How SOSA works
Two rungs, honestly: a spray you aim when you choose, or a cordless diffuser that decides for you
A note list is not a smell
Every description here is an intention written in words. It cannot tell you how an oil will sit on your own skin.
Alcohol-free by formulation
A jojoba carrier with no DPG and no ethanol. IFRA-compliant.
One dab, and do not rub it in
A pulse point and a dab applicator. Oil opens with warmth, so rubbing crushes the top of it.
Composed by a trained perfumer
Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained, composes the whole range.
A portion funds girl-child education
Part of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
We will tell you not to buy
There are four attars. Where your answer is not one of them, these guides say so and sell nothing.
A note list is not a smell
Every description here is an intention written in words. It cannot tell you how an oil will sit on your own skin.
Alcohol-free by formulation
A jojoba carrier with no DPG and no ethanol. IFRA-compliant.
One dab, and do not rub it in
A pulse point and a dab applicator. Oil opens with warmth, so rubbing crushes the top of it.
Composed by a trained perfumer
Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained, composes the whole range.
A portion funds girl-child education
Part of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
We will tell you not to buy
There are four attars. Where your answer is not one of them, these guides say so and sell nothing.
✓ Alcohol-free and IFRA-compliant · a jojoba carrier, no DPG and no ethanol ✓ 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin · the only wear figure SOSA publishes ✓ A note list is not a smell · buy the 3ml before you buy a size ✓ Other brands named are the property of their respective owners · SOSA is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or associated with any other fragrance company named on this page
Founder Diaries · Car Fragrance
What should I read instead of the note summary? Four things. The position of each material, because what is named first is usually the subject and what is named last is what you live with. The modifiers, because "soft oudh" is a statement of restraint and "white royal oud" is a statement of prominence. The supporting cast, because oud with rose and sandalwood is a different proposition from oud with leather and tobacco leaf. And the material count, because a three-material composition has fewer ways to surprise you than a nine-material one.
Can a brand tell me how its oud compares with another brand? No, and you should treat a confident answer as a warning. No house can state what another house's composition contains, how it performs or how it smells, because it has not built it and has not measured it. We publish our own four compositions, our own carrier and one wear figure - 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin - and we compare nothing on anybody else's behalf. What we can do is tell you honestly where our three oud depths sit relative to each other, which is a comparison we are actually entitled to make.
Ask first
What this guide does not claim.
SOSA attars, specified:
On wear.
On what is in the bottle.
On other companies.
On availability.
You have spotted the central weakness of the whole category, so let me be useful about it rather than reassuring. Oud, amber and musk is a summary, and a summary has no quantities, no order of magnitude and no statement of what each material is doing. Two attars can share all three words and be as unlike each other as a rose garden and a leather jacket. The good news is that the things which do separate them are also written on the page, if you know which words to read. The best illustration I have is our own range, where three of four compositions contain oud and none of the three is an experience you could mistake for another.
Quick answers — read this first
Why do two oud attars with the same notes smell different? Because a note list carries no quantities, no order of magnitude, no interpretation and no statement of what each material is doing. Oud itself spans resinous, sweet-woody, smoky, leathery, animalic and polished readings, all honestly called oud. In our own range, Mastani puts oudh under two florals as a floor, Ameeri names soft oudh last as a warm shadow, and Nawaab names white royal oud first and builds downwards. Three compositions, one word, three completely different experiences - and a three-word summary would describe all three the same way.What should I read instead of the note summary? Four things. The position of each material, because what is named first is usually the subject and what is named last is what you live with. The modifiers, because "soft oudh" is a statement of restraint and "white royal oud" is a statement of prominence. The supporting cast, because oud with rose and sandalwood is a different proposition from oud with leather and tobacco leaf. And the material count, because a three-material composition has fewer ways to surprise you than a nine-material one.
Can a brand tell me how its oud compares with another brand? No, and you should treat a confident answer as a warning. No house can state what another house's composition contains, how it performs or how it smells, because it has not built it and has not measured it. We publish our own four compositions, our own carrier and one wear figure - 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin - and we compare nothing on anybody else's behalf. What we can do is tell you honestly where our three oud depths sit relative to each other, which is a comparison we are actually entitled to make.
The short answer
Short answer: You cannot separate them on three words, because a list has no weights and no order of magnitude. Read position, modifiers, the supporting cast and the material count instead. Of our own four, Mastani, Ameeri and Nawaab all contain oud at three different depths, and the trio puts all three on your skin for ₹1,055 at 3ml.
The pick: If you genuinely cannot choose, do not guess: the trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani is ₹1,055 at 3ml and it is, by accident of the range, the three oud depths side by side. If you would rather pick one, Nawaab at 3ml is ₹399 and is the only one of the four that an oud shopper would call an oud attar.
Honest note: an attar is bought unsmelled, so a list of notes is all you have. A note list describes an intention, not a smell, and nothing written here is a substitute for wearing it.
In this guide
There are four SOSA attars and they run from a bergamot-and-cardamom opening at the lightest end to white royal oud at the deepest. Adaa is the freshest, Mastani the most floral, Ameeri the warmest, Nawaab the deepest. All four are alcohol-free on a jojoba carrier with no DPG, come with a dab applicator, and wear 6-8 hours on skin - longer on warm or oily skin. Sizes are 3ml, 6ml and 12ml, from Rs 379. None of that tells you whether you will like the smell, which is why the smallest size exists.
Once you know the scent
12ml · from ₹1,149
While you are deciding
3ml · from ₹379
Not sure which of the four
Tell us what you wear now
Straight answer
How do I choose between two oud attars that list the same notes?
Not on the three words. Read position, modifiers and the supporting cast - then compare on skin.
Why a three-word summary cannot separate two bottles. Four things are missing from it and each one is decisive. There are no quantities: a material can be a trace or the subject. There is no order of magnitude: oud at the front of a composition and oud underneath two flowers are the same word doing opposite work. There is no interpretation: oud itself covers resinous, sweet-woody, smoky, leathery, animalic, almost camphorous and polished-clean readings, and all of them are honestly called oud. And there is no statement of what the material is for - a floor, a shadow or the whole point. Once you know those four things are absent, you stop expecting the summary to do work it cannot do, and you start reading the parts of the page that can.
The illustration, from a range of four. Three of our four compositions contain oud or oudh, and I cannot think of a better demonstration of your problem. Mastani is night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose and oudh. The oud is a floor: you meet two flowers first, and the oudh is the reason the flowers do not read as a bouquet - it puts a shadow under them. Somebody who dislikes oud can often wear Mastani without identifying why it is not simply floral. Ameeri is Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron and soft oudh. Here the oud is a shadow rather than a floor, named last and modified - and the word soft is the most informative word in that list, because it is a statement of restraint from the person who built it. Rose and sandalwood lead; saffron bridges them; the oudh warms the bottom and stays there. Nawaab is white royal oud, sandalwood, saffron, black pepper, cardamom, aged tobacco leaf, amber, leather and white musk. The oud is named first and the composition goes downwards from there: this is an oud attar in the sense an oud shopper means it. One word, three jobs, same house, same carrier, same wear figure. If all you had was a summary, you could not tell these three apart.
Five things that do separate two oud attars. Position. What is named first is usually what the composition is about, and what is named last is usually what you will live with. Modifiers. Soft oudh, white royal oud, smoky oud, aged oud - the adjective attached to a material tells you more than any adjective standing on its own, because it is a claim about this composition rather than about the genre. The supporting cast. Oud with jasmine and rose is a floral proposition; oud with leather and tobacco leaf is not, and the company a material keeps is the most reliable predictor of how it will read. Material count. A three-material composition behaves more predictably than a nine-material one, and on a blind buy that is a measure of risk rather than of quality. The stated intention. Where a house says what it was going for, that is a real piece of evidence - not proof, but the only thing on the page that addresses what the oud is doing.
Three comparisons to stop making. First, strength: neither page can tell you which will read louder, because that depends on your dose, your skin and the room. Second, longevity: there is no standardised wear test in this category, ours included. We publish 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and that is a statement about our own four rather than a result you can rank houses by. Third, quality: a note list is not a grade claim, and price is information rather than proof. And a fourth, which is a request as much as advice - do not write to one house asking how another house's oud smells. We cannot know, and any brand that answers that question confidently is guessing on your behalf.
What oud can actually be, so you know what you are risking. Oud is the widest-ranging material in common use, which is exactly why your question is hard. At one end it is polished and almost sweet, a smooth resinous wood that sits quietly under other things. At the other it is animalic and sharp, with a smoky edge that some wearers love immediately and others never make peace with. Between those are leathery, dry-woody and incense-like readings. A composition built to be approachable will usually surround it with rose, sandalwood, saffron or florals, and will tell you so. A composition built for somebody who already loves oud will put it first and let it lead. Both are legitimate; only one of them is a sensible blind buy for somebody who has not worn oud before.
And the honest resolution. If you have read both pages properly and still cannot choose, the answer is not to read a third page. It is to stop guessing and put the candidates on your own skin, which is the only instrument that settles this. Within our own range that happens to be unusually easy: the trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani is ₹1,055 at 3ml, and those three are the three oud depths - a shadow, a floor and a subject. Wear one a day for a week each and you will not need a buying guide again. If you would rather rank a shortlist than buy it, that method is set out separately. Note that Adaa is not in the trio and is not an oud composition at all: bergamot, green cardamom, jasmine sambac and white musk, 3ml ₹379.
Why a three-word summary cannot separate two bottles. Four things are missing from it and each one is decisive. There are no quantities: a material can be a trace or the subject. There is no order of magnitude: oud at the front of a composition and oud underneath two flowers are the same word doing opposite work. There is no interpretation: oud itself covers resinous, sweet-woody, smoky, leathery, animalic, almost camphorous and polished-clean readings, and all of them are honestly called oud. And there is no statement of what the material is for - a floor, a shadow or the whole point. Once you know those four things are absent, you stop expecting the summary to do work it cannot do, and you start reading the parts of the page that can.
The illustration, from a range of four. Three of our four compositions contain oud or oudh, and I cannot think of a better demonstration of your problem. Mastani is night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose and oudh. The oud is a floor: you meet two flowers first, and the oudh is the reason the flowers do not read as a bouquet - it puts a shadow under them. Somebody who dislikes oud can often wear Mastani without identifying why it is not simply floral. Ameeri is Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron and soft oudh. Here the oud is a shadow rather than a floor, named last and modified - and the word soft is the most informative word in that list, because it is a statement of restraint from the person who built it. Rose and sandalwood lead; saffron bridges them; the oudh warms the bottom and stays there. Nawaab is white royal oud, sandalwood, saffron, black pepper, cardamom, aged tobacco leaf, amber, leather and white musk. The oud is named first and the composition goes downwards from there: this is an oud attar in the sense an oud shopper means it. One word, three jobs, same house, same carrier, same wear figure. If all you had was a summary, you could not tell these three apart.
Five things that do separate two oud attars. Position. What is named first is usually what the composition is about, and what is named last is usually what you will live with. Modifiers. Soft oudh, white royal oud, smoky oud, aged oud - the adjective attached to a material tells you more than any adjective standing on its own, because it is a claim about this composition rather than about the genre. The supporting cast. Oud with jasmine and rose is a floral proposition; oud with leather and tobacco leaf is not, and the company a material keeps is the most reliable predictor of how it will read. Material count. A three-material composition behaves more predictably than a nine-material one, and on a blind buy that is a measure of risk rather than of quality. The stated intention. Where a house says what it was going for, that is a real piece of evidence - not proof, but the only thing on the page that addresses what the oud is doing.
Three comparisons to stop making. First, strength: neither page can tell you which will read louder, because that depends on your dose, your skin and the room. Second, longevity: there is no standardised wear test in this category, ours included. We publish 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and that is a statement about our own four rather than a result you can rank houses by. Third, quality: a note list is not a grade claim, and price is information rather than proof. And a fourth, which is a request as much as advice - do not write to one house asking how another house's oud smells. We cannot know, and any brand that answers that question confidently is guessing on your behalf.
What oud can actually be, so you know what you are risking. Oud is the widest-ranging material in common use, which is exactly why your question is hard. At one end it is polished and almost sweet, a smooth resinous wood that sits quietly under other things. At the other it is animalic and sharp, with a smoky edge that some wearers love immediately and others never make peace with. Between those are leathery, dry-woody and incense-like readings. A composition built to be approachable will usually surround it with rose, sandalwood, saffron or florals, and will tell you so. A composition built for somebody who already loves oud will put it first and let it lead. Both are legitimate; only one of them is a sensible blind buy for somebody who has not worn oud before.
And the honest resolution. If you have read both pages properly and still cannot choose, the answer is not to read a third page. It is to stop guessing and put the candidates on your own skin, which is the only instrument that settles this. Within our own range that happens to be unusually easy: the trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani is ₹1,055 at 3ml, and those three are the three oud depths - a shadow, a floor and a subject. Wear one a day for a week each and you will not need a buying guide again. If you would rather rank a shortlist than buy it, that method is set out separately. Note that Adaa is not in the trio and is not an oud composition at all: bergamot, green cardamom, jasmine sambac and white musk, 3ml ₹379.
Three words cannot separate two bottles. Read what is named first, read the modifiers, read what the oud is keeping company with, and count the materials. Then stop comparing and put the candidates on your own skin: three 3mls in the trio is ₹1,055, which settles it in a week.
If you will not guess, do not guess. The trio - Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani - is ₹1,055 at 3ml, which is three of the four compositions for ₹118 less than buying those three 3mls separately. It is the right purchase for somebody who has read the note lists and still cannot choose, and the wrong one for somebody who already knows which family they want.
The trio from ₹1,055
What separates two oud attars when the summaries match
Three readable things do the separating, and none of them is the headline note. Apply them to any two product pages in the category and the two bottles stop looking identical.
1
Position
What is named first, and what is named last
Order carries meaning even where no pyramid is printed. A composition that names oud first is telling you oud is the subject; a composition that names it last, after three other materials, is telling you it is support. Then look at the end of the list, because that is what you will be wearing in hour five. White musk at the bottom is a quiet exit. Amber, leather and musk at the bottom is a commitment. This single habit separates most pairs of attars that look identical in a summary.
Tip: First material: the subject. Last material: the day.
2
The company it keeps
The supporting cast is the real differentiator
Materials are read in context, so what sits beside the oud decides how the oud reads. Jasmine and rose make it a shadow under flowers. Sandalwood and saffron make it warm and rounded. Tobacco leaf, leather and amber make it the point of the composition. This is why two pages listing oud, amber and musk can describe completely different bottles: the three words they share are less informative than the two words they do not. Read the whole list and ask what the oud has been given to work with.
Tip: Oud with flowers is a floral. Oud with leather is an oud.
3
Count and depth
Four materials and nine materials are different bets
On a blind buy, complexity is risk rather than virtue. Mastani is three named materials and Nawaab is nine, and the nine-material composition has more ways to go somewhere you did not expect - including upwards into something you love. That is a judgement about how much variance you want to carry rather than about which is better made. If you have never worn oud at all, start with the composition where oud is support, at 3ml, and work downwards from there if you like it.
Tip: Count the materials. That number is your variance.
The SOSA principle
The adjective attached to a material is worth more than any adjective standing alone. "Soft oudh" is a statement of restraint by the person who built the composition, and that is a real piece of evidence.
Read the modifiers, not the marketing.
Three oud depths, and the one composition with no oud at all
The range is accidentally a teaching set. Mastani puts oudh under night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, so the oud is a floor beneath two flowers. Ameeri names soft oudh last, under Taif rose, Indian sandalwood and Persian saffron, so the oud is a warm shadow. Nawaab names white royal oud first and surrounds it with sandalwood, saffron, pepper, cardamom, aged tobacco leaf, amber, leather and white musk, so the oud is the subject. Adaa contains no oud whatsoever.
The SOSA attar range
Three depths of oud, and the way to settle it in a week
| Option | When it is the right call |
|---|---|
| Mastani, 3ml ₹389 |
Oud as a floor · night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose on top Trade-off: If you wanted an oud attar proper, this will read as a floral |
| Ameeri, 3ml ₹385 |
Oud as a warm shadow · Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, saffron Trade-off: Soft oudh means restraint, so oud lovers may find it too polite |
| Nawaab, 3ml ₹399 |
Oud as the subject · nine materials, down to leather and amber Trade-off: The deepest in the range and the worst first oud if you have never worn one |
| The trio, ₹1,055 at 3ml |
All three depths at once · Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani Trade-off: Three answers when you may need one, and Adaa is not included |
The trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani is priced by size: at 3ml ₹1,055, at 6ml ₹1,859 and at 12ml ₹3,189. At the smallest size it costs less than a single 12ml of one composition, which is ₹1,149 to ₹1,199. For the specific problem on this page - two oud attars that read the same on paper - the 3ml trio is the most sensible purchase in the range, because it replaces an argument with a week of evidence. All three are alcohol-free and IFRA-compliant on a jojoba carrier with no DPG, hand-blended in small batches in Pune, 6-8 hours on skin.
Not sure which of the four is yours?
Tell us the three fragrances you wear most and the notes you cannot stand. If none of our four fits what you describe, we will say so rather than sell you a bottle you will not wear.
Oud under two flowers and oud at the front of a composition are the same word doing opposite work. A summary cannot tell you which you are buying, and that is the whole of your problem.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA attar range
Every SOSA attar is alcohol-free and IFRA-compliant on a jojoba carrier with no DPG, hand-blended in small batches in Pune. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. There are four, and the honest way to read them is by depth - how much the base note is doing.
The SOSA attar range
Four attars, lightest to deepest - 3ml from ₹379
| Attar | Built on | What it is, honestly | 3ml |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaa | Bergamot, green cardamom, jasmine sambac, white musk | The lightest of the four and the easiest first attar. Jasmine sambac is mogra, so this is also the mogra answer | ₹379 |
| Ameeri | Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh | The warm one. Rose and sandalwood doing most of the work, with the oudh kept soft | ₹385 |
| Mastani | Night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, oudh | The most floral. A different jasmine and a different rose from Adaa and Ameeri | ₹389 |
| Nawaab | White royal oud, sandalwood, saffron, tobacco leaf, amber, leather | The deepest in the range. Not a first attar unless you already know you like oud | ₹399 |
| The trio | Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani together | Three of the four at once. The honest answer when you cannot choose and will not guess | ₹1,055 |
Four honest notes. A note list is not a smell. Every composition above is described in the words we would use ourselves, and those words still cannot tell you how it will sit on your skin - which is the whole reason the 3ml exists. On the sizes: 3ml, 6ml and 12ml are the same liquid, and the only reason to buy the larger ones is that you already know. If you have not worn it, buy the smallest and let it earn the upgrade. On wear: all four are 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and that is the only figure we publish. We do not publish a drop count, a per-application cost, or a comparison with how long anybody else's fragrance lasts - including sprays. On what we do not make: there is no standalone musk, sandalwood, amber, tuberose, vetiver, khus, aquatic or tobacco attar in this range. Four compositions is the whole range, and where your answer is not one of them, this page will say so rather than talk you into the nearest thing.
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A note from Sonal
Attars are the part of this business where the marketing is worst, and I would like ours to be the boring, accurate version. Most of the category sells a bottle on adjectives - royal, exotic, hypnotic, long-lasting - and on numbers nobody has measured. You cannot smell any of it before you pay, so the words are doing all the work, and almost nobody writes them honestly.
So here is what I will and will not tell you. I will tell you what is in each of the four, in the order you meet it, and that they wear 6-8 hours on my skin. I will not tell you that one of them smells expensive, or that it will turn heads, or that it lasts twelve hours, because I cannot know the first two about you and have not measured the third. The honest sequence is: read the notes, buy the 3ml, wear it for a week, and only then buy a size. If none of our four matches what you have described to yourself, I would rather say so than sell you the nearest one.
The other thing worth knowing is how little you need. An attar is concentrated oil, and the commonest mistake is wearing it like a spray - a long press at the neck and another at the wrists. One dab at a pulse point is the dose. Two if you want it read across a dinner table. Do not rub it in; oil opens with warmth, and rubbing crushes the top of it. That is the entire dial, and most people never need the top of it. A portion of every order supports girl-child education.
Frequently asked questions
Both attars list oud, amber and musk. How different can they really be?
Very. Those three words describe a genre rather than a bottle, and everything that decides the experience is left out: how much of each material, where it sits in the order, what it is surrounded by, and whether the oud is the subject or the support. In our own range Nawaab is the composition that a three-word summary would describe as oud, amber and musk - and the other two oud-containing attars, Mastani and Ameeri, would be summarised differently and smell nothing like it.
Which SOSA attar is the real oud one?
Nawaab, at 3ml for Rs 399. White royal oud is the first material named, and it is supported by sandalwood, saffron, black pepper, cardamom, aged tobacco leaf, amber, leather and white musk - nine materials, the deepest composition in the range. Ameeri contains soft oudh as a warm shadow under rose and sandalwood, and Mastani contains oudh as a floor under two florals. All three honestly contain oud. Only one of them is an oud attar in the sense an oud shopper means.
Is a more complex composition better?
It is not better or worse, it is a different bet. Nine materials give a composer more to work with and give a blind buyer more ways to be surprised, in both directions. Three materials are easier to predict from a list. So complexity is a measure of variance rather than of quality, and on a first purchase lower variance is usually the right choice - which is why I would send somebody who has never worn oud to the composition where oud is support rather than subject.
Should I buy both and compare them?
If they are both small, yes - that is exactly how you settle a question like this, and reading a third article will not do it. Within our range the trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani is Rs 1,055 at 3ml, which puts the three oud depths on your own skin. Wear one composition a day for a week rather than all three in an afternoon; three attars in one sitting tell you about your nose getting tired rather than about the attars.
How do I compare longevity between two oud attars?
You cannot, honestly, because nobody in this category runs a standardised wear test - including us. We publish one figure for all four of our compositions: 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin. We do not publish a drop count, a cost per application or any claim about how long another house's fragrance lasts. If two pages quote very different numbers, what you are comparing is two marketing decisions rather than two measurements.
A fragrance you chose on purpose, not by accident
SOSA — alcohol-free attars, and an honest account of what a note list cannot tell you
Three of the four contain oud, at three depths. The trio is ₹1,055 at 3ml, or pick one at ₹385 to ₹399 - and tell us what you wear if you would rather we said which.
The attar trio → Begin at 3ml
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More from SOSA
- Adaa - bergamot, cardamom, jasmine sambac, white musk (3ml ₹379)
- Ameeri - Taif rose, sandalwood, saffron, soft oudh (3ml ₹385)
- Mastani - night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, oudh (3ml ₹389)
- Nawaab - white royal oud, sandalwood, saffron, tobacco (3ml ₹399)
- The trio - three of the four together (from ₹1,055)
- Tell us what you wear now - we will say if none of the four fits
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
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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 fragrance-family guidance applies to any brand. SOSA does not sort fragrance by the gender of the wearer.
What this guide does not claim.
- An attar is a fragrance and nothing else.
- - it names what a composition is built from and the order you meet it in, which is a description of an intention rather than a measurement, and it is
- . Nothing here should be read as advice about health, allergies or anyone's wellbeing, and no fragrance on this page is claimed to affect anybody's mood, comfort, confidence or state of mind. Where a reader describes a preference none of our four compositions matches, these guides say so and sell nothing.
SOSA attars, specified:
- four compositions -
- (bergamot, green cardamom, jasmine sambac, white musk),
- (Taif rose, Indian sandalwood, Persian saffron, soft oudh),
- (night-blooming jasmine, Damask rose, oudh) and
- (white royal oud, sandalwood, saffron, black pepper, cardamom, aged tobacco leaf, amber, leather, white musk). All four are
- , supplied with a built-in dab applicator, and hand-blended in small batches in Pune. Sizes are
- : Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179, Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199. The three-attar trio (Ameeri, Nawaab, Mastani) is ₹1,055 / ₹1,859 / ₹3,189. The same liquid fills all three sizes.
On wear.
- SOSA publishes one figure:
- . SOSA does not publish a drop count, a cost per application, a projection rating, or any comparison with how long another format or another company's fragrance lasts. Where a customer review reports a different number, that is one person's experience of their own skin and not a measurement SOSA stands behind.
On what is in the bottle.
- The composition lists above name the materials a fragrance is built from. They are not a statement of grade, percentage or geographic origin, and this guide makes no claim about either. Where origin or grade matters to you, ask before you buy - that is a fair question and the answer belongs to the product page rather than to an article.
On other companies.
- Where another fragrance brand is named in these guides it is because a reader named it, and the page answers what they asked. Nothing here states what any other company's product contains, how long it lasts, what it costs or how it performs.
- , and no other company has reviewed or approved this content. If a product you already own suits you, keep it - several pages in this guide say exactly that.
On availability.
- SOSA is an online fragrance house and ships across India; it holds no retail counters, and no delivery window is quoted here. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Prices and availability change - see the live product pages.