Should an Architect Plan Power, Hidden Placement and Airflow for Scenting During Design?

Yes, for a specific reason: every one of the decisions that make a scent machine disappear into a finished home has to be made before the false ceiling closes, not after. There are four of them, and none is complicated on its own. First, the mount type - freestanding, wall-mounted, or mounted onto the HVAC. This decides whether the machine reads as a considered fixture or an afterthought sitting on a console someone had to find room for. Second, a discreet power point, positioned with the rest of the electrical layout rather than added later as a visible extension cable. Here is the detail that surprises most architects: 5W is a trivial electrical load - this is not a power planning problem, it is a joinery and placement problem, the same category as where a reading lamp's socket goes. Third, and the one that actually decides the machine count: where the HVAC return sits. That single fact determines which rooms genuinely share air and can be treated as one zone with a SOSA Angaan (₹25,999), and which rooms are on separate air handling and need their own SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999). Get this from the HVAC consultant's drawing, not from the floor plan alone. Fourth, waterless matters in a finished interior - no moisture, no residue on stone, veneer or electronics, which is exactly why it can sit near joinery that a wet diffuser never could. Retrofitting any of this after handover means one of two outcomes: a visible freestanding unit sitting somewhere it was never meant to, or a trailing cable across a finished floor. Neither is acceptable in a luxury interior, and both are avoidable for the cost of one conversation at design stage. A free Tricity scenting plan reviewed against the drawings settles all four decisions before anything is built.