★ SOSA for Hair Transplant and Hair Restoration Clinics
A solo practice gets more out of this per rupee than a chain does, because there is nobody to negotiate the setting with
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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 honest machine at solo-practice size
SOSA SukoonOne reception, one machineView ₹1,899SOSA SukoonThree 15ml fragrances includedView ₹1,899SOSA Sukoon₹1,899 total, nothing else to buyView ₹1,899
✓ One machine, ₹1,899, three 15ml fragrances in the box and nothing further required for a single small reception ✓ A cool-mist diffuser sized for the room it is in, rather than a commercial unit spending its life well below what it is rated for ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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So what should a solo surgeon actually buy? Almost certainly not what a chain buys. At solo-practice size the honest machine is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, which covers roughly 270-320 sq ft and comes with three 15ml fragrances in the box. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is rated to 1000m³ and in a small reception it would spend its life well below that, which is a waste rather than a luxury.
What is the total, honestly? ₹1,899, once, for a single small reception - one machine, three 15ml fragrances included, and nothing further required. If your patient-facing space is a small waiting area of under about 300 sq ft, a reed diffuser is a legitimate whole answer instead: Morning Freshness at ₹749 for 50ml, lasting six to eight weeks, or ₹1,249 for 130ml, lasting fourteen to eighteen. Free shipping applies above ₹499.
See the SOSA Sukoon 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.
The question assumes that ambient scenting is a thing large groups do and small practices copy. It is closer to the opposite, and the reason has nothing to do with fragrance and everything to do with how many people are allowed to touch the dial.
Quick answers — read this first
Is professional scenting only worth it for large chains? No, and if anything the single-surgeon practice has the easier version of it. Everything that goes wrong with scenting in a group is a governance problem: six front desks, a level nobody owns, a branch that gets turned up in February and never comes down. A solo practice has one person deciding all of it - the profile, the level, the hours, and whether it is switched off today. You are also the person who will notice first if it is wrong, and the person who can act on it without asking anybody.So what should a solo surgeon actually buy? Almost certainly not what a chain buys. At solo-practice size the honest machine is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, which covers roughly 270-320 sq ft and comes with three 15ml fragrances in the box. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is rated to 1000m³ and in a small reception it would spend its life well below that, which is a waste rather than a luxury.
What is the total, honestly? ₹1,899, once, for a single small reception - one machine, three 15ml fragrances included, and nothing further required. If your patient-facing space is a small waiting area of under about 300 sq ft, a reed diffuser is a legitimate whole answer instead: Morning Freshness at ₹749 for 50ml, lasting six to eight weeks, or ₹1,249 for 130ml, lasting fourteen to eighteen. Free shipping applies above ₹499.
The short answer
Short answer: worth it for both, and arguably easier for the solo practice, because one person controls the profile, the level, the hours and the switch and there is nobody to negotiate with. What changes is the machine: at solo-practice size the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, not a Vaayu at ₹11,999. Under about 300 sq ft, a reed diffuser is a complete answer.
The pick: one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) in the reception, with three 15ml fragrances included - or, if the patient-facing space is a small waiting area under about 300 sq ft, one Morning Freshness reed diffuser from ₹749.
Next step: tell us the size of your reception and waiting area and how many rooms open off it, and we will tell you whether you need a machine at all - Ask for a clinic scenting plan.
In this guide
Everything difficult about scenting a chain is a people problem. A single-surgeon practice does not have that problem, which is the entire advantage.
The solo-practice machine - tap to see the specification
For a single small reception
SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899
The other end of the scale
How do I standardise fragrance across a chain?
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
Is professional scenting worth it for a solo hair-transplant surgeon, or is it really for large chains?
It is worth it at both sizes, and the single-surgeon practice quietly has the better version of it. Everything that makes scenting difficult for a group is a governance problem rather than a fragrance one. A chain has to fix a profile centrally so six branches do not drift apart, name a machine class so nobody improvises, record a setting per building, engage a key-lock so the level cannot be raised by whoever is on shift, and then send somebody to walk in unannounced four times a year to check that none of it has moved. That is real work, and most of the failures I see in chains come from skipping it. A solo practice has none of that, because there is nobody to negotiate the setting with. You choose the profile. You set the level. You decide the hours. You are in the building every day, so you notice before anyone else if it has drifted, and you can switch it off in the middle of an afternoon without asking permission. If a patient objects, you reduce or switch off on the spot rather than routing it through a manager - which is what should happen anyway, at any size. What changes at solo scale is the machine, and here I would rather talk you down than up. A single reception with a couple of rooms off it is a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and supplied with three 15ml fragrances. Total hardware spend: ₹1,899, one machine, nothing else to buy. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is rated to 1000m³ and belongs in a clinic of 1,500 sq ft and up, or one with a corridor and several closed cabins for a profile to travel along. In a small reception it would run well below what it is rated for, which is not a luxury, just an expensive way to under-use a machine. And the honest concession goes one step further: if your patient-facing space is a small waiting area under about 300 sq ft, you may not need a machine at all - one Morning Freshness reed diffuser at ₹749 for 50ml, flipped weekly, is a complete answer. What does not change with size is any of the limits. This is an interior decision with no clinical or therapeutic claim of any kind. It works alongside your cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to cover another smell. Procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms stay unscented, in a one-room practice exactly as in a chain, and your judgement as the treating clinician overrides any plan in your own rooms. And nobody can promise you that this returns anything, at either size. Ask for a clinic scenting plan and tell us how big the waiting area actually is.
Worth it at both sizes, and easier solo, because one person owns the profile, the level and the switch. The machine is smaller: a Sukoon at ₹1,899, not a Vaayu at ₹11,999. Under 300 sq ft, a reed diffuser is the whole answer.
At solo-practice size this is the machine. One SOSA Sukoon - ultrasonic cool-mist, covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances. ₹1,899, and that is the whole spend. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 belongs in a clinic of 1,500 sq ft and up, not in one reception.
See the SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899 Ask for a clinic scenting plan
Why solo is the easier case
One person decides, one person notices, one person switches it off
The machine, at solo-practice size
The size ladder does not care how ambitious the practice is, only how much patient-facing space there is. For most single-surgeon practices that lands well below the commercial machines.
The honest buy for one reception
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances. For a single reception with a consultation room or two off it, this is the whole answer at ₹1,899, and there is nothing further to specify, mount or maintain.
From ₹1,899
Under about 300 sq ft - you may not need a machine
SOSA Morning Freshness reed diffuser
Alcohol-free, phthalate-free reed diffuser on a coconut-derived base - Malabar lemon with peppermint and eucalyptus, six fibre reeds, flipped weekly. 50ml lasts six to eight weeks at ₹749; 130ml lasts fourteen to eighteen at ₹1,249. Reeds are a volume control, never a range control.
From ₹749
Three advantages a solo practice actually has
These are not consolations for being small. They are genuine advantages that a group would pay to have and cannot buy.
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Nobody else can move the dial
The commonest failure in a chain simply cannot happen to you
In a group, a level drifts upward over months because everyone inside a building stops registering a constant smell and somebody eventually turns it up. That correction is honest, it is made by a person whose nose has adapted, and it never gets reversed - which is why chains need a key-lock and a quarterly audit. In a single-surgeon practice there is one person with an opinion and one person who acts on it, and that person is also the one who chose the profile in the first place. You still cannot judge your own reception from inside it, so the test remains the same: walk in from outside after a break. But there is nobody to be surprised by.
Tip: Walk in from the street on a Monday morning before you have been in the building. That is the only honest reading you will get all week.
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You can switch it off in a second, personally
The patient-objection rule is easiest to follow when you are the practice
If a patient reacts to a fragrance, the answer is always to reduce it or switch it off immediately, without defending it and without asking them to sit with it. In a chain that instruction has to travel through a procedure, a manager and a member of staff who may not feel authorised. In a solo practice it is you, in the room, reaching over. Fragrance sensitivity is real and is never minimised, and nothing here is hypo-allergenic or safe for every individual - no ambient fragrance is. Keeping one seating area effectively unscented is a sensible default even in a small practice, and it is easier to arrange when there is only one of you deciding where the machine sits.
Tip: Keep the machine somewhere you can reach without walking past a patient, so switching it off is never a small performance.
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Buy for the room, not for the ambition
₹1,899 is the honest number, and it is not a compromise
The temptation at solo scale is to buy the commercial machine because the practice is premium and the machine looks like the premium answer. It is not. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 is rated to 1000m³, which is roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft, and it earns its place where there are corridors and closed cabins for a profile to travel along or where the building runs ducted central AC to mount into. In one reception it runs well below what it is rated for. The Sukoon at ₹1,899 covers 270-320 sq ft, which is what you have, and produces exactly the same perceived level at the door.
The SOSA principle
A solo practice gets more out of ambient scent per rupee than a chain does, for a reason that has nothing to do with fragrance: there is nobody to negotiate the setting with.
Every expensive part of scenting a group is governance. At one surgeon and one reception, the governance is a single person remembering to walk in from outside.
The plan, at one-surgeon scale
This is the whole plan for a single-surgeon practice, and most of it consists of things you are not buying.
The SOSA plan
Ambient scent in a solo hair-transplant practice, space by space
| The space | What to do |
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Reception and waiting, 300-750 sq ft
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One machine at ₹1,899, set low, switched on during clinic hours. This is the only space with anything in it. |
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A waiting area under about 300 sq ft
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A reed diffuser is a complete answer from ₹749. Flip the reeds weekly and buy nothing else. |
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Consultation room
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No machine, no reeds, no plug-in. A faint drift from reception is acceptable and must never be stronger than reception. |
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Procedure and graft room
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Unscented. Not lightly scented - actually unscented, treated as clinical space throughout. |
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Post-procedure and recovery
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Unscented. The patient has an open scalp and is sitting still for a long time. |
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If the practice grows past 1,500 sq ft
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That is when the commercial machine starts to make sense, and not before - corridors and closed cabins are the trigger, not turnover. |
If you are weighing this against what the fit-out cost, the proportion argument - and its limits - is set out in whether scenting is worth adding to a twenty-lakh clinic interior. And if what you are really comparing is a machine against the cans of freshener you already buy, the arithmetic is laid out with all its assumptions in the cost difference between room fresheners and a dedicated scent system. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
One reception, one machine, one decision-maker
SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899 covers roughly 270-320 sq ft with three 15ml fragrances in the box - which is the whole specification for most single-surgeon practices.
The hardest part of scenting a chain is getting six people to leave a dial alone. If you are the whole practice, you have already solved it.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the smaller machine is the right one
Sized for the room, not for the letterhead
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
Three options cover the whole range from a small waiting area to a practice that has outgrown its first premises, and the choice is made by patient-facing floor area rather than by how the practice is positioned. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
The machine by the size of the waiting area, not the size of the ambition
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Morning Freshness reed diffuser
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A waiting area under about 300 sq ft, where a machine is not needed at all | Alcohol-free reed diffuser, six reeds flipped weekly, 50ml lasting 6-8 weeks at ₹749 and 130ml lasting 14-18 weeks | ₹749 View → |
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SOSA Sukoon
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The usual solo practice - one reception of roughly 300-750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, one machine and no second purchase | ₹1,899 View → |
 SOSA Vaayu
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Only once the practice is past about 1,500 sq ft with corridors and closed cabins | 1000m³ coverage, adjustable intensity, app timers, under 38dB, key-lock, waterless, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
Buy for the room you have and hold the level by walking in from outside, which is easier alone than it is in a group. The limits are identical at every size: this is an interior decision with no clinical or therapeutic claim of any kind; it works alongside cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to cover another smell; and procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms stay completely unscented, with your judgement as the treating clinician overriding any plan in your own rooms. Nobody can promise ambient scent returns anything, in a solo practice or a chain. Ask for a clinic scenting plan before you spend anything.
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ISIPCA
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A note from Sonal
The way this question is usually put to me carries an assumption I would like to dismantle: that ambient scenting is something large groups do properly and small practices approximate. In my experience the opposite is closer to the truth. Chains struggle with it, and they struggle for reasons that have nothing to do with perfumery - six front desks, a level nobody owns, a branch that got turned up one dry February and never came back down. A single surgeon has one hand on the dial and one nose that cares.
What I would want a solo surgeon to take from this is permission to spend less. The premium answer at your size is not the commercial machine; it is a machine that matches the room, set low, in a reception you keep properly clean. One Sukoon at ₹1,899 covers roughly 270-320 sq ft, arrives with three fragrances, and needs nothing further. If your waiting area is genuinely small, a reed diffuser from ₹749 is a legitimate whole answer and I would rather tell you that than sell you a box. The commercial machine becomes the right call when you have corridors and closed cabins, not when you have ambition.
On the standing limits, size changes nothing. Your reception gets the machine; the procedure room, the recovery area and wherever you take photographs get nothing at all. If a patient minds, switch it off without discussing it. And I will not tell you it does anything for the practice, because nobody honestly can - it makes the arrival coherent with the work you do, which is a smaller and truer claim than the one you will be offered elsewhere. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Is professional scenting worth it for a solo hair-transplant surgeon or mainly for large chains?
It is worth it at both sizes, and the solo practice arguably has the easier version. Everything difficult about scenting a group is governance: a profile that drifts, a level nobody owns, a branch that gets turned up and never turned back down. A single surgeon chooses the profile, sets the level, notices first when it is wrong and can switch it off personally. What changes with size is the machine, not the discipline.
What should a solo surgeon actually buy?
For a single reception of roughly 300 to 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899, which covers about 270-320 sq ft and comes with three 15ml fragrances. That is the whole hardware spend. A SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999 is rated to 1000 cubic metres and belongs in a clinic past about 1,500 sq ft, or one with corridors and closed cabins for a profile to travel along. In one reception it would run well below its rated coverage.
Is a reed diffuser enough for a very small practice?
Often, yes. If the patient-facing space is a waiting area under about 300 sq ft, one reed diffuser is a complete answer - Morning Freshness at Rs 749 for 50ml, which lasts six to eight weeks, or Rs 1,249 for 130ml, which lasts fourteen to eighteen. Flip the reeds weekly. Remember that reeds are a volume control rather than a range control: a bigger bottle buys months, not metres, so it will not reach further.
Do the zoning rules change in a small practice?
Not at all. The reception and waiting area carry the fragrance and nothing else does. The procedure or graft room, the post-procedure and recovery area and any space where you photograph a patient stay completely unscented rather than lightly scented. A consultation room takes only whatever faint drift arrives from reception and never a source of its own. Your judgement as the treating clinician overrides any plan in your own rooms.
Will this do anything for my practice?
No one can promise that, and I will not. Ambient fragrance is an interior decision in the same family as lighting and seating: it can stop the room contradicting the standard of work you do, which is worth something and is a different claim entirely. It makes no clinical or therapeutic claim, it works alongside cleaning and ventilation rather than instead of them, and any supplier quoting you a return has not measured it in your practice.
One reception, one machine, ₹1,899
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for solo hair-transplant surgeons and small practices
The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) covers roughly 270-320 sq ft and arrives with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances, which is the whole specification for most single-surgeon practices; under about 300 sq ft a reed diffuser from ₹749 is a complete answer instead. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Tell us the size of your waiting area and we will tell you whether you need a machine at all.
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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.