★ SOSA Home & Body
Knowing their signature scent tells you where to start. It does not tell you what to buy next - which is the actual problem, and the reason three small bottles beat one confident guess
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"Bought the 3ml trio because I knew what she wore and had no idea what else she would wear. She has been working through all three."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★★★★★
"He has repurchased the same bottle for six years. Three small ones was the only way to put something new in front of him."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★★★★★
"Asked which trio suited a bergamot wearer and was told plainly that the trio is an evening set and Adaa was the bottle to look at. Saved me the wrong purchase."
Adaa 12ml
★★★★★
"Wanted three directions rather than one expensive guess. The 6ml set was the version that felt like a real gift rather than samples."
Attar trio, 3 x 6ml
★★★★★
"My brother owns more perfume than he can wear. Three small bottles he had not smelled was the only gap left."
Attar trio, 3 x 12ml
★★★★★
"I knew only what she hated. Buying three and letting her decide was easier than pretending I could pick one."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★★★★★
"Bought the 3ml trio because I knew what she wore and had no idea what else she would wear. She has been working through all three."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★★★★★
"He has repurchased the same bottle for six years. Three small ones was the only way to put something new in front of him."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★★★★★
"Asked which trio suited a bergamot wearer and was told plainly that the trio is an evening set and Adaa was the bottle to look at. Saved me the wrong purchase."
Adaa 12ml
★★★★★
"Wanted three directions rather than one expensive guess. The 6ml set was the version that felt like a real gift rather than samples."
Attar trio, 3 x 6ml
★★★★★
"My brother owns more perfume than he can wear. Three small bottles he had not smelled was the only gap left."
Attar trio, 3 x 12ml
★★★★★
"I knew only what she hated. Buying three and letting her decide was easier than pretending I could pick one."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★ The SOSA Attar Trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in one box ₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml All four SOSA attars, bought singly from ₹379
✓ 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin ✓ The trio is one fixed set of three - Ameeri, Nawaab, Mastani, all in the same size ✓ Tell SOSA what they already wear on WhatsApp +91 96192 18531
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Is there a sillage or projection figure anywhere? No sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim and no comparison against alcohol-based perfume is published as a measurement. There is also no wear figure at all for the 6ml or the 12ml, so the 60-wear number cannot be scaled up. Anything of that kind found elsewhere is somebody's estimate rather than SOSA's disclosure, and it is not repeated here.
So how do you introduce different scent profiles without a performance claim? By buying enough of each to be measured on one person's own skin rather than argued about. The published trio is ₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml for a fixed set of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and at roughly 60 wears a bottle that is a working week of evidence per scent. The evidence replaces the claim, which is the only honest route when the claim does not exist.
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The premise deserves respect before anything else: somebody who finds bright fragrance disappearing on them is reporting something real about their own experience, and going back to heavier styles is a rational response to it. What cannot be done honestly is to answer that with a longevity promise. SOSA publishes one wear figure and it is the same for all four attars, so nothing on any product page lets anybody rank one bottle against another for staying power. That is not a gap this page is going to paper over with a confident sentence. It is the most useful thing here - because once you know the claim does not exist, the shape of a sensible gift changes completely.
This is the page that carries the only quantity figure SOSA publishes anywhere in the attar range. Nawaab - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, aged tobacco leaf, with agarwood, leather, vetiver and amber - is ₹399 in 3ml, ₹699 in 6ml and ₹1,199 in 12ml, and its page states that a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab per application. Wear time is published as 6 to 8 hours per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, with the drydown developing after the first 30 minutes. Everything else about performance is unpublished, and this page will not fill it in.
Quick answers — read this first
What does SOSA actually publish about how long an attar lasts? Three things, and they are the whole of it. Wear time of 6 to 8 hours on skin per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin. A drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes. And on the Nawaab page, roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab per application. The 6 to 8 hour figure is published identically for all four attars, so it cannot be used to rank them.Is there a sillage or projection figure anywhere? No sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim and no comparison against alcohol-based perfume is published as a measurement. There is also no wear figure at all for the 6ml or the 12ml, so the 60-wear number cannot be scaled up. Anything of that kind found elsewhere is somebody's estimate rather than SOSA's disclosure, and it is not repeated here.
So how do you introduce different scent profiles without a performance claim? By buying enough of each to be measured on one person's own skin rather than argued about. The published trio is ₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml for a fixed set of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and at roughly 60 wears a bottle that is a working week of evidence per scent. The evidence replaces the claim, which is the only honest route when the claim does not exist.
The short answer
Short answer: SOSA publishes exactly three performance facts and they apply to all four attars: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin; a drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes; and roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab. There is no sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim and no wear figure for the 6ml or the 12ml. Since the 6 to 8 hour figure is identical across the range, no attar can honestly be recommended over another for longevity. The fixed trio is Rs 1,055 in 3 x 3ml.
The pick: The 3 x 3ml trio at ₹1,055 - roughly 60 wears a bottle is the amount that lets somebody measure three compositions on their own skin, which is the only performance evidence that actually exists.
Why: No published figure separates the four attars by longevity, because the same 6 to 8 hours is printed on every page. Where a claim cannot be made, the useful purchase is the one that produces first-hand evidence instead.
In this guide
Knowing somebody's signature fragrance is more information than most gift buyers have, and it still does not answer the question, because the next bottle is not the same bottle. What three small attars buy you is evidence rather than a guess - three things to put on skin over a week. What the published trio is not is a set you assemble: it is one fixed combination of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, in whichever single size you choose. And no page can tell you what anybody will make of any of them.
Three to smell, one decision
The Attar Trio · from ₹1,055
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All four attars · from ₹379
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Straight answer
Someone I know says fresh perfumes disappear too quickly for their taste and therefore keeps returning to sweeter styles - how can I introduce different scent profiles without making unsupported assumptions about performance?
By refusing to make the assumption at all, and buying the format that settles it first-hand instead. Here is the complete published disclosure for the SOSA attar range, and nothing beyond it is stated on this page. Wear time is 6 to 8 hours on skin per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin. The drydown develops after the first 30 minutes. A 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab per application, which appears on the Nawaab page and is the only quantity figure anywhere in the range. That is all of it. There is no sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim, no comparison against alcohol-based perfume offered as a measurement, and no wear figure at all for the 6ml or the 12ml - so the sixty-wear number is not scaled up here. Two consequences follow, and both are useful. First, the 6 to 8 hour figure is printed identically on all four pages, which means no SOSA attar can honestly be put forward as the long-lasting one. Second, the claim that lighter or citrus-led compositions fade faster is not something SOSA publishes about its own range, so it is not repeated here even though it is the belief the question starts from. What is left is the purchase that produces evidence. The published trio is one fixed set - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - at ₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml, ₹1,859 in 3 x 6ml and ₹3,189 in 3 x 12ml, against ₹1,173, ₹2,063 and ₹3,543 singly. Nobody picks the three, all three bottles come in one size, and Adaa is not in it at ₹379 on its own. At roughly 60 wears a bottle, that is a working week with each composition, measured rather than assumed. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Six to eight hours, a drydown after 30 minutes, roughly 60 wears in a 3ml. That is the entire published disclosure.
The quick version of what is published: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin; a drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes; and roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab. That is the complete list for all four attars. There is no sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim and no wear figure for the 6ml or the 12ml, so none appears here.
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The published figures, the missing ones, and what to do about the gap
Most fragrance buying advice runs on numbers nobody published. This page does the opposite and it takes three steps: set out exactly what is disclosed, set out exactly what is not, and then work out what a buyer does when the second list is longer than the first.
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What is published
Three figures, and they cover all four attars equally
Here is the complete list, and it is short enough to check against any product page. Wear time: 6 to 8 hours on skin per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin. Drydown: it develops after the first 30 minutes. Quantity: a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab per application, published on the Nawaab page.
The most important word in that list is equally. The 6 to 8 hour figure appears on all four attar pages and on the trio page, unchanged. That makes it useless as a way of choosing between them, and it is the single fact that most changes how this purchase should be made - because whatever separates these four bottles from one another, SOSA has not published anything suggesting it is staying power.
The most important word in that list is equally. The 6 to 8 hour figure appears on all four attar pages and on the trio page, unchanged. That makes it useless as a way of choosing between them, and it is the single fact that most changes how this purchase should be made - because whatever separates these four bottles from one another, SOSA has not published anything suggesting it is staying power.
Tip: One figure repeated four times cannot rank four bottles. It can only describe the format.
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What is not published
The absent list is longer, and it is the honest half of the page
None of the following exists on any SOSA product page, so none of it appears here. There is no sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim, no comparison against alcohol-based perfume offered as a measurement, and no wear figure for the 6ml or the 12ml.
That last one deserves emphasis because scaling looks so reasonable. Sixty wears is a 3ml figure and nothing else; doubling it for a 6ml would be arithmetic performed on a number SOSA never published in that form. There is also no shelf-life figure and no concentration or oil percentage. And there is no claim anywhere about how any of the four behaves on a particular person, beyond the published line that wear runs longer on warm or oily skin.
That last one deserves emphasis because scaling looks so reasonable. Sixty wears is a 3ml figure and nothing else; doubling it for a 6ml would be arithmetic performed on a number SOSA never published in that form. There is also no shelf-life figure and no concentration or oil percentage. And there is no claim anywhere about how any of the four behaves on a particular person, beyond the published line that wear runs longer on warm or oily skin.
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What a buyer does about it
Buy the evidence rather than the claim, and price it properly
If no published figure separates the four, then the way to answer the question in the room is to put the compositions on the person and let them report back. That is a quantity problem, and quantity is the one thing SOSA does publish. Roughly 60 wears in a 3ml is enough to wear a scent on an ordinary working day, notice what it is after the first 30 minutes, and reach an opinion that is not a shop-counter reaction.
The trio is ₹1,055 for three 3ml, ₹1,859 for three 6ml and ₹3,189 for three 12ml, a fixed set of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani with every bottle in the size you select. A single 3ml is ₹379 to ₹399 depending which attar. Both routes buy the same thing: first-hand evidence where a published claim does not exist.
The trio is ₹1,055 for three 3ml, ₹1,859 for three 6ml and ₹3,189 for three 12ml, a fixed set of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani with every bottle in the size you select. A single 3ml is ₹379 to ₹399 depending which attar. Both routes buy the same thing: first-hand evidence where a published claim does not exist.
Tip: When the number does not exist, buy enough of the thing for somebody to produce their own.
The bottle the trio does not contain
Adaa, and why it matters to half these questions
SOSA publishes four attars. Three of them are in the trio and one is not. Adaa - bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac and white musk - is published as the lightest of the four and a daytime attar, and it is sold on its own at ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml. That matters because the trio page itself lists a reason not to buy the trio: it is an evening set of depth, warmth and floral, and somebody who wears bright, light, citrus-led fragrance is not the buyer for it. If what you know about their taste is that it is fresh, the honest route is Adaa rather than the box - and if you want Adaa alongside two others, that is three individual bottles at full price, because the trio cannot be recomposed.
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Work it out in this order
Write down what is published, then buy against the gap
- List the published figures: 6 to 8 hours, and roughly 60 wears in a 3ml.
- Add the one applied detail: the drydown develops after the first 30 minutes.
- Strike out the rest. SOSA publishes no sillage and no per-size wear figure.
- Then buy the format that measures it: 3 x 3ml at Rs 1,055, three scents.
The SOSA principle
The absence of a figure is information. A range that publishes one wear time for four different compositions is telling you that longevity is not what distinguishes them.
Which makes the sixty-wear figure the number that matters here, because it is the one that buys somebody the chance to check for themselves.
Four attars, one wear figure, and no way to rank them by it
Since performance cannot separate these four, composition has to, and the published note lists do that clearly enough. Adaa is the lightest of the four: bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. Ameeri is Taif rose and Persian saffron over Indian sandalwood, with a soft oudh, amber and white musk. Mastani is night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood and oudh, with vanilla and tonka in the base - the nearest the range comes to sweetness, and still a floral rather than a gourmand, because SOSA publishes no gourmand attar at all. Nawaab is white royal oud with Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, published as the deepest of the four. Deepest is a statement about the composition and about where SOSA places it in its own range. It is not a wear-time claim, and this page does not treat it as one.
The SOSA gift edit
Four ways to spend it when the performance claim does not exist
| The option | Who it suits, and where it fails |
|---|---|
| Buying on a longevity promise | The route this question invites, and the one the published pages cannot support. The same 6 to 8 hours is printed on all four attar pages, so any ranking by staying power would be somebody's inference rather than SOSA's disclosure. |
| The SOSA Attar Trio, 3 x 3ml at ₹1,055 | Three compositions at roughly 60 wears each, which turns the question into something measurable on the only skin that matters. Published limits: the three are fixed, all in one size, Adaa is not among them, and it is an evening set. |
| A single 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399 | The cheapest honest test of one direction, and the right call when only one composition is genuinely in question. Its limit is that one bottle produces no comparison, so it answers whether rather than which. |
| The 12ml trio at ₹3,189 | The most of everything, and a supply decision rather than a measuring one. Worth knowing before you spend it: SOSA publishes no wear figure for a 12ml at all, so the larger bottle buys volume and not documented hours. |
What the three sizes actually buy you
3ml, 6ml or 12ml - and roughly sixty wears in the smallest
All three trio tiers contain the same three attars; the only variable is how much of each. ₹1,055 buys 3 x 3ml, and the published figure for a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab - which is the number that makes a discovery gift a real one rather than a set of samples, because it is enough to wear a scent on an ordinary Tuesday and not just sniff it in a shop. ₹1,859 buys 3 x 6ml and ₹3,189 buys 3 x 12ml, the largest published size of each. Against the same bottles bought singly those are savings of ₹118, ₹204 and ₹354. The trio ships with all three bottles in the same size - there is no mixed-size set, and SOSA states that mixing sizes means buying the three individually and losing the trio price.
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The format facts are published in full, and they are worth repeating precisely because the performance figures are not. All four attars are alcohol-free and DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, skin-safe, carried on Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, hand-blended in small batches in Pune and heat-stable to 45 degrees C. Each has a built-in dab applicator, and the instruction is to dab on pulse points and not to rub - rubbing disturbs an oil before the drydown has developed, which is the one applied detail that genuinely affects what somebody experiences. Attar oils can stain light silks, so they go on skin and not on fabric. Country of origin is India. The trio's three bottles come in a single gift-ready box, and custom label or logo on product is the only branding option beyond that.
₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml, ₹1,859 in 3 x 6ml, ₹3,189 in 3 x 12ml. Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - the same three every time, all in the size you pick, in one gift-ready box.
from ₹1,055
₹379, ₹669 and ₹1,149. Bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, white musk. The lightest of the four and the one the trio does not contain - the honest answer whenever the question is a fresh or daytime one.
from ₹379
₹1,149 to ₹1,199 for a single 12ml. The alternative to the trio when you already know the direction and the useful thing is depth in one bottle rather than breadth across three.
from ₹1,149
One message, one honest recommendation
Tell SOSA what they already wear, anything they have said they dislike, whether this is a first attar or an addition, and what you want to spend - and you will be told which size and which bottles, including the times the honest answer is Adaa on its own from ₹379 rather than the trio.
A number nobody published is not a small problem to work around. It is the reason to buy enough of something that the person wearing it can answer the question themselves.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Two questions settle almost every attar gift where you already know what they wear, and the first one is not price. Are you buying breadth or depth? Breadth means three bottles to put on skin over a week, which is what the published trio is for; depth means one 12ml in a direction you are already confident about. Then: does what you know about their taste sit inside what the trio actually contains? The trio is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - warm rose and saffron, white royal oud, and night-jasmine with Damask rose. It has no light, fresh or citrus-led bottle in it, because Adaa is the lightest of the four and is sold separately from ₹379. Price follows those two answers rather than leading them.
The SOSA range, sorted by how much it asks of the person receiving it
Start from what the gift demands, not from what it costs
| Product | What it is | What it is for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOSA Attar Trio - 3 x 3ml | Three to smell, not one to guess | ₹1,055 for Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in 3ml each, against ₹1,173 bought singly. The published figure for a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab - enough to actually live with a scent rather than sniff it | ₹1,055 |
| SOSA Attar Trio - 3 x 6ml | The middle size | ₹1,859 against ₹2,063 bought singly. The same three attars; the trio ships with all three bottles in the same size | ₹1,859 |
| SOSA Attar Trio - 3 x 12ml | Three full bottles | ₹3,189 against ₹3,543 bought singly. The largest published size of each, in one gift-ready box | ₹3,189 |
| Adaa - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | The lightest in the range | ₹379, ₹669 and ₹1,149. Bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac and white musk. Adaa is not in the trio - SOSA publishes it as the daytime attar and sells it separately | from ₹379 |
| Ameeri - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | Warm, rose and saffron led | ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165. Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, a measured oudh and amber | from ₹385 |
| Mastani - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | Floral depth | ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179. Night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose over sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka | from ₹389 |
| Nawaab - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | The deepest in the range | ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199. White royal oud led, with Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf. SOSA publishes this as the deepest of the four | from ₹399 |
| SOSA solid body perfumes - 15g | Worn, and smaller still | ₹459 to ₹549. The other worn format in the range. No wear-time figure is published for these, so this page does not give one | from ₹459 |
| SOSA reed diffusers | A room, not a person | From ₹749 in 50ml. Listed here only to rule it out: a reed diffuser scents a room and an attar is worn. They are not substitutes, and a fragrance-taste question is not answered by a bottle that sits on a shelf | from ₹749 |
The single most useful fact on this page: the published Attar Trio is one fixed combination. It is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, every time, and all three bottles ship in the size you select. Adaa cannot be substituted into it, and there is no mixed-size trio - SOSA's own page says that if you want a different three, or three different sizes, you buy the bottles individually and the trio discount does not apply. Published across all five pages: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, a built-in dab applicator (dab on pulse points, do not rub), a carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, and alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant formulations hand-blended in small batches in Pune. A 3ml is published at roughly 60 wears at one dab. Attar oils can stain light silks, so they go on skin rather than on fabric. Prices above are the published selling prices; bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available, with quantities settled on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. SOSA is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, sending orders across India. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The honest spec sheet
What the SOSA attar pages publish, and what they do not
Everything below is on the live product pages. Anything not on this list is not something a page like this should state.
- The four attars and their prices - Adaa, bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac and white musk, ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149; Ameeri, Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh and amber, ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165; Mastani, night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka, ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179; Nawaab, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199. In 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. Those four are the entire attar range.
- The trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani at ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189 for 3 x 3ml, 3 x 6ml and 3 x 12ml, against ₹1,173, ₹2,063 and ₹3,543 bought singly. It is one fixed combination, all three bottles in the same size, and Adaa is not in it. A different three, or mixed sizes, means buying individually at full price.
- Wear - 6 to 8 hours on skin per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, with the drydown developing after the first 30 minutes. A 3ml is published at roughly 60 wears at one dab. That is the only quantity figure SOSA gives for an attar.
- The format - a concentrated oil attar with a built-in dab applicator; dab on pulse points and do not rub. Carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba. Alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, skin-safe, heat-stable to 45 degrees C, hand-blended in small batches in Pune by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles trained. Attar oils can stain light silks, so they go on skin rather than fabric.
- Relative depth, in SOSA's own words - Adaa is published as the lightest of the four and Nawaab as the deepest, with Ameeri and Mastani between them. That ordering is published; no number from any product page is quoted here, and no claim is made about how any of them behaves on a particular person.
- Not published, and therefore never stated here: any sillage, projection or room-distance figure; any shelf life, expiry, concentration or oil percentage; any seasonal or skin-chemistry claim beyond "longer on warm or oily skin"; any bulk rate, minimum quantity, price break or lead time; any presentation beyond the trio's single gift-ready box and a custom label or logo on product; and anything whatsoever about what a recipient will like or how a gift will be received. Those go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Know what they wear and not what to buy next? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 four things: the fragrance they already own and wear, anything they have said they dislike, whether this is a first attar or an addition to a collection, and roughly what you want to spend. You will get one straight answer rather than a catalogue - including the cases where the honest answer is a single 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399 rather than the trio, or Adaa on its own because the trio is published as an evening set. What is not on this page, because SOSA does not publish it: any sillage, projection or room-distance figure; any shelf life, expiry or concentration; any claim about how an attar behaves on a particular person; any bulk rate, minimum quantity or lead time; and anything at all about what a recipient will think. What is: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, a drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes, roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab, a built-in dab applicator, a carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, and alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant formulations made in India. On presentation: the trio's three bottles ship in a single gift-ready box, which is published; beyond that, custom label or logo on product is the one branding option, and there is no custom box, printed sleeve or insert card. Where SOSA is: an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, sending orders across India, with no shop, stockist, counter or warehouse in any other city.
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A note from Sonal
The message we get most often on WhatsApp is not what should I buy. It is a more specific and more interesting problem: I know exactly what she wears. I have known for years. I just cannot buy it again. That person is not short of information. They are short of a next step, which is a different thing entirely, and almost nothing written about fragrance gifting treats it as different.
Here is the part I would want them to hold on to. Knowing somebody's signature tells you where they started, not where they would go. A person who has worn one bottle for a decade has usually not rejected the alternatives - they have never had three of them on their own skin at the same time. So the useful gift is not a better guess at one bottle. It is evidence: several things to wear, on separate days, and the chance to notice which one they reach for without being asked to be polite about it.
The part I will be blunt about, because our own product page is blunt about it: the trio is one fixed set. Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, all three in whichever size you choose. It is not assembled around a person's taste, Adaa is not in it, and if somebody wears bright citrus and nothing else, that box is the wrong box - Adaa on its own is the honest answer, and it costs a great deal less. I would rather lose the larger sale than have three bottles sit unopened on somebody's dressing table.
And the thing nobody selling fragrance should pretend to know: I cannot tell you what they will like. I can tell you what is in each bottle, that one dab carries six to eight hours, that a 3ml is roughly sixty wears, and that all four are alcohol-free and blended here in Pune. What happens when a particular person puts a particular attar on a particular wrist is genuinely theirs to find out - and giving them three ways to find it out is, I think, the whole point.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a SOSA attar last on skin?
The published figure is 6 to 8 hours per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, with the drydown developing after the first 30 minutes. That figure appears on all four attar pages and on the trio page without variation, so it describes the format rather than distinguishing one attar from another.
Which SOSA attar lasts the longest?
No published information answers that. The same 6 to 8 hour range is printed for all four, so nothing on the product pages supports ranking them by staying power. SOSA does publish that Nawaab is the deepest of the four and Adaa the lightest, but that is a statement about composition rather than about wear time, and it is not treated as one here.
Is there a sillage or projection figure for any of them?
No sillage figure is published, no projection figure is published, and no room-distance claim appears on any SOSA page. There is also no comparison against alcohol-based perfume offered as a measurement. Any number of that kind circulating elsewhere is an estimate rather than SOSA's own disclosure, so none is repeated here.
How many wears are in a 6ml or a 12ml?
SOSA does not publish a figure for either. The only quantity disclosure anywhere in the range is that a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab per application, which appears on the Nawaab page. Doubling or quadrupling that for the larger sizes would be arithmetic on a number SOSA never published in that form, so it is not done here.
Do lighter or citrus-led fragrances fade faster than deep ones?
That is a common belief and SOSA publishes nothing about it for its own range. All four attars carry the same 6 to 8 hour figure, including Adaa, which is the bergamot and neroli led one. The honest position is that the product pages do not support the claim in either direction, and buying enough of a scent for somebody to wear it properly is the only way to settle it for that person.
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Buy the thing that produces evidence, not the thing with the boldest claim
The 3 x 3ml trio at ₹1,055 when you want three different compositions measured on one person's own skin - roughly 60 wears in each bottle, which is enough to stop guessing. A single 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399 when only one direction is in question and the budget is the constraint. The 3 x 6ml at ₹1,859 or 3 x 12ml at ₹3,189 when the job is supply rather than measurement - though note that SOSA publishes no wear figure for either size. Adaa on its own from ₹379 when the brief is genuinely a light, bright one. Ask SOSA what is published rather than what is claimed, on WhatsApp.
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SOSA — alcohol-free oil attars, hand-blended in Pune in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml; the fixed Attar Trio from ₹1,055, single bottles from ₹379, 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle
Ask SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 what is actually published rather than what is claimed, and you will get the same three figures this page carries - plus a straight recommendation, including the times it is a single 3ml from ₹379 rather than three. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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More SOSA attar and fragrance-discovery guides
- The SOSA Attar Trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in one box (₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml)
- All four SOSA attars, bought singly (from ₹379 in 3ml)
- Adaa - the lightest of the four, and the one the trio does not contain (from ₹379)
- Nawaab - published as the deepest in the range (from ₹399)
- SOSA solid body perfumes, 15g - the other worn format (from ₹459)
- The SOSA founder story - Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the reasoning about how to buy fragrance for somebody whose taste you partly know applies to any brand.Specifications verified from the live SOSA product pages, September 2026: SOSA publishes four attars and one pack of three, and that is the entire attar range. Adaa - bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - is ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml. Ameeri - Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh, amber and white musk - is ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165. Mastani - night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka - is ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179. Nawaab - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf - is ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199. The SOSA Attar Trio is one fixed combination - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - at ₹1,055 for 3 x 3ml, ₹1,859 for 3 x 6ml and ₹3,189 for 3 x 12ml, against ₹1,173, ₹2,063 and ₹3,543 for the same bottles bought singly. All three bottles in a trio ship in the same size and in a single gift-ready box. Adaa is not in the trio; SOSA publishes it as the daytime attar, sold separately, and the trio page states that a different combination or mixed sizes means buying individually without the trio price. Published across all five pages: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin; a drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes; roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab; a built-in dab applicator, dabbed on pulse points rather than rubbed; a carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba; alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant and skin-safe; heat-stable to 45 degrees C; hand-blended in small batches in Pune; country of origin India. Attar oils can stain light silks and are applied to skin rather than fabric. For comparison: SOSA solid body perfumes are ₹459 to ₹549 in 15g and are also worn, though no wear-time figure is published for them; SOSA reed diffusers from ₹749 scent a room rather than a person and are not an alternative to an attar. What is not published, and is therefore not stated here: any sillage, projection or room-distance figure; any shelf life, expiry, concentration or oil percentage; any seasonal or skin-chemistry claim beyond "longer on warm or oily skin"; any bulk rate, minimum quantity, price break or lead time; and any presentation beyond the trio's single gift-ready box and a custom label or logo on product. Limits of this guide: no claim is made anywhere on this page about mood, stress, calm, sleep, headaches, sensitivity or wellbeing, in either direction. No claim is made about what any recipient will like. Nothing here states or implies that a named person will enjoy, prefer, adopt or be impressed by any fragrance, that a scent will suit them or become their signature, or that a gift will be well received; SOSA publishes no information of that kind and none is invented here. No third-party perfume, perfume house or brand is named, and no resemblance, alternative or dupe claim is made about any SOSA product. No rating, review count, strength score or customer name from any product page is cited, and no competitor or category of competing product is characterised. No statement is made about what any community, religion or family wears or gives, and no etiquette rule is presented as fact. No fragrance is assigned to a gender; SOSA publishes all four attars as wearable by anyone. Bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available; that is the only branding option, and quantities are settled on WhatsApp. SOSA Home & Body is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, Maharashtra, sending orders across India, with no shop, showroom, stockist, counter or warehouse in any other city. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.