★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
Fragrance goes on top of whatever a room already contains; put it over a storage problem and you will own the storage problem and the fragrance together
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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 comes after the first three steps, if anything does
SOSA VaayuLater, and only for the front hallView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuA timer, once the source work is finishedView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA large ducted front block, rarely relevant hereView ₹25,999
✓ Source, then ventilation, then cleaning, then air — in that order and never out of it ✓ Fragrance adds to a room's baseline; it does not take anything out of the air ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
What are the actual sources in a room like this? Four, nearly always. Packaging — cartons, poly, tape and dunnage kept too long because no one owns the job of taking them out. Stored cloth sitting in one position for a season, often under a table or on the floor. A room with no real change of air, sealed since the split unit went in and shut from Saturday to Monday. And surfaces that cannot be cleaned because there is too much standing on them. Each of those is physical, each one is visible from where you are sitting, and none of them is a fragrance problem.
So what should I buy first? Shelving. Genuinely. Racking that gets stock and packaging off the floor and into positions that can be rotated and swept under does more for this room than anything I sell, and it is the purchase I would make first in my own building. After that: a daily time and a named person for packaging removal, a real change of air between appointments, and a cleaning routine that can actually reach the surfaces. Then, months later, you can ask whether the front hall wants anything at all.
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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.
Address the source, and please do not order a machine this month — I would rather write that plainly than sell you something that makes the room busier. What you are describing has physical causes sitting in the room right now, and every one of them has a cheaper answer than mine.
Quick answers — read this first
Why is fragrance the wrong first move here? Because fragrance is an addition. It sits on top of whatever a room already contains and it does not take anything out of the air — no ambient product does, whatever the label says. So if the room carries cardboard, stored cloth and a corner nobody has opened since March, adding a second thing gives you a room with cardboard, stored cloth and a fragrance in it. That is not a subtle failure; visitors notice it immediately, and it reads as a building trying to cover something rather than a building that has been looked after.What are the actual sources in a room like this? Four, nearly always. Packaging — cartons, poly, tape and dunnage kept too long because no one owns the job of taking them out. Stored cloth sitting in one position for a season, often under a table or on the floor. A room with no real change of air, sealed since the split unit went in and shut from Saturday to Monday. And surfaces that cannot be cleaned because there is too much standing on them. Each of those is physical, each one is visible from where you are sitting, and none of them is a fragrance problem.
So what should I buy first? Shelving. Genuinely. Racking that gets stock and packaging off the floor and into positions that can be rotated and swept under does more for this room than anything I sell, and it is the purchase I would make first in my own building. After that: a daily time and a named person for packaging removal, a real change of air between appointments, and a cleaning routine that can actually reach the surfaces. Then, months later, you can ask whether the front hall wants anything at all.
The short answer
Short answer: Address the source first, and buy nothing from me this quarter. Packaging, stored cloth, a sealed room and surfaces nobody can reach are physical causes, and ambient fragrance is an addition that sits on top of them rather than a subtraction. The order is stock rotation, ventilation, cleaning, then air. The right first purchase is shelving, and the machine question can wait until the room is honest.
The pick: no machine at all this quarter — shelving, a rotation and a daily packaging routine first; and if the front hall still wants something months later, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 run low.
Next step: if you want a second opinion on the order rather than a quotation, send the plan with the storage areas and the openable windows marked — ask for a scenting plan and expect to be told to wait.
In this guide
I sell step four, and it is still step four. That is the whole recommendation on this page.
The ladder, for whenever the first three steps are finished
The machine, for later
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
What neutral actually means
Should the sample area stay fragrance-neutral?
A second opinion, not a quotation
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
My textile office smells of packaging, cloth and storage — fragrance, or fix the source?
Fix the source, and I would rather lose this sale than pretend otherwise. Here is the reasoning, and it is mechanical rather than moral. Ambient fragrance is an addition. It sits on top of whatever a room already contains, and it does not take anything out of the air — no diffuser does, whatever a label or a salesman implies. So in a room that currently carries cardboard, poly, stored cloth and the particular stillness of a space that has not had a real change of air since the split unit was fitted, adding a fragrance gives you all of that plus a fragrance. Two things at once, which is louder and more confusing than one thing, and which visitors read instantly as a building covering something rather than a building that is looked after. Now look at what is actually producing the room you are describing, because it is all visible from where you are standing. Packaging is usually the loudest: cartons, tape, poly and dunnage kept for weeks because taking them out is nobody's named job. Stored cloth is next, especially anything that has sat in one position for a season, under a table or along a wall or on the floor itself. Then air: a room sealed for conditioning, shut from Saturday to Monday in a warm city, with no path for a genuine change of air between appointments. Then surfaces, because a shelf with twenty things on it cannot be cleaned and so it is not. The order of work follows directly from that list, and the first item on it is a purchase I do not sell. Buy shelving. Racking that lifts stock and packaging off the floor, puts it where it can be rotated, and leaves a clear floor that can genuinely be swept will do more for this room than anything in my catalogue. Then give packaging removal a name and a time, every day. Then get a real change of air through the room between appointments — an opened window and a propped door for twenty minutes is not primitive, it is effective. Then clean, properly, on surfaces that have room to be cleaned. Live with the result for a month before you think about air. If after all that the front hall still feels like it wants something, that is the moment to ask, and the answer would be one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 run low in the entrance volume, with the working rooms left alone. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand-experience decision that works alongside ventilation, housekeeping and source control and never in place of them, and nobody can promise you it moves a business number. On this page I am not even promising you a nicer room; I am telling you where the smell is coming from.
Source first, and the first purchase is shelving rather than a machine. Fragrance adds to a room and subtracts nothing, so over a storage problem it simply gives you two things instead of one.
Months from now, if the entrance still wants something once the source work is done, it is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the front volume, run low. Waterless, no added moisture, no residue on surfaces, 400ml tank at 90+ days, about 5W.
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What the machine is, and what it is not for
A diffuser is an addition to a room, never a correction to one
The machines, and the point at which they become relevant
This ladder is here for completeness rather than for this quarter. Nothing on it will change a storage problem, and buying it early tends to end the source work rather than complete it — once a machine is running, the cartons in the corner stop being urgent. Come back to this section when the first three steps are done.
Later, and only for the front of the building
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, 400ml tank at 90+ days. Waterless, so no added moisture and no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
Rarely the answer in a building like this
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. A building with a storage problem almost never has a ducting problem, so this is the wrong end of the ladder here.
From ₹25,999
The three steps that come before any machine
Storage, air, then cleaning. All three are cheap, all three are within your own control, and all three are the reason the fourth step may turn out to be unnecessary.
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One
Storage: the first purchase is racking, not a diffuser
Walk your own office as if you had never seen it and count what is standing on the floor. In most spinning and knitwear offices I am shown it is cartons waiting to go out, poly and dunnage from what came in, a bale or two that was put down in a hurry and stayed, and files nobody has a shelf for. All of it holds still air around itself, none of it can be swept under, and the stack in the corner has been there long enough that people have stopped registering it. Racking changes all of that at once: stock goes into positions that can be rotated so nothing sits for a season, packaging gets a defined place and therefore a defined time to leave, and the floor becomes a surface that can actually be cleaned. It is the least glamorous recommendation in this whole series and it is the one I am most confident about.
Tip: Photograph the room from the doorway today. In a month, photograph it again from the same spot. The comparison is more honest than anybody's nose.
Nothing about the Vaayu changes what a stack of cartons does to a room. That is not modesty; it is how an addition works.
See SOSA Vaayu →
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Two
Air: a room that is never opened is the second cause
Conditioned offices in a warm city tend to become sealed offices, and a sealed office is a room where everything that enters stays. Add a weekend with the doors shut and Monday morning has a character of its own that nobody in the building notices by eleven because they have all adapted to it. What helps is unfashionable and free: open the room properly between appointments, prop the door, get air moving through rather than around. If there is an exhaust fan that has not turned in three years, that is worth an electrician's afternoon. If the split unit is simply recirculating the same air with a filter that was last cleaned when it was installed, that is a housekeeping job with a date on it. Ambient fragrance is not a ventilation strategy, it never has been, and a room that cannot get a change of air will not be improved by having more added to it.
Tip: Come in early on a Monday, before anyone else, and notice the room in the first ten seconds. That is the only honest sample you will get all week.
If you do eventually run a Vaayu, the timer matters here: a machine running through a shut weekend is adding to a room nobody is in.
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3
Three
Cleaning, and then living with the room for a month
Cleaning comes third because the first two make it possible: a clear floor can be swept and a shelf with space on it can be wiped. Do it properly, including the places that get skipped — the tops of cupboards, behind the door, under the reception counter, the inside of the cupboard where the tea things live. Then the hard part, which is waiting. Live with the room for a month without buying anything, because a room that has just had its storage sorted out smells different in week three than it does in week one, and because buying in week one guarantees you never find out how much of the problem was storage. If at the end of that month the entrance still feels flat rather than wrong, you have a genuine fragrance question and a clean baseline to answer it against. Most buildings I have followed through this sequence end up wanting far less than they expected.
Tip: Put a date in the diary a month out, and make no decision before it. The waiting is the part of this plan people skip and it is the part that works.
When the month is up, size the front hall in cubic metres and look at the Vaayu then — with a clean baseline, the setting you need will be lower than the one you would have bought today.
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The SOSA principle
Source, then ventilation, then cleaning, then fragrance — in that order, and the order is not a formality. Fragrance sits on top of a baseline and takes nothing out of the air, so anything added before the first three steps are done is a second smell in the room rather than a solution to the first.
Several pages in this series end with the instruction to buy nothing, and a textile office full of packaging is the clearest example of why that instruction exists.
The order of operations, step by step
The table below is the sequence rather than a shopping list, and three of its four rows involve no purchase from me at all. If you only act on one row, make it the first.
The SOSA order of work
Four steps, and the machine only appears in the last one
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Step one — storage and packaging
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Racking, so stock and packaging come off the floor and into rotatable positions. A named person and a daily time for taking packaging out. This is the purchase I would make first, and it is not one of mine. |
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Step two — a genuine change of air
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Open the room properly between appointments, prop the door, get an exhaust fan working if there is a dead one, and have the split unit's filters cleaned on a date somebody owns. A diffuser is not a ventilation strategy and cannot substitute for one. |
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Step three — cleaning, then a month of waiting
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Clean what the first two steps have made reachable, then live with the room for a month before deciding anything. Buying in week one guarantees you never learn how much of this was storage. |
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Step four — air, if it is still wanted
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Only now, and only in the entrance and reception. One machine, low, on a timer, with the sample area, packing bay and godown out of the plan because the goods are the product. View → |
The room this page is mostly about gets a fuller treatment in what neutral actually means in a sample area, which sets out why a working room is allowed to smell of work. If you get to step four, should a textile manufacturer scent its buyer showroom covers where a machine belongs, and the room-by-room ranking covers which rooms stay out of it. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, buyer decisions or any commercial number.
A second opinion, not a quotation
Send the plan with the storage areas and the openable windows marked, and expect to be told which step you are actually on.
Fragrance is an addition, never a subtraction. Put it over a storage problem and you do not have a better room — you have a storage problem and a fragrance.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
If and when step four arrives
Sized on the front-of-house volume only, and run lower than you would have bought today
The SOSA specification, for the conversation after the source work
Listed for completeness, sized on the front-of-house cubic metres, and relevant only once storage, air and cleaning have been dealt with. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA specification, for later
Relevant only once the first three steps are genuinely finished
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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An entrance and reception, after the storage work, run low | ₹11,999, 1000m³, steady low settings, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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A large front block with its own ducted circuit | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected, and rarely the right answer in this situation | ₹25,999 View → |
For many buildings the honest end of this page is that nothing here is needed at all, and a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 on the counter is as far as it ever goes. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision, with no claim that it affects enquiries, orders, buyer decisions or any commercial number — nobody can promise that. It works alongside ventilation, housekeeping and source control and never replaces them; it does not remove, settle or reduce dust, and it is not an answer to packaging kept too long. The sample area, the packing bay, the godown, the mill floor and any area governed by a customer's own audit requirement stay unscented, and that protocol decides, 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 if you want a second opinion on the order of work.
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A note from Sonal
A knitwear exporter called me on a Friday, fairly certain he wanted two machines, because his office had been described by a visiting buyer as smelling like a warehouse. I asked him to walk me round on a video call instead. There were cartons stacked to the window in the accounts corner, a bale under the meeting table, and a window that had been painted shut at some point in the building's long life. He had a smell question and a storage answer, and he already knew it before we finished the call.
He bought racking. Six weeks later he sent a photograph of the same corner with a clear floor and a rotation chart taped to the wall, and said the room was unrecognisable and he was no longer sure he needed anything from me. That was the correct outcome and I told him so. He came back nine months afterwards for one unit in the entrance, set low, which is roughly a fifth of what he had intended to spend on that first Friday.
I lose a sale on this page fairly often and it is worth it. We make no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, buyer decisions or any commercial outcome, and nobody can promise you otherwise. Fragrance is an addition to a room, and a room has to be worth adding to first. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Will a diffuser not at least cover the packaging smell in the meantime?
It will not take anything out of the air, because no ambient product subtracts — fragrance sits on top of a room's existing baseline. So what you would get is cardboard and storage plus a fragrance, running at once, which visitors read as a building covering something. The cheaper and better move is to give packaging removal a name and a daily time, which costs nothing and changes the baseline itself.
Is shelving really the right first purchase for a smell problem?
In a textile office, yes, more often than not. Racking gets stock and packaging off the floor, puts stock where it can be rotated instead of sitting for a season, and leaves a floor that can genuinely be swept. Those three changes act on the causes rather than on top of them, and they cost less than the machine you were about to buy. It is a dull answer and it is the one I stand behind.
How long after the storage work should I leave it before deciding about air?
A month after the storage and ventilation work is finished, and not less. A room that has just had its cartons cleared reads differently in week three than in week one, and buying immediately guarantees you never discover how much of the problem was physical. Put a date in the diary and make no decision before it. Most buildings I have followed through this end up wanting a lower setting than they expected.
What if the smell is coming from stored cloth itself rather than from packaging?
Then it is a rotation question. Cloth that has been in one position through a season sits in still air, and moving stock on a schedule changes that without anybody adding anything to the room. I will not tell you what fragrance does to stored cloth in either direction, because that is not knowledge I have. What I will say is that the goods are the product, and the product should reach the buyer as the mill made it.
If I do all this, will the office feel more premium to visitors?
It will feel looked after, which is a different and more defensible claim. There is no claim here that ambient fragrance or a tidy storeroom affects an enquiry, an order, a buyer's decision or any commercial number, and anybody offering you a figure for that is offering a story. What a cleared, ventilated, well-stored office does is stop the building from contradicting the standard of the cloth you make.
Buy shelving, not a machine
SOSA — Source Before Air storage, ventilation and cleaning come first, every time
Racking to get stock and packaging off the floor, a named daily routine for packaging, a genuine change of air, cleaning that can reach — then a month of living with the room. Only after all that is a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the front hall worth discussing. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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The ladder once more, for a conversation some months away
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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.