★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
Pune is the city where the setting, once found honestly, can be left alone - so the discipline is writing the number down rather than adjusting it
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★★★★★
"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
★ The machine for a Pune display floor large enough to need one
SOSA VaayuOne setting, found from the pavementView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuApp timers on Pune trading hoursView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-lock, so nobody nudges it in MarchView ₹11,999
✓ Waterless, so the machine adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces ✓ Adjustable intensity with a key-lock, so the number you found stays the number you run ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Kitchen Showrooms
Does Pune's climate change which fragrance I should use? No. The profile is the constant everywhere in India - it is decided by your displays and your price point, not by your postcode. What changes city to city is the number on the dial, and Pune's number moves less across a year than a coastal or a north Indian showroom's does. I would still check it twice a year, and I would check it the same way: standing outside first, then walking in through the customer's door.
How strong, and what does it cost? Lower than you would guess, because Pune customers sit through the same 60 to 90 minute design consultation as everyone else and exposure compounds. On hardware, under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Total hardware spend: one machine.
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.
Most Pune owners who write to me are asking which fragrance, and the more useful thing I can tell them is that their city has handed them an easier job than Delhi or Mumbai has. The Pune question is not what to change through the year. It is how to find one honest number and then be disciplined enough to leave it alone.
Quick answers — read this first
What is the best commercial scenting setup for a modular kitchen showroom in Pune? The same dry, material-led profile the rest of this guide argues for - dry woods, green and herbal, tea, clean mineral, and nothing edible - held at one low setting on a trading-hours timer. What is different about Pune is the maintenance rather than the choice: this is the city on my list that asks for the least seasonal adjustment. Find the number once by walking in from the street, write it on a card taped inside the machine's cupboard, and resist the urge to keep tuning it.Does Pune's climate change which fragrance I should use? No. The profile is the constant everywhere in India - it is decided by your displays and your price point, not by your postcode. What changes city to city is the number on the dial, and Pune's number moves less across a year than a coastal or a north Indian showroom's does. I would still check it twice a year, and I would check it the same way: standing outside first, then walking in through the customer's door.
How strong, and what does it cost? Lower than you would guess, because Pune customers sit through the same 60 to 90 minute design consultation as everyone else and exposure compounds. On hardware, under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Total hardware spend: one machine.
The short answer
Short answer: the same dry, material-led profile as any other city - dry woods, green, tea, clean mineral, nothing edible - at one low setting found by walking in from the street. Pune asks for less seasonal adjustment than most Indian cities, so the discipline is recording the setting rather than tuning it. One Sukoon (₹1,899) under about 750 sq ft, one Vaayu (₹11,999) from roughly 1,500 sq ft.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) at a low setting on the display floor's air path, key-locked, or one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) where the studio is a single room under about 750 sq ft.
Next step: send your floor plan with the entrance, display floor, consultation area and any cooking-demo kitchen marked, and we will suggest placement and a starting setting you can then verify on foot - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
Pune's advantage is not its weather report, it is its buildings and its trading pattern: settled ground-floor units on established commercial corridors, split air conditioning rather than central plant, and a year that does not force the dial around. The work is finding one number and holding it.
The showroom machine - tap to see the specification
For a Pune display floor past 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The general rule behind this page
Humid vs dry Indian cities
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
What is the honest scenting setup for a modular kitchen showroom in Pune?
One dry, material-led profile at one low setting, on a timer that matches your trading hours, and then almost nothing else for the rest of the year. That is the short version, and the reason it is shorter here than in most cities has to do with Pune's buildings rather than its weather. A large share of the kitchen showrooms I am asked about in this city are ground-floor units on established commercial corridors - low-rise buildings, a deep plan behind a single glass frontage, split air conditioning serving each room rather than one central plant tying the building together. Many of these businesses have traded from the same unit for years, which matters more than any climate fact I could give you: the fit-out has long since cured, so the room's own smell has settled and there is nothing to ventilate out before you begin. That is the least common starting position in this whole guide, and it is a genuine advantage. It also means the only air-path change the calendar brings is a mild one - the split units come off and the frontage gets opened up in the pleasant months, which alters how the room breathes without altering what it should smell of. So: the profile first, and it is the same profile I would specify in any of these nine cities. Dry woods - cedar, pine, sage - for timber and warm displays; the brighter, greener end for white and grey minimal rooms, run low so it never tips towards reading like a cleaning product; and nothing edible at any point. No vanilla, no baking, no coffee, no caramel, no warm spice. A showroom selling ₹5-10 lakh cabinetry that smells of cake reads as a bakery, and if you run live cooking demonstrations you are competing with a smell you staged deliberately. SOSA's own Fresh Brew at ₹849 is coffee and vanilla, and it is exactly the register to keep out of this building - I would rather say that plainly than sell you one. Then the number, which is the only genuinely local variable. You cannot find it from inside, because your nose adapts within about twenty minutes of arriving; so you find it from the pavement. Stand outside in the street air for a few minutes, walk back in through the customer's door, and notice what the first breath tells you. Do that twice - once early, once at the end of a trading day - and then sit at the consultation table for a full ninety minutes, because that is the seat that sets the ceiling. Write the number on a card and leave it there. On hardware, under about 750 sq ft one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 is the honest buy and a Vaayu would be the wrong purchase at six times the price. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, waterless, key-locked, low. And to be plain: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries or order value, and a supplier who offers you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan and send the floor plan.
Same dry, non-edible profile as everywhere else; the only Pune variable is the number, and Pune's number barely moves across a year. Find it from the pavement, write it on a card, lock the dial. ₹1,899 under 750 sq ft, ₹11,999 from about 1,500.
For a Pune display floor past about 1,500 sq ft, the machine is one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, rated to 1000m³, under 38dB, with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers and a key-lock that is the whole point on a floor where several people have opinions about the dial. ₹11,999. Under 750 sq ft, buy the Sukoon instead.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a retail scenting plan
What Pune changes and what it does not
The profile is the constant; the setting is the local variable
The machine, by showroom size
Two honest answers, decided by the cubic volume of your display floor rather than by your city. The images link through to the product pages so you can read the specifications before ordering anything.
Pune showrooms 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. Freestanding, wall or HVAC mount, which is how a deep corridor unit gets the same air at the back as at the door.
From ₹11,999
Under about 750 sq ft - buy this instead
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances. For a single-room Pune studio this is the honest buy, and a Vaayu at six times the price would be running at a fraction of what it is rated for.
From ₹1,899
The three things Pune actually changes
None of them is the fragrance. Two are about method and one is about the way Pune showrooms tend to be run, which is the part nobody writes about.
1
Find the number from the pavement
You cannot measure your own showroom from inside it
Your nose adapts within about twenty minutes of arriving, so by the time you have opened the shutters and answered two calls you are the least qualified person in the building to judge the level. The only honest measurement is made from outside. Stand in the street air for a few minutes, then walk in through the door your customer uses, and pay attention to the first breath and nothing else. Do it twice - once on arrival in the morning and once late in a trading day - because those are the two most different versions of the same room. Then sit at the consultation table for ninety minutes, because the seated customer sets the ceiling, not the person walking the floor.
Tip: If the first breath lets you name the fragrance, the setting is too high.
2
Watch the refit, not the season
Pune's real variable is a new display, not a new month
Corridor showrooms in this city refresh their displays regularly, and every new run of cabinetry, every laminate sample wall and every fresh adhesive joint restarts part of the off-gassing clock. That is a curing problem solved by ventilation and time, and fragrance never covers it - two smells in one airspace combine rather than cancel, so you end up with plywood and fragrance instead of plywood. The routine is boring and it works: sequence installs so they are not all live at once, open the frontage and run the air on fresh rather than recirculated where you can, and give it the weeks it needs before you switch the machine back to its normal setting.
Tip: A showroom mid-refit is a showroom that trades unscented for a while.
3
Write it down and lock it
The setting is an operating instruction, not a preference
The failure mode in a city that needs no seasonal adjustment is not under-scenting - it is drift. Somebody thinks it has faded, nudges the dial up, and nobody notices for a month because everyone in the building has adapted. So treat the number as a written instruction: intensity, timer windows, machine position, and the date you last verified it, on a card where whoever opens up will see it. Then turn the key-lock on. Anyone on the floor should still be able to switch the machine off in seconds - that is a different thing from being able to turn it up, and it is the one control you never restrict.
The SOSA principle
Pune's gift to a showroom owner is a year that does not force the dial around - which turns the whole job from tuning into record-keeping, and record-keeping is the part almost nobody does.
A number you cannot find written down anywhere is a number that has already changed.
The plan, zone by zone
The whole Pune brief as one page, worth pinning where whoever opens the showroom in the morning will actually see it.
The SOSA plan
A Pune kitchen showroom, zone by zone
| The zone | What to do |
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Frontage and threshold
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Where the gradient starts and where a glass door keeps exchanging air with the corridor outside. Never the place to compensate with a higher setting. |
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Main display floor
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One profile, one low setting, on a trading-hours timer. One volume of air means one fragrance - individual display kitchens do not get personalities. |
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Consultation table
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Inherits the floor and gets no source of its own. This is the seat the whole showroom's level is judged from, at minute ninety. |
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A display run being refitted
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Unscented until the new joinery and adhesive have cured. Ventilate, sequence the installs, and wait it out. |
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Live cooking demo kitchen
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Unscented permanently, with the machine switched off during a demonstration and until the extraction has cleared the room. |
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Under 750 sq ft in total
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One Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a reed. A Vaayu here would be the wrong buy and I would say so. |
Pune sits at the easy end of a range, and the two ends of that range are worth reading next: a kitchen experience centre in Delhi NCR is a genuinely seasonal building that needs two written settings a year, while a Bengaluru showroom is the one place the honest conversation is usually about buying less machine rather than adjusting more. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
One profile, one number, one machine
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 covers up to 1000m³ - more than most Pune display floors need, so it runs low rather than hard.
Pune hands you a year in which the honest answer barely moves. Almost every showroom I see here still manages to move it, because nobody wrote the number down and everybody trusted a nose that had already stopped working.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the unglamorous features matter in this city
A lock that holds a number, and a timer that holds the hours
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
Two machines cover almost every Pune showroom, with the Aangan taking over at experience-centre scale. Cold-air refill oil is not currently sold separately, so the 400ml supplied runs 90+ days a fill and continuity of supply should be confirmed with SOSA before you commit to anything larger than one room. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
One dry profile, a low setting found on foot, and the machine chosen by cubic volume
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A single-room Pune studio under about 750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at this size | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Display floor, frontage and consultation area, 1,500 sq ft and up | 1000m³ (about 2,000-3,000 sq ft), waterless, adjustable intensity, app timers, key-lock, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
 SOSA Aangan
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Experience centres past roughly 5,000 sq ft | HVAC nebuliser rated to approximately 8,000-10,000 sq ft, specified into the building's air handling rather than placed in a room | ₹25,999 View → |
Take the profile from your displays and your price point rather than from your city, find the setting from the pavement rather than from a chart, and fix any fit-out or refit smell before the machine goes back to its normal number. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or display styling; it is never used to mask another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and it is never a substitute for ventilation, extraction or cleaning. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries or order value, 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
SOSA's fragrances are composed in Pune, which means I have walked into more showrooms in this city than in any other, usually at the wrong time of day and usually without warning. What I notice is not the fragrance. It is that the good ones smell of nothing in particular from the pavement and of something quietly clean by the time you reach the consultation table - and that the owners of those showrooms almost always tell me they set it once, ages ago, and have not touched it since.
That is the whole Pune answer. The city gives you a year that does not push the dial around: settled buildings, split air conditioning you switch off in the pleasant months, a frontage you open up rather than a sealed box you condition for eight months solid. So the work moves from adjusting to recording. Find the number honestly, from outside, twice; sit in it at the consultation table for a full ninety minutes; then write it on a card and turn the key-lock on. The showrooms that get this wrong are not the ones that under-scent. They are the ones where somebody nudged it up in March and nobody noticed until September.
On hardware I would rather undersell. Under 750 sq ft, buy a Sukoon at ₹1,899 and keep the rest. From about 1,500 sq ft a Vaayu at ₹11,999, and past roughly 5,000 sq ft the conversation becomes an Aangan into your air handling. If you are mid-refit, buy none of them yet. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best commercial scenting setup for a modular kitchen showroom in Pune?
One dry, material-led profile - dry woods, green and herbal, tea or clean mineral, and nothing edible - held at a single low setting on a trading-hours timer. Pune asks for less seasonal adjustment than most Indian cities, so the discipline is finding the number honestly once and recording it rather than tuning it through the year. Under about 750 sq ft that is a Sukoon at Rs 1,899; from roughly 1,500 sq ft, one Vaayu at Rs 11,999.
Does Pune's climate mean a different fragrance from Mumbai or Delhi?
No. The profile is the constant across every Indian city and it is decided by your displays and your price point, not by your weather. What changes is the number on the dial. Pune's number moves less across a year than a coastal showroom's or a north Indian one's, which is an advantage rather than a fragrance decision. Check it twice a year by walking in from the street rather than by consulting a calendar.
How do I know what setting my Pune showroom needs?
You find it from outside, because your nose adapts within about twenty minutes of arriving and you are the least reliable judge in your own building. Stand in the street air for a few minutes, walk back in through the customer's door, and judge the first breath. Do it once early and once late in a trading day, then sit at the consultation table for a full ninety minutes. If a customer could name the fragrance, it is too strong.
My Pune showroom is being refitted. Should I keep the machine running?
Turn it down or off until the new joinery, laminate and adhesive have cured. Off-gassing is a curing problem solved by ventilation and time, and fragrance never covers another smell - two smells in one airspace combine rather than cancel, so you get plywood and fragrance instead of just plywood. Sequence installs so they are not all live at once, ventilate hard, and return to your normal setting only when the room smells of nothing in particular.
Will scenting my Pune showroom bring in more customers?
No one can promise that, and I will not. SOSA has run no research that would support a figure, and there is no honest way to separate ambient scent from the twenty other things a customer experiences across a ninety-minute visit. The question worth answering is whether your showroom's air agrees with the displays, the lighting and the price of the kitchens, which you can judge for yourself from the pavement.
One profile, one number, and honest about what it does
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for modular kitchen showrooms and experience centres in Pune
The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers up to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, and runs at a low setting on a display floor; below about 750 sq ft the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899, and past roughly 5,000 sq ft the Aangan at ₹25,999. Waterless, under 38dB, key-locked, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send your floor plan with the demo kitchen marked.
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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.