★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
By finding the one segment that every visit shares and scenting that, because a store with continuous turnover has no common experience to design for - a thousand different routes, a thousand different lengths, and exactly one stretch of floor that every single person walks
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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
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
Why not treat it as a room? Because there is no common room experience to design for. One customer is at a counter for forty minutes, another leaves in ninety seconds, and they overlap in only one stretch of floor.
Where does the source go? Serving that walk from the side, not in the doorway and not in the throw of the air curtain, so the register is met on the approach rather than blown out of the entrance.
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.
Scent the shared segment. With constant turnover, no two visits share a route or a length - except the walk from the door to the first counter, which every single person makes, in the same order, at the same pace.
Quick answers — read this first
What should a busy jewellery store scent? The one segment every visit shares. With continuous turnover the routes and lengths differ completely, but everybody walks from the door to the first counter.Why not treat it as a room? Because there is no common room experience to design for. One customer is at a counter for forty minutes, another leaves in ninety seconds, and they overlap in only one stretch of floor.
Where does the source go? Serving that walk from the side, not in the doorway and not in the throw of the air curtain, so the register is met on the approach rather than blown out of the entrance.
The short answer
Short answer: scent the one segment every visit shares - the walk from the door to the first counter - because with continuous turnover nothing else is common to all of them.
The pick: a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849) placed on the approach where the shared walk is short, or a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) where it is wider than a bottle reaches.
Next step: walk your own shared segment ten times and note where every route stops being the same. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
You cannot design a room that nobody experiences the same way. You can design the one walk everybody takes.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
The house register
Mountain Breeze · ₹849
For a white, daylit office
Morning Freshness · ₹749
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
How should a busy Kukatpally jewellery store handle fragrance when customers are continuously entering and leaving?
By giving up on the idea of a room experience and finding the one segment that every visit actually shares - because in a store with continuous turnover there is no such thing as a typical visit to design for. Look at what an ordinary trading day is really made of. One customer comes in to collect a repair and is out in ninety seconds. One stands at the bangle counter for forty minutes with three trays open. One walks the length of the shop, looks at nothing and leaves. A family of five splits across three counters and reconvenes at the desk. These are not variations on one experience; they are entirely different experiences that happen to occur in the same building. Averaging them gives you a customer who does not exist, and designing an ambience for that customer produces a plan nobody in the store is actually having. So stop averaging and start intersecting. Ask what every single one of those visits has in common, and the answer is almost always one specific stretch of floor: the walk from the entrance to the first counter or the first point where somebody speaks to them. Everybody makes that walk. They make it in the same direction, at roughly the same pace, in the same order - before they have split up, before they have sat down, before they have been handed anything. It is typically three to six metres and it lasts a handful of seconds. That segment is the entire shared experience of your store, and it is the only part of the floor where a design decision reaches a hundred per cent of the people in the building. Walk it yourself ten times and mark on a plan the point where routes stop being identical. That point is the boundary of the thing worth scenting. Two placement consequences follow immediately. The first is that the source belongs beside the shared walk rather than at the door - a source in the entrance itself sits in the throw of the air curtain and in the pressure swing of a door that never stays shut, so the output leaves the building rather than serving the walk. Frequent door openings are an air-exchange question before they are a fragrance one. The second is that the segment is short, which means this is one of the few high-turnover cases where a modest source placed correctly outperforms a large one placed badly. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 on the counter end or ledge beside the shared walk does real work where that walk is a few metres and the air is still; a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where the shared segment is wide, high or open to the rest of the floor, key-locked so the level survives every shift. Set the level standing still at the far end of the segment, not at the door. 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 rooms where a customer sits one-to-one 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.
Scent the shared segment. Every visit differs in route and length except the walk from the door to the first counter, which everybody makes. Place the source beside that walk, out of the door's throw, and set the level from its far end.
Beside the shared walk: SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where the segment is wide or open.
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
Find the intersection, not the average
A thousand visits a day do not share a room. They share one stretch of floor, and that is the whole design object.
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The error
Averaging invents a customer
Ninety seconds for a repair collection, forty minutes at a bangle counter, a family splitting across three. The average of those is a person who is not in your store.
Rule: intersect the visits, do not average them.
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The segment
Door to first counter
Same direction, same order, roughly the same pace, before anybody has split up or sat down. Three to six metres and a handful of seconds, common to every visit in the building.
Test: walk it ten times and mark where routes diverge.
3
Reach
A hundred per cent of people
It is the only part of the floor where a decision reaches everyone. Everything past the divergence point serves a fraction of visitors, and a different fraction every hour.
Rule: spend where the coverage is total.
4
Placement
Beside the walk, not at the door
A source in the entrance sits in the air-curtain throw and the pressure swing of a door that never stays shut, so the output leaves the building instead of serving the walk.
Rule: one step in, off to the side, at chest height.
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Level
Set it from the far end
Stand still at the far end of the shared segment, where the first counter is, and set the level there. The doorway is the one place nobody stops, so it is the wrong place to judge from.
Test: judge standing still, not walking.
The SOSA principle
A thousand people came through today and no two of them had the same visit - except for one walk of four metres that every single one of them made in the same order.
Which is why a busy store should stop designing an ambience for a room nobody experiences the same way, and start designing the one segment that is genuinely common to all of it.
Continuous turnover, question by question
How to find the shared segment, and where the source goes once you have it.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Fragrance in a store with constant turnover
| The question | The answer |
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Why not plan for the average customer?
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Because ninety seconds for a collection and forty minutes at a counter average into a person who is not in your store. Intersect the visits instead. |
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What do all visits share?
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The walk from the entrance to the first counter or the first point where somebody speaks - same direction, same order, before anybody has split up. |
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How do I find its boundary?
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Walk it yourself ten times and mark on a plan the point where routes stop being identical. That point is the edge of the thing worth scenting. |
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Where should the source not go?
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In the doorway. It sits in the air-curtain throw and the pressure swing of a door that never stays shut, so the output leaves rather than serving the walk. |
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What size of source does it need?
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Smaller than you think, placed right. A Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) beside a short still walk, or a Vaayu (₹11,999) where it is wide or open. |
The door-cycle version is what frequent door openings actually cost, the open-front version is where to place it with a wide open front, and the street-footfall version is street footfall and a door that never closes. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance changes what a customer decides.
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.
Stop designing for the average visit. In a store like yours the average visit is a statistical person who never walked through the door.
— 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 giving up on the idea of a room experience and finding the one segment every visit actually shares, because in a store with continuous turnover there is no typical visit to design for. Look at what an ordinary trading day is made of. One customer collects a repair and is out in ninety seconds. One stands at the bangle counter for forty minutes with three trays open. One walks the length of the shop, looks at nothing and leaves. A family of five splits across three counters and reconvenes at the desk. Those are not variations on one experience; they are different experiences happening in the same building, and averaging them gives you a customer who does not exist.
So stop averaging and start intersecting. Ask what every one of those visits has in common, and the answer is almost always one stretch of floor: the walk from the entrance to the first counter, or to the first point where somebody speaks to them. Everybody makes that walk, in the same direction, at roughly the same pace, in the same order - before they have split up, before they have sat down, before they have been handed anything. It is typically three to six metres and lasts a handful of seconds, and it is the only part of the floor where a decision reaches a hundred per cent of the people in the building. Walk it ten times yourself and mark on a plan where routes stop being identical. That point is the boundary of the thing worth scenting.
Two placement consequences follow. The source belongs beside the shared walk rather than at the door: a source in the entrance sits in the throw of the air curtain and in the pressure swing of a door that never stays shut, so the output leaves the building instead of serving the walk. And because the segment is short, this is one of the few high-turnover cases where a modest source placed correctly does better than a large one placed badly. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 on the ledge beside the shared walk where that walk is a few metres and the air is still, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where the segment is wide, high or open to the rest of the floor, key-locked so the level survives every shift. Set the level standing still at the far end of the segment, never at the door. 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 rooms where a customer sits one-to-one 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 should a jewellery store with constant turnover plan its fragrance?
Around the one segment every visit shares - the walk from the entrance to the first counter - because routes and lengths differ completely after that.
Why is designing for an average customer a mistake here?
Because a ninety-second collection and a forty-minute counter visit average into a person who is not in the store, and the plan then fits nobody.
How do I find the shared segment?
Walk it yourself ten times and mark on a plan the point where customer routes stop being identical. That point is the boundary worth scenting.
Why should the source not sit in the doorway?
Because it sits in the air-curtain throw and the pressure swing of a door that never stays shut, so the output leaves the building rather than serving the walk.
Where should the level be judged from?
Standing still at the far end of the shared segment, where the first counter is. The doorway is the one place nobody stops, so it is the wrong reference.
Walk your own shared segment
SOSA — Studio Scenting intersect, do not average
A store with continuous turnover has no typical visit. A ninety-second collection, a forty-minute counter visit and a family splitting across three counters are different experiences in the same building, and their average is a customer who does not exist. What they do share is one walk from the entrance to the first counter, made by everybody in the same order. Mark where routes diverge, place the source beside that walk rather than in the doorway, and set the level from its far end. 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
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- SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849)
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- What frequent door openings actually cost
- Where to place it with a wide open front
- A signature scent after decades without one
- Simpler profile for a bigger crowd?
- Family jewellery business and association
- An hour at the frame wall
- 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.