★ SOSA for Indore Businesses
No, and the question is worth answering against its own premise, because a dial implies that a bedroom is a milder version of a living room when it is a different kind of room entirely - occupied by somebody asleep, for eight or nine unbroken hours, often by somebody who did not choose what is in it, which is a no at every setting rather than a lower number
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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
★ Sized to the room the household actually occupies, never to the house
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 on the living floor only - bedrooms, children's rooms and the room named fragrance-free carry nothing at all, as a rule rather than a setting ✓ Nothing runs unattended overnight, the level is set from the seat somebody actually uses, and any household member'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 · Indore
Why is the formal living room a yes? Because occupancy there is episodic and voluntary. People are awake, they are in it for an evening rather than a night, and anybody can walk out of it or switch it off.
What about a child's room or a guest room? The same no, and more firmly. The occupant is least able to object and, in a guest room, least likely to feel able to.
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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.
No - they are not two settings on one dial. The formal living room is a yes. The bedroom is a no at every level, because of who is in it, for how long, and whether they can leave.
Quick answers — read this first
Should bedrooms just run at a lower intensity? No. A bedroom carries nothing at all. The difference from a living room is not strength but the nature of the exposure - long, unbroken, unattended and often not chosen by the person in the room.Why is the formal living room a yes? Because occupancy there is episodic and voluntary. People are awake, they are in it for an evening rather than a night, and anybody can walk out of it or switch it off.
What about a child's room or a guest room? The same no, and more firmly. The occupant is least able to object and, in a guest room, least likely to feel able to.
The short answer
Short answer: no - they are not two intensities. The formal living room is a yes at a low locked level, and a bedroom is a no at every setting, because the exposure there is long, unbroken and unattended.
The pick: a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849) on the console in the formal living room, or a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) where living and dining are one connected volume.
Next step: write the bedroom rule down rather than leaving it as a low setting. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
A lower setting in a bedroom is still a decision to scent a bedroom. That is the decision being declined.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
The house register
Mountain Breeze · ₹849
For a white, daylit office
Morning Freshness · ₹749
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Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
Should a formal living room use a different scent intensity from the bedrooms?
No, and it is worth answering this question against its own premise rather than inside it, because the premise is where the mistake lives. Asking which intensity a bedroom should run at assumes that a bedroom is a quieter version of a living room - the same decision, made more gently. It is not. The two rooms differ in four ways, and not one of them is a matter of degree. Start with consciousness. A person in a formal living room is awake. They can tell that something is in the room, form an opinion about it, say so, move seats, open a door or switch it off. A person in a bedroom is asleep for most of the exposure, which removes every one of those responses at once. Then duration. An evening in the formal living room is an hour, or two with guests. A night in a bedroom is eight or nine unbroken hours in a room with the door shut and, in an Indore summer or winter, the windows shut too. Then attendance. A living room is a room somebody is in while a machine runs. A bedroom at two in the morning is the definition of unattended, which is why nothing in a home runs overnight regardless of the room it is in. And then consent, which is the one that settles it. The formal living room is occupied by whoever chose to sit in it. The bedrooms are occupied by children who cannot evaluate the question, by elderly parents who will not want to make an issue of it, and by guests who are the least likely people in the house to say that something in the room bothers them. Four differences of kind, and a dial can only express a difference of degree. So the honest specification is short and it is a pair of rules rather than a pair of numbers. Bedrooms and children's rooms carry nothing at all. The formal living room carries one register, at a level set by somebody sitting in the seat that is actually used, key-locked there, running while the room is occupied and switched off when it is not - and placed where people sit rather than where the plan looks balanced. Two practical notes follow from writing it as a rule rather than a setting. The first is that a rule survives. A low setting is an invitation: somebody eventually adjusts it, a machine gets carried upstairs during a festival clean and never comes back down, a spare bottle ends up on a bedside table because it was in the way. Nobody does any of that against a written no. The second is that the exclusion is what makes the yes defensible. A household that knows the bedrooms are permanently out of scope, and that one named room downstairs is kept unscented as well, is a household in which the living room register is a choice everybody made rather than a condition imposed on them - which is exactly what a designer's recommendation should have delivered. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 on the console in a formal living room, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where the living and dining rooms are one connected volume. Fragrance in a home is a furnishing decision like lighting or textiles: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing. It works alongside ventilation and cleaning, never instead of them. Bedrooms and children's rooms are never scented, and nothing runs unattended overnight. One named room is kept genuinely fragrance-free so anybody in the household has somewhere to go. Any household member's preference overrides any plan, including a child's or a guest's, and one objection ends it. The machine is specified for the room people actually occupy, not for the volume of the house. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
No. They are not two points on one dial. The formal living room is a yes at one low, locked level while people are in it; a bedroom is a no at every setting, because the exposure there is long, unbroken, unattended and frequently not chosen.
For a formal living room: SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a scenting plan for your space
The honest ladder in a home
One source for the room people choose to sit in
What to buy, and for which space
The honest options for a home, sized to the room people sit in rather than to the floor area on the drawing. 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
Four differences, none of them a matter of degree
A dial can only describe more or less of the same thing. These four are differences in kind, which is why the answer is a pair of rules.
1
Awake
One room contains opinions
A person in a living room can notice, say so, move seats or switch it off. A person asleep can do none of those things, and that is not a smaller version of the same situation.
Rule: a lower number does not restore the veto.
2
Hours
An evening against a night
One or two hours in a living room, against eight or nine unbroken hours behind a shut door with the windows shut for half the year in Indore.
Rule: duration is the difference, not strength.
3
Attended
Nothing runs unattended overnight
A bedroom at two in the morning is the definition of unattended, and that rule applies to every room in the house rather than only to the ones upstairs.
Rule: off when the room empties, always.
4
Consent
Who is actually in that room
Children who cannot evaluate the question, parents who will not make an issue of it, guests who are the least likely people in the house to mention that something bothers them.
Test: if they cannot object, it is a no.
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Writing it
A rule survives, a setting drifts
A low setting is an invitation to adjust, to carry a machine upstairs during a festival clean, to leave a spare bottle on a bedside table. A written no resists all three.
Test: write the exclusion, not a number.
The SOSA principle
A dial can only say more or less of the same thing. A bedroom is not a quieter living room - it is eight unbroken hours, behind a shut door, for somebody who is asleep and frequently did not choose what is in the room.
Which is why the answer is a pair of rules rather than a pair of settings, and why the exclusion is what makes the living room register defensible in the first place.
Living room and bedroom, question by question
Why a dial is the wrong instrument, and what the two rules actually are.
The SOSA home table
Two rooms, two rules
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Should bedrooms run at a lower setting?
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No. Bedrooms and children's rooms carry nothing at all, because the difference from a living room is one of kind rather than of degree. |
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What are the four differences?
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Consciousness, duration, whether anybody is attending the room, and whether the occupant chose it. A dial cannot express any of them. |
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What does the formal living room get?
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One register at a level set by somebody sitting in the seat that is actually used, key-locked there, running while the room is occupied. |
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Why write it as a rule?
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Because a setting drifts. Machines get carried upstairs during festival cleaning and spare bottles end up on bedside tables; a written no prevents both. |
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What does the living room actually need?
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One source. A Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 on the console, or a Vaayu at ₹11,999 where living and dining are one connected volume. |
The placement version is where the source goes in an open plan, the sizing version is why a villa is not scented as a villa, and the responsibility version is what a home recommendation has to carry. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance removes or reduces anything in the air.
One register, the visitor-facing zone only, set from the furthest seat
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 waterless, key-locked and timed to the hours the household is downstairs; Mountain Breeze ₹849 or Morning Freshness ₹749 as the register. Send the floor plan with the bedrooms, the children's rooms and the room you want kept fragrance-free marked, and we will return it with the placement.
The exclusion is what makes the yes defensible. A household that knows the bedrooms are permanently out of scope has made a choice rather than received a condition.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Sized to the room, not to the house
The formal living room gets one source; bedrooms and children's rooms get none
The SOSA home specification
One register, delivered at the size of the room people actually occupy rather than the size of the house, 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 home specification
What goes where in a private home
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SOSA Vaayu
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One connected living, dining and entrance floor the household actually occupies | Wall mounted on the wall the seating faces, clear of the stair opening and out of the AC throw; level set from the seat somebody actually sits in, then key-locked; timer on the evening hours and never overnight | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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A formal living room that is really one seating group | Himalayan pine, sage and Indian cedar - dry rather than sweet; three or four reeds in on a console at the far end, flipped weekly, and carried out of the house in seconds if anybody objects | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The cool register for a white, glazed, daylit interior | Malabar lemon, peppermint and eucalyptus - bright with no warmth; one register for the household rather than one per room | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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One closed room of roughly 270-320 sq ft - a study, a formal sitting room | High shelf on the wall the seating faces, on low, only while the room is occupied, rinsed between refills; water-based, so it adds a little moisture | ₹1,899 View → |
 SOSA Boond
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One small enclosed room, on low, while somebody is in it | Never in a bedroom, never in a child's room, never in the room kept fragrance-free, and never left running when the room empties | ₹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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A note from Sonal
No, and I would rather answer this against its premise than inside it, because the premise is where the mistake lives. Asking what intensity a bedroom should run at assumes a bedroom is a quieter version of a living room - the same decision made more gently. It is not. The two rooms differ in four ways and none of them is a matter of degree. Consciousness: a person in a living room is awake and can notice, object, move seats or switch it off, while a person in a bedroom is asleep for most of the exposure, which removes all four responses at once. Duration: an evening is an hour or two, and a night is eight or nine unbroken hours behind a shut door, with the windows shut for half the year here.
Then attendance. A living room is a room somebody is in while the machine runs. A bedroom at two in the morning is the definition of unattended, which is why nothing in a home runs overnight in any room. And then consent, which settles it. The formal living room is occupied by whoever chose to sit in it. The bedrooms are occupied by children who cannot evaluate the question, by elderly parents who will not want to make an issue of it, and by guests who are the least likely people in the house to say that something in the room bothers them. Four differences of kind, and a dial can only express degree.
So the specification is a pair of rules rather than a pair of numbers. Bedrooms and children's rooms carry nothing at all. The formal living room carries one register at a level set by somebody sitting in the seat that is actually used, key-locked there, running while the room is occupied and off when it is not. Write it down, because a low setting is an invitation - somebody adjusts it, a machine gets carried upstairs during a festival clean, a spare bottle ends up on a bedside table because it was in the way. And notice that the exclusion is what makes the yes defensible at all. A SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 on the console, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 where living and dining are one volume. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. It works alongside ventilation and cleaning, never instead of them. Bedrooms and children's rooms are never scented, and nothing runs unattended overnight. One named room stays genuinely fragrance-free so anybody in the household has somewhere to go. Any household member's preference overrides any plan, a child's or a guest's included, and one objection ends it. The machine is specified for the room people actually occupy, not for the volume of the house. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Should a bedroom use a lower scent intensity than the living room?
No. Bedrooms and children's rooms carry nothing at all, because the difference is one of kind rather than of degree.
What makes a bedroom different from a living room?
The occupant is asleep, the exposure runs eight or nine unbroken hours behind a shut door, nobody is attending the room, and the occupant often did not choose it.
What about guest rooms and children's rooms?
The same no, applied more firmly, because those occupants are the least able or least likely to say that something in the room bothers them.
What does the formal living room get?
One register at one low level, set by somebody sitting in the seat that is actually used, key-locked, and switched off when the room empties.
Why write the bedroom rule down?
Because a low setting drifts. A written no survives festival cleaning, staff changes and the spare bottle that would otherwise end up on a bedside table.
Send the plan with the bedrooms marked
SOSA — Studio Scenting one yes, one no
A bedroom is not a quieter living room. The occupant is asleep, the exposure lasts eight or nine unbroken hours behind a shut door, nobody is attending the room, and children, elderly parents and guests are the least able to object. So bedrooms and children's rooms carry nothing at all, while the formal living room carries one register at one low key-locked level while people are in it. 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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- Should a designer recommend it
- One machine for a large villa
- Open plan and staircase airflow
- Double-height living as its own zone
- Scenting and home automation
- Fragrance-free zones for sensitive patients
- 7,000 sq ft, zoned before interiors
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan for your space
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
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.