★ SOSA for Luxury Watch Boutiques and Premium Retail
A pre-owned store's first smell problem is an intake and storage problem, and a fragrance released over an unresolved source gives you two smells rather than one
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★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"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
★ The small, dry answer - for a trading floor that is already sorted
SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuserOnly after intake and storage are settledView ₹849SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuserDry pine, sage and cedar - nothing sweetView ₹849SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser₹849, and many readers should not spend even thatView ₹849
✓ The honest first answer here is often to spend nothing with us - intake, airing and storage come before any fragrance ✓ Dry woods at a low level, never used as a cover for a source that has not been dealt with ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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So what do I do first? Work on the building and the process rather than the air. That means an intake area that is not your trading floor, a stockroom you can ventilate, and time between a piece arriving and a piece going into a case. How stock is cleaned, aired, handled and stored is genuinely your domain and your watchmaker's - I am a perfumer and I will not write your storage policy - but the smell consequence of getting it wrong lands in your showroom, which is why I raise it. Many dealers reading this should stop here and spend nothing.
And after that, what does it cost? Less than you think. A pre-owned floor is often one room of 300-700 sq ft, and once the intake side is honest the answer is one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, or one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 if you want a level you can set. Total hardware spend: ₹849, or ₹1,899 with a machine. No one can promise you ambient scent moves a business number, and a supplier offering you one is selling.
See the SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser 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.
This is the post in the cluster where I am least likely to sell you anything, and I would rather write it that way round. A pre-owned floor has a real and specific smell question, and the answer to it lives in your stockroom and your intake process long before it lives in a bottle.
Quick answers — read this first
What fragrance suits a pre-owned luxury watch store? The same dry register as any watch boutique - dry woods, cedar and vetiver and pine, nothing sweet, edible or powdery - but that is the second question, and asking it first is the mistake. Pre-owned and vintage stock arrives from somewhere: a safe, a cupboard, a bank locker, a house that smelled of something. A room where a source has not been dealt with does not become one smell when you add a fragrance; it becomes two, and two smells in one volume of air read worse than either alone.So what do I do first? Work on the building and the process rather than the air. That means an intake area that is not your trading floor, a stockroom you can ventilate, and time between a piece arriving and a piece going into a case. How stock is cleaned, aired, handled and stored is genuinely your domain and your watchmaker's - I am a perfumer and I will not write your storage policy - but the smell consequence of getting it wrong lands in your showroom, which is why I raise it. Many dealers reading this should stop here and spend nothing.
And after that, what does it cost? Less than you think. A pre-owned floor is often one room of 300-700 sq ft, and once the intake side is honest the answer is one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, or one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 if you want a level you can set. Total hardware spend: ₹849, or ₹1,899 with a machine. No one can promise you ambient scent moves a business number, and a supplier offering you one is selling.
The short answer
Short answer: the standard dry watch-boutique register - dry woods, pine, cedar, vetiver, nothing sweet - but not until the intake side is dealt with. Pre-owned stock arrives carrying the smell of wherever it was kept, and adding a fragrance over an unresolved source produces two smells rather than one. Sort intake, airing, storage and ventilation first, then a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 or a Sukoon at ₹1,899.
The pick: one Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) on the trading floor once intake and storage are settled, or one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) if you want a level you can set and switch.
Next step: tell us where your intake bench sits relative to your display cases and how the stockroom is ventilated, and we will tell you honestly whether there is a fragrance question here yet - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
Everything above the fourth line is free. The fragrance question in a pre-owned store is small and cheap; the question underneath it is about your intake bench, your stockroom and your ventilation, and it belongs to you rather than to me.
The small dry answer - tap to see the specification
For a trading floor of 300-700 sq ft, once it is ready
SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849
The gate before you buy anything
Should a pre-owned dealer invest in professional scenting?
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
What fragrance suits a pre-owned luxury watch store?
The register is the easy half and I will give it to you in one line: dry woods - pine, cedar, sage, vetiver, cypress - at a low level, with nothing sweet, edible, powdery or floral anywhere near it. That is the same answer I would give any watch boutique, and if that were the whole question this post would be three paragraphs long. It is not the whole question, because a pre-owned floor has a smell problem that a new-stock boutique does not, and the order of work matters far more here than the choice of profile. Pre-owned and vintage stock arrives from somewhere. It has been in a safe, a wardrobe, a bank locker, a house, a shop that closed; it has travelled in packaging that has been closed for a long time; it arrives with boxes and papers that have been shut in a drawer since before you were trading. All of that carries the smell of where it was kept, and it arrives at your bench in batches, unpredictably, which is exactly the shape of problem a fixed ambient level handles badly. Here is the part I want to be blunt about, because it is the reason this post exists. A room with an unresolved smell source in it does not become one smell when you add a fragrance. It becomes two. Two things in one volume of air do not cancel; they combine into a third that nobody specified and that reads worse than either on its own, and it reads worst of all to a customer who has just walked in from outside with a fresh nose. Fragrance is never a mask and I will not sell it to you as one. So the first work is not fragrance at all. It is an intake area that is not your trading floor, a stockroom you can actually ventilate, and enough time between a piece arriving and a piece going into a display case. How pre-owned stock is cleaned, aired, handled and stored is your domain and your watchmaker's, not a perfumer's - I have no business writing your storage policy, and I will make no claim in either direction about what any ambient product does to stock, straps, boxes or papers. That is a question for the brands, the manufacturers and the people who service the pieces. What I can tell you is the room-air consequence, which is squarely mine: if the source is live, adding a fragrance makes the room harder to be in, not easier. Once that side is honest, the fragrance question becomes small and cheap. A pre-owned trading floor is usually one room of 300-700 sq ft, which means one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, or one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 if you want a level you can set and switch off. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the wrong buy at this size and I would rather you spent that money on a ventilated intake room. Total hardware spend: ₹849, or ₹1,899. And no one can promise you that any of it moves footfall, conversion or spend. Ask for a retail scenting plan and tell me where your intake bench sits.
Sort intake, airing, storage and ventilation first - that part is yours and your watchmaker's. A fragrance over a live source gives you two smells, not one. Afterwards, a dry reed at ₹849 or a Sukoon at ₹1,899, and plenty of dealers need neither.
Once the intake side is settled, the trading floor answer is one Mountain Breeze reed - Himalayan pine, sage and cedar, alcohol-free and phthalate-free, six reeds flipped weekly. ₹849 for 50ml, ₹1,349 for 130ml. If you want a level you can set instead, a Sukoon at ₹1,899. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is not the answer on a floor this size.
See the SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849 Ask for a retail scenting plan
The rule that governs this whole post
Two things in one volume of air make a third that nobody chose
The small, dry answer - once you are ready for it
Both of these are honest on a pre-owned floor, and both of them are the second decision rather than the first. The images link to the product pages so you can check the specifications before ordering.
The trading floor, once intake is sorted
SOSA Mountain Breeze reed
Himalayan pine, sage and cedar on an alcohol-free, phthalate-free coconut-derived base, with six fibre reeds. 50ml ₹849 runs six to eight weeks, 130ml ₹1,349 runs fourteen to eighteen. Dry, green and unfussy, which is what you want in a room where the stock is the interesting thing.
From ₹849
If you want a level you can set
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances. Worth the extra ₹1,050 over a reed only if you want something you can switch off in seconds on a day when the bench is busy - which, on a pre-owned floor, is a genuinely useful thing to be able to do.
From ₹1,899
Why the source has to go first
Three things sit under this, and the order is the whole argument. If you only act on the first, this post has done its job.
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Separate intake from the trading floor
A piece that arrived this morning should not be opened where customers stand
The single most useful change most pre-owned dealers can make costs nothing in fragrance and everything in habit: unpack, assess and photograph somewhere that is not the room your customers are in, and give a piece time before it goes into a case. Batches arrive unpredictably, which is precisely what a fixed ambient level cannot follow - your showroom is set to one level and the room's contents changed on Tuesday. Where and how stock is cleaned, aired and stored is your call and your watchmaker's, and I will not write that policy for you or make any claim about what a room product does to a piece. I am only telling you where the smell in your showroom comes from.
Tip: If your bench and your best display case are in one volume of air, that is one room, not two, whatever the layout drawing says.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
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Ventilate rather than add
Air that has somewhere to go solves problems that air with a fragrance in it does not
Fresh air is the only thing in this post that genuinely reduces a smell rather than adding to it, and it is free. An extract in the stockroom, a fresh-air intake on the air conditioning rather than pure recirculation, a window that opens somewhere sensible, twenty minutes of through-ventilation before you unlock - all of that is a conversation with your air-conditioning contractor and your landlord rather than with me. A fragrance is never a substitute for ventilation and it is never a cover for a source, and any supplier who tells you otherwise is selling you the wrong product for the problem you described.
Tip: Test it on a Monday: open up, stand outside for ten minutes, walk back in with the machine off and see what the room actually smells of.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
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Only then choose a profile, and keep it dry
A pre-owned floor wants the quietest fragrance in this whole cluster
When the room underneath is clean and ventilated, the fragrance job is small. Stay dry and green - pine, cedar, sage, vetiver - and stay low. Sweet, ambery and resinous compositions are the wrong direction twice over here: they read as a fragrance counter, and they are the register people reach for when they are trying to cover something, which is exactly the impression a pre-owned dealer does not want to give. A Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is a complete answer on a floor of this size, and the honest test is whether a customer notices a well-kept room rather than a fragrance.
Tip: If the fragrance is the first thing anyone comments on, it is too strong - and on a pre-owned floor it is also the wrong message.
One Mountain Breeze reed diffuser ₹849, set once and left alone, is the whole hardware side of this.
See SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser →
The SOSA principle
A room where a smell source has not been dealt with does not become one smell when you add a fragrance to it - it becomes two, and the two together read worse than either did alone.
Which is why the first work in a pre-owned store is intake, airing and ventilation, and why plenty of dealers should finish this page having bought nothing.
The order of work
This is a sequence rather than a menu, and the first three lines are free. Do not start at the bottom.
The SOSA plan
A pre-owned store, in the order the work should happen
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1. The intake bench
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Move it out of the room customers stand in, and give arrivals time before they go into a case. Costs nothing but habit, and it is where most of the difference lives. |
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2. The stockroom and safe
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Ventilated, and kept as a working room rather than an overflow cupboard. How stock is stored and handled is your call and your watchmaker's, not a fragrance supplier's. |
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3. Ventilation on the trading floor
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Fresh air rather than pure recirculation, and a through-airing before you unlock. A conversation with your air-conditioning contractor, and the only step here that reduces rather than adds. |
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4. Only now, the profile
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Dry and green, low. Pine, cedar, sage, vetiver. Nothing sweet, ambery or resinous, which is both the wrong register and the wrong signal in this format. |
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5. The machine, if you want one
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A Sukoon at ₹1,899 for a level you can set and switch. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the wrong buy on a floor this size. |
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If step 1, 2 or 3 is unresolved
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Stop. Spend the money on the stockroom instead and come back to us in a few months. That is not modesty, it is the correct sequence. |
The full gate - the five things that should all be true before a pre-owned dealer buys any hardware at all - is in should a pre-owned luxury watch dealer invest in professional ambient scenting. And the same ventilate-rather-than-add argument, applied to a different source, is in my watch store smells like new furniture and carpentry. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Small, dry, and second in the queue
Mountain Breeze reed ₹849 - pine, sage and cedar, six reeds, flipped weekly, once the room underneath is right.
If a dealer tells me his showroom smells of the stock that came in last week, the useful conversation is about his stockroom door, not about my catalogue.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the answer here is small
The stock is what people came to look at, and the room should let it be
The SOSA pre-owned specification
A pre-owned trading floor needs the smallest specification in this cluster, and it needs it last rather than first. One reed covers most rooms; a small machine is worth the extra only if you want a level you can set and kill in seconds. Everything is made in India, composed in Pune to IFRA standards and phthalate-free, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA watch-boutique specification
Dry, green, low - and only after the room underneath is right
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
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A pre-owned trading floor of 300-700 sq ft, intake sorted | Pine, sage and cedar, six reeds flipped weekly - 50ml ₹849 for six to eight weeks, 130ml ₹1,349 for fourteen to eighteen | ₹849 View → |
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SOSA Sukoon
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The same floor, if you want a level you can set and switch off | About 270-320 sq ft, three 15ml fragrances included, something you can turn off in seconds on a busy intake day | ₹1,899 View → |
Intake, airing, storage and ventilation come first, and how your stock is handled is your domain and your watchmaker's rather than a fragrance supplier's. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or case layout; it is never a mask and never a substitute for cleaning or ventilation. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, conversion, spend or any other business number, and a supplier quoting you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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ISIPCA
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A note from Sonal
Pre-owned dealers ask me this question more carefully than anyone else in the category, and usually with a slight edge to it, because they have already been pitched fragrance as a solution to something they know is not a fragrance problem. They are right to be suspicious. If your floor smells of what came in last week, the honest answer is that you have a source in the room, and the only things that genuinely deal with a source are removing it, airing it and ventilating the space it sits in. None of those are products I sell.
The physics is worth stating once, plainly, because it is the whole reason I write this post the way I do. Adding a fragrance to a room with a live source does not replace one smell with another. Both are in the air, both reach the customer, and what arrives at the doorway is a combination that nobody designed. It is also, and this matters commercially in a category built on trust, the exact impression a pre-owned buyer is primed to notice. A room that smells strongly of anything invites the question of what it is for.
So the sequence is: intake bench out of the showroom, stockroom ventilated, time between arrival and display, and how any of that is done is your call and your watchmaker's - I am a perfumer, not a horologist, and I make no claims in either direction about what any room product does to stock. Then, and only then, something small and dry: a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, or a Sukoon at ₹1,899. If you finish this page and buy nothing, I will consider it well written. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
What fragrance suits a pre-owned luxury watch store?
The same dry register as any watch boutique - dry woods such as pine, cedar, sage and vetiver, at a low level, with nothing sweet, edible, powdery or floral. But the register is the second question. Pre-owned stock arrives carrying the smell of wherever it was kept, and a fragrance released into a room where that source has not been dealt with produces two smells rather than one.
Can ambient fragrance deal with the smell of incoming pre-owned stock?
No, and I would not sell it to you on that basis. Fragrance is never a mask and never a substitute for cleaning, airing or ventilation. Two things released into one volume of air combine into a third that nobody chose and that reads worse than either alone. The things that genuinely help are an intake area away from the trading floor, a ventilated stockroom, and time between arrival and display.
How should pre-owned stock be stored and handled?
That is your domain and your watchmaker's rather than mine, and it is also the manufacturer's. I am a perfumer and I make no claim in either direction about what any ambient product does to watches, straps, boxes or papers. What I can speak to is the air in the room: if a source is live in the space your customers stand in, adding a fragrance on top makes the room harder to be in.
What should a pre-owned dealer actually spend on scenting?
Often nothing, at least at first. If your intake, storage and ventilation are not yet settled, the money is better spent on the stockroom. Once they are, a pre-owned floor of 300 to 700 sq ft is one Mountain Breeze reed at Rs 849, or a SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899 if you want a level you can set and switch off. A Vaayu at Rs 11,999 is the wrong buy on a floor that size.
Will scenting a pre-owned showroom help it feel more premium?
It can make the air agree with the rest of a room you have already worked on, which is a real thing and a small one. What no one can promise you is that it moves footfall, conversion, spend or any other business number, and a supplier offering you a figure is selling. On a pre-owned floor in particular, a room that smells strongly of anything invites a question you would rather not have asked.
Second in the queue, and cheap when it gets there
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for pre-owned and certified pre-owned watch dealers
A Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) is the honest answer on most pre-owned trading floors once intake, airing, storage and ventilation are settled; a SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) if you want a level you can set and switch off. If those first steps are not settled, spend the money there instead. 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.