★ SOSA for Luxury Watch Boutiques and Premium Retail
In a mall you are a tenant of somebody else's air, which makes the fragrance question easy and the airflow question the only one that matters
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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
★ One machine, placed for a store that does not own its own air
SOSA VaayuWell inside, never at the shopfrontView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuOut of the air-conditioning returnView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuTimers on mall trading hours, key-lockedView ₹11,999
✓ Waterless, so the machine adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces ✓ Placement and airflow before hardware - and the corridor is a conversation with mall management, not a fragrance decision ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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Why does the corridor keep getting in? Because your unit is not a sealed volume and the building's air handling was designed for the mall rather than for you. Air moves from higher pressure to lower, and if the corridor is pushing and your unit is not, the corridor wins - at the shopfront, all day. That is a pressure, door and air-handling question for mall management and your air-conditioning contractor. It is not a fragrance question, and turning your machine up makes the back of your store overpowering while the shopfront still smells of the corridor.
What does it cost, and where does the machine go? A mall watch boutique is usually 800-2,000 sq ft, which is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed well inside the unit, out of the air-conditioning return, never at the shopfront, on timers matched to mall trading hours. Total hardware spend: ₹11,999, one machine. Under about 750 sq ft it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead. And no one can promise you it moves a business number.
See the SOSA Vaayu 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.
Mall tenants ask me what their boutique should smell like and then, two sentences later, tell me what it actually smells like at four in the afternoon. The second sentence is the real question, and almost none of the answer to it is a fragrance decision.
Quick answers — read this first
What should a watch boutique inside a luxury mall smell like? The same as any watch boutique: dry woods - cedar, vetiver, cypress - with a leather facet or a soft dry amber, at a low setting, and nothing sweet, edible, powdery or floral. That part takes five minutes to decide and I could have written it in a line. The part that takes months, and that this post is actually about, is that a mall store does not control its own air. The register is the easy ten per cent of your problem. Placement, pressure and the corridor are the other ninety.Why does the corridor keep getting in? Because your unit is not a sealed volume and the building's air handling was designed for the mall rather than for you. Air moves from higher pressure to lower, and if the corridor is pushing and your unit is not, the corridor wins - at the shopfront, all day. That is a pressure, door and air-handling question for mall management and your air-conditioning contractor. It is not a fragrance question, and turning your machine up makes the back of your store overpowering while the shopfront still smells of the corridor.
What does it cost, and where does the machine go? A mall watch boutique is usually 800-2,000 sq ft, which is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed well inside the unit, out of the air-conditioning return, never at the shopfront, on timers matched to mall trading hours. Total hardware spend: ₹11,999, one machine. Under about 750 sq ft it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead. And no one can promise you it moves a business number.
The short answer
Short answer: the same dry register as any watch boutique - dry woods with a leather facet, low, nothing sweet or floral. What is different about a mall unit is that you do not control your own air: corridor ingress and shared pressure are placement and mall-management questions rather than fragrance ones. One SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) placed well inside for 800-2,000 sq ft, or a Sukoon (₹1,899) under 750.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) placed well inside the unit and out of the air-conditioning return, at a low setting on timers matched to mall trading hours.
Next step: send the unit plan with the shopfront, the air-conditioning supply and return positions and the neighbouring tenants marked, and we will tell you where the machine goes and what to raise with mall management - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
Constant mall air conditioning is not only a problem. It is also the most stable set of conditions any store in this cluster gets, which means one setting can hold all year - once the machine is in the right place.
The unit machine - tap to see the specification
For a mall unit of 800-2,000 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
When the neighbours arrive uninvited
Why does my mall store pick up smells from nearby shops?
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
What should a watch boutique inside a luxury mall smell like?
Dry woods, a leather facet, a soft dry amber at most, at a low setting, and nothing sweet, edible, powdery or floral. That is the whole register answer and it is identical to the one I would give a street boutique, which is why I am not going to spend this post on it. The mall question is a different question wearing the same clothes, and it is this: you do not control the air in your own store. Everything that makes a mall unit difficult follows from that single fact. The building's air handling was designed for a mall - for corridors, atriums, food courts and a hundred tenants - and your unit is a small part of a much larger pressure system that somebody else operates. If the corridor is at higher pressure than your unit, air moves into you all day, and it brings whatever the corridor has in it. That is a pressure and airflow problem, and it belongs to mall management and your air-conditioning contractor before it belongs to anyone selling fragrance. I want to be very plain here because this is where the category behaves badly: a fragrance never covers a corridor smell. Two things released into one airspace do not cancel out - they combine into a third that nobody chose and that reads worse than either did alone, and it reads worst at the shopfront where a customer meets it first with a fresh nose. If your unit has ingress, the honest sequence is: ask mall management about the pressure balance and the fresh-air supply to your unit, ask your contractor whether your own system is recirculating without an intake, look at whether the shopfront can be given a lobby or an air curtain within the fit-out rules, and only then think about a machine. Some readers should stop at that paragraph. For everyone else, the placement rules are simple and they matter more than the setting. Put the source well inside the unit, past the front third, never at the shopfront, because the first couple of metres of a mall store belong to the corridor whatever you do. Keep it out of the air-conditioning return, where its output is drawn away before anyone experiences it - one of the most common and most invisible ways of wasting a machine. If you can mount to the supply side instead, the building's own system distributes better than any free-standing unit will, though ductwork and filtration are your engineer's call rather than mine. Then the good news, because there is some. Constant mall air conditioning gives you the most stable conditions of any store in this cluster - temperature and humidity barely move between February and July - which means one setting can hold all year instead of needing seasonal adjustment. On hardware, a mall watch boutique of 800-2,000 sq ft is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999: rated to 1000m³, wall or HVAC mountable, adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers which map neatly onto mall trading hours, key-lock, under 38dB. It is waterless, so the machine adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces - a fact about the machine, not a claim about your stock. Total hardware spend: ₹11,999, one machine; under about 750 sq ft a Sukoon at ₹1,899 and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, conversion or spend, and any supplier offering you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan and send the unit plan.
The register is the easy part and identical to any watch boutique. The hard part is that a mall unit does not own its air - place well inside, stay out of the return, and take corridor ingress to mall management rather than to your dial. One Vaayu at ₹11,999.
For a mall unit of 800-2,000 sq ft the machine is one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, rated to 1000m³, wall or HVAC mountable, with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers that map onto mall trading hours and a key-lock. ₹11,999. Under about 750 sq ft, buy the Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead. Where it goes matters more than what you set it to.
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The fact everything else follows from
Your unit is a small part of somebody else's pressure system
The machine for a mall unit
One machine covers almost every mall watch boutique, and the placement decision matters considerably more than the choice between them. The images link to the product pages so you can check the specifications before ordering.
Mall units of 800-2,000 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, Bluetooth app with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, auto-stop and key-lock. Wall or HVAC mountable, which is what lets you put the source where the airflow wants it rather than where there happens to be a socket.
From ₹11,999
If your unit is under about 750 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances. A small mall unit is a Sukoon at ₹1,899, placed well inside rather than near the shopfront, and a Vaayu at six times the price would be covering a fraction of what it is rated for.
From ₹1,899
The three things a mall changes
Three differences from a store that owns its own building, in the order they should be dealt with. Only the third one involves buying anything.
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Treat ingress as a building conversation
The corridor is a pressure problem with an owner, and the owner is not you
If your unit takes in corridor air all day, something in the pressure balance is against you: the mall pushing, your own supply too weak, or a system recirculating with no fresh-air intake of its own. The people who can change that are mall management and your air-conditioning contractor, and the request is specific - the pressure balance at your shopfront and the fresh-air supply to your unit. A fragrance is never a cover for corridor air and never a substitute for ventilation; released over an ingress problem it gives you two smells in one space rather than one. Write the email before you buy the machine, and be ready for it to take a while.
Tip: Stand at your shopfront at the busiest hour of the week and then twenty metres inside. If those are two different rooms, the boundary is the thing to fix.
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Place well inside, and out of the return
Where the machine sits decides more than what it is set to
Two placement errors account for most disappointed mall tenants. The first is putting the source near the shopfront, where its output meets the corridor immediately and leaves - the first two metres of a mall unit are not yours and no dial changes that. The second is quieter and worse: placing it near an air-conditioning return, which draws the output away before anyone in the store experiences it, so the machine appears weak and gets turned up. Put it past the front third of the unit, away from the return, and if the fit-out allows, mount it on the supply side so the building's own air distributes it. Ductwork and filtration remain your engineer's decision.
Tip: Find your supply and return grilles before you decide anything. Most people scent a store without ever having looked up.
3
Use the stability the mall gives you
Constant conditions are the one genuine advantage of being a tenant
Mall air conditioning runs all day, every day, in a narrow band of temperature and humidity. A street store's air changes with the weather and the same setting reads differently in July and January; yours does not, or barely. That means one setting can hold all year, written down once, rather than being adjusted seasonally - which is precisely the kind of thing that keeps a store consistent through staff changes. Set it once with the floor team, record the number, engage the key-lock, put the run hours on the timer to match mall trading, and then audit it by walking in from the corridor once a quarter rather than by fiddling.
Tip: Write the setting on a card inside the unit's cupboard. Levels only ever drift upward, and a written number is what stops them.
The SOSA principle
A mall boutique is the only format in this cluster where the most useful next step is an email to the landlord rather than a purchase from a supplier.
You are renting somebody else's air along with the floor area, and no dial on any machine has authority over a pressure boundary you do not control.
The plan, from the corridor inward
Read this outside in, in the order a customer actually experiences it, because that is the order in which the problems appear.
The SOSA plan
A mall watch boutique, from the corridor inward
| The zone | What to do |
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The mall corridor
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Not yours, and not fixable by you. What it smells of is a mall management and air-handling matter, and fragrance never covers it. |
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The shopfront and first two metres
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The pressure boundary. Corridor air arrives here all day, so this is not where your store's scent lives, whatever setting you choose. |
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Past the front third
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Where the machine belongs - well inside, away from the shopfront, out of the air-conditioning return. |
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The main display floor
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One profile, one setting, held all year because mall conditions barely change. This is the zone the level is set for. |
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A closed lounge or VIP room
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The same profile carried by distribution, quieter, and never a second machine unless it has its own door and its own air path. |
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Under about 750 sq ft in total
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One Sukoon at ₹1,899, placed inside rather than at the front. A Vaayu would be the wrong buy for a small unit. |
If neighbouring tenants are the specific complaint, the pressure and airflow conversation is set out in why does my mall-based watch store pick up smells from nearby shops. And the street-facing version of the same threshold problem, where the door rather than the corridor is the culprit, is in how should a high-street luxury watch store approach signature scenting. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Placed well inside, locked, and on mall hours
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 covers up to 1000m³ - more than a mall unit needs, so it runs low rather than hard.
You can buy a better machine, a better fragrance and a better setting, and you still cannot outvote the pressure balance of a building you do not own.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why placement beats setting in a mall
The first two metres belong to the corridor, and always will
The SOSA mall-boutique specification
One machine answers almost every mall watch unit, and the decisions that matter are where it sits and what you have asked mall management for. Cold-air refill oil is not currently sold separately, so the 400ml supplied runs 90+ days a fill and further supply should be confirmed with SOSA before you commit to a rollout. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA watch-boutique specification
One dry register, one setting, and placement well inside
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A mall watch boutique of 800-2,000 sq ft | 1000m³ (about 2,000-3,000 sq ft), waterless, adjustable intensity, app timers on mall hours, key-lock, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A small mall unit under about 750 sq ft | About 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at a size where a Vaayu would be wrong | ₹1,899 View → |
Place well inside the unit, stay out of the return, and take ingress to mall management before you take it to a dial. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or case layout; it is never used to cover a corridor, neighbour or food-court smell, and where a unit has an ingress problem that is a pressure and ventilation matter first. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, conversion, spend or any other business number, and a supplier quoting you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
Mall tenants get pitched harder than anybody else in this category, and usually with the corridor as the hook - the suggestion that a strong enough machine will hold a boundary at the shopfront. It will not, and the reason is not about the machine's quality. Air moves from higher pressure to lower, and your unit sits inside a building whose pressure is set by somebody else for reasons that have nothing to do with you. No supplier gets to overrule that, and any of us who imply otherwise are selling you a product for a problem it does not address.
So I would spend the first month on two things that cost nothing from me. Ask mall management about the pressure balance at your shopfront and the fresh-air supply to your unit, in writing, and ask your own air-conditioning contractor whether your system is recirculating without an intake. Then go and look up at your ceiling and find the supply and return grilles, because a surprising number of stores have been scented for years by a machine sitting directly under a return, quietly having its output taken away.
After that it is easy, and the mall actually helps you. Constant conditions mean one setting holds all year rather than shifting with the seasons, so you write the number down once. A unit of 800-2,000 sq ft is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, well inside, key-locked, timers on trading hours; under 750 sq ft it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899. No promises from me about what it does to your numbers. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
What should a watch boutique inside a luxury mall smell like?
The same as any watch boutique: dry woods such as cedar, vetiver and cypress with a leather facet or a soft dry amber, at a low setting, and nothing sweet, edible, powdery or floral. The register is the easy part of a mall unit's problem. The difficult part is that you do not control your own air, so placement and the building's pressure balance decide far more than the choice of fragrance does.
Why does corridor air keep coming into my mall store?
Because your unit is not a sealed volume and the mall's air handling was designed for the whole building rather than for you. Air moves from higher pressure to lower, so if the corridor is pushing and your unit is not, the corridor wins at the shopfront all day. That is a pressure, door and ventilation question for mall management and your air-conditioning contractor rather than a fragrance question.
Can a stronger scent machine stop corridor smells entering?
No, and turning up the setting is the wrong move every time. It makes the back of the store overpowering while the shopfront still smells of the corridor. Fragrance never covers another smell: two things released into one airspace combine into a third that nobody chose and that reads worse than either alone. The sequence is pressure, door management and placement, then fragrance.
Where should the scent machine go in a mall unit?
Well inside, past the front third, and never at the shopfront, because the first couple of metres belong to the corridor. Just as importantly, keep it away from an air-conditioning return, which draws the output away before customers experience it and makes a good machine seem weak. If the fit-out allows, mounting on the supply side lets the building's own system distribute it, though ductwork and filtration are your engineer's call.
Does constant mall air conditioning make scenting harder?
It cuts both ways, and the good half is underrated. Constant air conditioning moves and dries the air continuously, so a setting reads differently from the same number in a naturally ventilated street store. But it also gives you the most stable conditions of any retail format, which means one setting can hold all year instead of needing seasonal adjustment. Set it once with your floor team, record it, and engage the key-lock.
Placed inside, locked, on mall hours
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for luxury watch boutiques inside malls
The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers up to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft, and belongs well inside the unit and out of the air-conditioning return; below about 750 sq ft the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead. Waterless, under 38dB, key-locked, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send the unit plan with the grilles marked.
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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 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.