★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
No fragrance makes an experience centre luxurious; six cues do, and the air is the sixth of them and the cheapest
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★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★ The sixth cue, once the other five are honest
SOSA VaayuUnder 38dB, so it never joins the noiseView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuWaterless, adding nothing to the roomView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuSet low, judged from the consultation seatView ₹11,999
✓ Under 38dB and waterless, so it neither intrudes on a quiet room nor adds moisture to one full of finishes ✓ Adjustable intensity and key-lock, because at this level of spend the air should be the quietest cue in the building ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Kitchen Showrooms
So does scent matter at all here? Yes, and precisely because it is the cheapest of the six. Every one of the other five costs money or floor area or headcount; the air costs a few thousand rupees and a decision. That makes it the most efficient of the six, not the most powerful. Its job is to agree with the other five rather than to compensate for one of them - and where a cue is genuinely missing, an obvious fragrance makes the gap more noticeable rather than less.
What should the air actually be, and what does it cost? Dry, material-led and almost unnoticed: dry woods, green and herbal, tea, clean mineral - and never anything edible. Under about 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy at that size. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, run low on the display floor's air path.
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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.
I get asked this exactly as written, as though luxury were a note somewhere on a shelf and the job were to find the right one. It is a reasonable thing to hope and I have never once found it to be true, so this guide answers a slightly different question than the one in the title.
Quick answers — read this first
Which fragrance makes a kitchen experience centre feel luxurious? None of them, and I would rather say so at the top. Luxury in a room is produced by about six cues, and fragrance is the sixth and by a long way the cheapest. The other five are space and circulation, the quality of the light, how the materials are finished where they meet, how quiet the room is, and how unhurried the designer is with a customer. Get those right and almost any restrained dry fragrance will read as luxurious. Get them wrong and nothing in a bottle rescues it.So does scent matter at all here? Yes, and precisely because it is the cheapest of the six. Every one of the other five costs money or floor area or headcount; the air costs a few thousand rupees and a decision. That makes it the most efficient of the six, not the most powerful. Its job is to agree with the other five rather than to compensate for one of them - and where a cue is genuinely missing, an obvious fragrance makes the gap more noticeable rather than less.
What should the air actually be, and what does it cost? Dry, material-led and almost unnoticed: dry woods, green and herbal, tea, clean mineral - and never anything edible. Under about 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy at that size. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, run low on the display floor's air path.
The short answer
Short answer: none of them, honestly. Luxury in an experience centre comes from about six cues - space and circulation, light quality, how materials are finished at the joints, quiet, the designer's unhurried time, and the air - and fragrance is the sixth and cheapest. Its job is to agree with the other five, never to substitute for one.
The pick: the sixth cue done quietly: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) at a low setting from about 1,500 sq ft, or one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) where the centre is a single room.
Next step: score your centre honestly against the six cues below, tell us which two are weakest, and we will tell you whether a machine is worth buying yet - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
Fragrance is worth doing here because it is cheap and because it is one of the six, not because it carries the room. If the other five are wrong, an obvious scent makes the gap easier to notice rather than harder.
The sixth cue - tap to see the specification
The cheapest of the six cues
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The brand-level version
A brand selling ₹5-10 lakh kitchens
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Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
Is there a fragrance that makes a kitchen experience centre feel luxurious?
No, and the useful part of this guide is what replaces that hope. Luxury in a room is not a single channel, it is an agreement between about six of them, and I would put them in this order. First, space and circulation - whether a customer can stand far enough back from a display to see it whole, whether two groups can pass each other without turning sideways, whether anything is crowded in because the floor had to earn its rent. Second, light - the temperature of it, the control of glare on gloss fronts, and whether a customer can actually judge the colour of a finish under it rather than being flattered by it. Third, how the materials are finished where they meet - edges, joints, reveals, the underside of a worktop, the back of a shutter that opens. Anyone spending ₹5-10 lakh on a kitchen looks at the parts you did not expect them to look at. Fourth, quiet - hard surfaces and glass make a room acoustically live, and a loud showroom feels cheap in a way people rarely name out loud. Fifth, the designer's time - unhurried, seated, prepared, with the samples already out. That one costs more than everything else on the list and matters more than everything else on the list. Sixth, the air. That is where fragrance sits: last, and cheapest by an order of magnitude. Every other cue costs floor area, capital or headcount; this one costs a few thousand rupees and a decision, which makes it the most efficient of the six rather than the most powerful. Its job is to agree with the other five. That means dry and material-led - dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage, something green or herbal, a dry tea, clean mineral - at a level low enough that nobody isolates it. It means nothing edible, ever: a centre selling ₹5-10 lakh cabinetry that smells of vanilla or baking reads as a bakery rather than as an interiors brand, and if you run live cooking demonstrations a food fragrance competes with the one smell you staged on purpose. And it means low, because volume is the cheapest way to look like you are trying, and a customer who can name the fragrance is standing in a centre that is trying too hard. Set the level from the consultation seat at the ninetieth minute rather than from the door, since people sit here for sixty to ninety minutes and exposure compounds. On hardware: under about 750 sq ft the honest buy is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong machine; from roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, waterless so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces, under 38dB so it never joins the noise problem. Two things must be said plainly. No one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries, order value or a customer's decision, and a supplier offering you a figure is selling. And if the room still smells of its own fit-out, none of this begins yet: ventilate, wait, trade unscented. Ask for a retail scenting plan and tell us which two cues are weakest.
No fragrance makes a centre luxurious. Six cues do - space, light, finishing, quiet, the designer's time, and the air - and the air is the sixth and cheapest. Dry, low, nothing edible. ₹1,899 under 750 sq ft, ₹11,999 from about 1,500.
For an experience centre past about 1,500 sq ft, the sixth cue is one SOSA Vaayu - under 38dB, waterless, adjustable intensity, rated to 1000m³. ₹11,999, run low. Under 750 sq ft, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 does the same job for a fraction of it.
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Where fragrance actually sits
Sixth of six, cheapest of six, and only ever in agreement with the other five
The sixth cue, and the machine for it
The hardware question is small and is settled by the cubic volume of the centre rather than by ambition. The images link to the product pages so you can read the specifications before ordering.
Experience centres past about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, Bluetooth app with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, auto-stop and key-lock. Wall or HVAC mountable, which is how one source reaches an entrance and a consultation room at once.
From ₹11,999
Under about 750 sq ft - buy this instead
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, with three 15ml fragrances included. A small studio gets the sixth cue for ₹1,899, and a Vaayu here would be rated for several times the volume you actually have.
From ₹1,899
The six cues, in order of cost
Three groups, running from the expensive end to the cheap one. Almost every centre that asks me about fragrance has a problem in the first group, which is why the honest answer starts there.
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Start with the expensive five
Space, light and finishing carry more than any fragrance can
Stand in your own centre and try to see it as a first-time visitor does. Can somebody step back far enough to look at a display whole, or is every sightline eight feet long? Is the light doing the finishes justice, or is there glare across every gloss front at three in the afternoon? And go and look at the joints - the edges, the reveals, the underside of a worktop, the back of a door that opens. A customer spending ₹5-10 lakh inspects the places you did not stage, and what they find there sets the ceiling for how expensive the whole room feels. None of that is a fragrance question and all of it outranks one.
Tip: If a display cannot be seen from four metres back, the fragrance is not your problem.
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Then buy quiet and time
A loud room feels cheap, and a hurried designer feels cheaper
Kitchen centres are built from stone, glass, laminate and hard floor, which makes them acoustically live: voices carry, footsteps read, and two consultations audible to each other is a worse experience than either one deserves. Soft furnishing, a rug under the consultation table, a real door on the meeting room. Then the fifth cue, which is the most expensive thing on this list and the only one that cannot be bought as a product: a designer with enough time to be unhurried, samples already laid out, water offered, the appointment not overlapping the next. Anything you add to the air should be quiet enough to belong in that room, which is why I care that the machine runs under 38dB.
Tip: Sit at the consultation table during a busy hour and listen rather than smell.
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Then add the sixth, and add it low
The air's job is to agree with the room, not to announce itself
Now the cheap one. The register is dry and material-led: cedar, pine and sage where the floor is timber; the brightest dry end, run low, in white and grey; mineral and cool around stone. Nothing edible - no vanilla, bakery, caramel, coffee, chocolate, honey, cinnamon or warm spice - because that register belongs to hospitality and food, and you are selling craft and permanence. Then run it lower than feels satisfying. If a customer can name the fragrance, it is too strong, and in a centre where people sit for ninety minutes the level must be judged at minute ninety by the designers who breathe it all week rather than by you on your way in.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
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The SOSA principle
No fragrance has ever made a room luxurious. Six cues do that, the air is the sixth of them, and its only real advantage is that it costs a fraction of the other five.
Cheapest of six is a genuinely good position to hold. It is simply not the same thing as most important.
The luxury audit, cue by cue
Score your centre honestly against these six, worst first. The fragrance decision only becomes interesting once the first five are answered.
The SOSA plan
The six cues, what each costs, and who owns it
| The cue | What to do |
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Space and circulation
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Room to stand back from a display and room to pass without turning sideways. Costs floor area, which is the most expensive thing in the building. Owned by the layout. |
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Light quality
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Colour temperature, glare control on gloss fronts, and light a customer can judge a finish under rather than be flattered by. Owned by the electrical drawing, fixable later at a price. |
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Finishing at the joints
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Edges, reveals, the underside of a worktop, the back of a shutter. A customer spending several lakh looks exactly where you did not stage. Owned by the installer. |
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Quiet
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Hard surfaces and glass make a centre acoustically live. Soft furnishing, a rug under the consultation table, a real door on the meeting room. Owned by the fit-out. |
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The designer's time
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Unhurried, seated, prepared. The most expensive cue on the list and the one that outranks the other five. Owned by the appointment book. |
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The air
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Dry, material-led, nothing edible, run low enough that nobody names it. The sixth and cheapest cue, and the only one you can buy in an afternoon. |
If what you are really deciding is the register rather than the ranking, start at what a premium modular kitchen showroom should smell like. And before you plan a different atmosphere for each display, read whether display kitchens can have different fragrance personalities, which is settled by physics rather than by taste. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
The cheapest of the six cues
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 - under 38dB, waterless, rated to 1000m³, and meant to run quietly below the room rather than above it.
If your experience centre would not feel luxurious in silence with the machine unplugged, no fragrance is going to rescue it. And if it would, you barely need one - which is exactly why it is worth having.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the sixth cue is still worth buying
Cheapest of six, quietest of six, and the only one you can change on a Tuesday
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
Two machines cover most kitchen experience centres, with the Aangan taking over past roughly 5,000 sq ft where the decision moves into the building's air handling. Cold-air refill oil is not currently sold separately, so the 400ml supplied runs 90+ days a fill and continuity of supply should be confirmed with SOSA. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
The sixth cue, sized by cubic volume rather than by ambition
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A single-room studio or centre under about 750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at this size | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Display floor, entrance and consultation, 1,500 sq ft and up | 1000m³, waterless, under 38dB, adjustable intensity, app timers, key-lock, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
 SOSA Aangan
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Experience centres past roughly 5,000 sq ft | HVAC nebuliser rated to approximately 8,000-10,000 sq ft, specified into the air handling rather than placed in a room | ₹25,999 View → |
Answer the five expensive cues before you spend anything on the sixth, and then spend little. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or display styling; it is never used to cover another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and a centre with an off-gassing, extraction or cleaning problem fixes that before buying a machine. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries or order value, and a supplier quoting you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
The question as people send it to me assumes that luxury is an ingredient, and that somewhere in a perfumer's cupboard there is a bottle labelled expensive. There is not. I have walked into centres with beautiful fragrance and cheap-feeling rooms, and into rooms with nothing in the air at all that felt like the most considered building on the street. The difference was never the bottle. It was space, light, how the joints were finished, how quiet it was, and whether the designer had enough time to sit down.
So I have started answering this one by ranking instead of recommending. The air is the sixth of six cues. That sounds like a demotion and it is really a promotion in disguise, because it is also the cheapest of the six by an enormous margin - the only one you can change this week for a few thousand rupees rather than a few lakh. Do the expensive five properly and the sixth becomes genuinely worth doing. Skip them, and an obvious fragrance simply draws attention to the gap.
When you get to it: under 750 sq ft a Sukoon at ₹1,899; from about 1,500 sq ft a Vaayu at ₹11,999 run low; past roughly 5,000 sq ft an Aangan at ₹25,999 into the air handling. Dry, material-led and nothing edible, whatever the brief in your head sounds like. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
What fragrance makes a kitchen experience centre feel luxurious?
None on its own. Luxury in a room comes from about six cues: space and circulation, the quality of the light, how materials are finished where they meet, how quiet the room is, how unhurried the designer is, and the air. Fragrance is the sixth and cheapest of those. Its job is to agree with the other five rather than to compensate for a missing one.
If scent is only the sixth cue, is it worth buying at all?
Yes, precisely because it is the cheapest of the six. Space, light, finishing, acoustics and designer time all cost floor area, capital or headcount. The air costs a few thousand rupees and a decision, which makes it the most efficient cue in the building even though it is not the most powerful one. It is worth doing once the expensive five are honest.
What register should a luxury kitchen experience centre use?
Dry and material-led: dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage where the displays are timber, the brightest dry end run low in white and grey rooms, mineral and cool around stone. Never anything edible. A centre selling five to ten lakh cabinetry that smells of vanilla or coffee reads as a bakery, and a food note competes with any live cooking demonstration you stage.
How strong should it be in a luxury centre?
Lower than feels satisfying. If a customer can name the fragrance, it is too strong, and volume is the cheapest way to look like you are trying. Because people sit here for sixty to ninety minutes, judge the level from the consultation seat at the end of an appointment rather than from the door, and set it for the designers who breathe it nine hours a day.
Will a luxurious-smelling showroom help us sell more kitchens?
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 five other cues that make a room feel expensive, let alone from the designer sitting across the table. A supplier who offers you a number is selling you the number rather than the machine.
Sixth of six, and the cheapest of the six
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, runs under 38dB and is waterless, which is what lets it sit quietly under a room rather than on top of it. Below 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. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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.