★ SOSA Home & Body
Something small, sent on an ordinary day, for no reason other than that you thought of them
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★★★★★
"Sent my sister an attar on a Tuesday for no reason at all. She rang to ask what the occasion was. There wasn't one, and that was the whole point."
SOSA Adaa attar
★★★★★
"My girlfriend had a rough fortnight at work. I did not pretend a bottle would fix it - I just sent something small so she knew I had noticed."
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Long distance for two years. Posting her something every few months is the closest thing we have to turning up at the door."
SOSA Mastani attar
★★★★★
"Bought my father the hanging one because he drives to the plant every morning and would never spend on himself."
Sandalwood car perfume
★★★★★
"Was told the honest thing - that under four hundred rupees there was nothing worth sending - and to stretch a little instead. Ended up with the attar."
SOSA Ameeri attar
★★★★★
"Best friend moved cities and I could not visit. A reed diffuser felt less like a card and more like being in her flat."
Evening Calm reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Sent my sister an attar on a Tuesday for no reason at all. She rang to ask what the occasion was. There wasn't one, and that was the whole point."
SOSA Adaa attar
★★★★★
"My girlfriend had a rough fortnight at work. I did not pretend a bottle would fix it - I just sent something small so she knew I had noticed."
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Long distance for two years. Posting her something every few months is the closest thing we have to turning up at the door."
SOSA Mastani attar
★★★★★
"Bought my father the hanging one because he drives to the plant every morning and would never spend on himself."
Sandalwood car perfume
★★★★★
"Was told the honest thing - that under four hundred rupees there was nothing worth sending - and to stretch a little instead. Ended up with the attar."
SOSA Ameeri attar
★★★★★
"Best friend moved cities and I could not visit. A reed diffuser felt less like a card and more like being in her flat."
Evening Calm reed diffuser
✓ Alcohol-free attars from ₹379 · 3ml, 6ml and 12ml ✓ Car fragrance from ₹449 · SOSA Safar ₹3,999 ✓ Tell SOSA who it is for on WhatsApp +91 96192 18531
Founder Diaries · Just-Because & Surprise Fragrance Gifting
Is a gift a good way to apologise? Not on its own, and not as a substitute for saying the thing. A gift that arrives instead of a conversation asks the other person to treat the matter as closed. Say it plainly first, then send something small because you wanted to, not because you owe it.
How much should I spend if we have not seen each other in a month? The same as you would on any ordinary week - roughly ₹379 to ₹1,000. Distance is not a debt that accrues, and spending more because more time has passed is exactly the arithmetic that makes a gift feel like a transaction.
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A plan fell through, or work took the month, and the instinct is to send something that makes up for it. That instinct is the problem. The moment a gift is sized against a missed evening it stops being a gift and becomes a payment, and the person receiving it has to decide whether to accept the settlement. Send something ordinary instead, priced as if nothing had gone wrong.
SOSA Mastani, ₹389 for 3ml - night-blooming jasmine with damask rose and oudh. It leads this page because of its price rather than its character: this is the size of gift you would send on a week when nothing had gone wrong, and that is exactly why it works on a week when something did. Alcohol-free oil, rolled on rather than sprayed, used up over ordinary mornings.
Quick answers — read this first
What should I send my partner when I have had to cancel on them? Something small and ordinary, not something that matches the size of the disappointment. A 3ml attar at ₹379, car fragrance at ₹449 or a 50ml reed diffuser at ₹749. The plain words about the cancelled plan do the work; the object should not try to.Is a gift a good way to apologise? Not on its own, and not as a substitute for saying the thing. A gift that arrives instead of a conversation asks the other person to treat the matter as closed. Say it plainly first, then send something small because you wanted to, not because you owe it.
How much should I spend if we have not seen each other in a month? The same as you would on any ordinary week - roughly ₹379 to ₹1,000. Distance is not a debt that accrues, and spending more because more time has passed is exactly the arithmetic that makes a gift feel like a transaction.
The short answer
Short answer: Send something small and ordinary: a 3ml attar at Rs 379, car fragrance at Rs 449 if they drive, or a 50ml reed diffuser at Rs 749. Do not price the gift against the plan you missed. Say the plain thing about the cancelled evening separately, in words, and let the object be nothing more than an object.
The pick: A single 3ml attar at ₹379 to ₹399, or car fragrance at ₹449 if they drive every day.
Why: It is the size you would send on a week when nothing had gone wrong, which is precisely what stops it reading as compensation.
In this guide
A gift with no occasion attached has one job an occasion gift does not: it has to make sense on its own. That usually means small enough not to need explaining and useful enough not to sit there - which is why a ₹379 attar often lands better than something three times the price handed over with an apology for the timing.
Small enough to send
SOSA attars · from ₹379
For their home
Reed diffusers · from ₹749
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Straight answer
What small gift should I send my partner when I cannot meet them?
Send the thing you would have sent anyway, at the price you would have paid anyway. A 3ml attar at ₹379 to ₹399, car fragrance at ₹449 if they drive daily, or a 50ml reed diffuser at ₹749 for the room they actually sit in. The reason for keeping it there is not thrift. A gift that scales with the size of what you missed turns the missed thing into a bill, and puts the other person in the position of deciding whether the bill has been settled - which is a worse conversation than the one about the cancelled plan. Say the plain thing in words, separately and without a parcel attached to it, and let the object be small and ordinary. Do not send anything at all if what is actually needed is a phone call you have been avoiding; a gift sent in place of that is a way of not having the conversation. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
A gift sent after a cancelled plan should be the same size as one sent after a good week. The moment the price tracks the disappointment, it is no longer a gift.
The size to aim for: an ordinary-week gift, ₹379 to ₹1,000. Not bigger because you missed something.
SOSA attars from ₹379
Why apology-sized gifts go wrong
There is a real difference between a gift that says I was thinking about you and one that says I am sorry, please take this, and it is almost entirely a question of size and timing rather than of which product you pick. These three variables set which one you are sending.
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The first variable
Is the price tracking the disappointment?
Ask yourself one question before checking out: would you have sent this exact thing on a week when the plan had gone ahead? If the answer is no - if the bottle got bigger because the trip got cancelled - the object is doing work that words should be doing, and the person opening it will hear that.
This is why the recommendation here stays at ₹379 for a 3ml attar or ₹449 for a car fragrance even when the budget would stretch to the SOSA Safar at ₹3,999. The Safar is an excellent gift for somebody who genuinely lives in their car. It is a poor gift for somebody who is mainly disappointed that you are not there.
This is why the recommendation here stays at ₹379 for a 3ml attar or ₹449 for a car fragrance even when the budget would stretch to the SOSA Safar at ₹3,999. The Safar is an excellent gift for somebody who genuinely lives in their car. It is a poor gift for somebody who is mainly disappointed that you are not there.
Tip: If you would not have sent it on a good week, do not send it on this one.
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The second variable
What are you sending instead of saying?
A parcel can stand in for a conversation, and when it does, it closes a subject that was not finished. If there is something to say about the cancelled plan or about how long this stretch of work is going to run, say it in plain words first, on its own, with nothing attached to it.
Then, separately, and ideally not in the same breath, send something small because you wanted to. Ordinary timing is what stops an object reading as a settlement. The gift is not the apology and is not required to carry one - it is allowed to be nothing more than a small bottle that turned up on a Thursday.
Then, separately, and ideally not in the same breath, send something small because you wanted to. Ordinary timing is what stops an object reading as a settlement. The gift is not the apology and is not required to carry one - it is allowed to be nothing more than a small bottle that turned up on a Thursday.
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The third variable
What does their actual week look like?
Once the sizing is settled, accuracy is the only thing left worth spending effort on, and accuracy means aiming at where the person really is rather than where you picture them. Somebody driving an hour a day to a site or an office is in that car more than in any room of their home, which makes a ₹449 hanging car perfume a daily object rather than a token.
Somebody working from one room at home is the reed diffuser case - 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849 rather than the 130ml, because a first diffuser in a small room should be the smaller one. And somebody whose fragrance you can actually name is the attar case, at 3ml first. None of these three requires the gift to get bigger. They only require you to have been paying attention.
Somebody working from one room at home is the reed diffuser case - 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849 rather than the 130ml, because a first diffuser in a small room should be the smaller one. And somebody whose fragrance you can actually name is the attar case, at 3ml first. None of these three requires the gift to get bigger. They only require you to have been paying attention.
Tip: Aim at the room they are actually in, not the one you imagine them in.
The smallest serious gift
An attar is the one fragrance gift that costs under ₹500 and still reads as considered
Alcohol-free concentrated oil, applied on the pulse points rather than sprayed. Adaa is bergamot, green cardamom and jasmine sambac; Ameeri is Taif rose, sandalwood and saffron; Nawaab is white oud, Mysore sandalwood and Kashmir saffron; Mastani is night-blooming jasmine, damask rose and oudh. From ₹379 for 3ml, ₹669 for 6ml and ₹1,149 for 12ml.
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Work it out in this order
How to get the size right in four steps
- Say the plain thing about the cancelled plan first, in words, with no parcel.
- Set the price you would have set on an ordinary week: Rs 379 to Rs 1,000.
- Aim it: their car, the room they work in, or a fragrance you can name.
- Send the smaller size. A first bottle is never the biggest one.
The SOSA principle
Time apart is not a debt, and a gift is not a repayment. The most useful thing you can do with a gift after a cancelled plan is make it conspicuously ordinary.
Ordinary is what tells somebody you were thinking of them rather than settling up with them.
What to send instead, and in what size
With the band fixed low, the choice becomes a simple question of where the gift will live. For something worn, the four SOSA attars divide cleanly: Adaa at ₹379 is bergamot, green cardamom and jasmine sambac; Ameeri at ₹385 is Taif rose with sandalwood and saffron; Mastani at ₹389 is night jasmine with damask rose and oudh; Nawaab at ₹399 is white oud with Mysore sandalwood. For a car, Jasmine at ₹449 and Lemon at ₹499 are the uncontroversial ones, while Oud at ₹509 is a strong opinion. For a room, Morning Freshness at ₹749 is the least declarative of the five reeds.
The SOSA gift edit
Four sizes of the same gesture, and what each one says
| The option | Who it suits, and where it fails |
|---|---|
| A 3ml attar · ₹379 to ₹399 | One small bottle of alcohol-free oil. Reads as ordinary, which is exactly the point here, and gets used up rather than displayed. It fails if you have guessed the character wrong - which is an argument for 3ml over 6ml, not for spending more. |
| Car fragrance · ₹449 to ₹549 | Nine scents, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price. The most accurate gift there is for somebody doing a long daily drive on their own. It fails for anybody who barely drives, and the strong scents fail in a shared car. |
| A 50ml reed diffuser · ₹749 to ₹849 | Passive fragrance for a room, about 6 to 10 weeks, nothing to plug in. The right choice when you cannot name a fragrance they wear. It fails if you send the 130ml at ₹1,249 into a one-room flat - start smaller. |
| Anything above ₹1,500 · the Safar and up | The SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 and the SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 are real gifts for the right person - a driver who lives in their car, an owner of a large open home. As compensation for a missed plan they are the wrong instrument entirely, whatever the budget allows. |
The gift that goes to a home
A reed duo set is a readymade gift box without any guessing about taste
Two reed diffusers in one box: Day & Night pairs lemon-mint with lavender-chamomile at ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded pairs lemon-mint with pine-cedar at ₹1,548, and Warmth & Bloom pairs coffee-vanilla with rose-jasmine at ₹1,598. Nothing to plug in, nothing to switch off, about 6 to 10 weeks each.
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One note on sizes, because it runs against the instinct this page is arguing with. The 3ml attar at ₹379 and the 6ml at ₹669 are not the same gift at two prices - the small one reads as light and the larger one reads as considered and a little formal. After a cancelled plan, light is the one you want. The same applies to reeds: 50ml is the ordinary-week size and 130ml at ₹1,249 is the housewarming size. If you want the gift to feel more thought-through, put the effort into matching the scent to their actual day rather than into moving up a bottle.
Ameeri (Taif rose and sandalwood), Nawaab (white oud and saffron) and Mastani (night jasmine and rose) in one box. Three characters instead of one guess.
₹1,055 · 3ml x 3
Morning Freshness lemon-mint and Evening Calm lavender-chamomile together. Nothing to plug in, nothing to switch off, about 6 to 10 weeks each.
₹1,498 · 50ml x 2
Waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold diffusion for a car or a travel bag. The gift for someone who spends real hours driving.
₹3,999
One message, one honest recommendation
Tell SOSA who you are surprising, whether they drive, whether their home is already scented and what you want to spend - and you will be told which one to send, including when the cheaper one is the better gift.
Nothing you can post makes up for not being there, and a gift that tries to is really asking to be let off. Send the small one, say the real thing out loud, and keep the two separate.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Three questions settle almost every one of these. Will it be worn, in which case it is a taste decision and you need to be able to name something they already wear? Will it sit in a room, in which case it is a placement decision and a reed diffuser asks nothing of you except an address? Or does it go in a car, where the real choice is between the mild hanging format and the stronger spray at the same price? Answer that, then pick the band - and with no occasion attached, the band should usually be lower than you first reach for.
The SOSA gifting range
Pick by where the gift will live, then by budget - in that order
| Gift | What it is | Who it suits | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOSA attars | Alcohol-free roll-on oil | Adaa, Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml - the smallest serious fragrance gift there is | from ₹379 |
| SOSA Attar Trio | Pack of three attars | Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani in one box - three characters instead of one guess | from ₹1,055 |
| SOSA reed diffusers | Passive home fragrance | Five scents in 50ml and 130ml, nothing to plug in or switch off, about 6 to 10 weeks | from ₹749 |
| SOSA reed duo sets | Two reeds in one box | Day & Night, Fresh & Grounded and Warmth & Bloom - the readymade home gift | from ₹1,498 |
| SOSA car fragrance | Hanging or spray | Nine scents, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price | from ₹449 |
| SOSA Safar | Waterless car and travel diffuser | Cordless and rechargeable cold diffusion, for the person who actually lives in their car | ₹3,999 |
| SOSA Vaayu | Waterless cold-air machine | Approx 1000 m3 of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer - a large home or a business | ₹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 ₹3,499 - run the water-based Hotel 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.
- Reed diffusers - Morning Freshness ₹749, Garden Bloom and Evening Calm ₹799, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew ₹849 in 50ml; 130ml from ₹1,249. They last about 6 to 10 weeks. Duo sets from ₹1,498.
- 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.
- 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 one to send? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 who you are surprising, roughly how old they are, whether they drive, whether they already keep their home scented, and what you want to spend. You will get one straight recommendation, including the times the honest answer is the cheaper product or a different category altogether. Bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available - quantities 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. Nothing on this page is advice about anybody's wellbeing: a gift is a way of telling somebody you thought about them, and where a person is genuinely struggling it belongs alongside showing up for them rather than in place of it.
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A note from Sonal
The orders I like most are the ones with no date attached. Somebody buys one attar on a Wednesday afternoon and asks us to send it to a flat in another city, and there is no birthday in the note and no anniversary and no festival. Those are, in my experience, the gifts that actually get used, and I think the reason is unglamorous: nobody has to live up to them. An anniversary gift carries an expectation. A Wednesday gift carries none, so it gets opened, put on a shelf and used the next morning.
The practical advice I give people is the opposite of what they expect. Go smaller than you think. A large unexplained present asks a question - what is this for, what do I owe you - and the person receiving it spends energy answering it. A ₹379 attar, a ₹449 car scent, a ₹749 reed diffuser: these are small enough to be accepted without any of that. If you want to spend more, spend it on accuracy instead of size - the right scent for somebody's actual flat beats a bigger bottle of the wrong one every time.
One honest thing about the harder version of this. People write to us when somebody they love is having a terrible week, and they want to send something that helps. I will not tell you that a fragrance does that, because it does not. What a small parcel says is: I was thinking about you on a day when nothing made me. That is a real thing to say to somebody and it is worth saying. It is not treatment, it is not a substitute for turning up, and anybody who sells it to you as either is selling you something else.
Frequently asked questions
What should I send my partner when I have to cancel our plans?
Something small and ordinary: a 3ml attar at Rs 379 to Rs 399, car fragrance at Rs 449 if they drive, or a 50ml reed diffuser at Rs 749. Say the plain thing about the cancelled plan separately, in words, and do not let the parcel carry it.
Should the gift be bigger if we have not met for a long time?
No. Time apart is not a debt that adds up, and pricing a gift against it turns the gesture into a settlement. The band that works on an ordinary week works here: roughly Rs 379 to Rs 1,000.
Is it wrong to send a gift as an apology?
It is not wrong, but it does not work on its own. A parcel that arrives instead of a conversation asks the other person to treat the subject as closed. Have the conversation first, then send something small because you wanted to.
What is the best small gift for a partner who drives to work every day?
Car fragrance at Rs 449 to Rs 549. Every scent comes in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price, so pick mild for a shared car. Jasmine at Rs 449 and Lemon at Rs 499 are the safe ones; Oud at Rs 509 is a strong opinion.
What if I genuinely do not know what to send?
Message SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 and describe the person and their week rather than your budget. You will get one recommendation, and if the honest answer is that a phone call would do more than a parcel, you will be told that.
Take the next step
Send the ordinary-week gift, on the week that was not ordinary
An attar from ₹379 if you can name a fragrance they wear, car fragrance from ₹449 if they drive every day, or a reed diffuser from ₹749 for the room they actually work in. Keep the size where it would have been anyway. Tell SOSA on WhatsApp what their week looks like and you will get one recommendation rather than a list.
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.
A small thing, sent on a day that was not marked on any calendar
SOSA — alcohol-free fragrance, made in India, sent because you thought of them and not because a date told you to
Attars from ₹379 in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml, car fragrance from ₹449 in a mild hanging format or a stronger spray at the same price, and reed diffusers from ₹749 lasting about 6 to 10 weeks. Alcohol-free, made in India, priced so a gift can stay the size it should be, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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More just-because gifting guides
- SOSA attars - Adaa, Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani (from ₹379)
- SOSA reed diffusers and duo gift sets (from ₹749)
- SOSA car fragrance - hanging, spray and combos (from ₹449)
- SOSA Safar - the waterless car and travel diffuser (₹3,999)
- Tell SOSA who you are buying for on WhatsApp (+91 96192 18531)
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the 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. 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 ₹3,499 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. 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.