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The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the reader who has three kinds of day and was about to buy three bottles, and would rather be told which of the three is a sequence rather than a scent
- 1 The gym slot is not a fragrance problem. It is a sequence problem: shower, change, then apply. An attar applied before or during a workout is a bottle spent on the forty minutes nobody is deciding anything in.
- 2 A brunch and a gym-to-office morning want the same bottle. Both are daytime, both are company you will be sitting close to, and the difference between them is one dab against two - which is a decision your hand makes, not your wallet.
- 3 Only the evening slot is a second bottle. A light dry composition applied four times is still a light dry composition, so weight for an evening is a purchase rather than a heavier hand.
- 4 Published performance is six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. A seven-in-the-morning application is therefore mostly finished by dinner, which is the real argument against the one-bottle-for-everything plan.
- 5 Size follows frequency. The daytime bottle covers five or six mornings a week, so that is the 6ml at ₹669; the evening bottle covers two or three nights a month and stays a 3ml at ₹399.
★ The one bottle that does two of your three slots, and the evening bottle that does the third
SOSA Adaa Attar · 6ml ₹669Bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - one dab for a desk after the gym, two for a brunch, and no oudh anywhere in itView Adaa →
SOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - the evening bottle if you want depth without sweetness, and the one slot here that genuinely needs its own purchaseView Nawaab →
SOSA Mastani Attar · 3ml ₹389Litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka - the sweet alternative for the evening slot, for a reader who wants richness rather than drynessView Mastani →
✓ Two of the three purchases this page was asked about are costed at nothing ✓ No claim is made here in either direction about what a fragrance does to anything else on skin ✓ The only performance figure quoted here is the published six to eight hours on skin
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Can two attars cover gym days, brunches and evenings out? Yes, and comfortably. Adaa at the 6ml for ₹669 covers the daytime - one dab at a desk, two for a brunch - and one evening bottle covers the rest: Nawaab at ₹399 if you want depth without sweetness, Mastani at ₹389 if you want richness. The third bottle in a three-slot plan is almost always the brunch one, and it is the one you do not need.
Why can't one attar do all three situations? Because of the clock rather than the composition. The published wear for a SOSA attar is six to eight hours on skin, so something applied at seven in the morning is mostly finished by eight at night. Even a bottle that suited both registers would need re-applying for the evening, and if you are re-applying anyway, you may as well be re-applying something built for the evening.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669 Describe a feeling to SOSA
On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.
On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.
What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, 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.
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, sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian 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. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): 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): 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): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). 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.
Two bottles, and I will go further than that: one of the three situations you have listed is not a fragrance question at all. A gym-to-office morning, a weekend brunch and an evening out look like three different briefs because they happen in three different frames of mind, and shopping follows the frame of mind rather than the problem. But put them side by side and ask what each one actually demands of a composition. Two of the three want exactly the same thing in different quantities. The third wants something a light bottle cannot produce at any quantity. And the first one is answered by a shower and a clean shirt before any bottle is involved, which is the least commercial sentence on this page and the truest one.
Quick answers — read this first
Do I need a separate attar for gym-to-office days? No. The gym slot is a sequence rather than a scent: shower, change, then apply. A fragrance put on before a workout is spent on the part of the morning when you are alone with a treadmill, and a fragrance put on after a shower is simply your ordinary daytime application happening at half past eight instead of eight. One bottle covers it and it is the same bottle you would wear anyway.Can two attars cover gym days, brunches and evenings out? Yes, and comfortably. Adaa at the 6ml for ₹669 covers the daytime - one dab at a desk, two for a brunch - and one evening bottle covers the rest: Nawaab at ₹399 if you want depth without sweetness, Mastani at ₹389 if you want richness. The third bottle in a three-slot plan is almost always the brunch one, and it is the one you do not need.
Why can't one attar do all three situations? Because of the clock rather than the composition. The published wear for a SOSA attar is six to eight hours on skin, so something applied at seven in the morning is mostly finished by eight at night. Even a bottle that suited both registers would need re-applying for the evening, and if you are re-applying anyway, you may as well be re-applying something built for the evening.
In this guide
- The straight answer, and the slot that is not a slot
- The gym morning, which is a sequence rather than a scent
- Your three situations, with what each one actually demands
- The part of your question I am not going to answer
- The claims I would distrust on this subject, including mine
- What I would buy, in what sizes, and what I would not
- A note from Sonal
- Frequently asked questions
Straight answer
Do gym-to-office days, weekend brunches and evenings out need three separate attars, or can two cover all three?
Two. Adaa as the 6ml at ₹669 for the daytime, and one evening bottle as a 3ml - Nawaab at ₹399 or Mastani at ₹389 depending on how you feel about sweetness. The gym slot costs nothing and the brunch slot costs nothing, because they are the same slot as each other at different quantities. Step one: take the gym morning apart, because it is the slot that produces the most purchases and contains the least fragrance. What happens on that morning is a workout, a shower, a change of clothes and a working day. The workout is forty minutes in which no fragrance decision is being made by anybody, and a bottle applied before it has been spent on a treadmill. The shower resets the skin. And then the working day begins, which is the same working day you have on every other morning and wants the same application you would give it anyway. So the honest answer is a sequence rather than a product: shower properly, put on clean clothes, and apply after you have dried off, in the changing room or at your desk. That is a free fix and it is the whole slot. I am also not going to make any claim in either direction about what a fragrance does to anything else on your skin, because I do not know and nobody selling you a bottle does. Step two: notice that a brunch is a daytime slot with the same constraints as the office. Daylight, close seating, a table, company who did not choose your fragrance. The register that suits that is the one with the least weight in the base, which is Adaa: no oudh, no amber, no vanilla, no resin - just bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. The difference between the desk and the brunch is that a Sunday table is a slightly more generous occasion than a Tuesday meeting, so one dab becomes two. That is the only change, and your hand makes it. Step three: the evening is the one slot that is genuinely a second purchase, and here the arithmetic is on your side. An evening out at close quarters over a long dinner wants depth, and depth is not a quantity. Applying Adaa four times gives you more bergamot and more musk; it does not give you oud, leather, tobacco, vanilla or tonka, because those materials are not in the bottle. So the second bottle is real. Which one it is comes down to one question about sweetness: Nawaab has none at all and is dry, deep and formal; Mastani has Madagascar vanilla and tonka under night jasmine and Damask rose and is sweet and nocturnal. Both land on the same oudh and sandalwood and then go in opposite directions, so either one is a genuine addition beside Adaa, which has white musk in common with Nawaab and nothing else. Step four: the clock, which is the argument that settles the whole question. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars - six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. An application made at seven in the morning is therefore in its last hour by early evening. Even if a single bottle suited both your desk and your dinner, you would be re-applying before the evening anyway. And if you are re-applying, the marginal cost of re-applying something built for an evening is one 3ml bottle, which is the second purchase I am recommending. Step five: the sizes, which follow frequency and nothing else. Five or six daytime applications a week against two or three evenings a month. The 6ml goes behind the daytime bottle at ₹669 and the evening bottle stays a 3ml. The reverse - a big bottle of the evening attar because evenings feel more worth spending on - is the single most common way readers of this cluster waste money.
The gym morning, which is a sequence rather than a scent
This is worth doing slowly, because gym-to-office is the slot the fragrance industry has the most fun with and the one where a bottle does the least work. Walk through the morning as it happens rather than as it is advertised. You train. You are warm and you have been working, and there is no audience whose opinion is in play. You shower. Whatever was on your skin before the shower is now largely not. You dress in clean clothes and you go to a desk, where you will spend eight hours at close range with people who have no say in what you smell like.
The only point in that sequence where a fragrance decision exists is the last one, and it is the ordinary daytime decision. Which means the right product for a gym-to-office morning is the bottle you were going to use at your desk anyway, applied after the shower rather than before you left home. The whole of the gain available here is in the order of operations, and none of it needs a purchase.
There is one practical refinement and it is about where rather than what. Skin that has just been in a hot shower takes an oil very readily, which means an application made immediately after drying off can read fuller than the same dab on ordinary skin. So on a gym morning, use the smaller amount - one dab, low on the throat - and leave the second dab for the days you did not train. That is the level of detail at which this slot deserves attention, and it is also the level at which the industry stops being interested, because there is nothing to sell.
Your three situations, with what each one actually demands
Three situations, examined
What each one makes difficult, the dose it wants, and the bottle it points at
| The setting | What makes it hard | Dose I would use | Composition I would reach for |
|---|---|---|---|
| A gym-to-office morning | Nothing that a composition can answer. The hard part is the sequence - a shower, a change, and the fact that most people apply before the workout rather than after it | One dab, after the shower, on the throat. Skin fresh from hot water takes an oil readily, so less rather than more | Whatever you wear on an ordinary working day. Adaa at ₹379 or ₹669 if that bottle does not exist yet. ₹0 as a separate slot |
| A weekend brunch | Daylight and close seating at a table, with company who did not choose your fragrance - the same constraint as a meeting with a nicer tablecloth | Two dabs, throat and one wrist. A Sunday is a more generous occasion than a Tuesday and this is where that shows | The same daytime bottle. This slot is the one a three-bottle plan invents, and it is answered by your hand. ₹0 |
| An evening out, dinner at close range | Length and intimacy. A table for two over three hours is the one setting where a fragrance has nowhere to recede to, and where a light base line runs out of things to say | One dab, low on the throat, applied at six rather than at eight in the morning | Nawaab at ₹399 if sweetness is out, Mastani at ₹389 if it is in. This is the second purchase, and the only one |
| All three on the same day, which does happen | The clock. Six to eight hours on skin means a morning application is finished before dinner, whatever bottle it came from | Re-apply once at six. Not more in the morning, which only loads the first room of the day | The daytime bottle in the morning, the evening bottle at six. Two bottles, two applications, no third purchase |
Two of these four rows cost nothing, which is the honest shape of this question. The third row is a bottle and the fourth row is a habit.
The part of your question I am not going to answer
What I cannot tell you
You asked about evenings out, and there is usually a hope folded into that word about another person's reaction. I cannot tell you anything about it. I have no way of knowing whether a fragrance will be welcome at a particular table, nobody selling an attar does, and any page that offers you that is selling a feeling rather than a bottle. What I can tell you is what is in the composition, what the published wear is - six to eight hours on skin - and what a sensible application looks like at a small table, which is less than you would use in a crowded room. The rest of the evening is yours and is not mine to promise.
I would add one practical thing that follows from the refusal rather than softening it. At a table for two, the application should be smaller than the one you would use at a party, and it should go low - the base of the throat rather than behind the ears - because a seated distance of two feet is already closer than most fragrance is designed around. A measured application at close range is a courtesy, and it is also the version of an attar that most readers like best on themselves once they have tried it. That is as far as advice can honestly go.
The claims I would distrust on this subject, including mine
Five claims this page declines
What you will read about gym bags, brunches and evenings out, and what can honestly be said instead
| The claim you will see | Why nobody can know it | What can honestly be said instead |
|---|---|---|
| Never mind the one bottle that takes you from the gym to the office to a dinner - no composition does all three | It is not a claim about the bottle, it is a claim about a clock. The published wear is six to eight hours on skin, so an application made at seven in the morning has nothing left to give at nine at night | Two bottles and two applications. One in the morning for the day and one at six for the evening, which is what anybody wearing fragrance all day actually does |
| Never buy a bottle because it promises all-day longevity | No such figure exists for an attar in this range. I am not going to quote one, and the only number SOSA publishes is six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin | Plan the day in two halves and re-apply once. That is cheaper than a bottle bought on a number nobody can verify |
| Never trust a fragrance sold as the answer to what else is on your skin | I cannot say what a composition does on top of anything else, and I am not going to make a claim in either direction about it. No perfumer can know that about your skin | Shower, change, then apply. That sequence is free, it is what the gym slot actually wanted, and it is the end of the matter |
| Never believe guaranteed compliments at a dinner table - no bottle can be sold on that | I have no way of knowing what anyone at that table will make of it. Nobody does, and a page that offers it is describing a hope rather than a product | Apply less than you would at a party, and apply it low. That is the whole of what advice can honestly contribute to an evening |
| Never accept that three kinds of day mean three bottles | A three-slot chart cannot tell whether two of its slots are the same problem. It has no way to know, because it is a chart and the information is in the base lines | Ask of each pair: would the same bottle at a different quantity do both? Where the answer is yes, that is one slot and your hand is the second bottle |
The third row is the one I would most like read twice. A great deal of fragrance marketing points at that slot, and the honest answer there is a sequence of three free actions in the right order.
What I would buy, in what sizes, and what I would not
Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa 6ml for the daytime, one evening bottle at 3ml, and nothing at all for the gym
A chart with three rows in it will always want three bottles. The question that empties a row is whether the same bottle, applied differently, would do both.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
| What to buy first | The Adaa 6ml at ₹669 - one dab at a desk, two at a brunch, five or six mornings a week |
| What fills the gym slot | A shower, clean clothes and an application afterwards rather than before. ₹0 |
| What fills the brunch slot | The same daytime bottle at two dabs instead of one. ₹0 |
| What to buy second | The Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 if sweetness is out, or the Mastani 3ml at ₹389 if it is in |
| Why the daytime bottle is the 6ml | Twenty-odd applications a month against two or three. Size follows frequency and not importance |
| What I would not do | Buy three bottles on a three-slot chart. Two of your slots are one slot, and the money is better spent on the 6ml of the bottle you will actually empty |
If you buy only one thing today, buy the daytime bottle in the 6ml and run the two free fixes for a fortnight: apply after the shower on gym days, and use two dabs instead of one on a Sunday. By the end of that fortnight you will know whether the evening slot is a real second bottle for you or whether you simply want a bigger hand at dinner - and if it is real, you will be able to tell me whether you want it dry or sweet, which is the only question left.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669
If the gap between the gym and the office is genuinely long - an early session, a commute, a full day, and no chance to go home in between - then the gym slot does become real, though not in the way the question assumed. What it wants is not a dedicated composition but a second small bottle kept in a desk drawer, so that the application happens at nine in the morning rather than at six. In that case buy a 3ml of the same daytime attar for the drawer rather than a different fragrance, and keep the 6ml at home.
— the condition that changes this answer
You came asking whether three situations need three bottles. The answer was two, and one of the routes out of here is free.
The bottle that does two of your three slots, or a note that checks the third.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669
If you want the one purchase that covers the gym mornings and the brunches between them. No oudh, no amber, no vanilla, one dab at a desk and two at a table, and the furthest bottle in the range from whatever you choose for the evenings.
Send Sonal your three kinds of day
If your days do not look like the three on this page. Tell me the shape of a typical week and I will tell you which slots collapse into each other and which one is genuinely a second bottle.
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A note from Sonal
The gym question is the one I have changed my mind about most. For about a year I answered it as a product question, because that is what I was being asked, and I would route readers to the lightest thing I make with a note about applying less. Then a reader wrote back and said, more or less, that she had worked out it was simpler than that: she showered, dressed and put the attar on at her desk, and the problem had been the order rather than the bottle.
She was right, and it is not a comfortable thing for a brand to publish, because there is no version of that answer with a purchase in it. But I would rather be the perfumer who told you the sequence than the one who sold you a third bottle for a slot that a towel had already handled.
What I will defend commercially is the second bottle for the evenings. That one is real, and the reason is arithmetic rather than atmosphere: six to eight hours on skin means you are re-applying before dinner whatever you own, and the marginal cost of re-applying something built for a dinner is a single 3ml. Two bottles, two applications, and a chart with one empty row in it.
Frequently asked questions
Should I wear attar to the gym?
There is no reason to. A workout is the part of the morning with no fragrance decision in it, and anything applied beforehand is spent there and then showered off. Apply after you have showered and dressed instead - and use the smaller amount, because skin fresh out of hot water takes an oil very readily and the same dab can read fuller than it does on an ordinary morning.
Is a weekend brunch a different fragrance occasion from a working day?
Not in any way a composition can tell. Both are daytime, both are close seating with company who did not choose your fragrance, and both reward the lightest base line you own. The honest difference is social rather than structural, and it is answered with two dabs instead of one. That is why the brunch slot in a three-bottle plan is the slot to delete.
How many bottles does a day with three parts actually need?
Two, and two applications. One in the morning for the daytime half and one at around six for the evening. The reason is the published wear - six to eight hours on skin - which means the morning application is in its last hour by dinner no matter which bottle it came from. The second application is unavoidable; the second bottle is what makes it worth doing.
What should I apply at a dinner for two?
Less than you would at a party, and lower on the body - one dab at the base of the throat rather than two and nothing behind the ears. A seated table is closer than most fragrance is designed around. Beyond that I cannot tell you how an evening will go, and I would be suspicious of a page that said otherwise.
Dry or sweet for the evening bottle?
Dry is Nawaab at 399 rupees for the 3ml - oud, sandalwood, saffron and tobacco over amber, leather and white musk, with no sweet material in it at all. Sweet is Mastani at 389 rupees - night jasmine and Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka. They have oudh and sandalwood in common and nothing else, so the choice is genuinely about your own taste rather than about quality.
What if I cannot go home between the gym and the evening?
Then keep a small bottle where you will be rather than buying a third fragrance. A 3ml of your daytime attar in a desk drawer costs 379 rupees and solves the morning, and the evening bottle can live in the same drawer. What does not work is applying more at seven in the morning to cover a nine o'clock dinner, because that loads the first hour of the day rather than the last.
Two bottles, and two free fixes
Apply after the shower, use two dabs at a brunch, and spend the money on the 6ml you will actually empty.
Three kinds of day and not sure which ones collapse?
SOSA — Send me the shape of a typical week - the mornings, the weekends, the evenings. I will tell you which of your slots are the same slot at different quantities, which one is genuinely a second bottle, and which one wants a towel rather than a purchase.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · six to eight hours on skin · no claim is made here about what a fragrance does to anything else on skin
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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 already owns a fragrance and wants the next one to be genuinely different, and the method - read the published base lines, count the shared materials, then decide - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.
On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.
What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, 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.
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, sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian 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. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): 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): 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): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). 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.