I Love Jasmine but Dislike Perfumes That Become Overpowering in Hot Weather; Which Jasmine-Musk or Jasmine-Sandalwood Profiles Should I Try?

I Love Jasmine but Dislike Perfumes That Become Overpowering in Hot Weather; Which Jasmine-Musk or Jasmine-Sandalwood Profiles Should I Try?

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★ ★ Two jasmines, two structures - and in hot weather the structure decides everything the flower does notSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149 - jasmine sambac in the heart, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the baseSOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure for any attar
The short version — five things worth checking
For the reader who has loved jasmine since childhood, has been defeated by it twice in an Indian May, and does not want to give it up
  • 1 There are two jasmines in the SOSA attar range. Jasmine sambac sits in Adaa's heart, under Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli. Night-blooming jasmine sits in Mastani's heart, beside Damask rose.
  • 2 What differs is the structure, not the flower. Adaa's base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - dry, with no sweetener. Mastani's is Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, which is the heaviest base in the range.
  • 3 Heat raises skin temperature and pushes material off faster, so the same quantity reads larger in May than in December. The practical answer to hot weather is less of the same composition rather than a different flower.
  • 4 Adaa carries no oudh, no vanilla and no tonka at all - the only one of the four attars with none of the three heavy base materials in it. It is ₹379 at 3ml, ₹669 at 6ml and ₹1,149 at 12ml.
  • 5 SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for every attar at every size, and publishes nothing at all about projection, sillage or scent radius for any product in the range.
★ See SOSA Adaa - jasmine under a green top ₹379 Ask Sonal which jasmine suits your weather ₹0
★ The two jasmines in the range, and the warm composition that holds neither
SOSA Adaa AttarSOSA Adaa Attar · 3ml ₹379Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - jasmine with air above it and dryness below it, which is the hot-weather shapeView Adaa →SOSA Mastani AttarSOSA Mastani Attar · 3ml ₹389Litchi, bergamot and pink pepper over night-blooming jasmine and Damask rose, on Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka - the night jasmine, and the heaviest base in the range beneath itView Mastani →SOSA Ameeri AttarSOSA Ameeri Attar · 3ml ₹385Persian saffron, pink pepper and bergamot over Taif rose and Indian sandalwood, on soft oudh, amber and white musk - no jasmine at all, and here so a jasmine brief can see what it is not choosingView Ameeri →
✓ Every note and price here is quoted from the live SOSA product pages, with nothing added and nothing summed ✓ No projection, sillage or radius figure appears on this page, because SOSA publishes none for any product ✓ Nothing here predicts what anybody around you will notice, say or think about how you smell

Founder Diaries · Close Range · Presence Without Projection
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 18 min read Updated October 2026
Your two variables pull in opposite directions, and the way out is not to compromise on the flower - it is to change what sits above and below it. You love jasmine. You have been defeated by jasmine in hot weather, probably more than once. Those two facts are both about structure rather than about the flower itself, because what makes a jasmine composition overbearing at forty degrees is almost never the jasmine. It is the sweetness underneath it, the density of the base holding it up, and the quantity you applied before you understood what heat does. This range holds two jasmines in two entirely different structures, and one of them was built for exactly your problem.
Quick answers — read this first
Which jasmine attar works in hot weather? SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, at half the quantity you would use in winter. Its jasmine sambac sits in the heart with magnolia and ylang ylang, under a top of Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli, and over a base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. There is no vanilla, no tonka and no oudh underneath it - which is the whole reason it holds up in heat where a richer jasmine does not.

Why does jasmine become overpowering when it is hot? Two reasons, and only one of them is the flower. Heat raises skin temperature, which pushes material off faster, so the same dab arrives larger and sooner. And jasmine is naturally a dense, slightly animalic white floral whose character amplifies rather than thins as it warms. Put sweetness and a heavy base under it and the whole structure gains weight at once. The fix is a drier base and a smaller quantity, not a different flower.

What is the difference between the two SOSA jasmines? Structure. Adaa holds jasmine sambac under a green citrus top and over a dry base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - jasmine with air above it and nothing sweet below it. Mastani holds night-blooming jasmine beside Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, which is the heaviest base in the range. Same flower family, two different propositions in a warm room.
The short answer
Short answer: Adaa, at half your winter quantity. The variable that decides this is not the jasmine but what surrounds it: Adaa's jasmine sambac has a green citrus top above it and a dry base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood below it, with no vanilla, tonka or oudh anywhere in the composition. Mastani's night-blooming jasmine sits over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka, which in heat gains weight exactly where you do not want it. Heat then does the rest of the work: the same dab reads larger when skin is warm, so the quantity comes down.
The pick: the Adaa 3ml at ₹379, one dab at the inner wrist, and nothing on the throat during summer. Keep Mastani at ₹389 in mind for December and for a dry-heat evening, where its base is a feature rather than a problem. Ameeri at ₹385 holds no jasmine at all, and is named so you can see what you are not choosing.
Next step: read the page on indolic florals if what has defeated you is jasmine's heavier, more animalic side rather than sweetness - that page owns the distinction and it may be your real subject. The Indian summer page handles heat and dose. Or tell me which jasmine fragrance defeated you and I will tell you what in it was actually doing that.
In this guide
Straight answer
Which jasmine profile should I try if I love jasmine but dislike perfumes that become overpowering in hot weather?
Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, worn at roughly half the quantity you would use in cool weather - and the reason is a structural one that will outlive this recommendation, because it lets you read any jasmine listing anywhere. One: the flower is almost never the problem. When a reader tells me a jasmine fragrance became unbearable in May, and I ask what else was in it, the answer is nearly always vanilla, or tonka, or a heavy amber, or an oud sitting in the base. Those are the materials that gain the most weight as skin warms. Jasmine itself is a dense white floral with a slightly animalic edge, and it does amplify in heat - but it amplifies into more jasmine, which is a thing you like. What turns it into something you want to wash off is usually the sweetness underneath it turning syrupy and the base thickening at the same time. So the useful move is to keep the flower and change its surroundings. Two: what heat does, in three separate mechanisms, because they call for different responses. First, warm skin releases volatile material faster - the same dab arrives sooner, larger, and burns through its bright phase more quickly. Second, heat changes the balance of what you perceive: the lighter materials rush off and the heavier ones remain, so a composition that is balanced in a cool room becomes bottom-heavy in a hot one. Third, you yourself are warmer and your own nose is working in air that is already carrying a great deal, which is why your judgement of your own dose is at its least reliable in summer. The answers, respectively, are a smaller quantity, a lighter base, and a test that is not your own nose. Three: the two jasmines here, and why the structure differs completely. Adaa holds jasmine sambac in its heart with magnolia and ylang ylang beside it. Above that sit Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli - a green, slightly bitter top that gives the jasmine air rather than sugar. Below it sit white musk, vetiver and cedarwood: dry, rooty, woody, with nothing sweet holding anything up and no oudh anywhere in the composition. In heat, the top burns off faster than usual and you are left with jasmine over dryness, which is a perfectly wearable thing at thirty-eight degrees. Mastani holds night-blooming jasmine beside Damask rose, over a base of Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. That is four heavy materials, two of them sweeteners, and it is the richest base in the range. In a December dining room it is glorious. In a Chennai afternoon it is exactly the experience you have described to me twice. Four: the quantity, which is the half of the answer you do not have to buy. If you own a jasmine fragrance already and it has a dry base, your problem may be entirely one of dose. One dab at the inner wrist and three at the throat are the same bottle behaving like two unrelated products, and in heat the gap between them widens because the throat is warmer than the wrist to begin with. Halve what you use between March and October, keep it off the throat and the neck entirely, and apply half an hour before you leave rather than at the door, so the loudest phase happens before you are in anybody's company. That costs nothing and solves this for a real share of readers. Five: what to do with Mastani rather than writing it off. I would not have you discard it. A dry heat behaves differently from a humid one: in dry air the heavier base materials have less to hold them near you and the composition reads with more clarity than the same thing in coastal humidity. A dry April evening in Jaipur is a genuinely different room from an August afternoon in Mumbai, and Mastani is wearable in the first in a way it is not in the second. Keep it for the cool months and the dry evenings, at a fraction of a dab. And six: the limit on all of it. I can tell you what is in each composition, what heat does to the materials, and how much to put on. Whether anybody in a hot room registers any of it is theirs rather than mine, and I am not going to pretend otherwise.

What heat actually does, in three mechanisms

Heat is treated in most fragrance writing as a single vague force that makes things stronger. It is actually three separate effects with three different consequences, and separating them tells you which lever to pull. None of this is a measured figure - it is the mechanics of volatility applied to a warm wrist, and I am stating it as a perfumer rather than quoting a specification.

The first effect is rate. Volatility is temperature-dependent: a material leaves a warm surface faster than a cool one. So on a hot day the same quantity of the same oil presents more of itself per minute, which is why a dab that felt modest in January feels generous in May. The response to this is quantity. You are not wearing a stronger fragrance; you are wearing the same fragrance faster, and the correction is to put less on.

The second effect is balance. Because the lightest materials leave fastest, heat compresses the early part of a composition and leaves the heavy part standing. A bright green top that gives you twenty minutes of air in winter may give you eight in summer, after which you are wearing the base. That is why the base line is the thing to read for a hot-weather purchase, and why a base of vanilla and tonka is a different proposition in June from the one it was in the shop in November.

The third effect is you. Your own nose adapts to a scent you are wearing within minutes, and in hot weather you are also uncomfortable, slightly dehydrated and surrounded by other warm air carrying other material. Your estimate of your own radius is at its worst exactly when you most want it to be accurate. The response to that is not a product; it is a test you can actually run, and the cheapest one is to leave a small cool room for ten minutes and walk back into it. That nose-adaptation point is set out properly on its own page in this guide, and I am not going to re-derive it here.

My own assessment, not a published figure
Since the question underneath yours is how much of a fragrance is around you in a hot room, here is my own craft assessment of it, labelled as a perfumer's judgement rather than as anything the store publishes. Body in the base is the best predictor I know of how much a composition asserts itself at a given quantity, and heat amplifies that ordering rather than flattening it: vanilla, tonka, amber and oudh gain presence as skin warms, while dry musks, vetiver and cedarwood gain much less. That is why I would put Adaa at the quiet end of a hot afternoon and Mastani at the other, and it is also why the correction for heat is a smaller dab rather than a different flower. None of this is a measurement. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for its attars and publishes nothing whatever about projection, sillage or scent radius for any product, there is no standard industry test for reach, and no figure of that kind appears anywhere on this page. And it is outranked by your own hand: a generous dab of the driest thing I make will have more presence in a hot lift than a half dab of the richest.

The two jasmines in this range, side by side

Jasmine is not one material in perfumery, and the two jasmines in this range are a good illustration of how different two versions of the same flower can be once you look at what surrounds them.

Jasmine sambac - the mogra of most Indian gardens - is the jasmine in Adaa's heart. It is bright, green-edged and slightly tea-like at its best, with the characteristic white-floral density underneath. In Adaa it sits with magnolia, which is lemony and airy, and ylang ylang, which is creamier and adds a little tropical weight. Above the three is the green citrus top; below them is the dry base. The effect is a jasmine that is read through air rather than through sugar.

Night-blooming jasmine - the raat ki rani register - is what Mastani's heart is built on, with Damask rose beside it. That is a heavier, headier, more nocturnal reading of the flower by construction, and then the base under it compounds the effect: Mysore sandalwood for creaminess, oudh for depth, Madagascar vanilla and tonka for sweetness and persistence. Everything in that composition is pulling in the same direction, which is what makes it beautiful in cool air and overwhelming in hot.

The SOSA principle
A flower does not become overpowering in heat. A structure does - and the part of the structure that does it is almost always the sweetener in the base, not the blossom in the heart.
Which is why the hot-weather question is answered by reading the bottom line of a pyramid rather than the middle one.

The same brief in five kinds of heat, with the dose for each

One jasmine brief, five kinds of heat
What each kind of hot weather does, and the quantity and composition I would use in it
The setting What makes it hard Dose I would use Composition I would reach for
A dry inland afternoon - Pune, Jaipur, Delhi in May Fast release from warm skin, and very little moisture to hold anything near you once it leaves One dab at the inner wrist, roughly half a cool-weather dose, reapplied not at all Adaa - jasmine sambac over white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no sweetener to thicken
A humid coastal afternoon - Mumbai, Chennai, Kochi Fast release and saturated air, which is the combination that makes a composition feel insistent for hours Half a dab if you can manage it, wrist only, and nothing at all on the throat or the neck Adaa, and I would leave anything with vanilla or oudh in its base in the cupboard until October
A strongly air-conditioned room on a hot day Two climates in one hour. Cold skin releases slowly, then warms, so the dose you judged at the door arrives later One dab, applied before you leave, and no adjudication until the second hour. Resist topping up Adaa in summer, or Mastani at a fraction of a dab if the day is spent indoors from start to finish
A dry evening after a hot day Falling temperature and dry air - the one hot-weather setting where a rich base becomes a feature A fraction of a dab, and treat it as an evening composition rather than a day one Mastani - night-blooming jasmine over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka, which is what it was built for
A hot crowded room - a function, a train, a lift at four o'clock Everybody else's warm skin as well as yours, plus no air exchange worth mentioning Half a dab, wrist only, applied well before you arrive - and nothing added during the event Adaa. In a crowded hot room the dry base is the only thing in this range I would wear with confidence
Rows one and two look similar and are not. Dry heat disperses, humid heat holds, and the same dab behaves differently in the two - which is why the second row is the strictest line on this table.

If it was not the sweetness: the other side of jasmine

There is a second possibility worth naming, because for a minority of readers it is the real explanation and the sweetness argument above will not help them. Jasmine's characteristic richness comes partly from a family of compounds that read as deeply floral at low concentration and distinctly animalic at higher ones - the quality people describe, when they meet it unexpectedly, as overripe or almost fleshy. Heat brings that side of the flower forward, because it is the heavier part of what jasmine is.

If what defeated you in hot weather was that quality rather than a syrupy sweetness, then your subject is not the base at all, and the distinction is owned properly by another page in this guide, which sets out why a real jasmine reads differently from a jasmine perfume and what to do about it. I will not re-derive the argument here. What I will say is how to tell the two cases apart: if the fragrance that defeated you felt sticky and dessert-like, the base was the problem and Adaa is your answer. If it felt heady and almost too alive, with a slightly indolic edge, read that page before you buy anything, because a lighter base will not fully solve it.

For what it is worth, Adaa's jasmine sambac is on the brighter, greener side of the flower rather than the heady side, with magnolia's lemon quality beside it and a bitter-green neroli above - so it is a reasonable bet even in the second case. But a reasonable bet is not the same as the right diagnosis, and at ₹379 I would rather you knew which of the two cases you were in before you spent it.

What I would buy, in what size, and when I would sell you nothing

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, at half your cool-weather dose - and Mastani kept for December
You do not have to give up jasmine for the summer. You have to give up the base that was underneath it.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The SOSA Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - jasmine sambac in the heart, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base, no vanilla, tonka or oudh in it at all
How much, between March and October One dab at the inner wrist, roughly half what you would use in cool weather. Nothing on the throat or the neck until the weather turns
What to do first, for ₹0 Read the base line of the jasmine fragrance you already own. If it has no vanilla, tonka, amber or oudh in it, your problem is the quantity and you need no new bottle
What to keep for the cold months The Mastani 3ml at ₹389 - night-blooming jasmine over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, vanilla and tonka, which is an evening composition and knows it
What to read in any listing The base line before the heart. Two jasmines with the same flower in the middle can be opposite purchases in July
What I cannot tell you I cannot say whether anybody in a hot room will find it pleasant or notice it at all - heat changes the materials, not the people
The ₹0 answer is the first one to test, and it applies to a particular reader: somebody who already owns a jasmine fragrance whose base line is dry. If there is no vanilla, no tonka, no amber and no oudh in the bottom line of what you own, then the composition is already right for hot weather and the thing that defeated you was the quantity. Halve it, keep it off the throat, apply half an hour before you leave rather than at the door, and spend nothing for a fortnight. Where I would spend the ₹379 is if the base line of what you own contains any of those four materials - because then no amount of restraint fixes the structure, and Adaa is the only composition in this range built the other way. The 3 ML is a fortnight of real summer wear, which is exactly the test this question needs. The 6ml at ₹669 can wait until you have worn it through a hot month.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If the heat you are dressing for is dry rather than humid, this page's ruling on Mastani softens considerably. Dry air gives the heavy base materials far less to hold them near you, and a night-blooming jasmine over sandalwood and vanilla becomes genuinely wearable on a dry evening in a way it never is in coastal humidity. In that case keep Adaa for the daytime and put Mastani back on the table for after sundown, at a fraction of a dab.
— the condition that changes this answer
You want to keep the jasmine. Two ways to keep it through a hot month.
One of these costs ₹379 and one costs nothing at all.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If the jasmine fragrance that defeated you had vanilla, tonka, amber or oudh in its base. This one has none of the four, and the 3ml is a fortnight of real hot-weather wear.
Tell Sonal which jasmine defeated you
If you still have the bottle. Send me its note list and the weather it failed in, and I will tell you which material was actually responsible - including when the answer is to use half as much of what you already own.
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A note from Sonal

Jasmine is the flower I get written to about most, and almost always in the same shape: somebody loved it, wore it through a summer, had one bad afternoon and concluded that jasmine and Indian heat are incompatible. I have been that person. I wore a beautiful jasmine composition to a lunch in Pune in May, in the quantity I had used all winter, and spent two hours wanting to leave my own wrist behind.

What I learned, eventually, was that I had not been defeated by the flower at all. The composition had a vanilla and a tonka under it, and in cool weather those gave it a lovely roundness, and in forty degrees they gave it weight I had no use for. The next summer I wore a jasmine with a dry base at half the dose and had no trouble at all.

So I built Adaa with the top and the base doing the work that a hot climate asks of them - green and bitter above, dry and woody below, with nothing sweet to thicken in the middle of the afternoon. What I cannot do is tell you how a hot room will take it. I can tell you what is in it and what heat does to each part.

Frequently asked questions

Which jasmine attar is best for Indian summer?
Adaa, at about half the quantity you would use in winter. Its jasmine sambac sits under a top of Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli and over a base of white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no vanilla, tonka or oudh in the composition at all. The absence of those three materials is what keeps it wearable as skin warms.
Why do floral perfumes feel heavier in hot weather?
Because warm skin releases volatile material faster, so the lighter top notes rush away and the heavier base stands exposed sooner. A composition balanced in a cool room becomes bottom-heavy in a hot one. If that base contains vanilla, tonka, amber or oudh, the weight arrives early and stays, which is what most people mean by overpowering.
What is the difference between jasmine sambac and night-blooming jasmine here?
Jasmine sambac in Adaa is the brighter, greener reading of the flower, sitting with magnolia and ylang ylang. Night-blooming jasmine in Mastani is the heady nocturnal reading, sitting with Damask rose over Mysore sandalwood, oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. The flower differs, but the structure around it differs far more.
Should I apply less attar in summer?
Yes, and it is the cheapest adjustment available. Warm skin presents the same quantity faster and larger, so roughly half a cool-weather dose is where I would start - one dab at the inner wrist, nothing on the throat or the neck, applied half an hour before you leave rather than at the door.
Can I still wear a rich jasmine composition in hot weather at all?
On a dry evening, at a fraction of a dab, yes. Dry air gives heavy base materials much less to hold them near you than humid air does, so a dry April evening and an August afternoon on the coast are genuinely different conditions. Keep a sandalwood and vanilla base for the cooler months and the dry nights.
How can I tell whether my own fragrance is too strong in the heat?
Not by smelling it on yourself, because your nose adapts to what you are wearing within minutes and hot weather makes that worse. Leave a small cool room for ten minutes and walk back into it, or ask one person you trust at a known hour and a known distance - and ask whether they can smell anything rather than whether they like it.
The hot-weather rule in one line
Keep the flower, change the base, and halve the dab between March and October.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Defeated by a jasmine in the heat and not sure why?
SOSA — Send me its note list and the weather it failed in. I will tell you which material in it was actually responsible, name a composition built the other way, and say plainly when the honest answer is half as much of the bottle you own.
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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 wants to be pleasant at conversational distance without filling a room, and the method - read the base of a pyramid, judge the format, then control the dose - applies to any brand. The product recommendations reflect the SOSA attar and perfume oil range only.

What this guide does and does not claim. Three things about a fragrance can be stated honestly, and this guide limits itself to them: what a composition contains, which SOSA publishes on each product page; how an oil behaves on skin compared with an alcohol spray, which is Sonal's own professional assessment and is marked as such wherever it appears; and how much you apply and where, which is entirely yours. The fourth thing - whether another person finds a scent pleasant, memorable or attractive - is theirs, and nothing here predicts it. SOSA makes no claim about compliments, attraction, confidence, mood, sleep, stress or wellbeing, 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. Where a workplace is involved, that employer's own fragrance policy decides, not SOSA.

On performance figures. SOSA publishes one and only one performance figure for its attars: they are described as wearing 6-8 hours on skin, longer on warm or oily skin, and always as a skin scent rather than a room scent. SOSA does not publish projection, sillage or scent-radius data for any product, and no such figure appears anywhere in this guide. Any seller quoting a projection number for an attar is quoting something that was never measured. Wear time and perceived strength vary with skin, climate, dose and application site.

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, and sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. SOSA Adaa (3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149) is the lightest in the range: Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli over jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang, on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. SOSA Ameeri (₹385 · ₹679 · ₹1,165) is 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) is 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) is the deepest in the range: white royal oud, Mysore sandalwood, Kashmir saffron and aged tobacco leaf on amber, leather and white musk. The three evening attars come together as the SOSA Attar Trio (₹1,055 · ₹1,859 · ₹3,189). Those four are the whole attar range: oud is led in Nawaab and sits in the base of Ameeri and Mastani, Adaa carries none, white musk exists as a base note rather than as a scent of its own, and there is no single-note musk, no clean-linen or laundry accord and no aldehydic-soapy scent in the range. 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.
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