I have Rs 2,000 and want a premium-feeling attar for an Indian wedding: which oud, saffron or floral-woody compositions should I explore?

I have Rs 2,000 and want a premium-feeling attar for an Indian wedding. Which oud, saffron or floral-woody compositions should I explore?

Start with what your figure covers, because at ₹2,000 the answer is almost everything and the exception matters. The 12ml bottles are Adaa at ₹1,149, Ameeri at ₹1,165, Mastani at ₹1,179 and Nawaab at ₹1,199, so every one of the four is inside your budget and the dearest four is under ₹2,000 and the dearest leaves ₹801 over. The Pack of 3 is ₹1,055 for the 3ml set, ₹1,859 for 6ml and ₹3,189 for 12ml, and it holds Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani. Adaa is not in it. The 3ml set at ₹1,055 is inside your figure with ₹945 to spare and the 6ml set at ₹1,859 is inside it with ₹141 to spare. The 12ml set at ₹3,189 is not: it is ₹1,189 above ₹2,000, and I would rather you read that here than discover it at checkout. Two more sums worth having. A 12ml plus a 3ml comes to between ₹1,528 and ₹1,598 depending on which two, so a big bottle and a small one together are inside your figure. Three separate 6ml bottles are not: the cheapest three come to ₹2,033, which is ₹33 over, and that near miss is exactly the kind of thing a budget page should say out loud. Now the wedding, which two occasion lines answer between them. Nawaab publishes its occasion line as weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. Ameeri publishes its occasion line as Diwali, Eid, Karwa Chauth, family weddings and festive dinners. Both print a wedding on the product page, and Adaa prints daytime weddings in its own line, so three of the four touch your event in different ways. Take your three words next. Oud is published in three of the four pyramids, spelled three ways: white royal oud in Nawaab's heart, soft oudh in Ameeri's base and oudh in Mastani's base. Saffron is published twice, both times in an opening: Kashmir saffron in Nawaab's and Persian saffron in Ameeri's. Floral-woody is not a label SOSA prints, but the floral and the wood in one published tier is Ameeri's heart, which is Taif rose and Indian sandalwood together. Nawaab publishes Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom in its opening, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf in its heart, and amber, leather and white musk in its base. Nawaab's mood line reads regal, refined, long-wearing, never aggressive. Nawaab's published strength figure is 9.5, the deepest in the SOSA attar range. It is ₹399 for 3ml, ₹699 for 6ml and ₹1,199 for 12ml. Nawaab carries 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews. Those are customer reviews Sonal collated over WhatsApp, which is why I quote the count beside the figure rather than the figure on its own. Nawaab publishes its gender line as designed for masculine luxury, unisex on skin. Ameeri publishes Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot in its opening, Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in its heart, and soft oudh, amber and white musk in its base. Ameeri's mood line reads warm, festive, opulent, never theatrical. Ameeri's published strength figure is 9.0, the festive warm middle of the range. It is ₹1,165 for 12ml. Ameeri carries 4.9 from 104 published customer reviews. Ameeri publishes its gender line as unisex, and the warmth reads equally on men and women. Two things to be straight about. Nawaab publishes aged tobacco leaf in its heart and leather in its base, and readers often do not notice either until they are wearing the bottle, so there they are in writing. And the word premium. The attar pages carry no family label of the kind the car fragrance pages carry. What they publish instead is a three-tier pyramid, a mood line, a gender line, an occasion line, a self-assigned strength figure and a wear time. The strength figures are SOSA's own self-assigned scores out of ten, on a scale SOSA invented and nobody else uses: Adaa 8.5, Ameeri 9.0, Mastani 9.2 and Nawaab 9.5. All four publish the same wear time, 6 to 8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and nothing beyond that figure is published. SOSA publishes no projection figure and no sillage figure for any attar, so no page of mine will turn a strength figure into a distance. All four are the same format: a concentrated oil attar with a built-in dab applicator, carried in sandalwood oil and jojoba, alcohol-free and DPG-free. Sonal Sahani trained at ISIPCA, Versailles, she designs all four attars herself, and she signs off every small batch by hand in Pune. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.