★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
A person waiting for an appointment can step outside for air; a person lying on a treatment table, mid-session, cannot, and that difference is the whole of the rule
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
★ What an orthopaedic or physiotherapy centre is choosing between
SOSA VaayuFront of house only, sized on its own volumeView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-lock, because the level must not driftView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA large ducted outpatient frontView ₹25,999
✓ The exercise hall, the cubicles, the traction and plaster rooms and the imaging room all carry nothing ✓ A supplier has no standing to judge what belongs in a room where a clinician is working — the centre decides ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
Which rooms does that leave in the plan? The entrance, the reception desk and the waiting seats, and nothing else. Consultation rooms, treatment cubicles, the manual therapy tables, traction, the plaster or procedure room, the imaging room, the changing rooms and the exercise hall all carry nothing — not a milder version and not a lower setting, because a low setting is still a setting. In an orthopaedic or physiotherapy centre that usually means one room out of a dozen, and it is fair to decide that the sum does not justify itself.
Our patients spend forty-five minutes in the exercise hall — surely that is the room that counts? It is the room you most want this for and it is the room I will not sell it for, which is the test working rather than failing. People in there are working physically, under instruction, on a programme somebody clinical has written, and they are not in a position to step out because the ambience does not suit them that day. What that room needs is ventilation, housekeeping and a sensible schedule between sessions, and all three belong to your own protocol rather than to a perfumer.
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Facts verified 16 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 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 (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. 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, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.
Appropriate at the front of house, and not appropriate anywhere treatment happens — and you do not need a clinical opinion to tell the two apart, only one question. Can the person inside that room get up and walk out of it without interrupting anything, and if the answer is no, the room carries nothing at all.
Quick answers — read this first
What is the test, and why that one? Can the person inside this room leave it? A patient in your waiting area can step outside, take a call, wait in the car if they want to; a patient lying on a table mid-session cannot, and neither can somebody halfway through an exercise programme under a therapist's eye. The test is useful precisely because it asks nothing medical of you. I am not qualified to judge what belongs in a room where a clinician is working, and neither is any other fragrance supplier — but anybody can answer a question about whether a person is free to walk away.Which rooms does that leave in the plan? The entrance, the reception desk and the waiting seats, and nothing else. Consultation rooms, treatment cubicles, the manual therapy tables, traction, the plaster or procedure room, the imaging room, the changing rooms and the exercise hall all carry nothing — not a milder version and not a lower setting, because a low setting is still a setting. In an orthopaedic or physiotherapy centre that usually means one room out of a dozen, and it is fair to decide that the sum does not justify itself.
Our patients spend forty-five minutes in the exercise hall — surely that is the room that counts? It is the room you most want this for and it is the room I will not sell it for, which is the test working rather than failing. People in there are working physically, under instruction, on a programme somebody clinical has written, and they are not in a position to step out because the ambience does not suit them that day. What that room needs is ventilation, housekeeping and a sensible schedule between sessions, and all three belong to your own protocol rather than to a perfumer.
The short answer
Short answer: Yes for the front of house and no for every room where treatment happens, decided by a single question: can the person inside get up and walk out? Waiting seats pass, and consultation rooms, cubicles, traction, the plaster room, imaging, changing rooms and the exercise hall all fail. Size one machine on the front of house alone, run it low with the panel locked, and accept that this rules out most of the centre.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the entrance and waiting volume, set low on a timer that matches session hours, with every treatment room on a written zero list.
Next step: send the room list with the ceiling height and the door between the waiting seats and the exercise hall marked, and we will size the front of house honestly — ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
The last line is the concession this page is built on: the test does not bend for the room an owner most wants to improve.
Sized on the front of house — the three machines and their coverage
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The written version of this rule
Publish the zero list beside the signature
Sized on your own room list
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
Is professional scenting appropriate for an orthopaedic or physiotherapy centre?
At the front of house, yes, if you want it and your own policy allows it. Anywhere treatment happens, no — and the useful part of this answer is not the verdict but the question that produces it, because you can apply that question yourself to every room in your building without asking anybody's permission. The question is: can the person inside this room get up and walk out of it? In your waiting area the answer is plainly yes. People step outside to take a call, to fetch a parent, to stand in the doorway because they prefer it there; the room is public, they are dressed, they are free, and if the ambience does not suit them they can remove themselves from it without explaining anything to anyone. On a treatment table the answer is no. Halfway through a session, part-undressed, with a therapist's hands on a joint, nobody is going to stand up and say the room is a little much for them today. The same is true in a cubicle, at a traction table, in the plaster or procedure room, in the imaging room and in the changing room. And it is true — this is the part owners argue with — in the exercise hall, where somebody is forty minutes into a programme that a clinician wrote, working physically, under supervision, in a room they cannot simply leave without abandoning the session. The reason I like this test is that it asks nothing medical of me, and I am not qualified to be asked anything medical. I do not know what any individual's tolerance is, I will not claim that a fragrance helps a patient and I will not claim that it harms one, because neither of those is mine to say and both belong to your clinicians and your written policy, which outrank this page in every direction. What I can reason about is whether a person is free to leave a room, and that single distinction produces a map anybody in your building can follow and explain to a patient who asks. So: the entrance, the desk and the waiting seats, one register, one source, set low on a timer with the panel locked, sized in cubic metres — square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 — which for 450 sq ft under a 3.0 m slab, about the size of the front room of a converted Race Course house, is about 125 m³ and is covered many times over by a single SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999. Everything else: nothing. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand-experience decision, never a clinical or air-treatment one, and nobody can promise you it moves a business number — not an appointment, not a referral, not a package.
One question settles it: can the person in the room get up and leave? Waiting seats yes, everything where treatment happens no — including the exercise hall. One machine, front of house, low and locked.
For an entrance and a waiting bay, the answer is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, run well down its range with the panel locked. A 400ml tank lasts 90+ days and the unit draws about 5W.
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Why the front of house is the only room in the plan
A room a person is free to leave is a room whose ambience they have agreed to
The machines, sized on the front of house alone
Every figure below is checked against the cubic metres of your entrance and waiting seats, which in a centre like this is usually a small room with a high door count. The product pages carry the manufacturer's coverage numbers; compare them with your own sum rather than with a floor area quoted back at you by somebody selling.
One front of house, the usual answer
SOSA Vaayu
₹11,999. Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling. Adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, app and onboard control, key-lock, under 38dB, a 400ml tank at 90+ days. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
Only for a genuinely large outpatient front
SOSA Angaan
₹25,999. HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling, 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules, under 42dB. In a single orthopaedic or physiotherapy centre this is almost always more machine than the room in scope can use.
From ₹25,999
The test, the hall, and the sum that is left
The first card is the question itself and how to apply it to the awkward rooms. The second is the exercise hall, which deserves its own argument because every owner asks about it. The third is the arithmetic of the one room that survives, and what that means for what you buy.
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One
Apply the question room by room, including the awkward ones
Walk the building with your room list and ask it once per room: can the person inside get up and walk out without interrupting anything? Reception, yes. Waiting seats, yes. Consultation room, no — the patient is mid-conversation and half the reason they came. Cubicle, traction table, manual therapy bed, no. Plaster or procedure room, no. Imaging room, no. Changing room, no, and emphatically so, because a person changing has less freedom to leave than almost anyone in the building. The corridor is the interesting case, and in the converted residential buildings that so many Race Course practices occupy it is very nearly the whole building: a domestic passage with the old bedrooms opening off it as cubicles and the front room doing duty as reception, so every room that fails the test stands a metre from the one room that passes. People only pass through the corridor, so on the face of it they can leave, but it feeds the rooms that cannot, and the honest answer is to treat it as part of the second list rather than as a transition. Write the results down as two columns and get your clinical lead to sign the second one. A rule that can be read aloud survives a change of staff; a rule somebody remembers does not.
Tip: Do the walk with the person who runs the floor, not with the person who owns the interiors budget. They will spot the rooms you forgot.
The Vaayu ends up in exactly one room in a building like this, which is why placement and a locked panel matter far more than output does.
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Two
The exercise hall, which is the room you actually want
This is the concession, so let me make it properly rather than in a footnote. The exercise hall is the room with the longest dwell, the most repeat attendance and the greatest gap between what it looks like and what the owner is charging for, and it is the room I will not put anything in. Somebody in there is forty minutes into a programme a clinician wrote, working physically under supervision, often in some discomfort, and they are in no position to step outside because the air is not to their taste today. Treatment is happening. That is the end of the argument. What the hall does need is the unglamorous list: ventilation that actually moves air, housekeeping between sessions, equipment cleaned to your own protocol, and a schedule that does not stack six people into a room sized for three. Every item on that list belongs to your own policy and your own staff, and none of it is a fragrance question, which is why this page has nothing to sell you for it.
Tip: If the hall is the room that prompted this search, put the money into its ventilation and its schedule and read no further into the range.
Nothing of ours goes into that hall at any setting. The Vaayu stays at the front, and the locked panel is what keeps that decision from drifting.
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Three
The sum for the one room that is left
Square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 = cubic metres. A front of house of 450 sq ft under a 3.0 m slab is about 125 m³. If the waiting seats, the billing desk and a short corridor open into it without doors, and the connected area is 800 sq ft, you are at about 223 m³. One machine rated to 1000m³ covers either figure four to eight times over, which tells you two things: you need one unit, and you should buy it in order to run it near the bottom of its range where the output is steady. Then the door discipline. A centre like this has a front door that opens constantly — people arriving for a course of sessions, some of them driving in from Tiruppur or Pollachi once a week and waiting with whoever brought them — and an internal door to the treatment side that opens between every session, so place the source away from the internal door, run it low, and have your maintenance engineer tell you which way the air moves between the two halves during a busy afternoon.
Tip: Do the sum with the internal door open, then set the level with it shut. Buy for the worst case and run for the normal one.
Session hours are predictable, so the timer does most of the work: a Vaayu that starts before the first appointment and stops with the desk beats any increase in intensity.
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The SOSA principle
The question that decides a clinical room is not what a fragrance does to a body — nobody selling diffusers is entitled to answer that. It is whether the person in the room is free to walk away from it, and that is a question about agency rather than physiology.
Which is why the test holds in the awkward cases. It does not bend for the room with the best dwell, the biggest tariff or the most disappointing décor, and an owner who has just been told no about the exercise hall is watching a rule work rather than a supplier being difficult.
Every room in the centre, answered by one question
Read the middle column as the answer to a single question asked in each room: can the person inside get up and leave it? Where the answer is yes, a low setting is an ordinary interior decision. Where it is no, the room carries nothing, and that is not a strength setting but a boundary.
The SOSA plan
The centre, room by room, under the leaving test
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Entrance, reception desk and waiting seats — yes
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One source, one register, set low on a timer with the panel locked. A public room, ordinary clothes, a person free to step outside at any moment, which is what makes an ambience decision here an ordinary one. View → |
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The corridor to the treatment side — technically yes, in practice no
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Nothing, because it feeds rooms that fail the test. Put the source at the far end of the front of house from this corridor and run it low enough that there is little to travel in the first place. |
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The exercise hall — no
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Nothing, at any setting. Somebody is forty minutes into a supervised programme and cannot step outside because the room is not to their taste. Ventilation, housekeeping and session scheduling are the tools here, and all three belong to your own protocol. |
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Cubicles, traction and manual tables, plaster and procedure rooms, imaging, changing rooms — no
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Nothing at all, as a written rule, with no exception for a room with a window or a quiet afternoon. Treatment is happening, the person inside is not free to leave, and the facility's clinicians govern those rooms completely. |
The same boundary drawn for a general specialty clinic, with the two-list method spelled out, is in reception scented, consultation and treatment rooms neutral. If your front of house is also a waiting area that patients sit in for an hour, the waiting-area page argues for furniture before fragrance, and it is the better page to read first. For a centre on several floors, the stairwell decides placement — see the multi-floor page. SOSA makes no medical, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and no claim that ambient fragrance affects appointments, referrals, package uptake or any commercial number.
One room in scope, worked out properly
Send the room list and the front-of-house dimensions, and we will size the only part of the building this plan covers.
The room you most want this for is the room I will not sell it for. That is the test working, not the test failing.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The ladder, measured against one small room
Bought to be run near the bottom of its range, not to fill a building
The SOSA front-of-house specification
Sized on the entrance and waiting seats only, run low, on a timer built around session hours, with a written list of every room that carries nothing. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA front-of-house specification
Sized on the entrance and waiting seats, because the rest is treatment
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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One entrance and waiting bay, treatment side behind a closed door | ₹11,999, 1000m³, steady at low output, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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A large outpatient front of house with its own air handling | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected where ducting allows, 800ml reservoir | ₹25,999 View → |
If the front of house is a desk and four chairs, a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is the proportionate answer and a machine is not. Ambient scent here is an interior and brand-experience decision, not a medical, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment measure of any kind, and nothing here is medical advice; it works alongside ventilation and housekeeping rather than in place of them. Consultation rooms, cubicles, traction and manual therapy tables, plaster and procedure rooms, imaging rooms, changing rooms and the exercise hall stay unscented, and your own clinicians and your facility's policy decide what is appropriate — they outrank anything written here. There is no claim that ambient fragrance affects appointments, referrals, package uptake or any commercial number. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no installation and no maintenance terms; a multi-site question goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and we will do the cubic-metre sum on your drawing.
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A note from Sonal
The question I get asked in this category is almost always the same one, phrased two ways. Owners open with the whole building and end with the exercise hall, because the hall is where the money is and where the décor has aged worst. I have learned to bring the test out early, before anybody has become attached to a plan, and to apply it in front of them room by room rather than delivering a verdict afterwards.
What happens then is interesting. By the third or fourth room the owner is running the test themselves and getting to the same answers I would, including the ones they did not want. That is the sign of a good rule: it is not mine, it does not need me in the room, and it can be explained to a patient who asks in a single sentence without anybody having to invoke a policy document.
It does cost me the larger sale, and that is fine. I make no claim that ambient fragrance affects appointments, referrals, package uptake or any commercial number, and no health or clinical claim in either direction — those belong to your clinicians, who are in the building and know the patients. What a well-kept front of house does is stop the first room from arguing with the standard of care behind it. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
What is the test, in one sentence?
Can the person inside this room get up and walk out of it without interrupting anything? If yes, an ambience decision there is ordinary and you may take it. If no, the room carries nothing at all. The value of the question is that it asks nothing medical of a supplier, which is important, because a supplier is not entitled to answer anything medical about your building.
Can we scent the exercise hall if we keep it very light?
No, and the lightness does not change the answer. A low setting is still a setting, and the person on the mat is mid-programme, working physically, under supervision, and not free to remove themselves because the room does not suit them today. Ventilation, housekeeping between sessions and sensible scheduling are the correct tools for that room, and all three belong to your own protocol.
Does the changing room really need to be excluded?
It is one of the clearest cases in the building. A person changing has less freedom to leave a room than almost anyone else on the premises, the dwell is short but entirely captive, and nothing is gained by it. Leave changing rooms, cubicles and any space where a patient is part-undressed completely alone, and put that in writing rather than leaving it to memory.
Is one machine for one small room a sensible purchase at all?
Sometimes it is not, and you are entitled to reach that conclusion from this page. What you would be buying is that one room being the same on every morning somebody walks into it, not coverage of your centre. If the front of house is small, a reed diffuser at a fraction of the price does the job, and the difference is better spent on chairs or on the hall's ventilation.
Who decides whether any of this is appropriate in our building?
Your clinicians and your written policy, without exception, and that judgement sits above anything on this page. I will not tell you that fragrance helps a patient and I will not tell you it harms one, because neither statement is available to me. What I can give you is a boundary that is easy to apply, easy to explain and hard to drift — and then your own people decide whether to use it.
One question, every room
SOSA — Orthopaedic and Physiotherapy Front-of-House Scenting if they cannot leave the room, the room carries nothing
One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 sized on the entrance and waiting seats alone, run low on a timer with the panel locked — and cubicles, traction, plaster, imaging, changing rooms and the exercise hall on a written zero list signed by your clinical lead. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 16 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 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 (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. 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, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.