What Should I Ask Before Buying a Commercial Scent Machine for My Kitchen Showroom?

Ten questions, and I would put them to every supplier you speak to including me. One: what is the coverage in cubic metres? This is the question that prevents the most expensive mistakes, because a square-foot rating has an assumed ceiling height baked into it and nobody tells you what height they assumed. Kitchen experience centres frequently have double-height display areas that hold far more air than the plan suggests. The SOSA Vaayu is rated to 1000m³, which works out at roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft at normal ceiling height - and if a supplier cannot give you a cubic number at all, they have not sized a building in their life. Two: waterless or water-based? The Vaayu is a waterless cold-air nebuliser, so it adds no moisture to the room and leaves no residue on surfaces; ultrasonic machines such as the Sukoon at ₹1,899 work by cool mist, which is a real and honest difference to know about in a room full of finishes. Whether room humidity matters to a particular laminate or veneer is a question for the people who manufactured it, not for me. Three: what exactly can the timer do? Not "it has a timer" - the granularity. The Vaayu offers 1h/4h/8h/24h plus a Bluetooth app, which is what lets a showroom run on trading hours and come off entirely on a cooking-demonstration day. Four: is there a key-lock? On a floor where several people have opinions about the setting, a lock is the difference between a level and a drift. Five: how loud, in decibels? The Vaayu is under 38dB, which matters because your customer is seated at a table for sixty to ninety minutes. Six: how does it mount? Freestanding, wall, or into air handling - and mounting is what lets one source reach an entrance and a closed consultation room. Seven: what does it draw? 5W, so you can do your own electricity arithmetic rather than accepting anybody's. Eight: certifications and origin? CE, RoHS and SGS, made in India. Nine, and the one to press hardest: what exactly do I buy when the supplied oil runs out, at what price, and how quickly? Here is SOSA failing its own checklist, by name: no cold-air refill oil is sold separately today. The Vaayu ships with 4 × 100ml, that 400ml runs 90+ days a fill, and continuity of supply has to be confirmed with SOSA in writing before you budget or roll out. The water-based Hotel Collection is ultrasonic only and never a Vaayu refill. Ten: what business result do you promise? The correct answer is none, and a supplier who gives you a footfall, dwell or conversion figure has told you what kind of company they are. SOSA does not publish a business-outcome number because it has not measured one. Two more things while you are asking. Warranty, AMC, installation, spare parts, bulk pricing, minimum order, GST and corporate invoicing are all unpublished - get them in writing. And ask what register they would propose: if the answer is a warm vanilla or a coffee note, they have not understood this category, and SOSA's own Fresh Brew at ₹849 is exactly that register and is ruled out for a kitchen showroom. One last guardrail: none of these machines covers another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and any supplier who says otherwise has failed the list before you started. Ask for a retail scenting plan and send us the same questions.