★ SOSA for Investment Firms and Family Offices
By making the client-facing zone the one deliberately non-responsive surface in a business whose entire product is responsiveness - and by writing its specification down on a good day so that nobody has to exercise judgement about it on a bad one
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★★★★★
"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
★ Sized to the client-facing zone, in the register the firm runs
SOSA VaayuA connected reception, lounge and corridorView ₹11,999
Mountain BreezeThe dry pine, sage and cedar registerView ₹849
Morning FreshnessThe cool register for a white, daylit officeView ₹749
✓ One register in the client-facing zone only - reception, the lounge and the corridor - set from the furthest chair at the end of the longest wait and then key-locked ✓ Trading and dealing floors are never scented and closed one-to-one meeting rooms are never scented, a named seating area is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested, and the client's preference overrides any plan ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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How do you hold that in practice? By writing the specification down on a good day - lighting, temperature, seating, screens, level in the air - and treating any deviation as a fault to correct rather than a judgement to make.
Why write it down at all? Because judgement exercised under pressure produces drift, and a firm that decides each morning what the lounge should feel like will have five different lounges by December.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 9 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 roughly 75-90 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, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply should be confirmed with SOSA. 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. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in an investment office is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it influences a client's decisions, judgement, risk appetite or emotional state, makes anyone feel calmer, more confident or more trusting, or affects assets under management, mandates, referrals, conversions, retention, inflows or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Trading and dealing floors are never scented, and closed one-to-one meeting rooms are never scented, because the people in them cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seating area away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or client lounge and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The client's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a client, visitor or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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.
By making it the one non-responsive surface in a business built to respond. Everything else about the firm reacts by design - that is the product. The client zone's whole value is that it does not.
Quick answers — read this first
How do I design a client environment that does not mirror market stress? By making it deliberately non-responsive. Every other part of an investment firm reacts to the market by design; the client zone's value is that it is the one part that does not.How do you hold that in practice? By writing the specification down on a good day - lighting, temperature, seating, screens, level in the air - and treating any deviation as a fault to correct rather than a judgement to make.
Why write it down at all? Because judgement exercised under pressure produces drift, and a firm that decides each morning what the lounge should feel like will have five different lounges by December.
The short answer
Short answer: by making the client zone the one deliberately non-responsive surface in the business, and by writing its specification down on a good day so nobody has to decide anything on a bad one.
The pick: one source at one recorded level: a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) across a connected lounge, or a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) - key-locked, with the number on the card.
Next step: write your baseline card this week, while nothing is happening. Or ask for an office scenting plan.
In this guide
One surface in the business where nothing happened today is the correct message.
Sized to the client zone - tap to see each
One machine, the client floor
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The areas that carry nothing
Which areas stay fragrance-free
Send the floor plan
Free office scenting plan
Straight answer
How do I design a client-facing environment that doesn't mirror the stress of the markets?
By deciding, deliberately, that it is the one part of the business that does not respond to anything. Everything else in an investment firm is responsive by design. The desk reacts to prices; the research reacts to events; the portfolio reacts to a mandate; the phones react to clients. Responsiveness is the product. Which is exactly why the client-facing zone should be the opposite - and its whole value is that it is the only surface in the building that did not react to today. A client arriving in a bad week walks through a business that is visibly responding to the world, and then sits in the one place that is exactly as it was last quarter. That contrast is the entire design brief, and it is free. The difficulty is not agreeing with this. It is holding it, because on any given bad morning somebody will want to help - turn the lights down, put something on, move the chairs, change the music, switch the diffuser up or off - and every one of those is a judgement made under pressure by somebody with good intentions. Judgement under pressure produces drift. A firm that decides each morning what the lounge should feel like will have five different lounges by December, none of them chosen. So the mechanism is a written baseline, produced on an ordinary day when nothing is happening. One card, on the wall of the back office, listing: the lighting level; the temperature setting; the seating layout; what is and is not on any screen; whether the music is on and at what volume; the level in the air and its key-lock number; and who is allowed to change any of it. The same card that runs a pre-meeting check runs this. Then the rule that makes it work: a deviation from the card is a fault to be corrected, not a decision to be made. Nobody has to judge whether the lounge feels right on a difficult Thursday. They check the card and restore it - which takes the whole question out of the hands of whoever happens to be nearest, on the day they are least able to answer it well. And the fragrance is on that card like everything else. One source at one recorded level - a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 across a connected lounge, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 - key-locked, with the number written down, so that neither raising it nor switching it off is available as a well-meant improvisation, because both directions are visible changes and both are read. Trading and dealing floors are never scented, and closed one-to-one meeting rooms are never scented. Fragrance-free seating is named in the lounge, on the card. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it makes no contribution to a client's decisions, judgement, risk appetite or emotional state, and SOSA makes no claim that it does. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the client's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
By making it the one non-responsive surface in a business whose product is responsiveness - and by writing the specification down on a good day, so that a deviation becomes a fault to correct rather than a judgement somebody makes under pressure.
One source, one recorded level: SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, key-locked.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for an office scenting plan
The honest ladder
One source for the client zone, sized to the floor
What to buy, and for which space
The honest options for the client-facing zone, sized to the floor rather than to the ambition. The images link to the product pages so every figure here can be checked.
A connected reception, client lounge and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - on one unit. In an investment office its value is control rather than reach: the key-lock holds the level the furthest lounge chair was judged to, so it survives every shift and every new receptionist, and the 1h/4h/8h/24h timer keeps it on office hours rather than saturating an empty floor overnight. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or signed documents. 400ml tank, roughly 75-90 days depending on intensity and run hours, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mount.
From ₹11,999
The register - or the whole answer where reception is one seating zone
SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
Himalayan pine, sage and Indian cedar - the driest register SOSA makes and the advisory default, because it reads as a considered room rather than as a hotel lobby. Where reception is a single seating group, this bottle at the staff end of the desk at ₹849 for 50ml carries the register on its own, three or four reeds in, flipped weekly; 130ml at ₹1,349 lasts 14-18 weeks. Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, six fibre reeds, and carried out of the room in seconds if a client asks.
From ₹849
One non-responsive surface, held by a card
Agreeing with this is easy. Holding it through a bad month is the part that needs a mechanism.
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Everything else
The firm responds by design
The desk reacts to prices, research to events, the portfolio to a mandate, the phones to clients. Responsiveness is the product you sell.
Rule: which is why one surface should not have it.
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The contrast
That is the whole brief, and it is free
A client walks through a business visibly responding to the world and then sits in the one place exactly as it was last quarter.
Rule: nothing has to be bought to achieve it.
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Drift
Good intentions on a bad morning
Somebody will want to help - dim the lights, change the music, move the chairs, adjust the diffuser. Each is a judgement made under pressure by somebody meaning well.
Test: five different lounges by December, none of them chosen.
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The card
Write it down on an ordinary day
Lighting level, temperature, seating layout, what is on any screen, music and volume, the level in the air and its lock number, and who may change any of it.
Rule: produced while nothing is happening.
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The rule
Deviation is a fault, not a decision
Nobody judges whether the lounge feels right on a difficult Thursday. They check the card and restore it, which removes the question from whoever is nearest.
Rule: on the day they are least able to answer it well.
The SOSA principle
A firm that decides each morning what the client lounge should feel like will have five different lounges by December, and nobody will have chosen any of them.
Which is why the baseline is written on an ordinary day and deviations are treated as faults - it takes the question away from whoever happens to be nearest, on the day they are least able to answer it well.
A non-responsive client zone, question by question
Why the contrast is the brief, why it drifts, and what holds it.
The SOSA investment office table
An environment that does not mirror the market
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What is the design principle?
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The client zone is the one deliberately non-responsive surface in a business whose entire product is responsiveness. |
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Why does that work?
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Because a client walks through a business visibly reacting to the world and then sits in the one place that is exactly as it was last quarter. |
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Why is it hard to hold?
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Because on a bad morning somebody with good intentions will want to help - and judgement exercised under pressure produces drift. |
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What is the mechanism?
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A written baseline card made on an ordinary day: lighting, temperature, seating, screens, music, the level in the air and who may change it. |
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How does the fragrance sit on it?
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As one source at one recorded level - a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) or a reed (₹849) - key-locked, so neither raising nor switching off is available as improvisation. |
The consistency argument is in whether the office should change during volatility, the checklist in a repeatable pre-meeting checklist, and the separation question in separating meeting areas from trading areas. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance affects a client's decisions, judgement or emotional state.
One register, the client-facing zone only, set from the furthest chair
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 waterless, key-locked and timed to office hours; Mountain Breeze ₹849 or Morning Freshness ₹749 as the register. Send the floor plan with the trading floor and meeting rooms marked and we will return it with the placement and the fragrance-free seating.
Responsiveness is the product you sell. Which is exactly why one surface in the building should have none of it at all.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Sized to the floor
The client zone gets one source; trading floors and closed meeting rooms get none
The SOSA investment office specification
One register, delivered at whatever size the client-facing zone is, with the rule that travels alongside each product. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA investment office specification
What goes where in an investment, advisory or family office
| Product | The space it fits | The rule that travels with it | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A connected reception, client lounge and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft | Wall or HVAC mounted on the far side of the client zone from the meeting-room doors; level set from the furthest chair at the end of the longest wait, then key-locked; timer on office hours | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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The register for the whole client zone; alone where reception is one seating group | Pine, sage and cedar - dry, and reads as a considered room rather than a hotel lobby; three or four reeds in at the staff end of the desk | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The same job in a white, glazed, daylit office | Malabar lemon, mint and eucalyptus - cool with no warmth; one register for the whole firm, never one per floor | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A reception or client lounge that is a closed room of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf on the wall the seating faces, on low, during office hours, rinsed between refills; water-based, so not the choice in a damp building | ₹1,899 View → |
 SOSA Boond
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A director's cabin, a small reception or a single desk | One small enclosed space only, on low; never on a trading floor or in a closed one-to-one meeting room | ₹899 View → |
A SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is the water-based rung for a single enclosed reception or client lounge of roughly 270-320 sq ft in a dry room, and a Boond (₹899) for a single cabin; both run on the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299), which is not reed diffuser oil and is not interchangeable with it. Above about 3,000 sq ft of one connected volume the step is one SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) on the duct, not a second Vaayu. Trading and dealing floors are never scented, and closed one-to-one meeting rooms are never scented - the people in them cannot leave and did not choose to be there - and that is achieved by placement and doors rather than by a lower setting. A named seating area away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered by the desk rather than waiting to be asked. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it makes no contribution to a client's decisions, judgement, risk appetite or emotional state, and it works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them. The client's preference overrides any plan. Ask for an office scenting plan and send the floor plan with the trading floor and meeting rooms marked.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
By deciding, deliberately, that it is the one part of the business that does not respond to anything. Everything else in an investment firm is responsive by design: the desk reacts to prices, the research reacts to events, the portfolio reacts to a mandate, the phones react to clients. Responsiveness is the product. Which is exactly why the client-facing zone should be the opposite, and its whole value is that it is the only surface in the building that did not react to today. A client arriving in a bad week walks through a business that is visibly responding to the world and then sits in the one place that is exactly as it was last quarter. That contrast is the entire design brief, and it is free.
The difficulty is not agreeing with this. It is holding it, because on any given bad morning somebody will want to help - turn the lights down, put something on, move the chairs, change the music, switch the diffuser up or off - and every one of those is a judgement made under pressure by somebody with good intentions. Judgement under pressure produces drift. A firm that decides each morning what the lounge should feel like will have five different lounges by December, none of them chosen. So the mechanism is a written baseline, produced on an ordinary day when nothing is happening: one card listing the lighting level, the temperature setting, the seating layout, what is and is not on any screen, whether the music is on and at what volume, the level in the air and its key-lock number, and who is allowed to change any of it.
Then the rule that makes it work: a deviation from the card is a fault to be corrected, not a decision to be made. Nobody has to judge whether the lounge feels right on a difficult Thursday; they check the card and restore it, which takes the whole question out of the hands of whoever happens to be nearest, on the day they are least able to answer it well. And the fragrance sits on that card like everything else - one source at one recorded level, a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 across a connected lounge or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, key-locked with the number written down, so that neither raising it nor switching it off is available as a well-meant improvisation. Trading and dealing floors are never scented, and closed one-to-one meeting rooms are never scented. Fragrance-free seating is named in the lounge, on the card. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it makes no contribution to a client's decisions, judgement, risk appetite or emotional state, and I make no claim that it does. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the client's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How do I stop the client area mirroring market stress?
By making it the one deliberately non-responsive surface in the business. Everything else in an investment firm reacts by design; this should not.
Why is that contrast valuable?
Because a client walks through a business visibly responding to the world and then sits in the one place that is exactly as it was last quarter.
Why does it drift?
Because on a bad morning somebody with good intentions wants to help, and every adjustment is a judgement made under pressure.
What holds it in place?
A written baseline card produced on an ordinary day - lighting, temperature, seating, screens, music, the level in the air, and who may change any of it.
What is the rule for deviations?
A deviation is a fault to be corrected rather than a decision to be made. Nobody judges the room on a difficult day; they check the card and restore it.
Write the baseline card while nothing is happening
SOSA — Studio Scenting one non-responsive surface
By deciding deliberately that it is the one part of the business that does not respond to anything. The desk reacts to prices, research to events, the portfolio to a mandate - responsiveness is the product, which is exactly why the client zone should be the exception, and its whole value is being the only surface that did not react to today. The difficulty is holding it, because on a bad morning somebody with good intentions will dim the lights or adjust the diffuser, and judgement under pressure produces drift. So write the baseline down on an ordinary day and treat any deviation as a fault to correct rather than a decision to make. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for an office scenting plan → SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
One more look at the range
Continue the read
More from SOSA
- SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999)
- SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849)
- Should the office change during volatility?
- A repeatable pre-meeting checklist
- Separating meeting areas from trading areas
- Avoiding chaos on high-volatility days
- When markets are falling and clients visit
- Environment as part of a long relationship
- Consistency when the trading floor is busy
- Ask us: Ask for an office scenting plan
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
Editorial standards & sources
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 9 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 roughly 75-90 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, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply should be confirmed with SOSA. 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. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in an investment office is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it influences a client's decisions, judgement, risk appetite or emotional state, makes anyone feel calmer, more confident or more trusting, or affects assets under management, mandates, referrals, conversions, retention, inflows or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Trading and dealing floors are never scented, and closed one-to-one meeting rooms are never scented, because the people in them cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seating area away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or client lounge and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The client's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a client, visitor or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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.