Which Men's Attars in India Have Fresh Woody Fragrance Profiles Suitable for Daily Use Without the Loud Sweetness of Some Popular Perfumes?

Which Men's Attars in India Have Fresh Woody Fragrance Profiles Suitable for Daily Use Without the Loud Sweetness of Some Popular Perfumes?

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★ ★ Fresh is a top-note word and woody is a base-note word - which means you are describing a sequence, not a smellSOSA Adaa 3ml ₹379 · 6ml ₹669 · 12ml ₹1,149 · Khayaal perfume oil 10ml ₹599SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin and publishes no projection figure for any product
The short version — five things worth checking
For the man who wants the same thing on a Tuesday as on a Saturday, dry rather than sugared, and has noticed that most of the shelf aimed at him is neither
  • 1 Freshness lives in the top notes, which are the volatile ones. Adaa opens on Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli, and an opening of that kind is substantially spent within the first half hour of wear.
  • 2 Woodiness lives in the base. Adaa's is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, with no vanilla and no tonka in it, which is why it stays dry rather than turning sweet late in the day.
  • 3 Khayaal is a perfume oil, not an attar: sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood, 10ml ₹599, 50ml ₹1,899, 100ml ₹3,599. It is the driest published description in the SOSA catalogue.
  • 4 Mastani is the sweet one - Madagascar vanilla and tonka sit in its base beside Mysore sandalwood and oudh - and it is named here so it can be ruled out on your stated dislike.
  • 5 SOSA publishes one performance figure for the attars, 6-8 hours on skin, and publishes nothing at all about projection, sillage or scent radius.
★ See SOSA Adaa - dry base, green opening ₹379 Ask Sonal to build you a shortlist ₹0
★ The daily-wear shortlist, and the one bottle it rules out
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 - green at the door, dry for the rest of the day, no oudhView Adaa →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 - warm rather than fresh, and the second choice on this briefView Ameeri →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 sweet finish, listed so you can rule it outView Mastani →
✓ Every note named here is quoted from the live SOSA product pages and nothing has been added to a pyramid ✓ No projection, sillage or radius figure appears on this page, because SOSA publishes none ✓ Nothing here predicts what anybody else will make of what you are wearing

Founder Diaries · Close Range · Presence Without Projection
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles 18 min read Updated October 2026
Fresh woody is not one smell. It is two halves of a timeline, and they do not overlap much. Freshness - citrus, green, aromatic, that cool lift at the opening - is a property of volatile materials, which is precisely why they are at the top of a pyramid and precisely why they leave first. Woodiness is a property of heavy, fixed materials, which is why they are at the bottom and why they are what you are still wearing at six in the evening. So when you ask for a fresh woody daily scent, you are describing a sequence: fresh for half an hour, woody for the rest. That is worth knowing before you spend anything, because it tells you which of the two halves to be fussy about.
Quick answers — read this first
Which attar suits a man who wants a fresh woody scent for daily wear without sweetness? SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379. Its opening is Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli, which is the fresh half, and its base is white musk, vetiver and cedarwood, which is the woody half with no vanilla and no tonka underneath it. If you want the driest published composition SOSA makes and do not mind leaving the attars, the Khayaal perfume oil at ₹599 for 10ml is sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood.

How long does the fresh part of a fragrance last? The materials responsible for freshness are the volatile ones - citrus oils, green notes, light aromatics - and they are substantially spent inside the first half hour on skin. That is not a defect and it is not specific to any brand; it is what makes them top notes in the first place. The practical consequence is that if your working day is eight hours long, roughly nine-tenths of the fragrance you will wear is the base, so the base is the half worth being fussy about.

Why do so many men's fragrances smell sweet? Because the men's shelf has drifted steadily towards vanilla, tonka bean and caramelised amber for about fifteen years, and those materials are inexpensive, extremely persistent and reliably liked in blind testing. A reader who dislikes sweetness is therefore shopping against the current of his own category, which is why reading the base line of a listing matters more for him than for anybody else. In this range, the sweet base belongs to Mastani, and it is named here so it can be ruled out.
The short answer
Short answer: Buy SOSA Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, or the Khayaal perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599, if you want the driest thing in the catalogue. The reason both work for this brief is that each one keeps the sweetness out of the base, which is the part you will be wearing for seven of your eight working hours. Adaa ends on white musk, vetiver and cedarwood. Khayaal's published description ends on black tea and amberwood. Neither carries vanilla or tonka. The fresh half of what you asked for - bergamot, neroli, green cardamom in Adaa's case - is real but short, because volatility is what makes a material fresh.
The pick: the Adaa 3ml at ₹379 if you want an attar, a dab applicator and a sandalwood carrier. The Khayaal 10ml at ₹599 if dryness is the only thing you care about and you are indifferent to format. Ameeri at ₹385 is the warm alternative for a reader whose dislike of sweetness does not extend to amber.
Next step: read the decoding page for the method this family runs on, and the office-to-dinner dose page if the real question is how to carry one bottle through a long day. The family hub sets out the routing rule. Or describe your two most recent disappointments and I will build the shortlist with you.
In this guide
Straight answer
Which men's attars have fresh woody profiles suitable for daily use, without the loud sweetness of so many popular perfumes?
Adaa, the 3ml at ₹379, with the Khayaal perfume oil at ₹599 as the drier alternative - and the first thing worth doing is splitting your own phrase in half, because the two halves of it are shopped differently. Fresh is a top-note word. The materials that produce the sensation - bergamot and lemon, green notes, light aromatics such as lavender or cool cardamom, and the marine and ozonic synthetics - share one property, which is that they evaporate quickly. That is not an accident of composition; it is the definition. A material is a top note because it is volatile, and freshness and volatility are the same fact stated twice. So the fresh half of any fragrance you buy is the first twenty to forty minutes of it, which for a daily-wear brief is the commute and not the working day. Woody is a base-note word. Cedarwood, vetiver, sandalwood, patchouli, amberwood and the various woody-amber synthetics are heavy, slow and fixed, which is why they are at the bottom of a pyramid and why they are still legible at hour six. For a man who wears one thing to work five days a week, the base is therefore the overwhelming majority of the experience, and it is also the only part that other people encounter at a distance of a conversation rather than a handshake at nine in the morning. So the brief decomposes. You want a short fresh opening, which almost everything can give you, and a dry woody base, which rather fewer things can - and crucially you want the base to stay dry rather than resolving into sweetness, which is the specific failure mode you have described. That is a base-line question and nothing else, and it is answerable on any product page in about fifteen seconds. In this range, the answer is Adaa. Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli at the top, which is your fresh half; jasmine sambac, magnolia and ylang ylang in the heart, which is the middle hours; white musk, vetiver and cedarwood in the base, with no vanilla, no tonka and no caramelised amber anywhere in it. It is the only one of the four attars that carries no oudh, and it has the driest finish of the four by a clear margin. The honest caveat, which I put on every page where I recommend it, is that the heart is floral - if your objection to flowers is absolute rather than conditional, you should know that before you buy and not after. And the alternative, for a reader whose only criterion is dryness. Khayaal is one of the six SOSA perfume oils rather than one of the attars, and its published description is sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood. Black tea and amberwood is as dry a finish as anything in this catalogue, there is no floral heart in the description at all, and it costs ₹599 for 10ml. The trade-off is that it is a different format and a different proposition from an attar - a larger bottle, a perfume oil rather than a traditional dab attar on a sandalwood carrier - so it suits a reader who is indifferent to format and uncompromising about dryness. What I am not going to tell you is how either of them will be received. That is not a property of a liquid and no listing can supply it.

What fresh actually is: a word about the first half hour

It is worth being specific about what produces the sensation, because the specificity is what makes a listing readable. Four families do nearly all the work. Citrus oils - bergamot, lemon, grapefruit, mandarin - give the bright, slightly bitter lift, and they are the most volatile materials in common use. Green notes, which in practice means things like galbanum, violet leaf and various crushed-stem accords, give the cool, sappy quality. Aromatics, including lavender, rosemary and the cooler spices such as green cardamom, give a herbal clarity. And the marine or ozonic synthetics, which are a twentieth-century invention, give the open-window effect that most designer aquatics are built on.

All four groups are short-lived on skin, and the better the material the shorter it often is: a genuinely fine cold-pressed bergamot is gone faster than a cheap synthetic approximation of one. This is why fragrance advertising concentrates so heavily on the opening. The opening is what you smell in a shop, it is where the prettiest materials live, and it is the part of the composition a photograph can most plausibly be attached to. It is also the part you will spend the least time wearing.

There is one genuinely useful consequence for a daily-wear reader, and it costs nothing. If you want the fresh half of your fragrance to coincide with anything, apply before you leave rather than on arrival, and accept that the opening belongs to your commute. If what you want is to be fresh at eleven in the morning, no composition will do it, because by eleven you are wearing the base of whatever you put on at eight. The alternative is a small reapplication, and the page in this family about carrying one bottle from office to dinner handles that properly rather than in passing.

What woody actually is: the part you wear all day

The woods divide, usefully, into dry and creamy. Cedarwood is the dry one: pencil shavings, a little sharp, slightly dusty in the best sense. Vetiver, which is a root rather than a wood but behaves as one, is dry and earthy and faintly bitter. Patchouli, used lightly, is dry and dark; used heavily it becomes something else. On the other side, sandalwood is creamy and lactonic, and the woody-amber synthetics that dominate modern perfumery are warm and slightly sweet by nature even before anybody adds vanilla to them.

That division matters more to your brief than the word woody does. A reader who says he wants woody and not sweet is really saying he wants the dry woods rather than the warm ones, and the two are often sold under the same adjective. Adaa's base - white musk, vetiver and cedarwood - is the dry pairing with a musk smoothing it, and that combination is about as far from a sugared finish as this range goes. Mastani's base, by contrast, is Mysore sandalwood with oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka: the wood is there, the composition is unquestionably woody, and it finishes sweet. Both are woody. They are not the same purchase.

The practical reading habit is therefore to look at what the woods in a base are sharing the line with. Musk and vetiver beside a cedar means dry. Vanilla, tonka, benzoin or a caramel amber beside a sandalwood means sweet, whatever the top of the pyramid promised. And if a listing names only the top notes, which a great many do, you have not been given enough information to judge the thing you care about - which is itself a reason to be cautious about the purchase.

Why the shelf aimed at you keeps turning sweet

This is the part of the question that readers usually find most useful, because it explains a pattern rather than just naming a bottle. Over the last fifteen years or so, the mainstream men's market has moved steadily towards sweetness. The materials responsible - vanilla and its derivatives, tonka bean, benzoin, ethyl maltol and the caramelised ambers - are inexpensive relative to their effect, extremely persistent, and reliably well liked in the kind of blind panel testing that decides what gets launched. They are, commercially, very good ideas.

So a man who dislikes sweetness is shopping against the current of his own category, and the word masculine will not help him, because the sweetest launches of the last decade have all been marketed with it. What helps is the base line. Vanilla is always named, because it sells; tonka is usually named; a caramel amber is sometimes disguised as simply amber, which is why amber on a listing is worth a second thought rather than an automatic rejection. Amber in this range means warmth and body - it is in Ameeri's base and in Nawaab's - and neither of those carries vanilla or tonka beside it.

The honest version of the sweetness question in this catalogue, then, is short. One attar finishes sweet, and that is Mastani, where vanilla and tonka are both in the base. Two finish warm without sugar, and those are Ameeri and Nawaab, where amber does the warming. One finishes dry, and that is Adaa. Among the perfume oils, Chashni is a sweet fruity-gourmand and Tabac Noir is tobacco-vanilla, so both are out on your stated dislike; Khayaal, with black tea and amberwood, is the dry one. That is the whole map, and it took four sentences because the information is actually quite small once the adjectives are stripped out.

The SOSA principle
Nine-tenths of what you wear on a working day is the base. Nine-tenths of what you are shown when you shop is the top. The gap between those two numbers is where most disappointing purchases live.
Which is why a daily-wear brief is a base-line brief, every time.

Your shortlist, built from what you told me

The shortlist
Fresh, woody, unsweetened, daily: what each word rules in and what it removes
What you told me What that rules in What that rules out
"Fresh" A citrus, green or cool-aromatic opening. Adaa's Calabrian bergamot, green cardamom and neroli; Khayaal's sparkling bergamot and neroli Nothing much, because almost everything opens somewhere near fresh. It is not a useful filter on its own and it is the one most listings lead with
"Woody" A base built on dry woods: Adaa's vetiver and cedarwood, or Khayaal's amberwood over black tea Nothing by itself either - Mastani is woody too, with Mysore sandalwood heading its base. Woody is not the same word as dry
"Without loud sweetness" The dry finishes. Adaa, whose base holds no vanilla and no tonka, and Khayaal among the oils Mastani, whose base is Mysore sandalwood with oudh, Madagascar vanilla and tonka. Also Chashni, a sweet fruity-gourmand, and Tabac Noir, a tobacco-vanilla
"For daily use" A composition quiet enough structurally to survive repetition, and a size that matches the habit - the 6ml at ₹669 rather than the 3ml, once you know The deep end. Nawaab is oud-led with aged tobacco leaf, amber and leather, and it is a considerable thing to wear five days a week
"Not a strong oud" Adaa, which carries no oudh anywhere in the composition, and the perfume oils, none of which is oud-led. Khayaal has none Nawaab, which is oud-led. Ameeri and Mastani both carry soft oudh in the base, which is a smaller thing but is not nothing and is published
Two rows of that table rule nothing out, and that is the finding. Fresh and woody are both too broad to filter on; the two that do the work are the sweetness line and the oud line, and both are read off the base.

The oil route, and when it is the better one

Khayaal is one of the six SOSA perfume oils, which are a separate range from the four attars: 10ml, 50ml and 100ml rather than 3ml, 6ml and 12ml, and priced at ₹599, ₹1,899 and ₹3,599. Its published description is sparkling bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood, and it is an independent SOSA composition inspired by Imagination by Louis Vuitton. SOSA is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, that house, and the line exists on the product page because it is the most honest short description of the register rather than a claim of equivalence.

What makes it worth your attention is the finish. Black tea is a dry, slightly tannic, faintly smoky material, and amberwood is a woody amber rather than a sweet one. Put together they give you the driest published base in the whole SOSA catalogue, with no vanilla, no tonka and no floral heart in the description at all. For a reader whose single criterion is that it must not turn sweet, that is the strongest answer available here, and ₹599 for 10ml is a lot of liquid to find out with.

What you give up is the attar proposition. The four attars are oils on a sandalwood and jojoba carrier with a built-in dab applicator, and that carrier contributes a low warm woodiness underneath everything, which is part of their character. The perfume oils are a different construction and a different tradition. Neither is better; they answer slightly different questions. If what drew you to attars in the first place was the format - the dab, the small bottle, the absence of alcohol - stay with Adaa. If it was only the promise of something quieter and drier than what you have been buying, Khayaal deserves the look.

My own assessment, not a published figure
My own craft assessment, labelled as mine because no published figure stands behind it. Both the attars and the perfume oils arrive in a format that puts material onto skin rather than into the air: there is no atomiser and no alcohol flashing off and carrying fragrance outward as it goes. I think that makes an oil the more useful format for a man who wants to be legible in a conversation rather than present across an office, and it is why this range is built the way it is. I will not put any figure on that. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin for the attars, which is a statement about duration, and publishes nothing whatever about projection, sillage or scent radius, because no standard test for those exists and anybody quoting one is quoting something that was never measured.

What I would buy, and the free thing to do first

Sonal’s recommendation
Adaa, the 3ml - or Khayaal if dryness beats format for you
Fresh is the first half hour and it will look after itself. Shop the base, because the base is the working day.
— Sonal Sahani, founder and perfumer, ISIPCA Versailles-trained
What to buy The SOSA Adaa 3ml at ₹379 - green at the door, white musk, vetiver and cedarwood for the rest of the day, no oudh
The drier alternative The Khayaal perfume oil, 10ml at ₹599 - bergamot and neroli over black tea and amberwood, the driest finish in the catalogue
What to do first, for ₹0 Read the base line of the two bottles you already own and stopped wearing. The pattern is usually visible immediately
What to rule out, with a reason The Mastani at ₹389: Madagascar vanilla and tonka are both in its base, so it finishes sweet
The caveat before you buy Adaa Its heart is floral - jasmine sambac, magnolia, ylang ylang - under a green opening and over a dry base
What I cannot tell you I cannot say whether anybody will read either of these as fresh, as woody, or as anything else
The ₹0 step is worth taking seriously on this particular brief. If you have two or three bottles you bought and stopped wearing, pull them out and read the base notes rather than the names. In my letters, the reader who asks this question has nearly always been buying sweet bases while believing he was buying fresh ones, because he was shopping the opening. Fifteen minutes with your own shelf will tell you whether that is your pattern, and if it is, you will never make the mistake again - which is worth more than the ₹379.
Everything above, on one page.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If what you actually want is projection - something that announces you at a gym, carries across a site visit, or holds its own in open air at a distance - then this whole guide is the wrong guide and Adaa is firmly the wrong bottle. Everything in this hundred pages is written for a reader who wants to be legible inside a conversation and invisible beyond it, and the recommendations here are selected for exactly that. A reader whose brief is the opposite should be looking at the deepest end of the range at a deliberate dose, and should treat nothing on this page as advice.
— the condition that changes this answer
You wanted fresh and woody without the sugar. Two routes out of this page.
One of them is an attar at ₹379. The other is a perfume oil at ₹599 and is drier.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379
If you want the attar format - a dab applicator, a sandalwood and jojoba carrier, no alcohol - with a green opening and the driest base of the four. The 3ml is a fortnight of daily wear.
Ask Sonal to build you a shortlist
If you have bought two or three disappointing bottles and cannot see the pattern. Send me the note lists rather than the names and I will tell you which line you have been buying by accident.
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A note from Sonal

The clearest letter I ever had on this subject came from a man who had bought four fragrances in eighteen months, every one of them described somewhere as fresh and woody, and disliked all four by week three. He wanted to know what was wrong with his nose.

Nothing was. All four had a sugared base. He had been buying the openings, which were genuinely fresh and genuinely woody and genuinely nothing like what he was wearing at four in the afternoon. Reading the base lines back to me turned up vanilla or tonka in three of them and a caramel amber in the fourth, and the whole thing resolved in about two minutes.

I tell that story often because it is the cheapest lesson in this guide. You do not need to learn perfumery to avoid his eighteen months. You need to read the last line of the pyramid before the first one, which takes fifteen seconds and works on any brand's listing, including the ones that are not mine.

Frequently asked questions

How long does the fresh opening of an attar last on skin?
The materials that produce freshness are the volatile ones, and on most skins they are substantially spent inside the first half hour. That is what makes them top notes rather than a flaw in any particular composition. SOSA publishes 6-8 hours on skin as the wear time for its attars, and the great majority of those hours are the base rather than the opening.
Is a woody fragrance automatically a dry one?
No, and this is the commonest confusion on this brief. Cedarwood, vetiver and patchouli read dry; sandalwood is creamy, and the woody-amber synthetics that dominate modern perfumery are warm and faintly sweet before anybody adds vanilla. Mastani is a woody composition that finishes sweet, because Madagascar vanilla and tonka share its base with Mysore sandalwood and oudh.
What is amberwood, and is it sweet?
Amberwood describes a family of woody-amber materials that read warm and resinous rather than sugary. In the SOSA catalogue it appears in Khayaal's published description, over black tea, and that pairing is the driest finish on offer here. Amber as a note is different again: it is in Ameeri's base and Nawaab's, where it supplies warmth and body without any vanilla or tonka beside it.
Is Khayaal an attar?
No. Khayaal is one of the six SOSA perfume oils, sold in 10ml at 599 rupees, 50ml at 1,899 and 100ml at 3,599. The four attars are a separate range, sold in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml, and they are oils carried on sandalwood and jojoba with a built-in dab applicator. Both are alcohol-free and neither is a spray.
Which SOSA products should a man who dislikes sweetness avoid?
Mastani among the attars, because Madagascar vanilla and tonka are both in its base. Among the perfume oils, Chashni is a sweet fruity-gourmand and Tabac Noir is a tobacco-vanilla, so both are out on that criterion. Zaffran is a saffron sweet-amber and carries no oud, but the word sweet in its description is accurate and should be taken at face value.
Can one attar cover both work and weekends?
For most readers on this brief, yes, and the variable you change is the dose rather than the bottle. A dry composition at one dab reads as a working-day fragrance and the same composition at two dabs, applied before going out, reads as more of an occasion, without any of the register shifting. The page in this family about carrying one bottle from office to dinner sets that out step by step.
The habit worth taking from this page
Read the last line of the pyramid before the first one. It takes fifteen seconds and it works on any listing.
See SOSA Adaa · 3ml ₹379 Describe a feeling to SOSA
Bought three fresh woody fragrances and disliked all three?
SOSA — Send me the note lists, not the names. In nearly every letter of this kind the base line is the answer, and it is visible in about two minutes.
Alcohol-free, DPG-free oil attars hand-blended in Pune · 6-8 hours on skin · no projection figure claimed anywhere, because none is published
Ask Sonal which one stays close → SOSA Adaa Attar · ₹379
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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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