How Do I Scent a 1,500 Sq Ft Kitchen-Appliance Experience Centre?
★ ★ 1,500 sq ft is where the machine stops being optional - one Vaayu, placed correctly, on a timer, lockedSOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 · waterless · 1000m³ · one unit for the whole centreMade in India · free scenting plan on a consultation
★ SOSA for Premium Appliance Showrooms and Experience Centres
A 1,500 sq ft experience centre is the first size where one wall-mounted Vaayu is the honest answer and no arrangement of bottles is - and the whole job is choosing the wall
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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."
Homeowner Hyderabad
SOSA Vaayu · large home
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"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
Clinic Pune
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
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"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
Office Manager Delhi
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
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"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
Boutique Hotel Jaipur
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
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"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
Salon Owner Mumbai
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
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"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
Retail Brand Bengaluru
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."
Homeowner Hyderabad
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
Clinic Pune
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
Office Manager Delhi
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
Boutique Hotel Jaipur
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."
Salon Owner Mumbai
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
✓ A 1,500 sq ft centre at a three-metre ceiling holds roughly 420m³ - four or five desk zones, which is why bottles stop working here and one 1000m³ Vaayu is the honest unit✓ Mounted high on the wall the AC supply crosses, reception side, away from the demo hood; trading-hours timer; key-lock - and SOSA makes no claim that any of it moves a business number✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel or appliance brand · a portion funds girl-child education
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles11 min readUpdated September 2026
Fifteen hundred square feet is the first size at which I stop offering a bottle. Below it, reeds and a small ultrasonic are honest; above it, the floor is too many zones for anything that sits on a desk. At 1,500 sq ft the answer is one machine, and the entire craft is in where you put it and what you set it to.
Quick answers — read this first
How do I scent a 1,500 sq ft kitchen-appliance experience centre? With one SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999), a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, mounted high on the wall the AC supply crosses, on the reception side of the floor and away from any demo hood. A 1,500 sq ft centre at a normal ceiling holds about 420 cubic metres - four or five desk zones - so reeds and a Sukoon can no longer reach it, and one Vaayu covers it with margin. Run it on the 1h/4h/8h/24h timer for trading hours, switch it off for demonstrations, and put the key-lock on.
Why not several reed diffusers across a floor this size? Because a reed reaches one desk zone by design, and 1,500 sq ft is four or five zones. Five bottles give you five scented desks and unscented corridors between them, and the level at each desk will creep as people add reeds to fix their own corner. One source placed high where the air-conditioning carries it gives one even trace from the door to the specification table. Reeds are a volume control, never a range control.
What stays unscented in a 1,500 sq ft experience centre? The live kitchen, the hob or oven demo and any coffee counter, while they run. The demonstration owns the air; the Vaayu sits on the reception side, goes off on the timer before the chef starts, and extraction clears the room after. The fragrance returns only once the room smells of nothing. Fragrance is an interiors decision like lighting or music - SOSA makes no claim that it changes dwell time, footfall or sales.
The short answer
Short answer: a 1,500 sq ft centre is about 420m³ of air at a normal ceiling - too many zones for bottles, well inside one Vaayu's 1000m³. One waterless unit high on the supply wall, reception side, timer for trading hours, off for demos, key-lock on. Not two machines, not an Angaan.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) in the Mountain Breeze register - dry pine, sage and cedar - or the Morning Freshness lemon-mint register if the floor is white and glass. A Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) on the desk for the two weeks before the machine arrives, to settle the register.
Next step: send the floor plan with the AC supply grilles, returns and the demo kitchen marked and we will pick the wall - ask for a showroom scenting plan.
How do I scent a 1,500 sq ft kitchen-appliance experience centre?
With one machine, and most of this page is about the four things that make one machine work, because at this size they matter more than the purchase. First the arithmetic. Fifteen hundred square feet is about 139 square metres; at a three-metre ceiling that is roughly 420 cubic metres of air, and at four metres closer to 560. A reed reaches one desk zone; a Sukoon reaches about 270-320 sq ft from one point. A floor this size is four or five zones, so any plan built on bottles gives you scented desks and unscented corridors, and then a slow drift upward as each person adds a reed to fix their own corner. The SOSA Vaayu is rated to 1000m³ - the manufacturer's phrase is about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - so at 1,500 sq ft one unit covers the floor with margin and runs at a moderate setting rather than at its limit. A machine with room to spare, held low, is the aim. It is waterless, so it adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on the steel, glass and lacquer that make up most of a kitchen-appliance floor - the only fact about the merchandise I will state, with no claim about what humidity does or does not do to any appliance. At ₹11,999 it is the whole installation. Now the four things. The wall. Mount it high, on the wall the air-conditioning supply crosses, so the supply carries the trace across the displays and away from the return grille; on the reception side of the floor, never on the wall the demo hood sits on, because a running hood strips scent from its zone and a machine beside it is a machine feeding an extractor. Where to place a scent machine with central AC works through supply and return; where the machine goes with a live kitchen works through the hood. The schedule. The 1h/4h/8h/24h timer runs trading hours and nothing else; before a hob demo or a coffee tasting the machine goes off in one press, extraction runs during and after, and the fragrance returns only when the room smells of nothing, as the switching-off page sets out. The demonstration owns the air; the demo kitchen and the coffee counter are unscented while they run, at this size and every other. The level. Start at the lowest intensity and judge from the specification table at five in the afternoon, after a full day, not from the door at opening. It is set for the advisor who stands there nine hours, not the visitor who spends one - a floor of hard surfaces bounces fragrance around with almost nothing to absorb it, so the right setting is a step below what your first instinct says. The lock. Once the team agrees the setting, the key-lock keeps it; levels on a shop floor only ever drift upward. The register is the same as the rest of this cluster: Mountain Breeze - pine, sage, cedar - for walnut, stone and dark glass, Morning Freshness for a white, handleless, glass floor, and in a kitchen showroom nothing edible at all, because the hob owns those smells. What you are not buying: a second Vaayu, which in one volume of air makes two gradients and a band where they overlap; an Angaan, which is a 3,000m³ machine for a floor twice this size and beyond; and anything placed inside a display kitchen, which over-scents an enclosed set in minutes. Fragrance is an interiors decision, like lighting or music: SOSA makes no claim that it changes footfall, dwell time, conversion or sales, no claim about what it does to any appliance or finish, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning or extraction. The step below this page is the 1,000 sq ft decision point; the step above is 2,000 sq ft, where the ceiling starts to matter; and the method for any floor is in how to calculate scent-machine requirements. Ask for a showroom scenting plan with the supply grilles and the demo kitchen marked, and we will choose the wall with you.
1,500 sq ft is about 420m³ - four or five desk zones, past what bottles reach. One SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999), 1000m³, waterless, mounted high on the wall the AC supply crosses, reception side, away from the hood; timer for trading hours, off for demos, key-lock on. Not two machines, not an Angaan.
For a 1,500 sq ft experience centre, one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, 1000m³, 1h/4h/8h/24h timer, key-lock, wall or HVAC mount - at ₹11,999 is the whole installation. The wall you choose is the rest of the job.
One machine and the register it carries. The reed is here for the fortnight before the machine arrives - it settles which register the floor takes - not as a plan of its own. Every figure links to the product page it came from.
The unit - 1,500 sq ft is inside its range with margin
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - so a 1,500 sq ft floor runs it at a moderate setting rather than at its limit. 1h/4h/8h/24h timer for trading hours and a one-press stop for demos; adjustable intensity; key-lock so the level nobody can name stays that way; under 38dB; 400ml tank, 90+ days a fill; wall or HVAC mount so it sits on the wall the supply crosses. Rs 11,999.
Himalayan pine, sage and Indian cedar, the driest register SOSA makes and the default for a kitchen floor in walnut, stone or dark glass. Put one bottle on the reception desk for two weeks before the Vaayu arrives: if nobody on the team can name it by the second Friday, that is the register. 50ml at Rs 849, 6-8 weeks; 130ml at Rs 1,349. Morning Freshness at Rs 749 if the floor is white and glass.
1000m³ on one unit - a 1,500 sq ft centre with margin to spare. 400ml tank, 90+ days a fill; Bluetooth app and onboard buttons; 1h/4h/8h/24h timers; adjustable intensity; auto-stop; key-lock; under 38dB; DC 12V at 5W. Freestanding, wall or HVAC mount. CE, RoHS, SGS. Made in India, Rs 11,999.
The purchase is the least of it. Here are the five decisions that make one Vaayu work on a 1,500 sq ft floor, in the order you take them: the arithmetic, the wall, the height, the schedule, the level.
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The arithmetic
Why bottles stop here and one machine starts
Every scent source has a reach, and the reach is the thing to size against, not the price. A reed reaches one desk zone; a Sukoon reaches about 270-320 sq ft from one point; a 1,500 sq ft floor is four or five such zones, or roughly 420m³ of air at a normal ceiling. At 1,000 sq ft I give two answers, because a Sukoon and a reed can just about cover the two ends of a floor that size. At 1,500 I give one, because the middle of the floor has become a third zone and there is nowhere honest to put a third bottle. The Vaayu at 1000m³ has more than twice the volume it needs, which is exactly right: a machine with margin runs low, and a machine running low is the one your advisor forgets is there.
Test: measure the ceiling. Under about five metres a 1,500 sq ft floor stays inside one Vaayu; a double-height atrium is a different page.
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The wall
On the supply side, reception side, never the hood wall
The supply grilles of your air-conditioning are the distribution system; the machine only feeds them. Stand under each grille and feel which way the air moves across the displays, then find the return, which is where the air leaves. The Vaayu goes on the wall the supply crosses first, so the trace is carried the length of the floor and pulled out at the return after it has done its work - never beside the return, where it would be pulled out first. Then the second rule: reception side, not hood side. A running chimney or range hood strips fragrance from its zone, and a machine on that wall is feeding an extractor. Where the machine goes with a live kitchen covers the hood; central AC placement covers supply and return. The wall or HVAC bracket on the Vaayu is what lets you choose that wall rather than the nearest socket.
The Vaayu mounts on the wall you choose, runs on a timer and holds its level under a key-lock.
Above the display line, so the air does the carrying
A cold-air nebuliser puts out a dry aerosol that drifts with the room's air rather than falling out of it, so the height at which it enters the room decides how far it travels. Mounted at desk height it scents the desk. Mounted above the line of the tallest display - the top of the full-height fridge run, the top of the wall units in the nearest display kitchen - it enters the moving layer the supply creates and crosses partitions instead of stopping at them. On a floor of several display kitchens the partitions between them are the distribution problem, not the number of kitchens, and height is the answer to it, as the partition-walls page explains. Choose a mounting point you can still reach for the refill every 90+ days; the four 100ml bottles in the box are the supply - confirm refill availability with SOSA.
Rule: above the displays, below the supply grille, on the wall the air crosses first. If it has to be freestanding, put it on top of the tallest reception-side cabinet.
4
The schedule
Trading hours on, every demonstration off
A 1,500 sq ft kitchen-appliance centre almost always has a live hob, an oven that gets run for clients or a coffee machine at the counter, and that is the strongest reason a floor this size has for a machine rather than bottles. The smell of what is being cooked or brewed is the demonstration; ambient fragrance must never compete with it; and the way you keep them apart is to switch the source off before the demo starts, run extraction during and after, and bring the fragrance back only once the room smells of nothing. The Vaayu's 1h/4h/8h/24h timer and one-press stop turn that into a routine rather than a memory. Should I switch off my scent machine during an oven or hob demonstration? gives the hour-by-hour version; the coffee-tasting page explains why the coffee counter is unscented always, not just during tastings.
Rule: the demo kitchen and the coffee counter stay unscented while they run. Fragrance never clears cooking odour afterwards - extraction and time do.
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The level
Set from the far end, for the advisor, then locked
Start at the lowest intensity on a four-hour block and walk to the specification table at five in the afternoon. If you can name the fragrance from there, it is too high; if the advisor who stands on that floor nine hours a day says it is too much, it is too much, whatever the visitor thinks. Hard surfaces push the setting down: a kitchen floor is steel, glass, stone and lacquer with nothing to absorb, so it sits a step below other retail, and how strong fragrance should be inside an experience centre goes through the test in full. Then the lock. A floor with three or four people on it has one who thinks it is too faint, and without a key-lock they will turn it up on a quiet Tuesday and nobody will turn it down. The Vaayu's lock is the reason the setting you found together on a Saturday is still the setting in March.
The SOSA principle
At 1,500 sq ft the machine is the easy decision and the wall is the hard one - one Vaayu placed high on the supply side, reception side, does what five bottles never will.
Four or five desk zones, one source, one gradient. Timer for trading hours, off for demos, key-lock on, judged from the far end at five in the afternoon.
The whole installation at 1,500 sq ft: SOSA Vaayu, ₹11,999, waterless, 1000m³, mounted high on the wall the AC supply crosses, timer and key-lock.
A typical 1,500 sq ft kitchen-appliance experience centre: a door, four or five display kitchens, a reception desk, a specification table, a live hob or coffee counter. Here is where the one source goes and what each zone should carry.
The SOSA plan
One Vaayu across a 1,500 sq ft experience centre
The zone
What it should smell like
The reception-side wall the AC supply crosses
The one source. The Vaayu mounted above the display line, on the timer, locked. Nothing else placed anywhere on the floor. View →
The door and the first two metres
The trace arrives, faint, and is exchanged with the street many times an hour. Accept it; never turn up to compensate for the door.
The first display and the reception desk
Noticed here, in the Mountain Breeze register, and forgotten a minute later. The desk holds no bottle of its own once the machine is running. View →
The display kitchens and the corridors between them
The same trace, carried over the partitions by the supply because the source sits high. Nothing placed inside a display kitchen.
The specification table at the far end
Where the level is judged: un-nameable at five in the afternoon after a full day. If it can be named here, the setting comes down.
The live hob, oven demo or coffee counter
Nothing while it runs. Machine off on the timer before the demo; extraction during and after; fragrance back only when the room smells of nothing.
The two-week register test before the machine: one Mountain Breeze reed on the reception desk, ₹849 - if nobody can name it by the second Friday, that is the register.
One machine, the right wall, trading hours only - demo kitchen excluded
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 covers a 1,500 sq ft experience centre on one waterless unit with margin to spare. Send the plan with the supply grilles marked and we will choose the wall with you.
Fifteen hundred square feet is where I stop talking about which product and start talking about which wall. The machine is a purchase. The wall is the installation.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where 1,500 sq ft sits on the ladder
One step above the decision point, two below the Angaan
One machine, one register, one reed for the fortnight before. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA 1,500 sq ft specification
A 1,500 sq ft experience centre - one Vaayu on the supply wall, timed and locked
The whole floor - one source, mounted high on the reception-side wall the supply crosses
Waterless, 1000m³ - more than twice the 420m³ the floor holds - so it runs low; 1h/4h/8h/24h timer; key-lock; under 38dB; wall or HVAC mount; 90+ days a fill
At 1,500 sq ft the Vaayu is bought because the floor has outgrown bottles, and it is still one machine per volume of air - a second Vaayu belongs to a second floor or a separately air-handled zone, never to this one. The four 100ml bottles in the Vaayu box are the supply; confirm refill availability with SOSA before you plan on it. Fragrance here is an interiors decision like lighting or music, with no claim about footfall, dwell time, conversion or sales, and no claim about what it does to any appliance or finish. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and extraction, never instead of them. The live hob, oven demo and coffee counter stay unscented while they run.Ask for a showroom scenting plan and we will mark the wall on your drawing.
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A note from Sonal
Fifteen hundred square feet is the size at which showroom owners expect me to argue about products and I want to argue about walls. The product is settled: the floor holds about four hundred and twenty cubic metres, a reed reaches a desk, a Sukoon reaches a corner, and the Vaayu is rated to a thousand. Nobody needs a long conversation about that. What I want to know is which grille the air comes out of, where it goes back in, which wall the hood is on, and where the specification table sits, because those four facts decide whether one machine reads as one even trace or as a strong corner and a dead far end.
So the plan I send back is mostly a wall and a height. High, on the reception-side wall the supply crosses first, above the top of the tallest display, so the Vaayu feeds the moving layer of air and the air does the carrying. Then the timer for trading hours and off before every demonstration, because a kitchen centre this size cooks for its clients and the demonstration owns the air while it does. Then the lowest setting that reads at the specification table at five in the afternoon, and the key-lock so it is still that setting in six months. Register: cedar and sage for a dark floor, lemon and mint for a white one, nothing edible anywhere near a hob.
What I will not do is sell you a second machine for a floor this size, or the bigger one. One volume of air, one source, one gradient - that rule holds from here to the largest centre in this cluster. And through all of it, no claim that fragrance moves footfall, dwell time or sales, and no claim about what it does to anything on display. It is an interiors decision, like lighting or music, and never a substitute for extraction after a demo. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Is 1,500 sq ft the size where a Vaayu stops being optional for an appliance showroom?
Yes. At about 420 cubic metres a 1,500 sq ft floor is four or five desk zones, and no arrangement of reed diffusers or a single Sukoon reaches the middle of it. One SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999, rated to 1000m³, covers it with margin and runs at a moderate setting. Below this size the machine is bought for control and is optional; from here it is bought because the floor has outgrown bottles, and it is the honest answer.
Where exactly should the Vaayu be mounted in a 1,500 sq ft kitchen-appliance experience centre?
High on the wall the air-conditioning supply crosses first, above the line of the tallest display, on the reception side of the floor and never on the wall that carries the demo hood. The supply then carries the trace across the display kitchens and away from the return grille. If the unit must be freestanding, put it on top of the tallest reception-side cabinet. Choose a spot you can still reach for the refill every 90-plus days.
Can reed diffusers cover a 1,500 sq ft experience centre if I use enough of them?
No. A reed reaches one desk zone by design, and adding bottles or reeds adds strength at the same spots rather than reach - a reed is a volume control, never a range control. Five bottles across a 1,500 sq ft floor give five scented desks with unscented corridors between them, and the level at each desk drifts upward as people add reeds to fix their own corner. One source placed high where the supply carries it gives one even trace.
How should the Vaayu's timer be set in a 1,500 sq ft centre with a demo kitchen?
For trading hours only, and off before every demonstration. Use the 1h/4h/8h/24h blocks to cover opening to closing, and press stop before the hob is lit or the coffee machine is run for a client; run extraction during and after; bring the fragrance back only once the room smells of nothing. The demo kitchen and coffee counter stay unscented while they run. Fragrance never clears cooking odour - extraction and time do.
Does a 1,500 sq ft experience centre with a high ceiling still need only one Vaayu?
Up to about five metres, yes: 1,500 sq ft at five metres is roughly 700 cubic metres, still inside one Vaayu's 1000m³ rating, and the fix is to mount the unit higher so it enters the moving air. A true double-height atrium open to a mezzanine is a different volume and may be an Angaan floor. It is never two Vaayus in one connected air - that makes two gradients and a stronger band where they meet.
One unit, the right wall, locked: SOSA Vaayu, ₹11,999, waterless, 1000m³ - a 1,500 sq ft experience centre on one machine.
One machine, one wall, one locked level - the 1,500 sq ft plan
SOSA — Showroom Scentinghow to scent a 1,500 sq ft kitchen-appliance experience centre
SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers a 1,500 sq ft experience centre on one waterless unit, mounted high on the wall the AC supply crosses, on a trading-hours timer with the key-lock on; Mountain Breeze (₹849) or Morning Freshness (₹749) settles the register on the desk for the fortnight before. The live hob, oven demo and coffee counter stay unscented while they run. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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 7 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or displays; the four 100ml bottles in the box are the supply, and refill availability 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 Meenar (₹38,500) is the HVAC machine for 12,000-18,000 sq ft. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft. SOSA reed diffusers - Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349) and Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249), 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 showroom is an interior and hospitality decision: SOSA makes no claim that it changes dwell time, footfall, conversion, basket size, sales or any other business number, no claim about what it does to any appliance, surface or finish on display, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning or extraction. Warranty, installation, service and bulk terms are confirmed with SOSA directly. 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 or appliance brand 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.
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