★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
A spray is a dose, not a level - it peaks before anyone arrives, collapses inside a few minutes, and its strength is set by whoever last picked up the can
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"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
★ What replaces the can, depending on how big the room is
SOSA VaayuA level you set once and lockView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuOn trading hours, off on demo daysView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuUnder 300 sq ft, an ₹849 reed insteadView ₹11,999
✓ Adjustable intensity and a key-lock, so the setting is a decision rather than a habit ✓ Waterless, so the machine adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Kitchen Showrooms
What is actually wrong with a spray in a showroom? Four things, and none of them is the perfume itself. It is top-heavy - the lightest notes leave first, so it never smells five minutes later the way it did in the first breath. It leads with its carrier, alcohol or propellant, which is the loudest thing in the room for the first minute. It is unrepeatable, because the amount depends on who is holding it. And it cannot be scheduled, locked, or switched off during a cooking demonstration.
What should replace it, and what does that cost? Match it to the room. Under about 300 sq ft, one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 replaces the can completely and needs a flip of the reeds once a week. One room to roughly 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899. An entrance, a display floor and a consultation room from about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Total hardware, one item, in every case.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 5 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 adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. 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.
Almost every showroom I visit has a can somewhere - in a drawer at reception, on a shelf in the sample room, occasionally in a designer's handbag. Nobody bought it as a strategy. It arrived because somebody wanted the room to feel looked after before a client walked in, and that instinct is right even though the tool is wrong.
Quick answers — read this first
Room spray or a commercial scent machine for a kitchen studio? The honest answer is that this is not a contest between two fragrances - it is a contest between a dose and a level, and a dose is the wrong shape for a showroom. A spray puts its entire output into the air in one burst, which means the room is at its strongest in the thirty seconds when nobody is standing in it and back to nothing by the time a client has taken their coat off. A machine emits continuously at a level you choose and then leave alone.What is actually wrong with a spray in a showroom? Four things, and none of them is the perfume itself. It is top-heavy - the lightest notes leave first, so it never smells five minutes later the way it did in the first breath. It leads with its carrier, alcohol or propellant, which is the loudest thing in the room for the first minute. It is unrepeatable, because the amount depends on who is holding it. And it cannot be scheduled, locked, or switched off during a cooking demonstration.
What should replace it, and what does that cost? Match it to the room. Under about 300 sq ft, one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 replaces the can completely and needs a flip of the reeds once a week. One room to roughly 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899. An entrance, a display floor and a consultation room from about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Total hardware, one item, in every case.
The short answer
Short answer: neither, if the question is which fragrance - the problem is the format. A spray is a dose rather than a level: top-heavy, gone within minutes, led by its carrier, and set by whoever last held the can. Replace it with a continuous source sized to the room - an ₹849 Mountain Breeze reed under about 300 sq ft, a ₹1,899 Sukoon for one room, a ₹11,999 Vaayu on a timer once there is more than one body of air.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) on trading-hours timers with the key-lock on for a showroom past about 1,500 sq ft, or one Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) for a studio under about 300 sq ft, which is the honest replacement for a can in a small room.
Next step: tell us the room's dimensions and when somebody currently reaches for the can - before a client visit, after a demonstration, first thing in the morning - and we will tell you which of those moments is a scheduling problem rather than a fragrance one - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
The argument here is about shape rather than quality. A burst and a steady low emission produce completely different rooms even when the perfume inside them is identical.
What replaces the can - tap to see the specification
Once the studio is more than one room
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The cheaper head-to-head
Reed diffuser versus waterless machine
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
Is a room spray a reasonable alternative to a commercial scent machine in a kitchen studio?
No, and the reason has nothing to do with the quality of the fragrance in the can - it is that a spray is a dose and a showroom needs a level, and those are different shapes. Watch what a dose does across an afternoon. Somebody presses the button before a client arrives, and for about thirty seconds the room is far stronger than anybody would ever choose deliberately. That peak happens while the room is empty. Then the light, volatile top notes leave first, so within a few minutes what is left smells nothing like the first breath - a spray is top-heavy by construction, and the version your client meets is the tail of it rather than the thing you liked in the shop. Underneath both is the carrier, alcohol or a propellant, which is genuinely the loudest note in the room for the first minute and is the reason a sprayed room reads as "just sprayed" rather than as looked after. By minute fifteen the room smells of nothing again, which in this category matters more than in any other, because your client has come for a sixty to ninety minute design consultation. A dose is at its highest when nobody is in it and at its lowest during the hour that actually counts. And then the part nobody plans: the strength is decided by whoever last picked up the can, so the same showroom is a different room on Tuesday and Saturday, and the person who is most enthusiastic with it is usually the person who has been in the building longest and can smell it least. A machine changes the shape rather than the perfume. One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 emits continuously at an intensity you set once, on 1h/4h/8h/24h timers tied to trading hours, with a key-lock so the level cannot drift, under 38dB so it never intrudes on a consultation, and waterless, so nothing is added to the air of a room full of finishes. Below that scale the honest answers are cheaper and I would rather you bought them: one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 for a single room to about 750 sq ft, or one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 under about 300 sq ft, which replaces a can completely and asks for a weekly flip of the reeds. Two standing limits before you spend anything. None of these covers another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and if the reason somebody reaches for the can is that the room smells of its fit-out or of last week's demonstration, the answer is ventilation and cleaning rather than any of this. And plainly, since this is a money question: SOSA does not publish a business-outcome number because it has not measured one, and a supplier quoting you one is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan and tell us when somebody currently reaches for the can.
A spray is a dose, not a level: it peaks in an empty room, collapses within minutes, leads with its carrier and is set by whoever last held it. Replace the format, not the fragrance - ₹849 reed under 300 sq ft, ₹1,899 Sukoon for one room, ₹11,999 Vaayu on a timer past about 1,500.
For a showroom past about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu - adjustable intensity set once, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers on trading hours, a key-lock so nobody administers a dose by hand, under 38dB and waterless. ₹11,999, one machine. Under about 300 sq ft, buy the ₹849 reed instead and put the can in the bin.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a retail scenting plan
The difference in one line
A burst has a peak; a level has a setting
What replaces the can, by room size
The replacement is chosen by cubic volume, exactly as it would be if there had never been a spray in the building. The images link to the product pages so you can check the specifications before ordering anything.
A studio or showroom past about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, Bluetooth app with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, auto-stop and key-lock. The key-lock is the feature that matters most here: it turns a level into a decision instead of a habit.
From ₹11,999
Under about 300 sq ft - buy this instead
SOSA Mountain Breeze reed
Himalayan pine, sage and cedar, alcohol-free and phthalate-free on a coconut-derived CCT base, six fibre reeds supplied. 50ml ₹849 lasting 6-8 weeks, 130ml ₹1,349 lasting 14-18. A continuous low baseline with nothing to press, which is the honest replacement for a can in a small studio.
From ₹849
The four things a dose does wrong
Three of them are about the physics of an aerosol and one is about human beings. The fourth is the one that actually causes the complaints.
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Look at the curve, not the fragrance
It peaks in an empty room and is gone by minute fifteen
A spray delivers its whole output in one burst, so the strongest the room ever gets is the moment immediately after somebody presses the button - which is, by definition, before your client is in it. Then it falls away steeply, and the lightest notes leave first, so the perfume changes character as it fades rather than simply getting quieter. In a category where the customer sits for sixty to ninety minutes, that curve is upside down: it is loudest when it is doing nothing and absent through the hour that matters. A continuous source at a low setting is flat across the whole visit, which is what "looked after" actually smells like.
Tip: If the room needs spraying again before the next client, that is the curve telling you something.
2
Listen for the carrier
For the first minute the loudest thing in the room is not the perfume
A spray has to get its fragrance airborne, and it does that on alcohol or a propellant. For the first minute or so that carrier is the dominant note in the room, which is why a freshly sprayed space reads as just sprayed rather than as a well-kept building. Architects and interior designers walking a showroom professionally register this immediately, and it lands as a room trying too hard - the opposite of the restraint a premium interiors brand is supposed to project. A cold-air nebuliser has no carrier to announce, and a reed has none either; both simply put a low level of fragrance into the air and leave it there.
Tip: The register you want is a room nobody can date. A dose is always datable.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
3
Ask who is holding the can
An unlockable, unscheduled level is not a level at all
This is the failure that produces the emails. A spray's strength is set by whoever last used it, and the person most likely to be generous is the one who has been in the building since nine and has stopped smelling it - your nose adapts within about twenty minutes. So the level rises quietly over months, and nobody in the building can detect it. It also cannot be taken off: if you run live cooking demonstrations, there is no way to schedule a can away from the one event that must stay unscented. A machine on 1h/4h/8h/24h timers with a key-lock fixes both problems at once - the setting is a decision made once, and demo days are a schedule rather than a hope.
Anyone on the floor should still be able to switch it off in seconds - a lock on the level, not on the power.
See SOSA Vaayu →
The SOSA principle
The argument against a room spray is not about the perfume inside it. It is that a burst and a continuous low emission are different shapes, and a showroom where people sit for ninety minutes needs the shape that is flat.
Change the format and the fragrance question becomes easy. Change the fragrance and you still have a can.
The same room, hour by hour
Take one 1,800 sq ft showroom and run the same trading day twice - once managed with a can, once with a machine on a timer.
The SOSA plan
A can and a machine, through one trading day
| The moment | What to do |
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Ten minutes before opening
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Can: nothing yet, or a burst that peaks in an empty room. Machine: already at its setting, because the timer started with trading hours. |
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A client arrives
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Can: somebody reaches for it as the door opens, so the strongest moment of the day happens two metres from the person it was meant for. Machine: unchanged. |
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Minute ninety of the consultation
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Can: nothing left, and the top notes went first, so what remains is not what you chose. Machine: the same low level it was at minute one, which is the level you set for exactly this moment. |
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A cooking demonstration starts
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Can: cannot be scheduled away, and a burst over cooking air gives you a mixture. Machine: off on the timer, well before the demonstration, and left off until the extraction has cleared the room. |
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Six months later
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Can: the level has crept up, because the people using it stopped smelling it. Machine: key-locked, so the settled level survived a busy floor and a lot of well-meaning hands. |
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Total spent
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Can: repeatedly, and unrecorded. Machine: ₹849, ₹1,899 or ₹11,999 once, sized to the room, with the oil supplied in the box. |
If you are choosing between the two cheapest options rather than between a can and a machine, the head-to-head is in reed diffuser versus waterless scent machine, which explains why a bigger bottle buys months rather than metres. And if somebody reaches for the can after a demonstration, read what to do when a showroom smells of food after demonstrations first, because that is an extraction problem and fragrance makes it worse. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Set it once, lock it, forget it
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 - continuous, adjustable, key-locked and on your trading hours.
The trouble with a can is not what is in it. It is that a showroom ends up with as many opinions about its own smell as it has people with hands, and every one of those opinions is applied at full strength.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the boring features matter here
A setting, a schedule and a lock
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
Three products replace a can, and which one is yours is decided by cubic volume rather than by how often somebody currently sprays. Cold-air refill oil is not sold separately today - the Vaayu ships with 4 × 100ml and that 400ml runs 90+ days a fill, so confirm continuity of supply with SOSA before planning around it, and note that the water-based Hotel Collection is ultrasonic only and never a Vaayu refill. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
A continuous low level, chosen by the size of the room
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
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A studio under about 300 sq ft where a can currently lives in a drawer | Pine, sage and cedar, alcohol-free, six fibre reeds, 50ml ₹849 lasting 6-8 weeks - a fixed baseline with nothing to press | ₹849 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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One room of about 300-750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage with three 15ml fragrances included, at ₹1,899, and switchable in seconds | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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An entrance, a display floor and a consultation room from about 1,500 sq ft | 1000m³, waterless, adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, key-lock, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
Replace the format before you argue about the fragrance, and size the replacement by cubic volume. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or display styling; it is never used to cover another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and it is never a substitute for ventilation, extraction or cleaning. Warranty, AMC, installation, bulk pricing, GST and corporate invoicing terms are not published and should be confirmed with SOSA in writing. And plainly: SOSA does not publish a business-outcome number because it has not measured one, and a supplier quoting you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
I have no room spray to sell you for this job, and I would not recommend one if I had. That is worth saying at the top, because the answer here looks self-serving until you see the reasoning, and the reasoning is about shape rather than about my catalogue. A can gives a room a spike. A showroom needs a plateau. Everything else on this page follows from that single mismatch, and it would still be true if the perfume in the can were the best thing either of us had ever smelled.
What convinced me, years ago, was watching the timing rather than the fragrance. The button gets pressed as somebody sees a car pull up, which means the peak lands in the ninety seconds before the door opens and the client walks into the falling edge of it - and by the time they are seated with a designer and a stack of laminate samples, an hour and a half from the end of the consultation, the room has nothing in it at all. You could not design a worse distribution across a visit if you tried. A continuous low emission is flat for the whole ninety minutes, which sounds duller and is the entire point.
So the replacement is a format, sized to the room: under about 300 sq ft a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849; one room to 750 sq ft a Sukoon at ₹1,899; an entrance, a floor and a consultation room from about 1,500 sq ft a Vaayu at ₹11,999. And if the reason the can exists is that the room smells of adhesive or of yesterday's demonstration, buy none of them and open the building up instead. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Is a room spray a reasonable alternative to a commercial scent machine in a kitchen studio?
No, and the reason is the format rather than the fragrance. A spray is a dose and a showroom needs a level. It peaks in the empty room seconds after somebody presses the button, its lightest notes leave first so it changes character as it falls, and it is gone long before minute ninety of a design consultation. A continuous source at a low setting is flat across the whole visit, which is the shape this category needs.
Why does a sprayed room smell like it was just sprayed?
Because for the first minute or so the loudest thing in the air is the carrier that got the fragrance airborne - alcohol or a propellant - rather than the perfume itself. That is what people are recognising when they say a room smells sprayed. Architects and designers walking a showroom professionally register it at once, and it reads as a room trying too hard, which is the opposite of what a premium interiors brand wants to project.
Can I just tell the team to spray less?
It rarely holds, because the strength is decided by whoever last picked up the can and the person most likely to be generous is the one who has been in the building all day and has stopped smelling it - a nose adapts within about twenty minutes. A machine with adjustable intensity and a key-lock turns the level into a decision made once rather than a habit repeated by several people with different noses.
What should I buy instead, and what will it cost?
Size it by the room. Under about 300 sq ft, one Mountain Breeze reed at Rs 849, which replaces a can completely and needs the reeds flipped weekly. One room up to roughly 750 sq ft, one Sukoon at Rs 1,899. An entrance, a display floor and a consultation room from about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999, which ships with 400ml of oil. One item, in every case.
We spray after a cooking demonstration. Is that wrong?
Yes, and it is the version of this that concerns me most. Fragrance never covers another smell - two smells in one airspace combine rather than cancel, so you end up with cooking and perfume rather than with neither. After a demonstration the answer is extraction, air change and cleaning the surfaces and textiles, and the machine stays off until the room has cleared. No diffuser SOSA sells makes any air-quality or odour-removal claim.
A level, not a dose
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for modular kitchen showrooms and experience centres
The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) runs continuously at an intensity you set once, on 1h/4h/8h/24h timers with a key-lock, under 38dB and waterless - covering up to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft. Under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899, and under about 300 sq ft a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 5 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 adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. 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.