What Is the Best Attar for Men Who Want to Smell Clean and Masculine Without Wearing a Strong Oud or Aggressively Spicy Perfume?

What Is the Best Attar for Men Who Want to Smell Clean and Masculine Without Wearing a Strong Oud or Aggressively Spicy Perfume?

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★ ★ Masculine is not a material - decode it into the three dislikes underneath and shop those insteadSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149 - no oudh, green cardamom rather than hot spice, white musk and cedarwood in the baseSOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure for any attar
The short version — five things worth checking
For the man who types masculine into a search box because it is the shortest available word for a list of things he would rather not smell of
  • 1 Adaa's base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood and the composition carries no oudh at all. Nawaab is oud-led, Ameeri and Mastani carry oudh in the base.
  • 2 Adaa's heart is floral - jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang - and that is published on the product page. A reader whose objection to florals is absolute should know it before buying rather than after.
  • 3 The spice in Adaa is green cardamom in the top, which is a dry, cool spice rather than a hot one. The hot-spiced end of the range is Ameeri's Persian saffron and pink pepper.
  • 4 All four attars are alcohol-free, DPG-free oils on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, dabbed rather than sprayed, and SOSA publishes one performance figure for them: 6-8 hours on skin.
  • 5 Adaa, 3ml ₹379, 6ml ₹669, 12ml ₹1,149. Nawaab, 3ml ₹399, is the deepest composition in the range and is the wrong bottle for this brief.
★ See SOSA Adaa - no oudh, dry base ₹379 Send Sonal your three dislikes ₹0
★ The three bases to check your dislikes against, driest first
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - no oudh, no vanilla, no tonka, and the driest base in the attar rangeView Adaa →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - the spiced end of the range, and oudh sits in its baseView Ameeri →SOSA Nawaab AttarSOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - listed here so the oud question can be ruled out with a reasonView Nawaab →
✓ Every note named here is quoted from the live SOSA product pages and nothing has been added to a pyramid ✓ No projection, sillage or radius figure appears on this page, because SOSA publishes none ✓ Nothing here predicts how anybody else will read what you are wearing

Founder Diaries · Close Range · Presence Without Projection
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 19 min read Updated October 2026
The word in your search box is doing a job that no material can do, and once you see what it is actually carrying, the shopping gets easy. Masculine is not a note, not an accord, not a concentration and not a family. It is a shorthand, and in nine queries out of ten it is a shorthand for three dislikes arriving together: not sweet, not floral, not powdery. Nobody types those three out, because the single word is faster and because it sounds like it is naming something. It is not. Which is good news, as it happens - the three dislikes underneath it can be checked against any published pyramid in under a minute, while the word itself cannot be checked against anything at all.
Quick answers — read this first
Which attar should a man buy if he wants to smell clean without oud or heavy spice? SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, one dab at the inner wrist. It is the only composition in the SOSA attar range with no oudh in it anywhere, its spice is green cardamom in the top rather than a hot spice, and its base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, which is the driest finish of the four. The honest caveat is that its heart is floral - jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang - and that heart is the middle hour of the wear.

What does masculine actually mean on a fragrance listing? Nothing, in material terms, which is why it is on so many listings. A composition has notes, a structure and a concentration, and none of those carries a gender. What the word usually encodes in a buyer's own head is a set of refusals - no sugar, no flowers in the lead, no powder - and those three correspond to real materials you can look for and avoid: vanilla and tonka for the first, rose and jasmine for the second, the powder materials for the third. Shop the refusals rather than the adjective.

Does any SOSA attar avoid oud completely? One does. Adaa carries no oudh at all. Ameeri and Mastani both carry soft oudh in the base, where it arrives slowly and as part of a settled whole, and Nawaab is oud-led, with white royal oud as the first material on its product page. So a reader who will not have oud in any quantity has exactly one option here, and a reader who objects only to oud leading a composition has three.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379. The useful move is to stop shopping the word and start shopping the three dislikes it is standing in for - not sweet, not floral, not powdery - because each of those three names real materials that are printed on every listing you will ever read. Not sweet rules out vanilla, tonka and the sugary end of amber, which in this range means Mastani and the gourmand oils. Not powdery rules out nothing in this range, because the powder materials are absent from all four attars. Not floral is the one that needs care, because Adaa's heart is floral even though its base is not.
The pick: the Adaa 3ml at ₹379, which is the only attar in the range with no oudh and the driest base of the four. If the floral objection is absolute rather than a preference, Khayaal at ₹599 for 10ml is the drier route - sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood. Ameeri at ₹385 is the spiced option for a reader whose real objection was to sweetness rather than to spice.
Next step: read the fresh woody daily-wear page if dryness matters more to you than anything else, and the page on leather, tobacco and smoky oud if what you want ruled out is the deep end rather than the sweet end. The family hub sets out the routing rule in full. Or send me your three dislikes and I will tell you which of the four bases survives them.
In this guide
Straight answer
Which attar should I buy if I want to smell clean and masculine without a strong oud or an aggressively spicy perfume?
Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379 - and the route I took to get there is worth more to you than the bottle, because it works on every listing in the world and not only on mine. First, the thing that has to be cleared out of the way. Masculine does not name a material. There is no molecule that is masculine, no accord that is, and no concentration either. What exists is a marketing convention, roughly eighty years old in its current form, that assigns citrus, woods, leather and aromatics to one shelf and florals, fruit and sweetness to another. That convention is a sales decision made by people who were not you, and treating it as information about a liquid will send you to the wrong bottle more often than it sends you to the right one. Second, what the word is actually carrying when you type it. In my experience of answering this exact question, it is almost always a compressed list of three refusals: not sweet, not floral, not powdery. Sometimes a fourth is attached - not loud - and sometimes a fifth, not obviously perfumey. None of those is about men. All of them are about materials, and materials are printed on the side of the box. Third, why this matters commercially to you rather than philosophically. If you shop the word, you will be shown compositions that are often very sweet indeed, because the men's shelf has been drifting gourmand for fifteen years and a great many of the bottles marketed hardest at men are built on vanilla, tonka and caramelised amber. A reader who typed masculine because he wanted dryness and gets handed sweetness has been failed by the word, not by the perfume. If instead you shop the refusals, you will reject those on sight, because vanilla and tonka are named on the listing. Fourth, running your three refusals through this range. Not sweet removes Mastani immediately, which ends on Madagascar vanilla and tonka beside its Mysore sandalwood and oudh, and it removes the sweeter oils. Not powdery removes nothing here, because none of the powder materials appears in any SOSA attar. Not floral is the complication and I have given it its own section below, because Adaa's heart is a floral one. What survives all three, on the part of the pyramid that matters most for close-range wear, is Adaa: white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, dry, with nothing sugary holding it up. Fifth, your two stated exclusions, which are the easy part. You said no strong oud: Adaa has none at all, and I will never tell you it has a little. You said nothing aggressively spicy: Adaa's spice is green cardamom in the top, which is cool and dry and gone within the half hour, rather than Ameeri's Persian saffron and pink pepper, which are the warm-spiced end of the range and sit much more forward. Nawaab is out of this conversation entirely - white royal oud leading, aged tobacco leaf, amber and leather in the base - and it is in front of you on this page only so that you can rule it out with a reason attached. And sixth, the refusal. You did not only ask what to buy. Underneath the question is a hope that whatever you wear will be read by other people as clean and as masculine, and that part I cannot help with and will not pretend to. What a composition is made of is checkable. How it is received is not mine to promise.

The part of your question I am not going to answer

What I cannot tell you
I cannot tell you that anybody will read your fragrance as masculine, as clean, or as anything else, and I am not going to imply it. That reading happens inside another person, built out of what their father wore, what a particular shop smelled like in 1998, and whether they have had lunch. The same dry cedarwood lands as businesslike to one person and as a pencil case to the next, and no amount of money, concentration or craft overrides that. So the useful question is not whether a bottle will be read the way you intended. The useful question is whether the liquid is the thing you chose - dry rather than sweet, woody rather than powdery, free of a material you dislike - and that question has a checkable answer on every product page in the country, including this one.

I want to be straight about why that refusal sits this high up rather than in small type at the bottom. The promise is the single most effective sentence available to anyone selling fragrance, and it is the one you will find above the fold on most pages answering this query. It is also unfalsifiable in the window that matters: by the time you could possibly test it, you own the bottle. A page that makes it is not being generous with you, it is being efficient with you. Everything else on this page is checkable against a product listing in under a minute, which is a lower standard of excitement and a much higher standard of use.

What masculine is carrying: three dislikes in one word

Take the three apart, because each one points at different materials and you may only hold two of them. Not sweet is the commonest and the most strongly felt. The materials responsible are vanilla, tonka bean, benzoin, the caramel end of amber, and in modern compositions a group of synthetics built to read as sugar and praline. They are easy to spot on a listing because they are always named - nobody hides vanilla, it is a selling point - and they almost always sit in the base, which means they are the part you will still be wearing at hour five. If sweetness is your objection, the base line of a pyramid is the only line you need to read.

Not powdery is the one readers find hardest to articulate, and it is usually learned from a specific bad encounter with a relative's dressing table. The materials behind it are iris and orris root, violet, heliotrope and certain musks used heavily, none of which is in any SOSA attar, and the page that owns the powder question takes them apart properly rather than in a paragraph. For this page the consequence is all that matters: the refusal does not narrow the range here at all, and it narrows other ranges enormously, which is why it is worth carrying with you as a shopping habit rather than as a one-off.

Not floral is the one that needs the most care, because it is the refusal most often stated absolutely and most often meant conditionally. Very few readers who say it actually object to every flower in every position. What is usually meant is: not a flower in the lead, not a flower that announces itself, and not rose or tuberose in particular. A flower sitting in the heart under a green citrus opening and over a dry woody base is a structural ingredient rather than a subject, and a great many compositions that a reader would call clean and woody have exactly that construction. Adaa is one of them, and the next section is about precisely that.

There is a fourth thing often bundled in, and it belongs to a different page rather than this one. Many readers who type this query also mean quiet - not loud, not the thing that announces you in a lift. That is a question about dose and format far more than about composition, and the arithmetic of it is unglamorous: the amount you apply and the site you apply it to will change your result more than switching bottles ever does. The sister pages in this family handle that properly, and the short version is that one dab at the inner wrist and four at the throat are the same oil behaving like two unrelated products.

The SOSA principle
A word on a label tells you who a bottle was sold to. The note list tells you what is in it. Only one of those is a fact, and it is the one printed in the smallest type.
Which is why this family routes on the dislike and never on the gender.

Your words, turned into materials you can look for

The decoding table
Each phrase in your query, what it means in materials, and the move it implies on any listing
What you asked for What that is, in materials What to do about it
"Masculine" Not a material of any kind - a shelf convention, and a drifting one. The men's shelf has gone steadily sweeter for fifteen years Ignore the word and write down the three things underneath it instead. Those three can be checked; the word cannot.
"Clean" Dry musks, light woods, vetiver and cedar, with no sugar underneath holding them up. Not detergent, and not soap - SOSA makes no laundry accord and none of that is in the range Read the base line. If vanilla, tonka or a caramelised amber is in it, the composition will not read dry at hour four whatever the top does.
"Without strong oud" Oud is a real material with a real range of intensity, and where it sits in the structure matters more than whether it is present Adaa has none. Ameeri and Mastani carry soft oudh in the base, arriving slowly. Nawaab is oud-led. Decide which of those three statements your objection covers.
"Not aggressively spicy" Usually means hot spice - saffron, pepper, clove, cinnamon - rather than cool spice such as green cardamom Adaa's cardamom is cool, dry and in the top, so it is spent inside half an hour. Ameeri's saffron and pink pepper are the warm-spiced end of this range.
"At close range" A statement about the base, because a conversation rarely happens in the first half hour after you dress Read a pyramid backwards for this brief: base first, heart second, top last. It is the single most useful habit in this guide.
Nothing in the middle column is an opinion. Every material named in it appears on a published product page, and the columns either side are what you do with that.

The honest complication: Adaa's heart is floral

Here is the part a page trying harder to sell you something would leave out. Adaa's published pyramid runs Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli at the top, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in the heart, and white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base. That middle line is three florals. I am recommending it to a reader who may have written that he does not want a floral, and I would rather say so plainly than have you discover it on day one.

Why I still recommend it comes down to structure. A pyramid is a timeline, not a list of equals. The heart is roughly the second hour through the fourth, and in Adaa those florals are built under a green, cool opening and over a dry woody base, which means they behave as the body of a composition rather than as its subject. There is no sugar beneath them and no powder beside them, and both of those are what usually make a floral read as a bouquet. The thing you will mostly wear, in the hours where you are in conversation with somebody, is musk, vetiver and cedarwood.

So the decision rule is this. If your floral objection is conditional - you dislike flowers in the lead, you dislike rose, you dislike a composition that smells like a bouquet - then Adaa is comfortably inside your brief and the 3ml is the cheapest way to confirm it. If it is absolute, and you would rather not have a jasmine in the structure at any depth, then the attar range does not have your bottle, because the other three are rose-centred, night-jasmine-centred and oud-led respectively. At that point the honest route out of the attars is Khayaal among the perfume oils, at ₹599 for 10ml: sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood, which is the driest published description in the whole SOSA catalogue. Neroli is an orange-blossom distillate and I am not going to pretend otherwise, but it sits in the opening rather than the body.

My own assessment, not a published figure
One craft note, labelled as mine rather than as a specification. SOSA's attars are alcohol-free oils on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, applied by dab. An alcohol spray atomises into droplets fine enough to drift and the alcohol carries material outward as it evaporates; an oil on a fixed carrier has neither mechanism and releases slowly from the one site you put it on. For a reader whose brief is to be legible in a conversation rather than present across a room, I think that is the more useful behaviour, and it is why the range is built as oils. I will not attach any figure to that judgement. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin, which is a longevity statement, and publishes nothing whatever about projection, sillage or scent radius, because there is no standard test for any of them.

The four bases against the three dislikes

Four bases, three refusals
What each composition does with the three things the word masculine is usually standing in for
The attar, and its base line Sweet? Floral in the heart? Oud?
Adaa · white musk, vetiver, cedarwood · 3ml ₹379 No. Nothing sugary in the base at all, which is why it stays dry at hour four Yes - jasmine sambac, magnolia, ylang ylang, built under a green opening None anywhere in the composition
Ameeri · soft oudh, amber, white musk · 3ml ₹385 Amber brings warmth and body, but there is no vanilla and no tonka in it Taif rose in the heart, beside Indian sandalwood Soft oudh in the base, arriving slowly as part of a settled whole
Mastani · Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla, tonka · 3ml ₹389 Yes - vanilla and tonka are both in the base, so sweetness is the finish Night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, and they lead the character Oudh in the base
Nawaab · amber, leather, white musk · 3ml ₹399 Amber, no vanilla. Deep rather than sweet No floral heart is published for it at all Oud-led. White royal oud is the first material on its product page
Nawaab gets one row here and one sentence below, because ruling it out properly is a job that belongs to another page in this family rather than this one.

The Nawaab sentence, then, and no more than that: it is the deepest composition SOSA makes, white royal oud leading an opening that also carries Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf, over amber, leather and white musk. If your query contained the words strong oud as a thing to avoid, this is the bottle those words describe, and the page in this family that takes leather, tobacco and smoky oud apart properly is the one on refined versus smoky. Everything else in this range is a quieter proposition than Nawaab by a clear margin.

A last practical note on the spice question, because it is the one most readers get wrong on a listing. Spice is not one thing. Green cardamom, as it appears in Adaa's top, is cool, slightly camphorous and dry, and behaves far more like a citrus than like a kitchen spice. Saffron, as it appears in Ameeri and Nawaab, is warm, leathery and persistent, and it is the material most often responsible when a reader says a fragrance felt aggressive. Pink pepper is bright and fizzy rather than hot. If your objection was to the warm, resinous, heavy end of spice, Adaa's cardamom is not what you were objecting to, and ruling it out on the word spice alone would be a mistake.

What I would buy, and the free thing to do first

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa, the 3ml - after you have written your three dislikes down and checked them against the base line
Shop the refusals, not the adjective. The adjective was written by a marketing department; the refusals are yours and they point at real materials.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The SOSA Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - no oudh, cool spice in the top, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base
What to do first, for ₹0 Write down your three dislikes in materials rather than in adjectives, then read the base line of anything you are considering
The caveat you should know before buying Adaa's heart is floral - jasmine sambac, magnolia, ylang ylang - built under a green top and over a dry base
If the floral objection is absolute The Khayaal perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599 - bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood
What to rule out, with a reason Nawaab at ₹399: oud-led, with aged tobacco leaf, amber and leather. It is the deepest thing in the range
What I cannot tell you I cannot say whether anybody will read what you are wearing as masculine, or as anything else
The 3ml exists so that this decision costs ₹379 rather than ₹1,149. Three millilitres of an oil attar, worn at one dab a day, is a fortnight of real evidence, which is enough to know whether the floral heart bothers you in practice and whether the dry base is the register you were after. If it is, the 6ml at ₹669 is the sensible second purchase. I would not go to the 12ml until a bottle has survived a season.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If what you actually want is for your fragrance to be unmistakably identified as a men's fragrance by the people around you, then this page cannot serve you and neither can any other. That is a claim about somebody else's reading, not a property of a liquid, and the gendering it depends on is a convention rather than a fact about materials. Nothing in this range is built to deliver it, and nothing in any range is either, whatever the advertising says.
— the condition that changes this answer
You wanted clean and dry, without oud and without heat. Two routes out of this page.
One of them costs ₹379. The other costs nothing and may be the better use of your next ten minutes.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If your three dislikes are not sweet, not powdery and not oud-led. The driest base in the attar range, cool spice in the top, and the 3ml is the right size to test a register.
Send Sonal your three dislikes
If you are not sure which of the three you actually hold, or whether the floral heart is a problem for you. Describe what you have disliked before, in your own words, and I will tell you which base survives it - including when none of them does.
SS
ISIPCA
Versailles
A note from Sonal

A man wrote to me last winter with a list of four fragrances he had bought in two years and stopped wearing. Every one of them had been bought on the word masculine, and three of the four were built on vanilla and tonka. He had been handed the sweetest end of the market by exactly the word he was using to escape it, and he had concluded that the problem was him.

We did not discuss gender at all. I asked him to send me the note lists rather than the names, and the pattern was visible in about four minutes: he disliked sugar in a base, he was indifferent to woods, and he had never once objected to a flower in a heart. That is a shopping brief. The word he had been typing was not.

I think about that exchange whenever somebody tells me this family of pages is overthinking a simple query. The query is simple. The word in it is not, and the gap between the two is where a few thousand rupees of disappointing bottles lives.

Frequently asked questions

Is there such a thing as a masculine fragrance note?
No. Notes have smells, volatilities and weights, and none of them carries a gender. What exists is a long-standing marketing convention that puts citrus, woods, leather and aromatics on one shelf and florals, fruit and sweetness on another, and that convention has shifted repeatedly - lavender was a women's material for a century before it became a men's one. Shop the materials and the structure instead.
Is there a SOSA attar with no oudh at any depth?
Adaa, at 3ml for 379 rupees. Ameeri and Mastani both carry soft oudh in the base and Nawaab is oud-led, with white royal oud as the first material named on its product page. Adaa carries none, and that is a fact about the published composition rather than a judgement about intensity.
Is green cardamom a spicy note?
It is a spice botanically, but it behaves very little like the spices that make a fragrance feel hot. Green cardamom is cool, dry and slightly camphorous, it sits in the top of Adaa, and it is largely spent within the first half hour. The materials usually responsible when a composition reads as aggressively spiced are saffron, clove, cinnamon and black pepper, and the first of those is in Ameeri and Nawaab rather than in Adaa.
Does SOSA make a dry woody attar with no flowers in it anywhere?
Not among the four attars. Adaa has a floral heart under a green top, Ameeri is rose-centred, Mastani is built on night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, and Nawaab publishes no floral heart but is oud-led with tobacco and leather. A reader who wants the driest published composition in the whole catalogue should look at the Khayaal perfume oil instead, at 599 rupees for 10ml.
What makes a fragrance smell powdery, and is any SOSA attar powdery?
Iris, orris root and heavy doses of certain musks are the usual answer, and none of them appears in any of the four SOSA attars, so this refusal does not narrow the range here. The full list, and what to do with it on somebody else's listing, is on the page in this cluster that owns the powder question. It narrows most department-store ranges considerably, which is why it is worth learning to spot.
For this brief, is the 3ml or the 6ml of Adaa the right first bottle?
The 3ml, at 379 rupees. You are testing a register rather than stocking a shelf, and three millilitres of a dabbed oil is around a fortnight of daily wear, which is long enough to know whether the floral heart bothers you. The 6ml at 669 rupees is the right second purchase once you know you will keep reaching for it.
The decoding, in one line
Write down the three things you do not want in materials, then read the base line of anything you are considering.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Not sure which of the three dislikes you actually hold?
SOSA — Send me the note lists of two fragrances you stopped wearing. Not the names - the note lists. The pattern is usually visible in four minutes, and it is almost never about gender.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · 6-8 hours on skin · no projection figure claimed anywhere, because none is published
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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