What is the one-off cost of getting started with Safar, all in?

What I like about this question is that it has a real answer. Most of this series is me explaining which number does not exist. Here the number exists, it is printed, and the box list beside it says what it covers.

The answer, in full

One price, and then a list. The price is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant. The published box list is the diffuser, the 20ml bottle, a Type-C cable and a user manual, plus the three fragrance oils set by the variant, which means that the first time you run it you are not buying anything else. After that there is exactly one thing you buy again, the waterless nebuliser refill oil, at ₹1,049 for 100 gm or ₹1,849 for 300 gm. When you will buy it is the part nobody publishes, because no oil-consumption rate is on the record, so take the one-off as settled and the rest as something you measure. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.

What the one-off covers, and what it does not

Three parts to this: the price, the box, and the only thing that comes after it. Two are published outright and the third is published as a price with no date attached.

The price: Rs 3,999, or Rs 4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant

That is the whole of the one-off. ₹3,999 buys Safar and ₹4,499 buys the hotel-inspired variant, and both figures are on the product record. There is no second line to add: no fitting, no accessory and no starter pack appears in anything SOSA publishes, so a page that invented one would be inventing a cost as well.

One published figure, with nothing hiding behind it.

The box: what the record says is in it

The published list is the diffuser, the 20ml bottle, a Type-C cable and a user manual, plus the three fragrance oils set by the variant you choose. That a manual is in the box is all I will say about it, because I am not going to paraphrase a document you can read and I cannot quote. The practical consequence is that the first run costs nothing beyond the price.

What comes after: the refill oil, at a published price and no date

The nebuliser refill oil is ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm, and the larger weight comes to about ₹616 per 100 gm, which is arithmetic on two printed numbers. What is not printed is how soon you will need it, because SOSA publishes no oil-consumption rate, so no interval and no total exist to put in your diary.

A published price with no published date beside it.

Which three oils come in the box?

Whichever three the variant sets, and that is the one thing the difference between ₹3,999 and ₹4,499 attaches to on the record. SOSA publishes a fragrance pyramid for each scent, so you can read the direction of all three before the box arrives, and what they are actually like in your car is something you find out by smelling them rather than by reading a page.

The one thing you buy again is the oil, and both weights are published: ₹1,049 for 100 gm or ₹1,849 for 300 gm. See the nebuliser refill →

The one-off, line by line

If you want the honest shape of the whole thing: one published price now, one published price later, and one unpublished rate in between that decides how often later comes round. The first two you can plan with. The third is a marker pen and a month.

“The one-off is a single published figure with a box list beside it. Everything uncertain about owning a Safar sits after that line, not in it.”

Getting started, in four steps

1. Pay the published price: Rs 3,999, or Rs 4,499 for the hotel-inspired set.
2. Check the box list: diffuser, 20ml bottle, Type-C cable, manual, three oils.
3. Fill the 20ml bottle and mark the level before your first drive.
4. Keep that date: the mark is where your own measurement starts.

Questions, answered