★ The five facts that decide this
Rose and jasmine both exist here, and neither is sold on its own. Taif rose is in Ameeri, Damask rose and night jasmine in Mastani, jasmine sambac in Adaa — and what decides whether a floral reads elegant is what sits underneath it.
◆ Taif rose sits in Ameeri's heart, held dry by Persian saffron and pink pepper — ₹385 for 3ml
◆ Damask rose and night-blooming jasmine both sit in Mastani's heart — ₹389 for 3ml
◆ Jasmine sambac sits in Adaa's heart, over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood — ₹379 for 3ml
◆ SOSA publishes no rose soliflore and no jasmine soliflore, at any size
◆ SOSA states wear time as 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure
★ The three floral hearts, and what is under each
SOSA Mastani Attar₹389 for 3ml — Damask rose and night jasmine togetherView ₹389
SOSA Ameeri Attar₹385 for 3ml — Taif rose, held dry by saffronView ₹385
SOSA Adaa Attar₹379 for 3ml — jasmine sambac over a clean musk baseView ₹379
✓ SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and nothing at all about projection, because the industry has never agreed a test for one. Where this guide describes how close something stays, that is Sonal's own assessment and it carries no figure. ✓ Where a reader asks for a flower that exists only inside a composition, this guide says where it sits rather than implying a soliflore is for sale. ✓ ISIPCA-trained perfumer · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Attar Presence · Close Range, Shared Air, Dose
Which bottle holds both rose and jasmine? Mastani, at ₹389 for 3ml: litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, closing on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. It is the only one of the four that carries a rose and a jasmine together, so for a reader who genuinely cannot choose between the two it is the direct answer. The honest caveat is in the base: that Madagascar vanilla and tonka finish makes Mastani the sweetest of the four, and sweetness is the characteristic that keeps reasserting itself across a long day in a shared room. Buy it for an evening on purpose, and buy something drier for a Tuesday.
Does the flower decide how far a fragrance reaches? No, and this is the most useful correction on the page. What is structurally true is that all four of these are alcohol-free oil rather than spray, so there is no atomiser and no solvent carrying any of them outward. After format, the quantity you apply is what moves the reach, and it is free to change every morning. SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure at all, because the industry has never agreed a test that would produce one. So nobody can hand you a rose-against-jasmine comparison on reach, and anybody who does is handing you an opinion in the costume of a measurement.
See the SOSA Mastani Attar Ask SOSA how close it stays
Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Mastani attar is litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, at ₹389 for 3ml, ₹685 for 6ml and ₹1,179 for 12ml. the SOSA Ameeri attar is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk, at ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml and ₹1,165 for 12ml. SOSA’s own product page gives its mood as warm and festive, never theatrical. the SOSA Adaa attar is the lightest of the four and the only one with no oudh at all - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - at ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. SOSA publishes no pure musk soliflore, no clean-linen or cotton accord, no aldehydic-soapy scent, no single-note vetiver soliflore, no lavender or herbal-spa scent, no incense-resin scent, no tuberose and no coffee attar. White musk exists only as a base note inside Adaa, Ameeri and Nawaab, and vetiver and cedarwood only inside Adaa’s base. every SOSA attar is sold in exactly three sizes - 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - all alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, and SOSA states wear time as 6-8 hours on skin. oudh is present in three of the four attars and absent from one: Nawaab is oud-led, Ameeri names a soft oudh and Mastani names oudh in its base, and Adaa has none. Among the perfume oils, Zaffran has no oud either. On projection: SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing at all about projection - no distance, no rating and no test, because the industry has never agreed one. Where this guide describes how close a fragrance stays, that is Sonal Sahani’s own assessment as the perfumer who composed it, labelled as such, and it carries no figure. Longevity, projection and sillage are three different properties and this guide keeps them apart. On other people: SOSA makes no claim about what anybody else will notice, think, feel or conclude because of a fragrance, and no claim about compliments, attraction, impressions or professional outcomes. On sensitivity: low projection is not low irritation risk. No SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, as safe for sensitive individuals or as suitable for anybody who reacts to fragrance; alcohol-free and DPG-free are ingredient facts and not skin or safety claims, and natural materials are not inherently gentler. Where a workplace, clinic or hospital has its own rule about scented products, that rule decides it and the honest answer is to wear none. Patch-testing a new fragrance is general guidance, not medical advice. Where a fragrance family a reader asks about is not in the SOSA range, this guide says so rather than stretching a product to fit. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any perfume house or brand named anywhere for reference; its “inspired by” perfume oils are SOSA’s own independent compositions and are never dupes, clones or equivalents. Prices, variants and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
Both halves of your question exist in this range, and neither of them exists on its own. There is no rose soliflore here and no jasmine soliflore here — what there is, is Taif rose in Ameeri's heart, Damask rose and night-blooming jasmine in Mastani's, and jasmine sambac in Adaa's. So the choice is not rose-versus-jasmine. It is which composition, and the part of a composition that decides whether a floral reads elegant and restrained or insistent and obvious is not the flower at all. It is what sits underneath the flower — saffron-dry, musk-and-cedarwood-dry, or vanilla-and-tonka-sweet. Get that axis right and the rest of the decision takes about a minute.
Quick answers — read this first
Should I buy a soft rose attar or a clean jasmine musk for an elegant floral without heavy reach? Neither phrase describes a product you can buy here on its own, and the choice gets easier once you know where each flower actually sits. If rose is the word that matters, Ameeri at ₹385 for 3ml is the one: Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in the heart, with Persian saffron and pink pepper above holding it off the sweet side and soft oudh, amber and white musk underneath. That saffron is why Ameeri is the driest of the warm ones, and dryness is what makes a rose read elegant rather than heavy. If clean jasmine musk is the phrase, Adaa at ₹379 is the one: jasmine sambac with magnolia and ylang ylang over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, the lightest and most transparent of the four and the only one with no oudh at all. And if you want rose and jasmine in the same bottle, that is Mastani at ₹389 — which is also the sweetest of the four, so read on before you buy it for daytime.Which bottle holds both rose and jasmine? Mastani, at ₹389 for 3ml: litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, closing on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. It is the only one of the four that carries a rose and a jasmine together, so for a reader who genuinely cannot choose between the two it is the direct answer. The honest caveat is in the base: that Madagascar vanilla and tonka finish makes Mastani the sweetest of the four, and sweetness is the characteristic that keeps reasserting itself across a long day in a shared room. Buy it for an evening on purpose, and buy something drier for a Tuesday.
Does the flower decide how far a fragrance reaches? No, and this is the most useful correction on the page. What is structurally true is that all four of these are alcohol-free oil rather than spray, so there is no atomiser and no solvent carrying any of them outward. After format, the quantity you apply is what moves the reach, and it is free to change every morning. SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure at all, because the industry has never agreed a test that would produce one. So nobody can hand you a rose-against-jasmine comparison on reach, and anybody who does is handing you an opinion in the costume of a measurement.
The short answer
Short answer: rose and jasmine both live inside compositions here and neither is sold alone. The base under the flower is what decides whether a floral reads elegant and restrained.
The pick: Ameeri at ₹385 for the rose, Adaa at ₹379 for the clean jasmine musk, Mastani at ₹389 if you want both flowers and an evening fragrance.
Next step: buy one 3ml, wear one dab for three ordinary days, and judge it at the third hour rather than the first ten minutes.
In this guide
The fourth line is an absence, stated once and not softened. The fifth is the line to take away. Attar is concentrated, so patch-test any new fragrance if your skin reacts easily — general guidance, not medical advice.
The three floral answers
Rose and jasmine in one bottle
SOSA Mastani Attar · ₹389
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Straight answer
A soft rose or a clean jasmine musk, and the axis that actually decides it
Start with where the flowers are, because it reframes the choice. Taif rose sits in Ameeri's heart at ₹385 for 3ml, over Indian sandalwood, with Persian saffron and pink pepper above it and soft oudh, amber and white musk below — and the saffron is the whole reason this is the driest of the warm ones rather than a sweet floral. Jasmine sambac sits in Adaa's heart at ₹379, with magnolia and ylang ylang, over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood; Adaa is the lightest and most transparent of the four and the only one with no oudh anywhere in it, which is why a jasmine over that base reads clean rather than opulent. Damask rose and night-blooming jasmine both sit in Mastani's heart at ₹389, over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. That makes Mastani the only bottle here that answers both halves of your question at once, and it also makes it the sweetest of the four — which is a real and specific trade rather than a quibble. Now the axis. An elegant floral is a floral with a dry base under it. The flower decides the character; the base decides whether the character stays civil through the afternoon. Rose over saffron and sandalwood: dry. Jasmine over musk and cedarwood: dry. Rose and jasmine over vanilla and tonka: sweet, lovely, and an evening proposition. So if the brief is daytime and restrained, buy Ameeri or Adaa at ₹385 or ₹379. If the brief is an evening and you want both flowers, Mastani at ₹389 is yours and you should buy it knowing exactly what the base is doing. And neither flower is sold alone — there is no rose soliflore and no jasmine soliflore in this range at any size.
One line: the flower is the character and the base is the behaviour — Ameeri for a dry rose, Adaa for a clean jasmine musk, Mastani for both flowers and an evening.
A sensible first purchase is 3ml. Ameeri is ₹385 for the Taif rose, Adaa is ₹379 for the jasmine over musk, and Mastani is ₹389 if you want both flowers.
See the SOSA Mastani Attar ₹389 Ask SOSA how close it stays
The flowers, and their bases
Three floral hearts over three different bases
What to actually buy, and what to skip
Three of the four attars carry a floral heart, so all three belong in this comparison and the fourth does not. The floral-musk and woody-musk page explains why the heart and the base of one bottle so often get mistaken for two products.
Both flowers, one bottle
The sweetest of the four
Litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, closing on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. The only attar here that holds a rose and a jasmine together, which makes it the literal answer for a reader who wants both. The base is the trade: Madagascar vanilla and tonka make this the sweetest of the four, so it belongs to evenings and cold weather rather than to a long day in a shared room. ₹389 for 3ml, ₹685 for 6ml, ₹1,179 for 12ml.
From ₹389
If the rose is the point
Driest of the warm ones
Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, closing on soft oudh, amber and white musk. The saffron and pink pepper above the rose are the mechanism that makes this elegant rather than heavy — they hold the flower off the sweet side, which is precisely what a reader asking for a soft rose is usually describing. Warm, dry, nothing sugared. ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml, ₹1,165 for 12ml.
From ₹385
If clean is the point
Lightest and most transparent
Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, closing on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. A jasmine read through a dry, green, unsweet base, which is as close as the range comes to the phrase clean jasmine musk. The lightest of the four and the only one with no oudh at all. ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml, ₹1,149 for 12ml.
From ₹379
Three things that decide it
Three things to settle, and the first one is not the flower.
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One
Read the base under the flower
A floral heart lasts a while and then hands over, and what it hands over to is what you wear for the long middle of the day. This is why two rose fragrances can feel like different genres: a rose over saffron and dry wood is restrained, and a rose over vanilla and tonka is opulent. In this range: Ameeri's rose sits over Indian sandalwood with soft oudh, amber and white musk below — dry. Adaa's jasmine sits over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood — dry and green. Mastani's rose and jasmine sit over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka — sweet, and the sweetest of the four. For an elegant-and-restrained brief, the first two qualify and the third is an evening fragrance. That is the whole comparison and it took one paragraph.
Tip: On any product page, anywhere, read the last line of the note list before the first. It is the line you will be wearing at four in the afternoon.
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Two
Know that neither flower is sold on its own
SOSA publishes no rose soliflore and no jasmine soliflore, in any size, and this is worth stating once plainly rather than hinting at. What exists is Taif rose inside Ameeri, Damask rose inside Mastani, jasmine sambac inside Adaa, and night-blooming jasmine inside Mastani. Each is a named note in a published three-movement composition, and each is doing a job for the structure around it rather than standing alone. If the experience you actually want is a rose — one rose, carried by itself, for several hours — then no bottle in this range is that, and the honest recommendation is to buy a soliflore from a house that composes them rather than spending ₹385 here to find out.
Tip: A composition with a famous flower in its heart is not a soliflore of that flower, no matter how the listing is worded.
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Three
Reach is format and dose, and the flower has nothing to do with it
You asked for a floral without heavy projection, and the good news is that this part is structural rather than a matter of taste. All four attars are alcohol-free oil, and an oil dabbed on skin has no atomiser and no solvent carrying it outward, so it behaves as a close-wearing fragrance by construction. That is true of the rose and the jasmine equally, and the page that owns the format mechanism sets it out in full. After format, the lever is quantity: one dab on one wrist is a different fragrance from three dabs and a neck. Nobody can give you a reach figure to compare, because SOSA publishes none and there is no agreed test anywhere that produces one. What you can do is apply less, which works.
Tip: Judge any of these at hour three of an ordinary day. A floral heart in the first ten minutes tells you very little about the next six hours.
The SOSA principle
An elegant floral is a flower with a dry base under it. Nobody writes that on a label, because the label is trying to sell you the flower.
It also means you can tell, for free, from a published note list, which floral will still be behaving itself at four in the afternoon.
Work out your own answer
Two questions and the answer falls out. All plain text, so it works whether you are reading this or having it read to you.
First: which word in your question was doing the work?
“Rose. It has to be a rose.”
Then Ameeri at ₹385 for 3ml, where Taif rose sits with Indian sandalwood in the heart with Persian saffron and pink pepper above it. The saffron is why it reads soft rather than sweet. It is not a rose soliflore and there is not one here, but it is the rose answer in this range.
“Clean. Jasmine, but clean.”
Then Adaa at ₹379, where jasmine sambac sits with magnolia and ylang ylang over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. It is the lightest and most transparent of the four and the only one with no oudh at all, which is why the jasmine in it reads clean rather than opulent.
“Both. I cannot choose between rose and jasmine.”
Then Mastani at ₹389 is the only bottle here that holds both — night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose. Buy it for an evening and know what you are buying: the Madagascar vanilla and tonka in its base make it the sweetest of the four, which is lovely at dinner and hard work at a desk.
“Elegant, actually. The flower was secondary.”
Then you are shopping for a base rather than a flower, and the rule is short: dry stays elegant, sweet keeps talking. Read the last line of any note list and buy the one with musk, saffron or dry wood in it rather than vanilla and tonka.
Second: how much do you want to spend to settle it?
Nothing, yet
A fair answer, especially if you already own a floral. Wear it at half the usual quantity for a fortnight and see whether what you disliked was the composition or the amount. That experiment costs nothing and often ends the search.
₹379 to ₹500
Around ₹800
Two 3ml bottles. Ameeri and Adaa together are ₹764 and give you the dry rose against the clean jasmine on your own skin, which is the comparison you actually came to make.
Over ₹1,000
Only once you know which base you want. A 12ml runs ₹1,149 to ₹1,199. The ₹1,055 trio is good value for its contents and includes the deepest attar in the range, which has no floral heart at all.
The case against buying anything
The case for closing this page and spending nothing, which applies to a good number of readers who arrived with a flower in mind.
- You wanted the flower, not a composition with the flower in it. Conceded, and it is the honest objection here. There is no rose soliflore and no jasmine soliflore in this range, so if what you want is one flower carried by itself, none of these three bottles is it. Partly conceded on the other side: most readers who ask for a soft rose are describing a rose held dry rather than a rose alone, and Ameeri at ₹385 is exactly that.
- You are about to buy the sweetest of the four for a long working day. Mastani is the only bottle here with both of your flowers in it, which makes it tempting for the wrong reason. Its vanilla and tonka base is the sweetest in the range, and a long day in a shared room is the setting where that is hardest work. Buy it for evenings on purpose, and buy ₹379 or ₹385 for the desk.
- Your real variable is the dose and you have not touched it. A floral heart is the part of a fragrance readers over-apply, because the first ten minutes feel like the whole thing. Halve what you apply of something you already own, for a fortnight, and see whether the question survives. It costs nothing and resolves more versions of this page than any purchase here does.
Sonal’s own assessment · a perfumer’s judgement, not a measurement
My own view, as the person who composed these: the flower is never what decides how a floral behaves. I put Taif rose in Ameeri with saffron and pink pepper over it precisely so it would not go sweet, and I put Damask rose and night jasmine in Mastani over vanilla and tonka precisely so it would be opulent — same family of material, two completely different intentions. If you want the elegant, restrained version of a flower, look under it. Adaa's jasmine sits over musk, vetiver and cedarwood and reads transparent. Mastani's flowers sit over vanilla and tonka and read rich. Both are doing what I asked them to do.
That is a perfumer's judgement about construction and behaviour, and it is not a measurement. SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure of any kind, because there is no agreed test that would produce one. Where I describe a composition as transparent or rich, that is a description of materials and not a number about distance.
The four attars, side by side
The four attars read on the flowers they carry and the bases those flowers sit over. Three of them belong in a floral comparison and the fourth is here for completeness.
The SOSA plan
Which flower, over which base, and when to wear it
| Attar | The floral heart, the base under it, and the honest occasion |
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Mastani — ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179
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Night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. The only one of the four with a rose and a jasmine together, and the sweetest of the four because of that vanilla-and-tonka finish. The answer if you want both flowers, and an evening fragrance rather than a daytime one. |
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Ameeri — ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165
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Taif rose over Indian sandalwood, with Persian saffron and pink pepper above and soft oudh, amber and white musk below. The saffron is what keeps the rose from tipping sweet, which makes this the driest of the warm ones. The pick for a soft rose that has to behave through a working day. |
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Adaa — ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149
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Jasmine sambac with magnolia and ylang ylang over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. No oudh anywhere in it, and the lightest and most transparent of the four. The nearest thing in the range to a clean jasmine musk, and the cheapest of the three floral answers. |
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Nawaab — ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199
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No floral heart: Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom over white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf, closing on amber, leather and white musk, and the deepest of the four. Listed here so the comparison is complete rather than because it belongs in it. Its amber is held dry by leather and tobacco rather than lifted by vanilla. |
Three worth following. Floral musk against woody musk shows why a floral heart and a woody base are so often mistaken for two different products. White musk against sandalwood musk covers the musk half of this question and states the soliflore absence in full. And the full comparison method on sweetness, character, reach and occasion is the page for a reader who wants a procedure they can reuse. SOSA has also published a piece on floral evening attars that are not sweet and one separating longevity, projection and sillage.
Not sure whether you want the flower or the base
Tell us what you want it to feel like at four in the afternoon rather than at nine in the morning, and we will tell you which of the three floral hearts is actually yours.
Two roses can belong to different genres. What changes is never the rose — it is the two lines printed under it.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
By base, dry first
The same flowers behave differently depending on what holds them
The SOSA attar range
Four attars in three sizes each, a trio of three of them, and two balm tins. Every price below was read off the live SOSA product pages on 19 October 2026.
The SOSA attar ladder, lightest to deepest
What to buy for an elegant floral that stays close
| Product | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Mastani Attar
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You want a rose and a jasmine in one bottle | Night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. The only attar here that holds both, and the sweetest of the four — so an evening purchase made on purpose. | ₹389 View → |
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SOSA Ameeri Attar
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The rose is the point and the day is long | Taif rose and Indian sandalwood with saffron and pink pepper holding it dry. The driest of the warm ones, and the better daytime floral. | ₹385 View → |
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SOSA Adaa Attar
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Clean is the point | Jasmine sambac over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. The lightest and most transparent of the four, with no oudh at all, and the cheapest of the three. | ₹379 View → |
 SOSA Attar Trio (Pack of 3)
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You want the deeper end of the range too | Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani together, from ₹1,055. Read the note below before buying it to answer a floral question. | ₹1,055 View → |
⚠️ The trio does not include Adaa. It is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, so it brings you two of the three floral answers plus the deepest attar in the range, and leaves out the clean jasmine one. On its own contents it is a genuine discount — three 3ml bought separately come to ₹1,173 against ₹1,055 — so the criticism is fit and not value, and the two are different complaints. For a floral comparison, Ameeri and Adaa as two 3ml bottles cost ₹764 and give you the dry rose and the clean jasmine side by side.
The verdict
Is any of this worth buying today
| Worth it if | Not worth it if |
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| You want a dry rose for working days and have never worn an alcohol-free oil — ₹385 answers it. Or you want the clean jasmine over a musk base and the ₹379 3ml is the cheapest honest way to find out. Or you want both flowers for evenings, understand that Mastani is the sweetest of the four, and want it anyway — which is a good reason to buy it. | You want a rose by itself, or a jasmine by itself. Neither exists here at any size and buying a composition instead will not scratch that itch. You already own a floral you like and the real problem is how much of it you apply. Or you are buying the sweetest of the four for a long day in a shared room, which is the one combination this page would talk you out of. |
The cheapest of the three floral answers is ₹379 and the most expensive is ₹389. The difference between them is which base you want, not how much you spend.
What to actually buy
The specific answer, if you want one line and no reading
| Which one | Ameeri at ₹385 for a dry Taif rose; Adaa at ₹379 for jasmine over a clean musk base; Mastani at ₹389 if you want both flowers and the occasion is an evening. |
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| Which size | 3ml. All three floral answers are between ₹379 and ₹389, so the comparison is cheap. A 12ml at ₹1,149 to ₹1,179 is for after a fortnight of wearing one. |
| How much | One dab, one wrist, a full day. Floral hearts are the part readers over-apply, because the first ten minutes feel like the whole fragrance and they are not. |
| Where | Wrists. The neck sits at conversation height, which is the thing a reader asking for restraint usually wants to keep in hand. |
| What to read first | The last line of the note list. Vanilla and tonka mean sweet; saffron, musk, vetiver and cedarwood mean dry. |
| When to judge it | Hour three, on an ordinary day, and once more at hour six. The handover out of the floral heart is the thing you are assessing. |
SOSA states wear time as 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and publishes no projection figure. Those are the only two sentences about performance this page can honestly offer.
If you want a daytime floral and an evening one
Three items, each linked and priced on its own. There is no bundle of these three and no bundle price — buying them together is simply buying three things.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
Sonal’s recommendation
If you asked me this across a counter I would turn the question round. Tell me what you want to be wearing in the afternoon, and I will tell you which flower to buy. If the answer is something dry and quiet, that is Ameeri at ₹385 for the Taif rose or Adaa at ₹379 for the jasmine over musk and cedarwood. If the answer is something richer, and the occasion is an evening, that is Mastani at ₹389 — the only one of mine with a rose and a jasmine in it, and the sweetest of the four, which I say as a description and not an apology. One dab, one wrist, three ordinary days. And I do not make a rose on its own or a jasmine on its own, in any size.
Sonal Sahani · founder and perfumer, SOSA Home & Body
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
I trained as a perfumer at ISIPCA in Versailles, and roses taught me more than any other material. A rose is not one smell. It is a material you can push green, push sweet, push dry, push almost metallic, depending entirely on what you set around it — and the decisions that matter are made under it rather than in it.
Which is why I will not tell you that Ameeri and Mastani are both rose fragrances and leave it there. Ameeri's Taif rose has saffron and pink pepper over it to keep it dry; Mastani's Damask rose has vanilla and tonka under it to make it rich. Same family, opposite intentions. And neither is a rose soliflore — I do not make soliflores, of rose or of anything else, and I would rather say so than sell you a composition under a flower's name.
SOSA's attars are alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. They are made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. One honest note: attar is concentrated, and natural materials like rose and oud can occasionally react on skin that reacts easily, so a small patch test with anything new is worth the minute.
Frequently asked questions
Does SOSA sell a rose attar or a jasmine attar on its own?
No. There is no rose soliflore and no jasmine soliflore in the range, at any size. What exists is Taif rose in Ameeri's heart, Damask rose and night-blooming jasmine in Mastani's, and jasmine sambac in Adaa's. Each is a named note inside a published three-movement composition. If you want one flower carried alone for a whole wear, buy that from a house that composes soliflores rather than buying a composition here and hoping.
Which floral is the most restrained for daytime?
Adaa at ₹379 for 3ml if clean is your priority, because its jasmine sits over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood and it is the lightest and most transparent of the four. Ameeri at ₹385 if you want warmth with the restraint, because the Persian saffron and pink pepper hold the Taif rose off the sweet side. Both read as dry compositions, and dryness is what makes a floral easy to be around for eight hours.
Why is Mastani described as an evening fragrance?
Because of its base rather than its flowers. The night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose sit over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, and that finish makes Mastani the sweetest of the four. Sweetness is the characteristic that keeps reasserting itself across a long day in a room nobody can open a window in, which is a reason to choose it deliberately for an evening rather than a reason to avoid it. At ₹389 for 3ml it is also the only bottle here with both flowers in it.
Will a floral attar reach further than a woody one?
There is no honest comparison to give you, because SOSA publishes no projection figure and there is no agreed industry test that would produce one for anybody. What is structurally true is that all four of these are alcohol-free oils rather than sprays, so nothing is carrying them away from skin, and that the quantity you apply moves the reach far more reliably than the family of the composition does. Apply one dab and you have answered the question for nothing.
Should I buy two of the three floral attars?
Only if you want two different bases, which is a real reason. Ameeri and Adaa together are ₹764 for two 3ml bottles, and that gets you a dry warm rose and a clean transparent jasmine — the comparison most readers of this page actually want. Buying two bottles because you cannot choose between a rose and a jasmine is a worse reason, since Mastani at ₹389 already holds both, with the sweetness that comes with it.
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Alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier · DPG-free · hand-blended in Pune · 3ml, 6ml and 12ml · SOSA states 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 way of choosing applies to any brand. Skin note: attar is concentrated, so patch-test any new fragrance if your skin reacts easily - that is general guidance, not medical advice.Facts verified 19 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Mastani attar is litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, at ₹389 for 3ml, ₹685 for 6ml and ₹1,179 for 12ml. the SOSA Ameeri attar is Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk, at ₹385 for 3ml, ₹679 for 6ml and ₹1,165 for 12ml. SOSA’s own product page gives its mood as warm and festive, never theatrical. the SOSA Adaa attar is the lightest of the four and the only one with no oudh at all - Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - at ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. SOSA publishes no pure musk soliflore, no clean-linen or cotton accord, no aldehydic-soapy scent, no single-note vetiver soliflore, no lavender or herbal-spa scent, no incense-resin scent, no tuberose and no coffee attar. White musk exists only as a base note inside Adaa, Ameeri and Nawaab, and vetiver and cedarwood only inside Adaa’s base. every SOSA attar is sold in exactly three sizes - 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - all alcohol-free oil on an Indian sandalwood and jojoba carrier, DPG-free, hand-blended in Pune, and SOSA states wear time as 6-8 hours on skin. oudh is present in three of the four attars and absent from one: Nawaab is oud-led, Ameeri names a soft oudh and Mastani names oudh in its base, and Adaa has none. Among the perfume oils, Zaffran has no oud either. On projection: SOSA publishes a wear time of 6-8 hours on skin and publishes nothing at all about projection - no distance, no rating and no test, because the industry has never agreed one. Where this guide describes how close a fragrance stays, that is Sonal Sahani’s own assessment as the perfumer who composed it, labelled as such, and it carries no figure. Longevity, projection and sillage are three different properties and this guide keeps them apart. On other people: SOSA makes no claim about what anybody else will notice, think, feel or conclude because of a fragrance, and no claim about compliments, attraction, impressions or professional outcomes. On sensitivity: low projection is not low irritation risk. No SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, as safe for sensitive individuals or as suitable for anybody who reacts to fragrance; alcohol-free and DPG-free are ingredient facts and not skin or safety claims, and natural materials are not inherently gentler. Where a workplace, clinic or hospital has its own rule about scented products, that rule decides it and the honest answer is to wear none. Patch-testing a new fragrance is general guidance, not medical advice. Where a fragrance family a reader asks about is not in the SOSA range, this guide says so rather than stretching a product to fit. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any perfume house or brand named anywhere for reference; its “inspired by” perfume oils are SOSA’s own independent compositions and are never dupes, clones or equivalents. Prices, variants and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.