★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
Two tests, and neither of them is turnover - the first is whether one connected volume is larger than a bottle's still-air radius, and the second is whether you have reached the point where the level has to be set and held rather than simply accepted, because a reed has no control surface at all
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★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"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
★ Sized to the visitor-facing zone, in the register the business runs
SOSA VaayuA connected reception, lounge and corridorView ₹11,999
Mountain BreezeThe dry pine, sage and cedar registerView ₹849
Morning FreshnessThe cool register for a white, daylit officeView ₹749
✓ One register in the visitor-facing zone only - entrance, reception and the waiting area - set from the furthest seat at the end of the longest wait and then key-locked ✓ Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented, a named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Hyderabad
Where do reeds actually stop? At roughly one seating group of up to about 250-300 sq ft with a normal ceiling. Two separated seating groups, or one connected volume above that, is past the bottle.
What is the control test? A reed has exactly one setting: whatever it happens to be doing today. The day you need a level that is set, locked, timed or lowered, the machine is justified at any size.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 9 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 a 400ml refillable tank lasting roughly 75-90 days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply should be confirmed with SOSA. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in a commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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.
Two tests, neither of them turnover. One: is the largest connected volume bigger than a bottle's still-air radius? Two: do you now need the level set and held - because a reed has no setting at all.
Quick answers — read this first
What decides whether a business needs a machine? Connected volume and control needs, not turnover. A very busy single seating group is still a bottle; a quiet connected floor is not.Where do reeds actually stop? At roughly one seating group of up to about 250-300 sq ft with a normal ceiling. Two separated seating groups, or one connected volume above that, is past the bottle.
What is the control test? A reed has exactly one setting: whatever it happens to be doing today. The day you need a level that is set, locked, timed or lowered, the machine is justified at any size.
The short answer
Short answer: on two tests, neither of them turnover - whether one connected volume exceeds a bottle's still-air radius, and whether the level now has to be set and held rather than accepted.
The pick: a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849) while one seating group is the whole zone, and a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) once either test flips.
Next step: measure your largest connected volume, then ask when you last wanted to change the level and could not. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
Turnover is not on either list. A very busy single seating group is still a bottle.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
One machine, the visitor floor
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The areas that carry nothing
Which areas stay fragrance-free
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
When does a growing Kukatpally business become large enough to justify SOSA Vaayu?
On two tests, and turnover is not either of them - which is the first thing worth saying, because busyness is what most owners reach for and it is not what the question turns on. A shop seeing four hundred people a day through one seating group is still a bottle. A quiet consultancy with a connected reception, lounge and corridor is not. The machine answers volume and control, and it is indifferent to how many people walk past. Test one is geometry, and it is measured in connected volume rather than floor area. A reed works by evaporation into air that is largely still, and its useful radius is a few metres in a room where nothing is pushing the air around. So walk your visitor-facing zone and ask where the walls actually are - not the drawn walls, the air ones. Reception, the waiting seats and a corridor that runs off it with no door are one volume, not three spaces. A mezzanine or a double-height section is a great deal more volume than its floor plan suggests, because the air above the furniture is part of the problem. In practice the bottle holds one seating group of roughly 250 to 300 square feet with a normal ceiling, and that is a real limit rather than a soft one. Two genuinely separated seating groups is past it - two bottles carry the register to two places, which is a different and valid answer, but reach never comes from adding reeds to one bottle. One connected volume above that, or one with a ceiling much above about twelve feet, has already left bottle territory - which is why ceiling height quietly enlarges a room in a way floor plans never show. Test two is the one almost nobody names, and it can justify a machine at any size at all. A reed has exactly one setting: whatever it happens to be doing today. You cannot set it, lock it, time it, raise it for a particular room or drop it for a quiet morning. Its output varies with temperature, with how many reeds are in and how recently they were flipped, and with how full the bottle is - and none of that is under anybody's control. That is completely fine while the level does not need to be authored. The day it does, size stops mattering. Two situations in particular trigger it: a level that has to survive a shift change and a new member of staff, and a room that should not be scented when nobody is in it. The first is a key-lock question and the second is a timer question, and a bottle has neither. The full arithmetic of passive against active is a separate calculation, but the trigger is this: the first time you want to change something and find there is no control to change, you have crossed the line. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 while one seating group is the whole zone, and a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 once either test flips - rated to 1000m³, key-locked, timed to opening hours and waterless. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and SOSA makes no claim that it does. Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Two tests, and turnover is neither. Is the largest connected volume bigger than one seating group of about 250-300 sq ft with a normal ceiling? And does the level now need setting, locking or timing - because a reed has no control at all?
Below the line: SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849. Above it: a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a scenting plan for your space
The honest ladder
One source for the visitor zone, sized to the floor
What to buy, and for which space
The honest options for the visitor-facing zone, sized to the floor rather than to the ambition. The images link to the product pages so every figure here can be checked.
A connected reception, waiting area and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - on one unit. In a clinic, salon or showroom its value is control rather than reach: the key-lock holds the level the furthest waiting chair was judged to, so it survives every shift and every new receptionist, and the 1h/4h/8h/24h timer keeps it on opening hours rather than saturating an empty room overnight. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on stock, mirrors, screens or displays. 400ml tank, roughly 75-90 days depending on intensity and run hours, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mount.
From ₹11,999
The register - or the whole answer where reception is one seating zone
SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
Himalayan pine, sage and Indian cedar - the driest register SOSA makes and the house default, because it reads as a considered room rather than as a hotel lobby. Where reception is a single seating group, this bottle at the staff end of the desk at ₹849 for 50ml carries the register on its own, three or four reeds in, flipped weekly; 130ml at ₹1,349 lasts 14-18 weeks. Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, six fibre reeds, and carried out of the room in seconds if a client asks.
From ₹849
Two tests, and where the bottle actually stops
One is about air and one is about authorship. Either one on its own is enough, and neither is about how busy you are.
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Not this
Turnover decides nothing
Four hundred people a day through one seating group is still a bottle. A quiet connected reception, lounge and corridor is not. The machine answers volume and control.
Rule: count the air, not the people.
2
Volume
Where are the air walls?
Reception, the waiting seats and a doorless corridor off it are one volume, not three spaces. A mezzanine or double-height section is far more volume than its floor plan shows.
Test: walk it and mark the real boundaries.
3
The limit
About 250-300 sq ft, one group
That is a real limit rather than a soft one. Two separated seating groups means two bottles in two places, and reach never comes from adding reeds to one.
Rule: above twelve-foot ceilings, assume you are past it.
4
Control
A reed has one setting
Whatever it happens to be doing today. It varies with temperature, with how many reeds are in and how recently they were flipped, and with how full the bottle is.
Test: none of that is under anybody's control.
5
Trigger
The day you need to change it
A level that has to survive a shift change is a key-lock question. A room that should not be scented when it is empty is a timer question. A bottle has neither.
Test: wanting a control you do not have is the line.
The SOSA principle
A reed has exactly one setting: whatever it happens to be doing today. The first time you want to change something and find there is no control to change, you have crossed the line - at any size.
Which is why two businesses with identical floor areas can honestly land on different answers, and why turnover appears nowhere in either test.
Outgrowing a bottle, question by question
How to measure connected volume, and what the control test actually asks.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
When a business has outgrown reeds
| The question | The answer |
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Does turnover decide this?
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No. Four hundred people a day through one seating group is still a bottle, and a quiet connected reception and corridor is already not. |
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What should I measure?
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Connected volume rather than floor area. Reception, the waiting seats and a doorless corridor off them are one volume, not three separate spaces. |
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Where do reeds stop?
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At roughly one seating group of 250-300 sq ft with a normal ceiling. Two separated groups means two bottles; reach never comes from adding reeds to one. |
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What is the control test?
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A reed has one setting - whatever it is doing today. It cannot be set, locked, timed or lowered, and its output drifts with temperature and reed age. |
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What triggers the machine regardless of size?
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A level that must survive a shift change, or a room that should not be scented when empty. A Vaayu (₹11,999) has the lock and the timer. |
The arithmetic version is the calculation before passive against active, the ceiling version is why fragrance disappears upward, and the sizing version is too large, too small, or right. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance removes or reduces anything in the air.
One register, the visitor-facing zone only, set from the furthest seat
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 waterless, key-locked and timed to opening hours; Mountain Breeze ₹849 or Morning Freshness ₹749 as the register. Send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked and we will return it with the placement and the fragrance-free seat.
Two businesses with the same floor area can land on different answers, because one of them needs a level that survives a shift change and the other does not.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Sized to the floor
The visitor zone gets one source; closed treatment and consultation rooms get none
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
One register, delivered at whatever size the visitor-facing zone is, with the rule that travels alongside each product. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
What goes where in a clinic, salon, showroom or office
| Product | The space it fits | The rule that travels with it | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A connected reception, waiting area and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft | Wall or HVAC mounted on the far side of the client zone from the meeting-room doors; level set from the furthest chair at the end of the longest wait, then key-locked; timer on opening hours | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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The register for the whole client zone; alone where reception is one seating group | Pine, sage and cedar - dry, and reads as a considered room rather than a hotel lobby; three or four reeds in at the staff end of the desk | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The same job in a white, glazed, daylit interior | Malabar lemon, mint and eucalyptus - cool with no warmth; one register for the whole business, never one per branch | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A reception or waiting area that is a closed room of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf on the wall the seating faces, on low, during opening hours, rinsed between refills; water-based, so not the choice in a damp building | ₹1,899 View → |
 SOSA Boond
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A director's cabin, a small reception or a single desk | One small enclosed space only, on low; never in a closed treatment room or consultation cabin | ₹899 View → |
A SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is the water-based rung for a single enclosed reception or client lounge of roughly 270-320 sq ft in a dry room, and a Boond (₹899) for a single cabin; both run on the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299), which is not reed diffuser oil and is not interchangeable with it. Above about 3,000 sq ft of one connected volume the step is one SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) on the duct, not a second Vaayu. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented - the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there - and that is achieved by placement and doors rather than by a lower setting. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk rather than waiting to be asked. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, it makes no contribution to what a visitor buys, books or decides, and it works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them. The visitor's preference overrides any plan. Ask for a scenting plan for your space and send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked.
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ISIPCA
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A note from Sonal
On two tests, and turnover is not either of them, which is the first thing worth saying because busyness is what most owners reach for and it is not what the question turns on. A shop seeing four hundred people a day through one seating group is still a bottle. A quiet consultancy with a connected reception, lounge and corridor is not. The machine answers volume and control, and it is indifferent to how many people walk past the window.
Test one is geometry, measured in connected volume rather than floor area. A reed works by evaporation into air that is largely still, and its useful radius is a few metres in a room where nothing is pushing the air around. So walk your visitor-facing zone and ask where the walls actually are - not the drawn walls, the air ones. Reception, the waiting seats and a corridor running off with no door are one volume, not three spaces. A mezzanine or a double-height section is far more volume than its floor plan suggests, because the air above the furniture is part of the problem. In practice the bottle holds one seating group of roughly 250 to 300 square feet with a normal ceiling, and that is a real limit. Two genuinely separated seating groups is past it - two bottles in two places is a valid answer, but reach never comes from adding reeds to one.
Test two is the one almost nobody names, and it can justify a machine at any size at all. A reed has exactly one setting: whatever it happens to be doing today. You cannot set it, lock it, time it, raise it for a particular room or drop it for a quiet morning. Its output varies with temperature, with how many reeds are in and how recently they were flipped, and with how full the bottle is, and none of that is under anybody's control. That is completely fine while the level does not need to be authored. The day it does, size stops mattering. Two situations trigger it in particular: a level that has to survive a shift change and a new member of staff, and a room that should not be scented when nobody is in it. The first is a key-lock question and the second is a timer question, and a bottle has neither. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 while one seating group is the whole zone, and a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 once either test flips. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Does high turnover justify a commercial scent machine?
No. Four hundred people a day through a single seating group is still a bottle, and a quiet connected reception and corridor is already past one.
What should be measured instead of floor area?
Connected volume. Reception, the waiting seats and a doorless corridor off them are one air volume rather than three separate spaces.
How large a space can a reed diffuser actually hold?
Roughly one seating group of 250 to 300 square feet with a normal ceiling. Two separated seating groups means two bottles in two places.
What is the control test?
A reed has one setting - whatever it is doing today - and its output drifts with temperature, reed age and bottle level, with no way to set or hold it.
What justifies a machine regardless of size?
A level that has to survive a shift change, which is a key-lock question, or a room that should not be scented when empty, which is a timer question.
Measure the connected volume
SOSA — Studio Scenting volume and control, never turnover
Two tests decide this and turnover is neither. First, connected volume rather than floor area: reception, the waiting seats and a doorless corridor are one volume, and a bottle holds roughly one seating group of 250 to 300 square feet with a normal ceiling. Second, control: a reed has exactly one setting, whatever it happens to be doing today, and it cannot be set, locked, timed or lowered. The day you need to change something and find no control to change, the machine is justified. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a scenting plan for your space → SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
One more look at the range
Continue the read
More from SOSA
- SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999)
- SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849)
- Reeds, spray, small active or Vaayu
- Is the machine sensible at 500-800 sq ft?
- Too large, too small, or right
- The arithmetic before passive vs active
- Before buying your first machine
- 1,500 sq ft: one machine or zones
- Where to place it with a wide open front
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan for your space
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
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 9 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 a 400ml refillable tank lasting roughly 75-90 days depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply should be confirmed with SOSA. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in a commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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.