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There is no correct setting written down
Three settings, and nothing published about what any one of them does in an hour. So the answer is a method you run over a fortnight, not a number I can hand you.
The instinct with a new device is to find the correct setting on the first evening, as though one exists and is written down somewhere. It is not. What exists is three positions and a fortnight of your own driving, which is a slower answer and the only honest one.
The answer in 30 seconds
Which of SOSA Safar's three speeds should I actually use?
- In one line. Lowest speed, one-hour timer, one week. Then change one dial, and only one.₹3,999
- The short answer. Begin on the lowest of the three speeds with the timer at one hour and run it for a week of ordinary driving. Move up one step at a time, and change nothing else in the same week. Safar is Rs 3,999, or Rs 4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant.
- If you only do one thing: move one dial a week. Speed, timer and oil are three separate decisions, and two of them changed together leaves you with no idea which one did the work.
- How many speeds does Safar have? Three. SOSA publishes the count and nothing about what any single setting does over an hour, so there is no per-speed figure to compare.
- Which one should I start on? The lowest, with the auto-off timer at one hour, through a week of your ordinary driving. That is a starting point and not a statement about strength.
- How do I know when to move up? When a full week at a setting has told you nothing you wanted to know. Then move one step and leave everything else exactly where it was.
The answer, in full
Start on the lowest of the three and leave it there for a week. SOSA publishes no per-speed figure of any kind: no duration, no output, no coverage. What is published is the count, three, the one, two or three hour auto-off timer, and the battery figures. Nothing in that tells you where to set it, because where to set it depends on your cabin, your windows and your nose, and none of those is something SOSA can measure for you. So you run a week at the lowest, then a week one step up, and you keep the oil and the timer still while you do it. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The three dials, and the order to turn them
There are three things you can actually change on a Safar: which of the three speeds it runs at, whether the auto-off timer is set to one, two or three hours, and which oil is in the 20ml bottle. They interact. That is exactly why you turn them one at a time.
Speed: three settings, and no published figure behind any of them
SOSA publishes the count and no duration, output or coverage figure for any single setting. That is not an omission you can read around; there is no number to compare, so the comparison has to happen in your own car. Run the lowest for a week before you touch anything.
Three fixed positions you can always return to exactly.
Timer: one hour, two hours or three hours, and nothing between
The auto-off timer has three positions: one hour, two hours and three hours. A journey longer than three hours is not a longer setting; it is the timer ending and you starting it again. Treat it as a stop, not as a dose.
Oil: what is in the bottle is not a strength control
Changing the oil changes what you smell, not how much the device puts out, and SOSA publishes no strength ranking of the nine car scents, so a swap is neither a step up nor a step down. Keep one oil in the bottle for the whole fortnight you spend on the speeds.
One oil, one fortnight. Two variables and you learn nothing.
Keep the oil still while you move the speed
If you change the oil in the same week you change the speed, you have run two experiments at once and learned nothing from either. SOSA publishes no ranking of the nine car scents by strength or by longevity, so swapping one for another is not a way of turning the volume down. Finish the speeds first. Then, if you want to, change the oil and leave the setting alone.
Not sure the oil in the bottle is the one you want to live with for a fortnight? The three-spray discovery sets run ₹709 to ₹909, so you can smell a trio in your own car before you commit the bottle. See the discovery sets →
What a week at one setting tells you, and what it does not
| What the record says | |
|---|---|
| Whether this setting suits your driving | Yes, and it is the only thing that will tell you. A week of ordinary journeys is the instrument; there is no published figure that does the same job. |
| How long this setting runs before the oil is gone | Nothing. No per-speed duration and no oil-consumption rate is published, so the figure does not exist to be looked up or worked out. |
| Whether a higher setting would be better here | Only by trying it. SOSA publishes no coverage figure for any car, so the comparison cannot be made on paper. |
| Whether the device is working at all | Yes. Up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent per charge is published, so a charged unit that stops after twenty minutes is worth a message on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531. |
Four weeks is the whole programme: one week at the lowest, one week a step up, one week at the highest if the second week left you wanting more, and one week back at whichever of the three you stopped thinking about. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how long the oil lasts.
“Three speeds is three positions, not a scale somebody has published numbers for. The fortnight is the number.”
Finding your own setting in four weeks
- Week one: the lowest of the three, timer at one hour, nothing else touched.
- Week two: same oil, same timer, one step up on the speed.
- Write four lines a week: the date, the setting, the timer, the oil.
- Stop at the setting you stop thinking about, and leave it alone.
SOSA car fragrance
Three settings, one month, one decision
The published specification is on the product page. Which of the three suits your driving is the part no specification can reach.
10 ml sprays ₹459–₹559 · 12 ml hanging bottles ₹459–₹519 · 15 ml refills ₹399–₹449 · 50 ml spray ₹1,509 · three-spray discovery sets ₹709–₹909 · SOSA Safar ₹3,999, ₹4,499 hotel-inspired
View SOSA SafarSee the 15ml refillsQuestions, answered
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Does a higher speed empty the bottle sooner?
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Does changing the scent change the strength?
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Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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