Which Attar Should I Buy If I Already Own Sweet Amber Fragrances and Want Something Dry, Earthy and Less Sweet?

Which Attar Should I Buy If I Already Own Sweet Amber Fragrances and Want Something Dry, Earthy and Less Sweet?

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★ ★ Dry and earthy splits two ways - green and rooty, or dark and leathery - and the split is the whole decision on this pageSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 for green dryness with no amber at all · SOSA Nawaab 3ml ₹399 for dry oud, leather and tobaccoThe saffron sweet-amber oil in this range is named here as the bottle that would repeat your shelf rather than add to it
The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the reader who has had enough of sweetness, cannot work out which kind of dryness they are asking for, and is about to buy the one bottle here that would repeat the shelf
  • 1 Dry and earthy means two separate things and the shops use the words interchangeably. Green-and-rooty dryness is vetiver and cedarwood; dark-and-leathery dryness is oud, leather and tobacco. They are opposite ends of a wear, and only one of them is what you want.
  • 2 Adaa is the only one of the four attars with no amber and no sweet material anywhere in it - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over a white floral heart, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. 3ml ₹379, and the strictest answer to less sweet in the range.
  • 3 Nawaab is the dry-and-dark answer: white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf over amber, leather and white musk, 3ml ₹399. Note the amber in the base honestly - this is dryness with weight, not dryness instead of weight.
  • 4 The Zaffran perfume oil is the trap on this page. It is a saffron sweet-amber - an independent SOSA composition inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540 and not affiliated with that house - and saffron plus amber is exactly the register your shelf already holds.
  • 5 Zaffran also overlaps two of the four attars heavily, because saffron opens Ameeri and Nawaab and amber closes both. So it is the wrong next bottle for anyone who owns either of those, as well as for anyone asking this page's question.
★ See SOSA Adaa - no amber, no sweetness, dry from start to finish ₹379 Send Sonal the base line you want away from ₹0
★ The two dry answers, and the bottle that would double what you own
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 - no amber, no vanilla, no oudh, and the driest finish of the fourView Adaa →SOSA Nawaab AttarSOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf over amber, leather and white musk - dry and dark rather than dry and light, with the amber stated honestlyView Nawaab →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Persian saffron and pink pepper over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - a fine bottle, and saffron over amber is the register this page is helping you leaveView Ameeri →
✓ Every note and price here is quoted off the live SOSA product pages ✓ Where a SOSA bottle names an outside fragrance as an inspiration, it is a published product title and not an equivalence claim ✓ The only performance figure quoted anywhere here is the published six to eight hours on skin

Founder Diaries · Fragrance Wardrobes · What to Buy Next
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 20 min read Updated October 2026
Two words in your question are doing different jobs, and separating them is the whole decision. "Less sweet" is clear: you want a composition with no vanilla, no tonka, no sugared amber in the drydown. "Dry and earthy" is not clear at all, because the trade uses it for two opposite things - green, rooty, slightly bitter dryness, which is vetiver and cedarwood; and dark, smoky, leathery dryness, which is oud, leather and tobacco. A bottle built for one of those is a disappointment to somebody who meant the other. So this page splits the request, sends you to one of two attars, and then spends a section on the single bottle in my range that would quietly give you back the shelf you are trying to leave.
Quick answers — read this first
Which attar is the best move away from a sweet amber collection? Adaa (3ml ₹379) if dry means green and rooty: it is the only one of the four attars with no amber, no vanilla and no oudh, finishing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. Nawaab (3ml ₹399) if dry means dark and leathery: white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf over amber, leather and white musk.

Should I buy the saffron amber perfume oil instead? Not for this request. Zaffran is a saffron sweet-amber, an independent SOSA composition inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540 and not affiliated with that house - which means it sits in the same corner of the map as the bottles you already own, and it also doubles the saffron and amber in Ameeri and Nawaab. Buy it if you want more of that register, not if you want away from it.

What is the difference between dry-green and dry-dark in practice? Where the dryness sits in the wear. A green dryness - vetiver, cedarwood, a bitter citrus - is light and slightly austere and reads cool, and it is Adaa's base. A dark dryness is heavy, smoky and animalic: oud, leather, aged tobacco, and it is Nawaab's whole proposition. Both are unsweetened. Only one of them is quiet.
The short answer
Short answer: Decide which dryness you mean, then buy the matching bottle, and do not buy the saffron amber oil. If you want to be lighter as well as less sweet, that is Adaa at ₹379 - the only attar in this range with no amber and no sweet material anywhere in it, finishing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. If you want to stay heavy but lose the sugar, that is Nawaab at ₹399, where oud, leather and aged tobacco carry the weight instead of a sweetened amber. And the bottle to avoid is the saffron sweet-amber oil, which is the register you already own at a larger size.
The pick: Adaa 3ml ₹379 for dry, green and light. Nawaab 3ml ₹399 for dry, dark and heavy. Not both at once - choose on the kind of dryness, and buy the second one much later if at all.
Next step: read the page for shelves built on oud and amber, which handles the wider contrast question, and the gap-finding page for the whole-collection version. Or send me the base line you want away from and I will tell you which of the two dryness answers fits it.
In this guide
Straight answer
Which attar should I buy if I already own sweet amber fragrances and want something dry, earthy and less sweet?
Adaa at ₹379 if you want to be lighter as well as drier; Nawaab at ₹399 if you want to keep the weight and lose the sugar. One of the two, not both. And do not buy the saffron sweet-amber oil, which is the bottle in this range most likely to give you back exactly what you are leaving. First, the split, because the words in your question point two ways. Dryness in a fragrance is the absence of sweetness, and it comes in two forms that have nothing in common beyond that absence. Green dryness is built from vetiver, cedarwood, a bitter citrus, sometimes a pepper: it reads cool, light and faintly austere, it stays close, and it is the dryness of a well-made daytime composition. Dark dryness is built from oud, leather, tobacco and smoke: it reads heavy, animalic and serious, it has presence, and it is the dryness of a traditional evening attar. Both are the opposite of a sugared amber. Neither is a substitute for the other, and the single commonest mis-purchase on this question is a reader who wanted lightness buying something smoky, or a reader who wanted weight buying something green and finding it thin. Second, how to tell which one you mean, in one question. Think about the sweet amber bottles you own and ask whether the problem is the sweetness alone or the sweetness and the size of the thing. If you like the fact that those bottles are substantial and only object to the sugar, you want dark dryness: Nawaab. If what you actually want is to stop filling a room - to wear something that is yours rather than the table's - then the sweetness was only half the complaint and you want green dryness: Adaa. Third, what each one is, precisely. Adaa is Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli on top, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in the heart, and white musk, vetiver and cedarwood underneath. It has no amber, no vanilla, no tonka and no oudh - the only one of my four attars of which all four of those statements is true - and it is therefore the strictest answer in the range to "less sweet". At 3ml it is ₹379. Nawaab is white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf, over amber, leather and white musk, at 3ml ₹399. I will state the amber rather than hide it: Nawaab's base does contain amber, so it is not a sugar-free composition in the sense Adaa is. What it is is dry - the amber sits under leather and oud rather than under vanilla, which is the difference between a resin and a dessert. Fourth, the bottle to avoid, and this page owns that argument. There is a perfume oil in my range called Zaffran: a saffron sweet-amber carrying no oud, an independent SOSA composition inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540 and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, that house. It is well made and a lot of readers love it. For you it is the wrong bottle twice over. Once because saffron over sweet amber is the construction your shelf already holds, so the purchase is a repeat rather than a change. And once because saffron and amber are also the materials that open and close two of my four attars, which makes Zaffran the wrong next bottle for anybody who owns Ameeri or Nawaab as well. The section further down this page sets that out properly, because it is the trap of this whole family. Fifth, what you should expect to lose. A sweet amber is a flattering, enveloping, easy thing to wear, and dryness is none of those. A green dry composition asks you to be comfortable wearing something nobody comments on. A dark dry composition asks you to be comfortable wearing something serious. Readers who move from sugared amber to dry amber sometimes come back to sweetness within a season, and that is not a failure of taste - it is information, and it is why I would spend ₹379 on the 3ml rather than ₹1,149 on the 12ml to find out. There is no sampler programme here, so the small bottle is the trial. And sixth, the one case where the trap is the right purchase. If, having read all of this, what you want is more of the sweet amber rather than less - a version of that register in an oil you can dab rather than spray - then Zaffran is the right bottle and I would sell it to you happily at 10ml ₹599. The question on this page has an answer and so does its opposite; what I will not do is let the two be confused.

Two kinds of dryness, and how to tell which you want

It is worth spending a little time on this because the vocabulary is genuinely bad. The trade says "dry" when it means unsweetened, and it says "earthy" when it means anything from a root to a smoke to a damp soil impression, and a reader using either word has no way of knowing which sense a product description intends. Materials are clearer than adjectives, so here is the material version.

Green dryness comes from vetiver, cedarwood, cypress, a bitter citrus peel, sometimes a green cardamom or a pepper. These are materials with no sugar in them at all; they read cool and slightly bitter, they sit close to the skin and they do not announce themselves. A composition built this way is austere, and that austerity either reads as elegant or it reads as unfinished. In my range this is Adaa's base exactly - white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - with a green cardamom and a neroli up in the top to match.

Dark dryness comes from oud, leather, tobacco, smoke and sometimes a dry saffron. These are heavy, long materials with real presence and a slightly animal quality, and they are unsweetened in the sense that there is no sugar in them - but they are not light, and nobody would call them quiet. In my range this is Nawaab: white royal oud and aged tobacco leaf in the top, leather in the base, and a weight that is closer to the bottles you already own than Adaa is, while going somewhere quite separate with it.

The SOSA principle
Dryness is the absence of sugar, not the absence of weight. Deciding which of those two you were actually asking for is worth more than any note list, and it is a question only you can answer.
Ask it this way: do you object to the sweetness of your amber bottles, or to the sweetness and the size of them?

The grid, and the pair this page rules out

The two candidates, and the pair a sweet amber shelf must avoid
Where the two answers on this page sit relative to each other, and to the register you are leaving
The pair Overlap Verdict Shared published materials What that means for you
Adaa + Nawaab 0.07 The widest contrast in the range white musk only The two answers on this page, and the widest gap in the range - white musk is the only material they have between them. That is how far apart the two kinds of dryness are.
Ameeri + Nawaab 0.50 Heavy overlap saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk Saffron opens both and amber closes both. For a reader leaving a sweet amber shelf, Ameeri is the half of this pair that heads back towards it.
Adaa + Ameeri 0.13 Genuine contrast bergamot and white musk A genuine gap, and the reason Adaa is the stricter answer: Ameeri's base carries the amber that Adaa has none of.
The figures count shared published materials against total materials, grouped the way a nose groups them - two saffrons are saffron, two roses are rose. They measure shared ingredients rather than how two finished compositions smell on a wrist, and the useful reading here is the first row: the two bottles this page recommends are as far apart as anything in the range.

The saffron amber oil, and why it is the trap here

Now the part this page exists to do properly. In the perfume oils I make there is one called Zaffran - a saffron sweet-amber carrying no oud, at 10ml ₹599, 50ml ₹1,799 and 100ml ₹3,499. Its own product title names its inspiration: it is an independent SOSA composition inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540, and it is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, that house. I mention the inspiration because the store publishes it and because it is the fastest way to tell you what register the bottle is in, and for no other reason: an inspiration is a direction of travel rather than a copy, and nothing I make is a version of anybody else's fragrance.

Here is why that bottle is the trap on a page like this. A reader who owns sweet ambers and searches for something dry and less sweet will, sooner or later, be shown a saffron amber oil, because the search terms overlap and because saffron reads as the serious, dry, expensive-sounding end of that world. But saffron over sweet amber is not a departure from a sugared amber shelf - it is the central construction of it. The reader buys a 10ml, wears it for a week, and finds they have bought the thing they were trying to get away from in a smaller bottle and a different format.

And there is a second overlap worth stating, because it catches a different reader on the same bottle. Saffron is in the top of both Ameeri and Nawaab, and amber is in the base of both. So Zaffran is also the wrong next purchase for anybody who already owns either of those two attars: the materials arrive again, the register is the same, and the money would be better spent on something from the other end of the range. This is the only page in this family that spends a section on it, and the reason it gets a section is that it is the mistake I see most often among readers who are doing everything else right.

None of which is a criticism of the bottle. Zaffran is one of the best things I make and it sells accordingly. If sweet amber is your register and you want it in an oil you can dab and control - rather than a spray that decides for you - it is the right purchase, and the reversal at the end of this page says so plainly. It is simply not an answer to the question in the title.

What a sweet amber shelf is actually made of

One more piece of reading, since it decides what "less sweet" has to avoid. The modern sweet amber construction usually has three parts: a bright or fruity opening, a saffron or a jasmine doing the work in the middle, and then a base of a sweet resinous amber with a woody amber material and a musk behind it. The sweetness is not usually a vanilla in the obvious sense - it is a resin sweetness, sometimes with a slightly burnt-sugar or candied quality, and that is what makes those bottles so enveloping and so recognisable from across a room.

If that is your shelf, then the materials you need to avoid in a new bottle are the resinous amber, the woody amber material, and the saffron that signals the whole construction. Adaa avoids all three. Nawaab avoids the first and third in the sense that matters - its saffron is dry rather than sweet, and its amber sits under leather and oud rather than under a candied resin - but it does carry amber, and a reader who has decided that amber itself is the enemy should take Adaa and not argue.

That last point is worth a line of its own. A reader convinced that amber is the problem has often been reacting to a sweetened version of it rather than to the material, and Nawaab is the clean way to test that, since its amber arrives dry. But if you would rather not find out at the price of a bottle, buy the one with no amber in it. That is Adaa, and it is also the cheapest thing I make.

What I would buy, and the one case where I would sell you the trap

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa 3ml at ₹379 for dry and green, Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 for dry and dark - and not the saffron amber oil
A reader leaving a sugared amber shelf will be shown a saffron amber oil within about three clicks. It is a lovely bottle and it is the construction they are leaving, in a smaller size.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The Adaa 3ml at ₹379 if you want lighter as well as drier - no amber, no vanilla, no oudh anywhere in it
Or, for weight without sugar The Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 - oud, leather and aged tobacco carrying the weight, with the amber stated honestly rather than hidden
What not to buy The Zaffran oil for this request. A saffron sweet-amber is the register you already own, and it doubles the saffron and amber in two of the four attars as well
How to choose between the two Ask whether you object to the sweetness alone or to the sweetness and the size. Sweetness alone means Nawaab; both means Adaa
Which size The 3ml. Moving off a sweet register is a real change of taste and some readers move back within a season, which is cheap information at ₹379 and expensive at ₹1,149
When I would sell you the oil after all If more of the sweet amber is what you want rather than less - then Zaffran at 10ml ₹599 is the right bottle and I would say so without hedging
I would start at Adaa for most readers who write to me in these words, because the phrase "less sweet" almost always arrives alongside a second complaint about volume, and Adaa answers both at once. Wear it at one dab for a fortnight and judge it in the afternoon rather than in the first ten minutes - an oil on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier has no alcohol to lift it, so it builds slowly and holds the published six to eight hours on skin close to the body. If after that fortnight you find yourself missing weight rather than missing sugar, Nawaab at ₹399 is the next bottle and it will not disappoint you on that axis.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If it turns out that what you want is more of the sweet amber rather than less - the same register, in an oil you can dab and control rather than a spray that decides the dose for you - then this page's answer inverts and the trap becomes the recommendation. Buy the Zaffran oil at 10ml ₹599: a saffron sweet-amber carrying no oud, an independent SOSA composition inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540 and not affiliated with that house. It is a good bottle and it is the right one for that request. It is simply not the one in the title.
— the condition that changes this answer
You asked for dry, earthy and less sweet. The answer depends on which dryness you meant, and you can settle that two ways.
One is the strictest dry bottle in the range. One costs nothing.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
The only one of the four attars with no amber, no vanilla, no tonka and no oudh in it: a green cardamom and neroli top over a white floral heart, finishing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. The strictest answer to less sweet, and the cheapest.
Send Sonal the base line you want away from
Copy the base notes off the sweet amber bottle you own and send them with one sentence about what annoys you most - the sweetness, the volume, or both. I will tell you which of the two dryness answers fits, and talk you out of the saffron amber oil if that is where you were heading.
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A note from Sonal

I had an argument with myself about whether to name an outside fragrance on this page at all, and the reason I did is that my own product title names it already. The Zaffran oil is published as being inspired by Baccarat Rouge 540, not affiliated with that house, and pretending otherwise on a guide page while the shop page says it plainly would be a strange kind of modesty. Naming it is also the fastest way to tell a reader which corner of the map a bottle sits in, which is the job this page is doing.

What I will not do is let that mention slide into a comparison. I have no interest in telling you that a ₹599 oil is a substitute for an expensive extrait, because I cannot support the claim and neither can anybody else publishing those lists. An inspiration is a direction. The materials are published. Everything beyond that is a sales argument dressed as information.

The reason this page spends so long on one oil is that it is the mistake I see most. A reader does everything right - identifies the sweetness as the problem, searches for dry and earthy, finds a saffron amber because saffron sounds serious - and ends up with the register they were leaving. If this page prevents that purchase and sells nothing, I will count it as having worked.

Frequently asked questions

Which attar has no amber and no sweetness in it at all?
Adaa. Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, finishing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - no amber, no vanilla, no tonka and no oudh, which is true of none of the other three. At 379 rupees for the 3ml it is also the cheapest attar in the range, which is inconvenient for me and useful for you.
Does dry mean the same thing as light?
No, and conflating them is the commonest mistake on this question. Dryness is the absence of sugar; lightness is the absence of weight. Nawaab is dry and heavy - oud, leather and aged tobacco, with amber in the base rather than vanilla. Adaa is dry and light. Both are unsweetened, and a reader who wanted one and bought the other is usually disappointed for reasons that have nothing to do with quality.
Why would a saffron amber oil be the wrong next bottle for me?
Because saffron over a sweet amber is the central construction of the shelf you already own, so it is a repeat rather than a change. There is a second reason too: saffron is in the top of both Ameeri and Nawaab and amber is in the base of both, so that oil also doubles two of the four attars. Buy it if you want more of the register, not if you want away from it.
Is Nawaab's amber the same kind as the amber in a sweet designer bottle?
It is doing a different job. In a sweet amber the resin sits under a candied or burnt-sugar sweetness and defines the whole wear. In Nawaab the amber sits in the base under white royal oud, aged tobacco leaf and leather, so what you read is weight and smoke rather than sweetness. It is still amber, which is why a reader who has decided the material itself is the problem should take Adaa instead and not argue with themselves about it.
How long should I test a dry attar before deciding I prefer it?
A fortnight of real days, at one dab, judged in the afternoon rather than at application. Moving off a sweet register is a genuine change of taste and some readers move back within a season - which is a result rather than a mistake. That is also the argument for the 3ml at 379 or 399 rupees rather than a larger size: there is no sampler programme here, so the small bottle is the trial.
Can I wear a dry attar and a sweet amber on the same day?
You can wear either of them on any day, and I would keep them on separate days rather than on one skin. Nothing about wearing two scents together is published by SOSA and no combination in this range has been formally evaluated, so I have no result to give you - and on the specific question of a dry bottle beside a sweet resinous one, the sweetness is the louder of the two and it will be what you wear.
The split, in one line
Object to the sweetness alone and it is Nawaab at ₹399. Object to the sweetness and the size and it is Adaa at ₹379.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Leaving a sweet amber shelf?
SOSA — Send me the base notes off the bottle you want away from. I will tell you which kind of dryness your complaint actually points at - and talk you out of the saffron amber oil if that is where the search was heading.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · six to eight hours on skin · no SOSA composition is described as a version of another house's fragrance
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About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. It is written for a reader who already owns a fragrance and wants the next one to be genuinely different, and the method - read the published base lines, count the shared materials, then decide - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.

On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.

On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.

What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, 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.

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, sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the only one of the four with no oudh. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): 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): 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): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). 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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