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The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the reader who has been burned once by a second bottle and wants a list of questions rather than a recommendation
- 1 Ask for the full base line, not the family label. The base is what you wear at hour three, and it is the only part of a pyramid that settles whether a second bottle repeats the first.
- 2 Ask which materials the two bottles have in common. A seller who sells both of them can answer this in a sentence, and a seller who will not answer it is telling you something.
- 3 Ask for the published longevity figure and nothing beyond it. The only performance figure SOSA publishes for its attars is 6-8 hours on skin; there is no projection, sillage or scent-radius data at all.
- 4 Ask what the smallest size is and what it costs. Here that is the 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399, and with no sampler programme it is the only way to test anything before committing to a larger bottle.
- 5 Ask what the seller will not claim. Nobody can tell you what another person will notice, or promise what two scents will do layered, or make a claim about your skin. An answer that includes those is a warning rather than a service.
★ The four bottles these questions get asked about, with their base lines in the open
SOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Base line: white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. No oudh at any level, and nothing sweet at the bottom - the shortest honest answer to question oneView Adaa →
SOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Base line: soft oudh, amber and white musk, under Taif rose and Indian sandalwood. The bottle where question two matters most, because it sits inside both heavy pairs hereView Ameeri →
SOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399Base line: amber, leather and white musk, under white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf. Oud-led, and the deepest of the fourView Nawaab →
✓ Every answer this guide gives to its own six questions is checkable against the live product pages ✓ Where a question has no published answer, this guide says that there is none rather than estimating one ✓ The only performance figure quoted here is the published 6-8 hours on skin
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What should a seller be able to tell me about how two of their fragrances differ? The shared materials, by name. A seller who makes both bottles knows what is in them and can say "these two have bergamot and white musk in common, and nothing else" in one sentence. At SOSA the heaviest-overlapping pair is Ameeri with Nawaab, and the widest gap is Adaa with Nawaab.
What should a seller refuse to tell me? What another person will notice or think about how you smell, how far a fragrance reads in a room, what two scents will smell like layered on your skin, and anything about your skin itself. SOSA publishes no projection figure of any kind, and nothing about layering has been formally evaluated here - an answer to any of those is somebody guessing in a confident voice.
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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.
You have been sold a near-repeat once and you want a list of questions rather than another recommendation. That is the right instinct, and here is the list. Six questions, all of them answerable in a sentence by anybody who actually knows their own range, and all of them checkable afterwards against a product page. They work on me, they work on any brand you shop with, and three of the six will tell you more about the seller than about the bottle. The last one is the most useful: ask what they will not claim. A seller with a confident answer to everything is not better informed than the rest of us, only less careful.
Quick answers — read this first
What should I ask before buying a second fragrance? Six things: the full base line of the bottle you are considering, which materials it has in common with the one you already own, the published longevity figure, the smallest size and its price, what occasion the bottle was built for, and what the seller will not claim. Every one of those has a checkable answer, and all six should be answerable before you spend ₹379.What should a seller be able to tell me about how two of their fragrances differ? The shared materials, by name. A seller who makes both bottles knows what is in them and can say "these two have bergamot and white musk in common, and nothing else" in one sentence. At SOSA the heaviest-overlapping pair is Ameeri with Nawaab, and the widest gap is Adaa with Nawaab.
What should a seller refuse to tell me? What another person will notice or think about how you smell, how far a fragrance reads in a room, what two scents will smell like layered on your skin, and anything about your skin itself. SOSA publishes no projection figure of any kind, and nothing about layering has been formally evaluated here - an answer to any of those is somebody guessing in a confident voice.
The short answer
Short answer: Ask for the base line, the shared materials, the published longevity, the smallest size, the intended occasion, and the refusals. Those six settle a second purchase. For my own four attars the answers are published and this page gives them: base lines on each product page, the heaviest-overlapping pair is Ameeri with Nawaab, longevity is 6-8 hours on skin and nothing else, the smallest size is the 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399, and the refusals are what another person will notice, how far a scent reads, and what two bottles worn together would come to, which is not mine to promise. Asking costs ₹0 and it is the step that prevents the near-repeat.
The pick: Nothing, until the six answers are in front of you. Then Adaa 3ml ₹379 if the answers show your shelf is warm, or Nawaab 3ml ₹399 if they show it is light - those two have one published material in common.
Next step: read how to compare two bottles on their published pyramids, which is question two done properly, and the four-week audit, which is question five answered from your own diary. Or send me the six questions about any two bottles, mine or anybody else's, and I will answer them in writing.
In this guide
Straight answer
What should I ask before a second attar purchase, and what should a seller be able to tell me about how two fragrances differ?
Six questions, in this order, and the cost of asking them is nothing. If the answers are not in front of you, the purchase is premature however good the bottle looks. One: what is the full base line? Not the family, not the adjectives - the published base, material by material. The base is what sits on your skin for most of the wear, and it is the only part of a pyramid that determines whether a second bottle feels like a new direction. For my four the answers are white musk, vetiver and cedarwood for Adaa; soft oudh, amber and white musk for Ameeri; Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka for Mastani; amber, leather and white musk for Nawaab. Four distinct last lines, and any seller should be able to produce theirs without looking them up. Two: which materials does this bottle have in common with the one I already own? This is the question that prevents the mistake you are trying to avoid, and it is the one most sellers will not answer directly, because answering it honestly sometimes stops a sale. A seller who makes both bottles has the answer in their head. Mine, for the record: Ameeri with Nawaab is the closest pair in my range at 0.50 of their combined materials, Ameeri with Mastani is next at 0.42, and Adaa with Nawaab is the widest gap at 0.07, with white musk the only thing in common. Three: what is the published longevity, and is there any other performance figure? For a SOSA attar the answer is six to eight hours on skin, and there is nothing else - no projection figure, no sillage rating, no radius in metres, because none of that has ever been measured here. If a seller quotes you a number for how far a fragrance reads, ask where the figure came from. There is no standard test behind it and the answer will not survive the question. Four: what is the smallest size, and what does it cost? You are trying to buy information cheaply. Here the smallest size is the 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399, and since there is no sampler programme and no discovery set, that bottle is the trial. A seller whose smallest option is large is asking you to take a bigger bet than you need to. Five: what was this bottle built for? Composition has intent in it. Nawaab was built for cool evenings and long occasions; Adaa was built for ordinary days in heat. A seller who answers "everything" is either guessing or has not thought about it, and a bottle for every occasion tends to be the bottle you reach for on none of them. Match the answer against your own week - specifically against the days your existing bottle gets wrong. And six: what will you not claim about this fragrance? This is the question I would ask first if I could only ask one, because the answer is a character reference. The honest list is short and it should include what another person will notice or think, how far the scent reads in a room, what the bottle will do layered with something else, and anything at all about your skin. I cannot tell you any of those things and neither can anybody else. A seller who answers all four is not better informed. They are simply willing to say more than they know, and the near-repeat you bought last time was almost certainly sold to you in that voice.
The six questions, and the answers for this range
The six questions, with my own answers written out
What to ask, what the answer tells you, and how to check it afterwards
| The step | What you are measuring | What the result tells you |
|---|---|---|
| What is the full published base line? | What you will actually be wearing at hour three, material by material | Adaa: white musk, vetiver, cedarwood. Ameeri: soft oudh, amber, white musk. Mastani: Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla, tonka. Nawaab: amber, leather, white musk. All four are printed on their own product pages |
| Which materials does it have in common with the bottle I own? | Whether the second bottle is an addition or a variation | Two or more materials in common across the two base lines means a variation. In this range the closest pair is Ameeri with Nawaab and the widest is Adaa with Nawaab |
| What is the published longevity, and is there any other figure? | Whether the seller distinguishes between what is measured and what is guessed | Six to eight hours on skin, and nothing else. No projection figure exists here, so a quoted radius is somebody's estimate dressed as a specification |
| What is the smallest size, and its price? | How cheaply you can buy information rather than commitment | The 3ml, at ₹379 to ₹399. There is no sampler programme and no discovery set, so the small bottle is the only trial available |
| What was this bottle composed for? | Whether the bottle matches a day of your own week that is currently uncovered | An answer of "any occasion" is a non-answer. Nawaab is for cool evenings, Adaa for ordinary days and heat, Mastani for festive evenings, Ameeri for warm occasions |
| What will you not claim about it? | The seller's judgement, which is the thing you are really buying on a second purchase | Never a promise about what anyone else will notice, never a radius, never what a layered pair will smell like, and never a claim about your skin. I cannot tell you any of those |
Six questions, six checkable answers, and the whole exercise costs nothing. Ask them by email if you are shopping anywhere that has an email address - including here.
The answers that should stop you buying
Four answers that look helpful and are not
What you will hear, why it cannot be known, and what honest looks like
| The claim you will see | Why nobody can know it | What can honestly be said instead |
|---|---|---|
| "They are completely different - one is festive and one is everyday" | Occasion language is positioning rather than material fact, and two bottles sold for different occasions can hold most of their materials in common | Ask again for the shared materials by name. I cannot describe two of my own bottles as separate without being able to say which materials are in both |
| Never accept "it projects about an arm's length" | No such figure is measured anywhere in this range, so the number is an impression presented as a specification | The published figure is six to eight hours on skin and there is no projection data at all - I will not give you a radius, because none has ever been tested here |
| Never believe "layer the two and the second one will soften the first" | Nothing about layering is published here and no combination has been formally evaluated, so a promise about the result is invention | I will not tell you what a combination will smell like on you. What I can say is that two scents built on the same base tend to merge rather than separate, and a test on separate wrists settles it |
| "This one suits everybody" | A claim about other people's reactions, which nobody selling fragrance is in a position to make | I cannot say whether a fragrance will suit anybody, including you. I can tell you what is in it, how long it is published to last, and what day of the week it was built for |
All four of those answers are things I have been told while shopping, and all four were delivered confidently. Confidence is not information: the questions in the previous section are, because every answer to them can be checked against a page afterwards.
What nobody can tell you, including me
What I cannot tell you
I cannot tell you what anyone else will make of how you smell. Not whether a fragrance will be noticed, not whether it will be liked, not whether it will be remembered. Those are the questions readers most want answered and they are the ones no perfumer, seller or review can honestly take on - there is no test for them, and every confident answer is somebody substituting their own hope for your evidence. The useful question is not whether a bottle will land well with the room; it is whether the bottle does what it says on its own pyramid, which is checkable, and whether it covers a day of your week that is currently uncovered, which only you can answer. I will also not give you a figure for how far a scent reads, because none exists for anything I make, and I will not promise you what two of my attars will smell like worn together, because no combination here has been formally evaluated.
That list of refusals is not modesty. It is the boundary between what has been measured and what has not, and knowing where that line sits is most of what separates a useful seller from a confident one. Everything on the published side of it - materials, pyramids, sizes, prices, the six-to-eight-hour figure - I will give you in writing, in detail, without being asked twice.
It also tells you how to read the rest of the internet on this subject. A page that answers the unanswerable questions in the same tone it answers the answerable ones has stopped distinguishing between them, and a reader cannot tell from the writing which half they are getting. That is how a near-repeat gets sold: not with a lie about materials, but with confident answers to questions nobody can answer, surrounding a vague answer to the one question that mattered.
Running the six questions on a seller who is not me
The list is more useful away from here than on this page, because here most of the answers are already published. Take it to any fragrance shop, online or on a counter, and ask the six in order. Two things happen. You get the facts you need about the specific bottle, and you learn whether the person selling it distinguishes between fact and impression - which, on a second purchase made without smelling anything, is the more valuable of the two.
Expect question two to be where it goes wrong. Asking which materials a new bottle has in common with one you already own is the question a sales process is least prepared for, because the honest answer is sometimes "most of them". If you get a vague reply, ask for the base lines of both and do the comparison yourself: write them one above the other, collapse the origin names so that two roses count as rose and two saffrons as saffron, and count. It takes two minutes and it does not need anybody's cooperation.
Expect question six to be where you learn the most. A seller who says cheerfully that a fragrance will be noticed, will last twelve hours, will suit anybody and will layer beautifully has given you four answers, none of which can be checked and none of which is knowable. A seller who says they cannot speak for anybody else's reaction and will not quote a figure that has not been measured has given you something harder to find, which is a reliable sense of where their knowledge stops.
What I would do with the answers
Sonal’s recommendation
Ask the six, spend ₹0 today, and buy once the answers are in front of you
The questions are free and the bottle is not. Ask first, in writing, and keep the reply.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
| What to do first | Send the six questions about whatever two bottles you are weighing up. Mine is an email address and the answers come back in writing |
| What the answers cost | Nothing. This is the only step in a second purchase that is free, and it is the one that prevents the near-repeat |
| How to use question two | Put the two base lines one above the other, collapse the origin names, and count what appears in both. Two or more and the second bottle is a variation |
| What to buy once you have them | If the answers show your shelf is warm, Adaa 3ml ₹379. If they show it is light and dry, Nawaab 3ml ₹399 |
| What size | The 3ml, always, on anything unworn. Size up to a 6ml only once a bottle has proved it is the one you reach for |
| What to do with a non-answer | Treat it as the answer. A seller who will not name the materials two of their own bottles have in common has told you how this purchase is going to go |
I would send the questions before I opened a single cart, and I would send them even where the answers are published, because the reply tells you something the product page cannot. What I would not do is spend on a second bottle while question two is still unanswered - that is the specific gap through which near-repeats arrive, and it is the reason this page recommends nothing at all today. The purchase is still there tomorrow, with better information behind it.
If the seller cannot or will not answer any of the six, that is itself the answer and no further research is needed: a range whose own materials cannot be named by the people selling it is not a range to make a second purchase from, however good the photographs are.
— the condition that changes this answer
Six questions, and the first one is free. Two ways to use this page.
One is a reply in writing. One is the bottle the answers usually point at.
Ask Sonal these six questions
About any two bottles, mine or from another house. Send me both note lists and I will answer all six in writing - base lines, the shared materials by name, the published longevity, the smallest size, what each one was built for, and what I will not claim about either.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If you have already run the six questions and the answers pointed here. Adaa's base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, it is the only one of the four with no oudh at any level, and the 3ml is the trial size rather than a commitment.
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A note from Sonal
This page was originally going to be written the other way round - as a note about what a brand ought to publish for returning customers. I turned it around because the brand-facing version is useless to you. What you need standing at a second checkout is not my view of best practice, it is six questions you can ask anybody, and the knowledge that a non-answer is information too.
The reason I know these are the right six is that they are the questions I failed to answer well for my own customers in the first year. Somebody would write asking whether a second bottle was different from their first, and I would reply with an occasion and an adjective, because that is the vocabulary the industry hands you. The reply they needed was two base lines and a count of shared materials. It took a letter from a customer who had bought the near-repeat to teach me that.
So the sixth question is the one I would keep if you threw the other five away. Ask what the person selling you a fragrance will not claim. The honest answer includes other people's reactions, any figure for how far a scent reads, and what two bottles will do worn together - and a seller who hands you that list is one you can trust on the things they do claim.
Frequently asked questions
What is the single most useful question to ask before a second bottle?
Which materials this bottle has in common with the one I already own. It is the question that decides whether you are buying an addition or a variation, it has a factual answer, and it is the one a sales process is least prepared for. In this range the heaviest-overlapping pair is Ameeri with Nawaab - saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber and white musk sit in both - and the widest gap is Adaa with Nawaab, which meet at white musk alone.
What performance figures can a seller honestly give me?
For a SOSA attar, one: six to eight hours on skin. There is no projection figure, no sillage rating and no radius, because none of that has been measured here. If somebody offers you a number for how far a fragrance reads, ask which test produced it. An impression stated as a specification is the commonest way confidence substitutes for information.
Is it reasonable to email a brand before spending four hundred rupees?
Entirely reasonable, and it is the cheapest step in the whole process. A brand that cannot answer six factual questions about two of its own bottles has told you something worth knowing for nothing. I answer them myself, in writing, including when the honest answer is that the second bottle you are considering would repeat the one you own.
What should make me walk away from a second purchase?
A vague answer to the shared-materials question, a quoted figure for something nobody measures, a promise about what another person will notice, or a layering claim. Any one of those is a sign that the line between measured and imagined has stopped being observed, and that line is the only protection a buyer has when they cannot smell anything first.
How do I check the answers I am given?
Against the product page, afterwards. Base lines, sizes and prices are published and verifiable; a seller's summary of them should match. For the shared-materials answer, write both base lines out one above the other, group two roses as rose and two saffrons as saffron, and count what sits in both. If your count disagrees with what you were told, trust your count.
What if the shop has no note list at all?
Then the only question that matters has no answer, and that absence is the answer. A fragrance sold without a published pyramid cannot be compared with anything you already own, which means a second purchase from it is a guess made in the dark. I publish all four of mine in full for exactly this reason, and so do most houses worth buying twice from.
The one-line version of this page
Ask which materials the new bottle has in common with the one you own. Everything else follows from the answer.
Weighing up two bottles and want the six answered?
SOSA — Send me both note lists. Mine, somebody else's, or one of each. I will answer all six in writing - including when the honest answer is that the second bottle repeats the first and you should keep your money.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · 6-8 hours on skin · no projection figure exists here and none is quoted
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Editorial standards & sources
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.