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The short version — five things worth checking before a second bottle
For the Pune reader who has three seasons, was told to buy three bottles, and would rather know which of the three slots is real
- 1 Two bottles fill three Pune seasons. Adaa for the hot months, Nawaab for the cool evenings, and the monsoon handled by applying more of the Adaa rather than buying a third attar. The third slot on this page costs ₹0.
- 2 Adaa and Nawaab share one published material, white musk. That is the widest gap between any two attars in the range, which is why a two-bottle year here is genuinely two different years rather than one bought twice.
- 3 Size follows frequency. Pune's hot and wet months together are most of the calendar, so Adaa is the 6ml at ₹669 and Nawaab stays a 3ml at ₹399 - not the other way round, however special the cold-weather bottle feels.
- 4 Damp, closed air is the monsoon's actual constraint, not rain. A deep oud-and-leather base in a shut room reads heavier than the same dab outdoors, so the monsoon wants the lighter composition at a larger application.
- 5 Published performance is six to eight hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and that is the only performance figure SOSA publishes for any attar. No figure of any kind exists for how far an attar reaches, so none appears on this page.
★ The two bottles that fill a Pune year, and the two I would leave until next year
SOSA Adaa Attar · 6ml ₹669Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the hot-season bottle, and the monsoon bottle at a larger applicationView Adaa →
SOSA Nawaab Attar · 3ml ₹399White royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - the cool-evening bottle, and the only slot in a Pune year that genuinely needs its own purchaseView Nawaab →
SOSA Mastani Attar · 3ml ₹389Litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka - the optional third, for festive evenings, and the one I would buy a year later rather than nowView Mastani →
✓ Every note and price here is quoted off the live SOSA product pages ✓ Where a slot in this wardrobe does not need a bottle, this page says so and prices it at nothing ✓ The only performance figure here is the published six to eight hours on skin
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What does the Pune monsoon actually change about wearing fragrance? Less than the rain suggests, and more than you would like about where you are: wet clothes, shut windows, crowded indoor rooms and damp air. A deep base in a closed room is a bigger presence than the same dab outdoors, so the monsoon wants the lighter composition rather than the heavier one - and more of it, because a light bottle in cool damp air fades sooner than it does in May.
Which bottle should be the bigger size in a Pune wardrobe? Adaa, at the 6ml for ₹669. Count the months: the hot season and the monsoon between them are most of the Pune calendar, and the cool window is about ten weeks. The bottle you will empty is the light one, so the light one gets the larger size and Nawaab stays a 3ml at ₹399.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669 Describe a feeling to SOSA
On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.
On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.
What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, and no medical, dermatological or allergy claim; anyone with sensitive skin or a fragrance allergy should patch-test and use their own judgement or consult a doctor.
Facts verified 19 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. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the only one of the four with no oudh. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): 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): 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): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Separately, SOSA makes six perfume oils in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Zaffran, Tabac Noir and Samundar at ₹599, ₹1,799 and ₹3,499, and Khayaal, Chashni and Bahaar at ₹599, ₹1,899 and ₹3,599 - each an independent SOSA composition inspired by a widely known fragrance and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the house named. SOSA does not run a sampler or tester programme; the 3ml attar is the trial size. 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.
Pune genuinely does have three seasons, and that is exactly why I want to slow this question down. A dry, bright, hot stretch from March; a wet, grey, closed-in monsoon; and a short cool window from late November that is the nicest smelling time of the year here and the one everybody shops for. Three real seasons. But three seasons are not automatically three fragrance problems, and when I go through them one at a time with the published pyramids in front of me, one of the three turns out to be the same problem as another at a different setting. So this page fills three slots with two bottles, and tells you plainly what the third slot would have cost you.
Quick answers — read this first
Can three attars cover Pune's hot, wet and cool seasons? They can, but two will do it. Adaa covers the hot months and the monsoon - the same bottle at a larger application once the air turns damp - and Nawaab covers the cool evenings from late November. At the 6ml and the 3ml that is ₹669 and ₹399, and the third bottle is optional rather than structural.What does the Pune monsoon actually change about wearing fragrance? Less than the rain suggests, and more than you would like about where you are: wet clothes, shut windows, crowded indoor rooms and damp air. A deep base in a closed room is a bigger presence than the same dab outdoors, so the monsoon wants the lighter composition rather than the heavier one - and more of it, because a light bottle in cool damp air fades sooner than it does in May.
Which bottle should be the bigger size in a Pune wardrobe? Adaa, at the 6ml for ₹669. Count the months: the hot season and the monsoon between them are most of the Pune calendar, and the cool window is about ten weeks. The bottle you will empty is the light one, so the light one gets the larger size and Nawaab stays a 3ml at ₹399.
In this guide
- The straight answer, and which of your three slots is real
- Three Pune seasons, three slots, two bottles
- The monsoon slot, and why it is not a purchase
- The two bottles, counted against each other and against the third
- Keeping two bottles through a Pune year
- What I would buy, in what order, and what I would leave for next year
- A note from Sonal
- Frequently asked questions
Straight answer
How do I build a three-attar wardrobe for Pune's hot summers, monsoon and cooler winter evenings?
Buy two: Adaa as the 6ml at ₹669 and Nawaab as the 3ml at ₹399. The monsoon slot is filled by applying more Adaa, not by a third bottle, and the third bottle is a festive-evening purchase you can make next year or never. Here is the reasoning, slot by slot. The hot season is the easiest slot and the biggest one. From March to the break of the rains, what you want is a composition with no sweetness and no resin in the base, because warm skin drives an oil off faster and anything sweet or heavy arrives in a rush. Adaa is the only one of my four attars with no oudh, no amber, no vanilla and no resin anywhere in it - bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. It is the lightest thing I make, and in a Pune April one dab of it is a complete wear. The cool window is the second real slot, and the only one that genuinely needs its own bottle. From late November the evenings here are dry and cool enough that a deep composition behaves completely differently: less material is driven off, the opening passes quickly, and you spend the evening in the base line. That is what Nawaab was built for - white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf, settling onto amber, leather and white musk. Adaa cannot do that job at any quantity, because what is missing is not volume but weight. So this is a second purchase rather than a second setting, and that is the test I apply to every slot: can the bottle I already own do this with my hand rather than my wallet? The monsoon is where the answer stops being a purchase. Go through what actually changes when the rains come. The air is damp and cooler than April but not cold. Windows shut, rooms fill, clothes stay slightly wet, and you spend far more of the day indoors in company. Now ask which composition suits that. Not the deep one: oud, leather and amber in a closed, damp, crowded room is the one genuinely uncomfortable combination in this whole page, and it is uncomfortable for the people sharing the room as much as for you. The light, dry, green one is right - the same bottle as the hot season. What changes is the quantity. Cool damp air holds a light composition closer and for less long than hot dry air does, so the dab that was plenty in April is thin in August, and two dabs is the setting. That is the whole of the monsoon slot: a bottle you already own, applied twice instead of once, at a cost of nothing. Which leaves the third bottle you came here to buy. I will not pretend there is no case for it. Pune's cool window is also its wedding and festival season, and if your December has four or five evenings in it where you want something richer and more floral than Nawaab's leather, then Mastani at ₹389 - night jasmine and Damask rose on sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka - is a genuine third direction and a sweet one. But it is an occasion bottle rather than a season bottle, and buying it in the same order as the other two is how a reader ends up with three attars and an opinion about only one of them. Buy the two, run a year, and let December tell you whether the third exists. And the sizes, because that is where readers actually lose money. The instinct is to put the larger bottle behind the cold-weather fragrance, because the cold weather is when fragrance feels most like an event. Count the months instead. Eight or nine of them in this city are hot or wet, and both of those belong to Adaa. Ten weeks belong to Nawaab. Buy the 6ml of the one you will wear eight months and the 3ml of the one you will wear ten weeks.
Three Pune seasons, three slots, two bottles
A Pune year, filled honestly
Each slot, the bottle that fills it, and what it costs
| The slot | The bottle | Why this one and not its neighbour |
|---|---|---|
| The hot season, March to the break of the rains | Adaa, the 6ml at ₹669, at one dab | No oudh, no amber, no vanilla, no resin - the only one of the four that can say that. Its neighbours are all warm orientals over sandalwood, which is the wrong architecture for warm skin |
| The monsoon, from the break of the rains to September | Adaa again, at two dabs. ₹0 | Because the constraint is damp closed rooms rather than heat, and the answer to that is the light composition in a larger quantity. A deep base in a shut room is the one combination I would actively avoid |
| The cool window, late November to February | Nawaab, the 3ml at ₹399, at one or two dabs | This is the only slot that needs its own bottle, because what it wants is weight rather than volume, and no quantity of a light attar produces weight. Adaa at four dabs is still Adaa |
| The festive evenings inside that window - optional, and later | Mastani, the 3ml at ₹389, or nothing | An occasion rather than a season. Buy it in a second order once you know whether Nawaab covers your December, rather than in the same basket where it will compete with a bottle you have not learned yet |
Three seasons, two purchases, one free setting and one deferred decision. If you read nothing else on this page, read the second row: that is the slot the three-bottle version of this question was going to sell you.
The monsoon slot, and why it is not a purchase
I want to make the monsoon argument properly rather than asserting it, because a reader who has spent an August here is entitled to think the season is a special case. It feels like one. Everything smells different, your clothes are never quite dry, and whatever you put on in the morning seems to be gone by the time you have got off the bus.
But separate what has changed from what you can do about it. What has changed is cooler air than April, damp air rather than dry, and far more of your day spent in closed rooms with other people. Of those three, the first two argue for applying more and the third argues for choosing something quieter. Both of those point at the same bottle: the light dry composition, applied generously. A deep oud and leather base would answer the first two and fail the third badly, and the third is the one that matters most in a shared office in August.
The second thing worth saying is about where you apply it. In the rains, an oil on a wrist spends the day under a sleeve that may well be damp, and a wrist is what you wash most. I am not going to make a claim in either direction about whether an oil will mark a damp sleeve or a collar, because I have not tested that and nobody should take a guess from me on it. What I will say is practical: apply it after you arrive and have dried off, not before you leave. A monsoon application that goes on at half past eight at home is mostly gone by the time anyone encounters it, and an identical dab applied at the desk at half past nine runs for the published six to eight hours from there.
The monsoon does not need a different bottle. It needs the same bottle, twice, later in the morning.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The two bottles, counted against each other and against the third
The Pune pair, and the third bottle measured against both
Shared materials off the published pyramids, for the two purchases and the deferred one
| The pair | Overlap | Verdict | Shared published materials | What that means for you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adaa + Nawaab | 0.07 | The widest contrast in the range | white musk only | Your two-bottle year. One material in common, which is why these two genuinely divide a calendar rather than splitting it in name only. |
| Adaa + Mastani | 0.12 | Genuine contrast | bergamot and jasmine | If the third bottle happens, this is its relationship to your hot-season one: distinct, with the honest caveat that both carry jasmine - green in Adaa, nocturnal in Mastani. |
| Mastani + Nawaab | 0.14 | Genuine contrast | oudh and sandalwood | And this is its relationship to your cool-season one. Sweet and floral against dry and leathery, which is why Mastani is the right third rather than Ameeri. |
Note what is absent from this table: Ameeri. It is a fine attar and it is the wrong third bottle for this particular wardrobe, because its heaviest overlap in the range is with Nawaab - which you are about to own.
That last point is worth a sentence of its own, since it is the trap in a three-bottle plan. The obvious third attar for a reader who has bought a light one and a deep one is the warm floral one in the middle, and in this range that middle bottle sits closest to the deep one you have already got. Mastani is the third that adds something; the sweetness is a direction you do not yet own. If you want the full arithmetic on all six pairs, the overlap table has it.
Keeping two bottles through a Pune year
A two-bottle plan has a practical half that a three-bottle plan hides: one of your bottles is going to sit unused for eight months of the year while the other travels in a bag through a wet August. Both of those situations are worth a sentence, because a 3ml that has sat in a hot car all April is a worse outcome than a third purchase.
The bottle in use is the easy one. Keep the cap closed properly and keep it out of a car - a car in a Pune April is the most hostile place in this city for a perfume oil, and a bottle left in a glovebox through a hot afternoon has been treated badly. A bag is fine, a desk drawer is better, a shelf away from a window is better still. The dab applicator is built into the cap, so there is no pump to clog and nothing to spill when it is shut.
The bottle out of use needs slightly more thought. The deep attar you bought for ten weeks of cool evenings will spend February to November doing nothing, and the two things that age an oil are light and heat. So it goes at the back of a cupboard rather than on a dressing table, and I would take it out once in the middle of the year, wear a dab on a wrist and check that it reads the way it did. An oil attar is stable, which is one of the quiet advantages of the format over an alcohol spray, but a bottle you have not opened since January is one worth checking before the first wedding of the next season rather than on the way to it.
What I would buy, in what order, and what I would leave for next year
Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa 6ml and Nawaab 3ml, in that order, and the monsoon for free
I live in this city and I run my own year on two bottles and a dial. It would be strange to sell you a third one and keep two.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
| What to buy now | The Adaa 6ml at ₹669 and the Nawaab 3ml at ₹399 |
| What fills the monsoon slot | Two dabs of the Adaa, applied after you arrive rather than before you leave. ₹0 |
| Why Adaa is the larger size | Eight or nine months of a Pune year are hot or wet. Ten weeks are cool. Size follows frequency, not importance |
| The third bottle | The Mastani 3ml at ₹389, in a second order, next festive season, if December shows you a gap |
| The third bottle I would not buy | Ameeri, in this plan specifically. Its heaviest overlap in the range is with the Nawaab you are buying |
| If you can only buy one | Adaa, in the 6ml. It covers two of your three seasons, and the cool window is the shortest of the three |
The order is the part that saves you money. Buy the two, and for the first fortnight wear only the Adaa so that you learn what one dab and two dabs actually do on your own skin. Bring Nawaab in on a cool evening in December at a single dab. By February you will know whether your year has a gap in it, and if it does, you will be able to describe the gap to me in a sentence - which is a far better basis for a third purchase than a chart with three empty rows on it.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669
If your fragrance wearing is not spread across the year at all - if it happens in the December-to-February wedding months and hardly at all between March and November - then a three-season wardrobe is the wrong shape for your year. Buy one bottle rather than three, and buy the deep one: Nawaab in the 6ml at ₹699 rather than three 3mls, because the months you are dressing for are all at one end of the calendar. Size follows frequency, and in that version of a year the frequency sits in a single season. The summer slot you are not using does not need filling.
— the condition that changes this answer
You came for three bottles for three Pune seasons. Two routes, and one of them keeps the third bottle's money in your pocket.
Start with the eight-month bottle, or hand me the year and let me fill it.
See SOSA Adaa · 6ml ₹669
The hot season and the monsoon in one bottle, at one dab and two. The only one of the four attars with no oudh, amber, vanilla or resin in it, which is what makes it wearable in a closed room in August.
Ask Sonal to fill your three slots
Tell me how your Pune year actually goes - the commute, the office, how many festive evenings in December - and I will tell you which slots need bottles and which need a heavier hand.
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A note from Sonal
I blend in Pune, so this is not a page I have written from a weather table. The monsoon here is the season that taught me the dose argument in the first place. I spent one August convinced I needed a different composition, tried four, and eventually noticed that what I actually wanted was the one I already had, twice as much of it, and put on at the desk rather than at home.
The other thing a wet August teaches is that the room matters more than the weather. A closed office with the windows shut and fifteen people in it is not the place for oud and leather, whatever the thermometer says, and that single observation does more to organise an Indian fragrance year than any three-season chart I have seen.
So the plan on this page is the plan I use. The light bottle in the bigger size because it does two seasons, the deep bottle in the small size because it does ten weeks, and the third bottle deferred until a December actually produces the gap it is supposed to fill. If it never does, that is not a failure of the wardrobe. It is two bottles doing their job.
Frequently asked questions
Do Pune's three seasons need three attars?
No. Two cover it: a light one for the hot months and the monsoon, and a deep one for the cool window from late November. The monsoon is not a separate composition problem - it is damp, cooler, closed-in air, which wants the light bottle at a larger application rather than a heavier bottle at the same one. The third attar is a festive-evening purchase, not a seasonal one.
Which attar for a Pune August?
Adaa, at two dabs rather than one, applied once you have arrived somewhere and dried off. It is bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no oudh, amber or vanilla in it - which is what you want in a shut room with the rain outside. 379 rupees at the 3ml, 669 at the 6ml.
Why not a deep attar in the monsoon, since it is cooler than summer?
Because the monsoon's real constraint is not temperature, it is closed rooms full of people and damp clothes. Oud, leather and amber in that setting is the one combination on this page I would actively avoid. Save the deep bottle for the dry cool evenings in December, when the air is doing you a favour rather than working against you.
Which Pune bottle should be the 6ml?
The light one. Eight or nine months of the year here are hot or wet, and both of those seasons belong to Adaa, so that is the bottle you will empty: 669 rupees for the 6ml. The cool-weather bottle covers about ten weeks and stays a 3ml at 399 rupees. Putting the larger size behind the special bottle feels right and leaves you with most of an attar you wear a dozen times.
If I do add a third attar later, which one?
Mastani, at 389 rupees for the 3ml - litchi and bergamot over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. The sweetness is the direction a light bottle and a dry deep bottle do not cover. I would not make Ameeri the third in this particular plan, because its heaviest overlap in the range is with the Nawaab you would already own.
What if I ride a two-wheeler to work through the rains?
Then your monsoon is a real slot rather than a setting, because nothing applied at home survives the ride. Keep something at your desk and apply it when you get in. In that specific case I would use a perfume oil rather than a third attar - Khayaal at 599 rupees for 10ml is sparkling and bright and does not mind being put on at nine in the morning.
Where should I keep an attar through a Pune summer and monsoon?
Out of a car and away from a window. Heat and light are the two things that age a perfume oil, so a desk drawer or a cupboard shelf is ideal and a glovebox in April is the worst place in the city for one. The cap seals and the applicator is built in, so there is no pump to clog and nothing to spill when it is closed. A bottle kept for the cool season should sit at the back of a cupboard and be worn once mid-year so you know it is as you left it.
Three slots, two bottles, one free setting
Adaa for the heat and the rains, Nawaab for the cool window, and the monsoon answered with your hand.
Building a Pune year rather than buying a bottle?
SOSA — Tell me how the year actually goes - the commute, the office, the December. I will fill the slots that need bottles and tell you which ones need a heavier hand instead. Two of the three usually do not need a purchase.
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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 already owns a fragrance and wants the next one to be genuinely different, and the method - read the published base lines, count the shared materials, then decide - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.On the overlap figures in this guide. Where this guide says two SOSA attars overlap, the figure is derived from their own published note pyramids by counting shared materials against total materials, grouping them the way a nose groups them: Taif rose and Damask rose are both rose, Persian and Kashmir saffron are both saffron, jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine are both jasmine though they read differently. It is a measure of shared ingredients, not a measure of how similar two finished compositions smell to you - two scents can share five materials and still be told apart on a wrist. The figures are here because they are checkable against the product pages, and because the alternative is a seller's opinion about its own range. Across the four attars: Ameeri and Nawaab share the most (saffron, sandalwood, oudh, amber, white musk); Ameeri and Mastani are close behind (bergamot, pink pepper, rose, sandalwood, oudh); Adaa and Nawaab share the least, white musk alone.
On the Attar Trio. SOSA's three-attar pack is Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani, and SOSA's own product page describes it as the evening attar trio - the trio for the evenings that matter. This guide recommends it on that basis and no other. It is not described here as a balanced wardrobe, because it is drawn from the two most overlapping pairs in the range and it does not include Adaa, which is the attar that contrasts most with the others.
What this guide does and does not claim. SOSA publishes one performance figure for its attars: they wear 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA publishes no projection, sillage or scent-radius data, and none appears here. Nothing about layering is published by SOSA and no combination has been formally evaluated, so anything this guide says about wearing two scents together is Sonal's own craft assessment, marked as such wherever it appears, and never a promise about what a combination will smell like on you. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, no claim about what another person will notice or think, and no medical, dermatological or allergy claim; anyone with sensitive skin or a fragrance allergy should patch-test and use their own judgement or consult a doctor.
Facts verified 19 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. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149): Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - the only one of the four with no oudh. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165): 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): 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): white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk - oud-led, and the deepest in the range. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Separately, SOSA makes six perfume oils in 10ml, 50ml and 100ml - Zaffran, Tabac Noir and Samundar at ₹599, ₹1,799 and ₹3,499, and Khayaal, Chashni and Bahaar at ₹599, ₹1,899 and ₹3,599 - each an independent SOSA composition inspired by a widely known fragrance and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the house named. SOSA does not run a sampler or tester programme; the 3ml attar is the trial size. 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.