Should Imaging Corridors Have the Same Fragrance Intensity as Reception?

No - and the more useful version of that answer is that a corridor has no intensity of its own to set, because it should not contain a source. Think about what the space is actually for. On an imaging floor the corridor sits between a public volume you have deliberately scented and a set of clinical doors that get nothing at all. That transition has to happen somewhere, and the corridor is where it happens. It works by being a gradient: clearly connected to reception at the near end, and unremarkable by the time you reach the clinical doors. Install a source halfway along it and you flatten that slope. What you have then is not better coverage, it is a scented zone whose edge has moved from the corridor mouth to the clinical threshold, which is the one place you were trying to keep clear. So the corridor gets whatever drifts into it and nothing else, and the fact that the far end smells of very little is the design working. Owners find this counter-intuitive because a corridor is often the least loved part of an imaging building - long, narrow, artificially lit, and lined with doors - and the instinct when you walk it is that it needs something. It probably does, but not from me. A corridor is improved by light temperature, by a floor finish that is not scuffed, by artwork at eye level and by signage that tells a patient where they are going, and every one of those does more per rupee than fragrance would. Fragrance ranks last on that list, and in a corridor it ranks off the list entirely. There are two situations worth handling separately. If your corridor smells strongly of the reception fragrance, that is a placement fault at the other end: the source is too close to the corridor mouth, sitting in the blast of a supply diffuser, or simply set too high. Move it two or three metres deeper into the public volume, orient its output into the seating, and take the level down one step. If your corridor smells of something that is not your fragrance - damp, drains, a store cupboard, yesterday's cleaning round - then that is a source problem and adding fragrance is the wrong response in the wrong order. Find the source, check the ventilation, look at the cleaning schedule and the moisture, and only then think about fragrance. Nothing of ours goes past the clinical doors at the end of that corridor, because their contents are decided by your radiographer, the equipment manufacturer and your facility engineer. Fragrance here is an ambience decision like lighting, seating or signage, it works alongside your ventilation and cleaning rather than instead of them, SOSA products are not medical devices, we make no claim that scenting affects how a centre performs commercially, and the clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan, including mine.