★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
By treating monitoring as an instrument problem rather than a diligence problem - the only nose that can read a building is one that has not been in it recently, which means the check has to be scheduled, rotated between branches, taken within about twenty seconds of entering, and recorded as one of three states
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
★ Sized to the visitor-facing zone, in the register the business runs
Mountain BreezePine, sage and cedar - the house defaultView ₹849
Morning FreshnessLemon, mint and eucalyptus for a white officeView ₹749
SOSA VaayuThe same register across a connected client floorView ₹11,999
✓ One register in the visitor-facing zone only - entrance, reception and the waiting area - set from the furthest seat at the end of the longest wait and then key-locked ✓ Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented, a named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Hyderabad
How long does the reading take? About twenty seconds from entering. After that the visitor has begun adapting too, so the verdict is written at the door rather than after a walk round.
What form does the verdict take? Three states: nothing, present, or the first thing you notice. A number invites debate; three states produce a defined action.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 9 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 roughly 75-90 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, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply should be confirmed with SOSA. 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. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in a commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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.
With an outside nose, on a rota. The instrument is a person who has not been in that building recently, the reading lasts about twenty seconds, and the verdict has three states, not a number.
Quick answers — read this first
Who should check whether the scent is still right? Somebody who has not been in that building recently. A branch's own team cannot perform this measurement, because their noses have adapted to their own room.How long does the reading take? About twenty seconds from entering. After that the visitor has begun adapting too, so the verdict is written at the door rather than after a walk round.
What form does the verdict take? Three states: nothing, present, or the first thing you notice. A number invites debate; three states produce a defined action.
The short answer
Short answer: with an outside nose on a schedule - a person who has not been in that branch recently, judging within about twenty seconds of entering and recording one of three states.
The pick: a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849) where the drift is simply age, or a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) where the setting and the tank are both readable at the check.
Next step: put four dated cross-visits in the calendar for the next year. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
An instrument you only use when you happen to remember is not a monitoring method.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
The hard line
Closed treatment rooms stay fragrance-free
Reception only, at the lowest level
Mountain Breeze · ₹849
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
How can a business check whether its signature scent is still consistent six months after installation?
By accepting that this is an instrument problem rather than a diligence problem, which changes who does the checking and when. The people in the branch cannot do it. Not through carelessness - their noses are simply the wrong instrument for their own building, because a background that never changes stops being reported within a fortnight. Ask a branch team whether the register is still right and they will answer honestly and uselessly. So the instrument has to be a person who has not been in that building recently, and the whole method follows from that one constraint. Because the instrument is a person, it has to be scheduled. An outside nose that only appears when somebody happens to remember is not a monitoring method, it is luck. The cheapest workable version in a Hyderabad estate is a cross-visit rota: each branch is checked by a manager from a different branch, once a quarter, on a fixed weekday at a fixed hour - mid-week and mid-afternoon works, because the conditions repeat and the comparison between quarters stays honest. Four dates per branch in the calendar for the year, put there now rather than agreed in principle. Then the part almost everybody gets wrong: the reading is taken at the door. The visitor has roughly twenty seconds of usable instrument before their own adaptation begins, so the verdict is decided walking in from the street and written down standing in the entrance, before greetings, before tea, before a walk round the floor. A verdict formed after ten minutes inside is a verdict from a nose that has already joined the building. And record three states rather than a number, because a number invites an argument and three states produce an action. Nothing - the register is not detectable at the door. Present - detectable, and not the first thing noticed. First thing - it arrives before the room does. Anything other than "present" triggers a defined step, which is what makes the whole thing a control rather than a diary entry. Alongside the verdict, record two facts that explain almost every case of drift. The date of the last refill, and the setting as found. Six-month drift is nearly always one of four things: the setting has moved, the tank is nearly empty, the room has changed around the machine - a new screen, a moved sofa, a relocated desk between source and seat - or the bottle in use is a different age or batch from the one the level was set against. All four are visible in a two-minute check by somebody carrying a card. The first of those four is best prevented rather than detected, and the six-month visit is also the moment to look at the hardware itself - the mount, the housing, whether the unit is still where the installation photograph says it is. In the SOP this is one line with an owner and a frequency. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and SOSA makes no claim that it does. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 drifts mainly by age, so its check is a date; a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 shows both the setting and the tank at a glance. Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented at any branch, and that is checked on the same visit. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk rather than waiting to be requested. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
With an outside nose on a rota. A manager from another branch, once a quarter, same weekday and hour, judging within twenty seconds of walking in and recording one of three states plus the refill date and the setting as found.
Readable at the check: SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, or SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849, where drift is age.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a scenting plan for your space
The honest ladder
One source for the visitor zone, sized to the floor
What to buy, and for which space
The honest options for the visitor-facing zone, sized to the floor rather than to the ambition. The images link to the product pages so every figure here can be checked.
The register - or the whole answer where reception is one seating zone
SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
Himalayan pine, sage and Indian cedar - the driest register SOSA makes and the house default, because it reads as a considered room rather than as a hotel lobby. Where reception is a single seating group, this bottle at the staff end of the desk at ₹849 for 50ml carries the register on its own, three or four reeds in, flipped weekly; 130ml at ₹1,349 lasts 14-18 weeks. Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, six fibre reeds, and carried out of the room in seconds if a client asks.
From ₹849
The cool register for a white, glazed, daylit interior
SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
Malabar lemon, peppermint and eucalyptus - cool and bright with no warmth or sweetness in it, which suits a white, glazed clinical interior where cedar can read as heavy. Three reeds in on the reception desk, or two in a hard-surfaced room. ₹749 for 50ml (6-8 weeks), ₹1,249 for 130ml (14-18 weeks). Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, six fibre reeds.
From ₹749
Build the check around the instrument you have
The instrument is a person who has not been in the building, which decides everything else about the method.
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Instrument
Not the branch team
A background that never changes stops being reported within a fortnight. Asking the people who work there produces an honest answer and a useless one.
Rule: the reader must come from outside.
2
Schedule
A rota, not a good intention
Each branch checked by a manager from another branch, quarterly, on a fixed weekday at a fixed hour so the conditions repeat between visits.
Rule: four dates in the calendar, now.
3
Window
Twenty seconds at the door
The visitor's own adaptation starts immediately, so the verdict is decided walking in and written standing in the entrance - before greetings and before a walk round.
Test: ten minutes in, the instrument is gone.
4
Verdict
Three states, not a number
Nothing, present, or the first thing you notice. A number invites debate; three states each attach to a defined next step, which is what makes it a control.
Rule: anything but present triggers an action.
5
Causes
Four explanations, all visible
The setting moved, the tank is nearly empty, the room changed around the machine, or the bottle is a different age or batch from the one the level was set against.
Test: so record the refill date and the setting found.
The SOSA principle
A visiting manager has about twenty seconds of usable instrument. A verdict formed after ten minutes of tea and conversation comes from a nose that has already joined the building, which is why the answer is written standing in the doorway.
Which also means the visit does not need to be long. Two minutes with a card produces a better record than an afternoon spent walking the floor.
Monitoring at six months, question by question
Who can read the building, when the reading is valid, and what explains the drift when it appears.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Checking a signature scent over time
| The question | The answer |
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Why can branch staff not check it?
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Because an unchanging background stops being reported by the nose within a fortnight, which makes them the wrong instrument for their own building. |
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Who performs the check?
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A manager from a different branch, on a quarterly rota, on a fixed weekday at a fixed hour so conditions are comparable between visits. |
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How long is the reading valid?
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About twenty seconds from entering. The verdict is decided walking in and written in the entrance, before greetings or a walk round the floor. |
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What is recorded?
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One of three states - nothing, present, or the first thing you notice - plus the date of the last refill and the setting as found on the unit. |
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What usually explains drift?
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A moved setting, a near-empty tank, a changed layout, or a differently aged bottle. A reed (₹849) drifts by age; a Vaayu (₹11,999) shows both. |
The prevention version is stopping branches changing the setting, the written version is settings in the SOP, and the recognition version is recognition before returning customers. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance removes or reduces anything in the air.
One register, the visitor-facing zone only, set from the furthest seat
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 waterless, key-locked and timed to opening hours; Mountain Breeze ₹849 or Morning Freshness ₹749 as the register. Send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked and we will return it with the placement and the fragrance-free seat.
Ask the people who work in a branch whether the register is still right and you will get an honest answer and a useless one. Their noses stopped reporting that room in week two, and no amount of care changes it.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Sized to the floor
The visitor zone gets one source; closed treatment and consultation rooms get none
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
One register, delivered at whatever size the visitor-facing zone is, with the rule that travels alongside each product. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
What goes where in a clinic, salon, showroom or office
| Product | The space it fits | The rule that travels with it | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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Reception as a single seating group, and the register for the whole firm | Three or four reeds in at the staff end of the desk, flipped weekly; lifted out of the room in seconds if a client asks | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The same, in a white, glazed or hard-surfaced room | Two or three reeds in - a hard room needs fewer, not more; cool, with no warmth or sweetness | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Fresh & Grounded Reed Diffuser Duo
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Two genuinely separate seating groups in one client area | Two bottles in two places carrying one register - reach comes from placement, never from adding reeds | ₹1,548 / ₹2,548 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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When the client zone is a connected floor rather than one seating group | The same register carried by a machine, placed from the plan and key-locked at the level the furthest chair allowed | ₹11,999 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A closed reception or waiting area of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf, on low, opening hours only, rinsed between refills | ₹1,899 View → |
A SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is the water-based rung for a single enclosed reception or client lounge of roughly 270-320 sq ft in a dry room, and a Boond (₹899) for a single cabin; both run on the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299), which is not reed diffuser oil and is not interchangeable with it. Above about 3,000 sq ft of one connected volume the step is one SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) on the duct, not a second Vaayu. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented - the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there - and that is achieved by placement and doors rather than by a lower setting. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk rather than waiting to be asked. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, it makes no contribution to what a visitor buys, books or decides, and it works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them. The visitor's preference overrides any plan. Ask for a scenting plan for your space and send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
By accepting that this is an instrument problem rather than a diligence problem, which changes who does the checking and when. The people in the branch cannot do it - not through carelessness, but because their noses are the wrong instrument for their own building. A background that never changes stops being reported within a fortnight, so asking a branch team whether the register is still right produces an honest answer and a useless one. The instrument has to be somebody who has not been in that building recently, and the whole method follows from that single constraint.
Because the instrument is a person, it has to be scheduled - an outside nose that appears when somebody happens to remember is luck, not monitoring. The cheapest workable version is a cross-visit rota: each branch checked by a manager from a different branch, once a quarter, on a fixed weekday at a fixed hour, so the conditions repeat and the comparison between quarters stays honest. Put four dates per branch in the calendar now rather than agreeing it in principle. Then the part almost everybody gets wrong: the reading is taken at the door. A visitor has roughly twenty seconds of usable instrument before their own adaptation begins, so the verdict is decided walking in from the street and written standing in the entrance - before greetings, before tea, before a walk round.
Record three states rather than a number, because a number invites an argument and three states produce an action. Nothing: not detectable at the door. Present: detectable, and not the first thing noticed. First thing: it arrives before the room does. Anything but present triggers a defined step. Alongside it, record the date of the last refill and the setting as found, because six-month drift is nearly always one of four things - the setting moved, the tank is nearly empty, the room changed around the machine, or the bottle is a different age or batch from the one the level was set against. All four are visible in a two-minute check. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 drifts mainly by age, so its check is a date, while a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 shows the setting and the tank at a glance. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented at any branch, and that is checked on the same visit. A named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How do I check my signature scent is still right after six months?
Send somebody who has not been in that building recently, on a quarterly rota, and have them judge within about twenty seconds of walking in.
Why can the branch team not monitor it themselves?
Because an unchanging background stops being reported by the nose within a fortnight, which makes them the wrong instrument for their own room.
How long is a visiting judgement valid?
About twenty seconds. After that the visitor has begun adapting too, so the verdict is written standing in the entrance rather than after a walk round.
What should the check record?
One of three states - nothing, present, or the first thing you notice - along with the date of the last refill and the setting as found.
What usually causes six-month drift?
A moved setting, a near-empty tank, a layout change between source and seat, or a bottle of a different age or batch from the one used to set the level.
Put four cross-visits in the calendar
SOSA — Studio Scenting an outside nose, on a rota
A branch team cannot read its own building, because an unchanging background stops being reported within a fortnight. So the instrument is a person who has not been there recently, which means the check must be scheduled rather than hoped for: a manager from another branch, quarterly, same weekday and hour. The reading lasts about twenty seconds from the door, the verdict has three states rather than a number, and the refill date and setting as found explain almost every case of drift. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a scenting plan for your space → SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
One more look at the range
Continue the read
More from SOSA
- SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999)
- SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849)
- Stopping branches changing the setting
- Machine settings in the SOP
- When branch judgement stops being enough
- Three localities, one smell?
- Recognition before you have returning customers
- Noticed on arrival, not endured all day
- Standardising across different branch sizes
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan for your space
- 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 planning advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 9 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 roughly 75-90 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, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply should be confirmed with SOSA. 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. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in a commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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.