I want to try SOSA after disliking an attar from another brand - which details about my previous purchase would help identify a better fragrance match?

Thank you for considering SOSA after a bottle that let you down. I will not name or judge the brand you bought from. SOSA publishes nothing about anybody else's attar, so the only evidence about that bottle is its own label and your own experience of wearing it. You do not need its name for this to work, because what helps is the detail of the purchase, and you are the only person holding it. Here is the checklist, in three parts. First, what the old bottle printed: its notes tier by tier, copied exactly; its format, oil or spray; and whether its label said it was alcohol-based or alcohol-free. Second, what happened when you wore it: whether the dislike began in the first minutes, in the middle or hours later, which points at a tier; your own words for what you disliked, written before you read any SOSA page; and anything you did like about it. Third, how you wore it: roughly how much you applied and where, the occasion you wore it to, and the size and price you paid, so the next bottle can be pitched at the right size. Write the list before you read any SOSA page, so the notes printed here do not reshape your memory of the old bottle. Then read it against the published fields. Every SOSA attar publishes the fields your list can be read against: an opening, a heart and a base, a label for most tiers, a mood line, an occasion line, a gender line, a strength score out of ten, a wear time and a carrier. The notes are the part that matches fastest, and the index of where each note sits is short. If your dislike traces to oud, Adaa is the one SOSA pyramid with none in any tier. If it traces to vanilla or tonka bean, Mastani is the one pyramid that prints them. If it traces to white musk, Mastani is the one pyramid without it. If it traces to jasmine, Ameeri and Nawaab print none. If it traces to rose, Adaa and Nawaab print none. If it traces to leather or tobacco, Nawaab is the only pyramid that prints either. The timing you noted maps onto a tier: a dislike in the first minutes points at an opening, one in the middle at a heart, and one hours later at a base. The strength you noted can be read against SOSA's own scores. The strength figures are SOSA's own self-assigned scores out of ten, on a scale SOSA invented and nobody else uses: Adaa 8.5, Ameeri 9.0, Mastani 9.2 and Nawaab 9.5. The lightest score in the range is Adaa's 8.5 out of ten, so nothing SOSA sells is published as faint. Then send that list to Sonal on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. Sonal Sahani trained at ISIPCA in Versailles, and she is the one person who can turn your list into a personal recommendation; this page will not try to do it for her. Here is one pyramid in full, so you can see what your list will be read against. Nawaab publishes Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom in its opening, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf in its heart, and amber, leather and white musk in its base. Nawaab's mood line reads regal, refined, long-wearing, never aggressive. Nawaab's published strength figure is 9.5, the deepest in the SOSA attar range. It is ₹399 for 3ml, ₹699 for 6ml and ₹1,199 for 12ml. Nawaab carries 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews. Those are customer reviews Sonal collated over WhatsApp, which is why I quote the count beside the figure rather than the figure on its own. The smallest published size is 3ml, on all four, and SOSA sells no travel size, no sample, no tester and no decant, so 3ml is where a trial starts. All four publish the same wear time, 6 to 8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and nothing beyond that figure is published. The attar record this page is built from publishes no return, refund or exchange terms for any attar, so this page states none. If that matters to your decision, ask on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 before you buy rather than after. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.