me? A second published occasion line. Adaa publishes its occasion line as office hours, business lunches, daytime weddings, meetings and summer wear. Nawaab publishes its occasion line as weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. Those two lines divide a working week between them, and no single bottle in the range carries both sets of words.
- And if I want the cheapest route to one bottle? Adaa 3ml at ₹379 is the floor of the whole range. Per millilitre the 12ml works out cheaper, four times the oil at ₹1,149, and that is a straight division rather than an opinion.
The short answer
Buy two 3ml bottles. The 3ml band runs Rs 379 to Rs 399 across the four SOSA attars, so two different attars cost Rs 768 to Rs 798 - less than a single 12ml of any one of them, which run Rs 1,149 to Rs 1,199. Adaa 3ml at Rs 379 plus Nawaab 3ml at Rs 399 is Rs 778 and gives you both published work occasion lines: office hours, business lunches and meetings on one, boardrooms and important evenings on the other. One 12ml works out cheaper per millilitre.
Why this page says two: because the second bottle costs ₹379 to ₹399, not ₹1,149. If the smallest size in this range were 12ml, the honest answer would be to pick one and live with it. The 3ml band is what turns a choice into an addition, and that is arithmetic rather than salesmanship.
On this page
- The arithmetic, the occasion lines and the per-millilitre question
- One bottle or two, in published rupees
- The arithmetic, in four lines
- The two published occasion lines a working week splits across
- Questions people ask
Should I buy a single versatile attar for professional use, or keep separate fragrances for client meetings and after-work events?
The answer to this one is decided by a price and not by a scent, so let me do the arithmetic in front of you. The twelve published prices are these. Adaa is ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. Ameeri is ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165. Mastani is ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179. Nawaab is ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199. Now the comparison your question is really about. One 12ml bottle of Adaa is ₹1,149. Two 3ml bottles, one Adaa and one Nawaab, come to ₹778. Adaa 3ml plus Mastani 3ml comes to ₹768. Adaa 3ml plus Ameeri 3ml comes to ₹764. Every one of those pairs costs less than a single 12ml of any attar in the range, and all of them cost more than a single 6ml, which runs ₹669 to ₹699. So the real decision is not one against two. It is one large bottle against two small ones, and the 3ml band at ₹379 to ₹399 is what makes the second one affordable. What does the second bottle buy? A second published occasion line, which is the thing no amount of one bottle gives you. Adaa publishes its occasion line as office hours, business lunches, daytime weddings, meetings and summer wear. Nawaab publishes its occasion line as weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. Only two of the four occasion lines name work at all. Adaa prints office hours, business lunches and meetings; Nawaab prints boardrooms. Ameeri's line is festive and Mastani's is evening, and neither of those two names a working day anywhere. No line in the range names a profession. Read those two and you can see the split your question already assumed: one of them names the daytime and the other names the evening and the boardroom. Mastani publishes its occasion line as anniversaries, date nights, evening receptions and signature wear. Mastani is the other published evening line, with anniversaries, date nights and evening receptions in it, so if your after-work events are social rather than professional that is the second line to read. Now the per-millilitre side, because a total and a rate are different questions. Adaa at ₹1,149 for 12ml works out to the lowest price per millilitre in the range and Adaa at ₹379 for 3ml is the cheapest entry; those two facts are both true and they point in opposite directions. If you expect to wear one attar every day for a year, the 12ml is the arithmetic answer. If you want two published occasion lines on your shelf this month, two 3ml bottles are, and the pair costs less than the one. The Pack of 3 is ₹1,055 for 3ml bottles, ₹1,859 for 6ml and ₹3,189 for 12ml, and it holds Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani. Adaa is not in it. That last point matters for your question specifically: the nearest thing to a set in this range leaves out the one attar whose occasion line names office hours, so a reader buying for a working week usually ends up buying Adaa on its own. Adaa publishes Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli in its opening, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in its heart, and white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in its base. Adaa's published strength figure is 8.5, the lightest end of the range. Adaa carries 4.9 from 98 published customer reviews. Nawaab publishes Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom in its opening, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf in its heart, and amber, leather and white musk in its base. Nawaab's published strength figure is 9.5, the deepest in the SOSA attar range. Nawaab carries 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews. Those are customer reviews Sonal collated over WhatsApp, which is why I quote the count beside the figure rather than the figure on its own. All four publish the same wear time, 6 to 8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and nothing beyond that figure is published. SOSA publishes no projection figure and no sillage figure for any attar, so no page of mine will turn a strength figure into a distance. All four are the same format: a concentrated oil attar with a built-in dab applicator, carried in sandalwood oil and jojoba, alcohol-free and DPG-free. Your own employer's rule is the one that settles this, and it is the one thing here you have to check yourself. Sonal Sahani trained at ISIPCA, Versailles, she designs all four attars herself, and she signs off every small batch by hand in Pune. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The arithmetic, the occasion lines and the per-millilitre question
Three numbers settle this and none of them is a matter of taste. What two bottles cost, what the second one buys you, and which size costs less per millilitre once you have chosen.
What two cost - less than one 12ml, because the floor is Rs 379
The twelve published prices make this a short paragraph. Adaa 3ml at ₹379 plus Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 comes to ₹778. Adaa 3ml plus Mastani 3ml comes to ₹768. A single 12ml bottle is ₹1,149 for Adaa, ₹1,165 for Ameeri, ₹1,179 for Mastani and ₹1,199 for Nawaab. Two small bottles therefore cost less than one large one, every time, in every combination. That is the finding, and it is the reason this page answers two rather than one.
Adaa 3ml ₹379 plus Nawaab 3ml ₹399 is ₹778.
What the second one buys - a second published occasion line, which one bottle cannot give you
Only two of the four occasion lines name work at all. Adaa prints office hours, business lunches and meetings; Nawaab prints boardrooms. Ameeri's line is festive and Mastani's is evening, and neither of those two names a working day anywhere. No line in the range names a profession. Adaa publishes its occasion line as office hours, business lunches, daytime weddings, meetings and summer wear. Nawaab publishes its occasion line as weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. Mastani publishes its occasion line as anniversaries, date nights, evening receptions and signature wear. Three printed lines, and your question already split your week the way two of them do. There is no attar in the range whose single occasion line covers both a daytime desk and an important evening, so if you want both of those words on your shelf, you want two bottles. Adaa's published strength figure is 8.5, the lightest end of the range. Nawaab's published strength figure is 9.5, the deepest in the SOSA attar range. Adaa carries 4.9 from 98 published customer reviews. Nawaab carries 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews.
Value per millilitre - the opposite answer, and both are true
Divide the published prices by the published volumes and the 12ml wins every time: Adaa is ₹1,149 for 12ml against ₹379 for 3ml, so four times the oil for just over three times the money. That is straight division on published figures. So hold two facts together rather than choosing between them: the cheapest way into the range is a 3ml bottle, the lowest price per millilitre is a 12ml bottle, and the cheapest way to own two different occasion lines is two 3ml bottles. The Pack of 3 is ₹1,055 for 3ml bottles, ₹1,859 for 6ml and ₹3,189 for 12ml, and it holds Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani. Adaa is not in it.
Four times the oil for just over three times the money, at 12ml.
If the smallest bottle in this range were 12ml, the honest answer to your question would be to pick one and live with it. The 3ml band at ₹379 to ₹399 is what turns a choice into an addition, and it is the only reason this page says two.
Two 3ml bottles cost less than one 12ml, in every combination
The two published occasion lines a working week splits across
Adaa publishes its occasion line as office hours, business lunches, daytime weddings, meetings and summer wear. Adaa publishes Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli in its opening, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in its heart, and white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in its base. Adaa's mood line reads light, elegant, composed, distinctive without being loud. Adaa's published strength figure is 8.5, the lightest end of the range. It is ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. Adaa carries 4.9 from 98 published customer reviews. Nawaab publishes its occasion line as weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. Nawaab publishes Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom in its opening, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf in its heart, and amber, leather and white musk in its base. Nawaab's mood line reads regal, refined, long-wearing, never aggressive. Nawaab's published strength figure is 9.5, the deepest in the SOSA attar range. It is ₹399 for 3ml, ₹699 for 6ml and ₹1,199 for 12ml. Nawaab carries 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews. Those are the only two occasion lines in the range that name any part of a working week, they name different parts of it, and the pair of 3ml bottles that puts both on your shelf is ₹778.
Adaa 3ml ₹379 is the floor of the range; the 12ml at ₹1,149 works out cheaper per millilitre.
View SOSA AdaaOne bottle or two, in published rupees
| What you are deciding | What is actually published |
|---|---|
| Two 3ml bottles | Adaa ₹379 plus Nawaab ₹399 is ₹778. Adaa plus Mastani is ₹768. Adaa plus Ameeri is ₹764. Each pair is less than any single 12ml bottle in the range. |
| One 12ml bottle | Adaa ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹1,165, Mastani ₹1,179, Nawaab ₹1,199. Four times the oil of a 3ml for just over three times the money, which is the lowest price per millilitre in the range. |
| One 6ml bottle | Adaa ₹669, Ameeri ₹679, Mastani ₹685, Nawaab ₹699. Cheaper than any pair of 3ml bottles, and it leaves you with one published occasion line rather than two. |
| The Pack of 3 | ₹1,055 for three 3ml bottles, ₹1,859 at 6ml and ₹3,189 at 12ml. It holds Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and Adaa is not in it, so the office line has to be bought separately at ₹379. |
The two bottles this page has not put in the working pair are still worth their prices on the page, because an after-work event is not always a work event. Mastani publishes litchi, bergamot and pink pepper in its opening, night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose in its heart, and Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka bean in its base. Mastani's mood line reads sensual, romantic, never sweet, never sharp. Mastani publishes its occasion line as anniversaries, date nights, evening receptions and signature wear. Mastani's published strength figure is 9.2, the sensual depth end of the range. It is ₹389 for 3ml, ₹685 for 6ml and ₹1,179 for 12ml. Mastani carries 4.9 from 112 published customer reviews. Madagascar vanilla and tonka bean are published in Mastani's base and in no other pyramid in this range, so a reader who dislikes sweetness can rule one bottle out on published words and keep the other three. Ameeri publishes Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot in its opening, Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in its heart, and soft oudh, amber and white musk in its base. Ameeri's mood line reads warm, festive, opulent, never theatrical. Ameeri publishes its occasion line as Diwali, Eid, Karwa Chauth, family weddings and festive dinners. Ameeri's published strength figure is 9.0, the festive warm middle of the range. It is ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml and ₹1,165 for 12ml. Ameeri carries 4.9 from 104 published customer reviews. The strength figures are SOSA's own self-assigned scores out of ten, on a scale SOSA invented and nobody else uses: Adaa 8.5, Ameeri 9.0, Mastani 9.2 and Nawaab 9.5.
The second bottle costs ₹379 to ₹399, not ₹1,149. That one fact is the whole answer to whether you buy one attar or two.
The arithmetic, in four lines
- Note the floor: 3ml runs Rs 379 Adaa to Rs 399 Nawaab across the four.
- Add two: Adaa plus Nawaab is Rs 778, under any single 12ml in the range.
- Check what the second buys: a second published occasion line, not a mood.
- For value per ml, buy one 12ml: Adaa Rs 1,149 against Rs 379 for 3ml.
The product this page is about
SOSA Safar waterless car perfume diffuser
Twenty millilitre bottle, 2000 mAh battery, Type-C charging with the cable in the box, three speed settings and a one, two or three hour auto-off timer. Up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent per charge, 6.9 cm across. Waterless cold diffusion of pure fragrance oil: no water, no heat. It scents the air and does not humidify it.
Safar ₹3,999 · hotel-inspired variant ₹4,499
View SOSA SafarWhat SOSA will and will not tell you
The published figures on this page are the battery figures, the bottle size, the three speeds, the one, two and three hour timer and the prices. The oil-consumption rate is not published, so no refill interval and no running cost exist here. Everything about how a scent lands in your car is yours to test, because it depends on your nose and your driving.
From the founder
I am Sonal Sahani, and I compose every SOSA fragrance myself in Pune. I would rather tell you what we measure than guess at what we do not. If a number is not on the product page, you will not find it invented here.
The second bottle is Rs 399, not Rs 1,149
Adaa 3ml at ₹379 plus Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 comes to ₹778, which is less than one 12ml of either, and it puts both work occasion lines on a shelf.
The nine car scents
When the bottle runs dry
The 15ml hanging refills are ₹399 to ₹449 depending on the scent. Mysore Orange Blossom is a spray only and has no refill in that range.
See the 15ml refillsQuestions people ask
Is it cheaper to buy two 3ml attars or one 12ml?
Two 3ml bottles cost less in total. Adaa 3ml at Rs 379 plus Nawaab 3ml at Rs 399 comes to Rs 778, and the cheapest single 12ml in the range is Adaa at Rs 1,149. Per millilitre the 12ml costs less - four times the oil for just over three times the money - so the two answers are both true and answer different questions.
What does a second bottle actually give me?
A second published occasion line. Adaa's reads office hours, business lunches, daytime weddings, meetings and summer wear; Nawaab's reads weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. No single attar in the range carries both sets of words, so a working week that splits in two is a published reason to own two bottles.
Is there a trained perfumer behind this?
Sonal Sahani, who founded SOSA and trained as a perfumer at ISIPCA, Versailles. She composes all four attars herself, and every small batch is hand-blended in Pune and signed off by her before it goes out. The attar pages publish that training outright, which is the honest answer to why a hand-blended Pune attar is worth reading about at all.
Does the Pack of 3 solve this?
Partly, and you should know what it leaves out. The Pack of 3 is Rs 1,055 for three 3ml bottles, Rs 1,859 for 6ml and Rs 3,189 for 12ml, and it holds Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani. Adaa is not in it, and Adaa is the one attar whose occasion line names office hours, so a reader buying for a working week usually buys that bottle separately at Rs 379.
Which size should I start with?
The 3ml, at Rs 379 to Rs 399 depending on the attar, is the cheapest way to read a composition on your own skin. The 12ml, at Rs 1,149 to Rs 1,199, carries the lowest price per millilitre once you know which one you want. The published wear time is 6 to 8 hours on skin on every size, because the size does not change the formula.
Ask a person instead
If you would rather describe your car and your routine to someone, message SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. Bulk orders are welcome. A custom label or logo on the product is the branding option, and bespoke composition is a real service.
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Adaa ₹379 plus Nawaab ₹399 is ₹778 at 3ml, with 4.9 from 98 and 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
More on living with Safar
- The twelve published prices, read as arithmetic
- Why two 3ml bottles cost less than one 12ml
- The two occasion lines that name work
- What the Pack of 3 holds, and what it leaves out
- Price per millilitre at 3ml, 6ml and 12ml
- Why there is no sample, tester or decant
Sources and what is published
SOSA Safar ₹3,999, hotel-inspired variant ₹4,499. Twenty millilitre bottle. 2000 mAh battery. Type-C charging, cable included. Up to ten hours continuous, thirty hours intermittent per charge. Three speed settings. One, two or three hour auto-off timer. 6.9 cm. Waterless cordless cold diffusion of pure fragrance oil, no water and no heat. It scents the air and does not humidify. Made in China, imported and marketed by SOSA Home & Body, Pune. In the box: the diffuser, the 20ml bottle, a Type-C cable, a user manual and the three fragrance oils set by the variant.
The nine car scents, each a 10ml spray or a 12ml hanging at the same price: Jasmine ₹449, Lavender and Sandalwood ₹479, Sandalwood ₹479, Icy Mint ₹489, Lemon ₹499, Oud ₹509, Vetiver ₹509, Sea Breeze ₹509, Mysore Orange Blossom ₹549 as a spray only. Every scent as a 50ml spray ₹1,499. Spray combos ₹899 to ₹949, two 50ml ₹2,999. Discovery sets of three sprays ₹699 to ₹899, pack of nine ₹2,999. Fifteen millilitre hanging refills ₹399 to ₹449, eight scents, none for Orange Blossom. Waterless nebuliser refills ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm.
The published quantities: a 10ml spray gives 100 sprays, stated as three months and above at one spray a day and fifty days at two a day. A 50ml spray gives 500 sprays, stated as about a year and more. A spray combo gives 200 sprays. A 12ml hanging gives 4 to 6 weeks, that is 28 to 42 days, of continuous diffusion in a refillable glass bottle whose stopper loosens for stronger and tightens for subtler. The formulation range published is 45 degrees C and 85 per cent relative humidity.
Not published, and therefore not stated anywhere above: any charge duration; any oil-consumption rate, and so no refill interval and no running cost; any coverage area, cabin volume or scent-throw figure; any warranty term or battery-cycle life; any per-speed duration; any seasonal performance claim; any strength ranking of the nine scents; any health or wellbeing effect in either direction; any prediction of what a person will prefer; any rate or account of how perception changes across a journey; any testimonial, rating or review count. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how long the oil lasts. The refill price is published and the interval is not.
Prices and specifications read live from the SOSA product records on 7 October 2026. Enquiries: WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.