★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
With a cross-purge rather than with fragrance, because the changeover is only eight minutes and two cohorts overlap inside it - and with a studio floor that carries nothing at all, since deep breathing is the actual instruction being given in that room
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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 actually fixes the changeover? A cross-purge. Door and window open with a fan running for about six minutes of the eight-minute gap, made a rule rather than a decision.
Who judges the room? The arriving cohort, on what the leaving cohort left behind. They walk in cool into a room that has just been worked hard in.
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.
With air, not fragrance. The changeover is eight minutes and two cohorts overlap inside it - one leaving hot, one arriving cool. And the floor carries nothing, because in that room breathing deeply is the instruction.
Quick answers — read this first
Should a pilates studio floor be scented? No. Deep diaphragmatic breathing is the instruction being given in that room, which makes it the space in the building with the highest inhaled air volume per person.What actually fixes the changeover? A cross-purge. Door and window open with a fan running for about six minutes of the eight-minute gap, made a rule rather than a decision.
Who judges the room? The arriving cohort, on what the leaving cohort left behind. They walk in cool into a room that has just been worked hard in.
The short answer
Short answer: with a six-minute cross-purge in the changeover rather than with fragrance, and with a studio floor that carries nothing because deep breathing is the instruction in it.
The pick: nothing on the floor. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849) in the lobby, or a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) locked low across lobby and corridor.
Next step: time your actual changeover with a stopwatch for a week. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
It is the one room in the building where breathing deeply is the instruction.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
The hard line
Closed treatment rooms stay fragrance-free
Reception only, at the lowest level
Mountain Breeze · ₹849
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
How should a premium Kondapur pilates studio handle ambience between back-to-back evening classes?
With air rather than fragrance, and with a studio floor that carries nothing at all - and the second half of that is the part most studios get wrong. Start with the floor, because it settles everything else. A pilates class is the one setting in a commercial building where deep, deliberate, diaphragmatic breathing is the actual instruction being given. The teacher is asking for it out loud, repeatedly, for fifty minutes. That makes the studio floor the room in the building with the highest inhaled air volume per person by a long way - considerably higher than a waiting room, a salon chair or a showroom - and it means anything added to that air is being taken in at several times the rate it would be anywhere else. Which is the argument for the floor carrying nothing, and it is a stronger argument than the usual one about closed rooms. Everything the studio wants to say about itself therefore has to be said in the lobby. Then the changeover, which is a timing problem before it is anything else. The gap between back-to-back evening classes is rarely the fifteen minutes on the timetable. It is eight to ten minutes in practice, and for four or five of those two cohorts are in the building at once - one leaving warm, damp and unhurried, one arriving cool, dry and looking around. The arriving cohort judges the room on what the leaving cohort left, which is the whole of the problem stated in one line. And what they left is heat and moisture rather than anything you can dress over. Adding output to a warm, occupied room makes it read stronger still. So the fix is a cross-purge, and it has to be a rule rather than a decision. Door and window open on opposite sides with a fan running, for about six of the eight minutes, started by whoever teaches the earlier class rather than by whoever remembers. Six minutes of genuine cross-flow moves more of that room's air than an hour of a machine ever will, and it costs nothing beyond making it somebody's named job. Mats and equipment are the residual half: a wipe-down between classes, and mats stored on edge rather than stacked flat so they dry rather than press their moisture into each other. The shoes and kit question is handled separately. Then the lobby, which is where the studio's character actually lives. A light register at the desk, set from the furthest waiting seat, is doing real work: it is the first thing an arriving cohort meets and the last thing a leaving one does, and it is a room where people are dressed, standing and free to move. 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 in the lobby, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 locked low across lobby and corridor. The studio floor, closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk. 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.
With a six-minute cross-purge inside the eight-minute changeover, made a named job rather than a decision. The studio floor carries nothing, because deep breathing is the instruction in it. The lobby carries the character.
Lobby only, never the floor: SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 locked low.
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
Eight minutes, two cohorts, one room that carries nothing
The changeover is shorter than the timetable says, and the floor is a special case for a reason nobody states.
1
The floor
Deep breathing is the instruction
A teacher asks for deliberate diaphragmatic breathing out loud, repeatedly, for fifty minutes, which makes this the room with the highest inhaled air volume per person in the building.
Rule: so it carries nothing at all.
2
The gap
Eight minutes, not fifteen
The timetable says fifteen and the stopwatch says eight to ten, with four or five of those having two cohorts in the building at the same time.
Test: time it for a week before planning anything.
3
The judgement
Arrivals grade what leavers left
One group leaves warm, damp and unhurried; the next arrives cool, dry and looking around. The second group's impression is formed entirely by the first group's residue.
Rule: design the changeover for the arriving half.
4
The purge
Six of the eight minutes
Door and window open on opposite sides with a fan running, started by whoever taught the earlier class. Six minutes of real cross-flow moves more air than an hour of any machine.
Rule: a named job, not a good intention.
5
Mats
Stored on edge, not stacked
Mats stacked flat press their moisture into each other and stay damp into the next class. On edge they dry, which removes the residual half of the problem.
Test: wipe between classes, store upright.
The SOSA principle
A pilates floor is the one room in a commercial building where breathing deeply is the instruction being given out loud - which makes it the last place anything should be added to the air.
It is a stronger reason than the usual closed-room argument, and it is why the studio's character has to live entirely in the lobby.
The changeover, question by question
What the eight minutes actually contain, and which half of the building carries the character.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Ambience between back-to-back pilates classes
| The question | The answer |
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Should the studio floor be scented?
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No. Deliberate deep breathing is the instruction in that room, so inhaled air volume per person is the highest in the building. |
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How long is the changeover really?
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Eight to ten minutes rather than the fifteen on the timetable, and two cohorts overlap for four or five of them. |
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What fixes it?
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A cross-purge: door and window opposite, fan running, about six minutes, started by the teacher of the earlier class as a rule rather than a decision. |
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What about mats and equipment?
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Wiped between classes and stored on edge rather than stacked flat, so they dry instead of pressing moisture into each other. |
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Where does the character live?
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The lobby. A Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) at the desk is the first thing arrivals meet and the last thing leavers pass. |
The gym version of the floor question is reception rather than the training floor, the small-reception version is a large gym with a small arrival zone, and the kit version is shoes and workout smells without masking. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome.
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.
Six minutes of real cross-flow moves more of that room's air than an hour of any machine - and the only thing standing between a studio and it is making it somebody's named job.
— 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.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
With air rather than fragrance, and with a studio floor that carries nothing at all - and the second half is the part most studios get wrong. Start with the floor, because it settles everything else. A pilates class is the one setting in a commercial building where deep, deliberate, diaphragmatic breathing is the actual instruction being given. The teacher is asking for it out loud, repeatedly, for fifty minutes. That makes the studio floor the room with the highest inhaled air volume per person by a long way, considerably higher than a waiting room or a salon chair, and it means anything added to that air is taken in at several times the rate it would be anywhere else. Which is the argument for the floor carrying nothing, and it is a stronger argument than the usual one about closed rooms.
Then the changeover, which is a timing problem before it is anything else. The gap between back-to-back evening classes is rarely the fifteen minutes on the timetable. It is eight to ten in practice, and for four or five of those two cohorts are in the building at once: one leaving warm, damp and unhurried, one arriving cool, dry and looking around. The arriving cohort judges the room on what the leaving cohort left, and what they left is heat and moisture rather than anything you can dress over. So the fix is a cross-purge, and it has to be a rule rather than a decision - door and window open on opposite sides with a fan running, for about six of the eight minutes, started by whoever taught the earlier class rather than by whoever remembers. Six minutes of genuine cross-flow moves more of that room's air than an hour of a machine ever will, and it costs nothing beyond making it somebody's named job.
Mats and equipment are the residual half: wiped between classes, and stored on edge rather than stacked flat so they dry instead of pressing their moisture into each other. Then the lobby, which is where the studio's character actually lives - the first thing an arriving cohort meets and the last thing a leaving one passes, and a room where people are dressed, standing and free to move. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 in the lobby, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 locked low across lobby and corridor. The studio floor, closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free. 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
Should a pilates studio floor have ambient fragrance?
No. Deliberate deep breathing is the instruction being given in that room, which makes inhaled air volume per person the highest in the building.
How long is a realistic changeover between evening classes?
Eight to ten minutes rather than the fifteen on the timetable, with two cohorts overlapping in the building for four or five of them.
What should happen during the changeover?
A cross-purge: door and window open on opposite sides with a fan running for about six minutes, started by the teacher of the earlier class.
How should mats be stored between classes?
Wiped down and stored on edge rather than stacked flat, so they dry instead of pressing moisture into each other before the next class.
Where should the studio's fragrance live?
The lobby only, set from the furthest waiting seat, with a named seat away from the source kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk.
Time the changeover with a stopwatch
SOSA — Studio Scenting purge the air, not dress it
The studio floor is the one room in a commercial building where deep breathing is the instruction being given out loud, which makes it the last place anything should be added to the air. The changeover is eight to ten minutes rather than fifteen, and two cohorts overlap inside it - one leaving warm and damp, one arriving cool and grading the room. A six-minute cross-purge started by the earlier teacher fixes more than any machine can, and the character lives in the lobby. 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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- Product smells, appointment after appointment
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan for your space
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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.