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Nine pairings, and you only need to try two
The two dials are independent and no arithmetic connects them. There is no published per-speed figure, so a swap of one for the other cannot be calculated. It can only be driven.
What the question is usually reaching for is control: a way to spend less fragrance on a short errand and more on a long drive. You do have that control. You have three settings and three timer positions, which is nine pairings, and the one you want is two days of driving away.
The answer in 30 seconds
Should I run a higher speed and a shorter timer, or a lower speed and a longer one?
- In one line. No sum connects the two dials. Drive one pairing, then the other, on the same route with the same oil.₹3,999
- The short answer. No per-speed figure is published, so there is no exchange rate between the speed and the timer and no pairing can be calculated as equal to another. Drive both pairings on the same route on consecutive days and keep the oil the same. Safar is Rs 3,999.
- The one thing worth knowing: the timer is a stop and not a dose. It does not meter anything out; it ends the run after one, two or three hours, and that is the whole of its job.
- Is a higher setting on a shorter timer the same as a lower one on a longer timer? Nobody can say. SOSA publishes no per-speed figure, so the two cannot be converted into each other, and anyone offering you the conversion has invented it.
- So how do I choose? Drive both. One pairing on Monday, the other on Tuesday, same route and same oil, and keep a one-line note each day.
- What does the timer actually do? It ends the run after one, two or three hours. It is a stop, not a dose, and a journey longer than three hours is the timer ending and you starting it again.
The answer, in full
Both are available and neither is published as the equivalent of the other. SOSA publishes no per-speed figure of any kind: no duration, no output, no coverage. That means there is no sum you can do to trade a step on the speed against an hour on the timer, and any page that gives you one is guessing. What you can do is run them against each other. Take a route you drive most weeks. Run the higher setting with the timer at one hour on the first day. Run the lower setting with the timer at three hours on the second. Same oil, same windows, same route. Then write a line about each. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Two dials, no exchange rate, one test
People ask this question expecting a trade: half the strength for twice the time, or something like it. The trade does not exist on paper, because the figure it would be built from has never been published. Here is what is actually in your hands.
The speed: three positions and no figure behind them
SOSA publishes the count, three, and no output or duration figure for any one of them. So a step on the speed has no published size. You can feel the difference between the three positions in your own cabin, and that feeling is the only measure anybody has.
A step is a step. Nobody has published how big a step it is.
The timer: a stop at one, two or three hours
The auto-off timer ends the run. It has three positions - one hour, two hours and three hours - and no fourth. It does not spread anything out or ration anything; it switches the device off. On a journey longer than three hours the timer ends and you start it again, which is the honest answer and not a limitation anybody hid from you.
The bottle: measure your own consumption, because none is published
If what is really behind the question is how fast the oil goes down, no consumption rate is published at any setting, so no interval and no monthly cost exist. Mark the level on the 20ml bottle with a marker pen, write the date beside it, run your ordinary month on your chosen pairing, and mark it again. That reading is about your driving and nobody else's.
The refill prices are published. The interval is not.
Keep the oil out of the experiment
Both days have to run on the same oil or the test collapses. SOSA publishes no strength ranking of the nine car scents, so an oil change is not a quiet way of adjusting the level, and doing it mid-test leaves you unable to say which of the three variables moved. One oil, two days, two notes.
Want a second oil lined up for after the test? The three-spray discovery sets run ₹709 to ₹909, and a 50ml spray of any scent is ₹1,509. See the discovery sets →
What the published specification settles, and what it leaves to you
| What the record says | |
|---|---|
| How many speeds and how many timer positions there are | Settled. Three speed settings, and an auto-off timer at one hour, two hours or three hours. There is no six-hour option and no minute setting. |
| Which pairing is equivalent to which | Not settled, and not settleable. No per-speed figure is published, so the conversion cannot be derived, estimated or quoted. |
| How long the device will run on a charge | Settled. Up to ten hours continuous, or thirty hours intermittent, from the 2000 mAh battery. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how long the oil lasts. |
| How much oil a pairing gets through in a month | Not published at all. Mark the bottle, log the date, mark it again after your ordinary month, and you will have the one figure that is true for you. |
If both days read much the same, take the lower setting and the longer timer, because it is the pairing that asks the least of you. If they read differently, you now know something no specification could have told you, and it cost you two mornings.
“There is no exchange rate between a step of speed and an hour of timer. There are nine pairings and a route you already drive.”
Choosing a pairing in two mornings
- Day one: the higher setting with the timer at one hour, on your usual route.
- Day two: the lower setting with the timer at three hours. Same oil, same route.
- Park and step out for a few minutes each day before you decide anything.
- Mark the bottle level and the date, so the month gives you your own figure.
SOSA car fragrance
Nine pairings, two mornings, one answer that is yours
The specification is on the product page: three speeds, a one, two or three hour timer, and the battery figures. The pairing is the part you drive.
10 ml sprays ₹459–₹559 · 12 ml hanging bottles ₹459–₹519 · 15 ml refills ₹399–₹449 · 50 ml spray ₹1,509 · three-spray discovery sets ₹709–₹909 · SOSA Safar ₹3,999, ₹4,499 hotel-inspired
View SOSA SafarSee the 100 gm and 300 gm oilsQuestions, answered
Is a higher speed on a one-hour timer the same as a lower speed on three hours?
Does the timer control how much fragrance comes out?
Is there a six-hour timer on Safar?
Which pairing uses less oil?
Can I run it longer than three hours by setting the timer twice?
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Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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