I want a white musk attar that doesn't smell like baby powder, laundry detergent or soap. Which fragrance characteristics should I look for?

The correction first, because it changes what you are shopping for. There is no white musk attar in the SOSA range. White musk is a note, and it is published in the base of three of the four attars, so the honest version of your question is which of those three bases to try. Your three words come next. Baby powder, laundry detergent and soap are words you use for what you dislike, and they are printed nowhere on any SOSA attar page, so I will not tell you that any bottle avoids them, and I will not tell you that one has them either. That would be a guess about your nose dressed up as a fact about a bottle. What I can give you is the characteristics a careful reader checks on any brand's page before buying a musk, and then those characteristics read off SOSA's three. The first is company: name every material printed in the same tier as the musk, because a musk is never worn alone in a composed attar and its neighbours change the result. The second is the heart above it, because in general perfumery a musk base is often blamed for the impression a white-floral heart and a musk leave together, so count the flowers. The third is the label printed over the musk's tier, if the page prints one, read verbatim. The fourth is the strength score, read as a ranking inside one range and never as a distance. Now the same four, read off the record. White musk is published in three bases, and in each one it keeps different company. Adaa's base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, labelled a clean composure drydown. Ameeri's base is soft oudh, amber and white musk, labelled the long settled warmth. Nawaab's base is amber, leather and white musk, labelled the drydown that stays through the night. Mastani publishes no musk in any tier. So the three white musks keep three kinds of company: two woods in Adaa, an oud and an amber in Ameeri, and an amber and a leather in Nawaab. Above them, Count the florals in each heart, because the count is published even though no intensity is. Ameeri's heart names one flower, Taif rose, beside one wood. Mastani's heart names two flowers, night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose. Adaa's heart names three, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, and no rose. Nawaab's heart names no flower at all. On labels, Adaa's is the only base where SOSA prints the word clean, and that is SOSA's word for its own tier rather than a verdict on your three words. Clean is a word SOSA does print, twice, and both times on Adaa: its opening is labelled a clean lifted opening and its base a clean composure drydown. Those are SOSA's tier labels, quoted, and a label is a name rather than a promise about how the tier reads on you. On strength, The strength figures are SOSA's own self-assigned scores out of ten, on a scale SOSA invented and nobody else uses: Adaa 8.5, Ameeri 9.0, Mastani 9.2 and Nawaab 9.5. Adaa publishes Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli in its opening, jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in its heart, and white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in its base. Adaa's published strength figure is 8.5, the lightest end of the range. It is ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml. Adaa carries 4.9 from 98 published customer reviews. Those are customer reviews Sonal collated over WhatsApp, which is why I quote the count beside the figure rather than the figure on its own. Ameeri publishes Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot in its opening, Taif rose and Indian sandalwood in its heart, and soft oudh, amber and white musk in its base. It is ₹385 for 3ml. Ameeri carries 4.9 from 104 published customer reviews. Nawaab publishes Kashmir saffron, black pepper and cardamom in its opening, white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood and aged tobacco leaf in its heart, and amber, leather and white musk in its base. It is ₹399 for 3ml. Nawaab carries 4.9 from 86 published customer reviews. Which of the three to try first depends on which company you want the musk in, and that is a decision you can make tonight from the page, before you smell anything. Sonal Sahani trained at ISIPCA, Versailles, she designs all four attars herself, and she signs off every small batch by hand in Pune. The smallest published size is 3ml, on all four, and SOSA sells no travel size, no sample, no tester and no decant, so 3ml is where a trial starts. All four publish the same wear time, 6 to 8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and nothing beyond that figure is published. SOSA publishes no projection figure and no sillage figure for any attar, so no page of mine will turn a strength figure into a distance. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.