★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
Subtle is a level, not a note - the same fragrance at a smaller number, and in a truly enclosed room quite possibly no number at all
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★ The honest machine for a small enclosed meeting room
SOSA SukoonRated for the room you actually haveView ₹1,899SOSA SukoonThree fragrances to live with before choosingView ₹1,899SOSA SukoonSet low, then checked from the chairView ₹1,899
✓ Three 15ml fragrances supplied, so a register can be lived with for a week before it is chosen ✓ Rated for roughly 270-320 sq ft, which is the size of a meeting room rather than a display floor ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Kitchen Showrooms
Does an enclosed meeting room need a diffuser at all? Often not, and I would rather say so. A genuinely enclosed meeting area is a small volume with limited air exchange holding a customer who has not moved for sixty to ninety minutes. If the room already smells of clean air and nothing else, the honest answer is to leave it alone and let the showroom reach it through the door. Scent belongs in that room only if the room is truly sealed off from the floor and reads as flat and unaired to somebody walking in from outside.
And if it does need something, what does it cost? One SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, run at the bottom of its range and placed as far from the table as the room allows. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy - it is rated to 1000m³, many times the air a meeting room holds. Under about 150 sq ft, a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is a serious answer. Total: ₹1,899 or less.
See the SOSA Sukoon Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 5 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
The word subtle sends people looking for a delicate fragrance, and that is the wrong shelf. There is no note so gentle that it stays polite at the wrong level, and no note so assertive that it cannot be made quiet - which means the whole question is a dial, and in a small closed room the dial may honestly need to be at zero.
Quick answers — read this first
What is the best subtle fragrance for a kitchen design meeting area? The same one you would use on the display floor - dry, clean and material-led, with nothing edible in it - run at a much smaller number. Subtlety is a property of the setting, not of the fragrance. Dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage where the samples and joinery are warm; a dry green, dry tea or clean mineral note where the room is white and minimal. Vanilla, coffee, baking and warm spice are wrong here at any level, and worst in a small closed room.Does an enclosed meeting room need a diffuser at all? Often not, and I would rather say so. A genuinely enclosed meeting area is a small volume with limited air exchange holding a customer who has not moved for sixty to ninety minutes. If the room already smells of clean air and nothing else, the honest answer is to leave it alone and let the showroom reach it through the door. Scent belongs in that room only if the room is truly sealed off from the floor and reads as flat and unaired to somebody walking in from outside.
And if it does need something, what does it cost? One SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, run at the bottom of its range and placed as far from the table as the room allows. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy - it is rated to 1000m³, many times the air a meeting room holds. Under about 150 sq ft, a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is a serious answer. Total: ₹1,899 or less.
The short answer
Short answer: the same dry, material-led register you use on the display floor, run at a much lower setting - because subtlety is a level rather than a note. In a genuinely enclosed meeting room the honest answer is frequently nothing at all, and where something is wanted it is one Sukoon at ₹1,899, not a Vaayu at ₹11,999.
The pick: one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) at the bottom of its range, placed as far from the table as the room allows, or a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) in a meeting room under about 150 sq ft that wants no schedule at all.
Next step: send the meeting room's dimensions including ceiling height, say whether the door stays shut and whether it has its own air supply, and we will tell you honestly whether it needs anything - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
There is no fragrance gentle enough to survive being run too high, and none assertive enough that it cannot be made quiet. Which turns a question about notes into a question about numbers.
The meeting-room machine - tap to see the specification
For an enclosed meeting room of 200 to 400 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899
The room next door
What should a consultation room smell like?
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Straight answer
What is the best subtle fragrance for a kitchen design meeting area, and does the room need one at all?
Let me take the word apart first, because it is doing the damage. When people ask for a subtle fragrance they are usually picturing a delicate note - something soft, something light, something that will behave itself. That shelf does not exist. Any fragrance run too high is intrusive and any fragrance run low enough is subtle; the difference between a room that reads as considered and a room that reads as perfumed is almost entirely a number on a dial, not a choice from a list. So the honest recommendation for a meeting area is: the same register as the rest of your showroom, at a much smaller setting. That register is dry, clean and material-led - dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage where your joinery, veneer samples and furniture are warm; a dry green, a dry tea or a clean mineral note where the room is white, grey and minimal, run low because a bright citrus overdone in a kitchen context starts reading like floor cleaner. And it contains nothing edible at all: no vanilla, no baking, no coffee, no caramel, no honey, no cinnamon or warm spice. I will name our own rather than be coy: SOSA's Fresh Brew, which is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, at ₹849, is precisely what not to put in this room, and a small enclosed space is where an edible note turns cloying fastest. Now the more useful half of the answer, which is whether the room needs anything. A genuinely enclosed meeting area - four walls, a door that shuts, sometimes its own small air conditioner - has three properties that all argue downwards. It is small, so any output has little air to spread through. It exchanges less air than a display floor with doors opening and people moving, so output accumulates rather than dispersing. And it holds a customer who has not moved for sixty to ninety minutes while making a decision worth several lakh. Those three compound. So before you buy anything, do the honest test: shut the door, sit in that room for a full ninety minutes doing work that requires concentration, with the fragrance off, and ask what the room actually smells of. If the answer is clean air and nothing in particular, you are finished - leave it alone, and let whatever drifts in from the display floor be the whole of it. That is a legitimate outcome and it is the one I recommend most often for rooms of this kind. If the honest answer is that the room reads flat and unaired - a sealed box that nobody has opened since Saturday - the first fix is still not fragrance. It is air: get the door opened between appointments, get the air conditioning running on fresh air rather than pure recirculation where the system allows it, and if the room smells of laminate, adhesive or new joinery then that is a curing problem which needs ventilation and weeks of time. Fragrance is never a mask, and a scent laid over an unaired room gives you an unaired room with a fragrance in it. Only when the room is genuinely aired and still reads as characterless does a machine make sense. Then the honest hardware is small. One SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, rated for roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances so you can live with a register for a week before committing to it, run at the bottom of its range and placed on the far side of the room from the table. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy here - it is rated to 1000m³, many times the air a meeting room holds, and it belongs on a display floor with several volumes to connect rather than in one closed room. Under about 150 sq ft, a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is a perfectly serious answer with no schedule to manage. Set the level from the chair rather than the doorway, because your nose adapts within about twenty minutes; ask the designers who use the room all week and treat a hesitation as a no; and make sure anyone in the room can switch it off in seconds. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries, order value or a customer's decision, and a supplier offering a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan and send the room's dimensions.
Subtle is the setting, not the note. Same dry register as the floor, much lower. A genuinely enclosed meeting room often needs nothing at all; where it needs something it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899, and a Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy.
If the room genuinely needs something, it is one SOSA Sukoon - ultrasonic cool mist, rated for roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances so you can try a register before committing. ₹1,899, run at the bottom of its range. Under about 150 sq ft, a ₹849 reed instead and no schedule to manage.
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What subtle actually means
A number, not a note - and sometimes the number is zero
The machine for a small enclosed room
Two honest answers for a meeting area, decided by its cubic volume rather than by the showroom it sits inside. The images link to the product pages so you can read the specification first.
An enclosed meeting room of about 200 to 400 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances. For a closed room with a table in it this is the honest buy, run at the bottom of its intensity range and placed on the far wall from the customer's chair. The three scents let you live with a register for a week before settling.
From ₹1,899
Under about 150 sq ft, or no schedule wanted
SOSA Mountain Breeze reed
Himalayan pine, sage and cedar in an alcohol-free, phthalate-free base with six fibre reeds. Dry woods that sit underneath timber and veneer rather than arguing with them. 50ml ₹849 lasts six to eight weeks, 130ml ₹1,349 fourteen to eighteen. Flip the reeds weekly, and remember a bigger bottle buys months rather than metres.
From ₹849
The three things subtlety actually means here
Three practical translations of the word, in the order they should be applied. The first one is free and the third one is a decision you may only have to make once.
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Move it from the shelf to the dial
There is no delicate note that survives being run too high
People shop for subtlety among fragrances and it is not there. A dry cedar at a high setting is as intrusive as anything else on the market, and a much more assertive register run near the bottom of its range reads as clean air. Choosing a fragrance and choosing a level are two separate decisions and only the second one produces subtlety. So keep the register consistent with the rest of the showroom and take the subtlety out of the setting instead - which also solves a problem you would otherwise create, because a different fragrance in the meeting room would announce itself every time somebody walked through the door from the floor.
Tip: Same profile everywhere, different number in the small room.
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Test the room with nothing running
The honest baseline is what the room smells of when the machine is off
Before buying anything, shut the door and sit in the meeting room for ninety minutes with no fragrance at all, doing work that occupies you. Most owners are surprised: a well-aired room with clean surfaces smells of clean air, and clean air is a completely acceptable answer for a room whose job is a long conversation. If that is what you find, stop - the room is finished and it cost you nothing. If instead it reads flat and stale, the fix is air rather than fragrance: open the door between appointments, run the air conditioning on fresh air where the system permits, and clean the soft furnishings. A machine over an unaired room gives you an unaired room with a fragrance in it.
Tip: Do the ninety-minute sit with the machine off before you do it with the machine on.
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Buy for the room, not for the building
A meeting room is a few hundred square feet, and the machine should be too
The most common error I correct in this room is a large commercial machine bought for a small closed space because it was the one on the quotation. A Vaayu is rated to 1000m³ and a meeting room holds a small fraction of that, so the machine would spend its life pinned at the bottom of its range, which is not what you pay ₹11,999 for. The Vaayu becomes right when there is a display floor, an entrance and a separate room to connect on one air path - a different building from the one this question is about. For a single closed room the honest number is ₹1,899, and under about 150 sq ft it is ₹849 with no electricity at all.
Tip: If the room has one door and one table, it is a Sukoon question.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
The SOSA principle
Subtlety is not something you buy in a bottle; it is something you set on a dial, and in a small enclosed room the most subtle setting available is off.
Which is why the best answer for a well-aired meeting room is frequently that it already smells right and needs nothing added to it.
The plan for a meeting room
The whole decision as a sequence, and note that it can legitimately end at step two.
The SOSA plan
A kitchen design meeting area, decision by decision
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1. Sit in it with nothing on
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Ninety minutes, door shut, machine off. If the room smells of clean air, you are finished and you have spent nothing. |
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2. Fix air before fragrance
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Flat or unaired means ventilation, an open door between appointments and clean soft furnishings. Fit-out smells need weeks of curing, never a fragrance over the top. |
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3. Keep the register, drop the level
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The same dry, material-led profile as the display floor, run much lower. Nothing edible, in any meeting room, at any setting. |
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4. Buy for the room
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One Sukoon at ₹1,899 for 200 to 400 sq ft; a ₹849 reed under about 150. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the wrong buy for one closed room. |
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5. Judge from the chair
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Set it, leave it a day, then sit for ninety minutes. Ask the designers who use the room all week and treat a hesitation as a no. |
If your meeting area opens onto the display floor rather than sealing off from it, the answer changes and is set out in what a modular kitchen consultation room should smell like, and the reasoning behind the low number is in how strong fragrance should be when customers spend sixty to ninety minutes choosing a kitchen. The full method is in how to scent a kitchen studio without distracting customers during design consultations. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
One closed room, one small machine
SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899 covers roughly 270-320 sq ft and ships with three fragrances - which is the whole of what a meeting room needs, if it needs anything.
I have never yet talked somebody into a machine for a meeting room. About half the time I talk them out of the one they were about to buy, and the room is better for it.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the small machine is the right one
Rated for the room you have, not the building around it
The SOSA meeting-room specification
One small machine covers an enclosed meeting area, with a reed underneath it and the Vaayu waiting for the day the building has several volumes of air to connect. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately, so if a rollout is in your plans, confirm continuity of supply with SOSA before committing. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
The smallest sensible machine, at the smallest sensible number
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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An enclosed meeting room of roughly 200 to 400 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, run at the bottom of its range | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
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A meeting room under about 150 sq ft, or one that wants no schedule | Pine, sage and cedar; 50ml lasts 6-8 weeks and 130ml 14-18 weeks; a bigger bottle buys months, not metres | ₹849 View → |
 SOSA Vaayu
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Only once there is a display floor and an entrance to connect | 1000m³, waterless, app timers, key-lock, wall or HVAC mountable - a specification for a building, not for one closed room | ₹11,999 View → |
Start by sitting in the room with nothing running, fix the air before you consider the fragrance, then keep the showroom's register and take the subtlety out of the level. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like the lighting over your sample wall; it is never a mask for laminate, adhesive or new joinery, which need ventilation and curing time instead; and no one can promise you that scent moves a business number, so a supplier offering you one is selling rather than advising. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
Almost everybody who writes to me about a meeting room asks the question as a fragrance question - which delicate scent, which soft note, which one will not intrude. I always answer it as a number question, because that is what it is. There is no note gentle enough to be safe at the wrong setting, and there is no register so definite that it cannot be made almost invisible. Choose your fragrance for the showroom, then choose a smaller number for the small room, and you are done.
The part I care about more is the permission to buy nothing. A meeting room that gets its door opened between appointments, has clean chairs and a working air conditioner usually smells of clean air, and clean air is a good smell for a room where somebody is about to spend an hour and a half deciding on a kitchen. If that is where you land after sitting in the room for ninety minutes with the machine off, that is not a failed consultation - it is the right answer, arrived at honestly, and it costs nothing.
On hardware: a Sukoon at ₹1,899 if the room genuinely wants something, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 in a very small room. The Vaayu at ₹11,999 is a good machine and it is not this machine. Fragrance is never a substitute for ventilation, nobody can promise you a commercial result, and a newly fitted meeting room should be used unscented until the fit-out smell has gone. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best subtle fragrance for a kitchen design meeting area?
The same dry, material-led register you use across the showroom, run at a much lower setting. Subtlety is a level rather than a note. Dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage suit a room with warm joinery and veneer samples; a dry green, dry tea or clean mineral note suits a white and minimal one. Nothing edible belongs in the room at any setting, at all.
Does an enclosed meeting room need a diffuser at all?
Often not. It is a small volume with limited air exchange holding somebody who has not moved for sixty to ninety minutes, and if it already smells of clean air then leaving it alone is the honest answer. Sit in the room for ninety minutes with the door shut and nothing running before you buy anything. Clean air is a perfectly good smell for a long meeting.
Which machine suits a meeting room, and what does it cost?
A SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899, rated for roughly 270 to 320 sq ft and supplied with three 15ml fragrances, run at the bottom of its range and placed on the far wall from the customer's chair. A SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999 would be the wrong buy, since it is rated to 1000m3 and a meeting room holds a small fraction of that. Under about 150 sq ft a reed at Rs 849 is enough.
My meeting room smells stale. Should I add a fragrance?
No, add air. A stale room needs the door opened between appointments, the air conditioning running on fresh air where the system allows it, and the soft furnishings cleaned. If the smell is laminate, adhesive or new joinery, that is off-gassing and it needs ventilation and weeks of curing time. Fragrance never covers another smell, it simply gives you both of them at once.
Will a subtly scented meeting room help close a kitchen order?
No one can promise that, and I will not. SOSA has run no research that would support a figure, and there is no honest way to separate ambient scent from the design work, the samples and the pricing across a long meeting. The question worth answering is whether the room is comfortable at minute ninety for the person sitting in it, and that you can test yourself in an afternoon.
A level, not a note - and sometimes no level at all
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for kitchen design meeting rooms and consultation areas
The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) covers roughly 270-320 sq ft and ships with three 15ml fragrances; under about 150 sq ft a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is the honest answer, and the Vaayu at ₹11,999 only becomes right once a whole building has to be connected. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send the room's dimensions including ceiling height.
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About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the planning advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 5 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.