★ SOSA · Coworking & Managed Offices & Scent
A coworking space or managed office is judged in the first five minutes, yet by evening the air is a full house of people, coffee, food, carpet and closed AC. A clean, understated signature in the common areas makes the arrival feel considered and current - scheduled to real occupancy, kept fragrance-free where members need it, and never a scent anyone would notice as sprayed. This is about a professional arrival experience, not covering a smell
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"Prospects tour four spaces in a day. One clean signature at our reception is the small thing they remember about ours - never like a hotel, just considered."
SOSA Vaayu · coworking tour
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"The Vaayu is scheduled to our real hours - it eases up as the floor fills and quietens in the evening, so it never feels heavy at 5 PM with a full house."
SOSA Vaayu · scheduled to occupancy
★★★★★
"We stopped trying to fragrance the phone booths and fixed their ventilation instead. That was the honest answer - a scent machine in a tiny pod was never it."
SOSA Vaayu · pods are a vent job
★★★★★
"Every monsoon our entrance smelled of wet umbrellas and damp carpet. We sorted drainage and cleaning first, then kept a light signature - not a freshener over damp."
SOSA Vaayu · monsoon reset
★★★★★
"One enterprise client wanted their suite scented, the next didn't. Zoning by area and keeping their office on independent control kept both happy."
SOSA Vaayu · enterprise opt-out
★★★★★
"A member said it felt too strong, so we lowered it and logged it. "Turn it up" is never our default now - we keep fragrance-free zones too."
SOSA Vaayu · member-first SOP
★★★★★
"Prospects tour four spaces in a day. One clean signature at our reception is the small thing they remember about ours - never like a hotel, just considered."
SOSA Vaayu · coworking tour
★★★★★
"The Vaayu is scheduled to our real hours - it eases up as the floor fills and quietens in the evening, so it never feels heavy at 5 PM with a full house."
SOSA Vaayu · scheduled to occupancy
★★★★★
"We stopped trying to fragrance the phone booths and fixed their ventilation instead. That was the honest answer - a scent machine in a tiny pod was never it."
SOSA Vaayu · pods are a vent job
★★★★★
"Every monsoon our entrance smelled of wet umbrellas and damp carpet. We sorted drainage and cleaning first, then kept a light signature - not a freshener over damp."
SOSA Vaayu · monsoon reset
★★★★★
"One enterprise client wanted their suite scented, the next didn't. Zoning by area and keeping their office on independent control kept both happy."
SOSA Vaayu · enterprise opt-out
★★★★★
"A member said it felt too strong, so we lowered it and logged it. "Turn it up" is never our default now - we keep fragrance-free zones too."
SOSA Vaayu · member-first SOP
★ Shop SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Scenting a coworking centre or a multi-location operator? Get a plan & quote
✓ Reed diffuser / room spray - passive or short-lived; only noticeable near the desk and cannot hold a busy floor all day ✓ SOSA Vaayu - active cold-air, one even, subtle signature across a reception, lounge or open floor up to ~2000-3000 sq ft, on a schedule ✓ A stuffy phone booth, damp carpet or occupancy smell - ventilation, cleaning and scheduling at source, not more fragrance
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Can I just leave the diffuser running overnight to reset the lounge? No. A diffuser adds a signature to a fresh room; it does not clear an event's occupancy, food and alcohol load from the air, the carpet or the bins. Air and clean the room and remove waste overnight, and let the diffuser ease the signature back in last - it confirms a fresh room, it does not create one.
What is the right order for an overnight lounge reset? Air first, clean second, remove waste third, reset the layout, and schedule the signature back last. Airing clears the bulk of the event air, cleaning removes what soaked into surfaces, waste removal stops a bin re-smelling the room, and the signature returns only once the lounge is genuinely fresh.
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Facts verified August 2026 (SOSA product pages): The SOSA Safar is a compact, cordless, rechargeable waterless cold-diffusion perfume diffuser priced at ₹3,999, described for use in a car, on a desk, in a handbag or a hotel room; it runs up to about 10 hours continuously or 30 hours intermittently on a single charge, has 3 speed settings and a 1h/2h/3h auto-off timer, and ships with three SOSA Hotel Collection hotel-inspired oils. It is a personal-space device for strong close-range projection and is not rated to fill a large open floor evenly. The SOSA Vaayu is a waterless cold-air diffuser priced at ₹11,999 that atomises alcohol-free, water-free fragrance oil into a dry nano-mist covering up to 1000m3 (about 2000 to 3000 sq ft) per open floor, with a 400ml tank (four 100ml oils included) that lasts up to about 75 days depending on the intensity setting and daily run hours, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, Bluetooth app control and under-38dB operation; a very large or double-height floor may need the larger Angaan (₹25,999, ~8,000-10,000 sq ft) or Meenar (₹38,500, ~12,000-18,000 sq ft), and a multi-storey home generally needs one machine per floor. A reed diffuser (from about ₹749) is passive and cannot be adjusted in strength. Fragrance projection depends on the volume of air and on ventilation - a closed, air-conditioned room holds scent while open windows, balconies and fast fans disperse it - so the same floor area can need different power. A signature scent enhances a clean, well-ventilated room; it does not remove a musty or closed-up smell, which should be aired out first, and SOSA makes no medical or air-purification claims. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
After a large community event, the lounge has to be a working member space again by morning - and the overnight window is when that reset actually happens. The temptation is to lock up and rely on the diffuser to sort the air out by itself. It will not. An overnight reset is a fixed routine of airing, cleaning and waste removal, with the signature scheduled to ease back in last - so members walk into a genuinely fresh lounge, not a masked one.
Quick answers — read this first
How do I reset a coworking lounge overnight after a large event? With a fixed overnight routine, scent last. While the room is empty, air it hard - open it up and run ventilation to clear the event air rather than sealing it in the AC. Clean hard surfaces and the soft furnishings that hold smell, spot-clean any spills, and remove all food, drink and bottle waste from the building. Reset the layout. Then schedule the SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999) to ease the everyday signature back before morning on a fresh room. Do not rely on the diffuser to reset the air on its own. Made in India, alcohol-free.Can I just leave the diffuser running overnight to reset the lounge? No. A diffuser adds a signature to a fresh room; it does not clear an event's occupancy, food and alcohol load from the air, the carpet or the bins. Air and clean the room and remove waste overnight, and let the diffuser ease the signature back in last - it confirms a fresh room, it does not create one.
What is the right order for an overnight lounge reset? Air first, clean second, remove waste third, reset the layout, and schedule the signature back last. Airing clears the bulk of the event air, cleaning removes what soaked into surfaces, waste removal stops a bin re-smelling the room, and the signature returns only once the lounge is genuinely fresh.
The short answer
Short answer: with a fixed overnight routine, scent last. While the room is empty, air it hard, clean hard surfaces and soft furnishings, spot-clean spills, and remove all food, drink and bottle waste from the building. Reset the layout, then schedule the SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999) to ease the everyday signature back before morning on a fresh room. Do not rely on the diffuser to reset the air on its own - airing and cleaning do the work, scent confirms it.
The range: a reed or a small Safar (₹3,999) suits a single enclosed private cabin; the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) holds one even, subtle signature across a reception, lounge or open floor up to ~2000-3000 sq ft on a schedule; the Angaan (₹25,999) or Meenar for a very large floor or atrium; one machine per zone, and phone booths and pods are ventilated not scented.
Next step: shop the SOSA Vaayu, or send us the centre - size, floors, cabins, phone booths, occupancy and hours - and we will plan and quote it.
In this guide
A coworking space or managed office is judged in the first five minutes of a tour, and the arrival - the entrance, reception and common areas - is where a prospective member or an enterprise client forms a sense of the brand. Designed well, a subtle signature adds a final layer to a clean, well-run floor: one clean, understated scent that makes the reception and lounge feel considered and current, kept deliberately light so it never smells like a hotel lobby or a perfume store, and never a scent a member would register as sprayed. The tool is an even, controllable cold-air diffuser - a SOSA Vaayu for a reception, lounge or open coworking floor up to about 2000-3000 sq ft, on a timer so it holds at a discreet level through real operating hours with no staff spraying; a private cabin or managed office takes a lighter setting or independent control, and a very large floor or atrium steps up to the Angaan or Meenar, one machine per zone. The things that actually change a shared office - rising occupancy through the day, a full house versus a quiet evening, wet umbrellas and carpets in monsoon, a stuffy phone booth - are solved by scheduling to occupancy and by ventilation and cleaning at source, not by turning fragrance up. Small poorly-ventilated rooms like phone booths and meeting pods are a ventilation job, not a scent machine each. And a signature does not on its own win a membership or a lease - this is about a considered, professional arrival experience, and SOSA makes no medical or air-purification claims.
Reception & common areas
Where the signature begins
Lounge & open floor
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Private cabin / managed office
SOSA Safar · ₹3,999
Straight answer
How do I reset a coworking lounge overnight after a large community event?
With a fixed overnight routine, done in order, with the signature scheduled back last. A large event leaves the lounge carrying an occupancy, food and alcohol load - in the air, soaked into the carpet and upholstery, and sitting in the bins - and the overnight window is exactly when you can clear it while the space is empty. The mistake is to lock up and trust the diffuser to fix the air by itself; a diffuser adds a signature to a fresh room, it does not clear an event out of one. Here is the routine. Air it hard: open the lounge up and run the ventilation overnight rather than sealing the event air into the closed AC, where it recirculates and is worse by morning. Clean: wipe down tables and surfaces, clean the soft furnishings that hold smell, and spot-clean any drink or food spills soaked into carpet and upholstery - the step that removes the odour source fragrance can never reach. Clear the waste: empty every bin and get food, drink and bottle waste out of the building, because a bag left overnight will re-smell the whole lounge. Reset the layout back to member-space configuration. Then schedule the signature back: set your SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) to hold low overnight and ease the everyday signature back before opening, on a fresh, aired, clean room, so the first members of the day walk into your usual lounge rather than last night's event masked by scent. The whole logic is source first, signature last - and if an odour survives the routine, it is a soft surface you missed, not a reason to crank the machine. SOSA makes no medical or air-purification claims. To build the overnight schedule so the signature times itself back in for opening, a quick note sorts it.
Reset the lounge overnight as a fixed routine - air hard, clean surfaces and soft furnishings, spot-clean spills, remove waste, reset the layout - then schedule the signature back last. The diffuser confirms a fresh room, it does not create one.
Start from the space and the zones. A reception, lounge or open floor wants one clean, subtle signature that holds all day without staff spraying - that is the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999, up to ~2000-3000 sq ft, on a schedule tied to occupancy, kept light). A small enclosed private cabin or managed office takes a compact Safar (₹3,999), a low setting or independent control; phone booths and pods are a ventilation job, not a scent machine each. If a floor smells of a full house or damp carpet, fix ventilation and cleaning first - scent is not a mask. A passive reed diffuser is often only noticeable near the desk.
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The overnight reset as a routine - the order that gets you a fresh lounge by morning
An overnight lounge reset is a routine, and the order is what gets you a genuinely fresh space by morning rather than a masked one.
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Air, do not seal
Ventilate through the empty hours
The overnight window is your chance to run ventilation while nobody is in the lounge. Open it up and clear the event air out, rather than sealing it into closed AC where it recirculates and is stronger by morning. This clears the bulk of the load.
Tip: use the empty overnight hours to ventilate hard - sealing the lounge up traps the event air and it is worse at opening.
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Clean and clear waste
Surfaces, soft furnishings, bins
Clean tables and the soft furnishings that hold smell, spot-clean spills soaked into carpet and upholstery, and get all food, drink and bottle waste out of the building. Cleaning and waste removal take out the source that a diffuser cannot touch.
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Schedule the signature last
Fresh room first, scent to confirm
Once the lounge is aired, cleaned and reset, schedule the everyday signature to ease back before opening. The diffuser confirms a fresh room for the first members of the day; it never does the resetting itself.
Tip: time the signature to ease back for opening on an already-fresh room - a scent over an un-reset lounge just reads as two smells.
The SOSA principle
A diffuser cannot reset a lounge overnight. Airing, cleaning and waste removal reset it - the diffuser's only job is to have your everyday signature waiting, quietly, when the first member walks in.
The operators whose lounges are fresh by morning are the ones who treated the overnight window as a cleaning routine, not a fragrance one.
Scheduling the signature to ease back in overnight after the reset
An overnight lounge reset is a routine in order - air hard, clean surfaces and soft furnishings, remove waste, reset the layout - with the everyday signature scheduled to ease back last, on a genuinely fresh room, never as a mask over an un-reset space.
The SOSA scent edit
Resetting a lounge overnight after a large event
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| Locking up and leaving the diffuser running | Fails - a diffuser adds a signature to a fresh room, it does not clear an event's air, carpet load or bins, so members walk into a masked lounge in the morning. |
| Cleaning the tables but sealing the room overnight | Traps the event air in the closed AC and misses the soft surfaces where odour lives - the lounge looks reset but does not smell reset. |
| Air, clean, spot-clean, remove waste, then schedule the signature back | The reset that works - a genuinely fresh lounge by morning, with the everyday signature eased back for opening on top of it. |
Once the routine is done, one Vaayu (₹11,999) eases the everyday signature back across the lounge up to about 2000-3000 sq ft; a very large lounge or atrium steps up to the Angaan (₹25,999), one machine per zone. Schedule it to hold low overnight and time the signature back for opening on an aired, clean room, and keep the catering fragrance-free during the event so scent never mixed with the food. A compact Safar (₹3,999) or a passive reed is a single-cabin tool, not for a lounge floor. Running overnight resets across several centres? The airing-cleaning-waste routine is the same everywhere; scent settings and machines follow each lounge's size and airflow, planned on a quotation.
Matched to your room
One SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) holds a clean, subtle signature across a reception, lounge or open floor up to ~2000-3000 sq ft, on a schedule tied to real occupancy, all day and discreet; private cabins take a lighter touch, phone booths and pods are ventilated not scented, one machine per zone - sized by the volume of air.
The overnight window is a cleaning shift, not a fragrance one. Air it, clean it, clear the waste - and let your signature be quietly waiting when the first member walks in.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA scenting range for coworking & managed offices
Every SOSA system here is made in India and sized to a real volume of air, and kept deliberately subtle so it reads as professional, never like a hotel or spa. A reed or a small Safar suits a single enclosed private cabin; the Vaayu holds one even signature across a reception, lounge or open floor up to ~2000-3000 sq ft on a schedule tied to occupancy; and the Angaan or Meenar handle a very large floor, atrium or event hall - one machine per zone. Phone booths and meeting pods are a ventilation job, not a scent machine each. Across multiple centres, the aim is one consistent, discreet signature, sized per space and scheduled per site; bespoke multi-location quantities and running cost are best planned on a quotation. A full-house, damp-carpet or stuffy-pod smell is fixed with ventilation and cleaning first, not scent. Here is the full range.
The SOSA scenting range for coworking & managed offices
From a single private cabin to a large open floor - matched to the volume of air, scheduled to real occupancy, and kept deliberately subtle
| System | Best for | Why it works | From |
|---|---|---|---|
 SOSA Safar
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A single private cabin or a small managed office | Compact cordless cold-diffusion - a controllable, gentle scent for one small enclosed room; too small for a common floor, and not for a phone booth | ₹3,999 |
 SOSA Vaayu
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A reception, lounge or open coworking floor up to ~2000-3000 sq ft - the workhorse, kept subtle | Active cold-air machine with Bluetooth app & 1h/4h/8h/24h timers - one even signature held all day on a schedule; one per zone | ₹11,999 |
 SOSA Angaan
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A very large coworking floor, atrium or event hall (~8,000-10,000 sq ft) | HVAC nebulising diffuser for a very large volume of air | ₹25,999 |
 SOSA Meenar
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The largest multi-floor coworking centres (~12,000-18,000 sq ft) | Commercial HVAC scenting for the biggest volumes | ₹38,500 |
How to plan it honestly: a reed diffuser or a room spray is passive or short-lived - fine in a single cabin, but it is often only noticeable near the desk and cannot hold a busy floor all day. For a reception, lounge or open coworking floor, one even, subtle signature held all day on a schedule is the job of the SOSA Vaayu (one open floor up to about 2000-3000 sq ft), and a large or multi-zone centre runs one machine per zone - scent does not travel across a partition or up a staircase on its own; a very large floor, atrium or event hall steps up to the Angaan or Meenar. Four coworking notes. First, zone by area: the reception, lounge and meeting rooms carry the signature; private cabins and managed offices take a lighter touch or independent control (and an enterprise client can opt out); the open desks stay subtle; and phone booths and small meeting pods are a ventilation job, not a scent machine each - a tiny, poorly-ventilated room over-scents in minutes and some should never get their own machine. Second, schedule to real occupancy: a floor smells different at 30% and 90%, and at 9 AM and 6 PM - so ease the schedule to your actual hours and footfall; turning intensity up during a full house backfires. Third, a full-house occupancy smell, damp monsoon carpets and wet umbrellas, or a stuffy pod are fixed with ventilation, cleaning and moisture control at source first; scent is the finishing layer on a clean, aired floor, never a mask - and keep fragrance-free zones for members who need them, and be open that ambient fragrance is used. And on running cost and multiple centres: the honest anchors are the machine price (Rs 11,999) and that a 400ml tank lasts up to about 75 days depending on intensity and daily hours; a precise monthly figure, refill volume, and multi-location quantities depend on your hours, occupancy, area and how many spaces, so those are planned on a quotation rather than guessed. SOSA makes no medical or air-purification claims, and a signature scent does not on its own win a membership or a lease - this is purely about a considered, professional arrival experience.
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A note from Sonal
I work with a lot of premium workspaces, and coworking and managed offices are a particular case. The whole product is the experience of the space - a prospect tours several centres in a day, an enterprise team decides where a hundred people will sit - and yet by evening a shared floor can smell of a full house of people, coffee, food, carpet and closed AC. For someone walking in for a tour, the arrival quietly signals how considered the brand is, and the one sense most tied to that impression is usually the one nobody has scheduled. A space that simply feels fresh and considered on arrival does a quiet amount of work.
My advice for a coworking space is restraint, zoning and scheduling. One clean, understated signature - a soft, fresh or soft-woody direction rather than anything sweet, heavy or perfume-shop - kept deliberately discreet in the reception, lounge and common areas, so it never reads like a hotel or a spa. One Vaayu holds it evenly across an open floor of up to about 2000-3000 sq ft, on a schedule tied to your real hours and occupancy so it eases up as the floor fills and quietens when it empties; private cabins and managed offices take a lighter touch, a small Safar or independent control; and phone booths and meeting pods are a ventilation job, never a scent machine in every tiny room. A very large floor or atrium steps up to the Angaan or Meenar, one machine per zone.
The bigger picture is that an operator often runs several centres with occupancy swinging from a third full to nearly full, and one consistent, discreet signature across every reception makes the brand feel considered and current, sized per space and scheduled to each centre. I will always be honest about what scent does and does not do: it makes the arrival feel more polished and modern, and it can be scheduled to real operating hours and occupancy with no one touching it. It does not on its own win a membership or a lease, and SOSA makes no medical or air-purification claims of any kind. Keep fragrance-free zones for members who are sensitive, let an enterprise client opt out of their own suite, and never answer a smell complaint by simply turning it up. If a floor smells of a full house, damp monsoon carpet or a stuffy pod, that is fixed with ventilation, cleaning and moisture control first; scent comes after. Everything is alcohol-free and made in India. Send me the centre - size, floors, cabins, phone booths, occupancy and hours - and I will help you plan, size and keep it appropriately subtle.
Frequently asked questions
How do I reset a coworking lounge overnight after a large event?
With a fixed overnight routine, scent last. Air the empty room hard, clean hard surfaces and soft furnishings, spot-clean spills, remove all food, drink and bottle waste from the building, and reset the layout. Then schedule the Vaayu to ease the everyday signature back before opening on a fresh room.
Can I just leave the diffuser running overnight to reset the lounge?
No. A diffuser adds a signature to a fresh room; it does not clear an event's occupancy, food and alcohol load from the air, the carpet or the bins. Air and clean the room and remove waste overnight, and let the diffuser ease the signature back last - it confirms a fresh room, it does not create one.
What is the right order for an overnight lounge reset?
Air first, clean second, remove waste third, reset the layout, and schedule the signature back last. Airing clears the bulk of the event air, cleaning removes what soaked into surfaces, waste removal stops a bin re-smelling the room, and the signature returns only once the lounge is genuinely fresh.
The lounge still smells in the morning despite airing - what did I miss?
Almost always a soft surface - carpet, a rug, upholstery or curtains still holding the event odour - or a bag of waste left in the building. Find and clean or remove the source. Adding more fragrance over a surviving odour only makes the lounge read as two smells at once.
When should the everyday signature come back before opening?
Schedule the Vaayu to hold low overnight and time the signature to ease back shortly before opening, on an aired and cleaned lounge, so the first members walk into your usual space. It should confirm a fresh room, never mask an un-reset one - source-control always comes before scent.
One clean, subtle signature in the common areas - reception, lounge and meeting rooms, scheduled to real occupancy and consistent across every centre, with fragrance-free zones and phone booths left to ventilation
SOSA — Vaayu the right strength for your room
Once you have aired the lounge, cleaned surfaces and soft furnishings, spot-cleaned spills and removed waste, one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) times your everyday signature back for opening on a fresh, scheduled reset. One machine per zone; the diffuser confirms a fresh lounge, it never resets the air on its own.
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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 scenting advice applies to any brand.Facts verified August 2026 (SOSA product pages): The SOSA Safar is a compact, cordless, rechargeable waterless cold-diffusion perfume diffuser priced at ₹3,999, described for use in a car, on a desk, in a handbag or a hotel room; it runs up to about 10 hours continuously or 30 hours intermittently on a single charge, has 3 speed settings and a 1h/2h/3h auto-off timer, and ships with three SOSA Hotel Collection hotel-inspired oils. It is a personal-space device for strong close-range projection and is not rated to fill a large open floor evenly. The SOSA Vaayu is a waterless cold-air diffuser priced at ₹11,999 that atomises alcohol-free, water-free fragrance oil into a dry nano-mist covering up to 1000m3 (about 2000 to 3000 sq ft) per open floor, with a 400ml tank (four 100ml oils included) that lasts up to about 75 days depending on the intensity setting and daily run hours, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, Bluetooth app control and under-38dB operation; a very large or double-height floor may need the larger Angaan (₹25,999, ~8,000-10,000 sq ft) or Meenar (₹38,500, ~12,000-18,000 sq ft), and a multi-storey home generally needs one machine per floor. A reed diffuser (from about ₹749) is passive and cannot be adjusted in strength. Fragrance projection depends on the volume of air and on ventilation - a closed, air-conditioned room holds scent while open windows, balconies and fast fans disperse it - so the same floor area can need different power. A signature scent enhances a clean, well-ventilated room; it does not remove a musty or closed-up smell, which should be aired out first, and SOSA makes no medical or air-purification claims. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.