What is a safety data sheet? A hazard-communication document aimed at people who handle, store and transport a material in bulk. It is genuinely useful for that purpose and is not a consumer safety assessment of a finished cosmetic product.
What is a finished-product safety assessment? An assessment of the cosmetic product as placed on the market, at its actual concentration and for its intended use. It is the document that corresponds to the bottle you apply to your skin.
Three documents, three different jobs
The reason this confusion is so widespread is that all three documents look official, carry technical language, and arrive from credible-sounding sources, so a seller with any of them feels equipped. The safety data sheet is the one most often misused, and the misuse is usually innocent. A safety data sheet exists because people who move chemicals around in bulk need to know how to do it without hurting themselves: how a material behaves in a fire, what to do about a spill, what protective equipment to wear, how to transport it legally. Those questions are serious and the document answers them well. None of them is the question a customer asks when they want to know whether an attar is suitable to put on their wrist. A seller who sends you a safety data sheet in response to a skin question has reached for the most technical document they own, which is a reasonable instinct and the wrong answer. The IFRA conformity statement is misused differently: it is treated as unconditional when its whole content is a condition. And the finished-product safety assessment is the one most often absent, because it is the only one of the three the brand has to arrange itself. That asymmetry is informative. Two of these documents arrive in the post with your raw materials. One of them requires you to take responsibility for your own product. Asking which ones a seller holds therefore tells you something about the brand and not just about the paperwork.
Which one to ask for, and when
Practically: ask for the conformity statement with its category and level, ask for the finished-product safety assessment, and ask for the declarable-allergen list. Do not bother asking for a safety data sheet unless you are buying in bulk, in which case it becomes the relevant document and the other two become secondary. For SOSA attars we hold all the consumer-relevant ones and will send them per product and size. What we will not send is the formula or the percentages, because that is the recipe and no fragrance house publishes it. Buy the 3ml first.
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| IFRA conformity statement | Proves a concentrate conforms up to a stated level in a stated use category. Ask which category and which level. Held for our concentrates |
| Safety data sheet | Covers handling, storage, spill response and transport. Useful if you are moving material in bulk, not an answer to a skin-suitability question |
| Finished-product safety assessment | Covers the product as sold and applied, at its real concentration. The document that matters most to you. Held for our attars |
| Declarable-allergen list | Lists which recognised fragrance allergens are present. The one to take to a dermatologist. Available per product and size |
If you want the conditional nature of the conformity statement spelled out, whether an IFRA certificate for a concentrate covers the finished attar at its actual usage concentration is the page. For the full list of what you can request from us and what we withhold, go to what product-specific safety information SOSA makes available. And if a brand has given you only a slogan, what clarification to request when a brand only says IFRA-approved has the wording. Ask us for any document per product on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA attar range
Every SOSA attar is formulated with an oil carrier and no added ethanol, with no intentionally added DEP, and is made in small batches in India. Each comes in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml so that a first purchase can be small. Here is the range, and what we think you should interrogate on each one.
| Product | Where it sits | What it is, and what to ask us about it | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaa attar 3ml | Daytime · the lightest way in | Bergamot, green cardamom, jasmine sambac and white musk. The cheapest honest test of whether oil-based fragrance suits your skin at all | ₹379 |
| Ameeri attar 3ml | Festive · rose and sandalwood | Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, saffron and soft oudh. The one to ask the sourcing questions about, because the name makes claims worth checking | ₹385 |
| Mastani attar 3ml | Evening · jasmine and rose | Night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose and oudh. Floral-heavy, so the page to read first if florals have troubled your skin before | ₹389 |
| Nawaab attar 3ml | Statement · oud and saffron | White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and Kashmir saffron. Our most-questioned name, and the one we most expect you to ask us to substantiate | ₹399 |
| Attar trio 3ml | Three at once · cheaper than three | Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani together. Bought singly the three 3ml bottles come to ₹1,173, so the trio saves ₹118 | ₹1,055 |
| Beast solid perfume 15g | No bottle · no spill | An alcohol-free solid body perfume. A different format for the same requirement, useful if a rollerball applicator is the part that worries you | ₹549 |
Each attar comes in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. Adaa is ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149; Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165; Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179; Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199. The three-attar trio is ₹1,055 / ₹1,859 / ₹3,189, against ₹1,173 / ₹2,063 / ₹3,543 for the same three bought singly, so the trio saves ₹118, ₹204 or ₹354 depending on size. If you have reacted to a fragrance before, buy the 3ml: the saving on a larger bottle is a poor trade against a 12ml bottle of something your skin dislikes. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Versailles
I could sell more attar by writing "chemical-free" on the bottle. I will not, and I want to explain why in a way that is useful to you rather than flattering to us. Every fragrance ever made is chemicals. Rose oil is several hundred chemicals that a plant assembled. The word is not a safety claim; it is a word chosen because it tests well.
The same goes for "hypoallergenic" and "safe for everyone". No ordinary fragrance product can substantiate either. A skin-applied perfume is a product that a small number of people will react to, and a brand that tells you otherwise is either not thinking carefully or hoping you will not.
What I can do is tell you what we know and show you the paper. Our attars are formulated with an oil carrier and no added ethanol. There is no intentionally added DEP. We hold supplier IFRA conformity statements for the concentrates, the declarable-allergen lists that come with them, and a safety assessment of the finished attar at the strength we actually sell it at. Ask me for any of that on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 and you will get it, per product, with the formula percentages withheld because those are the recipe and not the safety information.
And where I cannot answer, I will say so rather than improvise. If you have reacted to fragrance before, I am not the right person to tell you whether you will react to mine - a dermatologist with our allergen list in hand is. Buy the 3ml. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
SOSA product facts verified October 2026: SOSA sells four attars, each in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. Adaa (bergamot, green cardamom, jasmine sambac, white musk) is ₹379, ₹669 and ₹1,149. Ameeri (Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, saffron, soft oudh) is ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165. Mastani (night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, oudh) is ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179. Nawaab (white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron) is ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199. The Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani trio is ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189. Beast solid body perfume is 15g at ₹549.
SOSA formulation and documentation position: SOSA attars are formulated with an oil carrier and no added ethanol, and contain no intentionally added diethyl phthalate. SOSA holds supplier IFRA conformity statements for the fragrance concentrates used in its attars, the declarable-allergen lists supplied with those concentrates, and a safety assessment of the finished attar at its actual selling concentration. These are available per product on request via WhatsApp on +91 96192 18531; formula compositions and percentages are not disclosed. SOSA does not describe its attars as chemical-free, hypoallergenic, non-toxic or safe for everyone, and does not claim that its documentation prevents individual reactions. Whether a named material in a product title is present as a natural extract or as a formulated accord is a product-level question answered on request, as is whether a particular attar contains animal-derived materials. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live collection pages.
General fragrance-safety context: IFRA Standards restrict, prohibit or set limits on fragrance materials by product use category, and a conformity statement relates to a concentrate as assessed for a stated use, not to a finished product in the abstract. The EU list of fragrance substances that must be declared on cosmetic labels began at 26 substances and has since been substantially expanded. Agarwood-producing Aquilaria species and musk deer are listed under CITES, and Santalum album is a species of conservation concern, which is why sourcing questions on oud, musk and sandalwood are reasonable to ask of any seller. Nothing on this page is medical advice; if your skin reacts to a fragrance, stop using it and speak to a dermatologist.