★ SOSA for Raipur Businesses, Clinics and Homes
Your oil is fine — the proof is that it smells lovely at the bottle. What a reed cannot do is carry it, and in a villa that is a distance problem.
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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
★ Where to start, once you know what a reed can and cannot do
SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed DiffuserThe shared-floor register: dry, woody, ungenderedView ₹849
SOSA Evening Calm Reed DiffuserBedrooms, and only bedroomsView ₹799
SOSA VaayuWhen the volume needs transport, not more oilView ₹11,999
✓ Do the free fixes first: every reed in the bottle, turned weekly, moved out of the draught, raised to nose height, one door closed — and a ceiling fan on low. ✓ Waterless on the Vaayu, so nothing damp is added to a home through a Raipur monsoon, and there is no bowl anyone has to remember to top up. ✓ Reeds still belong at a bedside and in a bathroom, where a fragrant zone is exactly the right specification rather than a disappointment.
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Will a bigger bottle or a more expensive oil fix a large hall? Usually not, and this is worth understanding before you spend again. Separate two things. Emission is how much fragrance leaves the bottle. Transport is how far it gets. A bigger bottle, more reeds, a heavier oil, two bottles at either end of the room — all of those raise emission, and not one of them adds transport. If the shortfall is distance rather than strength, raising emission gives you a more intense fragrant zone in the same small radius and a hall that is still flat at the far end. Most owners have already paid to learn this twice.
What should I try before buying anything at all? Five free things, in this order. Put every reed the box gave you into the bottle rather than the polite four. Turn them twice a week instead of twice a year. Move the bottle out of a draught — beside an open door or under an air-conditioning return it empties into moving air you never stand in. Raise it to roughly nose height, because you smell what reaches your face and not your knee. Close one door so the volume is smaller. Then run a ceiling fan on low, which is the best of the five, because a fan supplies exactly the transport a reed has none of.
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Facts verified 16 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser (Himalayan pine, sage and cedar) is ₹849 in 50ml and ₹1,349 in 130ml. the SOSA Fresh & Grounded reed duo pairs Morning Freshness with Mountain Breeze at ₹1,548 for 2 x 50ml and ₹2,548 for 2 x 130ml. 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 up to about 75 days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W, 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. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand decision only. SOSA makes no claim that scent influences a customer's decision, sales, enquiries, footfall, trust, credibility, referrals or any clinical or patient outcome, and no claim that any product removes, neutralises, eliminates or absorbs an odour, or that it cleans, purifies or disinfects air. Scent works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is never a substitute for any of them, and is never used to mask a smell that has a source. Clinical, treatment and diagnostic areas are left unscented, and a clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own premises. Visitor and staff fragrance sensitivity is real and should never be minimised; no SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic or as safe for sensitive individuals, and staff must be able to switch the system off in seconds. 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, industrial, jewellery or automotive brand named for reference, and no Raipur business is named as a SOSA customer. 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.
You bought a good oil, the hall is beautiful, and the fragrance is real — you can smell it clearly standing at the console. Three steps away it has gone. Nothing is wrong with the bottle, and the thing that is missing was never in the bottle to begin with.
Quick answers — read this first
Why can I smell my reed diffuser only when I am standing next to it? Because a reed diffuser is a point source with no transport. Oil travels up the reeds by capillary action and evaporates from the exposed length of each one, and after that nothing carries it. It drifts on whatever air the room happens to have, which in a still hall is almost none. So concentration is highest within an arm's length of the bottle and falls away steeply with distance. You get a fragrant zone rather than a fragranced room. That is the design working exactly as designed, and not a fault in your oil.Will a bigger bottle or a more expensive oil fix a large hall? Usually not, and this is worth understanding before you spend again. Separate two things. Emission is how much fragrance leaves the bottle. Transport is how far it gets. A bigger bottle, more reeds, a heavier oil, two bottles at either end of the room — all of those raise emission, and not one of them adds transport. If the shortfall is distance rather than strength, raising emission gives you a more intense fragrant zone in the same small radius and a hall that is still flat at the far end. Most owners have already paid to learn this twice.
What should I try before buying anything at all? Five free things, in this order. Put every reed the box gave you into the bottle rather than the polite four. Turn them twice a week instead of twice a year. Move the bottle out of a draught — beside an open door or under an air-conditioning return it empties into moving air you never stand in. Raise it to roughly nose height, because you smell what reaches your face and not your knee. Close one door so the volume is smaller. Then run a ceiling fan on low, which is the best of the five, because a fan supplies exactly the transport a reed has none of.
The short answer
Short answer: Because a reed diffuser is a point source with no transport. Oil climbs the reeds and evaporates from their surface, and nothing moves it after that, so concentration is highest at the bottle and falls steeply with distance. In a villa that produces a fragrant zone, not a fragranced floor. Free fixes first — more reeds, a fan on low — and a machine only if the volume genuinely asks.
The pick: For bedrooms and small rooms a reed is still right: SOSA Evening Calm at ₹799. For a hall of roughly 1,500 sq ft and more of connected volume, the thing that adds transport is the SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999.
Next step: Send us the hall dimensions and the ceiling height and we will tell you honestly whether a fan and four more reeds would have done it. Ask for a Raipur scenting plan.
In this guide
Every fix most owners try — more reeds, a bigger bottle, a heavier oil — raises how much leaves the reeds and does nothing whatever about how far it travels.
Three honest answers for a large home
When the hall is genuinely double-height
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The sizing question next door
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Straight answer
Why is a reed diffuser barely noticeable in a large villa, and what actually fixes it?
Because of what a reed is, and the precision here is what saves you money. A reed diffuser is a point source with no transport. Oil travels up the reeds by capillary action and evaporates from the exposed length of each one. That is the entire mechanism. Nothing pushes, throws or carries the vapour after it leaves the reed — it goes wherever the room's own air happens to take it, and in a still villa hall that is almost nowhere. Concentration is highest within an arm's length of the bottle and falls away steeply with distance. You get a fragrant zone, not a fragranced room, and the ceiling on that is structural rather than a question of what you spent: a costlier oil in the same bottle has exactly the same ceiling. Now hold two words apart and the whole thing becomes obvious. Emission is how much fragrance leaves the bottle. Transport is how far it gets. Every fix you have already tried — more reeds, the 130ml instead of the 50ml, a heavier oil, a second bottle at the other end — raised emission and left transport precisely where it was. So, the free fixes, and please do these before buying anything, because in a great many homes they are enough. Use all the reeds. Turn them twice a week. Move the bottle out of a draught, away from an open door or an air-conditioning return that is pulling your fragrance out of the room before you ever meet it. Put it up at about nose height rather than on a low table. Close one door so the volume is smaller. And run a ceiling fan on low — the best free fix in this entire piece, because a fan is transport, which is the one thing a reed does not have. If you have done all of that and a large connected hall is still flat at the far end, then the shortfall really is volumetric, and a machine is the honest answer, because a machine adds transport rather than simply more oil. Tell me the hall size and the ceiling height and I will tell you which of the two it is — ask us for a Raipur scenting plan.
A reed emits; it does not carry. Every reed in, raise the bottle, close a door, fan on low. If the hall is still flat, the shortfall is volume.
For a hall, dining and stair volume adding up to roughly 1,500 sq ft and more of connected air, the machine is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, mounted up on a wall rather than stood on a console, set low, and scheduled for the hours you are actually at home.
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Emission, transport, and the difference nobody explains at the counter
A reed is a beautiful point source. A villa hall is a distance problem.
What to actually buy, by volume
Before the cards, plainly: in a lot of homes the right answer here is nothing new at all — every reed in the bottle, turned weekly, moved out of the draught, and a fan on low. If that gets you there, stop, and spend the money on something else. Buy a machine only when the connected volume genuinely asks for it, or when you want the hours and the level fixed.
The shared-floor default
SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
Himalayan pine, sage and cedar. Dry, unsweet and ungendered — the register that sits well against stone, wood and a lot of daylight without sweetening the room. 50ml ₹849, 130ml ₹1,349. Passive, silent, nothing to plug in.
From ₹849
Bedrooms only
SOSA Evening Calm Reed Diffuser
Himalayan lavender and chamomile, and a home bedroom is the one place I recommend it. 50ml ₹799, 130ml ₹1,299. A bedside table is exactly the distance a reed was built for, which is why reeds satisfy there and disappoint in a hall.
From ₹799
When the volume needs carrying
SOSA Vaayu Waterless Cold-Air Nebuliser
1000m³, roughly 2,000 to 3,000 sq ft. It supplies the transport a reed has none of: undiluted oil, nebulised cold and carried out into the room. App plus 1h, 4h, 8h and 24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W. ₹11,999.
From ₹11,999
Three things that decide it
Three things to understand, and the first of them is really the whole answer.
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First, the mechanism
A reed emits fragrance. It does not move it anywhere.
Capillary action draws oil up the fibres of the reed, and the oil evaporates from the length of reed standing above the neck of the bottle. There is no fan, no pump, no pressure and no plume. Whatever leaves the reed is then at the mercy of the room, and a well-built villa hall on a still evening has remarkably little air movement in it. What you end up with is a gradient: unmistakable at the bottle, thinner at two metres, unreadable at five. Owners describe this as the oil being weak, and it almost never is. If you can smell it properly with your face near the reeds, the oil is doing its job. The bottle is simply the wrong tool for the distance you are asking it to cover, and that was true of every reed ever made, at every price.
Tip: Test it honestly: stand at the bottle, then walk away counting steps, and note the step at which it disappears. That number is your reed's real coverage radius.
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Second, emission versus transport
Everything you have already tried raised the wrong one of the two
This is the distinction I wish the category explained on the box. Emission is how much fragrance leaves the source per hour: more reeds, thicker reeds, a larger bottle, a fresher oil, a warmer room all raise it. Transport is how far that fragrance is carried before it dilutes below the point where a nose registers it, and it depends entirely on air movement — fans, air conditioning, doors, stairs, the convection of a sunny wall. A reed has emission and no transport at all. A machine has both, which is the only real reason to consider one. So when a second bottle at the far end of the hall changes nothing except the bill, that is not bad luck. You bought more of the thing you already had enough of.
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Third, the free fixes — do these first
The ceiling fan is the most useful sentence in this article and it costs nothing
In order of effort. Put every reed from the box into the bottle instead of the tidy four. Invert them once or twice a week; a saturated reed above the neck stops evaporating well, and flipping restores it. Move the bottle away from an open door, a window and any air-conditioning return, because a draught takes your fragrance somewhere you are not. Raise it to roughly nose height, on a console rather than a low coffee table. Close one internal door and you have halved the volume the bottle is being asked to fill. Then run a ceiling fan on low. A fan is transport. It takes the gradient a reed makes and spreads it across the room, and in a lot of homes it is the difference between a bottle you notice once and a hall that has a smell.
Only if all of that still leaves the far end flat is the shortfall genuinely volumetric.
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The SOSA principle
The bottle on your console is not underperforming. It is doing precisely what a reed does, in a room roughly ten times the size a reed was drawn for.
Which is why the fix is never a better oil. It is either a smaller volume, some moving air, or a machine that carries.
Room by room
The same answer as a checklist, worth walking your own hall against this evening.
The SOSA plan
Why the hall is flat, and what it actually is
| What you are noticing | What is really going on |
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Lovely at the console, nothing at the sofa
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Distance. A point source with no transport, behaving exactly as a reed behaves. |
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The bigger bottle changed nothing
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You raised emission. The shortfall was transport, and bottle size does not touch transport. |
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Strong for a fortnight, then faint
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The reeds have saturated. Invert them, and replace reeds before you replace the bottle. |
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Noticeable at the door, absent inside
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A draught is carrying it out of the house. Move the bottle away from the door and the AC return. |
The sizing question is answered properly in one Vaayu for a double-height living room, or zones, and the deeper version of this frustration is in why a beautifully finished home still has no arrival effect. SOSA is an independent Indian brand; the hotel-inspired scents are our own original interpretations, and no company named anywhere on this site is a SOSA customer or partner.
Free fixes first, machine only if the volume asks
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 adds the one thing a reed does not have — transport across a large connected volume
Nobody here chose the wrong fragrance. They chose a point source for a distance problem, which is a thing the category itself never explains at the counter.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
What changes when a machine is added
Undiluted oil, nebulised cold, carried out into the room on a schedule you set
The SOSA specification
One decision, taken by the volume of connected air rather than by how much you are willing to spend — and in many homes the decision is to buy nothing and move a bottle instead. Everything is made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA specification for a Raipur home
The ladder for a house, by connected volume
| Product | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Evening Calm Reed Diffuser
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A bedroom, a dressing room, a bathroom | Himalayan lavender and chamomile at a bedside. Under about 300 sq ft a reed is not a compromise, it is the correct specification. ₹799 for 50ml, ₹1,299 for 130ml. | ₹799 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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A study, a lounge, a guest room | Pine, sage and cedar — dry and ungendered, and the register I reach for in the shared rooms of a home. ₹849 for 50ml, ₹1,349 for 130ml. | ₹849 View → |
 SOSA Fresh & Grounded Reed Duo
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Two separate rooms at once | Morning Freshness and Mountain Breeze, one register per room, rather than one bottle asked to cover both. ₹1,548 for two 50ml, ₹2,548 for two 130ml. | ₹1,548 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Roughly 1,500 sq ft and up of connected volume | Waterless, wall or HVAC mounted, timers matched to the hours you are home, intensity set low. 400ml lasting roughly 75 to 90 days. ₹11,999. | ₹11,999 View → |
Three limits worth stating outright. There is no SOSA refill product for the Vaayu at present, so plan the fill as part of the purchase conversation rather than assuming a bottle is waiting on the site. A second machine belongs to a second volume of air — another floor, a separate wing — and never to a second corner of the same hall, because two units in one connected space make competing gradients rather than combined coverage. And Evening Calm is a bedroom scent; lavender in a formal living room reads as spa rather than home.
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A note from Sonal
This is the message I get most often from large homes, and it always arrives apologetically, as though the owner has done something wrong. They have not. They bought a reed diffuser, which is a lovely object that does one thing, and they put it in a room about ten times bigger than the one it was drawn for. The fact that it smells wonderful when you lean over it is the proof that the oil is fine. The gap is distance, and distance was never something a bottle of reeds could cross.
So I give away the free fixes first and I mean it. Every reed in. Turn them weekly. Off the low table and up to nose height. Away from the door and the air-conditioning return, because a draught will take your fragrance straight out of the house. Close a door. And run a ceiling fan on low, which I would recommend to a stranger before I recommended anything we sell, because a fan is transport and transport is the whole missing ingredient. Quite often that is the end of the problem.
When it is not — when the hall is genuinely large and still flat at the far end — a machine is the honest answer, and I would rather explain why than simply sell one. A machine carries. That is the difference, and that is all the difference is. This is an ambience decision and not a claim that it changes what anyone does, or anything therapeutic or medical. It never covers a smell that has a source. Your own judgement about the level in your own home outranks mine. Everything is made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my reed diffuser barely noticeable in a large villa?
Because a reed diffuser is a point source with no transport. Oil climbs the reeds and evaporates from them, and nothing moves it after that, so the fragrance is strongest at the bottle and falls away steeply with distance. In a large hall you get a fragrant zone rather than a fragranced room. That is the design, not a defect, and a more expensive oil in the same bottle has the same ceiling.
Will more reeds or a bigger bottle help?
They raise emission, which is how much fragrance leaves the bottle, and they do nothing for transport, which is how far it gets. If your hall is flat because of distance, more emission simply gives you a stronger fragrant zone in the same small radius. Try it by all means, because reeds are cheap, but if you have already tried it once without result, trying it again with a larger bottle will not change the answer.
What free fixes actually work?
Use every reed from the box. Invert them once or twice a week. Move the bottle out of a draught, away from an open door or an air-conditioning return. Raise it to roughly nose height on a console rather than a low table. Close one door so the volume is smaller. And run a ceiling fan on low, which is the best of them, because a fan supplies the transport a reed has none of.
At what point does a machine make sense in a home?
When the connected volume is genuinely large, roughly 1,500 sq ft and upward once you count the stair and any double height, and when the free fixes have not closed the gap. The Vaayu at Rs 11,999 covers about 1000 cubic metres, is waterless, and runs on timers you set. Below that, reeds by room are the right specification and I would rather say so than specify a machine into a house that does not need one.
Should I put reeds in every room instead?
In bedrooms, dressing rooms, studies and bathrooms, yes, and that is where reeds are genuinely at their best, because the distance from bottle to nose is short. What does not work is a reed in each corner of one large hall, which gives you several small zones and a room that still reads as unscented in between. One register for the shared volume, and a quieter reed in the private rooms, is the shape that works.
Move the bottle, run the fan, and only then consider a machine
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for large homes and villas in Raipur
A bedroom or study, one reed from ₹749. Two rooms at once, the duo at ₹1,548. Roughly 1,500 sq ft and up of connected hall, dining and stair volume, one Vaayu at ₹11,999, mounted up and set low. 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 Mountain Breeze reed diffuser (Himalayan pine, sage and cedar) is ₹849 in 50ml and ₹1,349 in 130ml. the SOSA Fresh & Grounded reed duo pairs Morning Freshness with Mountain Breeze at ₹1,548 for 2 x 50ml and ₹2,548 for 2 x 130ml. 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 up to about 75 days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W, 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. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand decision only. SOSA makes no claim that scent influences a customer's decision, sales, enquiries, footfall, trust, credibility, referrals or any clinical or patient outcome, and no claim that any product removes, neutralises, eliminates or absorbs an odour, or that it cleans, purifies or disinfects air. Scent works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is never a substitute for any of them, and is never used to mask a smell that has a source. Clinical, treatment and diagnostic areas are left unscented, and a clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own premises. Visitor and staff fragrance sensitivity is real and should never be minimised; no SOSA product is described as hypoallergenic or as safe for sensitive individuals, and staff must be able to switch the system off in seconds. 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, industrial, jewellery or automotive brand named for reference, and no Raipur business is named as a SOSA customer. 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.