★ SOSA for Hair Transplant and Hair Restoration Clinics
A reed diffuser is a volume control, not a range control - a stronger oil makes the desk louder, it does not make the clinic wider
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★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"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
★ The one change that actually adds reach
SOSA VaayuPuts scent into moving air, not still airView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuWall or HVAC mount, so a corridor carriesView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuOne level, held, on a timerView ₹11,999
✓ Waterless cold-air nebulisation, which supplies its own motive force instead of waiting for a room to carry the scent for it ✓ Wall and HVAC mountable, which is the only reliable way to reach past the room the source is standing in ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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Would more bottles fix it? Not in the way founders hope. Several bottles in several places give you several separate local pools with faded gaps between them, which reads as inconsistency rather than as coverage. A reed's reach is set by two things: the exposed surface area of wetted reed, and how much the air in that room actually moves. Six reeds in one bottle is a small evaporating surface, and a still corridor has nothing to carry it. Adding a fourth bottle does not join the pools up - it just adds a fourth pool.
So what are my two options, and what do they cost? Either accept the reeds for what they honestly are, or change the mechanism. Accepting them means one good 130ml bottle at the desk - Mountain Breeze at ₹1,349 or Morning Freshness at ₹1,249, lasting 14-18 weeks - and stopping there. Changing the mechanism means one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Total is either ₹1,349 or ₹11,999, and both are legitimate answers.
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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.
This is the most common fragrance question I am sent by clinic founders, and the honest answer disappoints everybody twice. The oil is not weak. The bottle is not too small. You are asking a passive object to do a job that requires moving air, and it has no way of moving any.
Quick answers — read this first
Do I need a stronger fragrance oil? No, and a stronger one would make the problem slightly worse. A reed diffuser is a volume control, not a range control. Increasing the concentration raises how much scent leaves the reeds per hour, which is felt almost entirely in the metre or two around the bottle - so the desk gets more noticeable while the far end of the clinic stays exactly as it was. What you would have bought is a stronger local pool rather than a wider one, and the receptionist sitting beside it all day is the person who pays for that.Would more bottles fix it? Not in the way founders hope. Several bottles in several places give you several separate local pools with faded gaps between them, which reads as inconsistency rather than as coverage. A reed's reach is set by two things: the exposed surface area of wetted reed, and how much the air in that room actually moves. Six reeds in one bottle is a small evaporating surface, and a still corridor has nothing to carry it. Adding a fourth bottle does not join the pools up - it just adds a fourth pool.
So what are my two options, and what do they cost? Either accept the reeds for what they honestly are, or change the mechanism. Accepting them means one good 130ml bottle at the desk - Mountain Breeze at ₹1,349 or Morning Freshness at ₹1,249, lasting 14-18 weeks - and stopping there. Changing the mechanism means one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Total is either ₹1,349 or ₹11,999, and both are legitimate answers.
The short answer
Short answer: neither. A reed diffuser is a volume control rather than a range control, so a stronger oil raises the level at the desk without extending the reach past it. Range comes from exposed reed surface area and from air that moves, and a reed supplies neither. Either keep a deliberate local baseline at the desk from ₹1,349, or move to an active machine at ₹11,999.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) if you want the reception and corridor to read as one space, or a single 130ml Mountain Breeze (₹1,349) if you are content for the scent to live at the desk and nowhere else.
Next step: tell us where the reeds stand today, how far the clinic runs past them and whether the air moves in that direction, and we will tell you which of the two answers your building actually needs - Ask for a clinic scenting plan.
In this guide
Both forks are honest answers. What is not honest is spending on stronger oil and expecting range from it.
The machine that adds range - tap to see the specification
If you want reception and corridor to read as one space
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The same physics, at clinic scale
Why does my reed smell strong beside reception but disappear across the clinic?
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Straight answer
Does a clinic whose reeds only reach the reception desk need a stronger oil or a different diffusion method?
A different method, or a change of expectation - but not a stronger oil, and I would say that even if I sold nothing else. Here is the mechanism, because once you can see it the decision makes itself. A reed diffuser is a passive evaporator. Oil climbs the fibre reeds by capillary action, sits on the exposed surface, and leaves that surface at a rate set by how much wetted reed is showing and how much the air around it happens to be moving. That is the entire physics. Notice what is missing: nothing in that description supplies any motive force. The bottle cannot push scent anywhere. It relies completely on the room to carry it, and a clinic reception with the doors shut and the air conditioning blowing in a different direction is not carrying anything more than a couple of metres. So a reed diffuser is a volume control, not a range control. Raising the concentration of the oil raises how much leaves the reeds per hour, and almost all of that increase is felt in the metre or two around the bottle. You get a stronger desk, not a wider clinic, and the person who pays for it is whoever sits at that desk for nine hours. The same logic disposes of the two other instincts: a bigger bottle buys you months rather than metres, since reservoir size sets longevity and exposed reed area sets reach, and more bottles in more places give you a series of separate local pools with faded gaps in between, which patients read as inconsistency rather than coverage. That leaves two honest answers, and I genuinely recommend both to different clinics. The first is to accept the reeds for what they are and treat the desk as a deliberate local baseline: one good 130ml bottle - Mountain Breeze at ₹1,349 or Morning Freshness at ₹1,249, lasting 14-18 weeks, six reeds, flipped weekly - standing where a patient checks in, and no attempt at all to make the rest of the clinic match. Plenty of good clinics run exactly this and it costs ₹1,349. The second is to change the mechanism, which means an active machine that supplies its own air rather than borrowing the room's: one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, waterless, rated to 1000m³, wall or HVAC mountable so a corridor genuinely carries. Whichever you pick, the clinical half of the building is untouched: procedure rooms, recovery and photography stay completely unscented. This is an ambience decision with no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside cleaning and ventilation rather than instead of them and is never a mask for another smell, and your judgement as the treating clinician overrides it in your own rooms. Ask for a clinic scenting plan and tell me how far past the desk you need it to read.
Not a stronger oil. A reed is a volume control, not a range control, and reach comes from exposed reed surface and moving air. Either accept a local baseline at the desk from ₹1,349, or change the mechanism with one Vaayu at ₹11,999.
If you want range, the mechanism has to change: one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, rated to 1000m³, wall or HVAC mountable, under 38dB, with a 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill. ₹11,999. If you would rather keep the reeds, buy one 130ml bottle at ₹1,349 and stop trying to make it travel.
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What the bottle can and cannot do
Capillary action moves oil up a reed. Nothing moves it across a room
The two machines, and the two totals
One of these gives you a deliberate local baseline for ₹1,349 and the other gives you actual range for ₹11,999. There is no version of this where a stronger oil in the same bottle does either.
Fork two - change the mechanism
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, app and onboard timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, auto-stop and key-lock. It supplies its own air path and can be wall or HVAC mounted, which is what puts scent down a corridor rather than around a desk.
From ₹11,999
Fork one - accept the local baseline
SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
Himalayan pine with sage and cedar, alcohol-free and phthalate-free on a coconut-derived base, six fibre reeds, flipped weekly. 50ml at ₹849 lasts 6-8 weeks; 130ml at ₹1,349 lasts 14-18 weeks. Buy the larger size for fewer changeovers, not for more reach - the reach is identical.
From ₹849
Why reeds behave this way
Three things about reed diffusers that explain everything you are seeing, in the order they matter.
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Understand what sets the reach
Exposed reed surface area, and air that happens to be moving
The rate at which scent leaves a reed diffuser is set by how much wetted reed surface is exposed to air and how briskly that air is passing over it. Neither of those has anything to do with the strength of the oil or the size of the bottle. Six reeds present a very small evaporating surface, which is why the effect is intense within a metre and gone by four. Fanning the reeds wider and flipping them weekly genuinely helps a little, because both increase exposed surface. Moving the bottle to where air actually moves - near a door that opens, or in the path of a return grille rather than tucked into a corner behind a monitor - helps more. It also empties the bottle faster, and that trade is real.
Tip: Flip the reeds once a week and fan them out rather than leaving them bunched. It is free and it is the only reach you get without changing method.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
2
Stop buying strength you cannot use
A stronger oil is felt by your receptionist, not your patients
This is the fork in the road where most clinic money gets wasted. Concentration and reach are different axes, and only one of them is for sale in a bottle. Turning up the concentration raises the level inside the small volume of air immediately around the reeds, which is precisely where somebody works all day, while the far end of the clinic registers no change at all. Over a few months this produces the specific failure I get called about: a reception that visitors find slightly heavy and staff have stopped noticing, and a waiting area that still smells of nothing. If your reeds are already noticeable at the desk, they are already doing everything a reed can do, and the honest next step is either to leave them alone or to change the method.
Tip: If the front-desk staff have stopped noticing it and visitors mention it, the level is already too high - that is not an argument for more oil.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
3
Change the mechanism if you want range
An active machine brings its own air path
The difference between a reed and a cold-air machine is not strength, it is agency. The reed waits for the room to carry it. The Vaayu nebulises undiluted oil into a dry cold-air stream and can be wall or HVAC mounted, so it puts scent into air that is already going somewhere. That is why one machine at ₹11,999 covers a reception, a waiting area and a corridor consistently while four bottles at ₹1,349 each never join up. It is also waterless, which matters in a building doing clinical work, it runs under 38dB, and the intensity is adjustable with a key-lock so nobody raises it quietly. Under about 750 sq ft of front of house, buy a Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead.
The SOSA principle
A reed diffuser answers the question of how much, and never the question of how far. Every rupee spent on stronger oil is spent on the wrong axis.
Reach is not a property you can buy in a bottle. It is a property of moving air, and a reed has no air of its own.
The plan, whichever fork you take
Both columns below are honest answers. Pick the one that matches how far past the desk you actually need it to read.
The SOSA plan
Reeds that stop at the desk - the two ways forward
| The step | What to do |
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Free, do this first
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Flip and fan the reeds weekly, and move the bottle out from behind the monitor into air that actually moves. This is the only reach a reed has left to give. |
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Fork one: accept the local baseline
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One 130ml bottle at the check-in point, 14-18 weeks a bottle, and no attempt to make the rest of the clinic match. Total ₹1,349. |
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Fork two: change the mechanism
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One waterless machine on the reception air path, wall or HVAC mounted, low fixed intensity, clinic-hours timer. Total ₹11,999. |
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The cheaper machine
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If the whole front of house is one reception under about 750 sq ft, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 is the honest active answer and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. |
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What not to buy
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A stronger oil, a bigger bottle bought for range, or a fourth reed bottle in a fourth corner. None of the three changes how far it reaches. |
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Never scented, either way
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Procedure and graft rooms, recovery and post-procedure areas, photography and documentation rooms. |
The physics behind this, written up on its own, is in why a reed smells strong beside reception but disappears across the clinic, and the straight comparison of the two forks - with what each one honestly buys you - is in reed diffuser vs waterless scent machine for a hair clinic reception. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Range is a mechanism, not a concentration
The SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 nebulises into its own cold-air stream and mounts to a wall or HVAC line, which is how a corridor finally carries.
I have never once solved a reach problem by selling someone a stronger oil, and I have watched a lot of clinics try it before they called me.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the machine reaches and the bottle does not
One supplies the air. The other borrows it and usually finds none
The SOSA clinic specification
One of these is a considered local baseline and the other is a distribution system, and the price difference reflects exactly that. Reeds are alcohol-free and phthalate-free on a coconut-derived base; the Vaayu is waterless and adds no moisture to a clinical building. Made in India, composed in Pune to IFRA standards, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
Local baseline at ₹1,349, or actual range at ₹11,999
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
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A check-in desk you are happy to scent locally and deliberately | 130ml at ₹1,349 lasting 14-18 weeks, six reeds flipped weekly, no electronics and nothing to switch off | ₹849 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A reception, waiting area and corridor that should read as one space | 1000m³ coverage, wall or HVAC mount, adjustable intensity, key-lock, timers, under 38dB, waterless, 400ml tank 90+ days a fill | ₹11,999 View → |
Do the free things first - flip the reeds, fan them, move the bottle into moving air - and then pick a fork rather than buying strength you cannot use. Fragrance here is an ambience decision like lighting or seating and carries no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim; it works alongside cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to mask another smell; and every procedure, recovery and photography room stays completely unscented whichever fork you take. Ask for a clinic scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
Nine times out of ten, the founder writing to me about this has already bought the stronger oil. Sometimes they have bought three more bottles as well, and put one in each corner, and the clinic still has a strong patch at the desk and a nothing patch in the waiting area. It is such a common sequence that I now describe it before they finish the sentence, and the relief on the other end of the call is usually about discovering it was never their fault.
The substance is simple enough to hold in one hand. A reed bottle has no way of moving air. It relies entirely on the room, and most air-conditioned clinic receptions have almost no air movement at floor and desk level in the direction you want. So the oil evaporates into a small volume immediately around the reeds and stays there. Raising the concentration raises what is in that small volume. Adding bottles adds more small volumes. Neither one produces a room that reads as one continuous space, because that requires air with somewhere to go, and the only way to buy that is to buy a machine that makes its own.
So there are two answers I am happy to give and one I refuse. Keep the reeds and let them be a deliberate local touch at check-in - one 130ml Mountain Breeze at ₹1,349, flipped weekly, total ₹1,349. Or change the mechanism with one Vaayu at ₹11,999, or a Sukoon at ₹1,899 if the front of house is small. What I will not do is sell you a stronger oil and let you believe it will travel. The clinical rooms get nothing at all in either plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
My reed diffusers can only be smelled near reception - do I need a stronger fragrance oil or a different diffusion method?
A different method, or a change of expectation, but not a stronger oil. A reed diffuser is a volume control rather than a range control: raising the concentration raises the level in the metre or two around the bottle and changes nothing at the far end of the clinic. Reach is set by exposed reed surface area and by air that is actually moving. Either accept a deliberate local baseline at the desk, or move to an active machine.
Will a bigger bottle reach further?
No. Reservoir size sets how long the bottle lasts, and exposed reed surface sets how far it reaches. A 50ml lasts 6 to 8 weeks and a 130ml lasts 14 to 18 weeks, and both project about the same distance because both carry six reeds. Buy the larger size to change it four times a year instead of eight, which is a good reason, and not because you expect more metres from it.
What about putting reed diffusers in every room?
You get several separate local pools with faded gaps between them, which patients read as inconsistency rather than as coverage. It also multiplies the maintenance and makes it harder to keep one profile honest across the clinic. If you want reception, waiting and corridor to read as one continuous space, that is a distribution problem and it needs a machine that supplies its own air path.
What does each option cost in total?
Keeping the reeds and treating the desk as a deliberate local baseline is one 130ml bottle: Mountain Breeze at Rs 1,349 or Morning Freshness at Rs 1,249, lasting 14 to 18 weeks. Changing the mechanism is one SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999, which covers up to 1000 cubic metres and mounts to a wall or an HVAC line. If the whole front of house is one reception under about 750 sq ft, a SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899 is the honest active answer instead.
Is there anything free I should try first?
Yes, three things. Flip the reeds once a week and fan them out rather than leaving them bunched, because both increase the exposed surface. Move the bottle out from behind a monitor into air that actually moves, such as near a door that opens regularly. And check whether the air conditioning is blowing away from the area you want it to reach. None of these will transform the range, but they are the only reach a reed has left to give and they cost nothing.
Two honest answers, two honest totals
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The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) supplies its own cold-air stream and mounts to a wall or HVAC line, which is the only way a corridor genuinely carries - and if you would rather keep a deliberate local baseline at the desk, one 130ml reed diffuser at ₹1,349 is a perfectly good clinic. 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 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.