★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
Per-display scenting fails three separate tests - it cannot be done, it costs a fortune to attempt, and a brand with fifteen smells has none
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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
★ One profile for the whole floor, from one machine
SOSA VaayuOne machine, one shared volumeView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuRated well past a display floorView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-locked, so one level stays one levelView ₹11,999
✓ One machine rated to 1000m³ covers a whole display floor, so per-display hardware is unnecessary as well as unworkable ✓ Waterless, so the machine adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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What if I could afford a machine for every display? Then you would have bought the mixture at a higher price. Fifteen SOSA Sukoon units is ₹28,485 and fifteen Vaayus is ₹179,985 - and neither buys you fifteen distinguishable displays, because the constraint is the air rather than the equipment. Money does not solve a physical problem, and I would rather tell you that than take the order.
And if the physics somehow allowed it? It would still be the wrong choice. A showroom is one brand, and a brand with fifteen smells has none - the customer would read the changes as inconsistency rather than as curation. So: one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 for a floor from about 1,500 sq ft. Total hardware spend: ₹11,999, one machine. Under about 750 sq ft, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy.
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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.
There is a version of this question that is about physics and a version that is about branding, and most people are asking both at once without realising it. The useful thing is that the two answers agree - which almost never happens, and saves us a long argument about taste.
Quick answers — read this first
Should every display be scented, or should the showroom share one fragrance? One fragrance, for the whole showroom. Not as a compromise or a budget decision - as the only thing that is actually achievable. Your displays stand in a single shared volume of air with no ceilings, no fourth walls and no doors, so fragrances released at different displays travel, meet and mix within minutes. What a customer walks through in the aisle is the mixture, which is nobody's intention. One profile, one level, one building.What if I could afford a machine for every display? Then you would have bought the mixture at a higher price. Fifteen SOSA Sukoon units is ₹28,485 and fifteen Vaayus is ₹179,985 - and neither buys you fifteen distinguishable displays, because the constraint is the air rather than the equipment. Money does not solve a physical problem, and I would rather tell you that than take the order.
And if the physics somehow allowed it? It would still be the wrong choice. A showroom is one brand, and a brand with fifteen smells has none - the customer would read the changes as inconsistency rather than as curation. So: one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 for a floor from about 1,500 sq ft. Total hardware spend: ₹11,999, one machine. Under about 750 sq ft, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy.
The short answer
Short answer: one fragrance for the whole showroom. Per-display scenting fails three separate tests: it is physically unachievable, because displays share one volume of air and separate fragrances mix in the aisle within minutes; the hardware arithmetic is absurd, since fifteen Sukoons at ₹28,485 or fifteen Vaayus at ₹179,985 still buy you the mixture; and even if it worked it would read as inconsistency rather than curation. One Vaayu (₹11,999), or a Sukoon (₹1,899) under about 750 sq ft.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) running a single profile for the entire display floor, or one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) where the showroom is a single small room.
Next step: send the floor plan with every full-height wall and closing door marked, and we will tell you how many volumes of air you actually have - it is usually one - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
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Three independent reasons, any one of which would settle it on its own. That is unusual, and it is why this is one of the few questions in the cluster I answer without hedging.
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SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The aesthetic version of the question
Can displays have different personalities?
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Straight answer
Should every kitchen display be scented, or should the whole showroom share one fragrance?
One fragrance, shared by the whole showroom - and the reason I can say that flatly is that the idea fails three separate tests, each of which would be enough on its own. The first is physical. A display kitchen is not a room. It has no ceiling, no fourth wall and no door; it is a beautifully built piece of furniture standing in a hall, and the hall is what contains air. Fragrance released at display four does not stay at display four - it moves with the room's own air currents, and within minutes it is at display nine, meeting whatever was released there. What your customer experiences walking the aisle between them is neither intention but a mixture of both, and mixtures read as confusion. This is not a matter of getting the balance right or turning the levels down; it is the same reason you cannot have two temperatures in one open hall. The second test is money, and the arithmetic is worth doing out loud because it is rarely done. Suppose you decide to commit properly and give every display its own unit. Fifteen SOSA Sukoon diffusers is ₹28,485; fifteen SOSA Vaayu machines is ₹179,985. Then add fifteen fragrances to buy and hold, fifteen settings that drift because a dozen people walk that floor every day, fifteen units to fill and clean, and a floor manager who now has an inventory problem instead of a showroom. And at the end of all of it you own the mixture you would have got for free, because the constraint is the air rather than the equipment, and money does not solve a physical problem. I would rather say that than take the order, and suppliers who quote per display are quoting a plan that cannot deliver what it describes. The third test is brand, and it applies even if you imagine the first two away. Picture a version of the world where each display genuinely held its own scent within its own three metres. Your customer walks the floor with a designer for ninety minutes, and the air changes five or six times along the way. They will not read that as curation. They will read it as a building that has not decided what it is - and for a brand selling ₹5-10 lakh kitchens, whose entire proposition is coherence and permanence, that is a worse outcome than smelling of nothing at all. A showroom with fifteen smells has none. So the specification is short and cheap: one profile, dry and material-led, nothing edible, at one low level, from one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 placed upstream on the display floor's air path. Total hardware spend: ₹11,999, one machine, however many displays. Differentiate the displays the way they can actually be differentiated - timber against stone, warm light against cool, the styling on the worktop - because those stay where you put them. The honest concession: under about 750 sq ft the whole question dissolves, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 is the right buy, and a Vaayu would be the wrong one. Two standing limits. Fragrance is never used to mask another smell, so a display still off-gassing laminate gets ventilation and time rather than a unit of its own. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries or order value, and anyone pricing this per display is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan and send the floor plan.
One fragrance for the whole showroom. Per-display scenting cannot work in shared air, costs a fortune to attempt, and would read as inconsistency even if it did work. ₹11,999 for one machine from about 1,500 sq ft, ₹1,899 below 750.
One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 runs a single profile across the whole display floor - rated to 1000m³, which is more air than most halls hold, so it sits low rather than working hard. Waterless, under 38dB, with app timers and a key-lock. That is the entire specification, whether you show six kitchens or twenty. Under 750 sq ft, buy the Sukoon.
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Three tests, three failures
Unachievable, expensive, and incoherent even if it worked
The machine that covers the whole floor
Since the answer is one profile, the only hardware question is which single machine serves the volume you own. The images link to the product pages so you can check the specifications yourself.
A display floor from about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, which is why a single unit serves a whole hall rather than a single display. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, app timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, auto-stop and key-lock so one agreed level stays one level.
From ₹11,999
A showroom under about 750 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft with three 15ml fragrances included. At this size the whole question dissolves - there is one small volume of air, one profile, and ₹1,899 is the honest spend rather than six times that for a rating you cannot use.
From ₹1,899
The three tests per-display scenting fails
Take them in this order. If the first does not persuade you, the second is arithmetic you can check yourself, and the third holds even in a world where the first two did not.
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Test one: can it be done?
Two fragrances three metres apart become one fragrance in the aisle
Air in an open display hall is never still. The AC pushes it, the front door pulls it, and people walking the floor drag it along behind them. So fragrance released at one display is at the next one within minutes, and the space between them - the aisle your customer is standing in while a designer talks - carries both. You cannot hold two smells apart in one volume of air any more than you can hold two temperatures apart in it. The test is easy to run yourself: put a reed in one display and another in a second display, wait an afternoon, then walk the aisle between them and see whether you can name either.
Tip: If you can walk from one display to another without opening anything, they share air.
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Test two: what would it cost?
Fifteen machines is ₹179,985 for the same mixture
This is the test I ask people to do on paper before they ask me for a quotation, because it changes the conversation. Fifteen Sukoons at ₹1,899 is ₹28,485. Fifteen Vaayus at ₹11,999 is ₹179,985. Then add fifteen fragrances bought and stocked, fifteen dials that drift on a floor a dozen people cross daily, fifteen units to fill, clean and switch off on demonstration days, and a manager who is now running a small inventory operation. Set against that, the working answer costs ₹11,999 once. Money is the wrong tool here: it cannot buy separation that the air does not permit, so all the extra spend purchases is complexity.
Tip: Any supplier who quotes you per display has priced a plan that cannot deliver what it describes.
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Test three: would you want it?
A showroom that smells of six things does not smell of anything
Imagine the physics were on your side and each display held its own character cleanly. A customer walks your floor for ninety minutes with a designer, and the air changes five or six times. Nobody reads that as curation. They read it as a building that has not made up its mind, which is a particularly poor signal from a brand whose case rests on coherence, craft and permanence. A signature is a thing held constant - one profile, one level, in the same building, over years. The variety you want across displays is real and worth investing in; it just belongs to materials, lighting and styling, which stay where you put them and which a customer can actually attribute to a particular kitchen.
The SOSA principle
Per-display scenting is one of the few ideas that is wrong in three unrelated ways at once: the air will not allow it, the budget cannot rescue it, and the brand would not want it if the other two problems vanished.
When three independent arguments agree, it is usually safe to stop hedging.
The plan for a floor of displays
What to do instead, in the order it should be done - and what each display genuinely gets to have of its own.
The SOSA plan
One fragrance for the floor, and real differentiation per display
| The decision | What to do |
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The fragrance
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One profile for the entire showroom - dry, material-led, nothing edible. Chosen from what the displays are made of and the price of the kitchens. |
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The level
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One setting for the building, judged from the consultation seat at minute ninety and confirmed with the designers who breathe it all day. |
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The hardware
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One machine, placed upstream on the display floor's air path, about a metre up, away from the AC return. Not one per display, at any budget. |
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What each display gets instead
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Materials, lighting temperature, styling and texture. These stay where you put them and a customer can attribute them to a specific kitchen. |
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A second machine
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Only for a second volume of air - another floor, or a room that closes and has its own AC. Never a second display in the same hall. |
If your floor plan is drawn with named zones and you are wondering whether those count as separate volumes, that is answered in the best scenting setup for a showroom with multiple display zones. And if the real question is whether the modern, classic and luxury display groups should each read differently, see how fragrance should change between modern, classic and luxury kitchen displays. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
One profile, one machine, one building
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 is rated to 1000m³ - one unit for the whole display floor, which is the only arrangement the air permits anyway.
I have been asked to quote for scenting eleven displays individually, and the honest quotation was one machine and a refund of the idea. The air was never going to keep them apart.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why one unit is the whole answer
Rated past the hall, quiet, scheduled and locked
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
Two machines cover almost every showroom that carries a floor of displays, with the Aangan taking over once the building's air handling is doing the distribution. Cold-air refill oil is not currently sold separately, so the 400ml supplied runs 90+ days a fill and further supply should be confirmed with SOSA before you plan around it. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
One profile, sized by the volume of air rather than the number of displays
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A showroom under about 750 sq ft, whatever it has on show | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at this volume | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A display floor from roughly 1,500 sq ft with any number of kitchens | 1000m³ (about 2,000-3,000 sq ft), waterless, adjustable intensity, app timers, key-lock, under 38dB | ₹11,999 View → |
 SOSA Aangan
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Experience centres past roughly 5,000 sq ft with central air handling | HVAC nebuliser rated to approximately 8,000-10,000 sq ft, one profile distributed by the building itself | ₹25,999 View → |
One profile for the building, differentiation left to materials, lighting and styling, and the level judged from the seat rather than the aisle. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or display styling; it is never used to mask another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and a newly installed display gets ventilation and time rather than a machine of its own. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries or order value, and a supplier pricing this per display is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
I have twice been asked to quote for scenting displays individually, and both times the person asking had thought about it seriously, which is why I want to answer it seriously rather than dismissively. The reasoning is good: the displays are genuinely different, the brand tells a different story at each one, and a customer moves between them. So why should the air not move with the story? The answer is simply that the air does not know the story exists. It moves according to where the AC blows and where the door is, and it takes everything you release into it along for the ride.
What I find useful is that the money argument and the brand argument land in the same place as the physics. Fifteen machines is a great deal of money for a mixture you would have had for nothing. And even in an imaginary building where each display held its own character perfectly, I would talk you out of it, because a customer walking through five changes of air in ninety minutes does not think curation - they think this place has not decided what it is. A signature is a thing you hold still. That is the entire craft of it.
So: one Vaayu at ₹11,999 for a display floor from about 1,500 sq ft, one profile, one level, key-locked. One Sukoon at ₹1,899 if the showroom is a single small room, where a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. Past roughly 5,000 sq ft with a central air handler, an Aangan at ₹25,999. Spend the difference on lighting and styling for the displays, which is where the variety you want actually lives. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Should every kitchen display be scented, or should the whole showroom share one fragrance?
One fragrance for the whole showroom. Displays stand in a single shared volume of air with no ceilings, no fourth walls and no doors, so separate fragrances travel, meet and mix within minutes - the aisle carries the mixture rather than either intention. Differentiate displays with materials, lighting temperature and styling, which stay where you put them, and let the air be the constant that runs underneath all of them.
What if I bought a diffuser for every display?
You would own the same mixture at a much higher price. Fifteen Sukoons is Rs 28,485 and fifteen Vaayus is Rs 179,985, plus fifteen fragrances to stock, fifteen settings that drift on a busy floor and fifteen units to fill and clean. The constraint is the air rather than the equipment, so money cannot buy a separation the room does not permit. One machine at Rs 11,999 does the whole floor.
Could different display groups at least be scented differently - modern versus classic?
Only if they sit in genuinely separate volumes of air, which usually means a full-height wall, a door that closes, or a separate air-conditioning circuit. Named zones on a floor plan are not boundaries that air respects. In most showrooms the modern and classic groups share one hall, so they share one profile, and what changes between them is the materials, lighting and styling rather than the smell.
Would multiple fragrances at least make the showroom more interesting?
Even where it could be achieved, I would advise against it. A customer walking a floor for ninety minutes with a designer, meeting five changes of air, reads inconsistency rather than curation - and for a brand selling expensive cabinetry on craft and permanence, that is a worse result than smelling of nothing at all. A signature is something held constant: one profile, one level, held over years.
Would scenting each display separately increase enquiries?
No one can promise that and I will not. SOSA has run no research that would support a figure, and there is no honest way to separate ambient scent from the displays, the lighting, the designer and everything else a customer meets during a long visit. What one profile genuinely buys you is a coherent building instead of a confused one, which you can judge yourself by walking the aisles.
One profile, one machine, one coherent building
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for modular kitchen showrooms and experience centres
The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers up to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, and runs a single profile across a whole display floor however many kitchens stand on it; under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899, and past roughly 5,000 sq ft the Aangan at ₹25,999. Waterless, under 38dB, key-locked, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send your floor plan with the walls and doors marked.
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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.