You asked me to act as a trained perfumer: here is what one would actually look at, and how to check it yourself before you buy

Act as a trained perfumer and recommend an attar for office wear, dates, weddings, festivals, travel or daily life, and tell me what to verify before buying.

You asked this page to act as a trained perfumer, and it will not. There is a trained perfumer behind these four attars already and she is Sonal Sahani, who trained at ISIPCA, Versailles, composes all four herself and signs off every small batch by hand in Pune. A role-played persona would sit over that published fact and hide it, and it would put a qualification on the page that nobody can check. So here is the better version of what you asked for, in three parts. What a trained perfumer would actually look at is published, every item of it, and there are six things on the list: the pyramid read tier by tier rather than by its headline, the self-assigned strength score, the occasion line, the wear line, the carrier, and the price per millilitre. Part one, the pyramid, read tier by tier rather than by the headline, because the headline names two materials and the pyramid names nine or ten. Adaa publishes Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli in its opening, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in its heart, and white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in its base. Ameeri publishes Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot in its opening, Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in its heart, and soft oudh, amber and white musk in its base. Mastani publishes litchi, bergamot and pink pepper in its opening, night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose in its heart, and Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka bean in its base. 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. Read the base hardest of the three. It is where Madagascar vanilla, tonka bean, leather and amber live, and it is where a dislike gets settled rather than guessed at. Madagascar vanilla and tonka bean are published in Mastani's base and in no other pyramid in this range, so a reader who dislikes sweetness can rule one bottle out on published words and keep the other three. Part two, the four published fields that describe how a bottle is meant to be used. The strength score first. 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. Those are SOSA's own numbers on a scale SOSA invented, which is worth saying once and then using honestly. The occasion line second, and it is the field this whole range turns on. Adaa publishes its occasion line as office hours, business lunches, daytime weddings, meetings and summer wear. Ameeri publishes its occasion line as Diwali, Eid, Karwa Chauth, family weddings and festive dinners. Mastani publishes its occasion line as anniversaries, date nights, evening receptions and signature wear. Nawaab publishes its occasion line as weddings, boardrooms, important evenings and signature wear. Office wear, dates, weddings and festivals - four of the six things you listed - are answered by those four lines directly: Adaa names office hours, Mastani names date nights, Nawaab and Ameeri both name a wedding, and Ameeri names Diwali and Eid. Travel and daily life are the two that no occasion line names, so for those the answer runs through the sizes and not through a line. The wear line third. 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 carrier fourth. All four are the same format: a concentrated oil attar with a built-in dab applicator, carried in sandalwood oil and jojoba, alcohol-free and DPG-free. Part three, the arithmetic, which is the field people skip and the one that changes what they spend. There are twelve published bottle prices and they run from ₹379 to ₹1,199: the 3ml band between ₹379 and ₹399, the 6ml band between ₹669 and ₹699, and the 12ml band between ₹1,149 and ₹1,199. Per millilitre the ladder inverts. Adaa works out at about ₹126 a millilitre at 3ml and about ₹96 a millilitre at 12ml; Nawaab about ₹133 against about ₹100. On all four the 12ml is roughly a quarter cheaper per millilitre than the 3ml, between about twenty-four and twenty-five per cent. Now the checklist, so the six fields become something you can actually run in the two minutes before you press buy. Open the pyramid and read all three tiers, not the title. Read the base twice. Find the strength score and read it as SOSA's own number out of ten rather than an hour count or a distance. Read the occasion line and ask whether it names your week. Read the wear line and expect nothing beyond it. Read the gender line, which on all four of them says unisex: All four publish the word unisex. Adaa and Ameeri print it outright, and the two with a stated leaning, Mastani and Nawaab, print the word unisex in the same breath. That is not my reading of the range; it is the line on each product page. Check the size against the price and do the per-millilitre sum. And read the rating beside its count rather than on its own. Adaa carries 4.9 from 98 published customer reviews. Ameeri carries 4.9 from 104 published customer reviews. Mastani carries 4.9 from 112 published customer reviews. 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. Equally, know what is not there, so you stop looking for it. SOSA publishes no projection figure and no sillage figure for any attar, so no page of mine will turn a strength figure into a distance, and it will not promise you discretion either. The attar pages carry no family label of the kind the car fragrance pages carry. What they publish instead is a three-tier pyramid, a mood line, a gender line, an occasion line, a self-assigned strength figure and a wear time. No attar in the range carries a season label, so a month is a date on this page and never a rating. SOSA publishes no layering instruction of any kind, so nothing here will tell you to wear one fragrance over or under another. One bottle, dabbed, is the whole published method. No ingredient percentage, no dilution figure and no shelf-life figure is published either. And the last part of your question, the one I have deliberately left to the end. The personal recommendation is the one thing this page cannot give you, and it has a real address: Sonal Sahani, on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. She is the one person who can give you that recommendation, because she composed the four bottles it would be chosen from. Sonal Sahani trained at ISIPCA, Versailles, she designs all four attars herself, and she signs off every small batch by hand in Pune. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.