Reception, Treatment Cabins and Exercise Floor: Should All Three Smell the Same?

No, and the reason is not size. It is what the person in each room is doing. That is the whole basis of the zoning, and once you use it the map draws itself. Zone one is where the occupant is upright, clothed, free to move and free to leave. Your entrance, reception and waiting area. This is the only part of the building with a fragrance job, and the level is the lowest that is detectable standing in the doorway - if a client can name the scent, it is too high. Zone two is where nobody stops. The corridor that joins the front to everything behind it. It takes whatever drifts from zone one and has no source of its own, ever. And here is the concession this page owes you, because it is the part people find unsatisfying: the corridor will always be a compromise. It is too close to the scented room to be clean and too close to the unscented rooms to be scented, and there is no arrangement of doors and distances that makes it perfect. It is a buffer, and a buffer is by definition the place where two conditions meet imperfectly. Zone three is everything the occupant cannot control. Treatment cabins, adjustment and examination rooms, and the exercise floor. All at zero. The two halves of zone three arrive there by different routes, which is worth knowing because it stops you making an exception for one of them. In a cabin, a client spends much of the session prone with their nose a few centimetres from upholstery they cannot turn away from, for thirty to sixty minutes. Whatever is on the table dominates whatever is in the room, and a level that reads as subtle standing at reception is not subtle face-down in a cradle. On the exercise floor, nobody is trapped, but the air is moving and the occupancy load is climbing, so a dose there is not a level at all - it is a range you cannot predict. One room cannot escape the air; the other cannot hold it. Both end at nothing. What you should actually produce from this page is not a purchase. It is a drawing: your floor plan with three tones on it and a level written beside each zone, pinned where whoever restocks the reception can see it. That page is the thing that survives a change of staff, and almost every drifting clinic plan I am asked to review turns out never to have been written down. Fragrance here is an ambience decision like lighting, seating or flooring, working alongside ventilation and cleaning rather than instead of them. SOSA products are not medical devices, we make no claim that scenting affects bookings, retention or spend, and the clinician's judgement overrides any plan.