★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
A door that opens onto an arterial road is an air-exchange problem with a cheap mechanical fix, and it is the only one of your three worries that a fragrance supplier has any business answering
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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
★ What an office behind a busy frontage usually chooses between
SOSA VaayuOne front volume, set back from the doorView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuContinuous low output, never a burstView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA whole ducted floor above the entranceView ₹25,999
✓ Dust is particulate, fragrance is vapour — unrelated, and we sell no filter, no cleaner and nothing that touches the first ✓ The door is the only variable of the three that a scenting plan can answer, and the answer is mechanical before it is fragrant ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
Does dust in the air affect the fragrance? Let me be flat about this, because the industry is not. Dust is particulate: solid matter, heavy, settling on sills and glass and the top edge of the door frame. Fragrance is vapour. They occupy the same room and have essentially nothing to do with one another. More to the point, SOSA sells nothing whatsoever that does anything about dust — no filter, no cleaner, no device of any kind that touches particulate. If a supplier has told you a diffuser will help with what blows in off the road, they have told you something untrue.
So what do I do about the door before I buy anything? Three mechanical things, in order, and all of them cheaper than a machine. Fit a self-closer, so the door is shut by default instead of shut when somebody remembers. Stop the door being propped in the mornings, which is a habit rather than a requirement. And if the premises allow it, build or reinstate a small lobby — even a shallow one with two door leaves is worth more than any setting on any dial. Then, and only then, place the source.
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Facts verified 16 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 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 (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. 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, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.
Taken one at a time, the answer is yes, yes and yes — but only the third of the three is a scenting question, and the other two have been quietly bundled into the fragrance decision by people who had something to sell. The part of this page you will find least commercial is the part about the grit on your sill.
Quick answers — read this first
Which of the three actually matters to a scent machine? The door. A frontage on an arterial corridor is opened constantly — by clients, couriers, drivers, the person going out for tea — and every opening swaps a slice of conditioned room air for road air. That is an air-exchange question, and it changes how you run a machine rather than which one you buy. Traffic noise is an acoustics question with no scenting answer at all. Grit is a cleaning and filtration question, and it is not ours.Does dust in the air affect the fragrance? Let me be flat about this, because the industry is not. Dust is particulate: solid matter, heavy, settling on sills and glass and the top edge of the door frame. Fragrance is vapour. They occupy the same room and have essentially nothing to do with one another. More to the point, SOSA sells nothing whatsoever that does anything about dust — no filter, no cleaner, no device of any kind that touches particulate. If a supplier has told you a diffuser will help with what blows in off the road, they have told you something untrue.
So what do I do about the door before I buy anything? Three mechanical things, in order, and all of them cheaper than a machine. Fit a self-closer, so the door is shut by default instead of shut when somebody remembers. Stop the door being propped in the mornings, which is a habit rather than a requirement. And if the premises allow it, build or reinstate a small lobby — even a shallow one with two door leaves is worth more than any setting on any dial. Then, and only then, place the source.
The short answer
Short answer: All three affect the room and only the door affects the plan. Grit is particulate and belongs to cleaning and filtration; nothing SOSA sells touches it. Traffic noise belongs to glazing and acoustics. The door is an air-exchange matter: fit a self-closer, stop propping it, add a lobby if the premises allow, then place one machine back from the entrance and run it continuously low rather than in bursts.
The pick: once the door is mechanically sorted, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed well back from the entrance and run continuously at a low setting rather than boosted.
Next step: send a sketch of the frontage showing where the door sits, which way it swings and where the air-conditioning return is, and we will tell you where the source goes — ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
Two of your three worries have honest answers that cost nothing from me, and I would rather you heard that here than after the invoice.
The ladder for a front volume behind a busy door — tap through for the coverage figures
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The prior question
Does your business pass the three-question test at all?
Sized on your own drawing
A frontage read, at ₹0
Straight answer
Will road traffic, dust and a door that keeps opening unsettle the scenting of an office on Avinashi Road?
Take them apart, because bundled together they sound like one problem and they are three, with three different owners. Dust first, and this is the unprofitable paragraph. What comes off Avinashi Road is particulate — solid, heavy, settling on the sill, the glass, the top of the door frame and the leaves of whatever is standing near the entrance. Fragrance is vapour. The two share a room and have no meaningful relationship, and I am not going to invent one for you. SOSA sells nothing that does anything about dust. Not a filter, not a cleaner, not a device that captures, settles or otherwise deals with particulate of any kind. That job belongs to your housekeeping schedule, to a door mat with a proper scraper, to the filters in your air-conditioning, and if it is genuinely severe, to an air-handling contractor. Not one of those people works for me. Traffic noise next, which is a glazing and acoustics question, and again there is no fragrance answer to it, although it is worth saying that a room which is loud will feel unfinished no matter what it smells like. Then the door, which is the real one. A frontage on Avinashi Road is opened constantly — it is a road people drive to you along rather than stroll past you on, so the door is worked by clients, couriers and drivers all day — and each opening exchanges a slice of the room's air for the air outside. That is not a reason to buy a larger machine — it is a reason to fix the door and then run a smaller setting continuously. In order: a self-closer, so the door shuts by default; an end to propping it open in the mornings; a shallow lobby with two leaves if the premises allow one. Then place one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 well back from the entrance, away from the air-conditioning return, and leave it at a level nobody can name. Two limits, as always. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand-experience decision; it works alongside cleaning, ventilation and source control and never instead of them. And nobody can promise it moves a business number — not an enquiry, not an order, not anything you could put in a ledger.
Yes to all three, and only the door is mine to answer. Grit is cleaning and filtration and I sell nothing for it. Fix the closer, stop propping the door, then run one machine low and continuously.
Once the door is mechanically sorted, the answer is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, set back from the entrance and run continuously at a low level. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue; 400ml tank at 90+ days; about 5W.
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Why the answer to a busy door is lower and steadier, not bigger
Each opening exchanges air; the source rebuilds the level between openings
The machines — and a note that none of them is a filter
Before the ladder, the disclaimer that matters most on this page: not one item below does anything to particulate, and none of them is sold as doing so. They put a small amount of fragrance vapour into a volume of air. That is the entire function. Every image links to the live page so you can check the coverage figures against your own cubic-metre sum.
One front volume behind a busy door
SOSA Vaayu
₹11,999. Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling. Adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, app and onboard control, key-lock, under 38dB, a 400ml tank at 90+ days. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
A whole floor served by ducting
SOSA Angaan
₹25,999. HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling, 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules, under 42dB. Where a building already conditions a whole floor, this goes on the air handling rather than in the entrance.
From ₹25,999
The three worries, separated so each goes to the right trade
Bundled, they sound like a single objection to scenting a building on that corridor. Separated, one of them is a housekeeping contract, one is a glazier's quotation, and one is a door closer costing a fraction of a machine. Only after all three have been handed to the right person does the fragrance question become answerable.
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Grit: particulate matter, and not a fragrance question at any point
What arrives with the air on an Avinashi Road frontage is solid: fine mineral matter, tyre and brake residue off a road carrying traffic out towards the airport all day, whatever the sweeping outside puts back into the air. It settles. You see it on the sill, on the top rail of the glass door, on the cable trays and on the leaves of the plant by the entrance. Fragrance is a vapour released in very small quantities and it sits on top of a room's existing smell without subtracting anything from it. Those two facts do not intersect. I want to be blunt rather than diplomatic here: we sell nothing that removes, settles, traps or reduces dust, and I have never seen a diffuser of any brand that does. The honest sequence is a proper entrance mat with a scraper section, a housekeeping frequency that matches the frontage rather than the office next door, and filters in the air-conditioning changed on somebody's calendar rather than on complaint.
Tip: Run a finger along the top edge of the door frame on a Friday. That line, not the smell of the room, is the measure of the problem you are describing.
The only relevant fact about the Vaayu here is that it is waterless: it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces. Beyond that it has no opinion about what comes in off the road.
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Two
The door: air exchange, which changes the setting and not the machine
This is the one a scenting plan can genuinely answer. Every time the front door swings on a busy frontage, a portion of the conditioned volume leaves and an equal portion of road air replaces it. The fragrance level in the room drops, then rebuilds from the source over the following minutes, then drops again at the next opening. The room therefore lives in a sawtooth rather than at a steady number. The wrong response, and the common one, is to raise the output to fight the losses — which makes the room correct for nobody and heavy for the person who arrives during a quiet stretch. The right response is mechanical and cheap: a self-closer so the door is shut by default, an end to the morning habit of propping it, a mat and a threshold seal, and a shallow two-leaf lobby wherever the frontage allows one to be built.
Tip: Watch your own door for one hour and count the openings. Most owners are surprised, and couriers account for more of it than clients do.
With a door like that, the Vaayu timers are worth more than the intensity dial: a continuous low run rebuilds the level far better than a boost ever will.
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Three
Placement: away from the door, away from the return, and low
Where the source stands decides more than any other adjustable on this page. Put it near the entrance and you are feeding the doorway: every swing takes a share of what you just released straight back out to the road, and the person standing at the desk gets a room that is strong at the threshold and thin behind it. Put it near the air-conditioning return and the machine is effectively scenting the return duct. The workable position on a frontage like yours is set back from the door, offset from the main traffic line, at a height where nothing is standing directly in the plume, and ideally on the supply side of the conditioning rather than the extract side. Then set the level so low that nobody in the room can name it, and leave it there. A frontage that exchanges air constantly punishes a strong setting more than a quiet building ever does.
Tip: Mark where your air-conditioning return sits before choosing the spot. It is the single most common reason a correctly sized machine reads as weak.
Key-lock exists for exactly this building. Somebody will feel a draught, decide the room has gone flat, and reach for the Vaayu if you let them.
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The SOSA principle
A room behind a busy door does not hold a level; it loses one and rebuilds it, over and over, all day. Plan for the rebuild rather than fighting the loss, because the dial cannot win an argument with a doorway.
And the person least able to judge the result is you, because you are in the room all day and your nose has settled by twenty past nine.
Whose problem each of the three actually is
The table below hands each worry to the trade that can answer it, which in two cases out of three is not me. The related question of a shop door that opens every few minutes, rather than an office door that opens several times an hour, is worked through separately in will scenting work with constant walk-in traffic.
The SOSA plan
Each worry, handed to the trade that can actually answer it
| What you are worried about | Who owns it, and what it costs |
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Road grit on the sill, the glass and the door frame
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Housekeeping, entrance matting and your air-conditioning filters. A scenting supplier has nothing to offer here and should not pretend otherwise. We sell no filter and nothing that captures or reduces particulate. |
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Traffic noise coming through the frontage
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Glazing, seals and soft surfaces inside the room. There is no fragrance answer to a loud room, and a loud room will read as unfinished whatever else you do to it. |
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The front door opening constantly onto the corridor
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This one is ours, and the fix is mechanical first: self-closer, no propping, a mat and a threshold, a shallow lobby if the premises allow. Then one machine set back from the door, run continuously low. View → |
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The level dropping every time somebody walks in
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Expected, and not a fault. The room rebuilds between openings, which is why continuous low output beats a boost. Raising the dial to cover the dips leaves the room heavy for whoever arrives during a quiet spell. View → |
If you have not yet decided whether your business should be scented at all, start with which businesses on this corridor benefit from scenting, which is a three-question test rather than a sales argument. If your visitors are outstation clients arriving from the airport, the arrival state itself is the brief, and that is taken apart in how an airport-adjacent office should smell when outstation clients arrive. And if the premises are still being fitted out, the door, the socket and the position are all far cheaper to settle now — see at what stage of interior design to plan the scenting. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial number.
The door, the return and the sill
Send a sketch of the frontage with the door swing and the conditioning return marked, and we will tell you where the source belongs.
Dust is particulate and fragrance is vapour. They share the room and have nothing to say to each other, and I sell nothing at all that changes the first.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where the ladder goes, once the door is sorted
One source per connected volume, chosen on cubic metres and not on frontage
The SOSA specification for an office behind a busy frontage
Sized on the connected cubic metres behind the door, placed away from the entrance and the conditioning return, and run continuously at a level nobody can name. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA busy-frontage specification
Chosen by the volume behind the door, and set for the rebuild rather than the loss
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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One front volume with a door that opens all day | ₹11,999, 1000m³, low settings that hold, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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A whole floor already conditioned through ducting | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected where the ducting allows, 800ml reservoir | ₹25,999 View → |
For a small front room under about 400 sq ft, a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 or a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is the more honest purchase. Ambient scent here is an interior and brand-experience decision, with no claim that it affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial number — nobody can promise that, and a supplier who quotes you a figure is selling. It sits alongside your housekeeping, ventilation, matting and source control and never replaces any of them, and it does not remove, settle or reduce dust. Any store, workshop or loading area behind the office stays unscented, and where a plant safety rule or a customer's audit requirement applies, that protocol decides and not us. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no installation and no maintenance terms; a multi-site question goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and we will do the cubic-metre sum on your drawing.
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A note from Sonal
I was sent a photograph once, taken by an owner with a ground-floor office on Avinashi Road, of a windowsill with a finger-line drawn through it. The message underneath asked which fragrance would deal with that. It is a fair question to ask a supplier who has been telling you that air is her subject, and the answer was that nothing in my range has the faintest thing to do with what was on that sill, and that the person he actually needed was whoever holds his housekeeping contract.
He fitted a proper scraper mat and moved his filter changes onto a calendar. Some weeks later he called about the door, which was propped open every morning until about eleven because the staff found it convenient, and that turned out to be the whole of his scenting problem. A closer and a rule about propping did more for that room than the machine he eventually bought, and the machine only worked because those two things happened first.
So separate the three and hand two of them to somebody else. We make no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial outcome, and we make no claim about dust, filtration or anything in the air apart from the small amount of fragrance we put into it. What a steady, unremarkable front room can do is stop the building contradicting the company inside it. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Does road dust actually interfere with how a diffuser works?
Not in any way I can honestly describe to you, and I would rather leave the question unanswered than invent a mechanism. Particulate settles on surfaces; fragrance vapour disperses through air. The practical consequence of a dusty frontage is a cleaning schedule and a filter change, and the machine itself simply needs wiping like anything else in the room. Nothing we sell touches dust.
Will a scent machine help with the smell of exhaust coming in from the road?
It will not, and this is the point where most fragrance marketing stops being truthful. Fragrance sits on top of a room's baseline; it does not subtract anything from it. Put scent over an intruding outdoor smell and you have both at once, which is worse than either alone. The order is source, then ventilation, then the door, then cleaning, and only then fragrance.
How much does a frequently opening door change the machine I should buy?
Hardly at all. It changes how you run it. Size the machine on the connected cubic metres behind the door — square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 — and then run it continuously at a low setting so the room rebuilds between openings. Buying a bigger machine to fight a doorway is the most expensive mistake available on this corridor.
Should I fit a lobby or an airlock before buying anything?
If the premises allow it, yes, and not mainly for fragrance. A shallow two-leaf lobby holds the conditioning, cuts the noise coming off the road and keeps a good deal of what blows in at the first threshold. It also happens to stabilise the scent level, which is a side effect rather than the reason. Where a lobby is impossible, a self-closer and a rule against propping do a surprising share of the same work.
Can you promise the room will feel premium once all this is done?
I can promise you the room will be consistent, which is a smaller and more useful thing. What I cannot do is tell you it affects an enquiry, an order, a contract or any commercial number, because nobody can, and a vendor who offers you a figure has made it up. A steady front room stops your building arguing with your company. That is the claim, and it is the only one.
Two of your three worries are not mine
SOSA — Arterial-Frontage Scenting fix the door, then run it low and leave it alone
Grit goes to housekeeping and filtration; noise goes to glazing. The door gets a self-closer, an end to propping and a lobby if the premises allow. Then one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, set back from the entrance and run continuously low. Sized in cubic metres on your own drawing. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 16 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 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 (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. 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, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.