★ SOSA office scenting
The moment a client steps into your office, breathes in, and decides this is a serious company - engineered with scent, held every working day
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★★★★★
"We installed the Vaayu at our reception before a client visit season. Visitors now walk in and pause - two clients have asked if we moved into a new office. The first impression does half the meeting's work now."
SOSA Vaayu · reception
★★★★★
"Our floor used to smell of yesterday's lunch and printer toner by 3pm. With the signature on a timer, the office smells composed from morning standup to the last call. The team noticed within a week."
SOSA Vaayu · open floor
★★★★★
"Clients spend two hours in our conference room during due-diligence meetings. Since the scenting went in, the room reads calmer and more senior - one client called it the most put-together office in our building."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
★★★★★
"Three floors, one fragrance. Employees moving between floors say the office finally feels like one company - which is exactly what we wanted after the merger. The app scheduling means admin never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-floor
★★★★★
"The Aangan went into our HVAC and every zone - lobby, workstations, cafeteria corridor - carries one clean signature. Candidates comment on it during interviews, which tells me it is doing employer-brand work too."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
★★★★★
"We are a twelve-person CA firm and started with one Sukoon at the entrance. Even at our size, clients stopped noticing the corridor smell and started noticing the office. Smallest premium upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · entrance
★★★★★
"We installed the Vaayu at our reception before a client visit season. Visitors now walk in and pause - two clients have asked if we moved into a new office. The first impression does half the meeting's work now."
SOSA Vaayu · reception
★★★★★
"Our floor used to smell of yesterday's lunch and printer toner by 3pm. With the signature on a timer, the office smells composed from morning standup to the last call. The team noticed within a week."
SOSA Vaayu · open floor
★★★★★
"Clients spend two hours in our conference room during due-diligence meetings. Since the scenting went in, the room reads calmer and more senior - one client called it the most put-together office in our building."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
★★★★★
"Three floors, one fragrance. Employees moving between floors say the office finally feels like one company - which is exactly what we wanted after the merger. The app scheduling means admin never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-floor
★★★★★
"The Aangan went into our HVAC and every zone - lobby, workstations, cafeteria corridor - carries one clean signature. Candidates comment on it during interviews, which tells me it is doing employer-brand work too."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
★★★★★
"We are a twelve-person CA firm and started with one Sukoon at the entrance. Even at our size, clients stopped noticing the corridor smell and started noticing the office. Smallest premium upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · entrance
✓ Waterless cold-air nebulising - consistent throw up to ~1000m³, app + timer scheduling ✓ Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents ✓ HVAC systems for offices & headquarters to 18,000 sq ft · made in India
Founder Diaries · Office Scent Marketing
What should I tell my interior designer about fragrance? Brief it like lighting: as a designed layer with a concept, a specification and a control plan. The concept: one signature register congruent with the material and light palette - ask the designer to name the office's intended adjective (composed, precise, warm, energetic) and choose the register to match. The specification: machine locations on the plan (entrance-forward for the walk-in verdict, clear of desks' direct throw, buffered from pantry and washrooms), power points where machines sit, and duct access if HVAC diffusion (Aangan Rs 25,999, Meenar Rs 38,500) is going in - far cheaper to plan at design stage than to retrofit. The control plan: schedules, whisper calibration and locked settings, treated as part of handover documentation like the lighting scenes.
Which fragrance suits which interior style? Match register to palette. Warm interiors - wood, brass, fabric, 2700K light - suit Quiet Luxury (white tea, bergamot, cedar) or Old-World Glamour's amber-woods gravitas for heritage and law-firm rooms. Cool minimal interiors - glass, white, polished concrete - suit White Tea Serenity's clean precision. Biophilic and green-heavy fit-outs suit Forest Suite (cedar, vetiver, green). Colourful, playful creative spaces carry Lobby Bar's citrus-pepper energy. All are SOSA Hotel Collection blends (from Rs 299), and the rule across every style is restraint: the scent is background architecture at whisper level, auditioned for a week on the real floor before the design is signed off - a register that argues with the interior reads as two decisions, not one.
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Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with improved evaluations of a space and its service, better reported mood and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives poor ventilation or indoor air quality. Claims that specific fragrances reliably raise measured productivity are weaker than their popular retellings - the replicated workplace findings concern comfort, mood and perception, and this guide claims no more. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind signature scents. Employee exposure is the design constraint: whisper calibration, locked settings and sensitivity accommodations are standard practice. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
An interior designer composes an office in three layers: materials (the oak, the marble, the fabric), light (temperature, direction, drama) and acoustics (what the room does to a voice). Then the project hands over, the plants go in - and the air smells of adhesive, then of nothing, then of whatever the pantry produces. Fragrance is the fourth design layer, and it is the only one routinely left off the drawings. Here is how to design it in - and how to brief a designer who has never been asked.
Quick answers — read this first
How does fragrance fit into office interior design? As the fourth layer of the same composition: materials, light and acoustics set what a space says to the eyes and ears, and fragrance is what it says on the first breath - the layer visitors process fastest and designers specify least. Integration means congruence: warm woods and soft lighting carry a register like Quiet Luxury (white tea, bergamot, cedar); glass, white surfaces and cool light carry White Tea Serenity's clean precision; biophilic interiors with planting carry Forest Suite's green. The scent is delivered by systems sized to the design - the SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999, ~1000 cubic metres) placed entrance-forward, ultrasonic units from Rs 1,799 in cabins, or HVAC diffusion from Rs 25,999 specified with the MEP drawings - so the air is as deliberate as the lighting plan.What should I tell my interior designer about fragrance? Brief it like lighting: as a designed layer with a concept, a specification and a control plan. The concept: one signature register congruent with the material and light palette - ask the designer to name the office's intended adjective (composed, precise, warm, energetic) and choose the register to match. The specification: machine locations on the plan (entrance-forward for the walk-in verdict, clear of desks' direct throw, buffered from pantry and washrooms), power points where machines sit, and duct access if HVAC diffusion (Aangan Rs 25,999, Meenar Rs 38,500) is going in - far cheaper to plan at design stage than to retrofit. The control plan: schedules, whisper calibration and locked settings, treated as part of handover documentation like the lighting scenes.
Which fragrance suits which interior style? Match register to palette. Warm interiors - wood, brass, fabric, 2700K light - suit Quiet Luxury (white tea, bergamot, cedar) or Old-World Glamour's amber-woods gravitas for heritage and law-firm rooms. Cool minimal interiors - glass, white, polished concrete - suit White Tea Serenity's clean precision. Biophilic and green-heavy fit-outs suit Forest Suite (cedar, vetiver, green). Colourful, playful creative spaces carry Lobby Bar's citrus-pepper energy. All are SOSA Hotel Collection blends (from Rs 299), and the rule across every style is restraint: the scent is background architecture at whisper level, auditioned for a week on the real floor before the design is signed off - a register that argues with the interior reads as two decisions, not one.
The short answer
Short answer: Fragrance is the fourth interior design layer after materials, light and acoustics - specified, not improvised. Match register to palette (warm wood = Quiet Luxury; glass and white = White Tea Serenity; biophilic = Forest Suite), place machines on the plan entrance-forward, spec HVAC diffusion at MEP stage. Vaayu Rs 11,999, HVAC from Rs 25,999, fragrance from Rs 299. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The pick: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) for office floors to ~1000m³; cabin systems from ₹1,799; HVAC from ₹25,999.
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In this guide
An office hosts two audiences at once: the client who judges your company in one visit, and the team that lives there eight hours a day. Office scent marketing serves both with one move - a single refined fragrance, held evenly across reception, floor and meeting rooms, running on a schedule no admin has to remember. Visitors experience it as "this company has itself together" - and the team gets a workplace that smells composed from standup to sign-off.
The office standard
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Cabins & meeting rooms
Ultrasonic systems from ₹1,799
Large offices & HQs
HVAC systems from ₹25,999
Straight answer
How do I actually integrate fragrance into an office's interior design rather than adding it later?
Treat it exactly like the lighting plan, in four steps. 1. Concept with the palette. While materials and light are being chosen, choose the register: the office's intended adjective - composed, precise, warm, energetic - maps to a Hotel Collection blend (from ₹299), and congruence is the whole game: warm oak and 2700K light with soft woods and white tea; glass and polished concrete with clean tea registers; planting walls with green. 2. Specify on the drawings. Machine positions marked on the plan - entrance-forward so the walk-in verdict lands, clear of desks' direct throw, buffered from pantry and washroom doors - with power points behind them. A SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999, ~1000m³, Bluetooth app + timer) covers most floors from one considered position. 3. Go to the ducts if the scale demands. For large offices the elegant answer is HVAC diffusion - the Aangan (₹25,999) or Meenar (₹38,500) specified at MEP stage, when duct access costs nothing instead of a retrofit. 4. Hand over the layer. Schedules, whisper calibration and locked settings documented like the lighting scenes, with a named owner. And the honest base beneath all four layers: ventilate adhesive and paint out before the signature switches on - scent finishes clean air, never masks a fit-out. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 to put SOSA in the design conversation early. Made in India; a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
One line: fragrance = the fourth design layer - register matched to the material palette, machines on the drawings entrance-forward, HVAC specified at MEP stage (Vaayu ₹11,999, HVAC from ₹25,999, blends from ₹299). WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The office standard most businesses choose: the SOSA Vaayu - waterless cold-air scenting to ~1000m³, Bluetooth app and timer, one signature on schedule - at ₹11,999. Cabin and meeting-room systems from ₹1,799; large-office HVAC from ₹25,999. Or WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a free sizing consult.
₹11,999
Scent as the fourth design layer
The congruence rule, the drawing-stage decisions, and the handover discipline - designing air like you design light.
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The congruence rule
The air must agree with the materials and the light
Every interior tells a story through its palette, and the first breath either confirms that story or contradicts it. A reception of warm oak, brass and soft light that smells of sharp lemon cleaner reads as two departments not talking; the same reception carrying soft woods and white tea reads as one mind finishing a thought. The mapping is intuitive once named: warm, tactile palettes call for warm registers - Quiet Luxury's white tea, bergamot and cedar, or Old-World Glamour's quiet amber for gravitas rooms; cool, minimal palettes call for clean precision - White Tea Serenity; biophilic fit-outs, with their planting and daylight, call for Forest Suite's cedar-vetiver green; colour-forward creative interiors can carry Lobby Bar's citrus-pepper personality. Restraint parity completes the rule: if the lighting is layered and gentle, the scent must be too - a loud fragrance in a quiet interior is a design error you can smell.
Tip: the first breath either confirms the interior's story or contradicts it - congruence is the whole brief.
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The drawings
Placement is a plan decision, not a furniture decision
Left until after handover, a diffuser becomes an appliance looking for a socket - parked behind a planter wherever a power point survived, throwing scent at the nearest three desks. Designed in, placement follows the same logic as luminaires. Entrance-forward: the strongest expression at the arrival zone, where the walk-in verdict happens, with the machine positioned so the throw meets visitors rather than trailing them. Desk clearance: no workstation inside the direct throw line - employees should live in the settled level, not the stream. Buffers: throw lines that stop short of pantry and washroom doors, so the signature never mixes with functional smells. Circulation: use the AC's airflow to carry and even out the level rather than fight it. On the drawings this is a marked position, a power point and a throw arrow per zone - the Vaayu (₹11,999) typically needs one such position per ~1000m³, a Sukoon (₹1,799) one per cabin or meeting room - and the walk-test after installation confirms what the arrows promised.
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MEP stage
The duct decision - and the handover that keeps the layer alive
For offices above a few thousand square feet, the most elegant delivery is invisible: HVAC nebulising diffusion, where the Aangan (₹25,999, 8,000-10,000 sq ft) or Meenar (₹38,500, 12,000-18,000 sq ft) feeds the signature through the air-handling system and every zone breathes the same considered air with no visible hardware. The economics are a design-stage argument: specified with the MEP drawings, the duct access and mounting are a line item; discovered after handover, they are a retrofit with ceiling work. Note the format rule while specifying - Vaayu and HVAC systems run waterless nebulising oil, ultrasonics run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance; the two are not interchangeable, so the machine choice fixes the consumable. And insist the fourth layer survives handover the way lighting does: a documented schedule (on before first arrival, off after close), whisper calibration recorded as the locked setting, a refill cadence, and a named owner in facilities. An interior is maintained; the air deserves the same clause.
Tip: specified at MEP stage, HVAC scenting is a line item - discovered after handover, it is ceiling work.
The SOSA principle
Materials, light, acoustics - and air. The fourth layer is the only one every visitor processes in the first second, and the only one most projects never draw.
Concept with the palette, positions on the plan, ducts at MEP stage, handover with an owner - the layer designed, not improvised.
Specifying the layer with SOSA
Register to palette, machine to plan - the specification table.
The SOSA scent edit
The design pairing map
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| Warm wood & brass · from ₹299 | Quiet Luxury or quiet amber-woods - warmth confirmed on the breath. |
| Glass, white, minimal · from ₹299 | White Tea Serenity - clean precision for cool palettes. |
| Biophilic & planted · from ₹299 | Forest Suite - cedar, vetiver, green beside the living wall. |
| The delivery · ₹11,999+ | Vaayu on the plan; Aangan/Meenar in the ducts at MEP stage. |
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Continue the section: the full multi-sensory experience stack, the designer's case for planning fragrance, and the complete office scent marketing guide. Or see the Vaayu.
An office clients remember by smell
The Vaayu office machine at ₹11,999, cabin systems from ₹1,799, HVAC scenting to 18,000 sq ft - one signature, on schedule, hands-off. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The oak was sampled four times, the lighting has scenes - and the air, the first thing every visitor meets, never made the drawings.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA office edit
Whatever business the office runs, the system logic is the same: one signature, sized to the space, scheduled so it never depends on anyone's memory. Every SOSA system is supported from India, and the Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's own interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents - run across all of them. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Here is the full commercial range.
The SOSA office edit
Size the system to the space - executive cabins to full headquarters
| System | Best for | Why it works | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sukoon + Hotel Collection | Cabins, meeting rooms & small offices | 500ml ultrasonic mist for executive cabins, conference rooms and compact offices - the entry system | ₹1,799 + ₹299 |
| Megh (6L) | Mid-size office floors | Large-tank ultrasonic for single-floor offices - long unattended runs through working hours | ₹3,499 |
| SOSA Vaayu ★ | Office floors to ~1000m³ | Waterless cold-air nebulising, Bluetooth app + timer - the professional office standard | ₹11,999 |
| SOSA Aangan | Large offices 8,000-10,000 sq ft | HVAC nebulising diffuser - one signature through the duct system, every zone of the floor | ₹25,999 |
| SOSA Meenar | Headquarters & campuses 12,000-18,000 sq ft | The large-property HVAC system for headquarters, multi-floor offices and campuses | ₹38,500 |
| Hotel Collection refills | Every system's running cost | 100ml ₹999 / 300ml - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents | from ₹999 |
Honest notes for businesses: scent marketing's effects on perceived quality, visit experience and recall are real but moderate - fragrance compounds a well-run office and rescues nothing; ventilation, air-conditioning and cleaning must be right first, and no fragrance fixes poor indoor air quality. The scent is calibrated for the people most exposed to it - your employees on eight-hour days - which is why whisper dosing and locked settings are the standard, and any staff sensitivity report should be treated as a recalibration signal. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations inspired by the world's finest hotels; SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house, not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel brand. Ultrasonic systems use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance; the Vaayu and HVAC systems run waterless nebulising oil - the formats are not interchangeable. WhatsApp consult: +91 96192 18531. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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A note from Sonal
Companies spend real money on how the office looks - the reception wall, the brand colours, the ergonomic chairs - and then leave the air to chance: the lunch smells, the carpet, the phenyl from the morning mopping. Yet the air is the one thing every client, every candidate and every employee takes in with the very first breath. The place where your team spends most of its waking hours deserves better air than that.
I trained at ISIPCA in Versailles, where the world's scent-marketing perfumers learn the craft, and what I build for Indian offices is the same architecture the global hospitality brands use: one signature, sized to the space, run on a schedule - so the scent is as reliable as your lighting. The machines matter (throw, coverage, scheduling), but the strategy matters more, and it is in every guide we publish. If you want it applied to your specific office, message us on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 - I read the office descriptions myself.
Everything is made or assembled for Indian conditions, supported from Pune - and a part of every order funds girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Your brand gets a memory; a girl gets a classroom. That equation has always felt right to me.
Frequently asked questions
At what stage of an office fit-out should fragrance be decided?
Concept stage for the register, MEP stage for the delivery, snagging stage for the calibration. The register belongs in the concept conversation because congruence is easiest when the scent is chosen alongside the materials and lighting boards rather than matched to them afterwards. The delivery decision - standalone machines versus HVAC diffusion - belongs with the MEP drawings, because duct-mounted systems like the Aangan (Rs 25,999) cost a line item when planned and a retrofit when remembered, and even standalone machines want marked positions and power points. Calibration happens at snagging: run the week-long audition on the real, furnished, occupied floor, because fabric, carpet and people all absorb scent differently from an empty shell, and set the locked whisper level from that week's verdicts, not from the empty-site impression.
Our office is already fitted out - is it too late to add the fragrance layer?
Not at all - retrofit is the normal case, and standalone systems exist for exactly this. A Vaayu (Rs 11,999) needs a power point and a considered position, not ceiling work: entrance-forward, clear of desks, buffered from the pantry, which almost every finished floor can accommodate in an afternoon. Cabins and meeting rooms take a Sukoon (Rs 1,799) each. What you lose against a design-stage project is only the invisible option - HVAC diffusion is harder to add gracefully after handover, though far from impossible - and the luxury of choosing the register alongside the palette, which you replace by auditioning against the finished interior: shortlist two congruent blends, run each for a week, and let the space and the staff decide. The fourth layer added late still beats the fourth layer never added.
How do we stop the fragrance clashing with what the office already smells of - coffee, plants, materials?
Inventory the existing smellscape first, because a fitted office is never neutral: coffee at the machine, greenery and soil in biophilic corners, leather and wood off the furniture, cleaning products every morning. The design response is placement and register choice, not volume. Coffee is a friend - let it own its corner and choose a signature that sits beside espresso gracefully (woods and white tea do; heavy sweetness does not). Plants are neutral-to-positive - green registers like Forest Suite harmonise outright. Cleaning products are the real collision risk: switch the morning mop to low-scent products and schedule the signature to start after the mopping air has cleared. New fit-out smells - adhesive, paint, sealed wood - must be ventilated out entirely before the system switches on, because scent over off-gassing is masking, and masking always loses.
Should different zones of the office have different scents to match different design treatments?
Hold one signature and vary its depth, even where the design language shifts between zones. Interiors often move from a warm hospitality reception to a cooler work floor to a playful breakout - but giving each its own fragrance produces collisions in the corridors between them and splits the one asset consistency builds: a single smell that means this company. The professional approach mirrors what designers already do with a material palette that flexes across zones without changing identity: the same register expressed fullest at the entrance, quieter across desks, softest in small closed rooms - one signature at different depths, delivered by independently calibrated machines per zone (Vaayu on the floor, Sukoon per room). The exception is functional zones: cafeteria and washrooms stay outside the signature entirely, by design.
What does the fragrance layer add to a fit-out budget?
A rounding error against the layers it completes. A single-floor office is typically covered by one Vaayu at Rs 11,999 plus a meeting-room Sukoon or two at Rs 1,799 each - well under Rs 20,000 of hardware on a fit-out that runs to lakhs or crores; large offices specifying HVAC diffusion add Rs 25,999 (Aangan) to Rs 38,500 (Meenar) as an MEP line item. Running cost is the refill programme - Hotel Collection refills from Rs 999, with the fragrance itself from Rs 299 - a predictable consumable like lamp replacements. Set against what the fourth layer does - the walk-in verdict, the congruent premium read, an office that smells finished every working day for years - it is the cheapest layer on the drawings, and the only one guests process in the first second.
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The walk-in moment, engineered
SOSA — office scent marketing for the workplace people remember
Materials, light, acoustics - finish the composition with the layer visitors breathe first. Hotel Collection from ₹299, Vaayu ₹11,999, HVAC from ₹25,999. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 to bring SOSA into the design conversation. Made in India; a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 commercial range; the scent-marketing strategy advice applies to any workplace's systems.Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with improved evaluations of a space and its service, better reported mood and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives poor ventilation or indoor air quality. Claims that specific fragrances reliably raise measured productivity are weaker than their popular retellings - the replicated workplace findings concern comfort, mood and perception, and this guide claims no more. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind signature scents. Employee exposure is the design constraint: whisper calibration, locked settings and sensitivity accommodations are standard practice. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.