★ SOSA Home & Body
Something small, sent on an ordinary day, for no reason other than that you thought of them
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★★★★★
"Sent my sister an attar on a Tuesday for no reason at all. She rang to ask what the occasion was. There wasn't one, and that was the whole point."
SOSA Adaa attar
★★★★★
"My girlfriend had a rough fortnight at work. I did not pretend a bottle would fix it - I just sent something small so she knew I had noticed."
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Long distance for two years. Posting her something every few months is the closest thing we have to turning up at the door."
SOSA Mastani attar
★★★★★
"Bought my father the hanging one because he drives to the plant every morning and would never spend on himself."
Sandalwood car perfume
★★★★★
"Was told the honest thing - that under four hundred rupees there was nothing worth sending - and to stretch a little instead. Ended up with the attar."
SOSA Ameeri attar
★★★★★
"Best friend moved cities and I could not visit. A reed diffuser felt less like a card and more like being in her flat."
Evening Calm reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Sent my sister an attar on a Tuesday for no reason at all. She rang to ask what the occasion was. There wasn't one, and that was the whole point."
SOSA Adaa attar
★★★★★
"My girlfriend had a rough fortnight at work. I did not pretend a bottle would fix it - I just sent something small so she knew I had noticed."
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Long distance for two years. Posting her something every few months is the closest thing we have to turning up at the door."
SOSA Mastani attar
★★★★★
"Bought my father the hanging one because he drives to the plant every morning and would never spend on himself."
Sandalwood car perfume
★★★★★
"Was told the honest thing - that under four hundred rupees there was nothing worth sending - and to stretch a little instead. Ended up with the attar."
SOSA Ameeri attar
★★★★★
"Best friend moved cities and I could not visit. A reed diffuser felt less like a card and more like being in her flat."
Evening Calm reed diffuser
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Founder Diaries · Just-Because & Surprise Fragrance Gifting
Is a consumable gift a cop-out? The opposite, for this person. Every durable object you buy him is competing with one he chose himself, and he chose better because he knew his own requirements. A consumable is not competing with anything - it is simply used and then gone, which is the only category where duplication is impossible.
How much should I spend on him? Less than you think, because with no occasion attached the size of the gift is what makes it awkward. ₹449 to ₹999 covers everything useful here. If you want the gift to be better, make it more accurate rather than more expensive - the room he actually sits in, not the one you picture.
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The phrase is misleading. He does not have everything - he has everything he has thought about, which is a much smaller list than it looks. Nobody has ever stood in their own car and decided what it should smell like unless something made them. That gap is where a gift for this person lives, and it is why a consumable in a category he has never considered beats another object in a category he has already solved.
This leads the page because the room he works in is the category he has never entered. Fresh Brew, ₹849 in 50ml - Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, the least floral of the five SOSA reeds, running about 6 to 10 weeks with nothing to plug in and nothing to switch off.
Quick answers — read this first
What do you buy a man who already has everything? Something that gets used up, in a category he has never bothered to think about. A car fragrance from ₹449 or a reed diffuser from ₹749 for the room he works in. He cannot already own the second bottle of something, and neither is a category most men shop for themselves.Is a consumable gift a cop-out? The opposite, for this person. Every durable object you buy him is competing with one he chose himself, and he chose better because he knew his own requirements. A consumable is not competing with anything - it is simply used and then gone, which is the only category where duplication is impossible.
How much should I spend on him? Less than you think, because with no occasion attached the size of the gift is what makes it awkward. ₹449 to ₹999 covers everything useful here. If you want the gift to be better, make it more accurate rather than more expensive - the room he actually sits in, not the one you picture.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy a consumable in a category he has never thought about. Car fragrance from Rs 449 if he drives, or a reed diffuser at Rs 749 to Rs 849 for the room he works in. A man who buys his own things has already solved every category he cares about, so the gift has to come from one he has not.
The pick: A reed diffuser at ₹749 to ₹849 for the room he works in, or car fragrance from ₹449 if he drives daily.
Why: Neither is something a man typically buys for himself, both get used up rather than stored, and a consumable cannot turn out to be a duplicate.
In this guide
A gift with no occasion attached has one job an occasion gift does not: it has to make sense on its own. That usually means small enough not to need explaining and useful enough not to sit there - which is why a ₹379 attar often lands better than something three times the price handed over with an apology for the timing.
Small enough to send
SOSA attars · from ₹379
For their home
Reed diffusers · from ₹749
Not sure what to send?
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Straight answer
What can I surprise my boyfriend with when he already has everything?
Stop shopping in the categories he has already solved and go to the two spaces he has almost certainly never thought about: his car and the room he works in. If he drives daily, car fragrance from ₹449 is a daily object and comes in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price, so you can match how tidy he keeps the cabin. If he works from a room at home, a reed diffuser at ₹749 to ₹849 in 50ml runs about 6 to 10 weeks with nothing to plug in and nothing to switch off - Fresh Brew is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, Mountain Breeze is pine, sage and cedar, and both suit a working room better than anything floral. If he wears fragrance and you can name what, an attar at ₹379 for 3ml or ₹669 to ₹699 for 6ml is alcohol-free oil that is rolled on rather than sprayed, which is unlikely to duplicate a bottle already on his shelf. The principle under all three is the same: a man who buys his own things has solved every category that interested him, so the gift has to come from one that did not. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
He does not own everything. He owns everything he has thought about - and nobody has ever thought about what their own car should smell like unless somebody made them.
The short version: go to a category he has never shopped in. Car fragrance from ₹449 if he drives, a reed diffuser from ₹749 for the room he works in. A consumable cannot be a duplicate.
Reed diffusers from ₹749
Ownership is not the problem here. Attention is.
The standard advice for this reader is to try harder and spend more, and it is wrong on both counts. The man who has everything is not short of objects, he is short of categories he has bothered to have a preference in. Three questions find one.
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The first variable
Which spaces has he never made a decision about?
Ask it literally. He has chosen his headphones, his watch, his shoes, his knife, whatever his thing is - and in each of those he researched harder than you are going to, which is why buying him a better version is a losing game. Now ask what his car smells like, or the room he takes calls in. In almost every case the answer is that he has never once considered it, because nothing in his life prompted him to.
That is not a small gap. Somebody who drives forty minutes each way spends more waking hours in that cabin than in most rooms of his house. A ₹479 Sandalwood or ₹509 Vetiver is a small object that changes a space he is in every single day and has never furnished.
That is not a small gap. Somebody who drives forty minutes each way spends more waking hours in that cabin than in most rooms of his house. A ₹479 Sandalwood or ₹509 Vetiver is a small object that changes a space he is in every single day and has never furnished.
Tip: Name three spaces he uses daily. The one he has never described to you is the target.
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The second variable
Can he already own a second one of it?
This is the test that makes consumables the right answer rather than a lazy one. A durable object competes with the one he already bought and usually loses, because he bought his with full knowledge of his own requirements and you are buying yours with a guess. A consumable does not compete with anything. A reed diffuser runs about 6 to 10 weeks and then it is finished. A 3ml attar at ₹379 is gone in a few months. A car spray is used until the bottle is empty.
There is a second advantage to this that matters more with no occasion attached: consumables do not require shelf space, so accepting one costs him nothing. He is not being asked to find a home for your gift or to display it when you visit.
There is a second advantage to this that matters more with no occasion attached: consumables do not require shelf space, so accepting one costs him nothing. He is not being asked to find a home for your gift or to display it when you visit.
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The third variable
Are you buying accuracy or size?
When a gift feels hard, the instinct is to spend more, and with this particular recipient that is the worst possible move. He knows what things cost. An expensive object in a category he has already solved reads as effort spent in the wrong direction, and an expensive object on an ordinary Tuesday with no occasion behind it also asks him what it is for.
Put the money into precision instead. The difference between a good and a bad version of this gift is whether you picked Fresh Brew for the man who takes his coffee seriously or Mountain Breeze for the man whose flat is all wood and grey - not whether you spent ₹749 or ₹1,349. The 50ml is the right first size in both cases.
Put the money into precision instead. The difference between a good and a bad version of this gift is whether you picked Fresh Brew for the man who takes his coffee seriously or Mountain Breeze for the man whose flat is all wood and grey - not whether you spent ₹749 or ₹1,349. The 50ml is the right first size in both cases.
Tip: Spend the extra effort on which scent, not on which size. First bottles should be small ones.
The smallest serious gift
An attar is the one fragrance gift that costs under ₹500 and still reads as considered
Alcohol-free concentrated oil, applied on the pulse points rather than sprayed. Adaa is bergamot, green cardamom and jasmine sambac; Ameeri is Taif rose, sandalwood and saffron; Nawaab is white oud, Mysore sandalwood and Kashmir saffron; Mastani is night-blooming jasmine, damask rose and oudh. From ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml.
See the SOSA attars →
Work it out in this order
How to find the category he has not solved
- List the spaces he uses daily: car, desk room, bathroom, bedroom.
- Cross out anything he has ever had an opinion about in front of you.
- From what is left, pick the space he spends the most hours in.
- Buy the consumable for that space, in the smaller size, under Rs 1,000.
The SOSA principle
A man who has everything has simply finished shopping in the categories that interested him. The gift is not a better object in one of those - it is a first object in one he never entered.
That is why this page keeps pointing at a car and a working room rather than at anything he would recognise as a present.
What to send, and in what size, for a man who buys his own things
For a working room, the two SOSA reeds that suit a man who has never scented a space are Mountain Breeze at ₹849, which is pine, sage and cedar and reads as dry rather than sweet, and Fresh Brew at ₹849, which is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla and is the least floral thing in the range. Morning Freshness at ₹749 is Malabar lemon and mint and is the safest of the five if you have never stood in the room. All are 50ml lasting about 6 to 10 weeks, with 130ml versions from ₹1,249 for a bigger space later. For a car, Sandalwood at ₹479, Vetiver at ₹509 and Oud at ₹509 are the three most men gravitate to once they have smelled them, and each comes as a mild hanging bottle or a stronger spray at the same price.
The SOSA gift edit
Four categories he probably has not entered, and who each one is wrong for
| The option | Who it suits, and where it fails |
|---|---|
| Car fragrance · ₹449 to ₹549 | Nine scents, each as a mild hanging bottle or a stronger spray at the same price, plus a Discovery Set of three minis at ₹699 to ₹799. The strongest pick for a daily driver, because it works on a space he has never furnished. It fails for somebody who drives twice a week - then it is just a bottle. |
| A reed diffuser · ₹749 to ₹1,349 | Passive home fragrance, about 6 to 10 weeks, nothing to plug in and nothing to remember. The right answer for a man with a room he works in all day and has never once thought about. It fails if he shares that room with somebody who has strong views, because you have now decided for two people. |
| An attar · ₹379 to ₹1,199 | Alcohol-free oil in 3ml, 6ml or 12ml, rolled on rather than sprayed - Nawaab is white royal oud with Mysore sandalwood and Kashmir saffron. Unlikely to duplicate anything he owns, because most men own sprays. It fails if you cannot name a single fragrance he already wears. |
| SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999 | Waterless cold-air nebulising rated for approximately 1000 m3 of connected air, with a Bluetooth app and timer and a 400ml tank. A real gift for a man with a large open home or his own premises. It fails as a surprise with no occasion attached, and it fails in a flat where every door stays shut. |
The gift that goes to a home
A reed duo set is a readymade gift box without any guessing about taste
Two reed diffusers in one box: Day & Night pairs lemon-mint with lavender-chamomile at ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded pairs lemon-mint with pine-cedar at ₹1,548, and Warmth & Bloom pairs coffee-vanilla with rose-jasmine at ₹1,598. Nothing to plug in, nothing to switch off, about 6 to 10 weeks each.
See the reed duo sets →
On size, the rule for this reader is firm: send the 50ml, not the 130ml. A first diffuser in a room nobody has ever scented should be the smaller one, because the honest risk is not that he dislikes the scent but that it is stronger than a room that size wants. The same logic puts a 3ml attar at ₹379 ahead of the 12ml at ₹1,149 and a single car spray ahead of the 50ml refill at ₹1,499. If he takes to it, the bigger size is the obvious next thing to send, and you will then be buying with information rather than hope.
Ameeri (Taif rose and sandalwood), Nawaab (white oud and saffron) and Mastani (night jasmine and rose) in one box. Three characters instead of one guess.
₹1,055 · 3ml x 3
Morning Freshness lemon-mint and Evening Calm lavender-chamomile together. Nothing to plug in, nothing to switch off, about 6 to 10 weeks each.
₹1,498 · 50ml x 2
Waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold diffusion for a car or a travel bag. The gift for someone who spends real hours driving.
₹3,999
One message, one honest recommendation
Tell SOSA who you are surprising, whether they drive, whether their home is already scented and what you want to spend - and you will be told which one to send, including when the cheaper one is the better gift.
The man who has everything has only finished the shopping he found interesting. Nobody finds the smell of their own car interesting until somebody hands them a bottle.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Three questions settle almost every one of these. Will it be worn, in which case it is a taste decision and you need to be able to name something they already wear? Will it sit in a room, in which case it is a placement decision and a reed diffuser asks nothing of you except an address? Or does it go in a car, where the real choice is between the mild hanging format and the stronger spray at the same price? Answer that, then pick the band - and with no occasion attached, the band should usually be lower than you first reach for.
The SOSA gifting range
Pick by where the gift will live, then by budget - in that order
| Gift | What it is | Who it suits | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOSA attars | Alcohol-free roll-on oil | Adaa, Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - the smallest serious fragrance gift there is | from ₹379 |
| SOSA Attar Trio | Pack of three attars | Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in one box - three characters instead of one guess | from ₹1,055 |
| SOSA reed diffusers | Passive home fragrance | Five scents in 50ml and 130ml, nothing to plug in or switch off, about 6 to 10 weeks | from ₹749 |
| SOSA reed duo sets | Two reeds in one box | Day & Night, Fresh & Grounded and Warmth & Bloom - the readymade home gift | from ₹1,498 |
| SOSA car fragrance | Hanging or spray | Nine scents, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price | from ₹449 |
| SOSA Safar | Waterless car and travel diffuser | Cordless and rechargeable cold diffusion, for the person who actually lives in their car | ₹3,999 |
| SOSA Vaayu | Waterless cold-air machine | Approx 1000 m3 of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer - a large home or a business | ₹11,999 |
Three different fluids run through this range and none of them is interchangeable. Reed diffusers use their own alcohol-free reed oil. The SOSA ultrasonics - Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹3,499 - run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299. Vaayu and Safar run waterless nebulising oil, so the ₹299 water-based bottle never goes into either of them. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The honest price sheet
What SOSA publishes, and what SOSA does not
Everything below is on the live product pages. Anything not on this list is not something a gifting page should state.
- Attars - Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179 and Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199 in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. The Attar Trio is ₹1,055, ₹1,859 or ₹3,189.
- Reed diffusers - Morning Freshness ₹749, Garden Bloom and Evening Calm ₹799, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew ₹849 in 50ml; 130ml from ₹1,249. They last about 6 to 10 weeks. Duo sets from ₹1,498.
- Car fragrance - nine scents from ₹449 to ₹549, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price, with 50ml sprays at ₹1,499 and saver combos at ₹899 to ₹949. Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios.
- Not published, and therefore never stated here: how long any fragrance will be liked, delivery or dispatch timing, any festive discount, any minimum order quantity or bulk rate, and any claim about what a person will feel on receiving a gift. Those questions go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Not sure which one to send? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 who you are surprising, roughly how old they are, whether they drive, whether they already keep their home scented, and what you want to spend. You will get one straight recommendation, including the times the honest answer is the cheaper product or a different category altogether. Bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available - quantities and anything corporate are discussed on WhatsApp rather than priced on a page. Bespoke composition, a fragrance composed for you by Sonal, is a real SOSA service and is also discussed there. Nothing on this page is advice about anybody's wellbeing: a gift is a way of telling somebody you thought about them, and where a person is genuinely struggling it belongs alongside showing up for them rather than in place of it.
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A note from Sonal
The orders I like most are the ones with no date attached. Somebody buys one attar on a Wednesday afternoon and asks us to send it to a flat in another city, and there is no birthday in the note and no anniversary and no festival. Those are, in my experience, the gifts that actually get used, and I think the reason is unglamorous: nobody has to live up to them. An anniversary gift carries an expectation. A Wednesday gift carries none, so it gets opened, put on a shelf and used the next morning.
The practical advice I give people is the opposite of what they expect. Go smaller than you think. A large unexplained present asks a question - what is this for, what do I owe you - and the person receiving it spends energy answering it. A ₹379 attar, a ₹449 car scent, a ₹749 reed diffuser: these are small enough to be accepted without any of that. If you want to spend more, spend it on accuracy instead of size - the right scent for somebody's actual flat beats a bigger bottle of the wrong one every time.
One honest thing about the harder version of this. People write to us when somebody they love is having a terrible week, and they want to send something that helps. I will not tell you that a fragrance does that, because it does not. What a small parcel says is: I was thinking about you on a day when nothing made me. That is a real thing to say to somebody and it is worth saying. It is not treatment, it is not a substitute for turning up, and anybody who sells it to you as either is selling you something else.
Frequently asked questions
What do you get a boyfriend who buys everything for himself?
A consumable in a category he has never shopped in. Car fragrance from Rs 449 if he drives daily, or a reed diffuser at Rs 749 to Rs 849 for the room he works in. He cannot have solved a category he never entered, and a consumable cannot turn out to be a duplicate.
Is fragrance a safe gift for a man?
Home and car fragrance is, because you are choosing for a space rather than for his taste. Worn fragrance is a taste decision, so only send an attar or perfume if you can name something he already wears. If you cannot finish that sentence, buy for the car or the room instead.
He says he does not want anything. What then?
Take him at his word about objects and send something that gets used up. A gift with no occasion attached is easiest to accept when it is small, costs him no shelf space and asks nothing of him. Under Rs 1,000 is the band where that holds.
Should I spend more because he is hard to buy for?
No. Difficulty is not solved by price, and with no occasion attached a large gift makes the moment heavier rather than warmer. Spend the effort on picking the right space and the right scent, and keep the amount somewhere between Rs 449 and Rs 999.
Can SOSA just tell me which one to send?
Yes. Message SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 with how far he drives, whether he works from home, what his flat is like and what you want to spend, and you will get one recommendation instead of a list - including when the cheaper product is the better gift.
Take the next step
Buy the first thing in a category, not a better version of one he has solved
A reed diffuser from ₹749 for the room he works in, car fragrance from ₹449 if he drives daily, or an attar from ₹379 if you can name something he already wears. Tell SOSA on WhatsApp how he spends his day and you will get one recommendation rather than a catalogue.
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.
A small thing, sent on a day that was not marked on any calendar
SOSA — alcohol-free fragrance, made in India, sent because you thought of them and not because a date told you to
Reed diffusers from ₹749 in 50ml lasting about 6 to 10 weeks, car fragrance from ₹449 in a mild hanging format or a stronger spray at the same price, and alcohol-free attars from ₹379 in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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More just-because gifting guides
- SOSA attars - Adaa, Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani (from ₹379)
- SOSA reed diffusers and duo gift sets (from ₹749)
- SOSA car fragrance - hanging, spray and combos (from ₹449)
- SOSA Safar - the waterless car and travel diffuser (₹3,999)
- Tell SOSA who you are buying for on WhatsApp (+91 96192 18531)
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
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 gift-buying reasoning applies to any brand.Prices and specifications verified from the live SOSA product pages, September 2026: SOSA attars - Adaa ₹379 (3ml), ₹669 (6ml) and ₹1,149 (12ml); Ameeri ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165; Mastani ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179; Nawaab ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199; the Attar Trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani at ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189. Reed diffusers - Morning Freshness ₹749, Garden Bloom and Evening Calm ₹799, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew ₹849 in 50ml, with 130ml from ₹1,249 and refills at ₹2,399 and ₹3,499; reed diffusers last approximately 6 to 10 weeks. Reed duo gift sets ₹1,498, ₹1,548 and ₹1,598. Car fragrance from ₹449, each scent available as a mild hanging format or a stronger spray at the same price, 50ml sprays ₹1,499, saver combos ₹899 to ₹949 and a discovery set of three minis from ₹699. SOSA Safar ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios, is a waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion car and travel perfume diffuser. SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 is a waterless cold-air nebulising diffuser rated for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting and a DC 12V / 1A 5W mains supply, CE, RoHS and SGS. The ultrasonic machines Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹3,499 run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299; that water-based bottle is not used in a Vaayu or a Safar, which take waterless nebuliser oil at ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. Limits of this guide: fragrance adds a scent and does not remove, neutralise or purify odour, and no SOSA product makes any health, antibacterial, air-purifying or wellbeing claim. No claim is made about how any recipient will feel about a gift. No claim is made anywhere on this page about mood, stress, calm, sleep, comfort or wellbeing: fragrance is a scent, not a treatment, and where a product name contains a word such as Calm that is a name and not an effect. Where this guide covers sending something to a person having a difficult time, it treats a gift as a gesture of attention alongside real support and never as a substitute for a person or for professional help, and it gives no mental-health advice. No delivery date, dispatch time, order cut-off, discount or minimum order quantity is stated anywhere on this page; corporate and bulk enquiries are answered on WhatsApp. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand; the SOSA perfumes are SOSA's own compositions and are not the designer fragrances they are described as being inspired by. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.