People reach for degree because it sounds reasonable and it is the answer most suppliers give, and it is wrong for a reason that has nothing to do with taste. Those two spaces have two different occupants doing two different things for two wildly different lengths of time. A visitor crosses your reception in ninety seconds or sits in it for twenty minutes, arriving from a lift lobby and a car park and a road with a nose calibrated for contrast. A colleague sits at a desk on that floor for eight to ten hours a day, five or six days a week, for years. Reception is the operator's room. The workstation floor is somebody's workplace, and the bar for putting a decision about air into it is a bar I do not think a fragrance supplier should be helping you clear.
Then comes the part that decides whether any of this is achievable in your actual building, and it is mechanical rather than philosophical. A coverage rating assumes one connected body of air, and scent does not travel through a closed door. A door that stays shut ends one volume and begins another - that is the whole mechanism of zoning, and it is the only mechanism there is. So a scented reception and an unscented floor is a real proposition when a full-height partition and a working door separate them, and it is a story you are telling yourself when reception simply becomes floor.
And in a young, large-format, campus-scale building - which is what Kharadi's stock is, having gone from a village around 2005 to a major IT centre in Pune's Eastern Metropolitan Corridor anchored by the EON Free Zone and the World Trade Centre Pune, with Kharadi, Hinjawadi and Viman Nagar together holding forty-three per cent of Pune's office supply - the open reception is extremely common. Which produces the most important sentence on this page: an open-plan floor connected to reception inherits whatever reception has. Your reception level is also the level at the nearest desk, for nine hours a day, for the person sitting there.
That is an argument for setting reception low. It is never an argument for adding a second machine deeper into the floor to even out the gradient, because evening it out means scenting the workstations, which is precisely the thing this page exists to say you should not do.
Two limits before anything else. Fragrance adds scent and never removes it, and no SOSA product treats, filters, dries, dehumidifies or purifies air. And nothing here claims that scent does anything to a person - no focus, concentration, productivity, alertness, energy, mood, stress or wellbeing claim, in any phrasing. The honest ceiling is improved evaluations of a space and its service, longer dwell and stronger recall, at moderate effect sizes, and it is a claim about how a room is perceived.
What if reception is open to the floor with no door between them? Then they are one connected body of air and you should design for that rather than pretend otherwise. A coverage rating assumes one connected volume and scent does not travel through a closed door, so with no door there is no boundary - only distance and a gradient. The consequence is precise: your reception level is the level at the nearest desk, received for nine hours a day by whoever sits there. Set it for that person, not for the visitor. Go lower than feels right, accept that the far end of the floor gets nothing, and treat that gradient as the correct outcome rather than a fault to be corrected.
Should I add a second machine to even out the scent across the floor? No. Evening it out means scenting the workstations, which is the one thing this page says not to do. A gradient from a scented arrival volume into an unscented floor is not a defect - it is what the connected-volume rule and the arithmetic both give you, and it is the correct design. A floor of 10,000 sq ft at a 10 ft ceiling is 100,000 cubic feet, about 2,833 cubic metres, against a Vaayu published for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air, so covering it would also mean several machines running in a space where people sit all day. The answer is a lower reception, not a bigger footprint.
Why kind and not degree. Three reasons and they all point the same way. Dwell. Ninety seconds to twenty minutes against eight to ten hours. Dwell time sets the level, and a longer stay always means a lower one - so the correct number for a workstation is not a smaller version of the reception number, it is a number so small that it is indistinguishable from none. Contrast. A visitor arrives from a lift lobby, a car park and possibly a road, with a nose that has had four environments in six minutes and is at its most sensitive to change. They will register a very quiet room. The person at the desk has been in that air since half past eight and will register nothing at all, which sounds like an argument for more and is in fact an argument for less, because what they register is not the point - what they are exposed to is. Ownership. A reception is a room an organisation presents. A workstation floor is a room people live in. Making a decision about the air in the first is hospitality; making one about the second is a decision about someone else's working conditions, and I do not think a fragrance company should be the one encouraging you to make it.
Now the mechanism, because the strategy only exists if the building supports it. A coverage rating assumes one connected body of air. Scent does not travel through a closed door. A door that stays shut ends one volume and begins another - that is the entire technical basis of zoning and there is no other. So the question that decides everything is: is there a real boundary between your reception and your plate?
What counts as a boundary: a full-height partition to the slab or to a sealed ceiling line, with a door that has a working closer and is not routinely propped. What does not count, however good it looks on a plan: a low screen, a run of planters, a change of carpet or flooring, a ceiling raft or a change of level, a reception desk positioned as a threshold, or a door with a large undercut that is open all afternoon because the room gets warm. Those are visual boundaries. Air ignores them completely.
And the arithmetic, which settles it. Floor area times ceiling height gives cubic feet; cubic feet divided by 35.3 gives cubic metres. A reception of 800 sq ft at a 10 ft finished ceiling is 8,000 cubic feet, about 227 cubic metres, which sits comfortably inside the Vaayu's published approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air and should therefore be run low. A workstation floor of 10,000 sq ft at 10 ft is 100,000 cubic feet, about 2,833 cubic metres. If there is no door between them, you do not have a 227 cubic metre problem and a separate 2,833 cubic metre one. You have one connected volume of about 3,060 cubic metres, and a machine published for roughly a third of that.
Which gives the conclusion. Where there is a door: scent reception, run it low, leave the floor alone, and the door does the work. Where there is not: set reception for the person whose desk is nearest, accept a gradient that fades to nothing as you walk in, and do not put a second unit deeper into the plate to even it out. Evening it out is scenting the workstations. If that gradient is unacceptable to you, the correct response is to scent a doored client room instead, or to put a passive reed from ₹749 on the reception desk where it scents the few feet around it and nothing else, or to do nothing at all - which is a perfectly respectable outcome and one I recommend more often than you might expect. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
If you do one thing before buying anything, take the floor plan and draw the boundary. Then interrogate it honestly. Is the partition full height to the slab or to a sealed ceiling, or does it stop at two metres with an open void above it? Is there a door? Does it have a working closer, or was the closer disabled because it slammed? Is there a large undercut beneath it? Is it propped open every afternoon? Whatever survives that interrogation is your real boundary, and in most large-format fit-outs what survives is less than the drawing promised.
Then identify the governing person. This is the most useful single move on the page and nobody does it. Walk to the desk nearest reception and sit in that chair for a minute. That person is the one your reception setting is actually for. Not the visitor, not the managing director, not the person who signed off the fit-out. Whatever you run in reception, they are receiving it for nine hours a day, and they did not get a say. Design for them and the visitor will be fine, because the visitor is arriving with maximum contrast and will register a level far below what feels adequate to somebody standing in the room.
The third move is to stop treating the gradient as a fault. In an open plan, scent fades with distance from the source and there is no way around that short of scenting the whole plate, which is both arithmetically silly - a 10,000 sq ft floor at a 10 ft ceiling is about 2,833 cubic metres against a machine published for approximately 1000 - and the wrong thing to do to a room full of people who work there. A clear arrival and a plain floor is a correct outcome, not a half-finished one.
And be ready to arrive at nothing. There are three situations where my honest recommendation for the reception of a corporate floor is to buy no machine at all. One: the reception is small and completely open to a large plate, so anything audible at the desk is also audible at twelve workstations. Two: the floor has an unresolved smell - a pantry, a new fit-out, a damp week in a July that is the wettest month of a monsoon running roughly June to October - in which case the order is source, then ventilation, then cleaning, and fragrance is last and probably nowhere. Three: the organisation is not willing to write down a setting, name an owner and give the desk the authority to switch it off, in which case the scheme will drift upward and become a complaint. In all three cases a reed on the desk or nothing at all is the better answer, and I would rather write that sentence than take the order.
One last thing. Whatever you decide, make the switch-off a standing arrangement rather than a favour: anyone on the reception desk can turn a named unit off, immediately, without asking a manager and without justifying it afterwards. They are in that air eight to ten hours a day and they are the most exposed people in your building. A report is a recalibration signal, not a tolerance problem.
Two rooms with two different jobs, and the door that decides whether they are two rooms at all
Three things decide whether reception and the workstation area should be treated differently, and in what way. The first is what each room is for and who is in it - a threshold crossed in ninety seconds against a workplace occupied for nine hours. The second is whether they are actually two rooms, which is a question about doors and partitions rather than about furniture. The third is what to do when they are not, which in a young, large-format floor plate is the common case and has a precise answer that most suppliers get backwards.
What does not decide it is how impressive you want the arrival to be. The instinct in a premium fit-out is to make reception announce itself, and a fragrance is an easy way to attempt that. But a visitor arriving from a lift lobby and a car park is receiving your room at the largest contrast anybody will get all day, which means the level that reads as generous to somebody who has been sitting in the building since morning is a level that reads as loud to the person walking in. Set for the resident and the visitor is looked after. Set for the visitor and the resident suffers.
Do the arithmetic once. Floor area multiplied by ceiling height gives cubic feet; cubic feet divided by 35.3 gives cubic metres. A reception of 800 sq ft at a 10 ft finished ceiling is 8,000 cubic feet, about 227 cubic metres. A smaller reception of 500 sq ft at 10 ft is 5,000 cubic feet, about 142 cubic metres. A doored client meeting room of 250 sq ft at 10 ft is 2,500 cubic feet, about 71 cubic metres. A workstation floor of 10,000 sq ft at 10 ft is 100,000 cubic feet, about 2,833 cubic metres. And reception plus floor together, with no door between them, is 10,800 sq ft at 10 ft, which is 108,000 cubic feet, about 3,060 cubic metres.
The SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is published for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air, with SOSA's own copy also stating 2,000 to 3,000 sq ft scented evenly. So a separated reception is roughly a quarter of that figure and the machine is not the constraint - the setting is, and the instruction is to run it low. A connected reception-and-floor is three times that figure, which does not mean buy three machines. It means the floor was never the target and the gradient is the design.
Keep Pune's two indoor seasons in the frame as the last variable, because they change the number rather than the strategy. The monsoon runs roughly June to October, most rain falls June to September, July is the wettest month and indoor humidity is at its annual peak in July and August: a damp, closed-up, slow room. The hot season runs mid-March to mid-June and peaks in April and May with average highs around 37 to 38 degrees C, and it is - verified and counter-intuitive - the driest stretch of the year, with the humidity trough sitting in February to April: a building working its cooling hard and moving air faster. Two written settings, same register, changed at a scheduled review and recorded in the file.
Reception is a threshold. Somebody arrives, is received, waits a little, and goes somewhere else. Its job is to say what kind of organisation this is in the few seconds before anybody speaks, and that job is largely done by things that are not fragrance: the light, the acoustics, the state of the surfaces, whether the desk is staffed and whether anybody looked up. Fragrance arrives late in that list and it arrives quietly. It is nonetheless a legitimate part of a threshold, because a threshold is the one place in an office where a deliberate sensory decision is genuinely the operator's to make.
A workstation floor is a habitat. Several hundred people spend a third of their waking lives in it. The right sensory decision for a habitat is usually restraint: a room that does not ask anything of the person in it. And the exposure arithmetic is brutal once you write it down - a visitor might accumulate a few hours in your building across a year, while somebody at a desk accumulates roughly two thousand. Whoever is most exposed sets the ceiling, and on an office floor that is never the visitor.
Now the contrast point, which is the one that makes the answer counter-intuitive. The visitor you are designing for has just come from a lift lobby, a car park and possibly a road. Their nose has had several environments in a few minutes and is at its most sensitive to change. They will register a level that a resident cannot find at all. Meanwhile the resident's nose has adapted - after a few hours of constant exposure it substantially stops reporting a smell, which is ordinary physiology and not inattention. So you have two people in the same room with completely different perceptions, and the trap is to calibrate using the one who cannot perceive it. The resident's inability to smell it is not evidence that the level is too low. It is evidence that they have adapted, and they are still receiving it for nine hours.
And the dwell rule, stated plainly. A longer stay means a lower level, never a higher one. This runs through the whole of this bank and it is at its most extreme here: the ratio between ninety seconds and nine hours is so large that the correct level for the second is not a fraction of the first but zero. That is why the answer is kind rather than degree. We run it very low across the floor sounds careful and is a different, worse answer than we do not run it there.
What the workstation area gets instead. Nothing, and that is not a gap to be filled. A floor that smells of a clean, well-ventilated, well-run building is the correct outcome, and getting there is a source, ventilation and cleaning exercise rather than a fragrance one - the pantry and its waste, the carpet cleaning cadence, the washrooms, a new fit-out left to air. Fragrance adds scent and has never removed one, and no SOSA product treats, filters, dries, dehumidifies or purifies air, so nothing sold here is an answer to a floor with a problem. And no claim is made about what any of this does to anybody working there: no focus, concentration, productivity, alertness, energy, mood, stress or wellbeing claim, in any phrasing, ever.
What counts as a boundary. A partition running full height to the slab, or to a genuinely sealed ceiling line, with a door that has a working closer and is not habitually propped. That is essentially the list. A doored client meeting room qualifies. A separated reception vestibule qualifies. A directors' suite behind a door qualifies.
What does not count, however convincing it looks. A low screen or a half-height partition, over which air passes freely. A run of planters, which stops sightlines and nothing else. A change of carpet or floor finish. A ceiling raft, a bulkhead or a change of ceiling height. A change of level with two steps. A reception desk placed as a symbolic threshold. A partition that stops at a suspended ceiling with an open plenum above it, which is extremely common and which people believe is a wall. And a door with a substantial undercut, or a door that is open every afternoon because the room warms up - which is usually an air handling question presenting as a door question, and is worth chasing with whoever runs the building. Every one of those is a visual boundary. Air ignores all of them.
Do the honest pass on your own plan. Mark every line you think of as a boundary, then delete the ones that fail the test above. What is left is the real set of volumes in your workplace, and in a large-format open fit-out it is frequently two items long: the boardroom and the meeting room. That is not a disaster. It is information, and it points straight at where scenting is achievable - a doored client room of 250 sq ft at a 10 ft ceiling is 2,500 cubic feet, about 71 cubic metres, a small and easily over-scented volume that should be run very low or given a passive reed from ₹749 instead of anything with a setting.
The placement corollary. Even inside a real volume, where the machine physically sits decides a great deal, because a nebulised output travels wherever the air is already travelling. A unit in a supply airstream has its output picked up and carried off the floor and thinned; a unit next to a return grille is being plumbed out of the room; a unit in a dead corner behind a column never joins the room's circulation at all. The position that works is in the room's general circulation, a few feet clear of a supply diffuser, away from returns, at a height that puts the output into the occupied zone - and at a live socket, because the Vaayu is DC 12V / 1A at 5W and mains powered, and on a large open plate power position frequently decides the answer before anything else does.
And what is never on the table. Do not reduce ventilation, close a vent, damp down extraction or change an air change rate so that a fragrance holds longer, and do not duct a scenting machine into a shared air handler your organisation does not control. A well-ventilated floor is genuinely harder to hold a level in, and that is a cost to accept rather than a problem to engineer around. The people responsible for your building's air decide what happens to it and their decision overrides everything on this page. Nothing here is facilities, HVAC or building advice.
If reception opens directly onto the workstation floor, they are one connected body of air. Run the numbers: a reception of 800 sq ft plus a floor of 10,000 sq ft, all at a 10 ft finished ceiling, is 10,800 sq ft, which is 108,000 cubic feet, about 3,060 cubic metres. There is no boundary to defend and no zoning to design. What you have instead is a source, a distance and a gradient - strongest near the machine, fading as you walk in, gone at the far end.
The consequence, stated as plainly as I can put it: your reception level is the level at the nearest desk. Whoever sits closest to reception receives your arrival decision for eight to ten hours a day, five or six days a week, for as long as they sit there. They did not choose it, they will adapt to it within an hour so they will not even be able to report on it accurately, and they are nonetheless the most exposed person to it in the building along with your front-of-house team. So they are the governing case and the level is set for them. Lower than feels right. Low enough that after an hour in the room you cannot find it.
The visitor is fine, and this is the part people do not believe until they try it. Somebody arriving from a lift lobby, a car park and a road is receiving your room at the largest contrast anyone will experience all day. They will register a level far below what seems adequate to somebody standing in reception at eleven in the morning. Calibrate for the resident and the arrival still works; calibrate for the arrival and the resident is over-exposed for years.
And now the wrong answer, which is common enough to be worth naming. When the far end of the floor reads of nothing, the instinct is to add a second unit deeper into the plate to even it out. Do not. Evening it out means scenting the workstation area, which is the single thing this page exists to advise against. It also doubles the exposure of everybody who sits between the two machines, and it commits you to a coverage project on a 2,833 cubic metre volume with a machine published for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air. A gradient is not a fault. It is what the physics gives you and it is also, on a floor full of people, the ethically correct shape.
The alternatives, when the gradient is genuinely unacceptable. Scent a doored client room instead and leave the open reception plain - a 71 cubic metre room, run very low, does the hospitality job at a fraction of the exposure. Put a passive reed on the reception desk: the SOSA reeds from ₹749, lasting about 6 to 10 weeks, scent the few feet around them and will not reach a desk eight metres away, which on this particular problem is exactly the property you want. Or do nothing, which is a respectable and frequently correct outcome that nobody in my industry says out loud.
And the governance, without which none of it holds. One written setting per zone per season, recorded with a date. One named owner and one deputy, and nobody else with the app - the published Bluetooth app and timer on the Vaayu is what makes a schedule and a fixed setting practical, and a setting three people can nudge is a drift rather than a setting. A scheduled seasonal review, which in Pune is an obvious trigger given how different a closed-up July is from a dry, hard-cooled April. Notice to the floor before anything is installed, naming what it is, that it is a fragrance and explicitly not an air purifier or air treatment of any kind, and who owns it. And a standing arrangement, written down: anyone on the reception desk can switch a named unit off, immediately, on their own authority, without asking a manager or justifying it afterwards. A report is a recalibration signal, not a tolerance problem, and I make no health or allergy claim in either direction.
- Mark the boundary and delete every line that is not a full-height partition with a door.
- If reception opens onto the plate, sit at the nearest desk - that is the governing case.
- Set reception low for the person who sits there nine hours, not for the visitor.
- Accept the gradient. Never add a second unit deeper in to even the floor out.
Setting reception for the nearest desk, and why a second machine is the wrong answer
With the zone settled, the register is the short part and the level is the long one - and on this page the level is genuinely the whole argument, because the same register at two different numbers is the difference between a reception that works and a floor that complains.
There are seven registers in the water-based Hotel Collection, each SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretation, and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any hotel brand. For a corporate reception the steer is a context steer rather than a taste one: dry, clean, unsweet, low, and identical every day for years. Quiet Luxury is white tea, bergamot and cedar, hushed and polished, and the default with one decision and no information. White Tea Serenity is white tea, aloe and cedar, clean and weightless and spa-like, and it reads as clean rather than as scented - which matters most of all in the case where reception and the floor share air, because the thing you least want a colleague at a desk to perceive is somebody's decision. Forest Suite is cedarwood, vetiver and green leaves, the driest of the three, and in a large-format interior of stone, timber and planting it is received as part of the building.
The four to keep off a corporate floor: Lobby Bar, citrus, pepper and amber, bold and playful and after-dark, because turning a theatrical register down gives you a quiet theatrical register; Old-World Glamour, amber, violet and woods, plush and evening-elegant, because plush accumulates in a room people sit in; Warm Welcome, citrus, floral and sandalwood, a genuine hotel-threshold register and the beginning of the sweetness problem where several hundred people pass twice a day; and Tea Garden, jasmine, green tea and white tea, the least risky floral in the collection because the jasmine sits inside the tea, but a floral all the same - and a floral reads as a decision, which is what a colleague notices on day four hundred. I will not rank the seven on measured throw or longevity; SOSA does not publish that comparison and the variables that dominate belong to your floor rather than to the blend.
Now the level, in the order that works. Start lower than feels sensible. Leave it a full week untouched, because a level judged in the first afternoon is judged by the least reliable instrument available. Then collect readings from people who have been outside for ten minutes - an arriving visitor, a courier, a colleague back from an external meeting - asked a neutral question rather than a leading one. Three independent findings of "pleasant, could not tell you what it is" is the target. One person naming the fragrance unprompted means you are too high. Nobody finding anything after a fortnight allows exactly one increment, once, followed by another fortnight of leaving it alone.
And if the two spaces share air, add one more check that nobody runs and everybody should. Ask the person at the nearest desk, privately, after two weeks, and ask it in a way that makes "yes, it is too much" an easy thing to say. They are the governing case, they will have adapted and may struggle to answer, and the fact that the question was asked at all is most of what makes the arrangement legitimate.
Two written settings across the year, changed at a scheduled review and recorded with the date: one for the closed-up, humid monsoon months of roughly June to October, one for the dry hot stretch of mid-March to mid-June when the building is working its cooling harder and moving air faster. Same register both times. Consistency is the whole of the commercial value available here, and it is destroyed by a level anybody can adjust.
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| Quiet Luxury · a reception behind a full-height partition and a working door | White tea, bergamot and cedar. Hushed and polished, and the default. A reception of 800 sq ft at a 10 ft ceiling is about 227 cubic metres against a machine published for approximately 1000 m3 of connected air, so the machine is not the constraint - run it low and let the closed door do the zoning work. |
| White Tea Serenity · a reception that is open to the plate - lower still | White tea, aloe and cedar. Clean, weightless and reading as clean rather than as scented, which is what you want when the nearest desk is inheriting it for nine hours a day. Set the number for that person, accept a gradient into the floor, and take the reading from a visitor who has been outside ten minutes. |
| A reed diffuser · a reception desk with the floor two metres away | Passive, local and nothing to schedule: the SOSA reeds from Rs 749, lasting about 6 to 10 weeks, scent the few feet around them and will not reach a desk eight metres off. On this particular problem that limitation is exactly the property you want, and it is a far better answer than a machine set very low. |
| Nothing at all · the workstation area, in every case | Not a lower setting - nothing. A floor of 10,000 sq ft at a 10 ft ceiling is about 2,833 cubic metres, and it is several hundred people's workplace for eight to ten hours a day. If the far end reads of nothing, that is the design working. Adding a second unit to even it out is simply scenting the desks. |
So the buying answer, decided by the boundary rather than by the floor area. Where reception is genuinely separated - a full-height partition and a door that stays shut - a volume of about 227 cubic metres is comfortably inside the SOSA Vaayu's published approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air at ₹11,999, which means the machine is not your constraint and the setting is. Waterless cold-air nebulising of undiluted oil, so no water, no humidity and no wet residue - a plain design preference in a Pune July when indoor humidity is at its annual peak, and never a claim to control humidity. Bluetooth app and timer, which is most of the value to a facilities function because it holds one written setting to a schedule rather than being nudged. 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mount, DC 12V / 1A at 5W and mains powered, so it needs a live socket.
Where reception is smaller or open to the plate, the honest recommendation frequently steps down rather than up. For an enclosed reception of about 142 cubic metres, the SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 running the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299 is often the whole purchase, with 100ml refills at ₹999 and 300ml also available; the Boond at ₹899 suits a smaller enclosed room and the Megh at ₹3,499 has a six-litre tank for a larger area running all day. The pack of seven 15ml bottles at ₹1,799 is the sensible way to audition registers in your own air, judged on day five rather than day one. And where the floor begins two metres from the desk, a reed - Mountain Breeze at ₹849, Morning Freshness at ₹749, Garden Bloom at ₹799, Evening Calm at ₹799 or Fresh Brew at ₹849, 130ml from ₹1,249 and lasting about 6 to 10 weeks - is genuinely the better tool, because being local is the whole point.
Two systems and they are not interchangeable: the ultrasonics are water-based cool-mist machines, while the Vaayu and the ducted Aangan at ₹25,999 for approximately 8,000 to 10,000 sq ft and Meenar at ₹38,500 for approximately 12,000 to 18,000 sq ft run waterless nebulising oil. The ₹299 water-based bottle never goes into a Vaayu or an HVAC machine. The ducted machines belong in a conversation with the engineers who own and maintain your air handling, in a building where your organisation controls it; they are never something to be done to a shared system in a multi-tenant tower on a supplier's say-so.
To go deeper on what this page only touches: the full perimeter argument, including which rooms get nothing and why staff exposure caps everything, is in how a premium office near EON IT Park should handle fragrance with hundreds of employees using the space daily. If the physical question is where a unit can actually sit on a floor served by a system moving a great deal of air, that mechanism is in how central AC affects fragrance distribution inside Kharadi commercial towers. And if the thing prompting all of this is a room that reads one way in the morning and another after lunch, the daily curve is in why a Kharadi office smells fresh at 9 AM and completely different after lunch.
What SOSA does not publish, and what this page will therefore not invent: consumption rate, refill frequency, monthly running cost, machine lifespan, minimum order quantity or installation lead time. Send your floor plan with the boundary marked, your ceiling height, how far the nearest desk is from reception and whether the partition goes to the slab, to WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 instead. Bulk orders are welcome, custom label or logo on product is available, and bespoke composition is a real SOSA service discussed there rather than priced on a page - although the cheaper honest answer comes first, which is that one of the seven registers held consistently already is a signature, because consistency makes a signature and uniqueness does not.
The SOSA scenting range
SOSA sells two different systems and one of the commonest mistakes is mixing them up. Size by the connected air volume of the room you are actually scenting - which in a boutique means the connected retail floor plus any viewing room that has a door of its own - floor area multiplied by ceiling height gives cubic feet, and cubic feet divided by 35.3 gives cubic metres. A door that stays shut ends one volume and begins another.
| Machine | System | What it is for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOSA Boond | Ultrasonic · water-based | A small desk or corner unit for one enclosed room - runs the water-based Hotel Collection | ₹899 |
| SOSA Sukoon | Ultrasonic · water-based | A larger ultrasonic for a reception or consultation room - Hotel Collection from ₹299 | ₹1,899 |
| SOSA Megh | Ultrasonic · 6L tank | A large-tank ultrasonic for a bigger lounge that runs all day | ₹3,499 |
| SOSA Vaayu | Waterless cold-air nebulising | The commercial machine - approx 1000 m3 of connected air, Bluetooth app and timer, no water and no humidity | ₹11,999 |
| SOSA Aangan | HVAC nebulising | Ducted scenting for approximately 8,000 to 10,000 sq ft | ₹25,999 |
| SOSA Meenar | HVAC nebulising | Ducted scenting for approximately 12,000 to 18,000 sq ft | ₹38,500 |
Two systems, and they are not interchangeable. The ultrasonics - Boond, Sukoon and Megh - run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299. Vaayu and the HVAC machines run waterless nebulising oil; the ₹299 water-based bottle never goes into a Vaayu. 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.
- Vaayu ₹11,999 - waterless cold-air nebulising, approx 1000 m3 connected air, Bluetooth app and timer, 400ml tank, freestanding or wall / HVAC mount, DC 12V / 1A, 5W, mains powered, CE / RoHS / SGS.
- Aangan ₹25,999 for approximately 8,000 to 10,000 sq ft and Meenar ₹38,500 for approximately 12,000 to 18,000 sq ft - both ducted into HVAC.
- The ultrasonics - Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899, Megh ₹3,499 - run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299, with 100ml refills at ₹999.
- Not published, and therefore never stated on this page: consumption rate, refill frequency, monthly running cost, machine lifespan, installation lead time or any minimum order. Those go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Versailles
SOSA is a Pune business, so these are not pages I wrote from a desk somewhere else. I have stood in a Baner clinic in the second week of July and in a Kharadi tower in the middle of April, and the useful thing I can tell you is this: the locality on your signboard is not a technical variable. Nobody scents a postcode. What a locality name is actually shorthand for is a cluster of real things - how old the building is, whether the front is sealed glass or a door onto a pavement, what the air conditioning genuinely is, how many people come through, how long each of them stays, and what the room already smells of.
Which is why two businesses three doors apart can need completely different answers, and why the same business needs two different answers in July and in April. A Pune monsoon room and a Pune April room are not the same room. One is damp, closed up and slow; the other is dry, hot, and running its air conditioning so hard that whatever you put in the air is being moved and diluted faster than you think. That is a real difference and it belongs in the settings, not in the choice of blend.
The order never changes, though, and it is the least commercial thing I say: source, then ventilation, then cleaning, then fragrance. Fragrance adds a smell. It has never once removed one. If your unit smells of damp, or new paint, or last night's food, a machine will give you damp and fragrance - and most people find that worse than damp. Fix the thing making the smell, get air moving, clean what holds it, and then, if the room deserves it, give it a quiet character and hold it.
Frequently asked questions
Facts verified September 2026: SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 is a waterless cold-air nebulising diffuser rated for approximately 1000 m3 of connected air, with Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall / HVAC mounting and a DC 12V / 1A, 5W mains supply. SOSA Aangan ₹25,999 covers approximately 8,000 to 10,000 sq ft and SOSA Meenar ₹38,500 approximately 12,000 to 18,000 sq ft, both ducted into HVAC. The ultrasonic machines - Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹3,499 - run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance from ₹299, with 100ml refills at ₹999; that water-based bottle is not used in a Vaayu or an HVAC machine. Reed diffusers start at ₹749 and last roughly 6-10 weeks. A coverage rating assumes one connected body of air; scent does not travel through a closed door. Ambient scent research supports improved evaluations of a space and its service, longer dwell and stronger recall at moderate effect sizes - it does not support claims about bookings, fees or retention. Fragrance adds scent and does not remove, neutralise or purify odour, and no SOSA product makes any health, antibacterial or air-purifying claim. No SOSA product is an air-treatment device, an air purifier, a dehumidifier, a humidity-control product or an odour-removal product, and none makes any health, allergy, air-quality or occupational claim. No claim is made here about any effect on a customer, a patient, a purchase, a footfall figure or a business result. Nothing in this guide is clinical, facilities, HVAC, food-safety or building advice: in a clinical space the treating clinician decides what may be in the air, in a food business the kitchen and the applicable food-safety rules decide, and in any building the people responsible for its air and its maintenance decide - and their decision overrides every recommendation here. Descriptions of Pune's seasons and localities are general and qualitative; every figure about a specific building must come from that building. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.