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"Bought the 3ml trio because I knew what she wore and had no idea what else she would wear. She has been working through all three."
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"He has repurchased the same bottle for six years. Three small ones was the only way to put something new in front of him."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
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"Asked which trio suited a bergamot wearer and was told plainly that the trio is an evening set and Adaa was the bottle to look at. Saved me the wrong purchase."
Adaa 12ml
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"Wanted three directions rather than one expensive guess. The 6ml set was the version that felt like a real gift rather than samples."
Attar trio, 3 x 6ml
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"My brother owns more perfume than he can wear. Three small bottles he had not smelled was the only gap left."
Attar trio, 3 x 12ml
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"I knew only what she hated. Buying three and letting her decide was easier than pretending I could pick one."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
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"Bought the 3ml trio because I knew what she wore and had no idea what else she would wear. She has been working through all three."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
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"He has repurchased the same bottle for six years. Three small ones was the only way to put something new in front of him."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
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"Asked which trio suited a bergamot wearer and was told plainly that the trio is an evening set and Adaa was the bottle to look at. Saved me the wrong purchase."
Adaa 12ml
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"Wanted three directions rather than one expensive guess. The 6ml set was the version that felt like a real gift rather than samples."
Attar trio, 3 x 6ml
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"My brother owns more perfume than he can wear. Three small bottles he had not smelled was the only gap left."
Attar trio, 3 x 12ml
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"I knew only what she hated. Buying three and letting her decide was easier than pretending I could pick one."
Attar trio, 3 x 3ml
★ The SOSA Attar Trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in one box ₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml All four SOSA attars, bought singly from ₹379
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Which SOSA attar publishes the freshest note list? Adaa, and it is the only one. Bergamot and neroli are published in Adaa and nowhere else in the four, alongside green cardamom, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, and SOSA publishes Adaa as the lightest of the four. It is ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml, and it is not part of the fixed trio.
Does any SOSA attar answer a brief for sweetness? No. There is no gourmand or dessert-sweet attar in the range at all. Mastani publishes vanilla and tonka, and they sit in the base, underneath night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose and over Mysore sandalwood and oudh. That is a floral with warmth beneath it, so buying Mastani against a sweetness brief means buying a floral and calling it something else.
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You are right to refuse the comparison, and not only on principle. A comparison needs two published note lists and you only ever have one. SOSA publishes what is in its own four attars and nothing whatsoever about any other fragrance, so there is no basis on which one thing could be measured against another here, and none is attempted. What you can carry across is a vocabulary: five broad words that survive the journey from one bottle to a completely different one. Run those five against the four published lists and you get three distinct kinds of result - two words that point at exactly one bottle each, two that point at several and need position to separate them, and one that points at nothing in the range at all. That last one is the most useful of the five.
One published list that touches three of the five words at once. Ameeri publishes Taif rose for floral character, Indian sandalwood and a soft oudh for woods, and Persian saffron with amber for warmth, at ₹385 in 3ml, ₹679 in 6ml and ₹1,165 in 12ml. The two words it does not touch are freshness and sweetness, and those are exactly the two that separate this range: freshness is Adaa alone, and sweetness is nowhere at all.
Quick answers — read this first
Can I use broad qualities instead of looking for a copy of what they wear? Yes, and it is the only method here with anything published behind it. SOSA publishes note lists for its four attars and nothing about any other fragrance, so the useful move is to take the qualities they talk about and read them against those lists. Freshness points to Adaa alone, at ₹379 in 3ml. Sweetness points to nothing, because no gourmand attar is published in the range.Which SOSA attar publishes the freshest note list? Adaa, and it is the only one. Bergamot and neroli are published in Adaa and nowhere else in the four, alongside green cardamom, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, and SOSA publishes Adaa as the lightest of the four. It is ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml, and it is not part of the fixed trio.
Does any SOSA attar answer a brief for sweetness? No. There is no gourmand or dessert-sweet attar in the range at all. Mastani publishes vanilla and tonka, and they sit in the base, underneath night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose and over Mysore sandalwood and oudh. That is a floral with warmth beneath it, so buying Mastani against a sweetness brief means buying a floral and calling it something else.
The short answer
Short answer: Five qualities against four published note lists. Freshness is Adaa alone - bergamot and neroli appear nowhere else in the range - from Rs 379. Floral character is led by Mastani and by Ameeri's Taif rose, while Nawaab publishes no flower at all. Woods run through three of the four as sandalwood, with cedarwood in Adaa and agarwood in Nawaab. Warmth is amber in Ameeri and Nawaab plus saffron in Ameeri. Sweetness matches nothing: SOSA publishes no gourmand attar.
The pick: Rank their five qualities and buy the top one. Freshness is Adaa at ₹379. Woods and warmth together are the 3 x 3ml trio at ₹1,055. Sweetness is nothing at all, and that is a finding rather than a failure.
Why: A quality is portable between fragrances in a way a resemblance claim never is. SOSA publishes note lists and only note lists, so a note list is the only thing a quality can honestly be checked against.
In this guide
Knowing somebody's signature fragrance is more information than most gift buyers have, and it still does not answer the question, because the next bottle is not the same bottle. What three small attars buy you is evidence rather than a guess - three things to put on skin over a week. What the published trio is not is a set you assemble: it is one fixed combination of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, in whichever single size you choose. And no page can tell you what anybody will make of any of them.
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Straight answer
I know someone loves one particular perfume, but I don't want to buy a dupe or pretend another fragrance is identical - can I instead use the broad qualities they enjoy, such as freshness, floral character, woods, warmth or sweetness, to guide them toward genuinely different scent experiences?
Yes - and the method is narrower and more useful than it sounds, because it has published material behind it. Here is the grid, run word by word against the four note lists SOSA publishes. Freshness points to one bottle only. Bergamot and neroli are published in Adaa and nowhere else in the range, alongside green cardamom, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml, published as the lightest of the four and sold outside the fixed trio. Floral character points to several, and position separates them. Mastani leads with night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose; Ameeri leads with Taif rose; Adaa publishes jasmine sambac and magnolia behind its citrus rather than in front of it; Nawaab publishes no flower at all. Woods run through the whole range, in different materials. Sandalwood is a published note in three of the four - Indian sandalwood in Ameeri, Mysore sandalwood in Mastani and in Nawaab. Adaa publishes cedarwood instead, vetiver is published in both Adaa and Nawaab, and agarwood is published in Nawaab. Separately from all of that, all four are carried on Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, which is the carrier rather than a note, and the two statements should not be blended together. Warmth points to two. Amber is published in Ameeri and in Nawaab, and Persian saffron in Ameeri. Sweetness points to nothing. There is no gourmand attar in the range; Mastani's vanilla and tonka sit in a base beneath jasmine and rose and above sandalwood and oudh, which makes the bottle a warm floral rather than a sweet one. Two limits worth stating. SOSA publishes note lists, not phases - there is no pyramid, no top-heart-base timing and no development curve, only the published facts that the drydown develops after the first 30 minutes and that wear is 6 to 8 hours per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin. And nothing here can tell you what any of the five words will produce on their skin, because that is not information SOSA has. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Qualities travel between fragrances. Resemblance claims do not travel at all, because only one side of them is ever published.
The quick version: five words, four published lists. Freshness is Adaa from ₹379, the only bottle publishing bergamot and neroli. Flowers lead in Mastani and in Ameeri, and Nawaab publishes none. Woods run through three of the four as sandalwood, with cedarwood in Adaa and agarwood in Nawaab. Warmth is amber in Ameeri and Nawaab. Sweetness matches nothing - no gourmand attar is published in the range.
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Five words, four published lists, and three different kinds of answer
Five words is the right number - fewer and the grid is too coarse to separate four bottles, more and you are describing a specific fragrance again by the back door. Rank them before you read the lists, because only the top one or two will actually decide anything. The three factors below group the five words by what kind of answer each one produces.
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The two that point at one bottle each
Freshness is Adaa alone, and floral character is what Nawaab rules out
Start with the words that resolve cleanly, because they do most of the work. Freshness resolves to a single bottle. Adaa publishes bergamot and neroli, and neither material appears anywhere else in the range; green cardamom sits with them at the front, and SOSA separately publishes Adaa as the lightest of the four and as the daytime attar. It is ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml, and it is not in the fixed trio, which matters if freshness is their top word - it means the box is the wrong purchase and a single bottle is the right one.
The mirror image is floral character taken as an exclusion. Nawaab publishes no flower at all - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, aged tobacco leaf, agarwood, leather, vetiver and amber. So if flowers are what they talk about, Nawaab is the one bottle in the range the word rules out, and it is one third of the fixed box.
The mirror image is floral character taken as an exclusion. Nawaab publishes no flower at all - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, aged tobacco leaf, agarwood, leather, vetiver and amber. So if flowers are what they talk about, Nawaab is the one bottle in the range the word rules out, and it is one third of the fixed box.
Tip: Freshness is one bottle in this range, and it is the bottle the fixed box does not contain.
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The two that point everywhere
Floral character and woods both need position, not just presence
These two words appear in several lists, so presence alone tells you nothing and you have to read where a material sits. One caveat first, because it is a real limit: SOSA publishes note lists, not phases. There is no note pyramid, no top-heart-base timing and no development curve anywhere on the pages - the only published timing facts are that the drydown develops after the first 30 minutes and that wear is 6 to 8 hours per bottle. What the lists do show is order, and order is informative even when it is not a timeline.
Floral character: Mastani leads with night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, which is the most flower-forward position in the range. Ameeri leads with Taif rose but places sandalwood, saffron, a soft oudh and amber beneath it. Adaa publishes jasmine sambac and magnolia behind bergamot, green cardamom and neroli. Nawaab publishes none. Woods: sandalwood is a published note in three of the four - Indian sandalwood in Ameeri, Mysore sandalwood in Mastani and in Nawaab. Adaa publishes cedarwood instead of sandalwood, vetiver is published in both Adaa and Nawaab, and agarwood is published in Nawaab. And separately again, all four attars are carried on Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba - that is the carrier, not a note, and conflating the two would make it look as though sandalwood led every bottle in the range.
Floral character: Mastani leads with night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, which is the most flower-forward position in the range. Ameeri leads with Taif rose but places sandalwood, saffron, a soft oudh and amber beneath it. Adaa publishes jasmine sambac and magnolia behind bergamot, green cardamom and neroli. Nawaab publishes none. Woods: sandalwood is a published note in three of the four - Indian sandalwood in Ameeri, Mysore sandalwood in Mastani and in Nawaab. Adaa publishes cedarwood instead of sandalwood, vetiver is published in both Adaa and Nawaab, and agarwood is published in Nawaab. And separately again, all four attars are carried on Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba - that is the carrier, not a note, and conflating the two would make it look as though sandalwood led every bottle in the range.
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The one that points nowhere
Warmth resolves to two bottles. Sweetness resolves to none at all
Warmth is the easier of the pair. Amber is published in Ameeri and in Nawaab, and Persian saffron in Ameeri, which is where the festive warmth on that page comes from. Between them those two are the warm end of the range, and both sit inside the fixed trio, so a warmth-led brief is one of the few that the box answers directly rather than by accident.
Sweetness is the one that returns nothing, and it is the most valuable result on the grid because it stops a purchase instead of steering one. There is no gourmand or dessert-sweet attar in the SOSA range. Nothing is built on sugar, caramel, chocolate or dessert notes. Mastani publishes vanilla and tonka - the only vanilla published anywhere in the four - and they sit in the base, underneath night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose and over Mysore sandalwood and oudh. That makes Mastani a floral with warmth beneath it. If sweetness is their top word, the honest answer is that this range does not answer it, and buying Mastani anyway means buying a floral and describing it as something it is not.
Sweetness is the one that returns nothing, and it is the most valuable result on the grid because it stops a purchase instead of steering one. There is no gourmand or dessert-sweet attar in the SOSA range. Nothing is built on sugar, caramel, chocolate or dessert notes. Mastani publishes vanilla and tonka - the only vanilla published anywhere in the four - and they sit in the base, underneath night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose and over Mysore sandalwood and oudh. That makes Mastani a floral with warmth beneath it. If sweetness is their top word, the honest answer is that this range does not answer it, and buying Mastani anyway means buying a floral and describing it as something it is not.
Tip: A word with no match in the range is not a hole in your reasoning. It is a finding, and it saves you a bottle.
The bottle the trio does not contain
Adaa, and why it matters to half these questions
SOSA publishes four attars. Three of them are in the trio and one is not. Adaa - bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac and white musk - is published as the lightest of the four and a daytime attar, and it is sold on its own at ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml. That matters because the trio page itself lists a reason not to buy the trio: it is an evening set of depth, warmth and floral, and somebody who wears bright, light, citrus-led fragrance is not the buyer for it. If what you know about their taste is that it is fresh, the honest route is Adaa rather than the box - and if you want Adaa alongside two others, that is three individual bottles at full price, because the trio cannot be recomposed.
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Work it out in this order
Turn five words into four published lists
- Write their five qualities down and rank them. Only the top two decide anything.
- Freshness points to Adaa alone - bergamot and neroli, from Rs 379 in 3ml.
- Woods and warmth point into the box: Rs 1,055 for three 3ml bottles.
- Sweetness points nowhere. No gourmand attar is published in this range at all.
The SOSA principle
Five words survive the trip between two completely different fragrances. A claim of likeness survives nothing, because only one of the two lists is ever published.
So rank the words rather than matching the bottle. The top one decides, the second one breaks a tie, and the other three are conversation.
The grid, written out
Written out as a grid, with prices attached to the right names. Adaa, ₹379 in 3ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml - bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver, cedarwood: the only freshness in the range, flowers behind the citrus, wood as cedarwood and vetiver, no warmth material, no sweetness. Ameeri, ₹385 and ₹1,165 - Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh, amber, white musk: flowers in front, wood and warmth beneath, no freshness, no sweetness. Mastani, ₹389 and ₹1,179 - night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla, tonka: the most flower-forward list, wood beneath, vanilla and tonka in the base and no gourmand claim attached to them. Nawaab, ₹399 and ₹1,199 - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, aged tobacco leaf, agarwood, leather, vetiver, amber: all wood and warmth, no flower anywhere, published as the deepest of the four. Three of those four are the fixed trio; Adaa is the fourth and is bought on its own.
The SOSA gift edit
Four purchases, each led by one of the five words
| The option | Who it suits, and where it fails |
|---|---|
| Freshness leads: Adaa from ₹379 | The only bottle in the range carrying bergamot and neroli, published as the lightest of the four. Where it breaks: it is outside the fixed box, so it cannot be combined into the trio price, and one bottle tests one direction - roughly 60 wears in the 3ml, and no wear figure published for the larger sizes. |
| Flowers lead: Mastani at ₹389 in 3ml | The most flower-forward list in the range, night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose in front of sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka. Where it breaks: if their existing fragrance is already floral, this is the bottle that tests the least, because it is the one closest to the vocabulary they already use. |
| Woods and warmth lead: the trio, 3 x 3ml at ₹1,055 | The one brief the fixed box answers head on - sandalwood in all three, amber in two, saffron in one, and three quite different arrangements of the same two words. Where it breaks: the combination cannot be altered, all three publish oudh, and it is published as an evening set. |
| Sweetness leads: nothing in the range answers it | The row with no product in it, and the reason it is here. No gourmand attar is published; Mastani's vanilla and tonka are a base underneath flowers. Where every other option breaks: they all require you to relabel a floral or a warm wood as something sweet, which is the one move this page will not make. |
What the three sizes actually buy you
3ml, 6ml or 12ml - and roughly sixty wears in the smallest
All three trio tiers contain the same three attars; the only variable is how much of each. ₹1,055 buys 3 x 3ml, and the published figure for a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab - which is the number that makes a discovery gift a real one rather than a set of samples, because it is enough to wear a scent on an ordinary Tuesday and not just sniff it in a shop. ₹1,859 buys 3 x 6ml and ₹3,189 buys 3 x 12ml, the largest published size of each. Against the same bottles bought singly those are savings of ₹118, ₹204 and ₹354. The trio ships with all three bottles in the same size - there is no mixed-size set, and SOSA states that mixing sizes means buying the three individually and losing the trio price.
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Two limits on the method itself, stated so you can use it properly. A note list tells you what is in a bottle, not what it does - SOSA publishes no sillage figure, no projection figure, no room-distance claim and no seasonal or skin-chemistry claim beyond the published note that wear is longer on warm or oily skin. And the five words are yours, not theirs: they come from how the recipient talks about what they like, which is a description of a past preference rather than a forecast of a future one. The published facts that surround any of these four bottles are the same in every case - 6 to 8 hours per bottle, a drydown developing after the first 30 minutes, roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab, a built-in applicator dabbed on pulse points rather than rubbed, alcohol-free and DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, carried on Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, hand-blended in small batches in Pune.
₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml, ₹1,859 in 3 x 6ml, ₹3,189 in 3 x 12ml. Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - the same three every time, all in the size you pick, in one gift-ready box.
from ₹1,055
₹379, ₹669 and ₹1,149. Bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, white musk. The lightest of the four and the one the trio does not contain - the honest answer whenever the question is a fresh or daytime one.
from ₹379
₹1,149 to ₹1,199 for a single 12ml. The alternative to the trio when you already know the direction and the useful thing is depth in one bottle rather than breadth across three.
from ₹1,149
One message, one honest recommendation
Tell SOSA what they already wear, anything they have said they dislike, whether this is a first attar or an addition, and what you want to spend - and you will be told which size and which bottles, including the times the honest answer is Adaa on its own from ₹379 rather than the trio.
A quality travels from one bottle to a completely different one. A likeness cannot travel anywhere, because nobody has published the other half of it.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Two questions settle almost every attar gift where you already know what they wear, and the first one is not price. Are you buying breadth or depth? Breadth means three bottles to put on skin over a week, which is what the published trio is for; depth means one 12ml in a direction you are already confident about. Then: does what you know about their taste sit inside what the trio actually contains? The trio is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - warm rose and saffron, white royal oud, and night-jasmine with Damask rose. It has no light, fresh or citrus-led bottle in it, because Adaa is the lightest of the four and is sold separately from ₹379. Price follows those two answers rather than leading them.
The SOSA range, sorted by how much it asks of the person receiving it
Start from what the gift demands, not from what it costs
| Product | What it is | What it is for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOSA Attar Trio - 3 x 3ml | Three to smell, not one to guess | ₹1,055 for Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in 3ml each, against ₹1,173 bought singly. The published figure for a 3ml is roughly 60 wears at one dab - enough to actually live with a scent rather than sniff it | ₹1,055 |
| SOSA Attar Trio - 3 x 6ml | The middle size | ₹1,859 against ₹2,063 bought singly. The same three attars; the trio ships with all three bottles in the same size | ₹1,859 |
| SOSA Attar Trio - 3 x 12ml | Three full bottles | ₹3,189 against ₹3,543 bought singly. The largest published size of each, in one gift-ready box | ₹3,189 |
| Adaa - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | The lightest in the range | ₹379, ₹669 and ₹1,149. Bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac and white musk. Adaa is not in the trio - SOSA publishes it as the daytime attar and sells it separately | from ₹379 |
| Ameeri - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | Warm, rose and saffron led | ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165. Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, a measured oudh and amber | from ₹385 |
| Mastani - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | Floral depth | ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179. Night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose over sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka | from ₹389 |
| Nawaab - 3ml, 6ml, 12ml | The deepest in the range | ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199. White royal oud led, with Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf. SOSA publishes this as the deepest of the four | from ₹399 |
| SOSA solid body perfumes - 15g | Worn, and smaller still | ₹459 to ₹549. The other worn format in the range. No wear-time figure is published for these, so this page does not give one | from ₹459 |
| SOSA reed diffusers | A room, not a person | From ₹749 in 50ml. Listed here only to rule it out: a reed diffuser scents a room and an attar is worn. They are not substitutes, and a fragrance-taste question is not answered by a bottle that sits on a shelf | from ₹749 |
The single most useful fact on this page: the published Attar Trio is one fixed combination. It is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, every time, and all three bottles ship in the size you select. Adaa cannot be substituted into it, and there is no mixed-size trio - SOSA's own page says that if you want a different three, or three different sizes, you buy the bottles individually and the trio discount does not apply. Published across all five pages: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, a built-in dab applicator (dab on pulse points, do not rub), a carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, and alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant formulations hand-blended in small batches in Pune. A 3ml is published at roughly 60 wears at one dab. Attar oils can stain light silks, so they go on skin rather than on fabric. Prices above are the published selling prices; bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available, with quantities settled on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. SOSA is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, sending orders across India. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The honest spec sheet
What the SOSA attar pages publish, and what they do not
Everything below is on the live product pages. Anything not on this list is not something a page like this should state.
- The four attars and their prices - Adaa, bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac and white musk, ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149; Ameeri, Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh and amber, ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165; Mastani, night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka, ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179; Nawaab, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199. In 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. Those four are the entire attar range.
- The trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani at ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189 for 3 x 3ml, 3 x 6ml and 3 x 12ml, against ₹1,173, ₹2,063 and ₹3,543 bought singly. It is one fixed combination, all three bottles in the same size, and Adaa is not in it. A different three, or mixed sizes, means buying individually at full price.
- Wear - 6 to 8 hours on skin per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, with the drydown developing after the first 30 minutes. A 3ml is published at roughly 60 wears at one dab. That is the only quantity figure SOSA gives for an attar.
- The format - a concentrated oil attar with a built-in dab applicator; dab on pulse points and do not rub. Carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba. Alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant, skin-safe, heat-stable to 45 degrees C, hand-blended in small batches in Pune by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles trained. Attar oils can stain light silks, so they go on skin rather than fabric.
- Relative depth, in SOSA's own words - Adaa is published as the lightest of the four and Nawaab as the deepest, with Ameeri and Mastani between them. That ordering is published; no number from any product page is quoted here, and no claim is made about how any of them behaves on a particular person.
- Not published, and therefore never stated here: any sillage, projection or room-distance figure; any shelf life, expiry, concentration or oil percentage; any seasonal or skin-chemistry claim beyond "longer on warm or oily skin"; any bulk rate, minimum quantity, price break or lead time; any presentation beyond the trio's single gift-ready box and a custom label or logo on product; and anything whatsoever about what a recipient will like or how a gift will be received. Those go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Know what they wear and not what to buy next? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 four things: the fragrance they already own and wear, anything they have said they dislike, whether this is a first attar or an addition to a collection, and roughly what you want to spend. You will get one straight answer rather than a catalogue - including the cases where the honest answer is a single 3ml at ₹379 to ₹399 rather than the trio, or Adaa on its own because the trio is published as an evening set. What is not on this page, because SOSA does not publish it: any sillage, projection or room-distance figure; any shelf life, expiry or concentration; any claim about how an attar behaves on a particular person; any bulk rate, minimum quantity or lead time; and anything at all about what a recipient will think. What is: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin, a drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes, roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab, a built-in dab applicator, a carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba, and alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant formulations made in India. On presentation: the trio's three bottles ship in a single gift-ready box, which is published; beyond that, custom label or logo on product is the one branding option, and there is no custom box, printed sleeve or insert card. Where SOSA is: an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, sending orders across India, with no shop, stockist, counter or warehouse in any other city.
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A note from Sonal
The message we get most often on WhatsApp is not what should I buy. It is a more specific and more interesting problem: I know exactly what she wears. I have known for years. I just cannot buy it again. That person is not short of information. They are short of a next step, which is a different thing entirely, and almost nothing written about fragrance gifting treats it as different.
Here is the part I would want them to hold on to. Knowing somebody's signature tells you where they started, not where they would go. A person who has worn one bottle for a decade has usually not rejected the alternatives - they have never had three of them on their own skin at the same time. So the useful gift is not a better guess at one bottle. It is evidence: several things to wear, on separate days, and the chance to notice which one they reach for without being asked to be polite about it.
The part I will be blunt about, because our own product page is blunt about it: the trio is one fixed set. Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, all three in whichever size you choose. It is not assembled around a person's taste, Adaa is not in it, and if somebody wears bright citrus and nothing else, that box is the wrong box - Adaa on its own is the honest answer, and it costs a great deal less. I would rather lose the larger sale than have three bottles sit unopened on somebody's dressing table.
And the thing nobody selling fragrance should pretend to know: I cannot tell you what they will like. I can tell you what is in each bottle, that one dab carries six to eight hours, that a 3ml is roughly sixty wears, and that all four are alcohol-free and blended here in Pune. What happens when a particular person puts a particular attar on a particular wrist is genuinely theirs to find out - and giving them three ways to find it out is, I think, the whole point.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use their favourite perfume to pick one of these four attars?
Only as a source of vocabulary, never as a target. SOSA publishes note lists for its own four attars and nothing at all about any other fragrance, so there is no published material on which anything could be lined up against anything else, and no such claim is made here. What works is taking the words they use - freshness, flowers, wood, warmth, sweetness - and reading those against the four published lists to find which bottle carries the material and which does not.
Which of the four publishes the freshest note list?
Adaa, and it is the only candidate. Bergamot and neroli are published in Adaa and nowhere else in the range, with green cardamom alongside them and jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood behind. SOSA also publishes Adaa as the lightest of the four and as the daytime attar. It is Rs 379 in 3ml, Rs 669 in 6ml and Rs 1,149 in 12ml, and it is not part of the fixed trio.
Is any SOSA attar a sweet or gourmand fragrance?
No, not one of the four. There is no gourmand or dessert-sweet attar in the range. Mastani publishes vanilla and tonka, which is the only vanilla anywhere in the four, and both sit in the base underneath night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose and above Mysore sandalwood and oudh. That makes Mastani a floral with a warm base. A brief for sweetness is one this range does not answer, and saying so is more useful than substituting something warm.
Which attar publishes no flower at all?
Nawaab. Its published list is white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, with agarwood, leather, vetiver and amber, and no floral material appears in it. SOSA also publishes Nawaab as the deepest of the four. It is Rs 399 in 3ml, Rs 699 in 6ml and Rs 1,199 in 12ml, and it is one of the three bottles in the fixed trio.
Does sandalwood appear in all four attars?
As a published note, no - it appears in three of the four: Indian sandalwood in Ameeri, Mysore sandalwood in Mastani and in Nawaab. Adaa publishes cedarwood and vetiver rather than sandalwood. As a carrier, though, yes: all four attars are carried on Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba. Those are two separate statements and it is worth keeping them apart, because the carrier is not what leads the composition.
Take the next step
Rank the five words, then buy the top one
Adaa at ₹379 in 3ml when freshness is their first word, because bergamot and neroli appear nowhere else in the range. Mastani at ₹389 when flowers lead. The 3 x 3ml trio at ₹1,055 when woods and warmth lead, since sandalwood runs through all three of its bottles and amber through two. And nothing at all when sweetness leads, because no gourmand attar is published here and no floral will be relabelled to fill the gap.
Not sure which one suits the person you are buying for? Send SOSA their age, whether they drive, whether they like their home scented and your budget on WhatsApp, and you will get an honest answer - including when the cheaper product is the better gift.
The fragrance gift that hands the choosing back to the person wearing it
SOSA — alcohol-free oil attars, hand-blended in Pune in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml; the fixed Attar Trio from ₹1,055, single bottles from ₹379, 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle
Send SOSA the five words on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 in the order that matters, and you will get them read against the four published note lists - including the answer that the range does not carry what you are describing. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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More SOSA attar and fragrance-discovery guides
- The SOSA Attar Trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in one box (₹1,055 in 3 x 3ml)
- All four SOSA attars, bought singly (from ₹379 in 3ml)
- Adaa - the lightest of the four, and the one the trio does not contain (from ₹379)
- Nawaab - published as the deepest in the range (from ₹399)
- SOSA solid body perfumes, 15g - the other worn format (from ₹459)
- The SOSA founder story - Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the reasoning about how to buy fragrance for somebody whose taste you partly know applies to any brand.Specifications verified from the live SOSA product pages, September 2026: SOSA publishes four attars and one pack of three, and that is the entire attar range. Adaa - bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, magnolia, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - is ₹379 in 3ml, ₹669 in 6ml and ₹1,149 in 12ml. Ameeri - Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh, amber and white musk - is ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165. Mastani - night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka - is ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179. Nawaab - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf - is ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199. The SOSA Attar Trio is one fixed combination - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - at ₹1,055 for 3 x 3ml, ₹1,859 for 3 x 6ml and ₹3,189 for 3 x 12ml, against ₹1,173, ₹2,063 and ₹3,543 for the same bottles bought singly. All three bottles in a trio ship in the same size and in a single gift-ready box. Adaa is not in the trio; SOSA publishes it as the daytime attar, sold separately, and the trio page states that a different combination or mixed sizes means buying individually without the trio price. Published across all five pages: 6 to 8 hours of wear per bottle, longer on warm or oily skin; a drydown that develops after the first 30 minutes; roughly 60 wears in a 3ml at one dab; a built-in dab applicator, dabbed on pulse points rather than rubbed; a carrier of Indian sandalwood oil and jojoba; alcohol-free, DPG-free, IFRA-compliant and skin-safe; heat-stable to 45 degrees C; hand-blended in small batches in Pune; country of origin India. Attar oils can stain light silks and are applied to skin rather than fabric. For comparison: SOSA solid body perfumes are ₹459 to ₹549 in 15g and are also worn, though no wear-time figure is published for them; SOSA reed diffusers from ₹749 scent a room rather than a person and are not an alternative to an attar. What is not published, and is therefore not stated here: any sillage, projection or room-distance figure; any shelf life, expiry, concentration or oil percentage; any seasonal or skin-chemistry claim beyond "longer on warm or oily skin"; any bulk rate, minimum quantity, price break or lead time; and any presentation beyond the trio's single gift-ready box and a custom label or logo on product. Limits of this guide: no claim is made anywhere on this page about mood, stress, calm, sleep, headaches, sensitivity or wellbeing, in either direction. No claim is made about what any recipient will like. Nothing here states or implies that a named person will enjoy, prefer, adopt or be impressed by any fragrance, that a scent will suit them or become their signature, or that a gift will be well received; SOSA publishes no information of that kind and none is invented here. No third-party perfume, perfume house or brand is named, and no resemblance, alternative or dupe claim is made about any SOSA product. No rating, review count, strength score or customer name from any product page is cited, and no competitor or category of competing product is characterised. No statement is made about what any community, religion or family wears or gives, and no etiquette rule is presented as fact. No fragrance is assigned to a gender; SOSA publishes all four attars as wearable by anyone. Bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available; that is the only branding option, and quantities are settled on WhatsApp. SOSA Home & Body is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, Maharashtra, sending orders across India, with no shop, showroom, stockist, counter or warehouse in any other city. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.