Reed Diffuser Gift for Someone's First Apartment: Why the Rs 749 Bottle Is the Right One
★ ★ Reed diffuser gifting · housewarmings, hosts, clients and festivalsReed diffusers from ₹749 · 130ml from ₹1,249 · duo gift sets from ₹1,498 · about 6 to 10 weeksAlcohol-free · made in India · a portion funds girl-child education
★ SOSA Home & Body
The gift that works when you do not know what they wear, because a room has no opinion and a person does
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"Took one to a housewarming in Whitefield instead of the usual dry-fruit box. It was the only thing on the table nobody had to find a cupboard for."
Ananya R. Bengaluru
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Bought the Day and Night duo for my sister's new flat. She has since bought the refill herself, which is the only review that matters."
Vikram S. Hyderabad
Day & Night reed duo
★★★★★
"Needed something for a client that was not a hamper and not a bottle of something. This looked considered and cost less than I expected."
Meghna J. Bengaluru
Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
★★★★★
"I never know what perfume my mother-in-law wears. A reed diffuser meant I did not have to know."
Shruti K. Mysuru
Morning Freshness reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Asked which one for a 3BHK and was told to take the 130ml for the living room rather than two 50ml bottles. Good advice, cheaper than what I was about to do."
Rahul N. Hyderabad
Fresh Brew 130ml
★★★★★
"Carried one to dinner instead of mithai. The host had four boxes of sweets on the counter already and none of them were opened."
Deepa M. Bengaluru
Evening Calm reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Took one to a housewarming in Whitefield instead of the usual dry-fruit box. It was the only thing on the table nobody had to find a cupboard for."
Ananya R. Bengaluru
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Bought the Day and Night duo for my sister's new flat. She has since bought the refill herself, which is the only review that matters."
Vikram S. Hyderabad
Day & Night reed duo
★★★★★
"Needed something for a client that was not a hamper and not a bottle of something. This looked considered and cost less than I expected."
Meghna J. Bengaluru
Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
★★★★★
"I never know what perfume my mother-in-law wears. A reed diffuser meant I did not have to know."
Shruti K. Mysuru
Morning Freshness reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Asked which one for a 3BHK and was told to take the 130ml for the living room rather than two 50ml bottles. Good advice, cheaper than what I was about to do."
Rahul N. Hyderabad
Fresh Brew 130ml
★★★★★
"Carried one to dinner instead of mithai. The host had four boxes of sweets on the counter already and none of them were opened."
✓ Alcohol-free attars from ₹379 · 3ml, 6ml and 12ml✓ No flame, no socket, nothing to switch off · about 6 to 10 weeks✓ Tell SOSA who it is for on WhatsApp +91 96192 18531
Founder Diaries · Reed Diffuser & Home Fragrance Gifting
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles8 min readUpdated September 2026
A first apartment is almost always rented, almost always smaller than the home they grew up in, and almost always furnished with somebody else's sofa. That is the real constraint on this gift: nothing you send can need a wall, a socket, a permanent surface or the landlord's permission, and it has to survive being packed into a carton again in a year. A 50ml reed diffuser at ₹749 clears all four of those, which is most of why it belongs here.
The first-flat default. SOSA Morning Freshness, ₹749 for 50ml - Malabar lemon and mint, the least declarative of the five and the safest send into a rented room you have never stood in. No flame, no socket, no fitting, about 6 to 10 weeks, and it packs into a carton when the tenancy ends.
Quick answers — read this first
What is a good housewarming gift for a rented first apartment? A 50ml reed diffuser from ₹749. It stands on any flat surface, needs no socket, no flame, no water and no fitting, runs about 6 to 10 weeks, and packs back into a box when the tenancy ends.
Should I buy the 50ml or the 130ml for a first flat? The 50ml at ₹749. A first flat is usually a studio, a 1BHK or a room in a shared flat, and the 130ml at ₹1,249 is built for an open-plan living and dining area. In a small closed room it is simply too much.
Why a reed diffuser rather than a candle? Many rentals and shared flats do not allow an open flame, and a candle at ₹399 needs somebody to remember to light it and put it out. A reed diffuser has no flame and nothing to switch off, so it works in a tenancy where a candle may not.
The short answer
Short answer: A 50ml reed diffuser at Rs 749 to Rs 849. A first apartment is rented, small and furnished with other people's things, so the gift has to need no socket, no flame and no permanent surface, and has to pack away again when they move.
The pick: A single 50ml reed diffuser from ₹749 - Morning Freshness if you have never stood in the flat.
Why: It stands on any flat surface they already own, needs no flame and no socket in a tenancy that may allow neither, and runs about 6 to 10 weeks.
A gift cannot change how somebody's week went, and a page that suggests otherwise is not worth reading. What a small parcel does is tell a person you were thinking about them on a day when nothing made you - which is a real thing to say, and worth saying. Keep it small, because a large one asks somebody already short of energy to produce a reaction, and send the words separately, because the object cannot carry them.
What should you give someone moving into their first apartment?
Start from what a rented first flat will physically accept. It is usually a studio or a 1BHK, the furniture came from parents, cousins or the previous tenant, and there is one small table in the whole place that is not already holding something. A 50ml reed diffuser at ₹749 to ₹849 asks for about the space of a coffee mug, needs no socket, no water, no flame and no bracket on a wall, and runs about 6 to 10 weeks. The flame point matters more than it sounds: plenty of tenancies and most shared flats rule out an open flame, and a candle at ₹399 quietly becomes a thing they cannot use. Where this gift stops working is the 130ml at ₹1,249 - it is the open-plan living room's bottle, and a first flat almost never has one of those. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The question is not what looks generous. It is what a rented room with one free surface and no permission to drill will actually take.
For a first flat the answer is the small one: a 50ml reed from ₹749, about 6 to 10 weeks, no flame and nothing to plug in. Leave the ₹1,249 bottle for a home with an open living and dining area.
What a rented first flat actually allows, and what it does not
A first flat is not a small version of a family home - it is a different set of rules. Three of those rules decide this gift, and none of them is about money.
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The first rule
It is rented, so nothing permanent is allowed
Tenancy agreements and shared-flat arrangements differ, but the pattern is consistent: no drilling, no fixed fittings, nothing that changes the flat. A wall-mounted diffuser is out. A plug-in that occupies one of the two sockets in a room is unwelcome. Anything that has to be screwed, stuck or wired in will either not be installed or will have to come off again at the end of the tenancy.
A reed diffuser is just a bottle with reeds in it. It stands on whatever surface exists, moves when the furniture moves, and leaves nothing behind. That is unglamorous and it is exactly why it survives a rental. The same logic rules out a machine at this stage - a ₹11,999 diffuser is a gift for a home somebody owns and intends to stay in.
Tip: If it needs a screw, a socket or a permission, it is the wrong gift for a tenancy.
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The second rule
The rooms are small and often closed
A first flat is a studio, a 1BHK or one room of a shared 2BHK. The living area, where there is one, is frequently 10 by 12 feet with a door and one window. That is the room the 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849 was sized for, along with bedrooms, studies and hallways.
The 130ml at ₹1,249 to ₹1,349 is the bigger room's bottle, not the better gift. Put it in a small closed room and it gets moved to a corridor within a week, which is a worse outcome than spending less. If you want to give more than ₹849 here, a duo set at ₹1,498 gives them two 50ml bottles for two rooms rather than one over-sized bottle for one.
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The third rule
They are going to move again, probably soon
First tenancies are short. Whatever you give will be packed, carried down a staircase and unpacked somewhere else, possibly twice, and the things that survive that are small, unbreakable in a carton and not part of a set. A 50ml bottle qualifies. A large piece of decor does not.
It also changes how you think about refills. A 300ml refill is ₹2,399, which is more than three times the bottle you are giving, so it is not a first-flat gift and not something to promise. Four of the five scents publish refills and Evening Calm publishes none, so if the refill route matters to you, choose one of the other four. Otherwise treat the 50ml as a complete gift that runs about 6 to 10 weeks and stops, which is honest and perfectly fine.
Tip: Give a finished object, not the first piece of a system they have to keep feeding.
The size decision, before the scent decision
50ml or 130ml is a room question, not a budget question
The 50ml from ₹749 suits a bedroom, a study, a hallway or anybody receiving their first diffuser. The 130ml from ₹1,249 suits an open-plan living and dining area or a large 3BHK living room, and it is genuinely too much for a small closed bedroom - a bigger bottle in the wrong room gets moved into a corridor. All five scents run about 6 to 10 weeks either way.
How to buy for a first apartment in four decisions
Assume rented: nothing that needs a socket, a wall fitting or a flame.
Buy the 50ml at Rs 749 to Rs 849, not the 130ml.
Pick the least declarative scent if you have not seen the flat.
Skip refills at Rs 2,399 - the bottle is the whole gift here.
The SOSA principle
The limiting factor in a first flat is never the budget. It is the number of surfaces, sockets and permissions the person actually controls, and most gifts quietly assume more of all three than a tenant has.
A bottle with reeds in it assumes one flat surface and nothing else, which is why it fits a room somebody is only borrowing.
Which scent and which size for a first flat
Five SOSA reeds, and in a first flat the choice narrows fast because you probably have not stood in the room. Morning Freshness at ₹749 is Malabar lemon and mint and the least declarative of the five, which makes it the safe send for a flat you have only seen in photographs. Garden Bloom at ₹799 is British rose and night-blooming jasmine and reads more like a present than a household item, worth knowing if the gift is being handed over in person. Evening Calm at ₹799 is lavender and chamomile - that is the name on the bottle and a description of what is in it, not a claim about what it does. Mountain Breeze at ₹849 is Himalayan pine, sage and cedar, dry and green rather than sweet. Fresh Brew at ₹849 is Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, the strongest opinion in the range and the one to keep for somebody whose taste you already know.
The SOSA gift edit
Four things you could send to a first flat, and where each one fails
The option
Who it suits, and where it fails
A 50ml reed diffuser · ₹749 to ₹849
The default here. One small room, about 6 to 10 weeks, no flame, no socket, no fitting and nothing to switch off. It packs flat when the tenancy ends. It fails only if they have already scented the one room they control, in which case you are correcting a decision rather than making a gift.
A 130ml reed diffuser · ₹1,249 to ₹1,349
The same five scents in the larger bottle, built for an open living and dining area. A first flat rarely has one. In a 10 by 12 foot closed room it is too much and ends up in a corridor, so this is the commonest way to spend more and get less.
A candle · ₹399 to ₹999
The lower-stakes gift at ₹399 for about 15 to 18 hours of burn, and genuinely good when the relationship is too new for a ₹749 present. It fails wherever an open flame is not allowed, which covers a great many tenancies and nearly every shared flat - a reed has no such problem.
An attar · ₹379 to ₹1,199
Worn rather than placed, and the right answer if you can already name the kind of scent they wear - Adaa is ₹379 for 3ml. It fails as a housewarming gesture, because it is a gift to the person and not to the flat, and it is a taste decision you have to be right about.
When it has to look like an occasion
A duo set is the readymade gift box, without anybody assembling a hamper
Two 50ml reeds in one box: Day & Night pairs Morning Freshness lemon-mint with Evening Calm lavender-chamomile at ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded pairs lemon-mint with Mountain Breeze pine and cedar at ₹1,548, and Warmth & Bloom pairs Fresh Brew coffee-vanilla with Garden Bloom rose-jasmine at ₹1,598. The 130ml x 2 versions are ₹2,498, ₹2,548 and ₹2,598.
One thing worth saying plainly, because first-flat gifts often try too hard: a reed diffuser does not make a rented room into a home, and nothing in a bottle does that. What it does is smaller and real - a room that smells of something chosen rather than of nothing at all is a different room to walk into, and in a flat furnished entirely with other people's leftovers, one chosen thing is not a trivial amount. That is the claim, and it is enough to justify ₹749 without inflating it into something it is not.
Morning Freshness and Evening Calm in one box, two 50ml bottles. The readymade housewarming and client gift, without a hamper in sight.
₹1,498 · 50ml x 2
When the gift is meant to be the big one
SOSA Safar ₹3,999 for the car, SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 for the whole home
Safar is the waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion perfume diffuser for a car or a travel bag - ₹3,999 for the SOSA-scent trios and ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios. Vaayu is the machine version of the same idea for a building: waterless cold-air nebulising of undiluted oil, rated for approximately 1000 m3 of connected air, with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, DC 12V / 1A 5W mains power and CE, RoHS and SGS marks. Both run waterless nebuliser oil - 100 gm ₹1,049, 300 gm ₹1,849 - and neither takes the ₹299 water-based Hotel Collection bottle. A rating assumes one connected body of air, so a Vaayu suits a large open home or a business and is the wrong gift for a two-bedroom flat with every door closed. It adds a scent to a space; it does not remove one.
Tell SOSA who it is for, roughly how big the room is, whether their home is already scented and what you want to spend - and you will be told which size and which scent, including the times the honest answer is the 50ml rather than the 130ml.
The first flat is the one place where the small bottle is not the compromise. It is the correct answer, and the big one is the mistake.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Two questions settle almost every reed diffuser gift, and the first one is not price. How big is the room it is going into? A 50ml suits a bedroom, a study, a hallway or a first diffuser; a 130ml suits an open-plan living and dining area, and it is genuinely too much for a small closed bedroom. Then: how much do you actually know about their taste? The less you know, the less declarative the scent should be - Morning Freshness is the safest of the five for a home you have never stood in, and Fresh Brew coffee-vanilla is the strongest opinion in the range. Price follows those two answers rather than leading them.
The SOSA gifting range
Pick the size by the room, then the scent by how little you know about them
Approx 1000 m3 of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer - a large open home or a business, not a flat
₹11,999
Three different fluids run through this range and none of them is interchangeable. Reed diffusers use their own alcohol-free reed oil. The SOSA ultrasonics - Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹5,999 - run the water-basedHotel Collection from ₹299. Vaayu and Safar run waterless nebulising oil, so the ₹299 water-based bottle never goes into either of them. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The honest price sheet
What SOSA publishes, and what SOSA does not
Everything below is on the live product pages. Anything not on this list is not something a gifting page should state.
Attars - Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179 and Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199 in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. The Attar Trio is ₹1,055, ₹1,859 or ₹3,189.
Car fragrance - nine scents from ₹449 to ₹549, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price, with 50ml sprays at ₹1,499 and saver combos at ₹899 to ₹949. Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios.
Candles and wax melts - Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks at ₹399 for approximately 15 to 18 hours, or ₹699 for a two-candle duo at approximately 30 to 36 hours. Woodenwick candles in jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla ₹999. Bubble Candles ₹499 unscented and ₹599 scented. Wax melts from ₹499, which need a ceramic burner at ₹599 - so they are only a complete gift for somebody who already owns one.
Not published, and therefore never stated here: how long any fragrance will be liked, delivery or dispatch timing, any festive discount, any minimum order quantity or bulk rate, and any claim about what a person will feel on receiving a gift. Those questions go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Not sure which size or which scent? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 four things: who it is for and how well you know them, roughly how big the room is, whether their home is already scented, and what you want to spend. You will get one straight recommendation rather than a catalogue - including the times the honest answer is the 50ml rather than the 130ml, or a single bottle rather than the duo set. Corporate and client gifting: bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available; quantities, terms and anything corporate are discussed on WhatsApp rather than priced on a page. Bespoke composition, a fragrance composed for you by Sonal, is a real SOSA service and is also discussed there. Where SOSA is: SOSA is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune and sends orders across India. There is no SOSA shop, stockist or counter in any other city, so anything you read here about Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru or anywhere else is about the homes in those cities and not about a local branch.
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A note from Sonal
The reed diffuser is the product people are least embarrassed to give and most surprised by afterwards. What they expect is a decorative object. What it actually is, is a small piece of a household that runs for six to ten weeks and then ends, which is a very different thing from an ornament somebody has to keep forever out of politeness.
The reason I recommend it so often for gifting is unromantic: you are buying for a room rather than for a person. Personal fragrance is a taste decision, and when you cannot finish the sentence she usually wears something with..., no amount of money makes the guess better. A room does not have a signature scent it is loyal to. That is why a reed diffuser works for a colleague, a client, a mother-in-law and a friend's new flat - relationships where you may like somebody very much and still have no idea what is on their dressing table.
The one thing I would press on is size, because it is where good intentions go wrong. The 130ml is not the better gift, it is the bigger room's gift. Put it in a small closed bedroom and the person will move it to a corridor within a week. A 50ml at ₹749 in the right room beats a 130ml at ₹1,249 in the wrong one every single time, and if you want to spend more, spend it on the duo set so they get two rooms rather than one very loud one.
Frequently asked questions
Is a reed diffuser allowed in a rented flat?
There is nothing to install, so there is nothing for a tenancy to object to. A reed diffuser is a bottle of alcohol-free reed oil with rattan reeds standing in it. It does not need a socket, a wall fitting, water or a flame, it stands on any surface the flat already has, and it leaves nothing behind when the tenant moves out.
What size reed diffuser suits a 1BHK or a studio?
The 50ml at Rs 749 to Rs 849. That size is meant for a bedroom, a study, a hallway or anybody receiving their first diffuser, which describes almost every first flat. The 130ml at Rs 1,249 to Rs 1,349 is built for an open-plan living and dining area and is too much for a small closed room.
How long will it last?
About 6 to 10 weeks. That is the only duration SOSA publishes and it applies to both the 50ml and the 130ml, because the larger bottle exists for a larger room rather than for a longer life. Treat the bottle as a complete gift rather than the start of something they have to keep buying.
Is a reed diffuser a better first-flat gift than a candle?
Usually, for one practical reason rather than a fragrance one. Many tenancies and most shared flats do not permit an open flame, and a candle also needs somebody to light it and put it out. A reed diffuser needs neither. Where a flame is fine and the budget is smaller, a candle at Rs 399 is a good gift in its own right.
Which scent should I send if I have never seen the flat?
Morning Freshness at Rs 749, Malabar lemon and mint. It is the least declarative of the five SOSA scents and the safest thing to send into a room you have not stood in. Fresh Brew, Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla at Rs 849, is the strongest opinion in the range and the easiest to get wrong for somebody else.
Take the next step
Buy for the room they are renting, not for the home you picture
A 50ml from ₹749 covers a studio, a 1BHK or one room of a shared flat, with no flame and nothing to install. Step up to a duo set from ₹1,498 only if you want two rooms handled rather than one loud one. Tell SOSA the size of the room on WhatsApp and you will get one recommendation instead of a catalogue.
Not sure which one suits the person you are buying for? Send SOSA their age, whether they drive, whether they like their home scented and your budget on WhatsApp, and you will get an honest answer - including when the cheaper product is the better gift.
The fragrance gift you can give without having guessed anybody's taste
SOSA — alcohol-free reed diffusers,made in India, about 6 to 10 weeks, nothing to plug in and nothing to switch off
SOSA reed diffusers from ₹749 in 50ml and ₹1,249 in 130ml, five scents, about 6 to 10 weeks, no flame and nothing to plug in, with duo gift sets from ₹1,498. Alcohol-free, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the gift-buying reasoning applies to any brand.
Prices and specifications verified from the live SOSA product pages, September 2026: SOSA attars - Adaa ₹379 (3ml), ₹669 (6ml) and ₹1,149 (12ml); Ameeri ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165; Mastani ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179; Nawaab ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199; the Attar Trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani at ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189. Reed diffusers - Morning Freshness ₹749, Garden Bloom and Evening Calm ₹799, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew ₹849 in 50ml, with 130ml from ₹1,249 and refills at ₹2,399 and ₹3,499; reed diffusers last approximately 6 to 10 weeks. Reed duo gift sets ₹1,498, ₹1,548 and ₹1,598. SOSA scented candles - Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks at ₹399 for a single candle of approximately 15 to 18 hours and ₹699 for a two-candle duo of approximately 30 to 36 hours; Woodenwick candles in jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla at ₹999; Bubble Candles ₹499 unscented and ₹599 scented; wax melts from ₹499 with a ceramic burner at ₹599; the SOSA body massage candle ₹699. Car fragrance from ₹449, each scent available as a mild hanging format or a stronger spray at the same price, 50ml sprays ₹1,499, saver combos ₹899 to ₹949 and a discovery set of three minis from ₹699. SOSA Safar ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios, is a waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion car and travel perfume diffuser. SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 is a waterless cold-air nebulising diffuser rated for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting and a DC 12V / 1A 5W mains supply, CE, RoHS and SGS. The ultrasonic machines Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹5,999 run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299; that water-based bottle is not used in a Vaayu or a Safar, which take waterless nebuliser oil at ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. About SOSA's location: SOSA Home & Body is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, Maharashtra, and sends orders across India. SOSA has no shop, showroom, stockist, counter or warehouse in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru or any other city, and nothing on this page should be read as claiming one; where a city is named, it refers to the homes and the buyers in that city and nothing more. No delivery date, dispatch time or order cut-off is stated anywhere. Limits of this guide: fragrance adds a scent and does not remove, neutralise or purify odour, and no SOSA product makes any health, antibacterial, air-purifying or wellbeing claim. No claim is made about how any recipient will feel about a gift. No claim is made anywhere on this page about mood, stress, calm, sleep, comfort or wellbeing: fragrance is a scent, not a treatment, and where a product name contains a word such as Calm that is a name and not an effect. Where this guide covers sending something to a person having a difficult time, it treats a gift as a gesture of attention alongside real support and never as a substitute for a person or for professional help, and it gives no mental-health advice. No delivery date, dispatch time, order cut-off, discount or minimum order quantity is stated anywhere on this page; corporate and bulk enquiries are answered on WhatsApp. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand; the SOSA perfumes are SOSA's own compositions and are not the designer fragrances they are described as being inspired by. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
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