★ The five facts that decide this
Profiles, projection and application guidance. The first and the third are published in full and are below. The second does not exist — no agreed test, no commissioned study, no number — and a page that handed you one would be handing you an opinion with a decimal point in it.
◆ Profiles: all four compositions published in full, from ₹379 for 3ml
◆ Application: one dab, one point, applied at home, judged at hour three
◆ Projection: no test exists and SOSA has not commissioned one
◆ The only performance figure SOSA publishes is 6-8 hours on skin
◆ The default answer is Adaa, 3ml, ₹379 — and ₹0 is also an answer
★ The four profiles, cheapest first
SOSA Adaa Attar₹379 for 3ml — lightest, cleanest, no oudh at allView ₹379
SOSA Ameeri Attar₹385 for 3ml — warm, and the driest of the warm onesView ₹385
SOSA Attar Roll-On CollectionAll four attar profiles, from ₹379View from ₹379
✓ SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing at all about projection: no distance, no rating and no test, because the industry has never agreed one. SOSA has not commissioned a projection study and this page does not describe one. ✓ No page here claims what anybody nearby will notice, think or conclude. Composition, format and dose are the three things a reader can set, and all three are documented below. ✓ ISIPCA-trained perfumer · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Attar Presence · Close Range, Shared Air, Dose
Why does SOSA not publish a projection figure, and what would it take to have one? Because there is no agreed way to produce one, and because a number produced without one would mislead you. For a projection figure to mean anything it would have to fix at least five things in advance: a stated distance at which presence is being judged; a stated dose, down to how much was applied and to which skin; a stated room, with its air movement, temperature and humidity held constant; a panel of noses working to a written protocol rather than one person's impression; and reproducibility — the same conditions run twice, by different panels, giving the same answer. None of that has been standardised anywhere in the industry, so even two honest brands would not be measuring the same thing. This is a description of what would be required, not of anything SOSA has done — no such test has been run here and none is in progress. Until a standard exists, the useful facts are the ones already published: composition, format, size, price and 6-8 hours on skin.
What is the single most useful thing to know before ordering? That the dose decides more than the bottle does, and the dose is free. Oil is concentrated: the amount that feels like almost nothing coming out of a 3ml roll-on is usually plenty, and the amount that feels normal to somebody used to sprays is a great deal. So buy on the base line — dry bases of musk, cedarwood, vetiver and leather stay better-mannered in shared air than sweet bases of vanilla and tonka — then apply one dab on one wrist, at home, before you leave, and leave it alone for the rest of the day. Judge it at the third hour of an ordinary day rather than in the first ten minutes, because an oil in its opening is not being itself yet. And buy the 3ml rather than the 12ml, because the question you are answering is whether you like it, and that question costs ₹379 to answer.
See the SOSA Attar Roll-On Collection Ask SOSA how close it stays
Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA attar roll-on collection holds the four attars and the trio, from ₹379. the SOSA Adaa attar is the lightest of the four and the only one with no oudh at all - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - at ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. the SOSA Ameeri attar is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk, at ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml and ₹1,165 for 12ml. SOSA’s own product page gives its mood as warm and festive, never theatrical. the SOSA Mastani attar is litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, at ₹389 for 3ml, ₹685 for 6ml and ₹1,179 for 12ml. the SOSA Nawaab attar is the deepest and the oud-led one - Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom over white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, closing on amber, leather and white musk - at ₹399 for 3ml, ₹699 for 6ml and ₹1,199 for 12ml. SOSA publishes no pure musk soliflore, no clean-linen or cotton accord, no aldehydic-soapy scent, no single-note vetiver soliflore, no lavender or herbal-spa scent, no incense-resin scent, no tuberose and no coffee attar. White musk exists only as a base note inside Adaa, Ameeri and Nawaab, and vetiver and cedarwood only inside Adaa’s base. every SOSA attar is sold in exactly three sizes - 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - all alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, and SOSA states wear time as 6-8 hours on skin. oudh is present in three of the four attars and absent from one: Nawaab is oud-led, Ameeri names a soft oudh and Mastani names oudh in its base, and Adaa has none. Among the perfume oils, Zaffran has no oud either. On projection: SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing at all about projection - no distance, no rating and no test, because the industry has never agreed one. Where this guide describes how close a fragrance stays, that is Sonal Sahani’s own assessment as the perfumer who composed it, labelled as such, and it carries no figure. Longevity, projection and sillage are three different properties and this guide keeps them apart. On other people: SOSA makes no claim about what anybody else will notice, think, feel or conclude because of a fragrance, and no claim about compliments, attraction, impressions or professional outcomes. On sensitivity: low projection is not low irritation risk. No SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, as safe for sensitive individuals or as suitable for anybody who reacts to fragrance; alcohol-free and DPG-free are ingredient facts and not skin or safety claims, and natural materials are not inherently gentler. Where a workplace, clinic or hospital has its own rule about scented products, that rule decides it and the honest answer is to wear none. Patch-testing a new fragrance is general guidance, not medical advice. Where a fragrance family a reader asks about is not in the SOSA range, this guide says so rather than stretching a product to fit. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any perfume house or brand named anywhere for reference; its “inspired by” perfume oils are SOSA’s own independent compositions and are never dupes, clones or equivalents. Prices, variants and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
You asked for three things, and two of them exist. The fragrance profiles are published in full — every note of all four SOSA attars, in three sizes each, with the prices — and they are below. The application guidance is published too, and it is below in detail. The third thing, tested projection, does not exist and this page is not going to pretend otherwise: SOSA publishes no projection figure, SOSA has not commissioned a projection study, and the industry has never agreed a method for measuring it, which is why no credible house anywhere prints a number. The only performance figure SOSA publishes is a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. So the honest version of your question runs: read the profiles, follow the application guidance, start with Adaa at ₹379 for 3ml, apply one dab, and judge it on the third ordinary day. The rest of this page also sets out what a projection figure would have to satisfy before it told you anything — because knowing why the number is missing is more useful than being handed a fake one.
What this page will not tell you
Nobody can tell you what the people near you will make of it, and the absence of a projection test is only half of why.
There are two different refusals on this page and they should not be confused. The first is technical: there is no tested projection figure for any attar, from SOSA or from anybody, because no such test exists and there is no agreed method that would produce one. The second is more fundamental: even a perfect projection measurement would not tell you what somebody standing near you registers, because that depends on their own nose, their attention, what the room already smells of and what they had for lunch. A number would narrow the first gap and would not touch the second. So this page gives you the two things that are genuinely knowable — what is in each composition and how to apply it — and declines the third rather than dressing it up. If a shop offers you the third, you have learned something useful about the shop.
Quick answers — read this first
How should I compare SOSA attars on fragrance profile, projection figures and application guidance before ordering? Two of the three are available and one is not. Profiles — published in full. Adaa, ₹379 for 3ml: Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, closing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood — the lightest of the four and the only one with no oudh. Ameeri, ₹385: Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk — the driest of the warm ones. Mastani, ₹389: litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka — the sweetest. Nawaab, ₹399: Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom over white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, closing on amber, leather and white musk — the deepest. Application — one dab, one point, applied at home, no top-ups, judged at the third hour. Projection — no tested figure exists, because there is no agreed test and SOSA has not commissioned one. Compare the base lines instead, and buy the 3ml so that finding out costs ₹379.Why does SOSA not publish a projection figure, and what would it take to have one? Because there is no agreed way to produce one, and because a number produced without one would mislead you. For a projection figure to mean anything it would have to fix at least five things in advance: a stated distance at which presence is being judged; a stated dose, down to how much was applied and to which skin; a stated room, with its air movement, temperature and humidity held constant; a panel of noses working to a written protocol rather than one person's impression; and reproducibility — the same conditions run twice, by different panels, giving the same answer. None of that has been standardised anywhere in the industry, so even two honest brands would not be measuring the same thing. This is a description of what would be required, not of anything SOSA has done — no such test has been run here and none is in progress. Until a standard exists, the useful facts are the ones already published: composition, format, size, price and 6-8 hours on skin.
What is the single most useful thing to know before ordering? That the dose decides more than the bottle does, and the dose is free. Oil is concentrated: the amount that feels like almost nothing coming out of a 3ml roll-on is usually plenty, and the amount that feels normal to somebody used to sprays is a great deal. So buy on the base line — dry bases of musk, cedarwood, vetiver and leather stay better-mannered in shared air than sweet bases of vanilla and tonka — then apply one dab on one wrist, at home, before you leave, and leave it alone for the rest of the day. Judge it at the third hour of an ordinary day rather than in the first ten minutes, because an oil in its opening is not being itself yet. And buy the 3ml rather than the 12ml, because the question you are answering is whether you like it, and that question costs ₹379 to answer.
The short answer
Short answer: the profiles and the application guidance are published in full and are both below. The tested projection figure does not exist: there is no agreed method, no commissioned study and no figure.
The pick: Adaa, 3ml, ₹379, one dab on one wrist. Ameeri at ₹385 if you want warmth with it. The collection page holds all four, from ₹379.
Next step: wear it for three ordinary days and judge it at the third hour. And treat any projection number you are quoted anywhere as an opinion.
In this guide
The third line is an absence rather than a shortfall, and the fourth is the only figure anybody here will give you. Attar is concentrated, so patch-test anything new if your skin reacts easily — general guidance, not medical advice.
The four profiles, and where to start
All four, from ₹379
SOSA Attar Roll-On Collection · from ₹379
The same absence, earlier in the cluster
What SOSA publishes about intensity, and what nobody publishes at all
Tell us the setting, not the notes
Free advice on format and dose, by email
Straight answer
Profiles, projection and application guidance, before ordering
Two of your three requests are answerable and one is not, so take them in that order. One: the profiles, in full. Adaa — Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, closing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood; the lightest and most transparent of the four, the only one with no oudh at all, and the only place vetiver and cedarwood appear in the range. ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149. Ameeri — Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, closing on soft oudh, amber and white musk; warm, with the saffron holding the rose off the sweet side, and the driest of the warm ones. ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165. Mastani — litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, closing on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka; the sweetest of the four. ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179. Nawaab — Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom over white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, closing on amber, leather and white musk; the deepest of the four, with its amber held dry by the leather and tobacco rather than lifted by vanilla. ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199. All four are alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, in exactly three sizes. Two: the application guidance, in full. One dab. One point. Applied at home before you leave, so the first assertive minutes happen in your own room. Dab rather than rub, because rubbing flattens the opening and drags the drydown forward. Wrists before neck, because the neck sits at conversation height. Nothing on fabric — an oil belongs on skin, not on a collar or a scarf. No top-ups, because a second application adds to the first rather than replacing it. Less in hot and humid weather than in cool weather, because heat lifts an oil more readily. Judge it at the third hour of an ordinary day. And patch-test anything new if your skin reacts easily, which is general guidance rather than medical advice. Three: tested projection, for which no such test exists. SOSA publishes no projection figure, has not commissioned a projection study, and the industry has never agreed a method — so there is nothing to quote and nothing to compare. The only performance figure here is 6-8 hours on skin. What this page offers in place of a number is the structural fact that an alcohol-free oil dabbed on skin has no atomiser and no solvent carrying it outward, the published base lines, and Sonal's labelled judgement. So, to order: Adaa in 3ml at ₹379 if your requirement is that a room should not notice; Ameeri in 3ml at ₹385 if you want warmth with the restraint; ₹764 for both if you would rather settle it on your own skin; and ₹0 if you already own something restrained and have not yet tried wearing one dab of it.
What SOSA does not make
What does not exist, named plainly. There is no tested projection figure for a SOSA attar, and no such test exists to have produced one. SOSA has not commissioned a projection study, has not run a panel, and publishes no distance, no rating and no scale — and the reason is not modesty. The industry has never agreed a method. There is no standard apparatus, no standard dose, no standard room and no standard panel protocol for projection, which means two brands quoting projection numbers would not be quoting comparable things even if both were honest. What exists instead, and what this page uses: the published composition of every product, the published wear time of 6-8 hours on skin for the attars, the structural facts about format — an oil dabbed on skin has no atomiser and no alcohol carrying it outward, and a balm rubbed in has less again — and Sonal's own judgement as the perfumer, labelled as a judgement and carrying no figure. What to do with that: compare base lines, choose a format, set the dose, and treat any projection number you are offered anywhere as an opinion in the costume of a measurement. A reader who wants a measured figure should know that no house can supply one honestly today.
One line: profiles published, application guidance published, projection not tested by anybody — so start with Adaa 3ml at ₹379, one dab, and judge it on day three.
The sensible first order is 3ml. Adaa is ₹379 and the lightest in the range; Ameeri is ₹385 for warmth with the restraint. The collection page holds all four, from ₹379.
See the SOSA Attar Roll-On Collection from ₹379 Ask SOSA how close it stays
Two answers and one absence
Profiles and application are published; projection is not tested
What to actually buy, and what to skip
Two attars are where almost every reader of this cluster should start, and the collection page holds all four profiles for reading. The same absence is documented earlier in the page on comparing intensity and projection and in the page on reading soft and intimate marketing language sceptically; the dose question in full is here, and the page separating longevity, projection and sillage fixes the vocabulary once.
Where most readers should start
Lightest and most transparent, no oudh at all
Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, closing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. The dry unsweet base is why it reads clean rather than rich, and it is the only composition in the range containing vetiver or cedarwood. If your single requirement is that a room should not notice, start here and probably stop here. ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml, ₹1,149 for 12ml. Wear time 6-8 hours on skin as published.
From ₹379
If clean reads cold to you
Warm, and the driest of the warm ones
Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, closing on soft oudh, amber and white musk. The saffron and pink pepper are the mechanism: they hold the rose off the sweet side, which is what makes this warmth with nothing sugared in it. The soft oudh is a thread rather than the subject. ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml, ₹1,165 for 12ml. Wear time 6-8 hours on skin as published.
From ₹385
If you want to read all four first
Every profile and every size in one place
The attar roll-on collection page, from ₹379, with all four compositions side by side. Reading the four note lists side by side costs nothing and is the single most useful thing a first-time buyer can do — particularly reading the four base lines, since the base is what any conversation after the first half-hour is actually taking place in. No projection figure appears on any of those pages, because none exists.
from ₹379
Three things that decide it
Three sections, in the order you asked for them: the profiles, the application guidance, and the absence explained properly.
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One
The profiles, and how to read four note lists in two minutes
Read the base line of each one first. The opening is what you meet in your own bathroom; the base is the fragrance in which the rest of the day happens. Across the four: Adaa closes dry and clean on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood; Ameeri closes warm and dry on soft oudh, amber and white musk; Mastani closes sweet on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka; Nawaab closes deep and unsugared on amber, leather and white musk. That is the whole shelf in four phrases, and it is enough to eliminate two of them for most briefs in this cluster. Then the hearts: jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in Adaa; Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in Ameeri; night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose in Mastani; and in Nawaab no flower at all, but white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco. One honest note on sandalwood, because it is the commonest confusion in attar shopping: it is a composition note in three of the four and the carrier oil in all four, so Adaa names no sandalwood in its composition and still sits on the sandalwood carrier.
Tip: Four base lines, two minutes, and most of the decision is made. The tops are the part that sells and the bases are the part you wear.
2
Two
The application guidance, in full, and all of it free
How much: one dab, one point, for a whole day — then add a second point only if after three days you suspect nobody at conversation distance could plausibly have found it. How: dab, do not rub; rubbing flattens the opening and pulls the drydown forward. Where: wrists before neck, because the neck sits at conversation height, and a covered wrist behaves differently from an open one. On what: skin only — not a collar, not a cuff, not a scarf. When: at home, before you leave, so the loudest minutes happen in your own room; and once, with no top-up, because a second application adds to the first rather than replacing it. Seasonally: less in hot, humid weather than in cool weather, since heat lifts an oil more readily and the same dab reads more present in summer. How to judge it: at the third hour of an ordinary day, on skin, not on a paper strip and not in the first ten minutes. And the limit: your own nose settles into whatever it is sitting in, so you are the least reliable instrument available for assessing your own application — which is the argument for the conservative version rather than for a mid-afternoon adjustment.
Tip: Warm or oily skin holds an oil longer, which SOSA states plainly. It is also why your friend's dose is not your dose.
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Three
The absence: what a projection figure would have to satisfy
You asked for tested projection, and the honest answer is that no such test exists and SOSA has not commissioned one. It is worth understanding what would be required, because that explains why nobody credible publishes a figure. Five things would have to be fixed in advance. A stated distance, agreed beforehand, at which presence is being assessed — otherwise “projects well” means nothing. A stated dose: how much, to which site, on which skin, since more product reliably buys reach and an unstated dose makes any result unreadable. A stated room: volume, air movement, temperature and humidity, all held constant, because a still room and a room with a fan in it are different experiments. A panel of assessors working to a written protocol, presented blind, rather than one person's impression written up confidently. Reproducibility: the same conditions run twice, by different panels, producing the same answer — which is the part that separates a measurement from an anecdote. Even then the figure would apply only to those conditions. None of this has been standardised anywhere in the industry, and none of it has been done here — this paragraph describes a requirement, not a programme, and no SOSA test, trial or panel exists. Which is why the figures you see elsewhere are not comparable even in principle.
Tip: The useful question to ask any brand is not what its projection figure is. It is whether it publishes one at all, and why.
The SOSA principle
Two of your three requests were answerable in detail and the third was an absence. A guide that filled the absence in would have made the other two look trustworthy and been worth less.
So: read the profiles, use the guidance, buy the 3ml, apply one dab — and take any projection number you are offered anywhere as a statement about the seller.
Work out your own answer
Two questions, and the whole cluster's answer falls out of them. Plain text, no script, so it works read aloud.
First: which of the three things you asked for are you actually stuck on?
“The profiles — I cannot tell the four apart.”
Then read the base lines and nothing else. Adaa ends dry and clean on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. Ameeri ends warm and dry on soft oudh, amber and white musk. Mastani ends sweet on vanilla and tonka. Nawaab ends deep on amber and leather. Four phrases, and most briefs eliminate two of them immediately.
“The application — how much do I actually put on?”
One dab, one point, applied at home, no top-up, for a whole day. Then judge it at the third hour. Add a second point only after three days of the first, and never a second layer on top of the first. The dose page is the long version.
“The projection — I want the tested number.”
There is no such test and no such number, from SOSA or anybody: no agreed method exists and SOSA has not commissioned a study. The nearest honest substitutes are the published base line, the format, and the dose you set. The page on this absence goes through it in detail.
Second: how much do you want to spend to find out?
₹379
One 3ml of Adaa, which is where most readers of this cluster should stop. The 3ml exists so that finding out costs ₹379 rather than ₹1,149.
₹764
Over ₹1,000
Only worth it if you already know your answer. A 12ml is ₹1,149 to ₹1,199 and is a restock rather than an experiment; the ₹1,055 trio is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani and does not include Adaa.
₹0
A real answer and the right one for a good many readers: if you own something restrained, halve what you apply for a fortnight before you buy anything at all. The free version of this whole cluster is one page long.
The case against buying anything
The case for ordering nothing today, which closes a hundred pages honestly and applies to a good many readers.
- Your problem is probably the dose, not the shortlist. A dry, light composition applied three times in the morning is not a light fragrance any more, and no purchase corrects that. Halving what you apply costs nothing and takes a fortnight to assess. Partly conceded: if you have genuinely tried that and the composition itself is still sweeter or heavier than you want it to be, then the bottle really is the problem — and a dry base helps, which is exactly what Adaa's base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood is.
- You are waiting for a number that is not coming. If the plan is to order once a tested projection figure exists to compare, the wait has no end: there is no agreed method, SOSA has not commissioned a study, and nobody credible publishes one. Order on the published composition and the published wear time, or do not order — but do not keep a decision open for data that the industry has never produced.
- Somebody else may already have decided it. If your workplace, clinic or shared premises has a rule about scented products, that rule decides it and the answer is to wear none: a policy is not a preference and no composition or dose gets round one. The same applies where anybody has asked for a low-fragrance environment. Buy nothing, wear it on your own hours, and the question disappears.
Sonal’s own assessment · a perfumer’s judgement, not a measurement
My own view, as the person who composed all four: Adaa is the one I would hand to a reader who said what you have said, and I would hand it over with a caveat about the dose rather than a claim about reach. It is built light on purpose — a cool bergamot-and-cardamom opening and a base I kept deliberately unsweet, because an unsweet base is the part that stays well-mannered as the hours go on. Ameeri is the one for a cold month or an evening, warm and still dry. Mastani is the sweetest of the four and I love it, in the evening. Nawaab is the deepest and I would not wear it into a shared office, and I made it. That is the honest ladder, and none of it is a measurement.
That is a perfumer's judgement about how these compositions behave, and it is not a measurement. SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure of any kind; no projection test has been commissioned and the industry has never agreed a method. Anybody who hands you a number for this is handing you an opinion with a decimal point in it — including, if it ever happened, this page.
The four attars, side by side
All four profiles in full, with the prices for every size, the superlative that belongs to each one, and what each is actually for. This is the complete answer to the first part of your question.
The SOSA plan
The four profiles, complete, with what each one is for
| Attar, composition and the three sizes | What it is doing at conversation distance, and who it suits |
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Adaa — ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149. Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom, neroli → jasmine sambac, magnolia, ylang ylang → white musk, vetiver, cedarwood
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The lightest and most transparent of the four, and the only one with no oudh at all. Dry, clean and unsweet from the base upward, and the only composition in the range carrying vetiver or cedarwood. The default answer for a reader whose requirement is simply that a room should not notice. 6-8 hours on skin as published. |
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Ameeri — ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165. Persian saffron, pink pepper, bergamot → Taif rose, Indian sandalwood → soft oudh, amber, white musk
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Warm, and the driest of the warm ones. Saffron and pink pepper hold the Taif rose off the sweet side, so this is warmth with nothing sugared in it, and the soft oudh underneath is a thread rather than the subject. Buy it because Adaa reads cold to you rather than because you want something quieter. 6-8 hours on skin. |
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Mastani — ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179. Litchi, bergamot, pink pepper → night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose → Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla, tonka
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The sweetest of the four, and it says so on its own note list: vanilla and tonka are what the day ends in. A beautiful evening composition, and the sweet base is the register that keeps reintroducing itself in enclosed shared air — which makes it the wrong instrument for most briefs in this cluster and the right one for a few. 6-8 hours on skin. |
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Nawaab — ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199. Kashmir saffron, black pepper, cardamom → white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, aged tobacco leaf → amber, leather, white musk
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The deepest of the four. Its amber is held dry by the leather and aged tobacco rather than lifted by vanilla, so nothing in it is sugared — “nothing sugared” is true of it and “not sweet at all” is not. Worth owning for evenings and for cold weather, and not a shared-office proposition. 6-8 hours on skin. |
Five worth following, and the first two deal with the absence rather than the products. The page on comparing SOSA attars by intensity and projection documents the same gap earlier in this cluster, and the page on reading soft and intimate marketing language applies the same scepticism to SOSA's own copy. The dose page is the application guidance in its fullest form, the page on what a skin scent actually is separates close-wearing from weak, and the page on whether it faded or you simply stopped noticing explains why self-assessment fails. SOSA has also published a piece separating longevity, projection and sillage, one on why strong and good are not the same thing and one on how long an attar actually lasts on skin.
Still deciding between two of the four
Tell us the setting and what you have found too much before, and we will tell you which profile to order and how much to apply. We will not tell you how far it reaches, because nobody can.
A missing number, explained, is worth more than a present one that nobody can account for. That is the whole editorial position of this cluster in one sentence.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
By base, lightest first
The ladder, lightest to deepest
The SOSA attar range
Four attars in three sizes each, six perfume oils, one trio and two balm tins. Every figure below was read off the live SOSA product pages on 19 October 2026, and every performance statement on this page is either the published 6-8 hours on skin or a labelled judgement.
The SOSA attar ladder, lightest to deepest
What to order, having read the profiles and the guidance
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SOSA Adaa Attar
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Your requirement is that a room should not notice | The lightest and most transparent of the four, no oudh at all, dry base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. ₹379 in 3ml. Start here. | ₹379 View → |
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SOSA Ameeri Attar
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You want warmth with the restraint | Saffron and pink pepper holding Taif rose dry over Indian sandalwood — the driest of the warm ones. ₹385 in 3ml. | ₹385 View → |
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SOSA Attar Roll-On Collection
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You would rather read all four profiles first | The attar roll-on collection, from ₹379, with every composition and every size in one place. Reading costs nothing. | from ₹379 View → |
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SOSA Attar Trio (Pack of 3)
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You want the deeper end of the range properly | Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani together at ₹1,055 in 3ml. Read the note below before buying it to answer this page's question. | ₹1,055 View → |
⚠️ The trio does not include Adaa. It is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani — the three deeper compositions — so buying it to find the quiet one gets you three bottles and not the quiet one. On its own contents it is a genuine discount: those three bought separately in 3ml come to ₹1,173 against ₹1,055 for the set, so the criticism is fit rather than value, and the two are different criticisms. For the question this page answers, ₹764 spent on 3ml of Adaa and 3ml of Ameeri is the better use of the same money.
The verdict
Is any of this worth ordering today
| Worth it if | Not worth it if |
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| You have read the four base lines, one of them is clearly yours, and a 3ml at ₹379 is the cheap way to confirm it on your own skin. Or you want to settle cool-against-warm properly, which is ₹764 and a fortnight. Or you have worn a 3ml for a month, still reach for it, and the 12ml at ₹1,149 is now the sensible restock rather than a gamble. | You are waiting for a projection figure before deciding — it does not exist, it is not coming from SOSA, and no honest house can supply one today, so waiting means waiting forever. Or you already own something restrained and have not yet tried wearing one dab of it, which is free. Or your workplace has its own rule about scented products, in which case the answer is to wear none. |
Every reason to order above is a ₹379 or ₹385 reason. None of them requires the 12ml, and none of them requires the trio.
What to actually buy
The complete answer, in five lines
| The profiles | Adaa: bergamot, cardamom, neroli → jasmine sambac, magnolia, ylang ylang → white musk, vetiver, cedarwood. Ameeri: saffron, pink pepper, bergamot → Taif rose, Indian sandalwood → soft oudh, amber, white musk. Mastani: litchi, bergamot, pink pepper → night jasmine, Damask rose → Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla, tonka. Nawaab: Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom → white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf → amber, leather, white musk. |
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| Projection, the tested figure | Does not exist. No agreed industry method, no commissioned SOSA study, no figure published — and any number quoted elsewhere was produced by somebody's nose in unstated conditions. |
| The published performance figure | 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. That is the only one, for all four attars. The same 6-8 hours on skin is published for the balms. |
| The application guidance | One dab, one point, applied at home before you leave, dabbed rather than rubbed, wrists before neck, nothing on fabric, no top-ups, less in hot weather, judged at the third hour. |
| What to order | Adaa, 3ml, ₹379 as the default; Ameeri, 3ml, ₹385 for warmth; ₹764 for both. ₹0 if you own something restrained and have not yet tried a single dab of it. |
This page states no projection figure, describes no projection test, and does not describe a test SOSA might one day run as though it had run one. The two things it does state — the compositions and the 6-8 hours on skin — were read off the live product pages on 19 October 2026.
If you want the working set rather than one bottle
Two bottles and a collection page. The two 3ml bottles together are ₹764, as two separate purchases at two separate prices — there is no bundle of these and no bundle price.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
Sonal’s recommendation
This is the last page of a hundred on the same subject, so I will be brief and exact. Adaa, 3ml, ₹379. One dab, one wrist, applied at home, judged on the third ordinary day. If it reads cold rather than quiet, Ameeri at ₹385, which is the same restraint with warmth under it. Read the base lines before you order and ignore the tops, because the tops are what sells and the bases are what you wear. And on the thing you asked for that I cannot give you: I have not commissioned a projection test and there is no agreed method for one, so I publish the compositions, the three sizes and 6-8 hours on skin, and for how close something stays you get my judgement with my name on it. What the person beside you makes of it is theirs, and in fifteen hundred pages of writing about fragrance I have never found an honest way to sell that part.
Sonal Sahani · founder and perfumer, SOSA Home & Body
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
I trained as a perfumer at ISIPCA in Versailles, and the thing that surprised me most was how much of the craft is dose rather than materials. You can make a beautiful composition unbearable with an extra half-gram and an ordinary one elegant by using almost none of it. That is why the application section of this page is longer than the shopping section, and why the honest recommendation at the end of a hundred pages is still one dab of a ₹379 bottle.
On the figure you asked for, I would rather lose the sale than invent it. There is no agreed test for projection anywhere in this industry — no standard distance, no standard dose, no standard room, no standard panel — and SOSA has not commissioned one. So no number exists here to publish, and the numbers published elsewhere are not comparable even with each other. What SOSA does publish is everything it can stand behind: the full composition of every product, the three sizes, the prices, and a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. For how close something stays, you get my judgement, labelled as mine, with no decimal point in it.
SOSA's attars are alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. They are made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. One honest note to end a hundred pages on: attar is concentrated, and natural materials like rose and oud can occasionally react on skin that reacts easily, so a small patch test with anything new is worth the minute it takes. That is general guidance and not medical advice, and low projection is not low irritation risk — they are unrelated properties and no page of mine will blur them.
Frequently asked questions
Does SOSA publish projection test data for its attars?
No. There is no such test and SOSA has not commissioned one, because the industry has never agreed a method for measuring projection — no standard distance, no standard dose, no standard room, no standard panel. So SOSA publishes no distance, no rating and no scale, and the only performance figure it states is a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. Where this guide describes how close a composition stays, that is Sonal's assessment as the perfumer who made it, labelled as such and carrying no figure.
What would a meaningful projection figure require?
Five things fixed in advance, none of which the industry has standardised: a stated distance at which presence is judged; a stated dose, including how much and to which skin; a stated room, with air movement, temperature and humidity held constant; a panel of assessors working blind to a written protocol; and reproducibility, meaning the same conditions run twice by different panels giving the same answer. Even then the number would apply only to those conditions. This describes what would be needed — no such test has been run at SOSA and none is in progress.
What are the four SOSA attar profiles, in full?
Adaa (₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149): bergamot, green cardamom, neroli → jasmine sambac, magnolia, ylang ylang → white musk, vetiver, cedarwood. The lightest, and the only one with no oudh. Ameeri (₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165): saffron, pink pepper, bergamot → Taif rose, Indian sandalwood → soft oudh, amber, white musk. Mastani (₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179): litchi, bergamot, pink pepper → night jasmine, Damask rose → Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla, tonka — the sweetest. Nawaab (₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199): Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom → white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf → amber, leather, white musk — the deepest.
What is the complete application guidance for a SOSA attar?
One dab, one point, applied at home before you leave, dabbed rather than rubbed. Wrists before neck, because the neck sits at conversation height. Skin only, never a collar, cuff or scarf. No top-ups, because a second application adds to the first rather than replacing it. Less in hot, humid weather than in cool weather, since heat lifts an oil more readily. Judge it at the third hour of an ordinary day rather than in the first ten minutes. And patch-test anything new if your skin reacts easily — general guidance, not medical advice.
Which SOSA attar should I order first, and in which size?
Adaa in 3ml at ₹379 if your requirement is that a room should not notice: it is the lightest and most transparent of the four, the only one with no oudh at all, and its base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood is dry rather than sweet. Ameeri at ₹385 if clean reads cold to you. Order the 3ml rather than the 12ml, because the question is whether you like it and that question costs ₹379 to answer — both 3ml bottles together are ₹764, which is cheaper than the ₹1,055 trio and includes the light one the trio leaves out.
Ask us the one thing we can answer
SOSA — Attar Presence alcohol-free attars from ₹379, profiles and guidance in full, and no invented figures
Alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier · DPG-free · hand-blended in Pune · 3ml, 6ml and 12ml · SOSA states 6-8 hours on skin, publishes no projection figure and has commissioned no projection test. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask SOSA how close it stays → SOSA Attar Roll-On Collection · from ₹379
One last look at the two to start with
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- How much to apply when you want to be found, not announced
- What a skin scent actually is, and how it differs from a weak one
- Longevity, projection and sillage — three different properties
- How long an attar actually lasts on skin
- Ask us: Ask SOSA how close it stays
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
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 way of choosing applies to any brand. Skin note: attar is concentrated, so patch-test any new fragrance if your skin reacts easily - that is general guidance, not medical advice.Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA attar roll-on collection holds the four attars and the trio, from ₹379. the SOSA Adaa attar is the lightest of the four and the only one with no oudh at all - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - at ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. the SOSA Ameeri attar is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk, at ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml and ₹1,165 for 12ml. SOSA’s own product page gives its mood as warm and festive, never theatrical. the SOSA Mastani attar is litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, at ₹389 for 3ml, ₹685 for 6ml and ₹1,179 for 12ml. the SOSA Nawaab attar is the deepest and the oud-led one - Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom over white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, closing on amber, leather and white musk - at ₹399 for 3ml, ₹699 for 6ml and ₹1,199 for 12ml. SOSA publishes no pure musk soliflore, no clean-linen or cotton accord, no aldehydic-soapy scent, no single-note vetiver soliflore, no lavender or herbal-spa scent, no incense-resin scent, no tuberose and no coffee attar. White musk exists only as a base note inside Adaa, Ameeri and Nawaab, and vetiver and cedarwood only inside Adaa’s base. every SOSA attar is sold in exactly three sizes - 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - all alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, and SOSA states wear time as 6-8 hours on skin. oudh is present in three of the four attars and absent from one: Nawaab is oud-led, Ameeri names a soft oudh and Mastani names oudh in its base, and Adaa has none. Among the perfume oils, Zaffran has no oud either. On projection: SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing at all about projection - no distance, no rating and no test, because the industry has never agreed one. Where this guide describes how close a fragrance stays, that is Sonal Sahani’s own assessment as the perfumer who composed it, labelled as such, and it carries no figure. Longevity, projection and sillage are three different properties and this guide keeps them apart. On other people: SOSA makes no claim about what anybody else will notice, think, feel or conclude because of a fragrance, and no claim about compliments, attraction, impressions or professional outcomes. On sensitivity: low projection is not low irritation risk. No SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, as safe for sensitive individuals or as suitable for anybody who reacts to fragrance; alcohol-free and DPG-free are ingredient facts and not skin or safety claims, and natural materials are not inherently gentler. Where a workplace, clinic or hospital has its own rule about scented products, that rule decides it and the honest answer is to wear none. Patch-testing a new fragrance is general guidance, not medical advice. Where a fragrance family a reader asks about is not in the SOSA range, this guide says so rather than stretching a product to fit. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any perfume house or brand named anywhere for reference; its “inspired by” perfume oils are SOSA’s own independent compositions and are never dupes, clones or equivalents. Prices, variants and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.