Shared Air at Work: How to Choose an Office Attar When Someone Else's Preference Has Standing

Shared Air at Work: How to Choose an Office Attar When Someone Else's Preference Has Standing

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★ ★ Four rules, nine pages - and the first of the four is not mine to decideSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149 - the lightest in the range, no oudh in itWhere a workplace is involved, your employer's own fragrance policy decides, not SOSA
The short version — five things worth checking
For every reader who shares air with somebody at work, loves wearing fragrance, and has never seen the two things reconciled honestly on one page
  • 1 Rule one, the policy rule. Where a workplace is involved, your employer's own fragrance policy decides, and a perfumer's recommendation is advisory underneath it.
  • 2 Rule two, the standing rule. A request for less fragrance from somebody who shares your air is an answer rather than an objection, and no purchase improves on it.
  • 3 Rule three, the timing rule. The loudest twenty minutes of any wear are the twenty minutes after application, so apply after you arrive rather than before you leave, at one dab on the inner wrist.
  • 4 Rule four, the exception. An interview or a decisive meeting is the one occasion in this family where wearing nothing is often the right answer, and never the day to debut a bottle.
  • 5 Adaa, 3ml ₹379, is where eight of these nine pages land: white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base, no oudh, and a published 6-8 hours on skin with no projection figure claimed anywhere.
★ See SOSA Adaa - where eight of nine pages land ₹379 Ask Sonal about your own floor ₹0
★ The range, read for shared air - lightest first, and one to rule out
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the lightest register in the range, no oudh, and the answer on eight of this family's nine pagesView Adaa →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - the office answer for a reader who actually wants oud, at a fraction of a dabView Ameeri →SOSA Nawaab AttarSOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, saffron and aged tobacco over amber, leather and musk - oud-led and the deepest composition in the range, named across this family as the one to rule out of a shared deskView Nawaab →
✓ Every note named here is quoted off the live SOSA product pages ✓ No projection, sillage or radius figure appears on this page, because SOSA publishes none ✓ Where a workplace is involved, that employer's own fragrance policy decides, not SOSA

Founder Diaries · Close Range · Presence Without Projection
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 22 min read Updated October 2026
Nine pages in this family, and they resolve into four rules - of which the first is not mine to make. Everything else in this series is about a room you chose to be in: a restaurant you booked, a wedding you were invited to, an evening you planned. Work is different in a way that changes the whole method. You share that air with people who did not choose your fragrance and cannot leave it, for nine hours, five days a week. That single fact puts somebody else's preference inside the decision, and once a preference has standing, a seller is no longer the right person to settle the question. So this hub starts with who decides, and only then gets to what to buy.
Quick answers — read this first
What is the best SOSA attar for office wear? Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, one dab at the inner wrist, applied after you arrive. It is the lightest composition in the range - white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base, with no oudh at all - and it is where eight of this family's nine pages land. The exception is a reader who actually wants oud, who should look at Ameeri at ₹385 at a fraction of a dab.

What are the rules for wearing fragrance at work? Four. Your employer's own fragrance policy decides and nothing a seller says overrides it. A direct request for less is an answer rather than an objection. Apply after you arrive rather than before you leave, because the twenty minutes after application are the loudest part of any wear. And an interview is the one occasion where nothing is often the right answer.

How much attar should I wear to the office? One dab at the inner wrist, which is roughly a third of a reasonable evening dose - and a fraction of a dab if the composition carries oudh in its base. Nothing at the throat, which sits under the nose of everyone you greet, and nothing on a collar or in the hair, because fibre holds material far longer than skin does.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, wear one dab at the inner wrist, and apply it after you arrive at work rather than before you leave home. Before any of that, read whatever your employer publishes about fragrance in shared spaces, because that document decides and this page is advisory underneath it. The composition matters less than most shopping pages imply: Adaa's dry base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood is the easiest register in the range to share a room with, and the dose is the lever that moves your result furthest.
The pick: the Adaa 3ml at ₹379 for almost every brief in this family. Ameeri at ₹385 is the right answer for a reader who genuinely wants oudh, because it sits in the base rather than leading. Nawaab at ₹399 is oud-led and the deepest composition in the range, and it is the one this whole family rules out of a desk you share.
Next step: pick the page that matches your own floor. The daily office brief is the place to start, the air-conditioned floor if preferences differ where you work, the coworking page if somebody has already asked for less, and the interview page if the occasion is decisive. Or describe your desk to me and I will tell you which of the four rules is yours.
In this guide
Straight answer
How do I choose an office attar when somebody else's preference has standing in the room?
Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, one dab at the inner wrist, applied after you arrive - and four rules in front of that recommendation, the first of which outranks me. Rule one: your employer's own fragrance policy decides. Where a workplace publishes something about scent in shared spaces - an induction document, an intranet note, a line in a coworking member handbook - that document was written by people who know the building, the ventilation and the staff, none of which I know from a bench in Pune. It outranks my recommendation, your preference, and every product description including my own. Read it first. If it rules fragrance out at a desk, the answer is nothing, the spend is ₹0, and you have saved yourself a difficult conversation. Rule two: a request is an answer, not an objection. If a person you share air with has asked for less fragrance, that request is the end of the question rather than the start of a negotiation. The commercial incentive in my industry runs hard the other way, because the easiest sale in fragrance is to somebody who has been asked to wear less and hopes a purchase will settle it. It will not. A quieter composition at a smaller dose makes you easier to sit beside on the days you wear something; it does not retract a conversation. Rule three: the timing and the dose, which are free and which almost nobody is told. The loudest twenty minutes of any composition ever made are the twenty minutes immediately after application, because the volatile top notes are at full strength. Apply at home and you spend that window alone in traffic, then calibrate the dose against the loudest part of the curve on the warmest skin you will have all day. Apply after you arrive and your floor meets a steadier wear while you judge the quantity in the room it is actually for. One dab, inner wrist. Not the throat, which sits under the nose of everybody you greet; not the collar or the hair, where fibre holds material far longer than skin and cannot be rinsed at lunchtime. Rule four: an interview is the exception, and the answer there is often nothing. A decisive hour in a closed room is the worst possible place to introduce a variable you have not tested, and a fragrance bought for the occasion is by definition untested. Wear something you have worn for a fortnight, or wear none, which is an entirely ordinary choice that nobody is owed a reason for. Then, and only then, the composition. Adaa ends on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - dry, with nothing sweet holding it up and no oudh in it - and it is where eight of this family's nine pages land. Ameeri ends on soft oudh, amber and white musk, which is the right answer for a reader who actually wants that material, at a fraction of a dab. Mastani puts Madagascar vanilla and tonka under Mysore sandalwood, which is lovely at eight in the evening and more than a cabin asks for at eleven in the morning. Nawaab is oud-led and the loudest thing I make, and this family rules it out of a shared desk with a reason rather than a verdict. And the limit, which is the same on every page I write. I can tell you what is in a bottle, how the oil format behaves, and how little of it to use. I cannot tell you how anybody on your floor will respond to it, and I am not going to imply that I can.

Find your own situation, and the page that answers it

Nine briefs, nine answers
The office family in one grid: find the row that describes your week, move the lever in the middle column, and read the page in the third
If this is you The lever to move first Where to go next
You sit close to your team and want something for every day The dose, first. One dab at the inner wrist, roughly a third of an evening application The daily office brief - the register, the base-note argument and the shared-air rule in full
You have three note names and no idea which is a bottle The question itself. Ask where a note sits in the pyramid rather than whether it is present The vetiver, white musk and sandalwood page - two of those three are already in one base
Your floor is sealed and air-conditioned, and preferences differ on it Nothing, for a week. Read what your employer publishes, then halve what you wear The air-conditioned office page, which declines to adjudicate and lands on ₹0
You travel in heat and then sit in a cold cabin all day The hour. Apply after you arrive, not before you leave, and let the commute have nothing The commute-and-cabin page - one working day, setting by setting
You have an interview or a decisive meeting this week The variable. Remove it: wear nothing, or wear something you have worn for a fortnight The interview page, which recommends spending ₹0 and explains why
You love oud and you work beside other people The position of the material. Oudh in a base is a different wear from oud at the front The oud-at-work page - Ameeri at a fraction of a dab, and Nawaab ruled out
You dislike deodorant fragrance and loud designer perfume alike Your own dislike, which is the most useful thing on the table. Both categories share one shape The two-dislikes page - Adaa if the word is dry, Khayaal if it is fresh
People in your coworking space have asked for less fragrance Nothing at all on floor days. The request is the answer and no bottle improves on it The coworking page, which declines its own question and spends ₹0
You are deciding between a light spray and a dabbed oil The ordering. Dose first, composition second, format third - and the concentration label last The oil-against-spray page, with the mechanism explained and labelled
Six of those nine rows move a lever that costs nothing. Only three of them are really shopping questions, which is the most honest summary of this family I can give you.

Rule one: the policy rule

I put this first on every page in the family, and I want to explain why rather than simply repeating it. A written workplace rule about fragrance is not an obstacle between you and a purchase. It is the output of a process you are not party to - somebody looked at a building, a floor plan, a ventilation system and a staff, and wrote down a position. I have none of that information. A recommendation made without it, presented as though it settled the matter, is a guess wearing the clothes of expertise, and the person who carries the consequence of the guess is you, for nine hours a day, five days a week.

So the practical instruction is short. Find the document. It is usually in an induction pack, an intranet page about shared workspaces, or a coworking member handbook, and it usually sits alongside the rules about food and calls rather than on its own. Read what it actually says rather than what you expect it to say - a great many of them set an expectation about shared areas rather than a prohibition, which is a different brief and a far more workable one. Then calibrate downwards until you are comfortably inside it.

And where no policy exists at all, which is still the commonest case, the rule has a quieter version: the absence of a written rule is not a permission slip either. It simply means nobody has had to write one down, which is usually a sign that the floor has been fine and is worth keeping that way.

Rule two: a request is an answer

This is the rule that makes the office family different from every other family in this series, and it is the one I would most like a reader to take away. In a shared workspace, a stated preference about fragrance is held by a person with as much claim on that air as you have. It is not a problem to be out-argued with a better purchase, and it is not an opening position in a negotiation about whose comfort wins.

I am careful here in both directions, and deliberately so. I am not going to speculate about anybody's reasons for asking, and I am not going to characterise a request as reasonable or unreasonable - neither is mine to assess and neither is yours to litigate. What a request gives you is information about the room that you cannot obtain any other way, because your own nose adapts to what you are wearing within minutes - the page that argues this properly - and is therefore the single least reliable instrument available for this measurement. Somebody telling you the quantity is too high is giving you a reading you structurally cannot take yourself.

The practical consequence is the one the coworking page spends its length on. If the request came from a space or an operator, wear nothing on shared days and keep your fragrance for hours that are yours. If it came from one person, have a short conversation - ask what would help and when - because you may learn that the morning was the issue and the afternoon never was, or the meeting room rather than the desk. That conversation is free and it produces something no product page can.

Rule three: the timing and the dose

Here is the mechanical heart of the family, and it is two sentences long. Fragrance leaves skin by evaporation, which is faster on warm skin than on cool skin. And a published pyramid is a clock: the top notes are the volatile ones and they are substantially spent within the first half hour, which makes the first half hour the loudest stretch of any composition ever made.

Put those together and a whole routine falls out of them. Apply after you arrive, because applying at home spends the loudest window in traffic and then teaches you to judge the dose by what you can smell on hot skin in a moving vehicle - the worst available vantage point. Apply one dab, at the inner wrist, which is in your own airspace when you move your hands and in nobody else's until a hand is extended. Leave the throat alone: it is warmer, more exposed, and sits directly under the nose of every person you greet at a lift door. Leave the collar and the hair alone entirely, because fibre holds material for far longer than skin does and cannot be rinsed at lunchtime.

My own assessment, not a published figure
A word on format, which is the fourth lever and the one readers most enjoy discussing, offered as my own craft assessment rather than as a published specification. An alcohol spray does two things a dabbed oil does not: the atomiser shears the liquid into droplets fine enough to hang in the air and drift, and the alcohol evaporating off warm skin carries fragrance material outward with it as it leaves. A fixed oil on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier has neither mechanism - it sits at one site, warms, and releases from there. For a comparable quantity of material I would expect the oil to stay nearer the wearer, and that is why SOSA's attars are oils. It will never become a number. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing whatever about projection, sillage or scent radius, because no standard test for it exists, and anybody quoting such a figure for an attar is quoting something that was never measured. The format effect is also smaller than the dose effect: Adaa and Nawaab share one format and sit at opposite ends of this range.

Reapplication deserves one line here and a page elsewhere. A second dab on top of a six-hour base adds to what is already there rather than replacing it, which is why the instinct to refresh before an afternoon meeting is usually the wrong one. By the afternoon you are in the base of the composition, which is the part best suited to a closed room, and your own nose has stopped reporting it - the two facts together make that moment the least trustworthy one in your day for a decision about quantity.

Rule four: the interview exception

Every rule set needs its exception stated rather than discovered, and this family's is the decisive occasion. An interview, a final-round panel, a meeting that will determine something - these are hours in which you want fewer moving parts, not more, and fragrance is the easiest moving part to remove. A composition bought for the occasion is untested by definition: you do not know how much one dab of it becomes on warm, nervous skin, or what its base does at hour three, and you will be learning both in the single hour of the week you would least like to be learning anything.

So: wear nothing, which is ordinary and unremarkable and needs no justification, or wear something you have already worn for a fortnight at one dab applied half an hour before you arrive. The one thing I would not do is add a dab in the waiting area, which is the commonest interview-morning mistake readers describe to me and the one most reliably produced by a hot building and an uneasy half hour. Warm skin is already releasing faster than usual; the instinct to add is exactly backwards.

The range, read for shared air

Four attars, read from the bottom line of each published pyramid
The whole attar range sorted for a desk you share, with the office dose beside each and one named to be ruled out
Read this row first Adaa · ₹379 Ameeri · ₹385 Mastani · ₹389 Nawaab · ₹399
Base - the part your afternoon is made of White musk, vetiver, cedarwood Soft oudh, amber, white musk Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla, tonka Amber, leather, musk under an oud-led top
Oudh None at all In the base, under rose and sandalwood In the base, beside vanilla and tonka Oud-led; named first on the product page
Sweetness under it Essentially none Amber warmth rather than sugar Vanilla and tonka - the richest base in the range Amber, with leather beside it
Office dose I would use One dab, inner wrist A fraction of a dab I would keep it for the evening I would not, for a shared desk
Where this family lands Eight of nine pages The oud answer, at a fraction of a dab An evening bottle rather than a daytime one Ruled out with a reason, on four pages
If you read one row, read the first. Every page in this family is an application of the bottom line of a pyramid rather than the top one.

Two of the six SOSA perfume oils are worth naming here as well, because they answer briefs the attars do not. Khayaal, in 10ml at ₹599, is sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood, and it is the destination for a reader who wants brightness rather than dryness - the two-dislikes page sends people there regularly. Samundar, also 10ml at ₹599, is an aquatic marine composition and the honest answer for a reader arriving from a fresh designer spray. Both are oils in the same dabbed format, and neither has a verified image on the store, which is why they are linked here as text rather than shown.

One warning that belongs on the hub rather than buried on a sibling page. The worst outcome available to this whole family is a reader who has been told their perfume is too strong, who arrives frightened of being the person who ruins a lift, and who buys a 12ml of Nawaab because something somewhere described it as sophisticated. Nawaab is oud-led, with leather and amber in the base, and it is the deepest composition I make. It is a genuinely good thing and it is the opposite of this brief at every size. If you take one product fact from this hub, take that one: the word for Nawaab is depth, not refinement, and depth is the property a shared room has least space for.

And one more piece of orientation, because readers often arrive at this family from a search about strength and leave having learned something more general. The habit underneath all nine pages is reading a published pyramid from the bottom up. The top notes are what a bottle smells like in a shop; the base is what you smell like at four in the afternoon, which on a working day is nearly all of your wear. That habit works on any brand's listing, costs nothing, and will change which bottles reach your shortlist long after you have stopped reading me. The skin family teaches it properly; every page here simply applies it.

What I would buy, in what size, and when nothing

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa, the 3ml, one dab at the inner wrist, applied after you arrive - and ₹0 first if anything has been said
Three of the nine pages in this family recommend spending nothing. I would rather have that on the record than have a family of nine pages that all end in a bottle.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to check before anything Whether your employer publishes a fragrance policy. Where it does, that policy decides and I am advisory
What to buy The SOSA Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - the lightest composition in the range, no oudh in it
What to do first, for ₹0 One dab of what you already own, wrists only, for a working week, applied after you arrive
If you actually want oud The SOSA Ameeri 3ml at ₹385, at a fraction of a dab. Oudh in the base is a different wear from oud at the front
What to rule out for a shared desk The Nawaab at ₹399 - oud-led, leather and amber beneath, and the loudest thing in the range
When to buy nothing at all When anything has been said to you at work, when the policy restricts it, or when the occasion is an interview
What I cannot tell you I cannot say how anyone on your floor will respond to what you wear. That is theirs, not mine and not the bottle's
The reason the ₹0 step keeps appearing across this family is that it is genuinely the answer a good share of the time. Most readers who write to me about work fragrance are over-applying something decent rather than owning something wrong, and the experiment that separates those two cases costs nothing and takes a week. If at the end of it one dab of your current bottle still feels like too much in a lift, then the composition is the issue and Adaa's base is the quietest register I make - at which point the 3ml at ₹379 is the whole experiment and the 6ml at ₹669 is the restock. The 12ml at ₹1,149 is for a composition you have worn through a season of working days.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If you work alone - a home office, a private cabin with a door you keep shut, a studio nobody else uses - then none of the four rules on this page is binding on you, because there is no shared air for anybody else to have standing in. Wear what you like at the dose you like, and read the date and festive families instead, where the constraint is a room you chose rather than one you were assigned.
— the condition that changes this answer
Nine briefs, four rules, one range. Two honest routes out of this hub.
One of these costs ₹379 and one costs nothing at all.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If your workplace publishes nothing restrictive, nothing has been said to you, and you have already tried wearing less of what you own. The lightest base in the range and the right size to start with.
Describe your floor to Sonal
Tell me the room, the ventilation, whether anything has been said and what you wear now. I will tell you which of the four rules is yours - including the three situations where I would sell you nothing.
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A note from Sonal

The office family was the hardest of the ten to write, and it took me three attempts to work out why. The other nine are about rooms the reader chose. A restaurant, a wedding, a weekend, a first date - somebody decided to be there, and the fragrance is part of an occasion they are authoring. Work is not that. Work is a room you were assigned, with people in it who were also assigned.

Once I understood that, the structure of these nine pages settled itself. The question could not be "which bottle", because the moment somebody else's preference has standing, the bottle is the third or fourth thing that matters and the seller is not the one who decides. That is uncomfortable to write when you sell bottles. It is also the only version of these pages I would want somebody I like to read.

So three of the nine say spend nothing, and this one says read your handbook before you read me. I think the family is better for it, and I think the reader who ends up buying the 3ml after a week of wearing less is a reader who will still be wearing it in a year.

Frequently asked questions

What are the rules for wearing fragrance in an Indian office?
Four, in order. Your employer's own fragrance policy decides where one exists. A direct request for less from somebody who shares your air is an answer rather than an objection. Apply after you arrive at one dab on the inner wrist, because the twenty minutes after application are the loudest part of any wear. And treat an interview as the exception, where wearing nothing is often right.
Which SOSA attar is best for shared office air?
Adaa, at 3ml for 379 rupees. Its base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - dry, with no sweetness holding it up and no oudh in the composition at all - which makes it the easiest register in the range to sit inside for nine hours. One dab at the inner wrist is the dose, applied after you arrive.
Can I wear oud to work?
If it sits in the base rather than at the front. Ameeri lists soft oudh in its base beneath Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, so its first hour is rose and saffron and the oudh arrives underneath later; at a fraction of a dab that works at a desk. Nawaab is oud-led and the deepest composition in the range, and this family rules it out of a shared desk.
Should I apply fragrance before leaving home or at the office?
At the office, in nearly every case. Applying at home spends the loudest window of the wear alone in traffic and then teaches you to judge the dose by what you can smell on hot skin in a moving vehicle. A 3ml attar has a dab applicator rather than an atomiser, so nothing is released into the air when you apply it.
What should I do if someone at work says my fragrance is too strong?
Believe them the first time and reduce it, or stop for a fortnight. Your own nose adapts to what you are wearing within minutes, which makes you the least reliable available judge of your own quantity, so a direct comment is a reading you cannot take yourself. If your workplace has published a policy, that decides. A switch of bottle without a reduction in dose rarely changes what is in the air.
Is it ever right to wear no fragrance to work?
Often. Where a policy restricts it, where somebody has asked for less, and on the morning of an interview or a decisive meeting, wearing nothing is the correct answer rather than a compromise. Three of the nine pages in this family recommend spending nothing at all, and I would rather be straightforward about that than pretend every brief ends in a purchase.
The whole family in one instruction
Read the policy. One dab, inner wrist, after you arrive. And believe the first person who tells you it is too much.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Shared desk, sealed floor, or something already said?
SOSA — Tell me the room, the ventilation and what you wear now. I will tell you which of the four rules is yours - and which of the nine pages to read next, including the ones that end in no purchase.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · 6-8 hours on skin · your employer's own fragrance policy decides, not SOSA
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 wants to be pleasant at conversational distance without filling a room, and the method - read the base of a pyramid, judge the format, then control the dose - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.

What this guide does and does not claim. Three things about a fragrance can be stated honestly, and this guide limits itself to them: what a composition contains, which SOSA publishes on each product page; how an oil behaves on skin compared with an alcohol spray, which is Sonal's own professional assessment and is marked as such wherever it appears; and how much you apply and where, which is entirely yours. The fourth thing - whether another person finds a scent pleasant, memorable or attractive - is theirs, and nothing here predicts it. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, 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. Where a workplace is involved, that employer's own fragrance policy decides, not SOSA.

On performance figures. SOSA publishes one and only one performance figure for its attars: they are described as wearing 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA does not publish projection, sillage or scent-radius data for any product, and no such figure appears anywhere in this guide. Any seller quoting a projection number for an attar is quoting something that was never measured. Wear time and perceived strength vary with skin, climate, dose and application site.

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, and sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149) is the lightest in the range: Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165) is 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) is 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) is the deepest in the range: white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Those four are the whole attar range: oud is led in Nawaab and sits in the base of Ameeri and Mastani, Adaa carries none, white musk exists as a base note rather than as a scent of its own, and there is no single-note musk, no clean-linen or laundry accord and no aldehydic-soapy scent in the range. 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.
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