★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
Bengaluru is the one city on this list where the honest conversation is usually about buying less machine rather than adjusting more of it
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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
★ The machine for a Bengaluru floor genuinely large enough to need one
SOSA VaayuOnly once the studio is past 1,500 sq ftView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuOne setting that holds all yearView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-lock, because nothing else should moveView ₹11,999
✓ Waterless, so the machine adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces ✓ Rated to 1000m³ - and honestly more machine than a compact appointment studio needs ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Kitchen Showrooms
Does the mild climate mean I need less adjustment, or less machine? Usually both, and the second matters more. A stable year means the number you find in March is still honest in November, so the discipline is recording it rather than tuning it. But the more useful Bengaluru fact is structural: a large share of studios here trade with the frontage open and the air conditioning off for much of the year, which means the room is on outside air and being replaced constantly. In a room like that a bigger machine does not buy you a stronger level - the exchange rate outside sets the ceiling, not the dial.
How strong, and what does it cost? Low, because a Bengaluru studio is usually appointment-led and your customer sits through a 60 to 90 minute design consultation rather than walking past. On hardware, under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 - and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. Only from roughly 1,500 sq ft does one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 become a specification.
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.
Bengaluru owners tend to write to me expecting a fragrance recommendation and a seasonal schedule, and I usually end up sending back neither. This city has the steadiest showroom air in the country, which removes the two problems everybody else is solving - and leaves behind the one nobody asks about, which is whether you needed a machine at all.
Quick answers — read this first
How should a modular kitchen showroom in Bengaluru be scented? With the same dry, material-led profile as any other Indian city - dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage, something green or herbal, a dry tea, clean mineral - and nothing edible at any point. What Bengaluru changes is not the fragrance and barely even the number: this is the most stable showroom air I write for, so one setting found honestly will hold across a whole year. The real local question is the one underneath: a great many studios here are small enough that ₹1,899 is the right spend and ₹11,999 would be the wrong one.Does the mild climate mean I need less adjustment, or less machine? Usually both, and the second matters more. A stable year means the number you find in March is still honest in November, so the discipline is recording it rather than tuning it. But the more useful Bengaluru fact is structural: a large share of studios here trade with the frontage open and the air conditioning off for much of the year, which means the room is on outside air and being replaced constantly. In a room like that a bigger machine does not buy you a stronger level - the exchange rate outside sets the ceiling, not the dial.
How strong, and what does it cost? Low, because a Bengaluru studio is usually appointment-led and your customer sits through a 60 to 90 minute design consultation rather than walking past. On hardware, under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 - and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. Only from roughly 1,500 sq ft does one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 become a specification.
The short answer
Short answer: with the same dry, material-led profile as any other Indian city - dry woods, green and herbal, tea, clean mineral, nothing edible - at a single low setting that will hold all year, because Bengaluru's air is the steadiest in the country. The genuine local question is size rather than season: under about 750 sq ft the honest buy is a Sukoon (₹1,899) or a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849), and a Vaayu (₹11,999) only from roughly 1,500 sq ft.
The pick: for most Bengaluru studios, one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) in the room people actually sit in, or a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) if you would rather run nothing at all - and one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) only once the floor is past about 1,500 sq ft.
Next step: send the floor plan with the frontage, the display area and the consultation room marked, and tell us how many months a year the air conditioning is actually on - we will tell you honestly which of the three is the right spend - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
The local facts that matter here are not meteorological. They are a studio format that is compact, appointment-led and often spread over a ground-plus-one plot building, and a year in which the air conditioning spends long stretches switched off and the frontage open.
The honest buy first - tap to see the specification
Only once the floor is 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
How should a modular kitchen showroom in Bengaluru actually be scented?
One dry, material-led profile at one low setting, and then - genuinely - almost nothing for the rest of the year. The register is the national one: dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage for timber and warm displays, the brighter green end run low for white and grey minimal rooms, and nothing edible at any point. No vanilla, no baking, no coffee, no caramel, no warm spice, because a room selling ₹5-10 lakh cabinetry that smells of food reads as a café rather than an interiors brand. Where Bengaluru differs is not in the bottle and barely even in the number. It differs in two structural facts that between them usually make the honest answer cheaper than the one you came for. The first is stability. This is the steadiest showroom air I write about anywhere in India, which means the number you find in March is still the honest number in November - so the discipline here is recording it, not tuning it. Write the intensity, the timer windows, the machine's position and the date you last verified it on a card taped inside the cupboard, turn the key-lock on, and check it twice a year by walking in from the street. The second fact is the one that decides the spend. A large share of the studios I am asked about in this city trade with the frontage open and the air conditioning off for long stretches of the year, in ground-plus-one units on old residential plots, arranged as a display room downstairs and a consultation room up a stair rather than as one open floor. Both halves of that matter. A room on outside air is having its air replaced constantly, and in a room like that a larger machine does not buy you a stronger level - the exchange rate at the door sets the ceiling, and turning the dial up simply sends more of your oil into the street. And a two-room plot building with a stair between the rooms is two small volumes rather than one big one, which is exactly the shape where a single expensive machine has the least to offer. So the honest ladder, said out loud: under about 750 sq ft the buy is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 in the room people actually sit in, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 if you would rather have no schedule at all - and a Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy, rated for roughly seven times the volume you have. Only from about 1,500 sq ft, with a real display floor and central air to mount into, does one SOSA Vaayu become a specification rather than an argument. It is waterless, so it adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces - a fact about the machine rather than a claim about your finishes. And plainly: 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, and the steadiest air in the country, so one setting holds all year. The real Bengaluru question is size: for most studios here the honest spend is ₹849 or ₹1,899, and ₹11,999 only past about 1,500 sq ft.
Most Bengaluru studios should stop at a SOSA Sukoon - 270-320 sq ft of coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, ₹1,899, in the room where people sit. Past about 1,500 sq ft with a real display floor, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, waterless and rated to 1000m³.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a retail scenting plan
What Bengaluru changes and what it does not
Not the fragrance, barely the number - usually the size of the machine
The machine, by studio size
Two honest answers, and in this city the cheaper one is right far more often than it is elsewhere. The images link through to the product pages so you can read the specifications before ordering anything.
Most Bengaluru studios - the honest buy
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances. For a compact appointment-led studio, or the upstairs consultation room of a plot building, this is the right spend. A Vaayu at six times the price would be rated for volume you simply have not got.
From ₹1,899
Only past about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft at a normal ceiling. 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. Worth it once there is a genuine display floor and central air to mount into, and not before.
From ₹11,999
The three things Bengaluru actually changes
One is a genuine advantage, one is a limit you cannot buy your way past, and one is a shape of building this city has more of than any other on my list.
1
Find one number and stop
This is the least seasonal showroom air in the country
Elsewhere I spend paragraphs on how to move a setting through a year. Here the honest instruction is that you probably never need to. Find the number once, properly, and then leave it alone - stand outside in the street air for a few minutes, walk back in through the door your customer uses, and judge the first breath and nothing else, because your nose adapts within about twenty minutes of arriving and you are the least reliable judge inside your own studio. Then sit at the consultation table for a full ninety minutes, because that seat sets the ceiling. Write the number down with the date. The failure mode in a stable city is drift, not season.
Tip: A setting nobody wrote down is a setting that has already been changed.
2
An open frontage sets the ceiling
You cannot out-dial an air exchange
A lot of studios here trade with the frontage open and the air conditioning off for months at a time, which is pleasant to work in and changes what a machine can do. Air that is being replaced constantly cannot hold a level, and the answer to that is never a bigger number - turning the dial up in a naturally ventilated room mostly sends more oil into the street. If a studio genuinely wants a held, consistent level it has to close and condition the room it cares about, usually the consultation room, and scent that. Otherwise accept the softer, more variable version, which is honestly rather a good one, and spend ₹1,899 instead of ₹11,999.
Tip: Decide which single room you want to be consistent, then close that room.
3
Count the rooms, not the square feet
A ground-plus-one plot building is two volumes with a stair between them
The Bengaluru studio format is distinctive: an old residential plot, a display room at ground level, a consultation room and sample library up a stair, sometimes a small workshop or store at the back. On a floor plan that reads as one business. In air it is two or three volumes with real boundaries between them, and a machine only ever serves the volume it stands in. That is why the expensive single machine is so often the wrong purchase here - it cannot reach up a stairwell and it was never going to. Put the modest machine in the room where people sit for ninety minutes, and let the display room downstairs be the room it already is.
Tip: The room that deserves the spend is the one with the longest dwell, not the biggest floor.
The SOSA principle
Every other city on this list gives you something to manage; Bengaluru takes the management away, and what it leaves exposed is the question nobody wanted asked - whether the studio was ever big enough to need a machine.
A stable climate does not earn you a bigger purchase. It removes the excuse for one.
The plan, room by room
The Bengaluru brief as one page, written for a studio arranged as rooms rather than as one open floor.
The SOSA plan
A Bengaluru kitchen studio, room by room
| The room | What to do |
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 Open frontage and display room
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On outside air for much of the year, so it cannot hold a level and should not be asked to. A reed at ₹849 is an honest baseline here. |
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Consultation room upstairs
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The room with the longest dwell and a door you can close, which makes it the one room worth a machine. One Sukoon at ₹1,899, run low. |
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The stair between them
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A boundary, not a corridor. Do not expect anything placed downstairs to arrive at the top of it. |
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Sample and laminate library
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Leave it alone. It is a working store and its own smell is information for whoever is picking finishes. |
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Live cooking demo kitchen
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Unscented permanently, with any machine switched off during a demonstration and until the extraction has cleared the room. |
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Past about 1,500 sq ft with central air
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Now, and only now, one Vaayu at ₹11,999 mounted on the supply side and run low. |
If your studio has grown past the point where this page's advice applies, the arithmetic that decides the next step is in how to calculate the right scent-machine capacity, which is cubic rather than square. And for the ground-plus-one plot buildings this city is full of, the honest treatment of a stair as a boundary is in how to fragrance a two-floor kitchen experience centre. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
The cheaper answer, said out loud
For most Bengaluru studios the honest spend is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 - not ₹11,999.
I have talked more Bengaluru owners out of a ₹11,999 machine than any other city's, and not one of them has come back to tell me the ₹1,899 one was not enough.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the small machine is the right machine here
A room you can close beats a bigger number you cannot hold
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
Most Bengaluru studios are answered by the first two rows of this table and never reach the third. Cold-air refill oil is not currently sold separately, so the Vaayu's 400ml runs 90+ days a fill and continuity of supply should be confirmed with SOSA before anyone commits to a rollout. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
One dry profile, one setting that holds, and the smallest machine that honestly does the job
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
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An open-fronted display room, or a studio under about 300 sq ft | Pine, sage and cedar, 50ml ₹849 or 130ml ₹1,349, six reeds flipped weekly, nothing to switch on | ₹849 View → |
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SOSA Sukoon
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The consultation room, and most Bengaluru studios 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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A genuine display floor past about 1,500 sq ft with central air | 1000m³ (about 2,000-3,000 sq ft), waterless, adjustable intensity, app timers, key-lock, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
Buy for the volume of the room you are actually scenting, accept that a room on outside air has a ceiling the dial cannot raise, and record the setting rather than tuning it. 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
Bengaluru owners write to me asking which fragrance and which schedule, and I usually reply about neither. This is the easiest air in India to work with. The number you find in March is still honest in November, so there is no seasonal method to teach and no card of two settings to keep. Which is lovely, and it also strips the conversation back to the question underneath, which almost nobody asks: is this studio actually big enough to need a machine?
For most of the ones I see, no. The format here is compact and appointment-led, frequently a ground-plus-one on an old residential plot with the display downstairs and the consultation room up a stair - two volumes with a boundary between them, not one floor. And half the year the frontage is open and the air conditioning is off, which caps what any machine can hold, because air that is being replaced cannot be persuaded by a dial. In that situation the honest advice is to pick the one room you want to be consistent, close it, and put ₹1,899 of machine in it. Or a ₹849 reed downstairs and nothing else at all.
So, plainly: under 750 sq ft buy a Sukoon at ₹1,899 or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 and keep the rest of the money. Past about 1,500 sq ft with a real display floor and central air, a Vaayu at ₹11,999 earns itself. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How should a modular kitchen showroom in Bengaluru be scented?
With the same dry, material-led profile as any other Indian city: dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage, something green or herbal, a dry tea, or clean mineral, and nothing edible. Bengaluru's air is the steadiest in the country, so one setting found honestly will hold all year. The genuinely local question is size. Under about 750 sq ft the right buy is a Sukoon at Rs 1,899 or a Mountain Breeze reed at Rs 849, and a Vaayu at Rs 11,999 would be the wrong one.
Do I need to change the setting between seasons in Bengaluru?
Rarely, and that is this city's real advantage. Where a coastal or a north Indian showroom genuinely needs two written numbers a year, a Bengaluru studio can usually run one. The discipline is therefore record-keeping rather than tuning: write the intensity, the timer windows, the machine's position and the date you last verified it on a card, turn the key-lock on, and check it twice a year by walking in from the street rather than by consulting a calendar.
My studio has the frontage open and the AC off most of the year. Does a machine still work?
It works, but softly, and you cannot raise the level by raising the dial. Air that is being replaced constantly cannot hold a concentration, so turning the machine up mostly sends more oil into the street. If you want one part of the studio to be genuinely consistent, close and condition that room, usually the consultation room, and scent that room alone. Otherwise accept the softer version, which is a perfectly good one, and spend accordingly.
My display room is downstairs and the consultation room is upstairs. One machine or two?
Treat them as two volumes, because a stair is a boundary rather than a corridor and nothing placed downstairs will arrive reliably at the top of it. In practice the room that deserves the spend is the one with the longest dwell, which is the consultation room. One Sukoon at Rs 1,899 in that room, run low, and a reed at Rs 849 downstairs if you want anything there at all, is a complete and honest answer for most studios of this shape.
Will scenting my Bengaluru studio bring in more clients?
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 client experiences across a ninety-minute appointment. A supplier who offers you a number for it is selling. What is worth asking is whether the air in the room agrees with the displays, the lighting and the price of the kitchens, which you can judge yourself from the pavement.
The smallest honest machine, and nothing more
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for modular kitchen showrooms and design studios in Bengaluru
For most Bengaluru studios the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 in the consultation room, or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 with nothing to switch on. The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers up to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, and earns itself only once there is a genuine display floor past about 1,500 sq ft. Waterless, under 38dB, key-locked, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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.