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The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the reader who is on a plane most weeks and would rather carry three small bottles that do three different things than one large one that does one
- 1 The 3ml is the travel format and it is also the trial size. SOSA runs no sampler programme of any kind, so the small bottle does both jobs - which happens to suit a reader who wants three scents in a washbag rather than one.
- 2 Three 3mls spread wider than one large bottle, if the three are chosen on the count. Adaa, Nawaab and Mastani are the lowest-overlap three in the range: one shared material between the first pair, two between the others.
- 3 This is the one page here where size does not follow frequency. A bag imposes its own rule, so the bottle you wear most still travels as a 3ml - and the honest alternative is a 6ml that stays at home beside a 3ml that goes with you.
- 4 An attar's format suits a bag better than a spray does. It is an oil with the dab applicator built into the cap, so there is no pump and no atomiser, and it is applied to skin in dabs rather than sprayed into a room.
- 5 Published performance is six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. A long travel day therefore runs past one application, which is an argument for re-applying once rather than for applying more at six in the morning.
★ Three small bottles for a bag, chosen so that no two of them do the same job
SOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the daytime bottle for meetings, airports and sightseeing alike, and the one with no oudh in itView Adaa →
SOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - the formal dinner bottle, and the furthest thing in the bag from the daytime oneView Nawaab →
SOSA Mastani Attar · 3ml ₹389Litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka - the warm-evening bottle, sweet where the dinner bottle is dryView Mastani →
✓ Every note and price here is quoted off the live SOSA product pages ✓ No delivery, carriage or packaging promise appears on this page - only what is in the bottles ✓ The only performance figure quoted here is the published six to eight hours on skin
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Is the 3ml the right size for travel? It is the right size for a bag and it is also the only trial size that exists here - SOSA runs no sampler programme, so the 3ml does both jobs. For a reader who flies most weeks there is a second option worth knowing: buy the 6ml of whichever bottle you wear most and keep it at home, and keep a 3ml of the same thing permanently packed. Nothing then has to be remembered on a Monday morning.
Does an attar travel better than a perfume spray? It is a different piece of engineering and it suits a bag in a few specific ways: it is an oil rather than an alcohol solution, the dab applicator is built into the cap so there is no pump or atomiser, and it goes onto skin in dabs rather than into the air. I am not going to make any promise about carriage or handling, because that is not mine to make - what I can tell you is what the format is.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
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.
This is the one question in this whole family where I would recommend three bottles without any hedging at all, and the reason has nothing to do with scent. Everywhere else in this cluster I argue that two bottles and a careful hand beat three bottles bought on a chart. A bag changes that arithmetic, because a bag imposes a constraint the home shelf does not: whatever you carry has to be small, and three small bottles of three different things take up less room than one large bottle of one. So for a reader who is away most weeks, the three-bottle answer is honest - provided the three are chosen so that no two of them are doing the same job, which is where most travel sets go wrong.
Quick answers — read this first
What are the best compact attars for frequent business travel? Three 3mls, chosen so they do not repeat each other: Adaa at ₹379 for the daytime, Nawaab at ₹399 for formal dinners and Mastani at ₹389 for warmer evenings. Adaa and Nawaab have white musk in common and nothing else, and Mastani sits apart from both, so the three cover genuinely different ground in a washbag.Is the 3ml the right size for travel? It is the right size for a bag and it is also the only trial size that exists here - SOSA runs no sampler programme, so the 3ml does both jobs. For a reader who flies most weeks there is a second option worth knowing: buy the 6ml of whichever bottle you wear most and keep it at home, and keep a 3ml of the same thing permanently packed. Nothing then has to be remembered on a Monday morning.
Does an attar travel better than a perfume spray? It is a different piece of engineering and it suits a bag in a few specific ways: it is an oil rather than an alcohol solution, the dab applicator is built into the cap so there is no pump or atomiser, and it goes onto skin in dabs rather than into the air. I am not going to make any promise about carriage or handling, because that is not mine to make - what I can tell you is what the format is.
In this guide
- The straight answer, and the one rule that changes on this page
- Why a bag overrules the sizing rule
- Three bottles, three jobs, no two the same
- The three ways to allocate the money, and what each one gives up
- A travel routine that does not need a fourth bottle
- What I would buy, in what order, and the version with two bottles
- A note from Sonal
- Frequently asked questions
Straight answer
How do I build a compact fragrance wardrobe for frequent business trips, holidays and formal dinners away from home?
Three 3mls: Adaa at ₹379 for every daytime hour, Nawaab at ₹399 for formal dinners, Mastani at ₹389 for warmer or more festive evenings. That is the one three-bottle recommendation in this family that I will make without arguing you down to two, and the reason is the bag. First, the rule that changes here. Everywhere else in this cluster I say that size follows frequency: the bottle worn twenty times a month is the 6ml and the bottle worn four times stays a 3ml. That logic assumes a shelf. A bag has a different constraint - space and weight are the binding limits rather than money - and under that constraint the small bottle is right even for the fragrance you wear most. So a travelling reader buys 3mls across the board, and the question becomes which three rather than which sizes. Second, which three, and this is where travel sets usually fail. A three-bottle set sold for travel is typically three bottles from the same house that happen to be the three most popular, which means they often share most of their materials. Mine would too, if I let it: three of my four attars carry oudh, three carry sandalwood, and all four carry sandalwood in the carrier. The three I would pack are Adaa, Nawaab and Mastani, because that trio is the lowest-overlap three the range can produce - Adaa and Nawaab have white musk in common and nothing else, Mastani and Nawaab have oudh and sandalwood in common and then separate completely, and Adaa and Mastani have bergamot and jasmine in common with the jasmine reading green in one and nocturnal in the other. The attar I leave out is Ameeri, whose heaviest overlap is with the Nawaab that is already in the bag. Third, how the three map onto your three kinds of trip. Business days, holiday days and airport days are all the same slot: daytime, other people's air, long hours, and a composition that should not insist. Adaa does all of them at one dab, and two dabs on a holiday afternoon when nobody is in a meeting. Formal dinners are the second slot and they want weight rather than volume, which is Nawaab at one dab low on the throat. The third bottle covers the evenings that are warm, festive or simply more social than a business dinner - a wedding you have flown in for, a long dinner on holiday - and that is Mastani, which brings sweetness that neither of the other two has at all. Fourth, the alternative that suits a lot of travellers better, and it is cheaper. Buy the 6ml of your daytime bottle at ₹669 and keep it at home, and buy a 3ml of the same bottle that lives permanently in your wash bag and never comes out. The advantage is not money, it is that nothing has to be remembered: the bag is always packed, and a bottle you never move is a bottle you never leave behind in a hotel. Then add the Nawaab 3ml for the dinners and stop at two scents rather than three. Fifth, the travel day itself, which is the slot nobody plans for. Six to eight hours on skin is the published wear, and a travel day routinely runs twelve. The answer is one re-application rather than a larger morning dose, because a larger morning dose is spent in a departure lounge. One dab before you leave, one dab when you arrive, and nothing in between. On a flight I would apply less than at home rather than more: a cabin is the most shared air you will be in all month. And sixth, the thing I will not promise. I am not going to tell you anything about carriage, handling or what happens to a bottle in a hold, because I do not control any of it. What I can tell you is the format: an oil, no alcohol, a dab applicator built into the cap, 3ml, applied to skin.
Why a bag overrules the sizing rule
The sizing rule in this cluster is simple and it survives almost every page: buy the large size of the thing you wear constantly and the small size of the thing you wear occasionally, because the alternative is owning most of a bottle you wear four times a year. It is the single piece of advice that saves readers the most money, and this page is the one place it bends.
It bends because a travelling reader is not optimising for cost per wear, they are optimising for what fits. Three 3mls occupy less of a wash bag than one 12ml, they can be packed in different places, and losing one of them is a smaller loss than losing a large bottle. There is also a quieter advantage: the small bottle makes a three-scent wardrobe affordable to assemble in one go, and a reader who flies four times a month will get through a 3ml fast enough that the economics never become silly.
What does not bend is the choice of which three. A bag that contains three bottles sharing most of their materials is a bag carrying one fragrance in three containers, and you will find yourself reaching for whichever is nearest because it makes no difference. The whole value of a compact set is that each bottle answers something the other two cannot, and that is a property you can check on the pyramids before you buy rather than discover in a hotel room in month three.
Three bottles, three jobs, no two the same
A wash bag, filled
The slot, the bottle, and why that one rather than the obvious alternative
| The slot | The bottle | Why this one and not its neighbour |
|---|---|---|
| Every daytime hour - meetings, airports, sightseeing, a hotel breakfast | Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, one dab, two on a holiday afternoon | Over Ameeri, the other quiet daytime candidate, which carries soft oudh and amber in the base. In a cabin and in somebody else's meeting room, the composition with nothing heavy in it is the one I would choose |
| Formal dinners - clients, conferences, anything with a table plan | Nawaab, the 3ml at ₹399, one dab low on the throat | Over a larger dose of the daytime bottle, because weight is not a quantity. This is the bottle that makes the set worth carrying rather than one bottle and a heavier hand |
| Warm, festive or long social evenings away from home | Mastani, the 3ml at ₹389, one or two dabs | Over Ameeri again, which is the traditional festive answer and the attar closest to the Nawaab already in the bag. Sweetness is the one direction the other two do not have |
| The travel day itself, which is nobody's favourite slot | The daytime bottle, applied twice - once before you leave and once on arrival. ₹0 | Over applying more in the morning, which is spent in a departure lounge. The published wear is six to eight hours and a travel day is longer than that, so the fix is timing rather than quantity |
Four slots and three bottles, with the fourth filled by a habit. If you want to carry two rather than three, drop the third row - it is the one that depends most on what kind of trips you actually take.
The three ways to allocate the money, and what each one gives up
Three allocations for a reader who is away most weeks
What each one buys, and what it costs you that the others do not
| The allocation | What it buys | What it gives up |
|---|---|---|
| Three 3mls - the daytime bottle, the dinner bottle and the evening bottle | Three genuinely different directions in a wash bag, and the whole set assembled in one order rather than over a season | Cost per millilitre, which is worse at the 3ml than at the 6ml. You are paying for format rather than volume, and for a frequent flyer that is a fair trade |
| A 6ml at home and a 3ml of the same attar permanently in the bag | One decision made once. The bag is always packed, nothing is forgotten on a Monday, and the bottle you wear most is the one you bought in the larger size | The second and third directions. This is a one-scent wardrobe with a travel copy, and it suits a reader whose trips are all the same kind of trip |
| Two 3mls - daytime and dinner - and nothing for the third slot | The two slots that are genuinely different, at the smallest outlay, with the warm-evening slot answered by a second dab of the dinner bottle | The sweet direction, which is a real absence rather than a notional one. If the evenings you fly in for are festive, you will notice it |
| One 12ml of a single attar | The best volume for the money in the range, and a bottle that will last a year of travelling | Everything this page is about. One composition cannot do a cabin at nine in the morning and a formal dinner at nine at night, and a large bottle is the wrong shape for a bag |
The second row is the one most readers end up happiest with, and it is not the one with three bottles in it. The fourth row is here because it is the most tempting purchase on the page and the worst fit for the question.
A travel routine that does not need a fourth bottle
Two or three bottles in a bag need a routine or they turn into one bottle and two souvenirs. Mine is short. The daytime bottle lives in the bag permanently and is applied twice on a travel day - once before leaving and once on arrival - and once on an ordinary working day away. The dinner bottle comes out only on evenings with a table plan, and it is applied at six rather than in the morning, which is the whole of the trick. The third bottle is packed only for trips that actually contain a festive evening, and on a normal business week it stays at home.
Three practical details, learnt the hard way. Apply before security rather than after, because a wrist that has just been through a crowded queue is not where you want to start a wear. Keep the bottles out of a car and out of direct sun - heat and light are what age a perfume oil, and a bag left on a dashboard in May has not done the contents any favours. And on arrival, apply after the shower rather than before the taxi, since skin fresh out of hot water takes an oil readily and the dab goes further.
One honest absence worth naming while we are talking about trying things: there is no sampler programme here and no discovery set, so the 3ml is both the trial size and the travel size. That is convenient for this particular question and inconvenient for most others, and I would rather state it than let a reader go looking.
What I would buy, in what order, and the version with two bottles
Sonal’s recommendation
Three 3mls if your trips genuinely differ, two if they do not
A bag is the only place where I will tell you to buy the small size of the bottle you wear most. Everywhere else that is how readers end up with half a shelf of almost-full bottles.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
| The daytime bottle | The Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - meetings, cabins, airports and holiday afternoons, at one dab or two |
| The dinner bottle | The Nawaab 3ml at ₹399, applied at six rather than in the morning |
| The third bottle, only if the evenings earn it | The Mastani 3ml at ₹389 - packed for trips that contain a festive evening and left at home otherwise |
| The two-bottle version | Drop the third and answer a warm evening with a second dab of the dinner bottle. The sweet direction is the only thing you give up |
| The one-decision version | A 6ml at ₹669 at home and a 3ml of the same attar permanently in the bag, so nothing is ever forgotten or repacked |
| What I would not pack | Ameeri, in this set. Its heaviest overlap in the range is with the Nawaab that is already going in the bag |
Buy the first two together and leave the third until a trip appears that needs it. The reason is not thrift, it is that a bag teaches you quickly which bottles you actually open: after a month of travel you will know whether the third slot is a festive evening you keep having or one you imagined while packing. And if you fly weekly, consider the 6ml-at-home-plus-3ml-in-the-bag arrangement for whichever bottle wins, because the single most expensive thing about travelling with fragrance is the bottle left in a hotel bathroom.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Nawaab · 3ml ₹399
If you check luggage on most trips rather than travelling with a cabin bag, the constraint this whole page is built on disappears and the ordinary rule comes back. Space stops being the binding limit, so buy the 6ml of whichever attar you wear most - ₹669 for Adaa, ₹699 for Nawaab - and keep the 3mls for the two bottles you use occasionally. Size follows frequency again the moment the bag stops deciding.
— the condition that changes this answer
You came for a compact wardrobe that travels. Two routes out: the bottle that does your daytime hours, or a note about your month.
The daytime bottle first, since it is the one that will be open every day.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If you want the one bottle that covers meetings, cabins, airports and holiday afternoons at one dab or two. No oudh, no amber, no vanilla, and the furthest thing in the bag from whatever you pack for the dinners.
Send Sonal your travel month
If you are not sure whether your trips are genuinely three kinds of trip. Tell me how many nights away, how many formal dinners and how many festive evenings in a typical month, and I will tell you whether the bag needs three bottles or two.
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A note from Sonal
I travel for work more than I expected to when I started a fragrance house, and the bag is where my own advice first broke. I had been telling readers for a year to buy the large size of the thing they wear most, and then I spent a month going through airports with a 12ml in a wash bag and understood why nobody does that.
What I settled on for myself is the second row of the money table rather than the three-bottle answer: a 6ml at home and a 3ml of the same attar that lives in the bag and never comes out of it. It costs a little more over a year than owning one bottle and remembering to pack it, and it has saved me two bottles left behind in hotel bathrooms, which more than settles the account.
The one thing I would hold firm on is the choice of the three. A travel set whose bottles share most of their materials is a heavier bag for no benefit, and the only way to know is to read the base lines side by side before buying. That takes two minutes, it is the same skill this whole cluster is about, and it works just as well on a set somebody else assembled as on one you put together yourself.
Frequently asked questions
What size attar should I travel with?
The 3ml, at 379 to 399 rupees depending which one. A bag's binding constraint is space rather than money, so the small bottle is right even for the fragrance you wear every day - which is the opposite of the advice I would give you for a shelf at home. If you fly most weeks, keeping a 3ml permanently packed and a 6ml at home is the arrangement that stops anything being forgotten.
Which three attars make the best compact set?
Adaa, Nawaab and Mastani. Counted on the published pyramids, those three are the furthest apart of any three in the range: one shared material between the first pair, two between the others. The one to leave out is Ameeri, whose heaviest overlap is with Nawaab, which means a set containing both is carrying a near-repeat through four airports.
How should I wear fragrance on a long travel day?
One dab before you leave and one on arrival, rather than a bigger application in the morning. The published wear is six to eight hours on skin and a travel day is usually longer than that, so the fix is timing. On a flight I would use less than I do at home - a cabin is the most shared air most of us are in all month - and apply after the shower at the other end rather than before the taxi.
Is there a travel set or sample set I can try first?
There is no sampler programme here and no discovery set, so the 3ml does both jobs: it is the smallest bottle and it is the only way to try a composition before committing to a larger one. For this particular question that works out well, since the trial size is also the format you were going to carry anyway.
Do attars survive being carried around better than sprays?
They are a different format rather than a tougher one, and I am not going to make a promise about carriage or handling that is not mine to make. What I can tell you is what the format is: an oil with no alcohol in it and the dab applicator built into the cap, so there is no pump or atomiser. Heat and light are what age a perfume oil, so the thing to avoid is a bag left in a hot car.
Can I get away with two bottles instead of three?
Easily, and plenty of readers should. Keep the daytime bottle and the formal dinner bottle, and answer a warm festive evening with a second dab of the dinner one. The only thing you give up is the sweet direction, which matters if the evenings you fly in for are weddings and does not matter at all if they are conferences.
Three small bottles, three different jobs
Adaa for the days, Nawaab for the dinners, Mastani only if the evenings earn it.
Away most weeks and tired of packing the wrong bottle?
SOSA — Send me the shape of a typical month - nights away, formal dinners, festive evenings. I will tell you whether the bag wants three bottles or two, which one belongs permanently packed, and which attar I would leave out of a travel set altogether.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · 3ml, 6ml and 12ml · six to eight hours on skin · no sampler or discovery set exists here
Ask Sonal which one stays close → SOSA Adaa Attar · ₹379
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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.