★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
It takes away the delivery system, because a modern office distributes through ducts and supply diffusers while an old high-ceilinged property usually has no mechanical air movement in the room at all - which makes natural convection the only transport you have, and placement the only control
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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 visitor-facing zone, in the register the business 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 visitor-facing zone only - entrance, reception and the waiting area - set from the furthest seat at the end of the longest wait and then key-locked ✓ Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented, a named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Hyderabad
What moves the air instead? Buoyancy. Warm air rises and cool air falls, and the route is decided by where the heat is and where the openings are, particularly a stairwell or a fanlight above a door.
How do I find the route? Tape a short length of light thread at four points and photograph them three times in a day. That gives you the building's own circulation without any instruments.
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 a commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention 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. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient 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.
It removes the delivery system. A ducted office distributes for you; an old high-ceilinged room usually has no mechanical air movement at all, so convection is the transport and placement is the only control you have.
Quick answers — read this first
Why is an old high-ceilinged room different? A modern office has ducts, supply diffusers and returns doing the distribution. An old property often has only a split unit recirculating in a band and a ceiling fan, which is not the same thing.What moves the air instead? Buoyancy. Warm air rises and cool air falls, and the route is decided by where the heat is and where the openings are, particularly a stairwell or a fanlight above a door.
How do I find the route? Tape a short length of light thread at four points and photograph them three times in a day. That gives you the building's own circulation without any instruments.
The short answer
Short answer: it removes the delivery system. With no ducts, natural convection does the distribution, so the source goes low, in the occupied band, away from the stairwell that acts as a chimney.
The pick: a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) placed from the thread test, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze (₹849) where the client area is one seating group.
Next step: tape four threads up tomorrow morning and photograph them at ten, one and five. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
Four threads and three photographs will tell you more than any calculation of the volume.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
One machine, the visitor floor
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The areas that carry nothing
Which areas stay fragrance-free
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
How does an older Secunderabad property with high ceilings change fragrance diffusion?
It changes one thing fundamentally, and it is not the volume. It removes the delivery system. In a modern fit-out, distribution is somebody else's job: ducts, supply diffusers and returns move air around the floor continuously whether you think about it or not, and a machine placed anywhere reasonable gets carried. An older Secunderabad property with a fourteen-foot ceiling, deep window reveals, a fanlight over the door and a stairwell usually has none of that. It may have a split unit, which recirculates within a band and is not ventilation, and a ceiling fan, which stirs a cone beneath itself and is not distribution either. So there is nothing carrying anything, and the transport falls back to the only mechanism left, which is buoyancy. Warm air rises, cooler air falls in to replace it, and the loop that results is decided entirely by where the heat is and where the openings are. This has three consequences that matter more than any arithmetic about cubic metres. The first is that a stairwell, an open fanlight or a gap above a door is a chimney. It is the top of the loop, it runs all day, and anything released near it leaves the room permanently. Businesses in old buildings routinely place a diffuser on the landing side or near the stair because that is where the power point is, and then report that it does nothing. It is doing exactly what the building asked it to do. The second is that the occupied band is low. People sit and stand in the bottom five or six feet of a room that is fourteen feet high, and in a room with no mechanical mixing, output released high does not come back down - the upward loss question has its own page, but in an old property it is worse, because nothing is pushing back down. The third is that the route is not constant. The sun on a west-facing wall in the afternoon sets up a completely different circulation from the one that exists at ten in the morning, so a room you judged once has only been judged once. Which hands you a test that costs nothing and beats any estimate. Tape a ten-centimetre length of light sewing thread at four points: just inside the door, at the window bay, at the foot of the stair, and in the middle of the room at head height. Photograph all four at ten in the morning, at one, and at five. You now have the building's own circulation, in its own hand, for the price of a reel of thread - and the placement rule is to put the source where air is moving into the occupied area rather than where it is leaving. One more thing follows from the absence of mechanical air change, and it is the part to do first. A room with no ventilation accumulates its own smell, so an old property is also a source-control question before it is a fragrance one - timber, files, carpet, damp and drainage all come first. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and SOSA makes no claim that it does. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the usual instrument here because it is waterless, which matters in an old building with paper files and timber, and because its level can be key-locked once placement has been solved; a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 where the client area is one seating group. Closed one-to-one rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
It removes the delivery system. With no ducts and no returns, buoyancy is the only transport, the stairwell is a chimney, the occupied band is the bottom five feet, and four threads photographed three times will show you the route.
Placed from the thread test: SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a scenting plan for your space
The honest ladder
One source for the visitor zone, sized to the floor
What to buy, and for which space
The honest options for the visitor-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, waiting area 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 a clinic, salon or showroom its value is control rather than reach: the key-lock holds the level the furthest waiting chair was judged to, so it survives every shift and every new receptionist, and the 1h/4h/8h/24h timer keeps it on opening hours rather than saturating an empty room overnight. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on stock, mirrors, screens or displays. 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 house 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
What replaces the ductwork
Nothing does. The building's own convection is the distribution system, and it has a route you can photograph.
1
The gap
A split unit is not ventilation
It recirculates within a band and adds no fresh air. A ceiling fan stirs a cone beneath itself. Neither one distributes across a room the way a supply and return pair does.
Rule: you have no delivery system, only convection.
2
The chimney
A stairwell runs all day
An open stair, a fanlight or a gap above a door is the top of the loop and a permanent sink. A machine placed near it because the socket is there is emptying into the building.
Test: find the sink before choosing the socket.
3
The band
People occupy the bottom five feet
In a fourteen-foot room with no mechanical mixing, anything released high stays high. The upper half is a reservoir nobody is standing in, and it does not come back down.
Rule: mount low, in the band people are actually in.
4
The clock
Afternoon sun rewrites the route
A west wall warming after three sets up a different circulation from the one at ten in the morning, so a room judged once in the morning has been judged once.
Rule: three times a day, or you have not measured it.
5
The thread
Four threads, three photographs
Ten centimetres of light thread taped inside the door, at the window bay, at the foot of the stair and mid-room at head height, photographed at ten, one and five.
Test: place where air enters the room, not where it leaves.
The SOSA principle
A machine in an old building is not under-powered. It has been placed at the top of a convection loop that runs all day, and it is doing exactly what the building asked it to do.
Which is why in a property like this placement is not a refinement of the plan. It is the plan, and everything else is a detail.
An old high-ceilinged property, question by question
Why the ductwork matters, what replaces it, and how to read your own building.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Fragrance in an old high-ceilinged office
| The question | The answer |
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What actually changes in an old property?
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The delivery system disappears. A ducted office distributes continuously; an old room usually has a split unit and a fan, neither of which distributes. |
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What moves the air then?
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Buoyancy. Warm air rises and cooler air falls in behind it, and the route is decided by where the heat is and where the openings are. |
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Why does a machine near the stair seem to do nothing?
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Because a stairwell or fanlight is the top of the loop and runs all day. Output released there leaves the room rather than crossing it. |
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How high should the source be?
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Low, in the band people occupy. With no mechanical mixing, anything released high in a fourteen-foot room does not come back down. |
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What should I buy?
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Usually a Vaayu (₹11,999), waterless for a building with paper and timber, key-locked once placement is solved. A reed (₹849) for one seating group. |
The upward-loss version is why fragrance disappears upward, the new-build version is small floor, enormous volume, and the source list is what to investigate in an older building. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance removes or reduces anything in the air.
One register, the visitor-facing zone only, set from the furthest seat
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 waterless, key-locked and timed to opening hours; Mountain Breeze ₹849 or Morning Freshness ₹749 as the register. Send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked and we will return it with the placement and the fragrance-free seat.
Four threads and three photographs will tell you more about your building than any calculation of its cubic metres, because the question was never how big the room is.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Sized to the floor
The visitor zone gets one source; closed treatment and consultation rooms get none
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
One register, delivered at whatever size the visitor-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 Hyderabad specification
What goes where in a clinic, salon, showroom or 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, waiting area 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 opening 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 interior | Malabar lemon, mint and eucalyptus - cool with no warmth; one register for the whole business, never one per branch | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A reception or waiting area that is a closed room of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf on the wall the seating faces, on low, during opening 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 in a closed treatment room or consultation cabin | ₹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. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented - the person inside 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 seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at 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 treats nothing and relieves nothing, it makes no contribution to what a visitor buys, books or decides, and it works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them. The visitor's preference overrides any plan. Ask for a scenting plan for your space and send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
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A note from Sonal
It changes one thing fundamentally, and it is not the volume. It removes the delivery system. In a modern fit-out, distribution is somebody else's job: ducts, supply diffusers and returns move air around the floor continuously whether you think about it or not, and a machine placed anywhere reasonable gets carried. An older Secunderabad property with a fourteen-foot ceiling, deep window reveals, a fanlight over the door and a stairwell usually has none of that. It may have a split unit, which recirculates in a band and is not ventilation, and a ceiling fan, which stirs a cone beneath itself and is not distribution. So nothing is carrying anything, and transport falls back to buoyancy.
Three consequences follow, and they matter more than any arithmetic about cubic metres. A stairwell, an open fanlight or a gap above a door is a chimney: the top of the loop, running all day, and anything released near it leaves the room. Businesses in old buildings place a machine near the stair because that is where the socket is, and then report that it does nothing, when it is doing exactly what the building asked. Second, the occupied band is the bottom five or six feet of a fourteen-foot room, and with no mechanical mixing whatever goes up stays up. Third, the route is not constant: a west wall warming after three in the afternoon sets up a different circulation from the one at ten in the morning.
So here is the test, and it costs the price of a reel of thread. Tape ten centimetres of light sewing thread at four points - just inside the door, at the window bay, at the foot of the stair, and mid-room at head height - and photograph all four at ten, at one and at five. That is your building's own circulation in its own hand, and the rule is to place the source where air moves into the occupied area rather than where it leaves. One more thing: a room with no mechanical air change accumulates its own smell, so an old property is a source-control question before it is a fragrance one. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the usual instrument, waterless for a building with paper and timber and key-locked once placement is solved, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 for one seating group. Closed one-to-one rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Why does fragrance behave differently in an old high-ceilinged building?
Because there is usually no mechanical air movement in the room. A ducted office distributes for you; an old property leaves the job to natural convection.
Does a split air conditioner distribute fragrance?
Not across a room. It recirculates within a band and adds no fresh air, and a ceiling fan only stirs a cone beneath itself.
Why does a machine near the stairwell seem to do nothing?
Because a stair or fanlight is the top of the convection loop and runs all day, so output released there leaves the building rather than crossing the room.
How high should a diffuser be mounted in a fourteen-foot room?
Low, in the band people occupy. With no mechanical mixing, anything released high in a tall room does not come back down.
How can I find my building's air currents without instruments?
Tape ten centimetres of light thread inside the door, at the window bay, at the foot of the stair and mid-room, and photograph all four at ten, one and five.
Tape four threads up tomorrow
SOSA — Studio Scenting borrow the building's own loop
An older property with high ceilings does not have a fragrance problem. It has no delivery system, because a split unit recirculates in a band and a ceiling fan stirs a cone, and neither distributes. Buoyancy does the work instead: the stairwell is a chimney running all day, the occupied band is the bottom five feet, and the route changes when the afternoon sun reaches a west wall. Four threads photographed three times settles the placement. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a scenting plan for your space → 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)
- Why fragrance disappears upward
- Small floor, enormous volume
- Older building: the source list
- Old central AC and uneven distribution
- Diagnosing the overnight stale smell
- Only for new luxury businesses?
- Law or CA office, without renovating
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan for your space
- 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 a commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention 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. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient 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.