How Can I Choose a Masculine Attar That Smells Refined and Well-Groomed Without Relying on Strong Leather, Tobacco or Smoky Oud Notes?

How Can I Choose a Masculine Attar That Smells Refined and Well-Groomed Without Relying on Strong Leather, Tobacco or Smoky Oud Notes?

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★ ★ Refined and deep are two different words, and the shelf uses them as though they were oneSOSA Ameeri 3ml ₹385 · 6ml ₹679 · 12ml ₹1,165 - saffron and Taif rose, soft oudh in the base, no leather and no tobaccoSOSA 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 has been handed something enormous every time he asked for something well made, and has started to suspect the two words are being sold as one
  • 1 All three materials you want to avoid are in Nawaab: white royal oud and aged tobacco leaf in the top, amber and leather in the base. It is the deepest composition SOSA makes.
  • 2 Ameeri carries soft oudh in its base, beside amber and white musk, and that is published on its product page. Oudh in a base is a different proposition from oud leading a composition, but it is not nothing.
  • 3 Ameeri has no leather and no tobacco at all. Its materials are Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood.
  • 4 Adaa carries no oudh anywhere and is the only one of the four that does not. Its base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood.
  • 5 Ameeri, 3ml ₹385, 6ml ₹679, 12ml ₹1,165. Nawaab, 3ml ₹399, is the bottle this page rules out. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for both.
★ See SOSA Ameeri - saffron and Taif rose, no leather ₹385 Ask Sonal which of the three you object to ₹0
★ The one to buy, the one to rule out, and the one with no oudh at all
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 - no leather, no tobacco, and oudh only in the 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 - all three of your exclusions in one composition, which is why this page spends a section on itView Nawaab →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 - the only one of the four with no oudh in it anywhereView Adaa →
✓ 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
Your three exclusions are not scattered across this range. They are concentrated in one bottle, and it is worth naming it immediately. Leather, tobacco and oud used smokily all appear in Nawaab: white royal oud leads its opening, aged tobacco leaf is in that same opening, and leather sits in its base beside amber and white musk. That is the single composition in the SOSA catalogue your query describes, and this page is the one place in this guide where I spend proper time on why it is the wrong bottle for you rather than simply skipping past it. Then there is a second job, which is separating refined from deep - two words the market sells as though they were one, and which point at different liquids.
Quick answers — read this first
Which masculine attar is refined without leather, tobacco or smoky oud? SOSA Ameeri, the 3ml at ₹385. Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on a base of soft oudh, amber and white musk. There is no leather in it and no tobacco at all. The one disclosure that matters is the soft oudh in the base, which is published and which is a quieter proposition than oud leading a composition. If you want no oudh at any depth, Adaa at ₹379 is the only attar here that carries none.

Why is Nawaab the wrong attar for someone avoiding leather and smoke? Because it contains all three of those things by design and says so on its own product page. Nawaab opens on white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf, and settles onto amber, leather and white musk. It is the deepest composition in the range and it is built to be. It is not a badly made thing and it is not too strong in the abstract; it is simply the precise opposite of what you described, and a page that recommended it to you would be selling rather than answering.

Does refined mean the same thing as deep or intense in fragrance? No, and conflating them is the commonest mistake on this brief. Refinement describes how a composition is constructed: how well the materials are balanced, whether the transitions between stages are smooth, whether anything sticks out. Depth describes what register it occupies - dark, resinous, animalic, smoky. A composition can be deep and badly built, or light and beautifully built. Price correlates loosely with the first and not at all with the second.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy SOSA Ameeri, the 3ml at ₹385. Your three exclusions all live in Nawaab - white royal oud and aged tobacco leaf in its opening, leather in its base - so the first move is to rule that one bottle out and stop worrying about the rest of the range. Ameeri has no leather and no tobacco; its structure is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, finishing on soft oudh, amber and white musk. The oudh in that base is published and is the one thing to decide about before buying.
The pick: the Ameeri 3ml at ₹385 if soft oudh in a base is acceptable to you, and the Adaa 3ml at ₹379 if it is not, because Adaa carries no oudh at any depth. If your real objection turns out to be the oud rather than the tobacco, the Tabac Noir perfume oil at ₹599 is a tobacco-vanilla with no oud in it at all.
Next step: read the decoding page for the method, and the quiet-luxury page if the word refined is really the subject of your search. The family hub holds the routing rule. Or tell me which of the three you object to most and I will tell you what survives it.
In this guide
Straight answer
How can I choose a masculine attar that smells refined and well-groomed without relying on strong leather, tobacco or smoky oud notes?
Ameeri, the 3ml at ₹385 - and the reason this page exists is that your three exclusions are not three separate problems, they are one bottle. First, the concentration. Leather, tobacco and smoky oud sound like three different things to avoid, and across the wider market they are. Inside this range they are the same conversation, because all three sit in Nawaab: white royal oud opens it, aged tobacco leaf is beside that oud in the opening, and leather is in the base with amber and white musk. No other SOSA attar contains leather. No other contains tobacco. So once Nawaab is set aside, you have not narrowed the range by much - you have narrowed it by exactly one bottle, and the remaining three are free of two of your three exclusions entirely. Second, the word that is actually doing the work in your query. Refined. It is the most slippery adjective in fragrance and it is worth taking apart, because the market has quietly made it a synonym for expensive and then for deep, and it is neither. Refinement is a property of construction: how well-balanced the materials are, how smoothly a composition moves from its opening to its heart, whether any single material sticks out of the blend, whether the thing feels finished. You can have a refined citrus cologne and an unrefined oud, and both exist in quantity. Depth is a separate axis altogether, and it describes register - dark, resinous, smoky, animalic. The reason this distinction matters commercially to you is that the men's market has spent two decades selling depth as refinement, which is why a reader who asks for something well-made keeps being handed something enormous. Third, what well-groomed means, because that word is in your question too. In practice it means a composition that reads as considered rather than as a statement: no single loud idea, nothing that arrives before you do, a smooth finish. That is a construction brief and a dose brief, and it points at the middle of a range rather than either end of it. Fourth, why Ameeri. Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot at the top: spiced and bright, with the saffron giving a warm, slightly leathery-adjacent quality that is not leather. Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in the heart: the rose is the subject, and it is a dry, fine, slightly green rose rather than a jammy one, with the sandalwood underneath it as foundation. Soft oudh, amber and white musk in the base: warm, rounded, with body. It is the most conventionally well-made thing in this range to my own ear, it has nothing in it that sticks out, and it contains neither of the two materials you named first. Fifth, the disclosure, because I would rather make it here than have you find it on the product page after paying. Ameeri's base contains soft oudh. If your exclusion of smoky oud was really an exclusion of oud in any form, Ameeri is not your bottle and Adaa is - it is the only one of the four with no oudh at any depth, and its base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. If your exclusion was specifically of oud used as a smoky, forward, announcing material, then soft oudh in a base is a different thing and Ameeri is comfortably inside your brief. That distinction is yours to make and it is the one decision this page actually asks of you. And sixth, the limit. Refined and well-groomed are both words about how you would be perceived, and perception is the one thing in this transaction that nobody can sell you. I can tell you how a composition is built. I cannot tell you what anybody will conclude from it.

The part of your question I am not going to answer

What I cannot tell you
I cannot tell you that anybody will find what you are wearing refined, or well-groomed, or expensive, and I am not going to suggest otherwise. Those are judgements, and they are formed inside other people out of their own history - what their employer's atmosphere smells like, what they associate with care and what with effort, whether they have any interest in fragrance at all. A great many people cannot tell a beautifully constructed composition from a clumsy one, and that is not a failing on their part; it is a specialism, like being able to hear an out-of-tune piano. So the useful question is not whether refinement will be recognised. The useful question is whether the thing you are buying is actually well made and actually the register you chose, which is checkable from a pyramid, from a price, and from a fortnight on your own skin.

I am aware this is a strange thing to put high on a page whose whole subject is an impression. I put it here because the alternative is worse. The promise that a fragrance will make you read as refined is the single most common sentence in the category, it is the one most likely to sell you a bottle, and it is also unfalsifiable until long after the money has changed hands. Everything else on this page can be checked against a product listing in a minute, which is a less exciting proposition and a far more useful one.

Why Nawaab is the wrong answer, properly explained

Most pages in this guide give Nawaab a line in a table and move on. This one owes you more than that, because your query is a precise description of its contents and because a reader who ends up buying it on the strength of a word like sophisticated will be unhappy within a day. So here is the composition, read honestly and with no attempt to talk you into it.

Nawaab's published pyramid is unusual: it has a top and a base and no separately published heart. The top is white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf. The base is amber, leather and white musk. What that structure means in practice is that the deep materials are present from the first minute rather than arriving later, which is the opposite of how most compositions are built, and it is deliberate - this is the traditional shape of a rich attar, where the point is that the oud is the subject and announces itself.

Take the three materials in turn. The oud is white royal oud, which is the brighter and cleaner end of the oud spectrum rather than the barnyard end, but it is still the leading material in the composition and it is still unmistakably oud. The aged tobacco leaf is dried tobacco rather than smoke - more like an unlit cigar box than an ashtray - which reads as easier than expected to some noses and as immediately too much to others. The leather is a constructed accord, as all perfumery leather is, and it gives the base a dry, slightly animalic, slightly tarry quality underneath the amber. Together they make the deepest thing in this catalogue by a wide margin, and I am proud of it.

It is still wrong for you. Not because it is badly built - I would defend its construction against anything at its price - but because it is the exact register you have asked to avoid, three times over. The failure mode I see most often is a reader who wants something refined, reads that an oud attar is the traditional and prestigious choice, buys the deepest bottle on the page, and then owns something he puts on twice a year. That is a waste of ₹399 and, worse, it teaches him that attars are not for him when the truth is that one particular register was not.

There is one circumstance in which it becomes right, and I will name it for completeness. If you work in a client-facing luxury environment - a jewellery room, a bespoke tailor, a hospitality setting where richness is the house style - then Nawaab's register may be exactly correct for the setting even though it contradicts everything in your query, and the control comes from applying a fraction of a dab at a single site rather than from choosing a lighter bottle. That is a narrow case. If it is not obviously yours, it is not yours.

Refined, deep, leather, smoky: four words separated

The four words, taken apart
What each one actually describes, what it is routinely confused with, and how to test it yourself
The term What it actually is What it is not How to tell, on your own skin
Refined A property of construction: balanced materials, smooth transitions, nothing sticking out of the blend, a finished feel Not depth, not darkness, not price, and not rarity. A citrus cologne can be exquisitely refined and an oud can be crude Wear it for four hours and notice the joins. In a well-built composition you cannot say when the heart became the base; in a clumsy one there is a step
Deep A register: dark, resinous, slow, often with animalic or smoky materials in it. In this range it means Nawaab Not quality and not strength. Depth is about which materials, not how much of them. A deep composition at a fraction of a dab is still deep Read the base line. Amber, leather, oudh, labdanum and heavy musks mean deep; musk, vetiver and cedar mean dry
Leather Always a constructed accord rather than a material - built from birch tar, styrax, castoreum substitutes, safraleine and relatives. Dry, slightly animalic, sometimes tarry Not the smell of a new car or a handbag shop, which is mostly adhesive and finishing chemistry. And not saffron, which is often mistaken for it If a listing names leather you will get the accord; if it names saffron and you think you smell leather, that is the saffron doing it
Smoky Usually birch tar, cade, guaiacwood or a smoke synthetic - and in oud compositions, the oud itself at certain grades. SOSA makes no incense scent, so that route to smoke is absent from this range Not the same as tobacco. Aged tobacco leaf is dried-leaf sweetness and bitterness, closer to a cigar box than to anything burning Ask yourself whether what you disliked was an ashtray or a cigar box. They are produced by different materials and only one of them is in Nawaab
The fourth row is the one that most often changes a reader's mind, because a great many people who say they dislike smoke have in fact disliked tobacco, or the reverse - and the two send you to different bottles.
The SOSA principle
Depth is a decision about register. Refinement is a decision about craft. The market has spent twenty years selling the first and charging for the second, and the only defence is to read the base line and then wear the thing for four hours.
Which is the whole argument of this page, in two sentences.

What Ameeri does instead, and the one disclosure

Ameeri is built the conventional way, with a clear three-stage structure, and that is part of why it suits this brief. The opening is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot: bright and spiced, with the saffron supplying a warm, slightly leathery-adjacent quality that is emphatically not leather - it is the material most often responsible when a reader thinks he is smelling leather in a composition that contains none. The heart is Taif rose with Indian sandalwood, and the rose is the dry, fine, faintly green kind rather than the jammy kind, with the sandalwood beneath it giving it a foundation rather than a competitor.

The base is soft oudh, amber and white musk. There is the disclosure, and it is the only one. Oudh is present, it is described as soft, and it sits in the base, which means it arrives slowly and as part of a settled whole rather than announcing itself at the door. If you have met oud only in the form of oud-led compositions - the big, forward, unmissable kind - then soft oudh in a base is likely to be a different experience from the one you are avoiding, and the 3ml at ₹385 is the cheap way to find out. If you would rather not have the material in the bottle at all, that is a perfectly coherent position and Adaa is the answer to it.

What Ameeri has none of: leather, tobacco, vanilla, tonka, iris, violet. So on the three refusals that usually sit underneath this family's queries - not sweet, not floral, not powdery - it clears the first and the third completely and fails the second deliberately, because rose is its subject. That is the honest shape of it. A reader who wants a well-made, spiced, warm composition with a rose at the centre and no smoke anywhere in it has the right bottle. A reader for whom any floral is disqualifying should read the page in this family about dry woody daily wear instead.

My own assessment, not a published figure
My own assessment, labelled as mine because nothing published stands behind it. Ameeri is an alcohol-free oil on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, dabbed rather than sprayed, and in my experience at the bench a composition of this warmth behaves more politely in that format than it would as an alcohol spray - an atomised spray breaks into droplets fine enough to drift and the alcohol carries material outward as it evaporates, while a fixed oil releases slowly from the one site you placed it on. For a brief about being well-groomed rather than announced, I think that matters. I will not attach a figure of any kind to it. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing at all about projection, sillage or scent radius, because there is no standard test for any of them.

The oud question, answered at every depth

It is worth having the whole oud map in one place, because this is the question readers get wrong most often and the one on which sellers are least straight. In this range, oud exists at three depths. Nawaab is oud-led: white royal oud is the first material on its product page and the composition is built around it. Ameeri and Mastani both carry oudh in the base, where its behaviour is quite different - a base material arrives gradually, blended into a settled whole, and is rarely identifiable as itself by a reader who is not looking for it. Adaa carries none at all, and I will never tell you it carries a little, because that would be a comfortable lie and the exact kind sellers tell.

So the answer depends entirely on which objection you hold, and they are not the same objection. A reader who dislikes the material in any form has one option here, which is Adaa. A reader who dislikes oud leading a composition has three. A reader who has only ever smelled cheap synthetic oud approximations - which are harsh, flat and very common at the low end of the Indian market - may well find a soft oudh in a base perfectly pleasant, and in that case the thing he was avoiding was never oud, it was a poor material being used loudly.

The practical test costs ₹385. Wear Ameeri for a fortnight and notice whether anything in hours four to eight bothers you. If it does, you have learned that you hold the stronger objection, and Adaa is the next purchase at ₹379. If it does not, you have opened up most of a category to yourself, and that is a reasonable return on the money.

What I would buy, and in what size

Sonal’s recommendation
Ameeri, the 3ml - and read the base line before you decide about the oudh
Your three exclusions were one bottle. Setting it aside costs you nothing, because nothing else in the range has the leather or the tobacco anyway.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The SOSA Ameeri 3ml at ₹385 - saffron and Taif rose over Indian sandalwood, no leather, no tobacco
The one disclosure Ameeri's base holds soft oudh beside amber and white musk. It is published, and it is the single thing to decide about
If oud is excluded at any depth The Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - the only attar in this range with none at all, finishing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood
What to rule out, with a reason The Nawaab at ₹399: oud-led, with aged tobacco leaf in the top and leather in the base. All three of your exclusions
What saffron is doing Supplying the warm, slightly leathery-adjacent quality you may have liked elsewhere - without any leather accord in the bottle
What I cannot tell you I cannot say whether anybody will judge what you are wearing to be refined, or well-groomed, or anything else
The 3ml is the right size here for a specific reason rather than a general one. You have an unresolved question - whether soft oudh in a base is acceptable to you - and three millilitres at one dab a day is a fortnight of wear, which is more than enough to answer it. If the answer is yes, the 6ml at ₹679 is the sensible restock and the 12ml at ₹1,165 is for a composition that has survived a year. If the answer is no, you have spent ₹385 to find out something that will save you a great deal more than that across the rest of your buying life.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Ameeri · 3ml ₹385
If it turns out that tobacco was never the problem - that what you actually object to is the oud, and a dried-leaf, cigar-box sweetness is something you have always rather liked - then this page has solved the wrong puzzle and the answer is the Tabac Noir perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599. It is a tobacco-vanilla with no oud in it anywhere: an independent SOSA composition inspired by Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, and SOSA is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, that house. It is sweet, and I would not pretend otherwise, so it is only the right answer if sweetness was absent from your list of objections.
— the condition that changes this answer
Three exclusions, one bottle to avoid, and one decision about oudh. Two routes out of this page.
One costs ₹385 and resolves the question. The other costs nothing.
See SOSA Ameeri · 3ml ₹385
If soft oudh in a base is acceptable and what you were avoiding was oud as a forward, smoky, announcing material. Saffron and Taif rose over Indian sandalwood, with no leather and no tobacco in the composition.
Ask Sonal which of the three you object to
If you are not sure whether your objection is to leather, to tobacco or to the oud - they send you to three different places. Describe what you smelled and disliked, and I will tell you which material was responsible.
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A note from Sonal

Nawaab is the composition I am most pleased with and the one I most often talk people out of. There is no contradiction in that. It was built to be the deep one: white royal oud leading, aged tobacco leaf beside it, leather in the base. Everything in it is doing what I asked it to do.

What it is not is a default. The commercial temptation in this business is to let the most impressive thing you make be the recommendation for everybody, because it flatters the maker and it costs twenty rupees more. The result is a man who owns a magnificent bottle he opens twice a year and has concluded that attars are not for him.

So on this page, which is the one page in this whole guide where the question is a precise description of Nawaab, I would rather spend five hundred words explaining it and then tell you to buy something else. The sale I want is the one you are still pleased with in month nine.

Frequently asked questions

Which SOSA attar contains leather?
Only Nawaab, where leather sits in the base beside amber and white musk. No other attar in the range contains a leather accord. Perfumery leather is always constructed rather than extracted - built from birch tar, styrax and related materials - and it reads dry and slightly animalic rather than like a new handbag.
Is saffron the same thing as leather in a fragrance?
No, but it is the material most often mistaken for it. Saffron has a warm, slightly bitter, faintly hide-like quality that overlaps with the leathery part of a leather accord, which is why a reader who liked something leathery elsewhere may be responding to saffron. Ameeri and Nawaab both contain saffron; only Nawaab contains leather.
What does aged tobacco leaf smell like in an attar?
Dried leaf rather than smoke, with a sweetness and a bitterness to it - much closer to an unlit cigar box than to an ashtray. It appears in the SOSA range only in Nawaab's top, beside white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and Kashmir saffron. Readers who dislike smoke sometimes find tobacco easy, and readers who dislike tobacco sometimes find smoke easy; they are different materials.
Is soft oudh in a base the same as an oud fragrance?
Not in practice. A base material arrives gradually and blended into a settled composition, so a soft oudh in Ameeri's base behaves very differently from the white royal oud that leads Nawaab's opening. Whether that difference matters is yours to decide - if you would rather not have the material in the bottle at all, Adaa is the only one of the four that carries none.
Does refined mean expensive in fragrance?
No. Price correlates loosely with material quality and with the care taken in a blend, both of which are real, but neither of those is the same as the register a composition occupies. A well-built citrus cologne is refined; a crudely assembled oud is not, whatever it cost. The test that is actually available to you is to wear something for four hours and notice whether you can hear the joins between its stages.
Which attar would you not recommend for daily office wear?
Nawaab, by a clear margin, for a reader on this brief. It is the deepest composition in the range by design, with oud leading it and leather in the base, and the control available to someone who wants to wear it anyway is a fraction of a dab at a single site rather than a different bottle. For an ordinary office day, Ameeri at a small dose or Adaa is the better-matched choice.
The distinction this page is built on
Refined is about how a composition is made. Deep is about which register it occupies. They are not the same purchase.
See SOSA Ameeri · 3ml ₹385 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Not sure whether it is the leather, the tobacco or the oud you object to?
SOSA — Describe what you smelled and what you disliked about it. The three send you to three different places, and the answer is usually in the sentence you use to describe the thing you did not like.
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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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