When Should an Architect Plan Scenting for a New Luxury Home: Design Stage or After Completion?

At the design stage, for three things, and after completion for everything else. The three things are the ones a drawing decides anyway and a finished house makes awkward. First, a wall. A scent machine for an open living-dining is placed at seating height on the wall the AC indoor unit blows across the seating, away from the kitchen opening and inward of the foyer so the entrance meets the fragrance first; on a drawing that is one position, marked in a minute, and in a finished house it is the difference between a machine that disappears on a bracket and one that sits on a console trailing a cable to the nearest point. Second, a socket. The SOSA Vaayu runs on DC 12V/1A at 5W from an ordinary adapter - roughly a phone charger's worth of power - so it needs nothing special, only a plain socket behind the wall position at the height of the bracket, which is a line on the electrical layout and nothing more. Third, the AC path. Fragrance travels with the air, so the indoor units and returns decide where it goes; a layout that blows across the seating carries the fragrance to the people, a return placed above the machine's position pulls it straight into the filter, and a double-height living room with high wall units sends everything into the void. None of this needs the architect to think about fragrance; it is the same layout logic that makes a room feel evenly cooled, and it simply means the one wall with the socket is on the supply side and not under a return. That is the whole of the design-stage work: a wall, a socket, an AC path, costing nothing to draw. Everything else waits, and it should. The register cannot be chosen from a drawing, because it is matched to the finished palette - dry woods against timber and stone, lemon-and-mint against white and glass - and to the family's own nose. The level cannot be set from a drawing, because it is set from the sofa with the AC running as it will normally run and the family present, at the lowest step that reads, then locked. And the decision itself waits, because whether the open living-dining is genuinely large enough to justify a machine, or whether a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 set low is the honest answer, can only be judged in the built room; an architect who provides the socket has lost nothing if it is never used. The bedrooms need no planning of any kind - a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 on a chest of drawers, a step down from downstairs, or Evening Calm at ₹799 as the one exception in register - and the kitchen and bathrooms are never in the plan, so nothing is drawn for them except the chimney and the exhausts, which matter more than any fragrance. On HVAC: a Vaayu can be duct-mounted, but only on a duct that serves the living zone alone and only with the HVAC contractor's agreement, because a duct shared with the bedrooms carries the living level into rooms that should be a step down; in a home on split units, the wall bracket is the better answer. Mounting details are confirmed with SOSA. Fragrance in a home is an interiors decision like the lighting or the sofa: SOSA makes no claim that it changes what the client, any guest or any buyer thinks of the house or decides about it, no claim about mood, anxiety or wellbeing, and it is never a substitute for airing the rooms. The handover page is what happens when the house is finished, one Vaayu or zones is how the built volumes are counted, and the automation page covers the app and timers for a client who has asked about a smart-home package. Ask for a Bhopal scenting plan with the ground-floor plan and the AC layout, and we will mark the one wall that should carry a socket.