★ SOSA Attars for Working Professionals
The best thing in the bag is the one that survives being in a bag
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★ The three that suit a working day
Titan15g, ₹500 — bitter coffee opening, sharp rather than sweetView ₹500
Beast15g, ₹549 — the other deeply stocked tin, a fuller registerView ₹549
Adaa3ml of oil attar, if you would rather carry a bottleView ₹379
✓ Nothing in this kit is used during clinical hours — it comes out afterwards✓ SOSA attars use a built-in dab applicator; they are not rollerballs✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Personal Fragrance Guides · Attar at Work
What is the best thing for a dentist to carry for after clinic? A 15g solid perfume tin. Titan at ₹500 or Beast at ₹549 — both long-lasting and alcohol-free, both applied by fingertip. A tin cannot spill among instruments and paperwork, needs no mirror and no sink, and survives being packed under everything else in a bag.
When does it actually come out? After the last appointment, on the way out — not between patients. During clinical hours the answer stays little or nothing, and your practice's own fragrance policy decides that rather than us.
See Titan ₹500Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 20 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA attars are concentrated oil attars supplied with a built-in dab applicator, not a rollerball, carried on sandalwood oil and jojoba with no DPG dilutent and no alcohol, IFRA-compliant, hand-blended in Pune in small batches, and available in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179 and Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199, with the three-attar set from ₹1,055. All four are stated to wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin; no other wear figure is claimed here. The SOSA solid body perfumes are long-lasting alcohol-free 15g tins applied by fingertip - Beast ₹549 and Titan ₹500 are the deeply stocked tins and are the ones led on here.
What this guide does not claim. No health, therapeutic, wellbeing, mood, stress, focus or confidence claim is made or implied anywhere, and no SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, non-toxic or safe for sensitive skin - "alcohol-free, DPG-free and IFRA-compliant" is the complete factual claim. Nothing here claims that wearing a fragrance changes how anyone is perceived, trusted, remembered or treated, or that it affects a meeting, a sale, an interview or a professional relationship: nobody can promise that, and this guide does not try to. Fragrance sensitivity is real and a professional cannot know in advance which of the people they will stand close to today is affected by it.
Workplace policy. Where a hospital, clinic, laboratory, employer or client site operates a fragrance-free or restricted-fragrance policy, that policy decides, and nothing in this guide overrides it or is offered as an opinion on what is acceptable in a clinical, procedure, sterile or treatment area. Those judgements belong to the practitioner and the institution. This guide is about what a working adult chooses to wear on their own skin outside those constraints. Prices, sizes and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
A bag that lives in a staff room all day is a hostile environment for a glass bottle. It gets put down hard, stood on its side, packed under a laptop and opened in a car park. So the honest way to answer this question is to start from the bag rather than from the fragrance, and to ask what actually survives a working day in one.
Quick answers — read this first
Is a SOSA attar a roll-on? No. No SOSA attar is a roll-on or a rollerball — each one is a concentrated oil with a built-in dab applicator, which places a measured touch exactly where you aim it. The full argument for why that gives more control, not less, is on the applicator page.What is the best thing for a dentist to carry for after clinic? A 15g solid perfume tin. Titan at ₹500 or Beast at ₹549 — both long-lasting and alcohol-free, both applied by fingertip. A tin cannot spill among instruments and paperwork, needs no mirror and no sink, and survives being packed under everything else in a bag.
When does it actually come out? After the last appointment, on the way out — not between patients. During clinical hours the answer stays little or nothing, and your practice's own fragrance policy decides that rather than us.
The short answer
First, the format correction: No SOSA attar is a roll-on. They are concentrated oils supplied with a built-in dab applicator — a measured touch rather than a wet stripe, and nothing from your skin is carried back into the bottle. The full argument is here.
The pick for a bag: Titan at ₹500 — a 15g solid perfume tin, long-lasting and alcohol-free, applied by fingertip. Beast at ₹549 is the other deeply stocked tin.
The timing: After the last appointment. A kit for after clinical hours is exactly that, and nothing here is offered as an opinion about clinical, procedure or treatment areas.
In this guide
Four practical points about the object and one about the hour. The last line is the one that actually matters.
The working-day shelf — tap to see the notes and sizes
The applicator question
Why a dab beats a rollerball
The two-day version
Packing for a dental conference
Ask us directly
Tell us what your bag has to survive
Straight answer
Which roll-on perfume can a dentist carry for use after clinical hours?
The word in the question needs correcting before anything else, and it takes one sentence: no SOSA attar is a roll-on. Each of the four is a concentrated oil supplied with a built-in dab applicator. That is not a technicality and it is not us being difficult about vocabulary — it is the reason the format suits you. A rollerball lays down a wet, uncontrolled stripe whose width is set by the ball rather than by you, and it drags skin oil back into the bottle every time it is used. A dab applicator puts a measured touch exactly where you aimed it and nowhere else. For anyone whose entire problem is "less, and more precisely", that is the better tool. The full version of that argument has its own page and this one will not re-run it.
Second, the hour. This is a kit for after clinical hours and that phrase should be read literally. During patient hours the answer remains little or nothing, and your practice's or employer's own fragrance policy decides that rather than a fragrance brand. A tin in a bag is not a licence to apply something between appointments. It is a way of making the decision at seven in the evening, in a car park, without having had to carry anything breakable around all day.
Now the actual answer: for a bag, a 15g solid perfume tin beats a glass bottle on every practical measure. It cannot spill, because there is nothing liquid in it. It cannot leak into a bag that has been packed on its side under a laptop. It needs no mirror, no sink and no flat surface — you take a little on a fingertip and place it. It survives being dropped, which glass does not. And there is nothing to atomise, so applying it in a shared space or a car puts nothing into the air around you. Titan at ₹500 and Beast at ₹549 are the two deeply stocked tins and the two this page leads with; both are long-lasting and alcohol-free. Titan opens on a bitter coffee note that reads sharp rather than sweet, which is a useful direction at the end of a long list.
If you would rather carry an oil attar, carry the 3ml. Adaa at ₹379 is small enough to live in an inside pocket, and the built-in dab applicator means you are not pouring anything or spraying anything in a corridor. It is also the attar this cluster recommends for consult rooms and non-clinical hours, so if you already own one for the working day, the bag version of the question may already be answered. The trade-off is honest: glass is glass, and a bag is a bag. If yours contains loupes, a laptop and a set of keys, the tin is the better object.
What not to put in the bag. Anything built to carry. Nawaab is described on its own product page as a presence scent rather than a daytime office attar, and that is accurate — it belongs to weddings and long evenings, not to a practice bag. Ameeri and Mastani sit at the same warm, festive end of the range and are excellent for a dinner after work, which is a different question from what lives in the bag every day. And nothing gets applied to the tunic. Clothing holds fragrance far longer than skin does, which means a garment is dosed for days rather than for an evening.
Second, the hour. This is a kit for after clinical hours and that phrase should be read literally. During patient hours the answer remains little or nothing, and your practice's or employer's own fragrance policy decides that rather than a fragrance brand. A tin in a bag is not a licence to apply something between appointments. It is a way of making the decision at seven in the evening, in a car park, without having had to carry anything breakable around all day.
Now the actual answer: for a bag, a 15g solid perfume tin beats a glass bottle on every practical measure. It cannot spill, because there is nothing liquid in it. It cannot leak into a bag that has been packed on its side under a laptop. It needs no mirror, no sink and no flat surface — you take a little on a fingertip and place it. It survives being dropped, which glass does not. And there is nothing to atomise, so applying it in a shared space or a car puts nothing into the air around you. Titan at ₹500 and Beast at ₹549 are the two deeply stocked tins and the two this page leads with; both are long-lasting and alcohol-free. Titan opens on a bitter coffee note that reads sharp rather than sweet, which is a useful direction at the end of a long list.
If you would rather carry an oil attar, carry the 3ml. Adaa at ₹379 is small enough to live in an inside pocket, and the built-in dab applicator means you are not pouring anything or spraying anything in a corridor. It is also the attar this cluster recommends for consult rooms and non-clinical hours, so if you already own one for the working day, the bag version of the question may already be answered. The trade-off is honest: glass is glass, and a bag is a bag. If yours contains loupes, a laptop and a set of keys, the tin is the better object.
What not to put in the bag. Anything built to carry. Nawaab is described on its own product page as a presence scent rather than a daytime office attar, and that is accurate — it belongs to weddings and long evenings, not to a practice bag. Ameeri and Mastani sit at the same warm, festive end of the range and are excellent for a dinner after work, which is a different question from what lives in the bag every day. And nothing gets applied to the tunic. Clothing holds fragrance far longer than skin does, which means a garment is dosed for days rather than for an evening.
A 15g solid perfume tin is the right object for a working bag: it cannot spill, needs no mirror and is applied by fingertip. Titan ₹500 and Beast ₹549 are the two deeply stocked tins. No SOSA attar is a roll-on — they use a built-in dab applicator — and a 3ml Adaa at ₹379 is the bottle version. It comes out after the last appointment, not during the list.
Titan is a 15g solid body perfume in a tin — long-lasting, alcohol-free and applied by fingertip, with a bitter coffee opening that reads sharp rather than sweet. ₹500, and it cannot spill in a bag.
See Titan ₹500Ask for a scenting plan
What actually lives in the bag
Two tins and one small bottle
What to actually carry
Two objects cover this completely, and the choice between them is about the bag rather than the fragrance. Both images link to the live product pages.
The default for a working bag
SOSA Titan solid perfume
A 15g solid body perfume in a tin, long-lasting and alcohol-free, applied by fingertip. ₹500. Nothing liquid, so nothing to spill among instruments, paperwork or a laptop; no mirror or sink needed; nothing atomised at the moment of application. Opens on a bitter coffee note over a sharp, powerful start — a useful direction at the end of a long list rather than a sweet one.
From ₹500
If you would rather carry a bottle
SOSA Adaa
A 3ml concentrated oil attar with a built-in dab applicator — not a rollerball — on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, alcohol-free and DPG-free. Bergamot, green cardamom, neroli, jasmine sambac, white musk. Wears 6–8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. ₹379 for 3ml. Small enough for an inside pocket, and the same bottle this cluster recommends for consult rooms.
From ₹379
The three things a bag actually tests
Survivability, application and timing. Fragrance is the fourth consideration, and by then the choice has largely been made for you.
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Survivability
A bag is a hostile place for glass
A working bag gets put down hard, carried on its side, packed under heavier things and opened in car parks. A 15g tin has nothing liquid in it, so there is nothing to leak; the lid is metal, so there is nothing to crack; and if it is dropped, it survives. A glass bottle in the same bag is a small ongoing risk that you will eventually lose. A 3ml is the least risky bottle format simply because it is the smallest and easiest to keep in an inside pocket rather than loose.
Tip: If the tin ever gets warm in a car, it firms up again as it cools. Nothing is lost.
Titan at ₹500 is the tin this page leads with — deeply stocked and sharp rather than sweet.
See Titan →
2
Application without a bathroom
Fingertip, no mirror, nothing in the air
The practical test for anything carried is whether it can be applied in a corridor, a car or a lift lobby without ceremony. A solid perfume passes easily: a little on a fingertip, placed at the inner wrist, done. Nothing is atomised, so nothing drifts into a shared space. An oil attar with a dab applicator is nearly as easy — the applicator is built into the cap, so there is no pouring and no decanting, and the amount is visible before it lands.
Tip: Inner wrist or the inside of the elbow, even in a hurry. Never the throat.
3
Timing
After the last appointment, not between them
A kit for after clinical hours is exactly that. During patient hours the answer is little or nothing and the practice's own policy decides; carrying something does not change that and is not intended to. What it changes is where the decision gets made: on the way out, in your own time, rather than in a rushed moment at home eleven hours earlier when you did not yet know what the evening held.
Tip: If the evening is a dinner rather than a drive home, that is the moment the tin earns its place.
Beast at ₹549 is the fuller of the two tins — the better one if the evening is the point.
See Beast →
The SOSA principle
The best fragrance in a bag is the one that is still in the bag, intact, at seven in the evening. Everything else about it is secondary to that.
Which is why the format question comes before the scent question for anybody who carries their working life around with them.
The bag, item by item
What goes in, what it has to survive, and the hour at which each thing is actually used. Note that nothing in this table is used during the list.
The SOSA plan
Everything here is an after-the-list object
| What Goes in the Bag | How It Survives a Coat Pocket | When It Comes Out |
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A 15g solid perfume tin
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Nothing liquid, a metal lid, and it survives being dropped or sat on | After the last appointment — a fingertip at the inner wrist, no mirror required |
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The second tin, if the evening is the point
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Identical format, a fuller register | Dinners, events and evenings out, rather than the drive home |
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A 3ml oil attar, for people who prefer a bottle
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Glass, so an inside pocket rather than loose in the bag | The same hour, or before leaving home for a consult-room day |
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A spray bottle of anything
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Breakable, and atomises into a shared space when used | Better left at home. This is the format this whole cluster exists to argue against |
 Anything built to carry
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Survives fine; that was never the problem | Weddings and long evenings only — SOSA's own page calls it a presence scent |
The applicator argument in full — what a dab does that a rollerball does not — is here, and this page deliberately does not repeat it. If the bag is being packed for something larger than a working day, the dental conference page handles a two-day event with a lanyard and a hall. The dose instruction for the working half of the week is here, the measurable standard behind it is the arm's-length test, and the rule above all of it is on the doctors' page.
Start from the bag, not from the bottle
Tell us what your bag already contains and how it gets treated, and we will tell you which format survives it.
A glass bottle in a working bag is a small ongoing bet that you will eventually lose. A tin is not a bet at all.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Two tins, both deeply stocked
The same format, two different evenings
The SOSA range, read as things you carry
Four oil attars in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml, and the solid tins in 15g. Only the small sizes and the tins are genuinely portable, and only two tins are deeply stocked. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA range as bag objects
Ranked by what actually survives being carried
| Product | Its Job in the After-Clinic Bag | The Practical Reason | Price |
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Titan
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The default — lives in the bag permanently | 15g tin, nothing to spill, fingertip dose, no mirror or sink needed | ₹500 View → |
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Beast
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The alternative tin, for evenings out | Same format, a fuller register — the other deeply stocked tin | ₹549 View → |
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Adaa
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The bottle version, in an inside pocket | 3ml with a built-in dab applicator; also the consult-room attar | ₹379 · ₹1,149 View → |
 Storm
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Named here for completeness only | The same 15g format, but stock is thin — not this page's recommendation | ₹529 View → |
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Nawaab
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Weddings and long evenings, never the working bag | SOSA's own page describes it as a presence scent, not a daytime office attar | ₹399 · ₹1,199 View → |
No SOSA attar is a roll-on or a rollerball — all four are concentrated oils with a built-in dab applicator, and that argument is made in full on its own page. Nothing here is used during clinical hours, where the answer stays little or nothing and your practice's own policy decides; nothing on this page is an opinion about what belongs in a clinical, procedure, sterile or treatment area. No health, mood, wellbeing or skin-safety claim is made anywhere, no SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, and nobody can promise that a fragrance changes how you are perceived or treated. Ask us what to carry.
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A note from Sonal
People write to me about roll-ons constantly and I have stopped finding it annoying, because the question underneath is a good one: they want something small, controllable and hard to over-apply. That instinct is exactly right. It is just that a rollerball is not the object that delivers it — a dab applicator is, and that is what is in every SOSA attar.
For a bag, though, I would usually point a dentist at a tin rather than a bottle. Fifteen grams of solid perfume cannot leak into your notes, does not need a sink, and is applied with a fingertip in a car park in about four seconds. Titan is ₹500 and Beast is ₹549, and those two are the ones we keep deeply stocked.
And I would say the obvious thing, which is that none of it is for the working list. Carry it, use it on the way out, and let the hours in the surgery be decided by your practice rather than by anything I make. Adaa at ₹379 covers the consult-room half if you want the bottle as well. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Which roll-on perfume can a dentist carry for use after clinical hours?
No SOSA attar is a roll-on — they are concentrated oils with a built-in dab applicator, which places a measured touch rather than a wet stripe. For a bag the better object is usually a 15g solid perfume tin: Titan at ₹500 or Beast at ₹549, both alcohol-free and applied by fingertip. If you prefer a bottle, a 3ml Adaa at ₹379 is the one to carry.
Why does a tin beat a bottle in a working bag?
Because nothing in it is liquid. It cannot leak into paperwork, it cannot break if the bag is dropped, and it needs no mirror, sink or flat surface to use. There is also nothing to atomise, so applying it in a shared space or a car puts nothing into the air around you. A 3ml bottle is the next best thing, kept in an inside pocket rather than loose.
Can I use it between patients rather than after the list?
This page is written for after clinical hours and means it literally. During patient hours the honest answer is little or nothing, and your practice's or employer's own fragrance policy decides that rather than us. Carrying something is about where the decision gets made — on the way out, in your own time — rather than about creating a new opportunity to apply it.
How long does a 15g tin last in normal use?
Fifteen grams used by fingertip a few times a week is a long-running object rather than a monthly purchase, which is part of why it suits a bag: it can simply live there. The published wear figure that this cluster quotes — 6–8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin — refers to the SOSA oil attars; the solid perfumes are described on their own pages as long-lasting and alcohol-free.
Should the tin or the bottle go on my scrubs or tunic?
Neither. Fabric holds fragrance far longer than skin does and releases it as you move, so a garment that has been dosed is carrying every application made in it since it was last washed. Skin only — the inner wrist or the inside of the elbow — and let the clothing stay out of the decision entirely.
Start from what survives the bag
SOSA — The After-Clinic Kit a tin, a fingertip, no mirror
Titan ₹500 and Beast ₹549 are the two deeply stocked 15g tins; Adaa is ₹379 for 3ml if you would rather carry the oil. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a scenting plan →SOSA Titan · ₹500
One more look at the full attar range
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More from SOSA
- Titan - the bag default, ₹500 (₹500)
- Beast - the fuller tin, ₹549 (₹549)
- Dab applicator, not a rollerball — what SOSA actually sends
- Should a dentist wear attar at work at all?
- Packing for a two-day dental conference
- Placement is the dial, not the dose
- Nothing, subtle attar or regular perfume
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the wear advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 20 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA attars are concentrated oil attars supplied with a built-in dab applicator, not a rollerball, carried on sandalwood oil and jojoba with no DPG dilutent and no alcohol, IFRA-compliant, hand-blended in Pune in small batches, and available in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179 and Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199, with the three-attar set from ₹1,055. All four are stated to wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin; no other wear figure is claimed here. The SOSA solid body perfumes are long-lasting alcohol-free 15g tins applied by fingertip - Beast ₹549 and Titan ₹500 are the deeply stocked tins and are the ones led on here.
What this guide does not claim. No health, therapeutic, wellbeing, mood, stress, focus or confidence claim is made or implied anywhere, and no SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic, non-toxic or safe for sensitive skin - "alcohol-free, DPG-free and IFRA-compliant" is the complete factual claim. Nothing here claims that wearing a fragrance changes how anyone is perceived, trusted, remembered or treated, or that it affects a meeting, a sale, an interview or a professional relationship: nobody can promise that, and this guide does not try to. Fragrance sensitivity is real and a professional cannot know in advance which of the people they will stand close to today is affected by it.
Workplace policy. Where a hospital, clinic, laboratory, employer or client site operates a fragrance-free or restricted-fragrance policy, that policy decides, and nothing in this guide overrides it or is offered as an opinion on what is acceptable in a clinical, procedure, sterile or treatment area. Those judgements belong to the practitioner and the institution. This guide is about what a working adult chooses to wear on their own skin outside those constraints. Prices, sizes and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.