Can a Vetiver and Citrus Attar Evoke the Refreshing Character of Khus Without Smelling Like a Sweet Beverage?

Can a Vetiver and Citrus Attar Evoke the Refreshing Character of Khus Without Smelling Like a Sweet Beverage?

★ ★ SOSA makes no khus attar and no vetiver composition of any kind, so the dial table on this page dials your search rather than a bottle of mine, and my number is ₹0What you get instead: why a bright top over a root works, why it tips sweet so easily, and the counter-intuitive rule that freshness lives in the baseSOSA's nearest published pairing of a bright top over a dry base is Khayaal, a bergamot and black tea perfume oil. It contains no vetiver, it is not an answer here, and it is recommended for nothing on this page
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✓ This page recommends no SOSA product for the question in its title, at any size and at any price ✓ Khayaal is named once, as an example of a bright top over a dry base. It is a tea-and-amberwood perfume oil, it contains no vetiver, and it is not offered here as an answer ✓ No grade, purity, yield or origin claim is made about any SOSA material, because none is published on any SOSA product page

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By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 20 min read Updated October 2026
SOSA makes no khus attar and no vetiver composition of any kind, so the dial table on this page adjusts what you are shopping for rather than which of my bottles to buy, and the number at the end is zero rupees. The question itself is a good one and almost nobody answers it properly. Can a bright citrus over a root give you the cooling, refreshing character you are after without the whole thing reading like a cold drink? Yes, under one condition - and the condition is not the one you would guess. Freshness in this pairing is decided by the base and not by the top. Get that the wrong way round, as most buyers and a fair number of perfumers do, and you will keep ending up with something sweet.
Quick answers — read this first
Can a citrus and vetiver composition smell refreshing without smelling sweet? Yes, but the citrus is not what decides it. A citrus top is short-lived; its job is to buy the root a bright entry and then get out of the way. What determines whether the whole thing reads crisp or syrupy is what sits underneath - the same dose of bergamot over a dry woody base reads clean and over a resinous amber base reads like a drink. So the thing to shop for is a dry base, and to treat the top as a bonus.

Does SOSA make anything like this? No. There is no khus attar and no vetiver composition in my range, so this page's dial has no setting that lands on a bottle of mine. The nearest published pairing of a bright top over a dry base is Khayaal - bergamot, neroli, black tea and amberwood, a perfume oil from ₹599 at 10ml. It is a tea-and-amberwood composition. It contains no vetiver, it is not an answer to the question in this page's title, and I am recommending it for nothing here.

What happens to this pairing in real Indian heat? The dial moves against you. A high citrus top is the fastest-evaporating part of any composition, so in genuine summer heat it burns off within the hour and you arrive at the base much sooner than you did when you tested it indoors. That is why the honest advice for a hot climate is to choose entirely for the base and treat the opening as something you will experience briefly on the way out of the house. The register page explains what that base is likely to be.
The short answer
Short answer: Nothing from me, and the dial below is for your search rather than for a bottle. No root composition exists in my range at any size. The useful part is the mechanism. A citrus top buys a root a bright entry, but citrus reads sweet the moment the base under it is sweet - so the crispness you are after is a property of the base, not of the top, which is the reverse of how almost everybody shops for this.
The pick: ₹0. Choose on the base. Dry and woody reads crisp under citrus; resinous, ambered or vanillic reads like a beverage under exactly the same citrus. Then treat the top as the first twenty minutes rather than as the character.
Next step: read the register page to decide which end of the root you want underneath that citrus, because a full cut will out-shout any top note you put over it. If the sweet-drink association is the thing you are fighting, the sweetened-drink page is the one to read. Or tell me what your May actually looks like - the commute, the air conditioning, the hours outdoors - and I will tell you which setting of the dial to shop for.
In this guide
What I do not make, said plainly
SOSA makes no khus attar and no vetiver composition of any kind, so there is no setting of the dial below that lands on a bottle of mine. Vetiver appears once in everything I make, third in Adaa's drydown beside white musk and cedarwood, beneath a heart of jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang - a foundation under a white floral rather than a root with a citrus over it. I will name one other composition on this page, Khayaal, because it is a genuine example of a bright top sitting over a dry base and the structure is worth seeing. It is a bergamot, neroli, black tea and amberwood perfume oil. It contains no vetiver and no root of any kind, and it is recommended for nothing here. Said once, and now the mechanism.
Straight answer
Can a vetiver and citrus composition give me the refreshing character I want without smelling like a sweet beverage?
Yes, and the condition is a dry base rather than a restrained top - which is the opposite of what almost every reader assumes. First, what a citrus top is actually for. Citrus materials are small, light and extremely volatile, which means they reach a nose immediately and are substantially gone within twenty to forty minutes on skin. They cannot be the character of a fragrance you will wear for seven hours, and a perfumer does not ask them to be. Their job is to buy an entry: to make the first impression bright and legible, to lift whatever is underneath, and to signal cleanliness and energy before the slower materials have begun to speak. Over a root this works particularly well, because a root's natural entrance is dense and slightly gloomy, and a citrus gives it a door to come in through. Second, why it tips sweet, which is the whole subject of your question. Citrus is not sweet in itself; it is sharp, bitter at the edges, slightly green. What makes it read sweet is context. Put the same dose of bergamot over a dry woody base and the composition reads crisp, almost austere, and the citrus registers as a brightness. Put that identical dose over a resinous amber, a vanilla or anything with a sugared facet and the citrus stops reading as sharp and starts reading as the top of a cordial - because your nose integrates the two and finds a drink. Nothing about the citrus changed. The base changed, and the base is what the citrus is read against. Third, the rule that follows, and I would like you to carry it out of this page: freshness in a bright-over-dark composition is a property of the base. Most readers shop this the other way round. They look for more citrus, assuming that more brightness means more freshness, and they end up with sweeter and sweeter bottles because the brands adding more citrus are usually also adding the sweet bases that make citrus palatable for longer. The crisp thing you want is made by subtraction underneath rather than addition on top. Fourth, what the root does to all of this. A root at the light end of the material - cool, damp, grassy - takes a citrus beautifully, because it is itself dry and slightly bitter and the two share an edge. A root at the heavy end takes a citrus badly for your purposes, not because they clash but because the heavy end is so persistent that it swallows the entry whole: twenty minutes of brightness and then six hours of smoke. So the cut matters more than the citrus dose, and if you are shopping for this pairing you are really shopping for the cut, which is set out on the register page. Fifth, the one composition of mine I will name here, and what it is not. The nearest thing I publish to a bright top over a dry base is Khayaal: bergamot, neroli, black tea and amberwood, a perfume oil available from ₹599 at 10ml. I am naming it because the architecture is instructive - a citrus and neroli entry, a dry tea in the middle, an amberwood underneath - and because it demonstrates that a dry base keeps a citrus crisp for longer than a sweet one would. It is a tea-and-amberwood composition. It contains no vetiver, no root and nothing green in the sense this page means, it is not an answer to the question in the title, and I am recommending it for nothing on this page. And last, what I would do with my own money. I would stop evaluating the opening altogether. I would ask every seller what the thing smells like at the four-hour mark, buy only on that answer, and treat the citrus as a pleasant irrelevance - because in the climate most of my readers live in, the opening is over before they have reached the end of their own street.

Why a bright top over a root tips sweet so easily

Three mechanisms are working at once here, and separating them explains almost every disappointment readers report with this pairing.

The first is the volatility gap. Citrus and root sit at opposite ends of the evaporation range - one of the widest gaps a perfumer regularly bridges. That is why the pairing is useful, because it gives a composition a lot of range, and it is also why the two halves are never experienced together for very long. You get citrus, then a brief overlap, then root. A reader who falls for the overlap has fallen for about fifteen minutes of the wear.

The second is the integration problem. Noses do not keep an inventory; they build a single impression out of whatever is arriving. Sharp plus sweet does not read as sharp and sweet, it reads as a cordial, because that is the thing in the world those two signals most often come from together. This is why a composition can be made of entirely unsweet materials and still read sweet if any one of them has a sugared facet - and why removing that one material changes the whole reading rather than just one layer of it.

The third is commercial, and it is the one worth being cynical about. Sweetness widens an audience. A dry, bitter, green composition is a minority taste, and a sweetened version of it sells to many more people, so the market pushes consistently in one direction. When you search for refreshing you will mostly be shown sweet things, not because anybody is lying but because that is what sells, and the honest dry version of what you want is a smaller shelf that you have to look for deliberately.

The dial table: what to change in your search, and what each change costs

Five dials. Every one of them adjusts what you are looking for rather than how you wear something of mine, because nothing of mine is in this conversation. The third column is the part most dial tables leave out, and it is the part that stops you over-correcting.

The five dials on this search
What to change in what you are shopping for, what it does to the smell, and what each change costs you
What to change What it does to the smell What it costs you
Shift the base from sweet to dry The single most effective change available, and the one most readers never make. The same citrus over a dry woody base reads crisp and over an ambered or vanillic base reads like a drink. Change this and the whole composition changes register You lose comfort and longevity in the perceived sense. Sweet bases are cosy and they hold a composition together; dry ones can read thin or severe, and some people find them unfriendly. Expect to like it less on first sniff and more by hour three
Reduce the citrus rather than increase it Counter-intuitive and usually right. A smaller citrus dose over a dry base reads cleaner than a large one, because a large dose needs sweetening to stay pleasant and the sweetening is what wrecks your brief You lose the bright, instantly likeable opening, which is also the part you are most likely to be sold on at a counter. A composition built this way is unimpressive in the first minute and better for the rest of the day
Move the cut towards the light end of the root Decides whether the citrus has a partner or a competitor. A cool, damp, grassy cut shares an edge with citrus and the two read as one clean thing. A full, smoky cut swallows the top and takes over by the half-hour mark A light cut is quieter, more expensive per millilitre and much more weather-dependent - it can go nearly silent in dry cold. You are buying a narrower, more fragile pleasure
Choose neroli or petitgrain over sweet orange Changes the character of the brightness itself. The bitter-orange materials are green, slightly soapy and faintly bitter, which supports a dry reading; sweet citrus oils push the whole thing towards fruit You lose immediate charm. Bitter-orange brightness is more adult and less instantly pleasing, and it reads as soap to some noses, which is a real objection rather than a snobbish one
Decide the hour you are buying for A composition judged at eight in the morning indoors and a composition judged at two in the afternoon outdoors are two different products. Pick the moment that actually matters to you and shop for that You give up the fantasy of one bottle that works everywhere. In a hot climate the honest answer is often that the morning version is the only version you will ever meet of the opening
Notice that four of the five dials point at subtraction. That is the shape of your brief: what you are describing as refreshing is mostly the absence of things rather than the presence of them, which is why it is so hard to buy and so easy for a seller to over-deliver on. None of these five settings lands on a bottle of mine, and I am not going to invent a sixth dial that does.
SOSA makes no khus attar and no vetiver composition, so this dial adjusts your search rather than my shelf and my number is ₹0. A citrus top buys a root a bright entry and is largely gone within half an hour; whether the whole thing reads crisp or like a cordial is decided by the base beneath it, because the same bergamot dose over a dry wood reads sharp and over an amber reads sweet. Freshness here is a property of the base. Flip: in genuine Indian heat the top burns off fastest of anything, so the configuration that charmed you at room temperature arrives at the base within the hour.

How this actually behaves across a day, and where to put it

Assume for a moment that you have found the thing - a light cut with a modest bright top and a dry base, bought from somebody who described their cut honestly. Here is what a day with it is like, because nobody tells you this part and it decides whether you keep wearing it.

The first twenty minutes are the most citrus-forward and the least representative. If you are going to judge the bottle, do not judge it here. In a hot month this phase may be substantially over by the time you have parked.

From about half an hour to two hours is the only period when you get the pairing as designed: brightness thinning out over a cool, dry, rooty body. This is the window the composition was built for and it is genuinely lovely. It is also short, and in heat it is shorter.

From two hours onwards you are wearing the base, and this is where the choice you made about dryness pays or costs. A dry base at this stage reads quiet, clean and slightly austere, sits close to the skin, and is the part of the day most people end up buying the bottle for. A sweet base at this stage is where the cordial complaint comes from, and no amount of reapplying citrus fixes it.

As for application: an oil worn from a dab applicator goes on pulse points and nowhere else, one or two dabs, and SOSA describes its own attars as wearing 6-8 hours on skin. A light cut of a root is quiet by nature, so the temptation is to apply more. Resist it on the first few wears, because a quiet fragrance you have over-applied is the commonest way readers decide they dislike something they would have liked.

The SOSA principle
Freshness in a bright-over-dark composition is made by subtraction underneath rather than by addition on top. The citrus is not the reason a thing smells crisp; the absence of sugar in the base is the reason, and the citrus simply gets the credit because it arrives first.
Which is why the useful advice here is about what to avoid in a base, and why my number for this question is zero.
In genuine Indian summer heat the dial moves against you, and it moves in the one direction you cannot compensate for. Heat accelerates evaporation across the board, but it does most damage at the volatile end, so a high citrus top burns off faster than anything else in a composition: the bright, crisp entry that sold you the bottle in an air-conditioned room can be substantially finished by the time you have walked to the end of a street in May. What you will actually wear, for almost the whole day, is the base. So in that climate the honest advice reverses the normal shopping habit entirely - choose the composition for its base, test it outdoors in the afternoon rather than indoors in the morning, and treat the opening as a pleasant thing that happens on your way out of the door rather than as the thing you are paying for.
— the condition that changes this answer

What I would do instead, and the one composition I am naming but not offering

Two parts, as always. First the compositions of mine that come up in this conversation, including the one I am naming as an example of structure rather than as an answer. Then what I would do with the money.

Named here, and offered for nothing
One of these is structurally instructive and one is the usual trap, and neither is an answer to the question in this page's title
Composition What it actually is Why it is not an answer to this question What I would charge you for this question
SOSA Adaa Attar A white floral - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood The usual trap, and it is a good one: a genuine citrus opening, a green cardamom beside it, and the root named in the base. What sits between those two is a heart of three white flowers, which is what you would wear for most of the day. It is a bright top over a floral rather than over a root ₹0 for this question. It is ₹379 for 3ml as the lightest white floral in the range, bought for what it is
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SOSA Nawaab Attar An oud composition - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk Included because readers who read the dial table and accept that they should buy for the base sometimes swing all the way to the deepest base available. This one is deep and it is dry, and it has no citrus brightness over it and no root in it at all ₹0 for this question. It is ₹399 for 3ml if you want the deepest thing I make on its own terms
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The composition I would actually point at for structure is Khayaal, which is not in that table because the table is for ruling things out and Khayaal is in a different category: it is a perfume oil rather than an attar, it is a bergamot, neroli, black tea and amberwood composition, and it is worth looking at only as a demonstration that a dry base keeps a citrus crisp. It contains no vetiver and no root of any kind. It is not an answer here and I am recommending it for nothing. For the question in this page's title the number is zero rupees.
Sonal’s recommendation
Buy for the base, ignore the opening, and ask every seller what it smells like at four hours
The single most useful habit I can give a reader in a hot country is to stop shopping with the first twenty minutes of a fragrance, because the first twenty minutes is the part your climate will take away from you.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy from SOSA for this Nothing. ₹0, and I mean the figure. There is no root composition in the range and no setting of the dial above lands on a bottle of mine
The decision that actually matters The base. Dry and woody keeps a citrus crisp; ambered, resinous or vanillic turns the same citrus into the top of a cordial. Everything else on this page is secondary to that one choice
What to stop doing Shopping for more citrus. More brightness is almost always accompanied by more sweetness underneath, because large citrus doses need sweetening to stay pleasant, and the sweetening is what ruins your brief
The question to ask every seller What does it smell like at the four-hour mark? Buy on that answer alone. In your climate it is the only part of the wear you will reliably experience
Where and when to test Outdoors, in the afternoon, on skin. A cool shop in the morning flatters every opening and conceals the only thing that matters
What I would like you to take away That the crispness you want is made by leaving sugar out of a base rather than by adding brightness to a top. One sentence, and it will redirect your entire search
I have named Khayaal exactly once above, as a piece of architecture, and I want to be unambiguous about why that is not a recommendation. It is a tea-and-amberwood perfume oil. There is no root in it and nothing green in the sense this page means, so pointing a reader with your question at it would be precisely the sideways sell this whole series exists to avoid. The number is zero rupees. If you have not yet decided which end of the root you want underneath your citrus, the register page is the one to read before you shop.
You want one bottle that survives a hot month. Which half of the problem are you solving first?
Readers arrive here having already decided they want brightness over a root. The next step depends on which variable is still open.
Read which end of the root to shop for
You have accepted that the base decides it and need to choose one. Then the question is which cut of the root sits underneath, because a full cut will swallow any top note you put over it while a light cut shares an edge with citrus. That page explains how the cut is decided and how to ask about it.
Tell Sonal what your May looks like
You are not sure how much of your day the heat will actually take. Write and tell me about it - the commute, how much of the day is air-conditioned, how many hours you are outdoors, what time you leave the house - and I will tell you which setting of the dial to shop for. No bottle of mine will be attached to the answer.
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A note from Sonal

I worked this out the expensive way, by building a bright composition over a sweet base and wondering why everybody described it as juice. I had put in what I thought was a restrained citrus and a generous amount of warmth underneath, and the warmth turned the citrus into fruit without my noticing, because I had been smelling the two separately on blotters for a fortnight. The first person to wear it for a full day told me it smelled like something you would drink, and she was right.

What I took from it is that the base is the loudest decision in any composition, even though it is the last thing most people read and the last thing they smell. It sets the key the rest of the perfume is heard in. When a reader tells me a fragrance is too sweet, I now ask about the drydown rather than the opening, and nine times in ten the answer is there.

So this page sells you nothing, which is true of about half of this series. There is no root composition in my range and I am not going to turn a tea-and-amberwood oil into an answer because it happens to be bright on top. Tell me what your hot months actually look like and I will tell you which setting of the dial to shop for, with no bottle of mine attached to the reply.

Frequently asked questions

Can a citrus and root composition be refreshing without being sweet?
Yes, but the citrus is not what decides it. Citrus materials are extremely volatile and largely gone within twenty to forty minutes on skin, so they cannot be the character of a fragrance you wear all day - their job is to buy the root a bright entry. Whether the whole thing reads crisp or like a cordial depends on the base: the same dose of bergamot over a dry woody base reads sharp and clean, and over a resinous or vanillic base reads like the top of a drink. Shop for the base.
Why does more citrus not make a fragrance fresher?
Because large citrus doses need sweetening to stay pleasant for any length of time, and the sweetening is exactly what ruins a dry brief. A composition with a big bright opening is very likely to have a comfortable, slightly sugared base underneath it holding that opening up, and your nose integrates the two into a single impression of fruit or cordial. Reducing the citrus and drying the base is the counter-intuitive move that actually works, at the cost of a less immediately charming first minute.
Does SOSA make a vetiver and citrus attar?
No. There is no khus attar and no vetiver composition anywhere in the SOSA range, as an attar or as a perfume oil, and vetiver appears once in all of it, third in Adaa's last tier beneath white musk, cedarwood and a heart of three white flowers. The nearest published pairing of a bright top over a dry base is Khayaal, a bergamot, neroli, black tea and amberwood perfume oil from ₹599 at 10ml, which contains no root of any kind and is not an answer to this question. The recommendation on this page is zero.
What happens to a bright opening in real summer heat?
It goes first and it goes fast. Heat accelerates evaporation most at the volatile end of a composition, so the crisp citrus entry that sold you a bottle in an air-conditioned shop can be substantially finished within an hour of walking outside in May. The practical consequence is that in a hot climate you should choose a fragrance entirely for its base, test it outdoors in the afternoon rather than indoors in the morning, and treat the opening as something that happens on the way out of the door.
How should I wear an oil like this, and how long does it last?
An oil worn from a dab applicator goes on pulse points, one or two dabs, and nowhere else. SOSA describes its own attars as wearing 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. With a light cut of a root the fragrance is quiet by nature, which tempts people to apply more on the first wear - resist that, because over-application is the commonest reason readers decide they dislike something they would otherwise have liked.
The citrus gets the credit for crispness because it arrives first, but the crispness was never its doing. It is the absence of sugar in the base that makes a bright composition read clean, which means the thing you are shopping for is a subtraction you cannot smell in the first minute.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
From a bright opening to the only part of the wear your climate will let you keep
SOSA — Citrus Over a Root why freshness lives in the base rather than the top
SOSA makes no khus attar and no vetiver composition, so no setting of this page's dial lands on a SOSA bottle and the recommendation is nothing at any size. A citrus top buys a root a bright entry and is largely gone within half an hour; whether the composition reads crisp or like a cordial is decided by the base beneath it. Khayaal, a bergamot, neroli, black tea and amberwood perfume oil from ₹599 at 10ml, is named once here as an example of a bright top over a dry base - it contains no root of any kind and is recommended for nothing. The four SOSA attars are jasmine, rose, night-floral and oud compositions at ₹379 to ₹399 for 3ml, 6-8 hours 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 knows the feeling they want and not the notes; the method of translating a place, a memory or a feeling into a fragrance family applies to any brand, and the product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar range only.

Facts verified 16 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, and described by SOSA 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 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). The four attars above are the whole attar range, and it contains no mitti or petrichor attar, no tuberose or rajnigandha, no champa or champak, no khus or vetiver soliflore, no marigold, no pine or conifer, no moss, no coffee and no clean-linen or aldehydic accord. Vetiver and cedarwood exist only as base notes inside Adaa, and sandalwood runs through the carrier of all four. Where a reader asks for a material SOSA does not make, these pages say so plainly and do not offer a substitute as though it were the thing asked for. Separately from the attars, SOSA makes six perfume oils in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Zaffran, Tabac Noir, Samundar, Khayaal, Chashni and Bahaar - each an independent SOSA composition inspired by a widely known fragrance and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the house named. Fragrance is a personal choice: SOSA makes no claim that any attar changes how others perceive, judge or respond to the wearer, no claim about 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 consult their own judgement or a doctor. Wear time and projection vary with skin, climate and application. 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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