Which Attar Notes Are Worth Exploring for Men Who Enjoy Fresh Aquatic Designer Fragrances but Want an Oil-Based Scent Experience?

Which Attar Notes Are Worth Exploring for Men Who Enjoy Fresh Aquatic Designer Fragrances but Want an Oil-Based Scent Experience?

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★ ★ The smell of an aquatic and the lift of a spray are two different purchases - and most readers want bothSOSA Samundar perfume oil 10ml ₹599 · 50ml ₹1,799 · 100ml ₹3,499 - aquatic marine, alcohol-free, dabbedSOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for its attars and publishes no projection figure for anything
The short version — five things worth checking
For the man who has worn the same bright aquatic for six years, has started to feel it is too much for a meeting, and wants to know whether an oil is the answer
  • 1 Samundar is a perfume oil, not an attar and not an eau de parfum: aquatic marine, alcohol-free, 10ml ₹599, 50ml ₹1,799, 100ml ₹3,499.
  • 2 Its published line names its inspiration - Armani Acqua di Giò Parfum. It is SOSA's own independent composition, not affiliated with that house, and the word dupe appears nowhere on it.
  • 3 An alcohol spray and a dabbed oil differ mechanically. Alcohol atomises and carries material outward as it evaporates; a fixed oil has neither mechanism. That is a format fact, not a performance figure.
  • 4 No SOSA attar is aquatic. The four are a green floral, a saffron rose, a night-jasmine rose and an oud-led composition. The aquatic register exists only among the perfume oils.
  • 5 SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for the attars and publishes nothing at all about projection, sillage or scent radius for any product.
★ See SOSA Samundar - aquatic marine oil ₹599 Ask Sonal whether an oil will suit you ₹0
★ The attar range, for a reader who turns out to want the format more than the aquatic
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - green and dry rather than marine, and the nearest an attar here comes to a fresh briefView Adaa →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - the opposite register, and worth knowing about before you decide the oil is what you came forView Ameeri →SOSA Attar Trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and MastaniSOSA Attar Trio · 3 x 3ml ₹1,055Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani together, three millilitres of each - the only multi-scent pack SOSA makes, and it contains none of the six perfume oilsView the Trio →
✓ Every note named here is quoted from the live SOSA product pages and nothing has been added to a description ✓ No projection, sillage or radius figure appears on this page, because SOSA publishes none ✓ Nothing here predicts how anybody else will read what you are wearing

Founder Diaries · Close Range · Presence Without Projection
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 18 min read Updated October 2026
There are two separate things inside the sentence I love my fresh aquatic, and whether an oil will please you depends entirely on which of them you mean. The first is the smell: that cool, saline, slightly mineral brightness with a citrus edge, which has been the backbone of the fresh men's shelf for thirty years. An oil can give you that, and SOSA makes one. The second is the lift - the physical event of pressing an atomiser, the cold cloud, the way the scent seems to open outward and arrive all at once. That is a property of alcohol and of a spray mechanism, not of a composition, and an oil cannot give it to you at all. Most readers who write to me about this want both and have never had cause to notice that they are two different things.
Quick answers — read this first
Which SOSA product suits a man who likes fresh aquatic fragrances but wants an oil? SOSA Samundar, the aquatic marine perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599. Its own published line names its inspiration as Armani Acqua di Giò Parfum: it is SOSA's own independent composition, not affiliated with that house, and it is sold as an oil rather than as a spray. None of the four attars is aquatic - they are a green floral, a saffron rose, a night-jasmine rose and an oud-led composition - so the aquatic register exists here only among the six perfume oils.

Will an oil smell the same as the designer spray I already wear? It will not behave the same, and that is the part worth being clear about before you spend anything. An alcohol spray atomises into fine droplets and the alcohol carries material outward as it flashes off the skin, which produces the opening blast you are used to. A dabbed oil has neither mechanism: it releases slowly from the single site where you placed it. If the opening blast is a large part of what you enjoy, an oil will read as a diminished version of the experience rather than a quieter version of the same one.

What does aquatic actually mean in a fragrance? Mostly it means a family of synthetic materials - calone and its relatives, plus various ozonic and melon-adjacent molecules - which produce a cool, saline, slightly watery sensation that does not exist in any natural extract. They are usually paired with citrus at the top and a woody-amber or musk base. So an aquatic is a modern construction rather than a traditional one, which is why the register is absent from the attar tradition entirely and present among the perfume oils.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy SOSA Samundar, the aquatic marine perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599 - and read the next sentence before you do. Separate the smell you like from the delivery you are used to. The aquatic character is a composition property and Samundar supplies it; the opening blast of a spray is a property of alcohol and an atomiser, and no oil reproduces it. If you have been reaching for your spray partly because you enjoy the moment of applying it, an oil will disappoint you, and that is better learned here than after a purchase.
The pick: the Samundar 10ml at ₹599, which is ten millilitres of a dabbed oil and therefore a great deal of wearing. Among the attars, the nearest thing to a fresh brief is Adaa at ₹379 - green, dry, not marine - and the honest answer is that it is a different proposition rather than a substitute. Khayaal at ₹599 is the bright, tea-and-amberwood direction if you want freshness without the saline part.
Next step: read the fresh woody page if you would rather have dryness than salt, and the dose page if the real reason you want to switch is that your spray has started to feel like too much. The family hub holds the routing rule. Or tell me what you wear now and why you are changing and I will tell you whether a format change is the answer.
In this guide
Straight answer
Which notes should a man explore if he enjoys fresh aquatic designer fragrances but wants an oil-based scent instead?
Samundar, the aquatic marine perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599 - with one honest condition attached, which is that you work out first whether you love the smell or the spray. Start with the register itself, because it has a specific and fairly short history. The aquatic family is not traditional. It was made possible by a group of synthetic materials, calone chief among them, which arrived in commercial perfumery in the 1980s and produce a cool, saline, faintly melon-like sensation that no natural extract supplies. Those materials are almost always built with citrus above them and a woody-amber or musk base below, and that structure is what the fresh men's shelf has largely consisted of ever since. If that is the smell you have been wearing for years, you are wearing a modern synthetic accord, and there is nothing wrong with that - it is one of the genuine achievements of twentieth-century perfumery. Second, why the attars cannot help you. The four SOSA attars are a green floral with a dry woody base, a saffron and Taif rose, a night-jasmine and Damask rose, and an oud-led composition. None of them is aquatic, and none of them could be: the attar tradition is built on resins, woods, florals and spices, and the marine register simply does not exist in it. A page that offered you an attar as an aquatic would be mis-describing its own product. What SOSA does have is a separate range of six perfume oils, and one of them is the aquatic. Third, what Samundar is. It is a perfume oil - not an eau de parfum, not a spray, not an attar on a sandalwood carrier - described on its own product page as aquatic marine freshness and sold in 10ml at ₹599, 50ml at ₹1,799 and 100ml at ₹3,499. Its published title names its inspiration as Armani Acqua di Giò Parfum. SOSA is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, that house, and the composition is SOSA's own; the line exists because it is the most honest short description of the register for a reader who has never smelled the bottle, and because pretending otherwise would be less straight, not more. The words dupe, clone and smells like the original do not appear on it and will not appear here. Fourth, the condition, and it is the whole reason this page is written as a distinction rather than a recommendation. When a man tells me he loves a bright aquatic, he is usually describing two experiences bundled together. One is the scent profile, which travels across formats. The other is the delivery: the sound and cold of an atomiser, the cloud, the sense of the fragrance opening outward in the first ten seconds. That second experience is produced by alcohol, which atomises into fine droplets and carries material away from the skin as it evaporates. An oil has no alcohol and no atomiser. It goes exactly where you put it and releases slowly from there. Fifth, how to decide which one you are. Here is the cheap test, and it requires no purchase. Tomorrow morning, do not spray your bottle. Press the atomiser once into the air across the room, away from you, and then apply nothing at all for the day. If what you miss during the day is the smell, an oil will serve you. If what you enjoyed was the ten seconds at the mirror, an oil will not, and you should keep your spray and simply use less of it. That is an uncomfortable recommendation for me to make on a page selling oils, and it is also the accurate one. And sixth, the limit. Nothing here tells you how either format will be received by anybody. It tells you what the two formats mechanically do, which is as far as honesty reaches.

The smell and the lift: why they come apart

It is worth being exact about the mechanism, because once it is clear the whole decision resolves. An alcohol-based fragrance is mostly ethanol. When you spray it, two things happen in quick succession: the atomiser breaks the liquid into droplets fine enough to hang in the air, and then the ethanol evaporates very rapidly off your skin and clothing, carrying fragrance molecules outward as it goes. The result is that in the first minutes a substantial fraction of what you applied ends up in the air around you rather than on you. That is the lift. It is also why the opening of a spray fragrance feels so much bigger than its middle.

An oil contains no ethanol. The fragrance materials are dissolved in a fixed carrier that does not evaporate, so there is no vehicle to carry anything outward and no atomiser to break it into drifting droplets. The material sits at the application site, warms with your skin, and releases from there at whatever rate each molecule's own volatility dictates. You get the same materials in a different distribution: more on you, less in the air you are standing in.

Neither is better in the abstract and I want to be careful not to pretend otherwise. If your brief is to be present in a room, the spray is doing something an oil cannot. If your brief is the one this whole guide is written for - legible inside a conversation, absent beyond it - the oil is doing something the spray cannot. The mistake is to think of the oil as a quieter version of the same experience, because it is a differently shaped experience, and a reader who expects the first will feel short-changed on day one.

What aquatic is made of, and why no attar is one

The materials are worth knowing by name, because it makes every listing in the category readable. Calone, a benzodioxepinone first synthesised in the 1960s and used commercially from the 1980s, is the core: it smells of sea air and watermelon rind at once, cool and slightly metallic. Around it sit a family of ozonic and marine molecules - Floralozone, various dihydromyrcenol-adjacent materials, Helional - which push the register towards wet stone, wind or cut grass depending on the dose. Above them goes citrus, usually bergamot or grapefruit, and below them a musk or a woody-amber to give the thing some duration.

Which explains the register's reputation. Aquatics are bright, clean, uncomplicated and extremely easy to wear, and because the materials are synthetic and inexpensive relative to their effect, they are also the cheapest reliable way to make a fragrance that a very wide audience does not dislike. That is why the shelf is full of them. It is also why the register starts to read as generic after some years of wearing it, which is often the real reason a reader arrives at this page looking at oils.

None of this is in the attar tradition and it could not be. An attar is a distillate or an oil blend built from resins, woods, florals, spices and animalic materials - the palette that existed before synthesis. SOSA's four attars sit squarely in it: green citrus and white florals over dry woods in Adaa; saffron, rose and sandalwood over soft oudh in Ameeri; night jasmine and Damask rose over sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka in Mastani; oud, sandalwood, saffron and tobacco over amber and leather in Nawaab. There is no marine note in any of them, SOSA makes no aquatic attar, and a reader looking for one here is looking for a thing that does not exist in that part of the range.

Four words separated, and the test for each

The four words this question runs on
What each one describes, what it gets confused with, and the test you can run yourself
The term What it actually is What it is not How to tell, on your own skin
Aquatic A synthetic register - calone and its ozonic relatives - producing cool, saline, slightly melon-like freshness, usually under citrus and over a musk or woody amber Not citrus, though they almost always travel together. And not a natural material of any kind: there is no essential oil of sea air Smell the thing at hour two. The citrus will have gone and what remains cool and mineral underneath is the aquatic part
The lift of a spray A mechanical and chemical event: an atomiser making drifting droplets, plus ethanol evaporating off skin and carrying material outward with it Not a property of the composition. Two fragrances with identical formulas, one sprayed and one dabbed, will not behave alike in the first ten minutes Spray your bottle into the air across the room rather than onto yourself, and notice whether the thing you were looking forward to has already happened
Freshness A property of volatile materials - citrus, green notes, cool aromatics, and the aquatic synthetics. Short-lived by definition, because volatility is what makes them fresh Not a property that survives a working day. A composition that is fresh at hour six has had its freshness supplied by something that is not volatile, which is a different sensation Note the hour at which you stop describing what you are wearing as fresh. For most compositions it is somewhere in the first hour
Concentration How much fragrance material is dissolved in the liquid. A real variable, and the one most often quoted on a bottle Not a measure of how far something reads. More concentration gives you more of whatever character the composition has, for longer; it does not convert a quiet register into a loud one Compare the same composition at two concentrations if you ever get the chance. The difference is duration and density, not shape
The second row is the one that decides this page. If the test in its last column tells you that the spray itself was the pleasure, no oil in the world will replace it and you should keep what you have.
The SOSA principle
A format is not a volume control. Changing from a spray to an oil changes where the fragrance goes, not how much character it has - and the loudest thing in this range is an oil.
Which is why this page is a distinction rather than a recommendation.

What Samundar is, and how its published line works

Samundar is one of six SOSA perfume oils, a range that sits alongside the four attars rather than inside them. The oils come in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Samundar at ₹599, ₹1,799 and ₹3,499 - and they are alcohol-free oils rather than eau de parfum and never sprays. Its product page describes it as aquatic marine freshness, which is the whole of the published description and is deliberately short.

Its title also names a widely known fragrance as its inspiration, and that convention deserves an explanation rather than a footnote, because readers are right to be suspicious of it. Samundar's published line names Armani Acqua di Giò Parfum. SOSA's own independent composition, not affiliated with that house. The reason the line exists is practical: a reader buying an oil online cannot smell it, and naming a reference point that most people have encountered communicates the register faster and more honestly than any adjective. The reason it stops there is equally practical. It is not a copy, it was not analysed from the original, and nobody at SOSA has claimed it smells identical to anything. The words dupe, clone and same as are not used, because they would be claims nobody can stand behind.

For your purposes, the useful way to read that line is as a register marker rather than a promise. It tells you which shelf the composition belongs on: bright, marine, citrus-topped, the modern fresh register rather than the traditional attar one. It does not tell you that your morning will feel the same, and the honest expectation to set is that it will not, because the format differs even where the family matches.

What changes when you move from a spray to an oil

Four things change in practice and it is worth having them stated plainly, because a reader who knows them in advance makes a much better decision than one who discovers them in week one.

The application changes. You dab rather than spray, which means a smaller number of sites and much more control over where the material goes. In practice the inner wrist is the site I would use for a brief like yours, because it is in your own airspace when you move your hands and in nobody else's until they are close. The throat and the neck are the opposite, and the hair and collar worse again, because fibre holds material far longer than skin and cannot be reconsidered at lunchtime.

The opening changes, as discussed, and this is the adjustment that takes longest. There is no blast. What you get instead is a composition that arrives over the first few minutes rather than all at once, and that is quieter at the start than you are used to by a noticeable margin. Some readers find this a relief and some find it anticlimactic; which of the two you are is the thing the free test above is designed to tell you.

The quantity arithmetic changes. Ten millilitres of a dabbed oil is a great deal of wearing - far more than ten millilitres of a sprayed fragrance would be - because a dab deposits very little and almost none of it is lost to the air. And the alcohol question changes: these are alcohol-free and DPG-free, which are ingredient facts about what is in the bottle rather than claims about anything else, and they are the reason the format behaves as it does.

My own assessment, not a published figure
Everything in the last two sections that compares the two formats is my own professional assessment rather than a published specification, and I want that marked clearly. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for its attars and publishes nothing at all about projection, sillage or scent radius for any product, because no standard test for those exists and a number invented to sound precise would be worth less to you than this paragraph. What I am describing is a mechanism - atomisation and ethanol evaporation on one side, a fixed carrier releasing from a single site on the other - and the mechanism is real. How far either reads from you on a given day I am not going to quantify, for you or for anybody.

What I would buy, and when I would tell you not to

Sonal’s recommendation
Samundar, the 10ml - unless the test tells you it was the spray you loved
Work out which half of the experience you are attached to before you spend anything. One of the two halves travels to an oil and the other does not.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The SOSA Samundar perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599 - aquatic marine, alcohol-free, dabbed rather than sprayed
What to do first, for ₹0 Spray your current bottle into the air across the room instead of onto yourself, and wear nothing for a day. Notice what you actually miss
When not to buy it If what you missed was the ten seconds at the mirror. That is the spray, not the scent, and no oil supplies it
What the published line means Its inspiration is named as Armani Acqua di Giò Parfum - SOSA’s own independent composition, not affiliated with that house, and no claim of equivalence is made anywhere
The nearest attar, if the format is the draw The Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - green and dry rather than marine, and a different proposition rather than a substitute
What I cannot tell you I cannot say whether anybody will prefer one format on you over the other, or notice the change at all
Ten millilitres at ₹599 is the right size for this because of how little a dab deposits: it is a long run of wearing rather than a trial, and the 50ml at ₹1,799 is for a composition you already know you want to live with. The reason I keep returning to the free test is that this is the one purchase in the family where the composition can be exactly right and the buyer still unhappy, and the cause is always the same - the format was carrying more of the pleasure than he realised.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Samundar · 10ml ₹599
If you want the lift as well as the scent - the cold cloud, the opening that arrives all at once, the physical event of spraying - then an oil will disappoint you and you should not buy one. That lift comes from alcohol atomising and carrying material outward as it evaporates, and it is not a thing a fixed oil can be made to do at any price or any concentration. The better answer in that case is to keep the bottle you have and use less of it: one press rather than four, at the wrist rather than the throat, which costs nothing and addresses the actual complaint.
— the condition that changes this answer
One register, two formats, and a question about which half you love. Two routes out of this page.
One of them costs ₹599. The other costs nothing and should probably come first.
See SOSA Samundar · 10ml ₹599
If the smell is what you are attached to and you are content to dab rather than spray. Aquatic marine, alcohol-free, and ten millilitres is a long run of wearing because a dab deposits so little.
Ask Sonal whether an oil will suit you
If you cannot tell whether it is the scent or the spraying you enjoy. Tell me what you wear, when you apply it and what has changed to make you look for something else, and I will tell you honestly when a format change is the wrong move.
SS
ISIPCA
Versailles
A note from Sonal

The most useful letter I have had on this subject was from a man who bought an oil, wore it for a week, and wrote to tell me he was disappointed but could not say why. The composition was right. The materials were what he wanted. Something was missing and he had no word for it.

What was missing was the morning. He had been spraying the same bottle for six years, four presses, in front of the same mirror, and the ritual had become part of what he thought the fragrance was. The oil gave him the scent and took away the event, and the event turned out to be half of it.

I have published the free test on this page because of him. It costs nothing, it takes a day, and it is the only way I know to find out which half of the experience you are actually buying. If the answer is the event, keep your spray and use one press instead of four. I would rather lose the sale than have another letter like that one.

Frequently asked questions

Is Samundar an attar?
No. Samundar is one of SOSA's six perfume oils, sold in 10ml at 599 rupees, 50ml at 1,799 and 100ml at 3,499. The four attars are a separate range in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml, built on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier. Both are alcohol-free and neither is a spray, but they are different ranges with different traditions behind them.
Does SOSA make an aquatic attar?
No, and it could not without leaving the tradition. The aquatic register depends on synthetic marine materials that arrived in perfumery in the 1980s, whereas the attar palette is resins, woods, florals and spices. The four SOSA attars are a green floral, a saffron rose, a night-jasmine rose and an oud-led composition, and none of them contains a marine note.
Why do SOSA's oils name other fragrances in their titles?
Because a reader buying online cannot smell the bottle, and naming a widely known reference point communicates the register faster than any adjective can. The line stops at inspiration: each one is SOSA's own independent composition, not affiliated with the house named, and the words dupe, clone and identical are not used anywhere, because they would be claims nobody could stand behind.
Will a perfume oil last as long as my alcohol spray?
SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for its attars, and that is the only wear-time figure that exists for anything in the range, so I will not give you a comparison number. What I can tell you about the mechanism is that an alcohol spray loses a substantial fraction of what you applied to the air in the first minutes, while an oil does not, because there is no evaporating vehicle to carry it outward.
Can I spray a perfume oil into an atomiser?
Decanting an oil into a spray bottle does not turn it into a spray fragrance, because what produces the lift is the ethanol evaporating rather than the nozzle alone. A fixed oil pushed through an atomiser tends to clog it and to deposit unevenly. If the spraying is the part you want, the honest answer is to keep an alcohol fragrance and use less of it.
What is the difference between Samundar and Khayaal?
Samundar is aquatic marine: cool, saline, mineral. Khayaal is sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood, which is bright and dry rather than wet, and it is the driest published description in the SOSA catalogue. Both are 10ml at 599 rupees; Khayaal's 50ml and 100ml are 1,899 and 3,599, which is the higher of the two oil tiers.
The test that costs nothing
Spray into the air across the room instead of onto yourself, wear nothing for a day, and notice what you miss.
See SOSA Samundar · 10ml ₹599 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Leaving a spray you have worn for years?
SOSA — Tell me what it is and what has changed. Half the letters I get on this say the scent has started to feel like too much, and in half of those the answer is one press instead of four rather than a new bottle.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free perfume oils and attars hand-blended in Pune · 6-8 hours on skin for the attars · no projection figure claimed anywhere, because none is published
Ask Sonal which one stays close → SOSA Adaa Attar · ₹379
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. It is written for a reader who wants to be pleasant at conversational distance without filling a room, and the method - read the base of a pyramid, judge the format, then control the dose - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.

What this guide does and does not claim. Three things about a fragrance can be stated honestly, and this guide limits itself to them: what a composition contains, which SOSA publishes on each product page; how an oil behaves on skin compared with an alcohol spray, which is Sonal's own professional assessment and is marked as such wherever it appears; and how much you apply and where, which is entirely yours. The fourth thing - whether another person finds a scent pleasant, memorable or attractive - is theirs, and nothing here predicts it. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, and no medical, dermatological or allergy claim. Anyone with sensitive skin or a fragrance allergy should patch-test and use their own judgement or consult a doctor. Where a workplace is involved, that employer's own fragrance policy decides, not SOSA.

On performance figures. SOSA publishes one and only one performance figure for its attars: they are described as wearing 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA does not publish projection, sillage or scent-radius data for any product, and no such figure appears anywhere in this guide. Any seller quoting a projection number for an attar is quoting something that was never measured. Wear time and perceived strength vary with skin, climate, dose and application site.

Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: every SOSA attar is an alcohol-free, DPG-free oil perfume carried on sandalwood and jojoba oil with a built-in dab applicator, hand-blended in Pune, and sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149) is the lightest in the range: Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165) is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk. SOSA Mastani (₹389 · ₹685 · ₹1,179) is litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. SOSA Nawaab (₹399 · ₹699 · ₹1,199) is the deepest in the range: white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Those four are the whole attar range: oud is led in Nawaab and sits in the base of Ameeri and Mastani, Adaa carries none, white musk exists as a base note rather than as a scent of its own, and there is no single-note musk, no clean-linen or laundry accord and no aldehydic-soapy scent in the range. Separately, SOSA makes six perfume oils in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Zaffran, Tabac Noir and Samundar at ₹599, ₹1,799 and ₹3,499, and Khayaal, Chashni and Bahaar at ₹599, ₹1,899 and ₹3,599 - each an independent SOSA composition inspired by a widely known fragrance and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the house named. SOSA does not run a sampler or tester programme; the 3ml attar is the trial size. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
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