★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
Fragrance never fights a draught; it waits for the draught to finish and then fills the room again, which is why the length of an opening matters more than the number of them
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
★ What a factory office with a busy door is choosing between
SOSA VaayuOne office volume, once the door shuts itselfView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuTimers on office hours, 90+ days a tankView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA ducted block with no plant door at allView ₹25,999
✓ A self-closer is the cheapest item in this plan and the one everything else depends on ✓ Raising the dial to beat a doorway makes the room loud whenever the door is shut ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
Should I turn the intensity up to compensate for the doors? This is the instinct to resist, and it is the most common mistake in this whole family of buildings. Fragrance does not push back against moving air; while the door is open the draught wins, and when it shuts the room re-establishes from the source at whatever level the source is set to. Raising the dial does nothing during the opening and makes the room noticeably heavier for the rest of the day — including for the visitor who arrives twenty minutes later and meets the compensated level with the door firmly shut.
What is the honest case where the answer is no? A doorway that is effectively always open. A trolley route running continuously, a supervisor who needs line of sight onto the line, a handle that broke and was never repaired, a hatch with no door in it at all. In those buildings the office and the works are one volume with an extraction fan at one end, the room will never settle to a level you can rely on, and I would rather tell you that than take ₹11,999 for a machine that will be blamed for a building problem.
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Facts verified 16 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 a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.
A machine can work perfectly well in a factory office where the doors keep opening, and the machine is not the part that decides whether it does. The door discipline is, and that is a carpentry decision you can settle before you spend anything at all on air.
Quick answers — read this first
So can a scent machine actually hold a level with doors opening all day? In most factory offices, yes — provided each opening is short. A door that swings, lets somebody through and shuts again in four seconds swaps a doorway-sized parcel of air and then the room refills itself from its own volume. Thirty or forty of those across a shift is a series of small interruptions, not a leak. What defeats the plan is duration rather than frequency: a door wedged open for an hour is a permanent hole between a conditioned office and a shed under extraction, and no setting on any machine closes it.Should I turn the intensity up to compensate for the doors? This is the instinct to resist, and it is the most common mistake in this whole family of buildings. Fragrance does not push back against moving air; while the door is open the draught wins, and when it shuts the room re-establishes from the source at whatever level the source is set to. Raising the dial does nothing during the opening and makes the room noticeably heavier for the rest of the day — including for the visitor who arrives twenty minutes later and meets the compensated level with the door firmly shut.
What is the honest case where the answer is no? A doorway that is effectively always open. A trolley route running continuously, a supervisor who needs line of sight onto the line, a handle that broke and was never repaired, a hatch with no door in it at all. In those buildings the office and the works are one volume with an extraction fan at one end, the room will never settle to a level you can rely on, and I would rather tell you that than take ₹11,999 for a machine that will be blamed for a building problem.
The short answer
Short answer: Yes, but the door does the deciding. Each opening is an air exchange, and fragrance does not fight a draught — it re-establishes afterwards from the source. So short openings are survivable and long ones are not. Fit a self-closer, place the machine at the far end of the office loop, set it low and leave it there, and never raise the dial to chase a doorway. If a door stands open all shift, the honest answer is no.
The pick: once the door shuts itself, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 at the far end of the office volume, run low on a timer covering office hours, with the production floor at zero.
Next step: tell us how the door behaves through a normal shift — how often it opens, how long it stays open and whether anything wedges it — and we will tell you honestly whether hardware is worth it yet: ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
Duration beats frequency here: forty short openings are survivable, one long one is not.
The office-side ladder — tap through for the coverage figures
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Where the boundary sits in the first place
Office scented, production floor at zero
Sized on your own drawing
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
Can a scent machine work in a factory office where doors keep opening to the production area?
Yes in most buildings, no in some, and the thing that decides which you have is not the machine at all — it is how long your doors stay open. Start with what an opening actually is. When the door between your office and the works swings, a doorway-sized parcel of conditioned office air leaves and an equivalent parcel of plant-side air arrives, because the plant is usually under extraction and the office is usually the nearest thing to a supply it has. That is an exchange, and it is over as soon as the door shuts. Now the part that people get backwards: fragrance does not fight a draught. While air is moving through an opening, whatever your machine is doing is irrelevant to that air; the draught wins, every time, and it should. What the source does is re-establish the room afterwards, quietly, from wherever it is standing, back to the level it is set to. Which means the honest variable is duration. Forty four-second openings across a shift are forty small interruptions with the room refilling itself between them, and a visitor sitting in reception will not perceive them as anything at all. One door wedged open from nine until five is not an interruption, it is a permanent hole between a conditioned room and a shed with a fan in it, and the office will simply never reach a level. That distinction is worth more to you than any specification sheet. It also explains the mistake I am asked to endorse most often, which is turning the intensity up to beat the doors. Raising the dial changes nothing during the opening, because the draught still wins, and it makes the room heavier for every hour the door happens to be shut — including the twenty minutes before your visitor walks in. So the order is: fit a self-closer, which is the cheapest line in this entire plan; place the source at the far end of the office loop rather than near the doorway; size the office volume in cubic metres; and only then buy one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 and run it low. Two limits worth repeating. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand-experience decision that works alongside your housekeeping, ventilation and source control rather than instead of them. And nobody can promise you it moves a business number — not an order, not an enquiry, not a contract — so a supplier offering you a figure for it is selling a story, not a machine.
Short openings are survivable, long ones are not. Scent re-establishes after a draught rather than fighting one, so fit a self-closer, stand the machine at the far end of the office loop, set it low and leave it alone.
Once the door shuts itself, the hardware answer is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed as far from the plant doorway as the office allows. Waterless, no moisture added, no residue on surfaces, 400ml at 90+ days, about 5W.
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Why placement and timing beat output in a building with busy doors
The room refills from the source, so the source should not be standing in the draught
The machines, and when a busy-door office should buy one at all
The order matters more than the ladder on this page: carpentry first, hardware second. Where the door can be made to shut itself and the office is a real volume rather than an extension of the shed, this is the short list, and the images link to the live product pages so the coverage figures can be checked against your own cubic-metre number.
One office volume behind a door that closes
SOSA Vaayu
₹11,999. Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling. Adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, app and onboard control, key-lock, under 38dB, a 400ml tank at 90+ days. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
A ducted office block with no plant doorway in it
SOSA Angaan
₹25,999. HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling, 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules, under 42dB. Meant for a whole corporate building on its own air handling, where door traffic to a works is not part of the picture.
From ₹25,999
The exchange, the re-establishment, and the closer that makes both manageable
Three mechanisms, in the order they act. What an opening does to the air, what the room does afterwards, and the single cheap piece of hardware that turns an unpredictable building into a predictable one.
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One
An opening is an exchange, and it is measured in seconds
Picture the doorway rather than the floor plan. Each time the door swings, a parcel of air the size of the opening moves through it, and in a factory office it almost always moves towards the works, because plant extraction runs continuously and a conditioned office is the most available supply in the building. Occasionally a shutter opens at the far end and the direction reverses for a minute or two, which is the case owners notice and worry about even though it is the rarer one. What matters for your plan is that the exchange is bounded by time. Four seconds of open door is four seconds of exchange. Forty such openings are forty small events spread across eight hours, with the room quietly refilling from its own volume in between. Frequency is not your enemy here; duration is, and duration is the one thing a piece of ironmongery can fix.
Tip: Stand by the door for ten minutes at the busiest part of the morning and time the openings rather than counting them. The number you want is seconds, not frequency.
This is why one Vaayu run steadily beats any amount of intensity: the room is being asked to recover, repeatedly, not to win an argument with a fan.
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Two
Scent re-establishes after a draught; it never fights one
The intuitive model is wrong and it costs people money. People imagine the machine and the doorway as two forces pushing against each other, and conclude that the machine must be made stronger. Air does not work that way. While the door is open, the moving air determines what is in the doorway and the source is simply carrying on at its own rate somewhere else in the room. When the door shuts, the room is slightly depleted, and the source refills it over the following minutes to the level it is set to — no higher. So the level in your reception between openings is decided entirely by the setting, and the level during an opening is decided entirely by the building. Turning the dial up therefore has no effect on the moment you were worried about, and a large effect on every other moment, which is the exact opposite of what you wanted.
Tip: If somebody in the office has already raised the setting to fight the doors, drop it back and leave it alone for two weeks before judging. Adapted noses need that long.
A Vaayu on a timer that starts an hour before the first appointment does more for a busy-door office than any increase in output could.
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Three
The self-closer, the placement, and then the sum
The closer comes first because it is the only item that changes the physics rather than the perception, and it is a few hundred rupees of ironmongery against ₹11,999 of hardware. Then placement: put the source at the end of the office loop furthest from the plant doorway, on the supply side of whatever conditioning you have, so the room feeds itself instead of feeding the door. Then the arithmetic, in cubic metres rather than square feet: square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929. Take a works at Singanallur building winding and sizing machines for the mills, with the office strung across the front of the shed in the usual way: an office side of 1,000 sq ft under a 3.1 m ceiling is 1,000 × 3.1 × 0.0929, or about 288 m³. Add a 350 sq ft accounts bay that shares the same air and you are at roughly 389 m³. That is comfortably inside one machine rated to 1000m³, and it should be bought to run at the bottom of its range, not the middle.
Tip: If the door cannot take a closer because of a trolley route, ask whether the trolley route could move. Moving a route costs nothing and fixes the building permanently.
With the sum landing near 389 m³ against a 1000m³ rating, a Vaayu has most of its range unused — which is the margin that absorbs a busy door.
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The SOSA principle
The wrong mental model is a machine pushing against a doorway. The right one is a room that empties a little and refills itself, over and over, all day — so the useful lever is how long each opening lasts, and the useless one is how hard the source is working.
That is also why a quiet building drifts louder over months: every time somebody raises the dial to beat a door, the setting stays raised long after the door has shut.
Door patterns, and what each one actually allows
Read down this table until you find your own building, and take the row seriously — including the last two, which are the ones where I would rather you kept the money. Where the boundary itself sits is a separate question, handled in office scented, production floor at zero.
The SOSA plan
How the door behaves, and what the room can hold because of it
| The door pattern through a shift | What the office volume can actually hold |
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Swings open, shuts in a few seconds, thirty to fifty times
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A level holds perfectly well. Each opening is a brief exchange and the room refills between them. One machine at the far end of the loop, run low, on office-hours timers, and no adjustment for the door at all. View → |
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Stands open twenty or thirty seconds each time, trolleys through
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Workable, once a closer is fitted and the source is moved away from the doorway. Expect the room near the door to read lighter than the seating area, and set the level for where the visitor sits rather than for the threshold. View → |
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Wedged or hooked open for most of the shift
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No, and I would rather lose the sale. The office is not a volume in that condition, it is an antechamber to a shed under extraction. Fix the door and the habit first; that is carpentry and management, and it costs a fraction of a machine. |
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An open archway or hatch with no door fitted at all
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Buy nothing. There is no boundary to work with, so there is no office volume to size and nothing that would hold a level. A partition and a self-closing door turn this into the first row; until then a reed on the desk is the sensible ceiling. |
The rule about which side of that door is in the plan at all — office in, works at zero — is set out in scenting the office but not the production floor. Where to physically stand the machine once the door is sorted is in installing without scenting the factory. And if what is coming through the door is an industrial smell rather than merely a draught, read fragrance or airflow first before buying anything, because fragrance added on top leaves you with both. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial number.
The door behaviour decides the answer, so describe it
Tell us how often that door opens, how long it stays open and whether anything wedges it, and we will say honestly whether to buy yet.
Fragrance never fights a draught. It waits for the draught to finish and refills the room — which is exactly why a door that never closes never lets it start.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where the ladder goes once the door shuts itself
One source per connected office volume, placed away from the busy doorway
The SOSA busy-door specification
Carpentry first, then placement, then the cubic-metre sum, then the machine — run low and left alone. The production floor stays at zero throughout. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA busy-door specification
Specified after the door is fixed, never to compensate for it
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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An office volume behind a door that shuts itself in seconds | ₹11,999, 1000m³, plenty of margin in reserve, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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A corporate block on its own air handling, no works doorway | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected where the ducting allows, 800ml reservoir | ₹25,999 View → |
If the door is wedged open through the shift, or there is no door at all, buy nothing yet — a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 on the desk is the honest limit until the carpentry and the habit are sorted. Ambient scent here is an interior and brand-experience decision, with no claim that it affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial number; nobody can promise that, and a quoted figure is a story. It sits alongside housekeeping, ventilation and source control rather than replacing them, and it does not remove, settle or reduce dust. The production floor, the stores and every area governed by a plant safety rule or a customer's audit requirement stay unscented, and those protocols decide, not us. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no installation and no maintenance terms; a multi-site question goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and we will size the office side from your drawing.
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A note from Sonal
A Coimbatore owner once sent me a video of his reception with the caption "it disappears every time the door goes". He builds winding machines for the mills at Palladam, and his buyers arrive expecting to be walked straight through to the assembly bay. He had the machine on its highest setting, the tank was emptying in weeks rather than months, and the room on a still afternoon was genuinely unpleasant. The door in question opened onto a passage to the works and stayed open roughly half the day, because a trolley went through it every few minutes and nobody wanted to keep pulling it.
We changed two things and neither of them was the machine. A closer went on the door, and the trolley route was moved to a side shutter that had been there all along. Within a fortnight he took the intensity down three steps, and the tank went back to lasting the way it should. The room was better because the building had changed, not because the air had.
That is the whole argument of this page, and it is an awkward one to publish on a site that sells machines. Fix the door, then decide about hardware. We make no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial outcome, and if a business case has been put to you on that basis, there is nothing underneath it. What a settled room can do is stop contradicting the company standing behind it. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How many door openings an hour is too many?
Frequency is the wrong measurement. Time them instead. Openings of a few seconds are survivable at almost any frequency, because the room refills between them. What breaks the plan is any single opening measured in minutes, and especially a door held open for a whole shift. If you must have a number, worry when the door is open for more time than it is shut.
If the fragrance drops when the door opens, should I raise the intensity?
No — this is the one adjustment that reliably makes things worse. During the opening the moving air decides what happens and the setting is irrelevant; after it, the room refills to whatever you have set. So a higher setting does nothing for the moment you are trying to fix and makes every other hour of the day heavier, including the hour before an important visitor arrives.
Is a PVC strip curtain or a fabric curtain as good as a door?
Better than a permanently open hole, worse than a door that closes — and it is the fitting I meet most often in a Coimbatore unit, hung in the office doorway on the day the office was air-conditioned and the shed was not. A strip screen slows an exchange rather than stopping it, and it does nothing about a continuous pressure difference between a conditioned office and a shed under extraction. If a swing door genuinely cannot be fitted, a screen plus a source placed at the far end of the office is a reasonable compromise, with expectations lowered accordingly.
Where should the machine stand if the door cannot be moved?
As far from that doorway as the office allows, on the supply side of whatever conditioning you have, so the air it enters is air that circulates back into the room rather than air on its way out. In practice that usually means the seating end of reception rather than the passage end — the opposite of where most people instinctively put it.
What if the busy door is the main entrance rather than the plant door?
The mechanism is identical and the remedy is the same: shorten the opening, then place the source inward rather than in the entrance lobby, so the visitor crosses into the scented volume instead of meeting it in the draught. An entrance door usually gets a closer more easily than an internal one, because somebody has already thought about the conditioning bill. If your visitor door opens straight onto a service road off the Avinashi Road corridor, you have the additional argument that every opening brings the traffic in as well, and the closer earns its money twice.
Carpentry first, hardware second
SOSA — Factory Office Scenting the door decides, and the door is cheap to fix
Fit a self-closer, move the source to the far end of the office loop, size the volume in cubic metres, and then run one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 at the bottom of its range with the production floor at zero. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 16 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 a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.