★ SOSA real estate scenting
The moment a buyer steps into your sales office, breathes in, and starts imagining the life - engineered with scent, held every day
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"We put the Vaayu in our sales gallery before a tower launch. Families walk in from the site dust and visibly settle - several have said the office feels like a hotel lobby. Our walk-in-to-site-visit ratio has clearly improved."
SOSA Vaayu · sales gallery
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"Our sample flat used to smell of fresh paint and POP. With the scenting on a timer, it now smells like a home someone already loves. Buyers linger in the living room instead of walking straight through."
SOSA Vaayu · sample flat
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"The experience centre runs one signature scent from reception to the model apartment. Channel partners bring clients in and comment on it - it has quietly become part of how our brand is described."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
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"Three sales offices across the city, the same fragrance in each. Buyers who visit a second office say it feels exactly like the first - which is precisely the consistency a brand needs. The app scheduling means my CRM team never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-office
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"The Aangan went into our clubhouse HVAC and the whole tour - lobby, lounge, gym corridor - carries one calm scent. Weekend walkthroughs feel like a resort tour now, and buyers say so."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
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"We are a small boutique developer and started with just a Sukoon at reception. Even at that scale, visitors stopped commenting on the construction smell and started commenting on the office. Best small upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · reception
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"We put the Vaayu in our sales gallery before a tower launch. Families walk in from the site dust and visibly settle - several have said the office feels like a hotel lobby. Our walk-in-to-site-visit ratio has clearly improved."
SOSA Vaayu · sales gallery
★★★★★
"Our sample flat used to smell of fresh paint and POP. With the scenting on a timer, it now smells like a home someone already loves. Buyers linger in the living room instead of walking straight through."
SOSA Vaayu · sample flat
★★★★★
"The experience centre runs one signature scent from reception to the model apartment. Channel partners bring clients in and comment on it - it has quietly become part of how our brand is described."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
★★★★★
"Three sales offices across the city, the same fragrance in each. Buyers who visit a second office say it feels exactly like the first - which is precisely the consistency a brand needs. The app scheduling means my CRM team never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-office
★★★★★
"The Aangan went into our clubhouse HVAC and the whole tour - lobby, lounge, gym corridor - carries one calm scent. Weekend walkthroughs feel like a resort tour now, and buyers say so."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
★★★★★
"We are a small boutique developer and started with just a Sukoon at reception. Even at that scale, visitors stopped commenting on the construction smell and started commenting on the office. Best small upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · reception
✓ Waterless cold-air nebulising - consistent throw up to ~1000m³, app + timer scheduling ✓ Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents ✓ HVAC systems for experience centres to 18,000 sq ft · made in India
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Why is overdosing worse in a sample flat than in a sales office? Volume. A sales office disperses fragrance across hundreds of cubic metres; a sample flat's living room might be forty, with the doors shut and the AC recirculating. The same output that whispers on a gallery floor shouts in a 3BHK, and the audience is a family - grandparents, children, sometimes an expectant mother - spending their most emotionally open twenty minutes of the visit there. An overdosed flat produces exactly the wrong somatic memory: tight air, a faint headache, the urge to step back outside. The calibration rule: dose for the buyer's first breath at the front door, at whisper level, on a timer - a Sukoon (Rs 1,799) at its gentlest setting covers most flats - and re-test weekly with a fresh nose.
Can fragrance hide the smell of fresh paint in a sample flat? No - and trying is the most damaging mistake on this list. Fragrance layered over active paint, adhesive or POP smell does not replace it; it blends with it into a hybrid that buyers instantly read as a cover-up, which converts a construction smell (forgivable - the project is under way) into a trust problem (what else is being covered?). The order of operations is fixed: ventilate at the source - cross-air the flat daily, run the exhausts, schedule paint work away from visiting days, give fresh work several days of airing - and only then add the signature as a finishing layer over clean air. A Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299) on a scheduled Sukoon (Rs 1,799) crowns a clean flat; it rescues nothing.
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Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with longer dwell time, improved evaluations of a space and its service, and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives unclean or poorly ventilated premises. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind luxury signature scents. Fragrance cannot compensate for location, pricing, construction quality or RERA compliance - it improves the experience of a visit, not the fundamentals of a project. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel or real estate brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
The sample flat is the smallest space in the sales journey and the easiest to get wrong: a compact closed volume, fresh construction smells, and a family's most emotional twenty minutes. The scenting failures here are not exotic - they are the same six mistakes, made in flat after flat, each with a cheap fix. Here they are, ranked by the damage they do.
Quick answers — read this first
What are the most common sample flat fragrance mistakes? Six recur: overdosing a compact closed volume (the fastest route to a headache complaint), using fragrance to mask fresh paint and POP instead of ventilating first, manual tour-time spraying instead of a scheduled machine, neglecting the kitchen and bathrooms so the tour's weakest air ambushes the buyer mid-walkthrough, ignoring humidity and closed-up damp, and running whatever fragrance was on hand rather than one chosen signature. Every fix is cheap: a Sukoon ultrasonic (Rs 1,799) on a timer, a refined Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299) at whisper dose, source-first ventilation, and neutral clean air in the wet areas. The flat's job is home-rehearsal; every mistake above breaks the rehearsal.Why is overdosing worse in a sample flat than in a sales office? Volume. A sales office disperses fragrance across hundreds of cubic metres; a sample flat's living room might be forty, with the doors shut and the AC recirculating. The same output that whispers on a gallery floor shouts in a 3BHK, and the audience is a family - grandparents, children, sometimes an expectant mother - spending their most emotionally open twenty minutes of the visit there. An overdosed flat produces exactly the wrong somatic memory: tight air, a faint headache, the urge to step back outside. The calibration rule: dose for the buyer's first breath at the front door, at whisper level, on a timer - a Sukoon (Rs 1,799) at its gentlest setting covers most flats - and re-test weekly with a fresh nose.
Can fragrance hide the smell of fresh paint in a sample flat? No - and trying is the most damaging mistake on this list. Fragrance layered over active paint, adhesive or POP smell does not replace it; it blends with it into a hybrid that buyers instantly read as a cover-up, which converts a construction smell (forgivable - the project is under way) into a trust problem (what else is being covered?). The order of operations is fixed: ventilate at the source - cross-air the flat daily, run the exhausts, schedule paint work away from visiting days, give fresh work several days of airing - and only then add the signature as a finishing layer over clean air. A Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299) on a scheduled Sukoon (Rs 1,799) crowns a clean flat; it rescues nothing.
The short answer
Short answer: The six sample flat fragrance mistakes: overdosing compact rooms, masking paint instead of ventilating, tour-time manual spraying, neglected kitchens and bathrooms, closed-up damp, and no chosen signature. The fixes: source-first ventilation, one refined blend (from Rs 299) on a timer-scheduled Sukoon (Rs 1,799) at whisper dose, and neutral wet areas. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The pick: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) for sales offices to ~1000m³; small-office systems from ₹1,799; HVAC from ₹25,999.
Talk to us: WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a free sizing and fragrance consult.
In this guide
A home purchase is the largest, most emotional transaction most families ever make - months of comparison ending in a decision that is mostly feeling. Scent marketing gives your sales office, gallery and sample flat a signature: one refined fragrance, held evenly, running on a schedule no staff member has to remember. Buyers experience it as "this developer feels premium" - the exact feeling that precedes a booking.
The sales office standard
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Small offices & cabins
Ultrasonic systems from ₹1,799
Experience centres
HVAC systems from ₹25,999
Straight answer
What goes wrong with sample flat scenting - and what is the fix for each mistake?
Six mistakes, six fixes. 1. Overdosing. Compact closed rooms amplify everything; the fix is whisper calibration on a scheduled Sukoon (₹1,799) - dose for the first breath at the door, never for impact. 2. Masking. Fragrance over fresh paint reads as a cover-up; ventilate at the source first, then let a Hotel Collection blend (from ₹299) finish clean air. 3. Tour-time spraying. The staff ritual of blasting freshener before each visit produces a chemical spike at exactly the buyer's arrival, then a gap; retire the cans and run the machine on a timer through visiting hours. 4. The forgotten rooms. The tour walks through the kitchen and past the bathrooms; if their air is stale, the ambush undoes the living room. Keep them ventilated and neutral - the signature lives in the living room and master, clean air lives everywhere. 5. Damp. A flat shut all week opens Monday smelling of closed air; a ventilation cycle before hours beats any fragrance. 6. The accidental scent. Whatever-was-on-hand fragrance splits the brand; run one chosen register - the same signature as the office floor's Vaayu (₹11,999) - from the commercial range. Audit all six quarterly with a fresh nose. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a flat audit checklist. Made in India; a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
One line: the six flat mistakes - overdose, masking, spray rituals, forgotten wet rooms, damp, accidental scents - all fixed by ventilation first plus one blend (from ₹299) whisper-dosed on a scheduled Sukoon (₹1,799). WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The sales office standard most developers choose: the SOSA Vaayu - waterless cold-air scenting to ~1000m³, Bluetooth app and timer, one signature on schedule - at ₹11,999. Small-office systems from ₹1,799; experience-centre HVAC from ₹25,999. Or WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a free sizing consult.
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The six mistakes, ranked by damage
The mistakes cluster into three families: too much, cover-ups, and the rooms everyone forgets.
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Mistake family one
Too much: overdosing and the spray ritual
These are the same error at two speeds. Overdosing is the slow version: a machine set for impact in a volume that needs a whisper, so the styled living room greets the family with pressure instead of atmosphere - and compact closed rooms give excess nowhere to go. The spray ritual is the fast version: a well-meaning salesperson sees a car pull up and empties half a can of freshener into the flat, so the buyer's first breath is a chemical cloud at its sharpest possible moment, followed by nothing an hour later. The fix retires both: one Sukoon (₹1,799) on its gentlest setting, timer-scheduled through visiting hours, settings locked, cans removed from the premises. Calibrate to the first breath at the front door, and re-test weekly with a morning-fresh nose - adaptation means the team stopped smelling the truth weeks ago.
Tip: if a visitor can name the fragrance in the first minute, the flat is overdosed - the target is atmosphere, not perfume.
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Mistake family two
Cover-ups: paint, POP and the trust arithmetic
A sample flat is usually the newest construction on the site, and it smells like it: paint, adhesive, POP dust, fresh polish. The mistake is treating fragrance as the answer. Scent does not delete a smell; it joins it, and the hybrid - jasmine over enamel, citrus over adhesive - is instantly legible to buyers as a cover-up. The arithmetic is brutal: a construction smell on its own is forgivable (the project is visibly under way), but a masked construction smell converts into suspicion, and suspicion is poison in a purchase built on trust. The order of operations is therefore fixed and non-negotiable: ventilate at the source - cross-air daily, run every exhaust during and after finishing work, schedule paint and polish jobs away from visiting days, give fresh work days of airing - and introduce the register only once a fresh nose reads the flat as neutral. Scent finishes clean air. It rescues nothing.
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Mistake family three
The forgotten rooms: kitchen, bathrooms, damp
The tour does not stop at the living room. Buyers open the kitchen cabinets, test the bathroom fittings, stand on the utility balcony - and the flats that scent only the living room hand these rooms to chance. A stale kitchen or a bathroom with a whiff of plumbing undoes the styled living room in one breath, because buyers weight bad smells far more heavily than good ones. The discipline: the signature lives in the living room and master bedroom; the kitchen and bathrooms get relentless neutrality instead - exhausts run daily, traps kept wet, no second perfume (a perfumed bathroom reads as masking, and buyers checking for seepage will assume the worst). The third forgotten enemy is damp: a flat sealed over the weekend opens Monday smelling of closed, moist air, worst in monsoon. Build a pre-opening ventilation cycle - doors open, exhausts on, AC dry mode - before the machine starts its shift.
Tip: buyers forgive a plain-smelling kitchen and never forgive a bad-smelling one - wet rooms need clean air, not perfume.
The SOSA principle
Every flat mistake is one of three: too much, a cover-up, or a forgotten room - and every fix costs less than the single visit it saves.
Whisper dose, clean air first, whole-flat thinking: the corrective discipline in three phrases.
Rebuilding the flat's air, the right way
The corrections, mapped to hardware.
The SOSA scent edit
Mistake to fix, at a glance
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| Overdose & sprays · ₹1,799 | A timer-scheduled Sukoon at whisper dose - never a manual can. |
| Paint masking · ₹0 | Ventilate at the source first; scent only finishes clean air. |
| Wet rooms & damp · ₹0 | Exhausts, airing cycles, neutral bathrooms - no second perfume. |
| Accidental scents · from ₹299 | One chosen Hotel Collection register - the brand's own signature. |
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Continue the section: room-by-room placement in model homes, choosing the flat's register, and the complete sample flat guide. Or see the Sukoon.
A sales office buyers remember by smell
The Vaayu sales office machine at ₹11,999, small-office systems from ₹1,799, HVAC scenting to 18,000 sq ft - one signature, on schedule, hands-off. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The living room was styled for a life - and the spray can at the door undid it in one chemical breath.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA real estate edit
Whatever you build and sell, the system logic is the same: one signature, sized to the space, scheduled so it never depends on a staff member's memory. Every SOSA system is supported from India, and the Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's own interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents - run across all of them. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Here is the full commercial range.
The SOSA real estate edit
Size the system to the space - sales cabins to flagship experience centres
| System | Best for | Why it works | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sukoon + Hotel Collection | Small offices, cabins & meeting rooms | 500ml ultrasonic mist for compact sales cabins, broker offices and consultation corners - the entry system | ₹1,799 + ₹299 |
| Megh (6L) | Mid-size sales offices | Large-tank ultrasonic for single-floor offices - long unattended runs through visiting hours | ₹3,499 |
| SOSA Vaayu ★ | Sales offices & galleries to ~1000m³ | Waterless cold-air nebulising, Bluetooth app + timer - the professional sales office standard | ₹11,999 |
| SOSA Aangan | Experience centres 8,000-10,000 sq ft | HVAC nebulising diffuser - one signature through the duct system, every zone of the centre | ₹25,999 |
| SOSA Meenar | Flagship centres 12,000-18,000 sq ft | The large-property HVAC system for flagship experience centres, clubhouses and townships | ₹38,500 |
| Hotel Collection refills | Every system's running cost | 100ml ₹999 / 300ml - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents | from ₹999 |
Honest notes for developers: scent marketing's effects on dwell time, perceived quality and recall are real but moderate - fragrance compounds a well-run sales office and rescues nothing; the premises must be clean, cool and well ventilated first, and no fragrance sells a badly located or badly priced project. Fresh paint, POP and construction smells should be aired out at the source before any scenting - the fragrance is the finishing layer over clean air, never a mask. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations inspired by the world's finest hotels; SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house, not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel or real estate brand. Ultrasonic systems use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance; the Vaayu and HVAC systems run waterless nebulising oil - the formats are not interchangeable. WhatsApp consult: +91 96192 18531. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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A note from Sonal
Developers understand experience better than almost any other business - you spend crores on the sales gallery, light the scale model like a jewel, dress the sample flat down to the books on the shelf. And then, in most projects, the air itself is left to chance: the site dust, the fresh paint, the phenyl from the morning mopping. The largest purchase your buyer will ever make deserves better air than that.
I trained at ISIPCA in Versailles, where the world's scent-marketing perfumers learn the craft, and what I build for Indian sales offices is the same architecture the global hospitality brands use: one signature, sized to the space, run on a schedule - so the scent is as reliable as your lighting. The machines matter (throw, coverage, scheduling), but the strategy matters more, and it is in every guide we publish. If you want it applied to your specific project, message us on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 - I read the project descriptions myself.
Everything is made or assembled for Indian conditions, supported from Pune - and a part of every order funds girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Your brand gets a memory; a girl gets a classroom. That equation has always felt right to me.
Frequently asked questions
How do we know if our sample flat is overdosed?
Three tests, none requiring equipment. The fresh-nose test: walk in first thing in the morning, before your nose adapts - if the fragrance announces itself inside two seconds rather than registering as pleasant air, the dose is high. The naming test: if visitors can identify the scent (that is jasmine, that is vanilla) rather than describing the room (it feels fresh, it feels calm), the level has crossed from atmosphere into perfume. And the behaviour test: watch for the tells - visitors stepping toward windows, shortened time in the smallest rooms, staff headaches by evening, or any comment containing the word strong. Any one of these is a calibration alarm: drop the machine a setting, re-test the next morning, and repeat until the fragrance sits at the threshold of awareness. In a compact flat the correct level always feels almost too little to the person adjusting it.
The flat still smells faintly of paint - should we delay opening it for visits?
Delay the scenting, accelerate the airing - and be honest about the threshold. A faint, fading paint note in a clearly just-finished flat is survivable for early visits if you are actively ventilating: buyers understand construction. What you must not do is perfume over it, because the hybrid smell converts a forgivable situation into a suspicious one. The practical protocol: cross-ventilate aggressively for several days (open opposing windows, run every exhaust, add a fan if airflow is poor), keep the flat warm during airing (heat speeds off-gassing), schedule any remaining touch-up work for after-hours or non-visiting days, and walk the flat each morning with a fresh nose. Introduce the Sukoon (Rs 1,799) and blend only on the morning the flat reads neutral. In most cases that is days, not weeks - a shorter delay than reprinting a brochure, for a much bigger effect on trust.
Should the sample flat's bathrooms have their own fragrance?
No statement fragrance - buyers inspect sample flat bathrooms harder than any other room, checking fittings, drainage and seepage, and a perfumed bathroom triggers exactly the suspicion you want to avoid: what is the perfume hiding? The correct bathroom standard is aggressive neutrality: exhaust fans run daily (not just during visits), floor traps kept wet so sewer gas never migrates up, fittings dried and polished, and at most a discreet, clean, quiet freshening far below the signature's presence - never a competing statement. The kitchen follows the same logic: no fragrance machine inside it, just relentless ventilation and cleanliness, with the living room's signature allowed to drift to its edge naturally. The rule of thumb for wet rooms across a show flat: they should smell of nothing, convincingly - in these two rooms, nothing is the luxury note.
Our sales team likes spraying air freshener before each tour - what should they do instead?
Nothing - and that is the upgrade. The machine's timer already holds the flat at the correct level through visiting hours, so the pre-tour ritual becomes a walk-through check rather than a spray: lights on, AC at temperature, exhausts running, machine schedule active, no cans anywhere. Redirect the team's instinct - which is a good instinct, care about arrival - toward the checks that actually protect the experience: is the flat aired, is the calibration untouched, does anything smell off at the door. Brief them on why the spray hurts: it front-loads a chemical spike onto the buyer's most sensitive moment (the first breath), varies wildly by who sprayed and how much, and collides with the signature the brand is paying to keep consistent. Then remove the cans physically; habits survive briefings. The fragrance is infrastructure now - scheduled, calibrated, hands-off - and the team's job is to protect it, not perform it.
What does humidity do to the flat's fragrance - and what about monsoon?
Humid air changes both the baseline and the register. The baseline: a closed, unused flat accumulates moisture, and moisture reads as damp - the musty Monday-morning smell that no fragrance should ever be asked to cover. Fix it at the source: a pre-opening ventilation cycle, exhausts on, AC in dry mode during monsoon weeks, and any actual seepage repaired rather than perfumed (buyers hunting for damp will find it, and a scented damp flat reads as concealment). The register: humid air carries scent more readily, so the same machine setting smells stronger in August than in January - drop the dose a notch in monsoon and re-test with a fresh nose rather than trusting winter's calibration. An ultrasonic Sukoon adds only a negligible fine mist, but keep it a sensible distance from fabric and electronics as standard practice. Season-aware dosing plus source-fixed moisture keeps the flat's air composed all year.
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SOSA — real estate scent marketing for the sales office buyers remember
Six mistakes, all cheaper to fix than one lost booking: whisper dose, clean air first, one signature held on schedule. Sukoon ₹1,799, blends from ₹299, WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a sample flat audit checklist. Made in India; 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 commercial range; the scent-marketing strategy advice applies to any developer's systems.Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with longer dwell time, improved evaluations of a space and its service, and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives unclean or poorly ventilated premises. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind luxury signature scents. Fragrance cannot compensate for location, pricing, construction quality or RERA compliance - it improves the experience of a visit, not the fundamentals of a project. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel or real estate brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.