Which Attar Should I Buy If I Want People Standing Close to Me to Notice a Pleasant Fragrance Without Everyone in the Room Smelling It?

Which Attar Should I Buy If I Want People Standing Close to Me to Notice a Pleasant Fragrance Without Everyone in the Room Smelling It?

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★ ★ Three things you can control - the composition, the format and the dose - and one nobody can promise youSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149 - the lightest in the range, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base, no oudhSOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure for any attar
The short version — five things worth checking
For the reader who has been told once, by someone they like, that their perfume is too strong - and who still wants to wear fragrance
  • 1 SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars - 6-8 hours on skin - and publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data at all. Any seller quoting a projection number is quoting something that was never measured.
  • 2 The base notes are what decide close-range character, because by the time a conversation happens the top has largely gone. Adaa's base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood; Nawaab's is amber, leather and musk.
  • 3 All four SOSA attars are alcohol-free oils on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, applied by dab rather than sprayed - there is no atomised cloud at the moment of application.
  • 4 Dose is the largest lever you hold, and it is free. One dab at the inner wrist and four at the throat are the same bottle behaving like two different fragrances.
  • 5 Adaa, 3ml ₹379, is the lightest composition in the range and carries no oudh. Nawaab, 3ml ₹399, is oud-led and is the loudest thing SOSA makes - the wrong bottle for this question.
★ See SOSA Adaa - the lightest in the range ₹379 Ask Sonal which one stays close ₹0
★ The three bases worth comparing at close range, lightest first
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - no oudh anywhere in it, and the answer to this question nine times in tenView Adaa →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - warmer, and a smaller dab than you would use of AdaaView Ameeri →SOSA Nawaab AttarSOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, saffron and aged tobacco on amber, leather and musk - shown here so you can rule it out, because it is the deepest thing I makeView Nawaab →
✓ Every note named here is quoted off the live SOSA product pages and nothing has been added to any pyramid ✓ No projection, sillage or radius figure appears on this page, because SOSA does not publish one ✓ Nothing here predicts what another person will notice, say or think about how you smell

Founder Diaries · Close Range · Presence Without Projection
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 19 min read Updated October 2026
Your question has an honest answer, and it is in three parts with a refusal attached to the end of it. You can choose what is in the bottle, and the part of the pyramid that matters for your purpose is not the part most listings lead with. You can choose a format that puts less of itself into the air. You can choose how much you put on, which is the biggest lever of the three and costs nothing. And then there is the fourth thing you have actually asked me about - whether the person standing close to you will find it pleasant - which is not mine to promise and not any seller's either. I would rather hand you the three than pretend to the fourth, because the three are real and they will get you most of the way to what you want.
Quick answers — read this first
Which attar should I buy if I want people close to me to smell something pleasant without filling the room? SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, one dab on the inner wrist and nothing on the throat. It is the lightest composition in the SOSA range - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, settling onto white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - and it carries no oudh at all. The base matters more than the top for your purpose, because the top has mostly gone by the time anyone is close enough to be in conversation with you.

Does an oil attar stay closer to the skin than a perfume spray? In my experience at the bench, yes, and the reason is mechanical rather than mystical: an alcohol spray atomises and the alcohol carries material outward as it flashes off, while a fixed oil dabbed onto warm skin has no such vehicle. That is my own professional assessment and not a published specification - SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure for any product, and I am not going to invent one. Dose still outranks format: a heavy hand with an oil beats a light hand with a spray every time.

How much should I apply if I have been told my perfume is too strong? Start at one dab and stay there for a week. Most readers who come to me with this problem do not need a quieter fragrance; they need roughly a third of the fragrance they are already using. Try that before you spend anything, and if one dab of what you own still feels like too much in a lift, then the composition is genuinely wrong for the purpose and Adaa at ₹379 is where I would start.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, and apply one dab to the inner wrist. For a close-range brief, read the base of the pyramid rather than the top - the top notes are the volatile ones and they are largely spent within the first half hour, so what is present during an actual conversation is the base. Adaa's is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, which is the quietest register in the range, and there is no oudh in the composition. The other two levers are the format, where a dabbed oil has no atomising vehicle to carry it outward, and the dose, which is the one you control completely and the one almost nobody adjusts.
The pick: the Adaa 3ml at ₹379 first. Do not start at the 12ml: you are solving a strength problem and the 3ml is the whole experiment you need. If you already own something you like, run the one-dab week on that before you buy anything at all - that costs ₹0 and solves this for a good number of readers. Ameeri at ₹385 is the next step for a reader who wants warmth and is willing to dose it carefully.
Next step: read how to read a base note off a published pyramid, which is the mechanical skill underneath this whole page, and then the dose page, because the amount you apply will change your result more than any switch of bottle. If the real worry is a specific room - a cabin, a cinema, a crowded reception - the small-rooms page handles those one by one. Or tell me the room and what you own and I will tell you whether to buy anything.
In this guide
Straight answer
Which attar should I buy if I want people standing close to me to notice a pleasant fragrance without everyone in the room smelling it?
Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, one dab on the inner wrist - and the reasoning matters more than the recommendation, because it travels to every listing you will ever read, including the ones that are not mine. First, the structural point, and it is the one that changes how you shop. Almost every fragrance listing in the world leads with its top notes, because top notes are the pretty ones and they are what you smell when you open a bottle in a shop. For your purpose the top notes are close to irrelevant. Volatility is what makes a material a top note: it leaves fast. Thirty to forty minutes after you apply anything, the bergamot and the citrus and the green are substantially gone, and what remains is the base. Your entire question is about what happens at conversational distance, and conversations do not generally occur in the first half hour after you get dressed. So the part of the pyramid you should be reading is the bottom line of it, which is the line most buyers skip. Second, what the bases in this range actually are. Adaa ends on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - a dry, slightly woody, skin-adjacent register with no sweetness holding it up. Ameeri ends on soft oudh, amber and white musk, which is warmer and rounder and has more body to it. Nawaab ends on amber, leather and musk under an oud-led opening, and it is frankly the loudest composition I make. I have put Nawaab in front of you on this page specifically so that you can rule it out, because a reader with your brief who buys Nawaab because a page somewhere called it sophisticated will be unhappy within a day, and they will be unhappy in a lift with a colleague. Third, format, and here I am giving you my own judgement rather than a specification. SOSA's attars are alcohol-free oils on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, dabbed rather than sprayed. An alcohol spray does two things an oil does not: it atomises into droplets small enough to drift, and the alcohol evaporating off the skin carries fragrance material outward with it. A fixed oil has no equivalent vehicle. In my experience at the bench and on my own wrist, that makes an oil sit closer for a comparable quantity of material - and I want to be exact about the status of that statement. It is my professional assessment as a perfumer. It is not a published figure, because SOSA publishes no projection data for any product, and neither does anybody else who is being straight with you. The only performance number SOSA publishes is 6-8 hours on skin, and that is a longevity figure, which is a different thing from how far a fragrance reads. Fourth, dose, which is the lever you already own. A great many of the readers who arrive at this page do not have a fragrance problem. They have an application problem. Four dabs at the throat and one dab at the inner wrist are the same oil behaving like two unrelated products, and the throat is the worst possible site for a brief like yours, because it sits directly under the nose of anybody you greet. If somebody you like has told you that your perfume is too strong, the cheapest experiment available to you is to use a third of what you are using now, on your wrists only, for one week, and spend nothing at all. I would genuinely rather you did that first and came back if it failed. And fifth, the refusal, which I am putting here rather than burying at the bottom. You asked whether people close to you will find it pleasant. I cannot tell you that, and I will not imply it. Whether a particular person finds a particular scent pleasant depends on their own associations, what they ate, what their mother wore, and the day they are having - none of which is in my bottle or anyone's. What I can do is give you the three things above, which are the whole of what is honestly knowable, and which between them cover most of the distance to what you are actually after.
What I cannot tell you
You asked a question about other people, and it is the most reasonable question in fragrance, so I want to be exact about why I am not answering it. I cannot tell you that anyone will find your fragrance pleasant, notice it kindly, remember it, or say anything at all about it. Nobody can. Scent is received through a person's own memory - the same sandalwood that reads as expensive to one person reads as a temple to another and as their ex-husband to a third - and no composition, concentration or price changes that. Any page that promises you compliments is selling you a feeling it has no way to deliver, and the fact that the promise is so common is precisely why I will not make it. What is left when you remove that promise is not nothing. It is three real things: what is in the bottle, how the format behaves, and how much you put on. Those are the page.

Why the base of the pyramid is the part that matters to you

A published pyramid is a timeline pretending to be a list. Top, heart and base are not three ingredients of equal standing; they are three stages of the same evaporation, ordered by how fast each material leaves your skin. The top is whatever is volatile enough to reach you immediately and light enough to be gone soon. The heart is the body of the composition and the part a perfumer thinks hardest about. The base is what is still there hours later, because those materials are heavy, or fixed, or both.

Which means that for a brief like yours, reading a listing from the top down is reading it in the wrong order. The sequence that matters to you runs backwards: find the base first, because that is your evening; then the heart, because that is your first hour; and treat the top as what you will smell while you are still alone in your own bathroom. I am not being clever here - this is simply how the material behaves, and it is the single most useful thing in this guide, because it works on any brand's listing, not only on mine.

There is a second consequence, and it is the one that catches people who have been told they wear too much. The top notes are also the loud ones. A composition's first twenty minutes are its most projecting, by a wide margin, in essentially everything ever made. So the window in which you are most likely to be the person who filled the lift is the window immediately after you apply - which is to say, during your commute, not during your meeting. Applying half an hour before you leave the house, rather than at the door, is a free adjustment that solves a surprising share of this problem on its own.

How to read a listing for a close-range brief
What a listing tells you, what it actually means for your purpose, and what to do about it
What you asked for What that is, in materials What to do about it
A long, lovely list of top notes The part of the fragrance that will be gone before anyone is close enough to matter to your question Read it last. It tells you what the bottle smells like in the shop, not what you smell like at dinner.
The base note line, usually last and shortest Your actual subject: what is present at hour three, when the conversation happens Read it first. Musk, light woods and dry materials read closer; amber, leather, oudh, vanilla and tonka have more presence.
A concentration figure, or a word like parfum or extrait How much material is in the liquid - a strength input, not a radius output More concentration means more of whatever character the composition has. It does not make a loud composition quiet.
A projection, sillage or scent-throw claim with a number attached Something nobody measured, in an industry with no standard test for it Distrust it. Where a figure exists it is longevity, which is a different quantity. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and nothing else.
The format: oil, eau de parfum, eau de toilette, solid A real variable, though a smaller one than dose A dabbed oil has no atomiser and no alcohol carrying it outward. This is my assessment, not a measured figure.
If you take one habit from this page, take the first row: read the bottom line of the pyramid before the top one. It costs nothing and it will change which bottles you shortlist, on any brand's site.

Format and dose: the two levers nobody mentions

My own assessment, not a published figure
Here is my professional view on format, stated as a view. An alcohol-based spray does two things that a dabbed oil does not: it breaks the liquid into droplets fine enough to hang in the air and drift away from you, and the alcohol, as it evaporates off your skin, carries fragrance material outward with it. An oil on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier has neither mechanism. It sits where you put it, warms with your skin, and releases from that one place. So for the same amount of material I would expect an oil to read closer than a spray, and that expectation is the reason SOSA's attars are built as oils in the first place. What I will not do is put a number on it. There is no industry-standard test for projection, SOSA has not published one, and a figure invented to sound precise would be worth less to you than this paragraph. The one performance figure SOSA does publish is 6-8 hours on skin, and that tells you about duration, not distance.

Dose is the larger lever and the one I would change first. It is also the only one that is free, which is why it comes before any recommendation in this guide. The rule I use on myself is simple enough to be irritating: apply it where you would want it to be found, not where you want to smell it yourself. The inner wrist is in your own airspace when you move your hands and in nobody else's until they are close to you, which is precisely the profile you described. The throat and the neck are the opposite - they sit under the nose of every person you greet, and they are warm, which pushes material off faster. The hair and the collar are worse again, because fibre holds material for far longer than skin does and you cannot wash it off at lunchtime.

The free experiment, before you spend anything
One week, no purchase, with whatever you already own
The step What you are measuring What the result tells you
Days one to three, one dab at the inner wrist only Whether the problem is quantity rather than composition Nothing on the throat, the neck, the collar or the hair, and apply thirty minutes before you leave rather than at the door
Day four, ask one person you trust Your volume at a known distance and a known hour Ask whether they can smell anything, not whether they like it - mid-afternoon rather than first thing, so you are measuring the base and not the top
Day five, leave a small room for ten minutes and walk back in Your own volume, corrected for your own nose Your nose adapts to what you are wearing within minutes, so re-entering a room is the only cheap way to hear yourself, and the page on telling adaptation from fading sets out why
Days six and seven, decide Whether the composition is wrong or only the dose was If one dab still feels like too much in a lift, buying something quieter is a sensible use of 379 rupees. If it does not, you have solved this for nothing
I would rather you ran this week and bought nothing than bought a bottle you did not need. If it works, you have solved the problem for free and you know something useful about yourself.

The part I cannot sell you, said plainly

There is a reason this section exists on every page in this series. The commercial incentive in fragrance runs hard in one direction: tell the buyer that other people will react well, because that is what they want to hear and it cannot be disproved in time to matter to anybody's purchase. I am not going to do it, and I want to explain the refusal properly rather than just making it, because the explanation is useful to you.

Scent reaches another person through their own history. The materials are physics; the reception is biography. A dry sandalwood base smells like money to one person, like a prayer room to another, and like a particular bad year to a third, and there is no composition clever enough to override that, no concentration high enough and no price point that buys past it. When a listing tells you a fragrance is universally liked, what it is reporting is a marketing decision, not a property of the liquid. So the useful question is not whether people will like it. The useful question is whether it does what you want it to do - sits close, lasts a working day, stays in the register you chose - and that question has real answers, which is why this page spends its length there instead.

Answered in full elsewhere
I have made this argument at length on our guide to being remembered for how you smell, so I will not repeat the working here. What I will add here is only the part that bears on your particular question, which is about distance rather than memorability: a fragrance that sits close is encountered by fewer people and in more deliberate circumstances, which is a difference in kind rather than degree. That is a fact about the geometry of a conversation, not a claim about anyone's reaction to you.

The three bases compared, and the one to rule out

The comparison that decides it
Three bases, read from the bottom line of each published pyramid
Read this row first Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Nawaab · 3ml ₹399
Base, which is your actual subject White musk, vetiver and cedarwood - dry, woody, skin-adjacent Amber, leather and musk under an oud-led top - the deepest in the range
Oudh content None at all Oud-led; it is the first material named on the product page
Sweetness holding it up None to speak of Amber brings warmth and body
Dose I would start at One dab, inner wrist A fraction of a dab, and not for this brief
Right for this question? Yes - this is where it lands nine times in ten No. It is here so you can rule it out with a reason rather than a hunch
Ameeri sits between the two and is covered in the paragraph below. If you read only one row of this table, read the first.

Ameeri sits between them and is worth a sentence of its own. Saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, landing on soft oudh, amber and white musk - warmer than Adaa, with real body, and a composition I would happily wear to a dinner. For your brief it is a second choice rather than a first, not because it is loud but because it has more presence than Adaa does, and presence is the thing you told me you wanted less of. If you like warmth and you are willing to be disciplined about dose, Ameeri at ₹385 will reward you. If the whole reason you are reading this page is that someone told you your perfume was too strong, start with Adaa.

What I would buy, in what size, and when I would sell you nothing

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa, the 3ml, one dab at the inner wrist - after a week of using less of what you already own
I would rather lose the ₹379 and have you solve this for free. If the one-dab week fails, Adaa is the bottle, and the 3ml is the whole experiment.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The SOSA Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - the lightest composition in the range, no oudh
What to do first, for ₹0 One dab of what you already own, inner wrist only, for a week, applied half an hour before you leave
Where to apply it Inner wrist. Not the throat, not the neck, not the collar, not the hair
What to read in any listing The base note line, before the top note line
What size not to buy The 12ml at ₹1,149, until you have worn the 3ml for a fortnight
What I cannot tell you Whether anyone will like it, notice it or say so
The reason the ₹0 step comes first is that I see this question far more often from people who are over-applying a decent fragrance than from people who own the wrong one. If one dab of your current bottle, on the wrists only, still fills a lift, then you have learned something real and the problem is the composition - at which point Adaa's base is the quietest register I make and the 3ml is the cheapest honest test of it. Buy the 6ml at ₹669 only once you know you will keep wearing it.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If what you actually want is to be noticed across a room at a wedding, every recommendation on this page is wrong for you and you should read the festive pages instead - a crowded reception is the opposite brief, and Ameeri or Nawaab is the right end of the range for it.
— the condition that changes this answer
You wanted close and not loud. Two honest routes out of this page.
One of these costs ₹379 and one costs nothing.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If you have already tried using less of what you own, or you do not own anything you like. The lightest base in the range, no oudh, and the 3ml is the right size to start.
Tell Sonal the room and what you own
If you are not sure the problem is the bottle. Describe the room, the hour and what you are wearing now, and I will tell you whether to change the dose or the composition - including when the answer is to buy nothing.
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A note from Sonal

I had this conversation with my own sister before I ever sold a bottle. She had been wearing something she loved, four sprays, at the throat, in a Pune summer, and a colleague had said something to her in a lift that she repeated to me three times in one evening. She wanted me to tell her which perfume was quiet. What she needed was to stop putting it on her neck.

She uses one dab now, on the inside of her wrist, of the same bottle she already had. It cost her nothing and it has not come up again. I think about that conversation on roughly half the pages in this series, because the commercially useful thing for me to do here would be to sell her a second bottle, and the true thing was to tell her to use less of the first.

What I will not do, for her or for you, is tell you how anyone else will respond. I have been trained to build a composition and I can tell you exactly what is in one and how it behaves on skin. The person standing in front of you brings their own mother's dressing table to the encounter, and that is not something I stock.

Frequently asked questions

Is a lighter fragrance the same thing as a fragrance that stays close?
No, and conflating them is the commonest mistake in this area. Lightness is about the character and weight of the materials; staying close is about how far the fragrance reads from you at a given moment. A light, fresh composition applied four times will reach further than a deep one applied once. Character is in the bottle, distance is largely in your hands.
Does SOSA publish a projection figure for its attars?
No. SOSA publishes one performance figure, which is 6-8 hours on skin, and that describes duration rather than distance. There is no industry-standard test for projection, so any number you see quoted for it anywhere was not measured against a standard. Anything this guide says about how close a composition sits is Sonal's professional assessment, labelled as such.
Which SOSA attar is the lightest?
Adaa, at 3ml for 379 rupees. Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, settling on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no oudh in the composition at all.
Where should I apply an attar if I do not want it to reach the people I greet?
The inner wrist. It is in your own airspace when you move your hands and in nobody else's until they are close to you. The throat and the neck sit directly under the nose of anyone you greet and are warmer, which releases material faster. The hair and the collar hold fragrance far longer than skin and cannot be washed off at lunchtime.
Can I tell how strong my own fragrance is?
Not reliably, and this is worth knowing. Your nose adapts to a scent you are wearing within minutes, so the fragrance you can barely detect at noon may be perfectly obvious to someone meeting you. The two cheap workarounds are to leave a small room for ten minutes and walk back into it, or to ask one person you trust at a known distance and a known hour.
Should I buy the 3ml or the 12ml first?
The 3ml, at 379 rupees for Adaa. You are solving a strength problem, and three millilitres is enough to wear a composition for a fortnight and know whether the register is right. The 12ml at 1,149 rupees is for a scent you already know you will keep wearing.
The cheapest version of this answer
One dab, inner wrist, thirty minutes before you leave, for one week, with the bottle you already own.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Still not sure whether it is the bottle or the dose?
SOSA — Tell me the room, the hour and what you are wearing now. I will tell you which of the three levers to move - and when the answer is that you do not need to buy anything.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · 6-8 hours on skin · no projection figure claimed anywhere, because none is published
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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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