The electricity: Vaayu draws DC 12V / 1A at 5W, Aangan DC 12V at 14W. On a building that runs air handling, lighting and kitchens, this is a rounding error, and I would rather say so plainly than dress it up with a tariff calculation that pretends to a precision nobody has.
What a fill lasts: Vaayu’s sealed 400ml tank runs up to about 90+ days depending on intensity and hours. For Aangan, the only life claim published is weeks between refills on business-hours schedules.
The line that is quoted, not published: SOSA publishes no consumption rate and no commercial refill price. HVAC-grade oil is supplied in bulk with a standing-order option, but no refill product is listed on the store and no price exists for it. So the fragrance line is specified and quoted per property through the contact page, against your zones, hours and intensity.
What does not exist at all: no annual maintenance contract, no installation charge, no dealer programme, no reseller margin, no trade price, no territory, no minimum order quantity and no published lead time. Those are not withheld figures. They are arrangements SOSA does not offer.
The honest gap: if a supplier quotes you a confident rupees-per-square-foot-per-month figure for commercial scenting, ask what intensity, what hours and what connected volume it assumes. The number is not wrong because it is high or low. It is wrong because it was produced before anybody looked at your building.
2. Most clubs spend the lower figure, because most clubs need one machine. The arrival zone carries the signal; a long-dwell lounge should sit below the level anyone would think to name. So the usual first purchase is a single zone unit at the threshold and nothing else for a month, which makes the opening capital question a four-figure one. A club on one air system across a whole floor is the case where the ₹25,999 unit is better value than two or three zone units, and it is worth establishing which of those two situations you are in before anybody writes a number down.
3. The electricity is not a cost line worth having. Vaayu draws DC 12V / 1A at 5W. Aangan draws DC 12V at 14W. Against a building that runs chillers, air handling, kitchens and a lighting scheme, a continuous load in single or low double figures of watts is a rounding error, and I would rather write that sentence than produce a tariff calculation that looks rigorous and rests on an assumed unit rate. The electrical work that does matter is not the consumption at all — it is the concealed DC 12V low-voltage point at each mounting position, which is a drawing item for your electrical contractor rather than a charge from a fragrance house.
4. A fill lasts a long time, and that part is published. Vaayu’s sealed, residue-free tank holds 400ml and runs up to about 90+ days depending on intensity and hours — the two variables being how hard you set it and how many hours a day the zone is occupied. Aangan holds 800ml, and the only life claim published for it is weeks between refills on business-hours schedules. That is deliberately not converted into millilitres per hour, because no such figure is published, and converting it would mean inventing one.
5. The fragrance line is quoted per property, and that is the honest answer rather than a dodge. SOSA supplies HVAC-grade oil for the waterless machines in bulk with a standing-order option, but no refill product is listed on the store and no price is published for it, and no consumption rate is published either. So the fragrance line in your paper is specified and quoted against your actual zones, hours and intensity through the contact page. There is also no annual maintenance contract, no installation charge, no dealer programme, no reseller margin, no trade price, no territory, no minimum order quantity and no published lead time — not withheld, simply not offered. Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, paraben-free, IFRA-compliant, 0 ppm formaldehyde, composed in Pune. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
What is published, to the rupee
Take the published side first, because it is the part a committee paper can be built on without a single telephone call. There are three waterless commercial machines and they are priced as shop items. There are three ultrasonic machines, which are cheaper and solve a different and much smaller problem. And there are reed diffusers, which are consumables and are the correct answer in more club rooms than most suppliers will admit. Every figure in the three cards below is a published figure, and none of it is an estimate.
Aangan₹25,999Vaayu, ₹11,999 — the zone machine, rated to up to 1000 m³ ≈ 2,000–3,000 sq ft, 400ml sealed tank, under 38 dB, DC 12V / 1A at 5W, three mounting options including into an HVAC return, Bluetooth app plus onboard buttons, 1h / 4h / 8h / 24h run windows, day selection, adjustable intensity, auto-stop, key-lock, CE, RoHS and SGS. Aangan, ₹25,999 — the air-handling machine, rated to up to 3,000 m³ ≈ 8,000–10,000 sq ft when connected to the HVAC or AHU, 800ml reservoir, under 42 dB, DC 12V at 14W, metal body 3.9 kg at 284 × 125 × 246 mm, black or white, one-year warranty, imported, controlled by an intelligent PCB with programmable work and pause cycles and daily schedules rather than by a phone. Meenar, ₹38,500 — the larger-property option, specified on enquiry. Two accuracy notes a committee will appreciate: the app and the certifications belong to Vaayu and not to the other two machines, and no coverage figure is published here for Meenar at all, which is why it is named as an option rather than slotted into a table of areas.
Sukoon₹1,899Power first: 5W on the zone machine, 14W on the air-handling machine, both DC 12V. I am not going to cost that out, because doing so would require me to assume a tariff and then present the product of two assumptions as a figure. It is negligible, and that is the whole finding. Tank life next: 400ml on Vaayu running up to about 90+ days depending on intensity and hours; 800ml on Aangan, where the only published life claim is weeks between refills on business-hours schedules. Then the two traps. Trap one is Megh at ₹3,499: it holds six litres and runs about 100 hours, and it covers only about 215 sq ft — less than the ₹1,899 Sukoon at 270–320 sq ft. Tank size is not coverage; the bigger tank buys runtime, not reach, and a club buying on tank capacity will overspend for less. Trap two is buying reeds by the quantity: ten bottles in a lounge are ten two-metre zones with valleys between them, so the money produces hills rather than a room.
Mountain Breeze₹849For the small closed rooms — cloakrooms, washrooms, a secretary’s office, an anteroom — the consumable cost is published in full. Reeds are ₹749–₹849 for 50ml lasting six to eight weeks and ₹1,249–₹1,349 for 130ml lasting fourteen to eighteen weeks, with six fibre reeds in a refillable glass bottle; refills are ₹2,399 for 300ml and ₹3,499 for 500ml, and duos are ₹1,498, ₹1,548 or ₹1,598. Everything is alcohol-free, phthalate-free, paraben-free, IFRA-compliant, 0 ppm formaldehyde, on a heat-stable CCT carrier, tested at 45°C and 85% relative humidity, and composed in Pune. For the ultrasonic machines the Hotel Collection fragrance oils are also published — 15ml ₹299 as a refill, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799, with packs of seven at ₹1,799, ₹5,999 and ₹10,799. Those oils are water-based and ultrasonic-only. They are not for reed diffusers and they are not for the waterless commercial machines; the carrier decides the machine, in both directions. Which is exactly where the published pricing stops.
Why the fragrance line is quoted — and why that is normal
This is the part of the page that matters most, so let me state the position before explaining it. SOSA publishes no purchasable refill oil for the waterless commercial machines and no price for one. The Aangan and Meenar pages say that HVAC-grade oil is supplied in bulk with a standing-order option, and that is accurate, but no such product is listed on the store and no figure exists for it. SOSA also publishes no consumption rate for any machine. It therefore follows — and I would rather spell out the logic than leave it as a policy — that no rupees-per-month figure for commercial fragrance can be stated honestly in advance, by me or by anyone else working from the published data. So the fragrance line in your committee paper is specified and quoted per property, and the quote comes after somebody has looked at your zones, your hours and your intensity.
A general manager is entitled to find that unsatisfying, so here is why it is the expected answer rather than an evasive one. Commercial scenting is dosed, and dosing has four inputs that are specific to a building: the connected volume being scented, which is a question about doors and ceiling heights rather than about floor area; the hours the zone is genuinely occupied, which differ enormously between a lobby open fourteen hours and a banquet floor used two evenings a week; the intensity setting, which is a judgement about long-dwell comfort and not a constant; and the air change rate of the space, because air that leaves takes the fragrance with it, so a high-air-change lobby consumes continuously while a sealed room accumulates. The same machine with the same oil behaves differently in two clubs, and a published consumption figure would be a single number pretending to cover all four variables. That is not conservatism. It is the difference between a specification and a brochure.
It is also how the rest of the building is bought. Nobody expects a published rupees-per-month figure for chilled water, for the laundry contract or for the lighting maintenance of a club, because all three are specified against the property. Fragrance is the same class of service and is quoted the same way everywhere in the industry; what differs between suppliers is only whether they say so. The practical test I would give a committee is this: when a supplier quotes a confident monthly figure, ask what intensity, what hours, what connected volume and what air change rate it assumes. A supplier who can answer has done the work and the number is probably sound. A supplier who cannot has produced a number that fits every club and describes none, and the club will discover the discrepancy at the third refill rather than at the meeting. I would rather lose a sale to a cheaper-looking fiction than publish one.
Two more things do not exist, and both come up at the second meeting, so they belong here rather than in a footnote. First, there is no annual maintenance contract and no installation charge at SOSA — those are not prices being withheld, they are arrangements that are not offered. The machines are wall-mounted, laid flat or connected to an AHU face, the tanks are sealed and residue-free, and the electrical work is a 12V point by your own contractor. Second, there is no dealer programme, no reseller margin, no trade price, no territory, no minimum order quantity and no published lead time, and no stock figure is published either. Every commercial enquiry is answered individually through the contact page, which is an invitation to ask rather than a promise of terms.
Every line in the committee paper: published or quoted
This is the table I would put in a club’s paper, in this order, with this fourth column. It is organised so that the honest status of each line is visible at a glance, because the commonest way a scenting proposal fails at committee is not that the figures are high — it is that one line turns out to have been an estimate dressed as a price, and the whole paper loses its authority. The last three rows carry no rupee figure at all, and they are the three rows I would most want a general manager to read aloud.
| Line in the paper | What it is | Published figure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zone machine, arrival ★ | Vaayu — up to 1000 m³ ≈ 2,000–3,000 sq ft, 400ml, under 38 dB, key-lock | ₹11,999 | Published price |
| Air-handling machine, whole floor | Aangan — up to 3,000 m³ ≈ 8,000–10,000 sq ft on the AHU, 800ml, under 42 dB | ₹25,999 | Published price |
| Larger-property machine | Meenar, specified on enquiry rather than from a table of areas | ₹38,500 | Published price |
| Reeds for the small closed rooms | 50ml for 6–8 weeks, or 130ml for 14–18 weeks, six fibre reeds, refillable glass | ₹749–₹849 / ₹1,249–₹1,349 | Published price |
| Reed refills | 300ml or 500ml, into the same glass bottle | ₹2,399 / ₹3,499 | Published price |
| Ultrasonic machine for one small room | Sukoon at 270–320 sq ft with a 500ml tank, 16–18 hours on low | ₹1,899 | Published price |
| Electricity | DC 12V — 5W on the zone machine, 14W on the air-handling machine | 5W / 14W | Negligible, deliberately not costed |
| The 12V point at each position | A concealed low-voltage point on your electrical layout, adaptor housed out of sight | Not a SOSA charge | Your electrical contractor |
| Commercial fragrance for the waterless machines | HVAC-grade oil in bulk with a standing-order option. No product is listed and no price is published; no consumption rate is published either | None exists | Specified and quoted per property |
| Maintenance and installation | No annual maintenance contract and no installation charge is offered at all | Does not exist | Not a line in your paper |
| Trade terms | No dealer programme, reseller margin, trade price, territory, minimum order quantity or published lead time | Does not exist | Not offered |
One zone · Vaayu₹11,999See it → Air system · Aangan₹25,999See it → Larger property · Meenar₹38,500See it →
How to write the paper the committee will sign
A house committee is not really evaluating a diffuser. It is evaluating whether the person proposing it has done the work, and the paper that passes is the one whose weakest line is visible. So write it in four blocks. Block one: the capital — the machines you are recommending, at published prices, with the coverage rating of each stated in volume, and a sentence saying why that number of machines and not more. Resist the temptation to present a machine count as arithmetic; it is not, and a member will ask. The honest version is that the count depends on connected volume, ceiling height, where the closed doors are, whether the property runs on one air system or several, and how many hours each zone is genuinely occupied — and that you have sent those five things to a supplier rather than guessing them.
Block two: the running cost, honestly segmented. Electricity: 5W and 14W, DC 12V, negligible, not costed. Consumables for the reed rooms: published prices, with a cadence of six to eight weeks for 50ml and fourteen to eighteen weeks for 130ml, so the annual figure for that part is arithmetic the committee can do itself. Commercial fragrance for the waterless machines: quoted per property, no published consumption rate, quote attached or pending. That single italicised line is the one that earns the paper its credibility, because every experienced committee member has seen a proposal where the running cost turned out to be a guess, and showing them which line is quoted tells them that the other lines are not.
Block three: the zero lines. The rooms that will not be scented — dining rooms, private dining and bar counters, the gym floor, spa treatment rooms, boardrooms, and in an older club the library or card room — carry no cost and should still appear, because a scheme that names its exclusions is believed and a scheme that scents everything is not. There is also a zero line before all of them: if the building currently smells closed or musty, the first money is spent on moisture, air change, drain traps and cleaning, in that order, and most of it is not money at all. Fragrance laid over musty does not produce fragrance; it produces a mixture that members describe as cheaper than the original problem, because it reads as concealment. SOSA sells no air purifier and no dehumidifier and makes no air-quality claim of any kind, so the building work is genuinely yours and genuinely first.
Block four: the governance, which is where the real money is. A scenting scheme is only a system once it is written down: the fragrance, the position, the intensity setting, the schedule, the refill cadence, the unscented list, and one named person who owns it. Add the key-lock and a rule that the setting is judged only by walking in from the car park, because the nose reports change rather than constancy and the member of staff who has been in the building since early morning has stopped registering a fragrance that is still physically arriving — and that person is usually the one holding the dial. An intensity that drifts upward one notch at a time is the only mechanism by which a club genuinely overspends on fragrance. Worth noting too that the fragrance choice deserves more care than its price suggests, because the cost of changing a signature arrives years later, once members have bonded to it. The hardware is replaceable. A decade of association is not.
The spend in order — and the two gaps
If a general manager asked me to lay the budget out as a sequence rather than a list, this is the order, and the first two lines involve no purchase. The last row is the pair of things this range does not contain. Both of them come up in nearly every first conversation, so they belong in the table itself rather than somewhere a committee will find them afterwards and reasonably wonder what else was left out.
| Step | What it is | Why it comes here in the order | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. The building condition first ★ | Moisture, air change, drain traps, carpet drying, a morning purge before opening | Because fragrance over musty reads as a cover-up, and no machine budget fixes it | No purchase |
| 2. Decide the unscented rooms | Dining, bar counter, gym floor, spa treatment rooms, boardroom, heritage library | Every room you exclude is a machine you do not buy and a complaint you do not receive | No purchase |
| 3. Vaayu at the arrival zone, and nothing else yet | Up to 1000 m³, airflow path or HVAC return, 400ml for up to about 90+ days, 5W, key-locked | The threshold carries the whole signal, so this is often the entire capital requirement | ₹11,999 |
| 4. Aangan only if the floor is one air system | Up to 3,000 m³ on the AHU, 800ml reservoir, 14W, programmable work and pause cycles | Better value than two or three zone units, but only where the air handling serves the zones | ₹25,999 |
| 5. Meenar for a larger property | The larger-property option, specified on enquiry rather than selected from an area table | Comes after a zoning conversation, not instead of one | ₹38,500 |
| 6. Reeds in the small closed rooms | Mountain Breeze and the rest — 50ml for 6–8 weeks, 130ml for 14–18 weeks, refills ₹2,399 / ₹3,499 | Cloakrooms, washrooms, a secretary’s office — the only line whose annual cost you can calculate yourself | ₹749–₹1,349 |
| No published consumption rate, and no listed commercial refill: the honest gaps | SOSA publishes no millilitres-per-hour figure for any machine and no refill product or price for the waterless machines. HVAC-grade oil is supplied in bulk with a standing-order option, so that line is specified and quoted per property — and no annual maintenance contract, installation charge or trade term exists either | Stated here rather than hidden, because a committee will check it, and because a quoted fragrance line is the norm in commercial scenting rather than an evasion — the dose depends on volume, hours, intensity and air change | Quoted |
Versailles
I have lost enquiries over this page. A general manager asks what the fragrance will cost per month, I explain that it is quoted against the property and that no consumption rate is published, and somewhere else a supplier gives him a figure to one decimal place. The figure feels like competence. It is usually a per-square-foot rate multiplied by a floor area, which is a calculation performed on two numbers that do not govern the outcome — because the outcome is governed by connected volume, occupied hours, the intensity setting and how fast the building changes its air.
What I would say to a committee is that the published side of this is unusually generous, and worth using. You can put a precise capital line in your paper today: ₹11,999 for a zone machine rated to up to 1000 m³, ₹25,999 for the air-handling machine rated to up to 3,000 m³, ₹38,500 for the larger-property option. You can put a precise consumables line in for the reed rooms and work out the annual figure yourself from a six-to-eight-week or fourteen-to-eighteen-week cadence. You can write “5W and 14W, negligible” against electricity and no reasonable member will challenge it. That is most of a budget, and all of it is checkable.
And then there is one line marked quoted, with a note saying what it depends on. In my experience that line is not the weakness of the paper; it is the reason the rest of it gets believed. A club treasurer who has sat through twenty proposals can tell the difference between a document that knows what it does not know and one that has filled every cell. The first club I ever quoted properly had asked three suppliers for a monthly figure, received three very confident and very different numbers, and chose the supplier who asked for a floor plan and the opening hours instead. I have tried to run a fragrance house that way since. Everything we make is composed in Pune, and a part of every order funds a girl’s classroom through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
- The monthly cost, component by component — what the running figure is actually built from, and which part stays quoted.
- Is a machine worth buying at all — including the two cases where the honest answer is no.
- Reeds against commercial machines and the questions to ask a supplier.
- Scenting in a renovation plan and what the architect should draw — the provisions that cost nothing at drawing stage.
- One scent across several clubs, standardising across locations, and writing the scenting SOP.
- Brand: the SOSA founder story.
SOSA commercial scenting — facts verified August 2026: Vaayu ₹11,999, waterless cold-air nebulising, coverage up to 1000 m³ ≈ 2,000–3,000 sq ft, 400ml refillable sealed tank lasting up to about 90+ days depending on intensity and hours, Bluetooth app plus onboard buttons, run windows of 1h / 4h / 8h / 24h, day selection, adjustable intensity, auto-stop and key-lock, under 38 dB, freestanding, wall-mounted or HVAC-return mounting, DC 12V / 1A at 5W, CE, RoHS and SGS, black and white. Aangan ₹25,999, HVAC or AHU connection or standalone wall-mount or lay-flat, coverage up to 3,000 m³ ≈ 8,000–10,000 sq ft, 800ml reservoir, under 42 dB, DC 12V at 14W, intelligent PCB with programmable work and pause cycles and daily schedules, metal body 3.9 kg at 284 × 125 × 246 mm, black or white, one-year warranty, imported; it has no app and no Bluetooth, and no certifications are published for it. Meenar ₹38,500 is the larger-property option and is specified on enquiry; no coverage figure is published for it here. No digital integration exists on any SOSA machine — there is no building-management interface, no automation protocol and no smart-home connection of any kind; the air handling connection is mechanical. Ultrasonic machines: Sukoon ₹1,899 at 270–320 sq ft with a 500ml tank and sixteen to eighteen hours on low, Boond ₹899 at up to about 150 sq ft with a 300ml tank, Megh ₹3,499 with a six-litre tank and around 100 hours of runtime but only about 215 sq ft of coverage. Reed diffusers ₹749–₹849 for 50ml lasting 6–8 weeks and ₹1,249–₹1,349 for 130ml lasting 14–18 weeks, six fibre reeds, alcohol-free, phthalate-free, paraben-free, IFRA-compliant, 0 ppm formaldehyde, heat-stable CCT carrier, refillable glass bottle, tested at 45°C and 85% RH, composed in Pune; refills 300ml ₹2,399 and 500ml ₹3,499, duos ₹1,498, ₹1,548 and ₹1,598. The Hotel Collection fragrance oils are water-based and ultrasonic-only at 15ml ₹299, 100ml ₹999 and 300ml ₹1,799, with packs of seven at ₹1,799, ₹5,999 and ₹10,799; they are not for reed diffusers and not for the waterless commercial machines. No purchasable refill oil is listed for the waterless commercial machines — that fragrance is specified and quoted per property, and no consumption rate is published for any machine. SOSA publishes no leather fragrance in any format and no tobacco or smoky fragrance for any diffuser. SOSA sells no air purifier, no dehumidifier and no room spray for interiors, and makes no health, air-quality, VOC or mould claim. No dealer programme, reseller margin, trade price, territory, minimum order quantity, published lead time, annual maintenance contract, installation charge or service contract exists. Free shipping above ₹499. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house; the Hotel Collection scents are SOSA’s own interpretations inspired by the world’s finest hotels, and SOSA is not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel brand. Prices subject to change — see the live product pages.