★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
A textile showroom is two buildings wearing one roof: a front-of-house that argues for the company and a working room where the goods are the only thing that should speak
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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
★ What a buyer showroom actually chooses between
SOSA VaayuOne entrance and reception volumeView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuA timer set to the appointment bookView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA whole ducted showroom blockView ₹25,999
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Why does the sample room stay out of it? Because cloth is absorbent, which is an ordinary observation rather than a finding — anyone who has opened a wardrobe shut since the last monsoon knows how a soft-furnished space holds whatever has been in the air. A room of swatch books, roll ends and upholstered seating behaves differently from a room of steel and glass. I am not going to tell you what that does to a buyer's reading of a cloth, because I do not know and neither does any vendor who says otherwise. I keep the room out of the plan because the goods are the product.
What does that leave me buying? One machine, almost always. A front-of-house of roughly 700 sq ft under a 3.4 m slab is 700 × 3.4 × 0.0929, which is about 221 m³ — comfortably inside a single unit rated to 1000m³, which means you buy it to run quietly rather than to fill a space. The honest concession is that this plan covers the part of your building where the least commercially important work happens. Nobody decides anything in your entrance. They decide two rooms further in, and that room is not in the plan.
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Facts verified 16 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 a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.
Fragrance belongs in a textile showroom in exactly two rooms and nowhere else, and the interesting part of that sentence is the nowhere else. What follows is a map rather than a recommendation, because in this trade the boundary matters more than the bottle.
Quick answers — read this first
So is the answer yes or no? Both, and the split is geographic rather than a matter of degree. Yes at the entrance and the reception, where a buyer crosses a threshold and reads the company before anyone has spoken to them. Nothing in the sample room, where the cloth is handled, compared and decided on. That is not a compromise between the two positions and it is not a lower setting in the second room. It is one scented volume and one that stays out of the plan completely, with a door and some distance between them.Why does the sample room stay out of it? Because cloth is absorbent, which is an ordinary observation rather than a finding — anyone who has opened a wardrobe shut since the last monsoon knows how a soft-furnished space holds whatever has been in the air. A room of swatch books, roll ends and upholstered seating behaves differently from a room of steel and glass. I am not going to tell you what that does to a buyer's reading of a cloth, because I do not know and neither does any vendor who says otherwise. I keep the room out of the plan because the goods are the product.
What does that leave me buying? One machine, almost always. A front-of-house of roughly 700 sq ft under a 3.4 m slab is 700 × 3.4 × 0.0929, which is about 221 m³ — comfortably inside a single unit rated to 1000m³, which means you buy it to run quietly rather than to fill a space. The honest concession is that this plan covers the part of your building where the least commercially important work happens. Nobody decides anything in your entrance. They decide two rooms further in, and that room is not in the plan.
The short answer
Short answer: Scent the entrance and the reception; leave the sample room alone entirely. Cloth is absorbent and a soft-furnished room holds ambient smell in a way a room of metal and glass does not — an everyday observation, not a claim about what fragrance does to cloth. The sample room stays out of the plan because the goods are the product and the product should reach the buyer as the mill made it. One machine, run low, front of house.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the entrance-and-reception volume, run low on a timer built around your appointment book, and a hard zero past the sample-room door.
Next step: send the front-of-house plan with the ceiling height marked and the sample-room door shown, and the cubic-metre sum gets done on your drawing rather than guessed from the area — ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
Two rooms in, one room hard out, and a door in between doing most of the work.
The ladder for a buyer showroom — tap through for the coverage figures
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The room-by-room version
Entrance, reception, meeting room or sample room?
Sized on your own drawing
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
Should a textile manufacturer scent its buyer showroom at all?
Yes, and then immediately no, and the no is the part of this page worth your time. Yes to the entrance and the reception — the hall a buyer walks into after a drive in from the airport road, the seats where they wait while somebody fetches the file, the corridor between the two. That is a threshold, it is crossed once, and it is the only moment in the visit that is reliably perceived at all. And no to the sample room. Not a milder version of the same thing, not a lower setting: nothing. Here is the reasoning, stated the only way I am able to state it honestly. Cloth is absorbent. A room stacked with hanger rails, swatch books, roll ends and upholstered seating holds an ambient smell in a way a room of steel and glass simply does not, and nobody needs a laboratory to establish that — it is what anyone finds on opening a wardrobe that has been shut since the last monsoon. That everyday observation is exactly why the sample room stays out of the scent plan altogether. It is not that I know what ambient fragrance does to a buyer's reading of a cloth; I do not know, I will not pretend to, and any supplier who tells you either way is guessing in front of you. It is that the goods are the product, and the product should reach the buyer as the mill made it. That is a decision about how you want your own showroom arranged, not a caution of any kind, and I would rather publish it as the choice it is. So the plan is one machine in the front-of-house volume, run well below what it can do, on a timer that opens an hour before the first appointment. Size it properly first: square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 = cubic metres, so a 700 sq ft entrance and reception under a 3.4 m slab is about 221 m³, which sits far inside one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 rated to 1000m³. Two limits, plainly. Ambient fragrance here is an interior and brand-experience decision; it sits alongside your housekeeping, your ventilation and your source control and never in place of them. And nobody can promise you that any of this moves a business number — not an enquiry, not an order, not a buyer's decision. I cannot, and a vendor who quotes you a figure is selling you a story. The concession is bigger here than in most trades: this plan covers the least commercially important rooms in your building, because the room where the work actually happens is the one I have just told you to leave alone.
Yes at the entrance and reception, nothing in the sample room. Cloth is absorbent; the goods are the product; the plan stops at that door. One machine front of house, run low, sized in cubic metres.
For nearly every buyer showroom the answer is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed in the entrance-and-reception volume and run at a fraction of its output. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces; a 400ml tank lasts 90+ days; it draws about 5W.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a showroom scenting plan
Why one machine at the front rather than a machine per room
A showroom front is a small volume with a very large door
The machines, and which one a buyer showroom actually needs
The ladder is short for this building type and the honest end of it is the bottom rung, because you are scenting two rooms rather than a floor. The images link through to the live product pages, so the coverage figures can be checked against the cubic-metre number you work out yourself instead of against anybody's guess at your floor area.
One front-of-house volume, the usual answer
SOSA Vaayu
₹11,999. Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling. Adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, app and onboard control, key-lock, under 38dB, a 400ml tank at 90+ days. Waterless, so no moisture and no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
A whole ducted showroom block
SOSA Angaan
₹25,999. HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling, 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules, under 42dB. This is for a company feeding an entire building through its air handling, not for an entrance and a reception.
From ₹25,999
Three things that decide the plan before any fragrance does
The first is the shape of the visit, the second is the boundary and why it is drawn as a choice rather than as a caution, and the third is the arithmetic. Settle those three and the fragrance question turns out to be the small one.
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One
The visit has a shape, and only the first thirty seconds are reliably perceived
Walk your own buyer's route and time it. The car stops, they cross the forecourt, they push a door, and for about half a minute they are in a room whose air is new to them. That is the whole of the window in which an ambient level is noticed as such. By the time they have sat down, been given a coffee and opened a folder, the nose has already begun to adapt — twenty minutes is the usual figure people quote and it is not far off. Everything after that is background, which is precisely why the mistake in a quiet showroom is to keep raising the dial because it stopped registering. It did not fade. You did. Raise it and you have not changed anything for the person already in the room; you have only made it louder for whoever walks in next, and in this trade the person walking in next may be walking into the room where the cloth is.
Tip: Ask somebody who has never been in the building to walk in cold and tell you what the air did in the first minute. Write it down before you adjust anything.
This is why the Vaayu gets bought for its low settings and its timer rather than for its ceiling — the useful part of the machine here is the part you never use.
See SOSA Vaayu →
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Two
The boundary is a choice about the goods, and it is drawn at a door
Cloth is absorbent. So is the felt on a swatch board, the upholstery on the chairs, the cardboard around a roll end and the curtain over the window. A room like that holds an ambient smell for longer than a reception of stone floors and glass does — that is a wardrobe observation, available to anybody, and it is the only technical statement I am willing to make about this. What I am not willing to do is tell you what ambient fragrance does to how a buyer evaluates a cloth in their hands, because that is not knowledge anybody has and it is not mine to invent. So I draw the line for a different reason, and a better one: the goods are the product, and the product should reach the buyer as the mill made it. Your entrance is yours to arrange. The sample room belongs to what you sell. That is why it is out of the plan, and the boundary is a physical door rather than a lower number on a dial.
Tip: Write the zero list down and put a name against it, before the plan is a month old and somebody helpful moves a machine to a better socket.
One Vaayu at the front, and a written zero list covering the sample room, the packing bay and the godown — the list is the part of the plan that survives.
See SOSA Vaayu →
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The arithmetic, in cubic metres, on the connected volume only
Square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 = cubic metres. Take a fairly ordinary Coimbatore showroom front: an entrance lobby and reception together at 700 sq ft under a 3.4 m slab is 700 × 3.4 × 0.0929, which is about 221 m³. Now check what it is actually joined to. If that front opens without a door into a 1,200 sq ft display hall at the same height, the connected figure is 1,200 × 3.4 × 0.0929, roughly 379 m³, and together you are asking one machine to hold about 600 m³ — still inside a single unit rated to 1000m³, but now you are running it higher than I would like, and the air is travelling further towards a door you said would be a hard zero. The better answer at that point is usually a self-closing door, not a second machine. Measure the height yourself. Area is the number that gets showrooms sized wrongly.
Tip: Do the sum on the connected air, not on the room you had in mind. Air does not read floor plans.
One Vaayu holds both of those sums with a good deal in hand, which is the point: buy it to run quietly rather than to fill a space.
See SOSA Vaayu →
The SOSA principle
A textile exporter may see a handful of buyers in a month, and one of those visits carries more weight than a year of everything else. You cannot run a cost-per-visitor sum on that, and if you try you will decide the wrong way for the wrong reason — the room is either ready on an ordinary Tuesday or it is not.
The flip side is the failure I see most in quiet buildings: with nobody in the room to say it is too strong, the dial only ever travels in one direction.
The rooms, in the order a buyer meets them
The register for a showroom front is dry, quiet and unsweetened — nearer to clean paper and cedar than to anything floral, and what a premium textile office should smell like takes the register question apart properly. What belongs here is the map: which rooms are in the plan at all, and which one is a hard zero.
The SOSA plan
Four rooms in a textile showroom, and what each one gets
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Entrance and forecourt door
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In the plan, and this is where the machine goes. The threshold is the one moment the air is noticed as air, so the source sits in this volume and runs from an hour before the first appointment. View → |
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Reception and the waiting seats
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In the plan, and usually the same volume rather than a second machine. If a door separates it from the entrance, leave it alone rather than add a second source that blends with the first at a ratio nobody controls. View → |
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The buyer meeting room
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A genuine judgement call, and I will not pretend otherwise. It is a separate volume, cloth comes into it for a while, and a review runs two hours or longer. If you scent it, set it for hour two rather than minute one. If it doubles as a sample room, treat it as one. |
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The sample room, the packing bay and the godown
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Out of the plan, by rule rather than by mood. No machine, no reed, no lower setting. The goods are the product and the product should reach the buyer as the mill made it, so the plan stops at that door and the door is kept shut. |
If your real worry is the cloth rather than the rooms, scenting a showroom without the fragrance carrying into the sample area answers it with distance and a door rather than with a weaker setting, which is what most people expect and it is the wrong lever. The full room-by-room version — entrance, reception, meeting room, sample room, ranked by how long the goods spend in each — is the textile exporter's room map. And if the building already smells of cardboard and storage, read fragrance or the source first before you buy anything at all. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, buyer decisions or any commercial number.
The sum is done in cubic metres, on a drawing
Send the front-of-house plan with the ceiling height and the sample-room door marked, and it gets sized properly instead of guessed.
A showroom can be scented at the door and silent where the cloth lives, and there is nothing inconsistent in that. It is one building making two different promises in two different rooms.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where the ladder goes once the sum is done
One source per connected volume, never one per room on the drawing
The SOSA buyer-showroom specification
Sized on the connected front-of-house cubic metres only, run low, on a schedule built around the appointment book. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA buyer-showroom specification
Sized on the front-of-house volume, never on the size of the building
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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An entrance and reception, and the corridor if it shares the air | ₹11,999, 1000m³, low settings that hold, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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An entire corporate showroom block on its own air handling | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected where the ducting allows, 800ml reservoir | ₹25,999 View → |
If your front-of-house is under about 400 sq ft and a buyer comes once a fortnight, the honest answer is a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 on the reception counter and nothing more. Ambient scent here is an interior and brand-experience decision, with no claim that it affects enquiries, orders, buyer decisions or any commercial number — nobody can promise that, and a supplier who quotes you a figure is selling. It works alongside housekeeping, ventilation and source control and never replaces them, and it does not remove, settle or reduce dust. The sample room, the packing bay, the godown and any area governed by a customer's own audit requirement stay unscented, and that protocol decides, not us. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no installation and no maintenance terms; a multi-site question goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and the cubic-metre sum gets done on your drawing.
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A note from Sonal
The first textile showroom I was asked to look at had a beautiful front hall, a set of chairs nobody had ever sat in comfortably, and a sample room two doors back that smelled of cardboard, sizing and the inside of a box. The owner wanted to know which fragrance would work throughout. I said two rooms and a hard stop, and he asked me what I was afraid of. The answer was nothing — I was not warning him about anything. I was telling him where I would draw a line in my own building.
He drew it in the end, and then did the thing I did not expect: he had the line painted on the floor plan that hangs in the corridor, with the sample room shaded out. Three years later a new manager asked why, and somebody could answer. That is the part that lasts. The machine is a purchase and the line is a standard, and only one of those two things is still working when the people change.
So take the boundary seriously and the machine lightly. We make no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, buyer decisions or any commercial outcome, and if somebody has handed you that as a business case, there is not one. What a considered front hall can do is stop your building from arguing with the cloth you make. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Can I not just run a very low setting in the sample room instead of nothing?
You can, and I would rather you did not, because a low setting is a slow version of the same thing rather than a different thing. The reason the room is out of the plan is not a number on a dial; it is that the goods are the product and the product should reach the buyer as the mill made it. A boundary you can argue about at the dial is one that drifts upward over a year. A door does not drift.
Is fragrance in the entrance going to travel back to where the cloth is?
Some of it travels, always, because air moves and doors open — that is true of coffee, of lunch and of the road outside as much as of a diffuser. The lever that matters is separation rather than strength: distance, a self-closing door, and a source placed on the far side of the front hall from the sample-room passage. That is a floor-plan answer rather than a settings answer, and it is the honest one.
How do I size the machine for a showroom front?
In cubic metres, never square feet: square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929. A 700 sq ft entrance and reception under a 3.4 m slab is about 221 m³. If it opens without a door into a 1,200 sq ft display hall at the same height, that is another 379 m³ or so, and the connected figure is what you size against. Both fit inside one unit rated to 1000m³, run low.
Should the mill floor or the godown ever be scented, even faintly?
The working areas are a zero and I would not take that job. A mill floor has machinery, extraction, heat and a safety protocol that belongs to your own engineers, and a godown holds stock that is on its way to somebody. My plan covers the rooms visitors sit in. It stops at the doors behind them, and that rule is easier to keep than any setting because it needs no judgement from whoever is on shift.
Will a better-smelling showroom help us against competition abroad?
I cannot tell you that and neither can anybody else. There is no claim here that ambient fragrance affects an enquiry, an order, a buyer's decision or any commercial number, and a vendor who offers you a figure is offering you a story. The defensible reason is narrower: a front hall that matches the quality of the cloth stops a visitor spending the first ten minutes reconciling two different impressions of the same company.
Two rooms in, one room hard out
SOSA — Textile Showroom Scenting the plan stops at the sample-room door
One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the entrance-and-reception volume, run low on a timer built around the appointment book, with the sample room, the packing bay and the godown at zero. Sized in cubic metres on your own drawing. 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 16 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 a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.