Reed Diffuser Gift for Your Best Friend: The One Time You Can Actually Be Accurate
★ ★ Reed diffuser gifting · housewarmings, hosts, clients and festivalsReed diffusers from ₹749 · 130ml from ₹1,249 · duo gift sets from ₹1,498 · about 6 to 10 weeksAlcohol-free · made in India · a portion funds girl-child education
★ SOSA Home & Body
The gift that works when you do not know what they wear, because a room has no opinion and a person does
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★★★★★
"Took one to a housewarming in Whitefield instead of the usual dry-fruit box. It was the only thing on the table nobody had to find a cupboard for."
Ananya R. Bengaluru
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Bought the Day and Night duo for my sister's new flat. She has since bought the refill herself, which is the only review that matters."
Vikram S. Hyderabad
Day & Night reed duo
★★★★★
"Needed something for a client that was not a hamper and not a bottle of something. This looked considered and cost less than I expected."
Meghna J. Bengaluru
Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
★★★★★
"I never know what perfume my mother-in-law wears. A reed diffuser meant I did not have to know."
Shruti K. Mysuru
Morning Freshness reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Asked which one for a 3BHK and was told to take the 130ml for the living room rather than two 50ml bottles. Good advice, cheaper than what I was about to do."
Rahul N. Hyderabad
Fresh Brew 130ml
★★★★★
"Carried one to dinner instead of mithai. The host had four boxes of sweets on the counter already and none of them were opened."
Deepa M. Bengaluru
Evening Calm reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Took one to a housewarming in Whitefield instead of the usual dry-fruit box. It was the only thing on the table nobody had to find a cupboard for."
Ananya R. Bengaluru
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Bought the Day and Night duo for my sister's new flat. She has since bought the refill herself, which is the only review that matters."
Vikram S. Hyderabad
Day & Night reed duo
★★★★★
"Needed something for a client that was not a hamper and not a bottle of something. This looked considered and cost less than I expected."
Meghna J. Bengaluru
Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
★★★★★
"I never know what perfume my mother-in-law wears. A reed diffuser meant I did not have to know."
Shruti K. Mysuru
Morning Freshness reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Asked which one for a 3BHK and was told to take the 130ml for the living room rather than two 50ml bottles. Good advice, cheaper than what I was about to do."
Rahul N. Hyderabad
Fresh Brew 130ml
★★★★★
"Carried one to dinner instead of mithai. The host had four boxes of sweets on the counter already and none of them were opened."
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Founder Diaries · Reed Diffuser & Home Fragrance Gifting
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles9 min readUpdated September 2026
Most gift pages spend their length arguing about whether a reed diffuser is the right category. For a best friend that argument is already over - you have been inside the home, you know which room they actually sit in, and you have probably seen what is on the shelf. The constraint here is different and more interesting: you have enough information to be genuinely accurate, and most people waste it by buying the same safe bottle they would send a colleague.
The most declarative of the five, which is precisely why it belongs on this page and almost nowhere else. SOSA Fresh Brew, ₹849 for 50ml and ₹1,349 for 130ml - Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, about 6 to 10 weeks, no flame and nothing to plug in. A poor guess for a stranger; a specific, recognisable choice for somebody whose kitchen you know.
Quick answers — read this first
What reed diffuser should I buy my best friend? The one that fits the room you have actually stood in. A bedroom, a study or a one-room flat takes the 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849; an open-plan living and dining area takes the 130ml at ₹1,249 to ₹1,349.
Can I pick a strong scent for a close friend? Yes, and this is the relationship where you should. Fresh Brew at ₹849 is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla and the most declarative of the five - it is a poor guess for a stranger and a good, specific choice for somebody whose kitchen you know.
What if they already have a diffuser? Then buy a different room, or buy a 300ml refill at ₹2,399 for what they already run. Note that four of the five scents publish refills and Evening Calm does not, so check the bottle before assuming.
The short answer
Short answer: Use what you already know. Buy for the specific room you have sat in - 50ml at Rs 749 to Rs 849 for a bedroom or a study, 130ml at Rs 1,249 to Rs 1,349 for an open living and dining area - and pick a scent with an actual opinion in it.
The pick: A 50ml or 130ml matched to the room you have been in, and Fresh Brew at ₹849 if coffee and vanilla is recognisably their sort of thing.
Why: This is the one gift on the list where you are not guessing, so the accuracy should come from the room and the scent rather than from the price.
A gift cannot change how somebody's week went, and a page that suggests otherwise is not worth reading. What a small parcel does is tell a person you were thinking about them on a day when nothing made you - which is a real thing to say, and worth saying. Keep it small, because a large one asks somebody already short of energy to produce a reaction, and send the words separately, because the object cannot carry them.
What is the best reed diffuser to give a close friend?
The answer is unusually easy here, and the reason is worth naming: you have been inside the home, which almost no other gift-buying relationship gives you. You know whether the living area is open-plan or a closed 12 by 14 room, you know whether they sit in the bedroom or at the dining table, and you have probably noticed whether anything on the shelf is already scented. Use all three. The room decides the size - 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849 for a bedroom, a study, a hallway or a one-room flat, 130ml at ₹1,249 to ₹1,349 for a genuinely open living and dining area, with all five running about 6 to 10 weeks. The shelf decides whether to buy at all: if they already run a diffuser they chose, a different scent in the same room is a correction, and the accurate gift is a different room or a refill of the one they use. And because you know them, the scent can carry an opinion - Fresh Brew, Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, is the most declarative of the five and the one you can only responsibly give to somebody whose taste you know. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
With a best friend the question is not is this appropriate. It is did you use what you already knew, or did you buy the safe bottle anyway.
Match it to the room you have actually sat in: 50ml from ₹749 for a bedroom or study, 130ml from ₹1,249 for a real open-plan living area. About 6 to 10 weeks, no flame, nothing to plug in.
Three things you already know about their home, and how to use each one
You are carrying three pieces of information that a colleague or an in-law buying the same gift simply does not have. Here is how each one changes what you should buy.
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What you know
You know the floor plan, so the size is not a guess
Most people buying a reed diffuser are working from a vague sense of somebody's house. You are not. You know whether the living and dining area is one continuous space or two rooms with a doorway, and you know whether the bedroom has a window that is ever open.
Use that directly. The 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849 is for a bedroom, a study, a hallway or a single-room flat. The 130ml at ₹1,249 to ₹1,349 is for an open-plan living and dining area or a large living room. The 130ml in a small closed bedroom is the commonest mistake in this category, and it is the one you are best placed to avoid, because you have sat in the room.
Tip: Picture where you sat last time you visited. That is the room, and the room sets the size.
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What you know
You know which room is theirs rather than the household's
In a shared flat, a family home or a flat with a partner, some rooms are negotiated and one usually is not. You know which one. That is the room to buy for, because a scent placed in a shared space is a decision other people have to live with, while a scent in their own room is entirely theirs.
If they live alone, this collapses into a simpler question: which room do they actually spend the evening in? For a lot of people it is not the living room at all. Buying for the room somebody uses rather than the room that is meant to be shown is a small, specific accuracy, and it is exactly the kind a best friend notices.
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What you know
You know whether their home is already scented, which decides whether to buy at all
This is the one that saves the gift. If there is already a diffuser on the console table that they chose themselves, they have made a decision, and a different scent arriving for the same room reads as a polite correction of it. Well meant, slightly awkward, usually left in the box.
Two honest ways round it, and you are the one person who can pick between them. Buy a different room - if the living room is handled, the bedroom or the entrance is not. Or buy the thing they will actually run out of: a 300ml refill at ₹2,399 or a 500ml at ₹3,499, which is an odd-looking present and a genuinely welcome one. Evening Calm is the one scent with no refill published, so look at the label before you order.
Tip: If the room is already handled, buy a different room or buy the refill - not a second opinion.
The size decision, before the scent decision
50ml or 130ml is a room question, not a budget question
The 50ml from ₹749 suits a bedroom, a study, a hallway or anybody receiving their first diffuser. The 130ml from ₹1,249 suits an open-plan living and dining area or a large 3BHK living room, and it is genuinely too much for a small closed bedroom - a bigger bottle in the wrong room gets moved into a corridor. All five scents run about 6 to 10 weeks either way.
Picture the room you last sat in. That room sets the size, not the budget.
Check whether it is their room or a shared one before choosing.
Recall whether anything on the shelf is already scented.
Then pick a scent with an opinion, since you are allowed one here.
The SOSA principle
Accuracy in a gift is almost never bought. It is recalled - the shape of a room, which chair somebody sits in, what was already on the shelf - and a close friend is the one person about whom you have all three.
Spending more is what people do instead of remembering, and it works far less well.
Which scent, now that you are allowed to have an opinion
This is the relationship where the scent can stop being neutral. Fresh Brew at ₹849 is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, the strongest opinion in the range - a bad guess for somebody you barely know and a specific, recognisable choice for a friend whose coffee habit you have shared for years. Mountain Breeze at ₹849 is Himalayan pine, sage and cedar, dry and green rather than sweet, and suits a study or a room with books in it. Garden Bloom at ₹799 is British rose and night-blooming jasmine, the floral one and the one that looks most like a present. Evening Calm at ₹799 is lavender and chamomile - that is the name on the bottle and a description of what is in it, not a claim about what it does. Morning Freshness at ₹749 is Malabar lemon and mint and the least declarative, which is the right pick for a stranger and slightly a waste of what you know here.
The SOSA gift edit
Four ways to spend what you know, and where each one fails
The option
Who it suits, and where it fails
A 50ml reed matched to their room · ₹749 to ₹849
The accurate default. One room, about 6 to 10 weeks, nothing to light or switch off. Choose the scent with an actual opinion in it, because you can. It fails only if the room is a large open-plan living area, where it will be under-powered.
A 130ml reed · ₹1,249 to ₹1,349
For an open living and dining area you have actually stood in. It fails in a small closed bedroom, where it gets moved into a corridor - and you, of all people, have no excuse for that mistake, because you know the room.
A refill instead · ₹2,399 or ₹3,499
The gift for a friend who already keeps a reed going. 300ml ₹2,399, 500ml ₹3,499, published for four of the five scents. It fails if the scent they run is Evening Calm, which publishes no refill, and it fails as a first gift because a refill with no bottle is a component rather than a present.
A duo gift set · ₹1,498 to ₹1,598
Two 50ml bottles in one box - Day & Night ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded ₹1,548, Warmth & Bloom ₹1,598. Good for a friend's new flat, where two rooms are genuinely empty. It fails as the answer to a room you already know well, because it hands back the decision you were qualified to make.
When it has to look like an occasion
A duo set is the readymade gift box, without anybody assembling a hamper
Two 50ml reeds in one box: Day & Night pairs Morning Freshness lemon-mint with Evening Calm lavender-chamomile at ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded pairs lemon-mint with Mountain Breeze pine and cedar at ₹1,548, and Warmth & Bloom pairs Fresh Brew coffee-vanilla with Garden Bloom rose-jasmine at ₹1,598. The 130ml x 2 versions are ₹2,498, ₹2,548 and ₹2,598.
There is one trap specific to this relationship, and it is worth naming. Knowing somebody well makes it tempting to buy the biggest version of a thing they like - the 130ml because the 50ml feels small, or the duo set because one bottle feels thin. Neither is an improvement if the room is wrong. A 50ml at ₹749 in the room they actually sit in beats a 130ml at ₹1,249 in the room they show visitors, every time. If you want the gift to be larger, add something from a different category rather than inflating this one - a candle at ₹399 for about 15 to 18 hours, or an attar from ₹379 if you can name a fragrance they already wear, which for a best friend you sometimes can.
Morning Freshness and Evening Calm in one box, two 50ml bottles. The readymade housewarming and client gift, without a hamper in sight.
₹1,498 · 50ml x 2
When the gift is meant to be the big one
SOSA Safar ₹3,999 for the car, SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 for the whole home
Safar is the waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion perfume diffuser for a car or a travel bag - ₹3,999 for the SOSA-scent trios and ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios. Vaayu is the machine version of the same idea for a building: waterless cold-air nebulising of undiluted oil, rated for approximately 1000 m3 of connected air, with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, DC 12V / 1A 5W mains power and CE, RoHS and SGS marks. Both run waterless nebuliser oil - 100 gm ₹1,049, 300 gm ₹1,849 - and neither takes the ₹299 water-based Hotel Collection bottle. A rating assumes one connected body of air, so a Vaayu suits a large open home or a business and is the wrong gift for a two-bedroom flat with every door closed. It adds a scent to a space; it does not remove one.
Tell SOSA who it is for, roughly how big the room is, whether their home is already scented and what you want to spend - and you will be told which size and which scent, including the times the honest answer is the 50ml rather than the 130ml.
Being close to somebody is not a licence to spend more. It is a licence to be specific, and specific is the part that is actually hard to buy.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Two questions settle almost every reed diffuser gift, and the first one is not price. How big is the room it is going into? A 50ml suits a bedroom, a study, a hallway or a first diffuser; a 130ml suits an open-plan living and dining area, and it is genuinely too much for a small closed bedroom. Then: how much do you actually know about their taste? The less you know, the less declarative the scent should be - Morning Freshness is the safest of the five for a home you have never stood in, and Fresh Brew coffee-vanilla is the strongest opinion in the range. Price follows those two answers rather than leading them.
The SOSA gifting range
Pick the size by the room, then the scent by how little you know about them
Approx 1000 m3 of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer - a large open home or a business, not a flat
₹11,999
Three different fluids run through this range and none of them is interchangeable. Reed diffusers use their own alcohol-free reed oil. The SOSA ultrasonics - Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹5,999 - run the water-basedHotel Collection from ₹299. Vaayu and Safar run waterless nebulising oil, so the ₹299 water-based bottle never goes into either of them. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The honest price sheet
What SOSA publishes, and what SOSA does not
Everything below is on the live product pages. Anything not on this list is not something a gifting page should state.
Attars - Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179 and Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199 in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. The Attar Trio is ₹1,055, ₹1,859 or ₹3,189.
Car fragrance - nine scents from ₹449 to ₹549, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price, with 50ml sprays at ₹1,499 and saver combos at ₹899 to ₹949. Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios.
Candles and wax melts - Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks at ₹399 for approximately 15 to 18 hours, or ₹699 for a two-candle duo at approximately 30 to 36 hours. Woodenwick candles in jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla ₹999. Bubble Candles ₹499 unscented and ₹599 scented. Wax melts from ₹499, which need a ceramic burner at ₹599 - so they are only a complete gift for somebody who already owns one.
Not published, and therefore never stated here: how long any fragrance will be liked, delivery or dispatch timing, any festive discount, any minimum order quantity or bulk rate, and any claim about what a person will feel on receiving a gift. Those questions go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Not sure which size or which scent? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 four things: who it is for and how well you know them, roughly how big the room is, whether their home is already scented, and what you want to spend. You will get one straight recommendation rather than a catalogue - including the times the honest answer is the 50ml rather than the 130ml, or a single bottle rather than the duo set. Corporate and client gifting: bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available; quantities, terms and anything corporate are discussed on WhatsApp rather than priced on a page. Bespoke composition, a fragrance composed for you by Sonal, is a real SOSA service and is also discussed there. Where SOSA is: SOSA is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune and sends orders across India. There is no SOSA shop, stockist or counter in any other city, so anything you read here about Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru or anywhere else is about the homes in those cities and not about a local branch.
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A note from Sonal
The reed diffuser is the product people are least embarrassed to give and most surprised by afterwards. What they expect is a decorative object. What it actually is, is a small piece of a household that runs for six to ten weeks and then ends, which is a very different thing from an ornament somebody has to keep forever out of politeness.
The reason I recommend it so often for gifting is unromantic: you are buying for a room rather than for a person. Personal fragrance is a taste decision, and when you cannot finish the sentence she usually wears something with..., no amount of money makes the guess better. A room does not have a signature scent it is loyal to. That is why a reed diffuser works for a colleague, a client, a mother-in-law and a friend's new flat - relationships where you may like somebody very much and still have no idea what is on their dressing table.
The one thing I would press on is size, because it is where good intentions go wrong. The 130ml is not the better gift, it is the bigger room's gift. Put it in a small closed bedroom and the person will move it to a corridor within a week. A 50ml at ₹749 in the right room beats a 130ml at ₹1,249 in the wrong one every single time, and if you want to spend more, spend it on the duo set so they get two rooms rather than one very loud one.
Frequently asked questions
Is a reed diffuser a good gift for a best friend?
Yes, and it is the easiest accurate gift in the category, because you have usually been inside the home and know which room is theirs. That information does the work a higher price cannot. A 50ml is Rs 749 to Rs 849, a 130ml is Rs 1,249 to Rs 1,349, and both run about 6 to 10 weeks.
Which scent should I pick for a close friend?
This is the one relationship where a declarative scent is a good idea. Fresh Brew at Rs 849 is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla and the strongest opinion of the five. Morning Freshness at Rs 749 is the least declarative, which makes it the safe choice for a stranger and a slightly wasted one here.
Should I spend more because we are close?
Not on a bigger bottle. The 130ml is the larger room's size rather than the better gift, and in a small closed bedroom it gets moved into a corridor. If you want the gift to be larger, add a candle at Rs 399 or an attar from Rs 379 rather than inflating the diffuser.
What if their home already smells of something?
Then buy a different room or buy a refill for what they already run, at Rs 2,399 for 300ml and Rs 3,499 for 500ml. A different scent for a room they have already decided about reads as a correction. Four of the five scents publish refills and Evening Calm publishes none.
Is a duo set a better gift for a close friend?
Only when two rooms are genuinely empty, such as a new flat. A duo set at Rs 1,498 to Rs 1,598 is two 50ml bottles in one box. For a home you know well it is often a step backwards, because it hands the room decision back to them when you were the one qualified to make it.
Take the next step
Buy the room you have sat in, then the scent you are qualified to choose
A 50ml from ₹749 for a bedroom, a study or a one-room flat; a 130ml from ₹1,249 for a living and dining area you have actually stood in; a refill at ₹2,399 if they already keep a reed going. Describe the room on WhatsApp and SOSA will give you one recommendation rather than a catalogue.
Not sure which one suits the person you are buying for? Send SOSA their age, whether they drive, whether they like their home scented and your budget on WhatsApp, and you will get an honest answer - including when the cheaper product is the better gift.
The fragrance gift you can give without having guessed anybody's taste
SOSA — alcohol-free reed diffusers,made in India, about 6 to 10 weeks, nothing to plug in and nothing to switch off
SOSA reed diffusers from ₹749 in 50ml and ₹1,249 in 130ml, five scents, about 6 to 10 weeks, with refills at ₹2,399 and ₹3,499 for four of the five and duo gift sets from ₹1,498. Alcohol-free, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the gift-buying reasoning applies to any brand.
Prices and specifications verified from the live SOSA product pages, September 2026: SOSA attars - Adaa ₹379 (3ml), ₹669 (6ml) and ₹1,149 (12ml); Ameeri ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165; Mastani ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179; Nawaab ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199; the Attar Trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani at ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189. Reed diffusers - Morning Freshness ₹749, Garden Bloom and Evening Calm ₹799, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew ₹849 in 50ml, with 130ml from ₹1,249 and refills at ₹2,399 and ₹3,499; reed diffusers last approximately 6 to 10 weeks. Reed duo gift sets ₹1,498, ₹1,548 and ₹1,598. SOSA scented candles - Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks at ₹399 for a single candle of approximately 15 to 18 hours and ₹699 for a two-candle duo of approximately 30 to 36 hours; Woodenwick candles in jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla at ₹999; Bubble Candles ₹499 unscented and ₹599 scented; wax melts from ₹499 with a ceramic burner at ₹599; the SOSA body massage candle ₹699. Car fragrance from ₹449, each scent available as a mild hanging format or a stronger spray at the same price, 50ml sprays ₹1,499, saver combos ₹899 to ₹949 and a discovery set of three minis from ₹699. SOSA Safar ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios, is a waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion car and travel perfume diffuser. SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 is a waterless cold-air nebulising diffuser rated for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting and a DC 12V / 1A 5W mains supply, CE, RoHS and SGS. The ultrasonic machines Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹5,999 run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299; that water-based bottle is not used in a Vaayu or a Safar, which take waterless nebuliser oil at ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. About SOSA's location: SOSA Home & Body is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, Maharashtra, and sends orders across India. SOSA has no shop, showroom, stockist, counter or warehouse in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru or any other city, and nothing on this page should be read as claiming one; where a city is named, it refers to the homes and the buyers in that city and nothing more. No delivery date, dispatch time or order cut-off is stated anywhere. Limits of this guide: fragrance adds a scent and does not remove, neutralise or purify odour, and no SOSA product makes any health, antibacterial, air-purifying or wellbeing claim. No claim is made about how any recipient will feel about a gift. No claim is made anywhere on this page about mood, stress, calm, sleep, comfort or wellbeing: fragrance is a scent, not a treatment, and where a product name contains a word such as Calm that is a name and not an effect. Where this guide covers sending something to a person having a difficult time, it treats a gift as a gesture of attention alongside real support and never as a substitute for a person or for professional help, and it gives no mental-health advice. No delivery date, dispatch time, order cut-off, discount or minimum order quantity is stated anywhere on this page; corporate and bulk enquiries are answered on WhatsApp. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand; the SOSA perfumes are SOSA's own compositions and are not the designer fragrances they are described as being inspired by. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
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