★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
By treating it as subtraction rather than addition - because a visitor does not total up the features of a room, they notice the faults in it, which makes a premium interior a maintenance schedule far more than a decoration budget
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
Mountain BreezePine, sage and cedar - the house defaultView ₹849
Morning FreshnessLemon, mint and eucalyptus for a white officeView ₹749
SOSA VaayuThe same register across a connected client floorView ₹11,999
✓ 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
What counts as a fault? A flickering tube, a stained ceiling tile, a squeaking door, a chipped desk edge, dusty skirting, a full bin, mismatched chairs and a handwritten sign taped to glass.
Where does scent sit on that list? It is one of very few items that are added rather than removed, it costs ₹849, and it must be set low, because a strong register is itself a fault that gets counted.
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.
Because perception here is subtractive. Nobody totals your features. They notice the flickering tube, the stained tile, the full bin. Luxury is restraint plus maintenance.
Quick answers — read this first
How does a premium room read as premium without decoration? By having nothing wrong with it. Visitors do not add up features, they notice faults, so the fastest route is removing defects rather than adding elements.What counts as a fault? A flickering tube, a stained ceiling tile, a squeaking door, a chipped desk edge, dusty skirting, a full bin, mismatched chairs and a handwritten sign taped to glass.
Where does scent sit on that list? It is one of very few items that are added rather than removed, it costs ₹849, and it must be set low, because a strong register is itself a fault that gets counted.
The short answer
Short answer: by subtraction. Visitors count faults rather than features, so a premium room is a maintenance schedule with very little in it, plus one register set low.
The pick: a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849), or a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) where the visitor floor is one connected volume - either one set low.
Next step: walk your own entrance and write down ten things that are wrong. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
Ten faults removed will read as more considered than ten elements added, and cost a fraction of it.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
The house register
Mountain Breeze · ₹849
For a white, daylit office
Morning Freshness · ₹749
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
How can a premium business create a luxury experience without excessive decoration?
By understanding that the perception you are trying to produce is subtractive, and then spending accordingly - which is a genuinely different budget from the one most owners write. Here is the mechanism. A visitor walking into a room does not tally its features and arrive at a score. Nobody has ever left a business thinking that the veneer was impressive and the light fittings were imported. What people do, reliably and without effort, is notice things that are wrong. A tube light with a flicker in it. A ceiling tile with a water stain. A door that squeaks or does not close on its own. A chipped edge on the reception desk. Dust along the skirting and on the top edge of a frame. A bin that is full. Four chairs that are nearly the same but not quite. A handwritten sign taped to the glass. Cable trunking that stops halfway. A plant that is dying slowly in the corner. Each one of those is a subtraction, and a room that reads as expensive is very often just a room in which a visitor could not find any. Which has two consequences worth acting on. The first is that this makes a premium interior a maintenance schedule far more than it is a decoration budget, and a schedule is cheap, repeatable and entirely within the control of a small business. A fortnightly walk of your own entrance with a notebook, done by somebody who is told to look for faults rather than to admire the room, will produce a list that costs a few thousand rupees to clear and changes the reading of the space more than any single purchase. The second is that adding things is risky in a way that removing things is not. Every element you add can itself become a fault later - a feature wall dates, an accent light fails, a decorative object gathers dust, a large arrangement wilts. Restraint is not an aesthetic preference here, it is a reduction in the number of things that can go wrong, which is exactly why it reads as confident. Scent is worth placing carefully on this list, because it is one of the very few items that is genuinely additive and still safe. It costs ₹849 rather than a fit-out, it has no dated look, it cannot chip, and it is the one element that a 600 sq ft room delivers as well as a 6,000 sq ft one. But it obeys the same subtractive rule as everything else: a register that announces itself is a fault, and it is counted exactly like the flickering tube. So it is set low, from the furthest seat, once, and then left alone - and the choice between a bottle and a machine is a shape question rather than a status one. A new room needs layers rather than ornament, and this is the same argument from the other side. 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. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where the visitor floor is one connected volume. 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.
By subtraction. People do not total up features, they notice faults, so a premium room is one where a visitor cannot find any. That makes it a maintenance schedule rather than a decoration budget.
The one safe addition, set low: SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849, or 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.
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
The cool register for a white, glazed, daylit interior
SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
Malabar lemon, peppermint and eucalyptus - cool and bright with no warmth or sweetness in it, which suits a white, glazed clinical interior where cedar can read as heavy. Three reeds in on the reception desk, or two in a hard-surfaced room. ₹749 for 50ml (6-8 weeks), ₹1,249 for 130ml (14-18 weeks). Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, six fibre reeds.
From ₹749
Count faults, not features
The perception you want is produced by removal. That changes both the budget and who does the work.
1
The mechanism
Nobody tallies your features
No visitor has ever left thinking the veneer was impressive. What people do without effort is notice what is wrong, and each fault is a subtraction.
Rule: a premium room is one with no findings.
2
The list
Ten things, and they repeat
Flickering tube, stained ceiling tile, squeaking door, chipped desk edge, dusty skirting, full bin, nearly-matching chairs, taped sign, unfinished trunking, dying plant.
Test: walk your entrance with a notebook.
3
The budget
A schedule, not a purchase
A fortnightly fault-hunt costs a few thousand rupees to clear and changes the reading of a space more than any single item you could buy.
Rule: and it is repeatable, which purchases are not.
4
Additions
Everything added can become a fault
A feature wall dates, an accent light fails, an object gathers dust, an arrangement wilts. Restraint reduces the number of things that can go wrong.
Rule: which is why it reads as considered.
5
Scent
Additive, and still safe
It cannot chip, has no dated look, costs ₹849 and works as well in 600 sq ft as in 6,000. But a register that announces itself is counted like the flickering tube.
Rule: set it low, once, from the furthest seat.
The SOSA principle
Ten faults removed will read as more considered than ten elements added - and the removal costs a fraction of the addition, repeats every fortnight and cannot date.
Which is why restraint in a smaller or newer business is not a compromise. It is a smaller surface area for things to go wrong on.
Luxury without decoration, question by question
Why the perception is subtractive, and where an added element is still safe.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Restraint, maintenance and one register
| The question | The answer |
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Why does adding elements rarely work?
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Because visitors do not total up features. They notice faults, and every element added is also a future fault that can date, fail or gather dust. |
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What does the fault list look like?
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A flickering tube, a stained ceiling tile, a squeaking door, a chipped desk edge, dusty skirting, a full bin, mismatched chairs, a taped-up sign. |
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So what is the actual budget?
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A schedule. A fortnightly walk of your own entrance looking for faults, and a few thousand rupees to clear whatever the notebook says. |
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Is restraint just a style preference?
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No. It reduces the number of things that can go wrong later, which is why a spare room holds its reading for years and a decorated one often does not. |
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Where does the register fit?
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As the one safe addition, set low and left alone. A Mountain Breeze reed (₹849), or a Vaayu (₹11,999) for a connected visitor floor. |
The empty-room version is a new room with no traces in it, the competitive version is competing with an established premium salon, and the renovation version is a premium client experience without renovating. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance changes how a business performs.
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.
A register that announces itself is not a luxury signal. It is counted in exactly the same column as the flickering tube and the stained ceiling tile.
— 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 Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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Reception as a single seating group, and the register for the whole firm | Three or four reeds in at the staff end of the desk, flipped weekly; lifted out of the room in seconds if a client asks | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The same, in a white, glazed or hard-surfaced room | Two or three reeds in - a hard room needs fewer, not more; cool, with no warmth or sweetness | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Fresh & Grounded Reed Diffuser Duo
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Two genuinely separate seating groups in one client area | Two bottles in two places carrying one register - reach comes from placement, never from adding reeds | ₹1,548 / ₹2,548 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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When the client zone is a connected floor rather than one seating group | The same register carried by a machine, placed from the plan and key-locked at the level the furthest chair allowed | ₹11,999 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A closed reception or waiting area of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf, on low, opening hours only, rinsed between refills | ₹1,899 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.
SS
ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
By understanding that the perception you are trying to produce is subtractive, and then spending accordingly, which is a genuinely different budget from the one most owners write. Here is the mechanism. A visitor walking into a room does not tally its features and arrive at a score. Nobody has ever left a business thinking that the veneer was impressive and the light fittings were imported. What people do, reliably and without effort, is notice things that are wrong: a tube with a flicker, a ceiling tile with a water stain, a door that squeaks, a chipped desk edge, dust along the skirting, a full bin, four chairs that are nearly the same but not quite, a handwritten sign taped to the glass, trunking that stops halfway, a plant dying slowly in the corner.
Each of those is a subtraction, and a room that reads as expensive is very often just a room in which a visitor could not find one. That has two consequences. The first is that a premium interior is a maintenance schedule far more than a decoration budget, and a schedule is cheap, repeatable and entirely within a small business's control: a fortnightly walk of your own entrance with a notebook, done by somebody told to look for faults rather than to admire the room, produces a list that costs a few thousand rupees to clear and changes the space more than any single purchase. The second is that adding is risky in a way removing is not, because every element added can become a fault later. A feature wall dates, an accent light fails, an object gathers dust, an arrangement wilts. Restraint is not an aesthetic preference; it is a smaller surface area for things to go wrong on.
Scent belongs carefully on that list, because it is one of very few items that is genuinely additive and still safe. It costs ₹849 rather than a fit-out, it has no dated look, it cannot chip, and it is the one element a 600 sq ft room delivers as well as a 6,000 sq ft one. But it obeys the same subtractive rule as everything else: a register that announces itself is a fault, counted exactly like the flickering tube. So it is set low, from the furthest seat, once, and then left alone. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where the visitor floor is one connected volume. 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
How does a room read as premium without heavy decoration?
By having nothing wrong with it. People do not total up features, they notice faults, so removal changes the reading faster than addition does.
What should I look for on a fault walk?
Flickering tubes, stained ceiling tiles, squeaking doors, chipped edges, dusty skirting, full bins, nearly-matching chairs and signs taped to glass.
Why is restraint safer than decoration?
Because every element added can become a fault later. A feature wall dates, an accent light fails, an object gathers dust and an arrangement wilts.
Is scent an exception to the rule?
Partly. It is additive and safe, because it cannot chip or date, but a register that announces itself is counted as a fault like any other.
What does it cost to start?
A fortnightly fault walk and a few thousand rupees of clearing, plus one register at ₹849, or ₹11,999 for a connected visitor floor.
Walk your entrance, list ten faults
SOSA — Studio Scenting subtract, then add one thing
Nobody totals up the features of a room. People notice what is wrong with it: the flickering tube, the stained ceiling tile, the squeaking door, the chipped desk edge, the full bin, the sign taped to the glass. So a premium interior is a maintenance schedule far more than a decoration budget, and restraint is simply a smaller surface area for faults. The register is the one safe addition, set low from the furthest seat and then left alone. 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
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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 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.