★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
Each opening is a discrete air-exchange event rather than a vague loss, which means it can be counted - tally the openings in one peak hour and one quiet hour, and that single figure decides where the source goes, how the timer is set and how fast refills are consumed, far more than the floor area does
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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
★ Sized to the visitor-facing zone, in the register the business runs
SOSA VaayuA connected reception, lounge and corridorView ₹11,999
Mountain BreezeThe dry pine, sage and cedar registerView ₹849
Morning FreshnessThe cool register for a white, daylit officeView ₹749
✓ 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
What should I measure? Openings per hour, with a tally on paper, for one busy hour and one quiet hour. The two numbers between them describe the whole problem better than the floor area does.
What does the number change? Three things: how deep into the room the door-flushed zone runs, where the source is placed relative to it, and how fast refills are consumed compared with a quiet unit of the same size.
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.
Every opening is an air-exchange event you can count. Tally them for one peak hour and one quiet hour. That number - not the square footage - sets the placement, the schedule and the refill rate.
Quick answers — read this first
How much does a door opening actually cost? A slice of the room's air, and the size of the slice grows with the width of the door, the seconds it stays open and the temperature difference across it. In a Hyderabad summer that difference is large.What should I measure? Openings per hour, with a tally on paper, for one busy hour and one quiet hour. The two numbers between them describe the whole problem better than the floor area does.
What does the number change? Three things: how deep into the room the door-flushed zone runs, where the source is placed relative to it, and how fast refills are consumed compared with a quiet unit of the same size.
The short answer
Short answer: each opening is a countable air-exchange event. Tally openings per hour for one busy and one quiet hour, then place the source behind the flushed zone and match the schedule and refills to the tally.
The pick: a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) placed well behind the door-flushed zone, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849) at the far end of the counter.
Next step: put a sheet of paper by the till and tally openings for one hour. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
A street door is not a vague loss. It is a countable event, and the count is the specification.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
One machine, the visitor floor
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The areas that carry nothing
Which areas stay fragrance-free
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
How do frequent door openings affect scent retention in a street-facing Manikonda business?
They change it completely, and the useful move is to stop treating the door as a vague leak and start treating it as a series of discrete events you can count on a sheet of paper. Each time that door opens, a quantity of indoor air leaves and a quantity of outdoor air arrives. The size of that exchange is not mysterious. It grows with the clear width of the opening, with the number of seconds it stays open, and with the temperature difference across the threshold - which in a Hyderabad afternoon is the largest of the three, because a big difference between a conditioned shop and a hot street drives air through an open doorway hard in both directions at once, warm air in at the top and cool air out at the bottom. A narrow door open for three seconds in February and a wide door held open for twenty seconds in May are not the same event by a wide margin. So measure it. Put a sheet of paper by the till and make a mark every time the door opens, for one hour at your busiest and one hour at your quietest. Most street-facing Manikonda units come back with something between fifteen and sixty openings an hour at peak, and a single-figure number off-peak. Those two numbers describe your problem far better than the square footage does, and they are the numbers to send with a floor plan. The count then decides three separate things. First, the depth of the zone you cannot hold. The first stretch inside a frequently used door is being re-air-changed all day, and anything placed in it is spending output into the street. You can find the depth yourself: stand at one metre, two metres and three metres in, at different points in the day, and notice where the room stops feeling like the doorway and starts feeling like the shop. Everything from that line inward is the room you can actually work with, and the source belongs well behind it rather than pointed at the entrance. Placing a machine at the door to greet people is the commonest error in a street unit and it is the most expensive one. Second, the schedule. A unit with sixty openings an hour at 6 PM and four at 11 AM does not need the same output at both times, and a timer that runs flat all day is spending its heaviest hours on its easiest conditions. Third, and this is the one that catches owners out on a refill invoice: consumption tracks the tally, not the floor area. A 700 sq ft shop with a door that opens forty times an hour will go through refills faster than a quiet 1,500 sq ft office, and the right response to that is a longer refill budget rather than a higher setting. Turning it up to fight the door is chasing an exchange rate you cannot win. Two hardware notes. A self-closer cuts the seconds per event, which divides the exchange per opening directly, and a vestibule or second door converts one opening into two much smaller ones, which is the single biggest improvement available to a street frontage. The solids arriving through the same door are a separate problem with separate fixes. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 placed behind the flushed zone, key-locked and timed, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 at the far end of the counter. 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. Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat away from the source 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.
Each opening is a countable air-exchange event. Tally openings for one peak and one quiet hour, find the depth of the door-flushed zone by standing at one, two and three metres in, place the source behind that line, and budget refills against the tally.
Behind the flushed line: SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849.
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.
A connected reception, waiting area and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - on one unit. In a clinic, salon or showroom its value is control rather than reach: the key-lock holds the level the furthest waiting chair was judged to, so it survives every shift and every new receptionist, and the 1h/4h/8h/24h timer keeps it on opening hours rather than saturating an empty room overnight. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on stock, mirrors, screens or displays. 400ml tank, roughly 75-90 days depending on intensity and run hours, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mount.
From ₹11,999
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
Count the events, then spend against the count
A door is not a leak you estimate. It is a number of events per hour, and each one has a size.
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Event size
Width, seconds, temperature
The exchange per opening grows with clear width, with how long it stands open, and with the difference across the threshold - which in a Hyderabad afternoon is the largest of the three.
Rule: May and February are not the same door.
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The tally
One peak hour, one quiet hour
A sheet of paper by the till and a mark per opening. Street units usually return fifteen to sixty an hour at peak and a single-figure number off-peak.
Test: send those two numbers with the floor plan.
3
Flush depth
The room you cannot hold
Stand at one, two and three metres in at different times and find where the doorway stops and the shop begins. Everything inside that line is the room you can work with.
Test: never place the source in the flushed part.
4
Schedule
Output against the curve
Sixty openings an hour at six and four at eleven are different conditions. A timer that runs flat all day is spending its heaviest hours on its easiest ones.
Rule: match the programme to the tally.
5
Refills
Consumption tracks the count
A 700 sq ft shop with forty openings an hour will outconsume a quiet 1,500 sq ft office. The right answer is a longer refill budget, not a higher setting.
Rule: you cannot out-dial an exchange rate.
The SOSA principle
A busy street door is not a vague loss you estimate. It is fifteen to sixty countable events an hour, each with a size set by width, seconds and the heat outside - and the count is the specification.
Which is why a tally sheet by the till tells you more about what to buy, where to put it and how much it will cost to run than the floor area ever will.
A door that never stops, question by question
How to count the events, and what each part of the count decides.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Frequent openings and what they cost
| The question | The answer |
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What makes one opening bigger than another?
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Clear width, the seconds it stays open, and the temperature difference across the threshold, which in a Hyderabad afternoon is the biggest factor. |
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How do I measure the problem?
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Tally openings for one busy hour and one quiet hour. Those two numbers describe the situation better than the square footage does. |
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Where should the source go?
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Well behind the door-flushed zone. Find its depth by standing at one, two and three metres in, and never place a machine at the entrance to greet people. |
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Should I raise the setting to fight the door?
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No. Consumption tracks the tally, so the honest response is a longer refill budget and a self-closer, not a higher level. |
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What buys back the most exchange?
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A self-closer, and a vestibule where the frontage allows one. Then a Vaayu (₹11,999) behind the line, or a reed (₹849) at the far end. |
The solids version of the same door is street dust and what to fix first, the shutter version is large shutters and escaping fragrance, and the wide-frontage version is where to place it with a wide open front. 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.
A 700 sq ft shop with forty openings an hour consumes refills faster than a quiet 1,500 sq ft office. The honest response is a bigger refill budget, not a bigger number on the dial.
— 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 Vaayu
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A connected reception, waiting area and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft | Wall or HVAC mounted on the far side of the client zone from the meeting-room doors; level set from the furthest chair at the end of the longest wait, then key-locked; timer on opening hours | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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The register for the whole client zone; alone where reception is one seating group | Pine, sage and cedar - dry, and reads as a considered room rather than a hotel lobby; three or four reeds in at the staff end of the desk | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The same job in a white, glazed, daylit interior | Malabar lemon, mint and eucalyptus - cool with no warmth; one register for the whole business, never one per branch | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A reception or waiting area that is a closed room of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf on the wall the seating faces, on low, during opening hours, rinsed between refills; water-based, so not the choice in a damp building | ₹1,899 View → |
 SOSA Boond
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A director's cabin, a small reception or a single desk | One small enclosed space only, on low; never in a closed treatment room or consultation cabin | ₹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
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A note from Sonal
They change it completely, and the useful move is to stop treating the door as a vague leak and start treating it as discrete events you can count on a sheet of paper. Each time the door opens, indoor air leaves and outdoor air arrives, and the size of that exchange is not mysterious: it grows with the clear width of the opening, with the seconds it stays open, and with the temperature difference across the threshold. In a Hyderabad afternoon the difference is the largest of the three, because a big gap between a conditioned shop and a hot street drives air through an open doorway hard in both directions at once. A narrow door open for three seconds in February and a wide door held for twenty seconds in May are not the same event.
So measure it. A sheet of paper by the till and a mark every time the door opens, for one hour at your busiest and one at your quietest. Most street units come back with fifteen to sixty an hour at peak and a single-figure number off-peak, and those two numbers describe the problem better than the square footage. The count then decides three things. The depth of the zone you cannot hold: the first stretch inside a busy door is re-air-changed all day, and anything placed there is spending output into the street - stand at one, two and three metres in and find where the doorway stops and the shop begins. The schedule: sixty openings an hour at six and four at eleven are not the same conditions, so a timer running flat all day is spending its heaviest hours on its easiest ones. And the refill budget, which catches people out - consumption tracks the tally rather than the floor area.
Two hardware notes, because they are worth more than any setting. A self-closer cuts the seconds per event, which divides the exchange per opening directly. And a vestibule or second door converts one opening into two much smaller ones, which is the single biggest improvement available to a street frontage. What does not work is turning it up to fight the door: that is chasing an exchange rate you cannot win, and it makes the part of the room you could already hold too loud. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 placed behind the flushed zone, key-locked and timed against the tally, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 at the far end of the counter. 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. 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 measure what my door is costing me?
Tally openings for one busy hour and one quiet hour. Those two figures describe the situation better than the floor area does.
What makes one door opening bigger than another?
The clear width, the number of seconds it stays open, and the temperature difference across the threshold, which is large in a Hyderabad afternoon.
Where should a machine go in a street-facing shop?
Behind the door-flushed zone. Stand at one, two and three metres inside to find where it ends, and never place the source at the entrance.
Should I increase the setting because the door keeps opening?
No. Consumption already tracks the number of openings, so the honest response is a longer refill budget and a self-closer rather than a higher level.
What single change helps a street frontage most?
A vestibule or second door where the frontage allows one, because it converts a single opening into two much smaller exchanges.
Tally your door for one hour
SOSA — Studio Scenting the count is the spec
Each opening is a discrete air-exchange event whose size depends on width, seconds and the heat outside, which means it can be counted. Mark one busy hour and one quiet hour on a sheet of paper. Use the count to find the depth of the flushed zone, to place the source well behind it, to shape the timer against the busy stretch and to budget refills honestly. Then buy the seconds back with a self-closer. 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)
- Street dust: fix this first
- Large shutters and escaping fragrance
- Where to place it with a wide open front
- Street footfall and a door that never closes
- Showroom doors that open for cars
- Continuous or only during patient hours
- Jewellery store with constant turnover
- 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.