How Do I Keep a Kitchen Showroom Fragrant Without Making Long Consultations Uncomfortable?

You resolve it by deciding, once and in writing, who the level belongs to - and the answer is the person who stays longest. Here is why that is not merely a kind choice but the correct one. The two experiences in your building are asymmetric. A visitor walking the display floor for six or eight minutes, in moving air, with doors opening, receives a small fraction of what a customer seated at a consultation table receives across ninety minutes, because exposure accumulates with time and the seated customer's air is barely being exchanged. Now consider what each of them loses if you set the level for the other. Set it for the seated customer, and the walk-through visitor gets a room that smells clean and looked-after rather than obviously fragranced - which, as it happens, is the target anyway. Set it for the walk-through visitor, and the seated customer spends the last half-hour of a several-lakh decision quietly wishing they were somewhere else, and will never tell you so. The downside is entirely one-sided, so the decision is one-sided. The seated customer's comfort is the ceiling for the whole building. What people expect me to say next is that you therefore accept a bland floor, and I do not, because the tension mostly dissolves once you stop trying to solve it at the dial. Three moves do the work. First, placement. One source, upstream on the air path - near where air enters the room, roughly a metre off the floor, out of the AC return's pull, not at the door and never inside a display kitchen - and as far from the consultation table as the plan allows. Distance is a volume control that costs nothing and does not have to be balanced against anything. Second, the gradient you already have. A single source produces a falling gradient by itself: strongest nearest the machine and weaker as you move away. If the machine sits near the front of the floor and the consultation area sits at the back, arrival is naturally the most present moment of the visit and the table is naturally the quietest, without a second machine, a second setting, or any engineering at all. Third, time. The 1h/4h/8h/24h timers mean the room runs on trading hours rather than continuously, so the air is not accumulating overnight and the first customers of the day arrive to a room that has settled rather than one that has been soaking. What you must not do, in order of how often I see it: do not put a second, smaller unit near the consultation area to keep it "consistent" - a source two metres from a seated customer is the worst-placed machine in the building. Do not turn the whole floor up and then apologise for the meeting room. And do not decide the level standing at the entrance with the door open, because your nose adapts within about twenty minutes and the doorway reading is meaningless. Take the measurement from the chair: sit at your own consultation table for a full ninety minutes, and ask the designers who sit there nine hours a day, six days a week, privately and after an ordinary week. Hardware, honestly. Past about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999: rated to 1000m³ so it runs near the bottom of its range, waterless, under 38dB so it is inaudible from the table, key-locked so the setting holds. Under about 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. Register unchanged throughout: dry, material-led, nothing edible - our own Fresh Brew, coffee and vanilla at ₹849, is exactly what not to use here. Three limits: anyone must be able to switch it off in seconds; fragrance is never a mask for laminate, adhesive or new joinery, which need ventilation and time; and no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries, order value or a customer's decision, and a supplier offering you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan and send the floor plan.