What does not exist, so you do not go looking for it: no bulk rate, no discount band, no GST invoicing scheme, no custom branding, no minimum order and no dedicated account manager. No gift set, gift box, gift wrap, gift note, personalisation or gift card either.
The one structural fact worth knowing: each of the five reeds is a separate product, stocked separately. That makes a large order in one single scent harder than the same order spread across two or three — which is the shape of the constraint, and the reason the message is worth sending.
The honest gap: the reed line starts at Morning Freshness ₹749 and there is nothing below it at any size or quantity. If your per-head figure is under that, order the ₹449 Sandalwood or Smoked Oudh candle instead — same process, different shelf.
2. Choose one product and one scent, then stop choosing. Evening Calm at ₹799 is the safest across a list of people you do not know well, at 8.9 on our strength scale. Morning Freshness at ₹749 is the cheapest way in and the lowest-polarisation option at volume. Mountain Breeze at ₹849 is the best answer for people who are hard to buy for. Fresh Brew at 9.5 is the least safe blind buy in the range and should not lead a list.
3. Place it as an ordinary order. Go to that product page, set the quantity, and check out. There is no separate route, no trade portal and no application. Ten, fifteen or twenty-five units of one product is simply a larger version of the order anybody places, at the same price per unit as a single bottle.
4. Above roughly twenty-five units, send one message first. Through the contact page, saying how many units, which product, and whether an assortment of scents would be acceptable. The reason is structural rather than commercial: each of the five reeds is stocked separately, so a large single-scent order is harder than a large mixed one. There is nothing to negotiate, and no terms will be quoted to you, because there are none.
5. Do not split the list to make the budget work. The single most common ordering mistake at this size is buying the good version for the people you know and something else for the rest. Choose one tier that covers everybody, even if it is the lower one.
Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, IFRA-compliant, composed in Pune. Free shipping above ₹499. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The three steps, in the order they actually happen
Almost every difficult quantity order I have seen went wrong in the same place, and it was not the checkout. It went wrong because the buyer browsed before they divided, and then tried to make a list fit a product they had already fallen for. The sequence below is deliberately dull and it is the whole of the process. Two numbers, one decision, one message. Nothing else is required of you and nothing else is offered.
Morning Freshness₹749A headcount without a per-head figure is a wish, and a per-head figure without a headcount is a preference. Together they remove nine-tenths of the decision in about four seconds. Divide the total by the number of names and see which shelf you are on: ₹749 or more opens the reed line; below that the answer is the sub-₹500 shelf and the process is identical. Then be sceptical about the headcount rather than the budget. Budgets are approved once and rarely move; lists are assembled from memory and grow through the festive week. If ten is really twelve, twelve reeds at ₹749 is ₹8,988 and it is far better to know that now than to discover it with two names left over.
Evening Calm₹799There is no separate ordering route for quantity, and I think people are relieved rather than disappointed to hear it. Ten or twenty-five units of one product is an ordinary order on the ordinary product page at the ordinary price — the same bottle, the same six fibre reeds, the same refillable glass, simply more of them. The judgement in this step is the scent rather than the mechanics, and the rule is that you are buying for an average household rather than a known person. Evening Calm at ₹799 is the softest thing we make and the safest across a list; Morning Freshness at ₹749 carries the least cultural loading, because rose, jasmine, coffee and pine all arrive in an Indian home pre-attached to something and citrus does not. Choose once, then apply it to every name.
Mountain Breeze₹849This is the only step that is not simply shopping, and it is a question rather than an application. Write to us through the contact page and say three things: how many units, which product, and whether an assortment of scents would be acceptable instead of one. That third line is the useful one, because each of the five reeds is stocked separately and a buyer who can take a mixture has far more room than one who needs a uniform wall of identical bottles. I will not publish a stock figure anywhere on this site — it changes daily and a number on a page is wrong within a week — so the shape of the constraint is what I can give you, and one message converts that shape into an actual answer for your actual order. There is nothing to negotiate and no terms will be quoted, because none exist.
What does not exist — and why saying so is the useful part
A page about how to order is mostly a page about expectations, so here is the complete list of things you may be looking for and will not find. SOSA has no published bulk rate, no discount band, no GST invoicing scheme, no custom branding or co-branding, no minimum order quantity and no dedicated account manager. There is also no gift set, no gift box, no gift hamper, no gift wrap, no gift note, no personalisation and no gift card. The duos at ₹1,498 to ₹1,598 are two 50ml bottles rather than a boxed set, and I describe them that way deliberately.
I set that out plainly because the alternative wastes your time. Every year somebody spends a fortnight negotiating with us for something that does not exist, and that fortnight would have been better spent settling the two numbers at the top of this page. What we can genuinely do is help with selection, do the arithmetic honestly at real prices, and answer a question about availability before you commit. That is the whole offer, it is smaller than a rate card, and in my experience it protects a quantity buyer considerably more than a discount would — because the way these orders actually go wrong is twenty-five people receiving the same slightly wrong thing, and no percentage off repairs that.
There is one logistics fact I will state, because it is verified and it is genuinely useful here: free shipping starts at ₹499. A single ₹379 candle does not clear it and a ₹749 reed does, which means that at ten units or more it stops being a variable in your planning entirely. Beyond that I make no claims about timing of any kind, and you should be wary of any page in this category that does.
| Product | Unit | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Freshness 50ml ★ | ₹749 | ₹7,490 | ₹11,235 | ₹14,980 | ₹18,725 |
| Evening Calm / Garden Bloom 50ml | ₹799 | ₹7,990 | ₹11,985 | ₹15,980 | ₹19,975 |
| Mountain Breeze / Fresh Brew 50ml | ₹849 | ₹8,490 | ₹12,735 | ₹16,980 | ₹21,225 |
| Sandalwood / Smoked Oudh candle | ₹449 | ₹4,490 | ₹6,735 | ₹8,980 | ₹11,225 |
| Jar candle, one scent | ₹379 | ₹3,790 | ₹5,685 | ₹7,580 | ₹9,475 |
| What the row above means | — | Ordinary shelf prices multiplied by quantity. No bulk rate, discount band or minimum order is applied to any of these figures, because none exists | |||
Cheapest way in · 10 = ₹7,490₹749Shop → 
Safest on a list · 8.9₹799Shop → Hard-to-buy-for · 9.4₹849Shop →
If your per-head figure is under ₹749, the process is the same and the shelf is different
Said plainly, because it is the commonest reason somebody arrives on this page and leaves disappointed. The cheapest SOSA reed diffuser is Morning Freshness at ₹749 for 50ml, there is no reed at any size below it, and the cheapest diffuser machine is the Boond at ₹899. Quantity does not change that and neither does a message to us. If your total divided by your headcount comes to ₹500, no version of this process ends with a reed diffuser, and the honest thing to do is switch shelves rather than to split the list.
The shelf below is real and the process for ordering it is identical. Twenty-five Sandalwood or Smoked Oudh scented candles at ₹449 is ₹11,225; twenty-five message-free jar candles at ₹379 is ₹9,475. Set the quantity on the product page, order, and send the same message if the number is large. What you are giving up by moving down a shelf is duration rather than quality — roughly fifteen to eighteen hours from an 80g jar against six to eight weeks from a 50ml reed — and that trade is worth understanding rather than being talked out of. One caution specific to this shelf: use the message-free candles only. We sell candles with relationship messages printed on the glass, and none of them belongs on a list of colleagues, clients or neighbours.
And the fair word about what you may be replacing. Sweets are the ritual form of the Diwali greeting and there are situations where they are simply correct — a first visit to somebody’s elders, a household where mithai is the expected shape of the exchange, a small group that will sit down and open the box together. In those cases a diffuser is a substitution nobody asked for, and no amount of process advice makes it the better gift. Where the case on this page holds is the situation quantity buyers are usually in: ten to twenty-five separate households, several near-identical boxes arriving at each in one week, and no way to know who cannot eat what. Duplication and dietary exposure are what home fragrance answers. Ritual is not, and I will not claim otherwise.
The order, in sequence
What to do, in the order to do it, with the totals attached where they matter. The last row is the honest gap, kept as a row rather than a footnote, because on a page about how to order, the case we cannot fulfil is the one most worth stating early.
| Step | What you do | Why it is in this position | Figures |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Settle two numbers ★ | Headcount and per-head figure, written down, plus two spare names | Dividing before browsing removes most of the decision in seconds | Total ÷ headcount ≥ ₹749 opens the reed line |
| 2. Choose one product, one scent | Evening Calm ₹799 for safety, Morning Freshness ₹749 for value, Mountain Breeze ₹849 for the hard-to-buy-for | You are buying for an average household, not a known person | 10 = ₹7,490 · 25 = ₹18,725 at ₹749 |
| 3. Order it the ordinary way | Set the quantity on the product page and check out | There is no separate route, portal or application for quantity | Same price per unit as one bottle |
| 4. Above roughly 25 units, write first | Three lines: how many, which product, and whether an assortment is acceptable | Each of the five reeds is stocked separately; single-scent is harder than mixed | No terms quoted, none exist |
| 5. Do not split the list | One tier that covers everybody, even if it is the lower one | A partial upgrade is visible and is read as a ranking | — |
| Under ₹749 a head, there is no reed: the honest gap | Switch shelves rather than splitting the list — the ₹449 candles, same process | The reed line starts at ₹749 and the machines at ₹899, at any quantity | ₹449 · 25 = ₹11,225 |
Versailles
People write to us expecting a procedure and are often faintly disappointed that there is not one. I understand the instinct — a process feels like reassurance, and a form feels like a promise — but inventing a bulk programme we do not run would be a worse thing to give you than the truth. So the truth is this: you order on the site, at the price on the site, exactly as anybody else does, and the only genuinely useful extra step is a question.
What I would spend your attention on instead is the two numbers. In eight years of answering these messages, the orders that went well were the ones where somebody had divided before they browsed, added two spare names, and then bought a single thing for everybody. The ones that went badly had a lovely product chosen first and a list bent around it afterwards, which is how you end up giving twelve people a reed diffuser and thirteen people something else in the same room on the same afternoon.
And do send the message if your list is around twenty-five or more. Three lines is enough — how many, which one, and whether you could live with two scents instead of one. Each of the five reeds is stocked separately, and that last line is often the difference between a plan that works and a plan that has to be redone. There is no rate waiting on the other end and I will not pretend there is. Everything is composed and made in Pune, and part of every order funds a girl’s classroom through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
- I need ten gifts under ₹500 each — the head term for this block, and the three protections.
- Ten people on a budget and fifteen employees at ₹500.
- Twenty people at ₹500 each and twenty people on ₹10,000 total.
- Twenty-five employees at ₹500 each and twenty-five that look premium.
- Are reeds good for small bulk orders? — which quantity and budget combinations the reed actually fits.
- The SOSA small-bulk guide — quantity across, product down, in one place.
- Brand: the SOSA founder story.
SOSA products — facts verified August 2026: Reed diffusers 50ml: Morning Freshness ₹749, Evening Calm ₹799, Garden Bloom ₹799, Mountain Breeze ₹849, Fresh Brew ₹849, each lasting 6–8 weeks; 130ml ₹1,249–₹1,349, lasting 14–18 weeks. Strength scale: Evening Calm 8.9 softest, Garden Bloom 8.9, Morning Freshness 9.0, Mountain Breeze 9.4, Fresh Brew 9.5 deepest. Duos ₹1,498–₹1,598 are two 50ml bottles, not a boxed set; refills 300ml ₹2,399 and 500ml ₹3,499 are oil only. There is no oud, sandalwood, vetiver or amber reed diffuser and no hotel-inspired reed diffuser. Scented jar candles ₹379 single (80g soy, roughly 15–18 hours) and ₹664 two-pack (roughly 30–36 hours) in Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks; Sandalwood Scented Candle ₹449 · Smoked Oudh Scented Candle ₹449 · wax melts ₹474 · taper candles set of four ₹569 · woodenwick ₹949. Machines from the Boond ₹899; the Hotel Collection 15ml at ₹299 is a water-based ultrasonic refill, never a standalone gift. All reed diffusers are alcohol-free, on a heat-stable CCT (caprylic/capric triglyceride) base, phthalate-free, paraben-free, IFRA-compliant and 0 ppm formaldehyde, with six fibre reeds in a refillable glass bottle, climate-tested at 45°C and 85% relative humidity, composed and made in Pune, India. Free shipping above ₹499 — a single ₹379 candle does not clear it, a ₹749 reed does. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel brand. Prices subject to change — see the live product pages.