★ SOSA real estate scenting
The moment a buyer steps into your sales office, breathes in, and starts imagining the life - engineered with scent, held every day
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★★★★★
"We put the Vaayu in our sales gallery before a tower launch. Families walk in from the site dust and visibly settle - several have said the office feels like a hotel lobby. Our walk-in-to-site-visit ratio has clearly improved."
SOSA Vaayu · sales gallery
★★★★★
"Our sample flat used to smell of fresh paint and POP. With the scenting on a timer, it now smells like a home someone already loves. Buyers linger in the living room instead of walking straight through."
SOSA Vaayu · sample flat
★★★★★
"The experience centre runs one signature scent from reception to the model apartment. Channel partners bring clients in and comment on it - it has quietly become part of how our brand is described."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
★★★★★
"Three sales offices across the city, the same fragrance in each. Buyers who visit a second office say it feels exactly like the first - which is precisely the consistency a brand needs. The app scheduling means my CRM team never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-office
★★★★★
"The Aangan went into our clubhouse HVAC and the whole tour - lobby, lounge, gym corridor - carries one calm scent. Weekend walkthroughs feel like a resort tour now, and buyers say so."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
★★★★★
"We are a small boutique developer and started with just a Sukoon at reception. Even at that scale, visitors stopped commenting on the construction smell and started commenting on the office. Best small upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · reception
★★★★★
"We put the Vaayu in our sales gallery before a tower launch. Families walk in from the site dust and visibly settle - several have said the office feels like a hotel lobby. Our walk-in-to-site-visit ratio has clearly improved."
SOSA Vaayu · sales gallery
★★★★★
"Our sample flat used to smell of fresh paint and POP. With the scenting on a timer, it now smells like a home someone already loves. Buyers linger in the living room instead of walking straight through."
SOSA Vaayu · sample flat
★★★★★
"The experience centre runs one signature scent from reception to the model apartment. Channel partners bring clients in and comment on it - it has quietly become part of how our brand is described."
Vaayu + Hotel Collection
★★★★★
"Three sales offices across the city, the same fragrance in each. Buyers who visit a second office say it feels exactly like the first - which is precisely the consistency a brand needs. The app scheduling means my CRM team never touches it."
SOSA Vaayu · multi-office
★★★★★
"The Aangan went into our clubhouse HVAC and the whole tour - lobby, lounge, gym corridor - carries one calm scent. Weekend walkthroughs feel like a resort tour now, and buyers say so."
SOSA Aangan · HVAC
★★★★★
"We are a small boutique developer and started with just a Sukoon at reception. Even at that scale, visitors stopped commenting on the construction smell and started commenting on the office. Best small upgrade we have made."
Sukoon · reception
✓ Waterless cold-air nebulising - consistent throw up to ~1000m³, app + timer scheduling ✓ Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents ✓ HVAC systems for experience centres to 18,000 sq ft · made in India
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How often should fragrance refills be changed in a sales office? It depends on machine, dose and duty hours, but the working numbers: a Sukoon ultrasonic running visiting hours at whisper dose sips the water-based Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299; refills 100ml Rs 999) and typically wants a weekly top-up and a fresh bottle roughly monthly; a Megh's 6L tank (Rs 3,499) stretches longer between attentions; the Vaayu's waterless oil reservoir at a gentle office calibration over ten-hour days runs for weeks per fill. The cadence that matters more than any of these numbers is the ordering one: hold a full quarter's refills as stock at the site, reordered in one bulk purchase. The orphan machine - running dry with no refill in the cupboard - is the single most common way a sales office programme goes silent.
Why does our office fragrance seem weaker than before? Work the ladder in this order, and do not touch the dose until you finish it. First: adaptation - after weeks in the same air, your team literally cannot smell it; have someone arrive from outside and report the first breath at the door, because if the fresh nose reads it fine, nothing is wrong. Second: the reservoir - empty or nearly empty is the boring, common answer. Third: schedule drift - a power cut or festival closure can leave timers offset from office hours; the Vaayu's app (Rs 11,999) shows this in seconds. Fourth: hardware - an ultrasonic mist plate coated in residue, or a diluted, stale tank mix, throws weakly and cleans back to normal. Raising the dose in response to nose-blindness is the classic overdosing path - fresh visitors then walk into a cloud.
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Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with longer dwell time, improved evaluations of a space and its service, and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives unclean or poorly ventilated premises. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind luxury signature scents. Fragrance cannot compensate for location, pricing, construction quality or RERA compliance - it improves the experience of a visit, not the fundamentals of a project. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel or real estate brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
A signature fragrance is installed once and maintained forever - and the maintenance, not the installation, is where programmes quietly die. A reservoir runs dry on a launch weekend; a schedule drifts after a power cut; a team gone nose-blind swears the floor smells fine. This is the ops manual: the refill cadence, the cleaning routine, the audits and the quarterly nose-check that keep the signature exactly as composed on day one.
Quick answers — read this first
How do you maintain a commercial fragrance system in a sales office? On three clocks. Weekly: a two-minute round - check every reservoir and top up; the SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999) shows its schedule on the Bluetooth app, so confirming on-off times takes seconds. Monthly: clean - empty, rinse and wipe ultrasonic tanks (Sukoon Rs 1,799) to prevent residue film, change their water fully, and wipe the Vaayu's exterior and outlet area. Quarterly: audit - walk the floor with a fresh nose (arrive from outside; the first breath at the door is the reading), verify the schedule against actual office hours, confirm next quarter's refill stock is in the cupboard, and log anything that changed. Total labour is perhaps twenty minutes a week for a full office. The signature's famous consistency is not a machine property - it is a maintenance outcome.How often should fragrance refills be changed in a sales office? It depends on machine, dose and duty hours, but the working numbers: a Sukoon ultrasonic running visiting hours at whisper dose sips the water-based Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299; refills 100ml Rs 999) and typically wants a weekly top-up and a fresh bottle roughly monthly; a Megh's 6L tank (Rs 3,499) stretches longer between attentions; the Vaayu's waterless oil reservoir at a gentle office calibration over ten-hour days runs for weeks per fill. The cadence that matters more than any of these numbers is the ordering one: hold a full quarter's refills as stock at the site, reordered in one bulk purchase. The orphan machine - running dry with no refill in the cupboard - is the single most common way a sales office programme goes silent.
Why does our office fragrance seem weaker than before? Work the ladder in this order, and do not touch the dose until you finish it. First: adaptation - after weeks in the same air, your team literally cannot smell it; have someone arrive from outside and report the first breath at the door, because if the fresh nose reads it fine, nothing is wrong. Second: the reservoir - empty or nearly empty is the boring, common answer. Third: schedule drift - a power cut or festival closure can leave timers offset from office hours; the Vaayu's app (Rs 11,999) shows this in seconds. Fourth: hardware - an ultrasonic mist plate coated in residue, or a diluted, stale tank mix, throws weakly and cleans back to normal. Raising the dose in response to nose-blindness is the classic overdosing path - fresh visitors then walk into a cloud.
The short answer
Short answer: Maintain on three clocks: weekly reservoir round and app-schedule glance (two minutes), monthly clean (ultrasonic tank rinse and water change, Vaayu wipe-down), quarterly audit (fresh-nose walk, schedule vs office hours, next quarter's refill stock ordered). Troubleshoot weakness in order: adaptation, reservoir, schedule drift, dirty tank - never by raising the dose. Refills from Rs 999. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The pick: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) for sales offices to ~1000m³; small-office systems from ₹1,799; HVAC from ₹25,999.
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In this guide
A home purchase is the largest, most emotional transaction most families ever make - months of comparison ending in a decision that is mostly feeling. Scent marketing gives your sales office, gallery and sample flat a signature: one refined fragrance, held evenly, running on a schedule no staff member has to remember. Buyers experience it as "this developer feels premium" - the exact feeling that precedes a booking.
The sales office standard
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Small offices & cabins
Ultrasonic systems from ₹1,799
Experience centres
HVAC systems from ₹25,999
Straight answer
What does the complete maintenance routine look like - weekly, monthly, quarterly?
Five parts, on a calendar. 1. The weekly round. Two minutes: every reservoir checked and topped, and a glance at the Vaayu app (₹11,999) to confirm the on-off schedule still matches office hours. Same person, same day, every week. 2. The monthly clean. Ultrasonic tanks - Sukoon (₹1,799), Megh 6L (₹3,499) - emptied, rinsed and wiped so no residue film mutes the mist, then refilled with clean water and the Hotel Collection blend (from ₹299); the Vaayu gets an exterior and outlet-area wipe. 3. The quarterly audit. Schedule verified against actual hours (power cuts and festival closures cause drift), hardware inspected, and next quarter's refills (from ₹999) ordered before stock runs out - never after. 4. The nose-check. A fresh nose - someone arriving from outside - walks entrance, floor, meeting cabin and sample flat, and their first breath is the reading; the resident team's noses stopped being instruments weeks ago. 5. The escalation rule. Any visitor comment on strength is a calibration alarm, acted on the same day - and any bad smell is fixed at its source, ventilated, never masked. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for the printable checklist. Made in India; a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
One line: weekly reservoir round + app glance, monthly tank clean, quarterly audit + fresh-nose walk, refills stocked a quarter ahead (from ₹999, Vaayu ₹11,999) - twenty minutes a week keeps the signature identical. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The sales office standard most developers choose: the SOSA Vaayu - waterless cold-air scenting to ~1000m³, Bluetooth app and timer, one signature on schedule - at ₹11,999. Small-office systems from ₹1,799; experience-centre HVAC from ₹25,999. Or WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for a free sizing consult.
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The ops manual: calendar, care, audit
The three clocks the programme runs on - and the audit that catches what your own nose cannot.
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The calendar
Three clocks: weekly, monthly, quarterly
Maintenance fails when it is a vague intention and succeeds when it is a calendar. The weekly clock is the site owner's two-minute round: reservoirs topped, app schedule glanced at, anything odd noted - always the same day, so a missed week is visible. The monthly clock is the clean, best done on a quiet weekday morning before opening: ultrasonic tanks emptied and rinsed, water changed fully, the Vaayu's outlet area wiped. The quarterly clock belongs to the custodian: a proper audit of schedule versus actual office hours, a hardware check, the fresh-nose walk, and the bulk refill order for the coming quarter placed while the cupboard still holds stock. Write all three on one laminated card next to the main machine. The entire programme's labour cost is under two hours a month - against which the cost of an unmaintained programme is the whole asset.
Tip: put the three clocks on one laminated card by the machine - a calendar survives; intentions do not.
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The machine care
Clean machines throw evenly
Each format has one care truth. Ultrasonics - the Sukoon (₹1,799) and Megh (₹3,499) - live and die by tank hygiene: the water-based blend leaves a faint film over weeks, the film mutes the mist plate, and the throw fades so gradually nobody notices until the room reads unscented. The monthly empty-rinse-wipe, plus full water changes rather than perpetual topping, keeps the mist at day-one strength; use clean filtered or RO water where tap water runs hard. The waterless Vaayu (₹11,999) is far lower-touch - no water, no heat, no tank film - which is a large part of why it is the office standard: its care is an exterior wipe, a clear outlet, and refills fitted before empty. HVAC systems like the Aangan (₹25,999) piggyback on the AHU service cycle: have the AC contractor's visit include the diffuser line. Dirty machines do not just weaken - they weaken unevenly, which breaks the signature's most valuable property.
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The nose-check
Auditing what your own team can no longer smell
The strangest fact in scent operations: the people best placed to monitor the fragrance are the people least able to. Olfactory adaptation switches a constant scent off within weeks - your team works inside the signature eight hours a day and genuinely cannot smell it, which produces the two classic errors: declaring the system broken when it is fine, and cranking the dose until fresh visitors walk into a cloud. The audit protocol replaces staff impressions with instruments. The fresh nose: someone who has been outside for hours - the custodian, a colleague from head office, even a trusted channel partner - walks the entrance, floor, cabins and sample flat, and reports the first breath in each zone against the standard: noticeable on arrival, forgotten in minutes. The visitor signal: any unprompted comment on strength, ever, is treated as a same-day calibration alarm. And the settings discipline: dose changes go through the custodian, never through a team member's afternoon impression. One register, held at whisper, verified quarterly - that is the whole audit.
Tip: your staff's noses stopped being instruments weeks ago - audit with a fresh nose and treat visitor comments as alarms.
The SOSA principle
Consistency is not a machine property - it is a maintenance outcome: three clocks, clean tanks, stocked refills, and a fresh nose auditing what yours cannot.
Twenty minutes a week, a monthly clean and a quarterly fresh-nose audit - the entire cost of keeping the signature identical for years.
The maintenance kit and cadence
The kit that makes the routine effortless.
The SOSA scent edit
The maintenance cadence map
| Scent | Why it suits the mood |
|---|---|
| Weekly · 2 minutes | Reservoir round + app schedule glance - the site owner's habit. |
| Monthly · the clean | Ultrasonic tank rinse and full water change; Vaayu outlet wipe. |
| Quarterly · the audit | Fresh-nose walk, schedule vs hours, next quarter's refills ordered. |
| Always in stock · from ₹999 | Hotel Collection refills - a quarter's supply in the cupboard. |
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A sales office buyers remember by smell
The Vaayu sales office machine at ₹11,999, small-office systems from ₹1,799, HVAC scenting to 18,000 sq ft - one signature, on schedule, hands-off. WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
The programme rarely dies of a bad register - it dies of an empty reservoir nobody checked before a Saturday full of buyers.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA real estate edit
Whatever you build and sell, the system logic is the same: one signature, sized to the space, scheduled so it never depends on a staff member's memory. Every SOSA system is supported from India, and the Hotel Collection blends - SOSA's own interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents - run across all of them. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Here is the full commercial range.
The SOSA real estate edit
Size the system to the space - sales cabins to flagship experience centres
| System | Best for | Why it works | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sukoon + Hotel Collection | Small offices, cabins & meeting rooms | 500ml ultrasonic mist for compact sales cabins, broker offices and consultation corners - the entry system | ₹1,799 + ₹299 |
| Megh (6L) | Mid-size sales offices | Large-tank ultrasonic for single-floor offices - long unattended runs through visiting hours | ₹3,499 |
| SOSA Vaayu ★ | Sales offices & galleries to ~1000m³ | Waterless cold-air nebulising, Bluetooth app + timer - the professional sales office standard | ₹11,999 |
| SOSA Aangan | Experience centres 8,000-10,000 sq ft | HVAC nebulising diffuser - one signature through the duct system, every zone of the centre | ₹25,999 |
| SOSA Meenar | Flagship centres 12,000-18,000 sq ft | The large-property HVAC system for flagship experience centres, clubhouses and townships | ₹38,500 |
| Hotel Collection refills | Every system's running cost | 100ml ₹999 / 300ml - SOSA's interpretations of the world's finest hotel scents | from ₹999 |
Honest notes for developers: scent marketing's effects on dwell time, perceived quality and recall are real but moderate - fragrance compounds a well-run sales office and rescues nothing; the premises must be clean, cool and well ventilated first, and no fragrance sells a badly located or badly priced project. Fresh paint, POP and construction smells should be aired out at the source before any scenting - the fragrance is the finishing layer over clean air, never a mask. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations inspired by the world's finest hotels; SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house, not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel or real estate brand. Ultrasonic systems use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance; the Vaayu and HVAC systems run waterless nebulising oil - the formats are not interchangeable. WhatsApp consult: +91 96192 18531. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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A note from Sonal
Developers understand experience better than almost any other business - you spend crores on the sales gallery, light the scale model like a jewel, dress the sample flat down to the books on the shelf. And then, in most projects, the air itself is left to chance: the site dust, the fresh paint, the phenyl from the morning mopping. The largest purchase your buyer will ever make deserves better air than that.
I trained at ISIPCA in Versailles, where the world's scent-marketing perfumers learn the craft, and what I build for Indian sales offices is the same architecture the global hospitality brands use: one signature, sized to the space, run on a schedule - so the scent is as reliable as your lighting. The machines matter (throw, coverage, scheduling), but the strategy matters more, and it is in every guide we publish. If you want it applied to your specific project, message us on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 - I read the project descriptions myself.
Everything is made or assembled for Indian conditions, supported from Pune - and a part of every order funds girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Your brand gets a memory; a girl gets a classroom. That equation has always felt right to me.
Frequently asked questions
Who should actually do the maintenance - housekeeping or the sales team?
Split it by clock, and put names on each. The weekly round belongs to one named site owner - usually the office admin or a CRM executive - because it is a responsibility, not a chore: two minutes, same day each week, with the authority to reorder refills without asking. The monthly clean can go to housekeeping, but only against a written checklist (empty, rinse, wipe, fresh water, blend dose) - unguided housekeeping is where tanks get topped instead of changed and where a well-meaning cleaner unplugs a machine that never gets replugged. The quarterly audit belongs to the central custodian - the marketing or CX head who owns the specification - precisely because it needs a nose from outside the building and the authority to correct drift. What never works is everybody's job: a machine everyone can check is a machine nobody checks.
What water should we use in the ultrasonic diffusers?
Clean filtered or RO water, changed fully at each clean rather than perpetually topped up. Hard tap water works mechanically but leaves mineral scale on the tank and mist plate over months, which mutes the throw and shortens the hardware's life; in most Indian cities the office's existing RO dispenser is the convenient answer. Two habits matter more than the water source. First, full changes: topping up an old tank concentrates residue and stale blend into a film that dulls both the mist and the fragrance's character - empty it, rinse it, start fresh. Second, dose discipline at refill: the Hotel Collection blend (from Rs 299) is dosed per the bottle's guidance into fresh water, not splashed by eye, because refill day is where calibration quietly drifts upward. And the two-format rule always applies: water-based blends in ultrasonics only - never in the Vaayu, which runs waterless oil.
A machine has failed and we have a launch weekend coming - what do we do?
First, WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 with the machine, the symptom and the deadline - most weak-throw and no-mist reports resolve over chat (blocked outlet, residue film, schedule offset, dose error) without any downtime. If the hardware genuinely needs attention, bridge the weekend with the floating spare: well-run programmes keep one Sukoon (Rs 1,799) as a portfolio spare precisely for this, and even under a big floor it holds the entrance zone - the walk-in moment - which is the highest-value slice of coverage. What not to do is grab aerosol fresheners from the market: a weekend of sweet spray in place of the signature reads as a different, cheaper office exactly when footfall peaks, and it violates the no-masking rule the programme is built on. A clean-aired, well-ventilated floor with entrance-only signature coverage is a perfectly premium bridge for two days.
Our staff say they cannot smell the fragrance any more - should we increase the dose?
Almost certainly not - what your staff are reporting is adaptation, not failure. A constant ambient scent disappears from a resident nose within weeks; it is the single most predictable phenomenon in scent operations, and it is why the maintenance guide replaces staff impressions with the fresh-nose protocol. Before touching any setting: have someone who has been out of the building for hours walk in and report the first breath at the door and in each zone. If the fresh nose reads the standard - noticeable on arrival, forgotten in minutes - the system is perfect and the dose stays locked. If the fresh nose also reads weak, then work the troubleshooting ladder: reservoir level, schedule drift, tank residue, stale mix - all cheaper and more likely than a genuine output fault. Raising the dose to satisfy adapted noses is how offices end up overdosed for every first-time visitor, which is the costlier failure by far.
Do power cuts and generator switchovers affect the schedule?
They can, and this is the quiet reason the quarterly schedule audit exists. Most modern machines hold their settings through an outage, and the Vaayu's app-based schedule makes verification a ten-second glance - but edge cases accumulate in real offices: a machine unplugged during a deep clean and re-plugged into a socket that dies with the generator changeover, a timer offset after a long weekend shutdown, daylight-pattern changes when visiting hours shift seasonally or for a festival period. The routine that catches all of it: after any planned shutdown or known outage, the site owner's next weekly round includes a schedule check, not just a reservoir check; and the quarterly audit verifies on-off times against the office's actual current hours rather than the hours it kept when the machine was installed. Multi-office programmes add one refinement: schedules mirrored across sites through the app, so one verified office becomes the template for all.
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The walk-in moment, engineered
SOSA — real estate scent marketing for the sales office buyers remember
Three clocks, clean tanks, stocked refills, a fresh nose each quarter - the signature held identical for years at twenty minutes a week. Refills from ₹999, Vaayu ₹11,999, WhatsApp +91 96192 18531 for the printable checklist. Made in India; 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 commercial range; the scent-marketing strategy advice applies to any developer's systems.Facts verified August 2026: Ambient scent research consistently associates pleasant, congruent scenting with longer dwell time, improved evaluations of a space and its service, and stronger brand recall at moderate effect sizes; congruence (scent matching the setting) and gentle intensity outperform strong scenting in replicated studies, and no scent effect survives unclean or poorly ventilated premises. Olfactory memory is unusually durable: scent-linked brand memories persist and retrieve for years, which is the mechanism behind luxury signature scents. Fragrance cannot compensate for location, pricing, construction quality or RERA compliance - it improves the experience of a visit, not the fundamentals of a project. SOSA systems: Sukoon 500ml ultrasonic (₹1,799) and Megh 6L ultrasonic (₹3,499) run the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299; refills 100ml ₹999); SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebulising machine, ~1000m³ coverage, Bluetooth app and timer; SOSA Aangan (₹25,999) and SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) are HVAC nebulising systems for approximately 8,000-10,000 and 12,000-18,000 sq ft respectively. The Hotel Collection scents are SOSA's own interpretations; SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel or real estate brand. Made in India. WhatsApp business line: +91 96192 18531. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.