★ SOSA for Premium Appliance Showrooms and Experience Centres
With a live kitchen on the floor, the scent machine goes high on the reception-side wall furthest from the hood, on the sales floor's own air - and nowhere the kitchen's air can carry it
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★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★ The machine that mounts on the wall you choose
SOSA VaayuWall or HVAC mount - far wall from the hoodView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanOn a sales-floor duct in a large centreView ₹25,999
Mountain BreezeThe register it carries - nothing edibleView ₹849
✓ One SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999 mounts on a wall or an HVAC duct, so the source sits on the reception side and away from the hood rather than beside a socket ✓ The live kitchen is never on the scent machine's air - and SOSA makes no claim that fragrance moves any business number ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel or appliance brand · a portion funds girl-child education
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Why does the wall matter so much here? Because a live kitchen has its own air movement - a hood pulling toward it, sometimes its own supply pushing into it - and the machine is either working with that or against it. A source on the hood side is fed into the extract and reaches nobody; a source on the kitchen's supply reaches exactly the wrong people. A source on the far reception wall, high, is carried by the sales-floor supply across the floor and is stripped only when it finally reaches the hood, which is correct.
Which machine mounts where it needs to? For a connected sales floor of about 1,500-3,000 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999): waterless, wall or HVAC mount, so the wall is a decision rather than a socket, with a 1h/4h/8h/24h timer, an app and a key-lock, and off during demos. Past about 3,000 sq ft, one SOSA Angaan (Rs 25,999) on a duct serving the sales floor alone. Fragrance is an interiors decision like lighting or music - SOSA makes no claim that it changes footfall, dwell time or sales, and no claim about what it does to any appliance.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 7 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or displays; the four 100ml bottles in the box are the supply, and refill availability should be confirmed with SOSA. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB; the SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the HVAC machine for 12,000-18,000 sq ft. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft. SOSA reed diffusers - Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349) and Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in a showroom is an interior and hospitality decision: SOSA makes no claim that it changes dwell time, footfall, conversion, basket size, sales or any other business number, no claim about what it does to any appliance, surface or finish on display, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning or extraction. Warranty, installation, service and bulk terms are confirmed with SOSA directly. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel or appliance brand named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
Most scent machines end up where the electrician left a socket. On an ordinary floor that is a small mistake. On a floor with a live kitchen it is the mistake, because the wall the machine sits on decides whether the kitchen ever smells of your fragrance. The machine goes on the reception side, high, on the wall furthest from the hood, and on the sales floor's own air - never the kitchen's.
Quick answers — read this first
Where should a scent machine go if my appliance showroom has a live kitchen? On the reception side of the floor, high on the wall furthest from the extraction hood, on a wall that the sales-floor AC supply crosses so the air carries the fragrance across the displays and away from the kitchen. Never beside the hood, because a running hood pulls the fragrance straight into the extract duct. Never on the kitchen's own supply, because that duct delivers into the one zone that must stay unscented. Never inside a display kitchen, live or not.Why does the wall matter so much here? Because a live kitchen has its own air movement - a hood pulling toward it, sometimes its own supply pushing into it - and the machine is either working with that or against it. A source on the hood side is fed into the extract and reaches nobody; a source on the kitchen's supply reaches exactly the wrong people. A source on the far reception wall, high, is carried by the sales-floor supply across the floor and is stripped only when it finally reaches the hood, which is correct.
Which machine mounts where it needs to? For a connected sales floor of about 1,500-3,000 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu (Rs 11,999): waterless, wall or HVAC mount, so the wall is a decision rather than a socket, with a 1h/4h/8h/24h timer, an app and a key-lock, and off during demos. Past about 3,000 sq ft, one SOSA Angaan (Rs 25,999) on a duct serving the sales floor alone. Fragrance is an interiors decision like lighting or music - SOSA makes no claim that it changes footfall, dwell time or sales, and no claim about what it does to any appliance.
The short answer
Short answer: high on the reception-side wall furthest from the hood, on a wall the sales-floor AC supply crosses - so the fragrance travels across the displays and away from the kitchen. Never beside the hood, never on the kitchen's own supply, never inside a display set, and off on the timer while the kitchen works.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) wall-mounted on that far reception wall for a 1,500-3,000 sq ft floor, carrying the Mountain Breeze register; one SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) on a sales-floor-only duct past about 3,000 sq ft; a SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) or a reed (₹849) at the desk of a studio too small for a machine.
Next step: send a plan with the hood, the kitchen's supply and the sales-floor supply and return marked, and ask for a showroom scenting plan - we will put a cross on the wall.
In this guide
Get the wall right and the kitchen never smells of your fragrance on a quiet day. Get the timer right and it never does on a demo day either.
The machines that mount on a wall or a duct, and the register they carry - tap to see each
Wall or HVAC mount - the wall is a choice
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The family pillar: two schedules, one identity
Demo days and regular days - one consistent fragrance
Get a cross on the right wall
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Straight answer
Where should a scent machine go if my appliance showroom has a live kitchen?
Take the floor plan and mark four things on it before you mark the machine: the extraction hood, any supply grille that serves the kitchen itself, the supply grilles that serve the sales floor, and the return. Then the answer is a process of elimination. Not beside the hood. A running hood pulls air toward itself and up the extract duct, and a machine within its reach spends its fragrance feeding that duct; nobody on the floor smells anything, the owner turns it up, and the kitchen gets a stronger dose the moment the hood stops. Not on the kitchen's supply. Some live kitchens have their own conditioned supply or their own make-up air, and a source anywhere on that path is delivered into the one zone that must smell of nothing but the demonstration. Not inside a display kitchen, live or not, because an enclosed set of a few square metres over-scents in minutes. What is left is the right answer: the reception side of the floor, the wall furthest from the hood, high enough to clear the partition line, on a wall the sales-floor supply crosses. From there the AC carries the fragrance across the displays and corridors, weakening with distance, and the only place it is stripped out is the hood at the far end - which is the correct place for it to be stripped, because that is the kitchen. Scenting the reception without fragrancing the demo area is built on exactly this gradient, and placing the machine on a central-AC floor gives the general supply-and-return rule that this page applies to a floor with a hood in it. Height matters as much as the wall. A source at desk height sits behind a plinth or a display island and its fragrance pools there; a source above the partition line gives the supply air something to carry. And on a large centre the cleanest version of all of this is a source on a duct that serves the sales floor alone - confirmed as such by whoever maintains the plant - and never on a duct that serves the kitchen or a shared return. The reason this page leads with the SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is that it mounts on a wall or an HVAC duct as well as standing free, which is what makes the far wall available instead of the nearest socket. It is waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on whatever it hangs above; it has a 1h/4h/8h/24h timer, a Bluetooth app and an onboard button so it is off while the kitchen works, whatever wall it is on - switching off during an oven or hob demonstration covers that routine; and it has a key-lock, because the first response to a machine that seems weak is to turn it up when the honest response is to move it. From about 3,000 sq ft of connected floor one SOSA Angaan at ₹25,999 on a sales-floor duct does the same job with programmable schedules. Below about 750 sq ft a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) or a SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) at the desk is the whole plan, and the reed's placement rule is simpler still: the reception desk, and the back office on demo days. And whatever the wall, the standing lines apply. Fragrance is an interiors decision, like lighting or music; SOSA makes no claim that it changes footfall, dwell time, conversion or sales, no claim about what it does to any appliance or finish on the floor, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning or extraction. The live kitchen and any coffee counter stay unscented, and the whole floor's machine is off while a demonstration runs. Whether a showroom with a live kitchen should use commercial fragrance at all sets the rule; what a premium appliance showroom should smell like gives the register the machine on that wall should carry.
Reception side, high, on the wall furthest from the extraction hood, on a wall the sales-floor supply crosses. Never beside the hood, never on the kitchen's own supply, never inside a display set. Vaayu (Rs 11,999) wall or HVAC mount makes the wall a choice; off on the timer while the kitchen works.
For a 1,500-3,000 sq ft floor with a live kitchen at one end, one SOSA Vaayu wall-mounted high on the far reception wall - waterless, 1000m³, timer, app and key-lock - at ₹11,999. The wall is the installation.
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The wall
Far from the hood, high, on the sales floor's own air
The machine that mounts where the plan says
On a floor with a live kitchen the machine's mounting options matter more than its coverage figure. Two honest answers by floor size, both placed by the hood and the supply rather than the socket.
From about 1,500 sq ft of connected floor with a live kitchen
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - on one unit, Rs 11,999. Freestanding, wall-mounted or HVAC-mounted, which is what lets it sit high on the reception-side wall furthest from the hood instead of beside a socket. 1h/4h/8h/24h timer, Bluetooth app and an onboard button for the off-window during demos; adjustable intensity and a key-lock so a machine that seems weak is moved, not turned up. No water, so no moisture and no residue on anything it hangs above.
From ₹11,999
Past about 3,000 sq ft - one connected floor with a live kitchen
SOSA Angaan
HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³ - about 8,000-10,000 sq ft - Rs 25,999. HVAC-connected on a duct that serves the sales floor alone and never the kitchen or a shared return, or standalone on a wall high on the reception side. Programmable schedules save the demo-day off-window once. 800ml reservoir, metal body, under 42dB. One Angaan for one volume of air, never two Vaayus in the same air.
From ₹25,999
Five things on the plan that decide the wall
Placement is done on paper before it is done on a ladder. Five features of a floor with a live kitchen, each of which rules a wall in or out.
1
The hood
A running hood pulls - anything near it is feeding the extract
Start at the kitchen and work outward. An extraction hood, when it runs, draws air from the room around it toward the canopy and up the duct, and it does not care whether that air carries onions or cedar. A scent machine within the hood's reach is therefore a machine whose output goes straight out of the building; the floor smells of nothing, someone turns the dial up, and the moment the hood stops the kitchen receives everything the machine has been putting out at the higher setting. So the first rule of the plan is a radius drawn around the hood in which nothing is placed. On a quiet day, with the hood off, the same zone should still be empty, because the hood side of the floor is the kitchen side, and the chimney and hob showroom explains why a running hood stripping scent from its own zone is the plan working, not failing.
Rule: if you can see the hood from where the machine is, the machine is on the wrong wall.
2
The kitchen's supply
Never on the duct that feeds the demonstration
Some live kitchens are served by their own conditioned supply or their own make-up air, brought in to replace what the hood removes. Find that grille on the plan, and find the duct behind it, because a source anywhere on that path is delivered into the kitchen. This is the mistake that a socket-led installation makes most often: the machine is mounted on a convenient wall near a grille without asking which zone the grille serves. For an HVAC-mounted machine the rule is absolute - the duct must serve the sales floor alone, confirmed by whoever maintains the plant - and for a wall-mounted one it means the source sits where the sales-floor supply, not the kitchen's, will pick it up. Where the machine goes on a central-AC floor gives the general rule; a live kitchen is the case where getting it wrong is most visible, because the first person to notice is the chef.
The Vaayu mounts on a wall or a duct - and on a floor with a kitchen, the duct is only ever one that serves the sales floor.
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3
The reception side
The end of the floor the kitchen is not
With the hood radius and the kitchen's supply ruled out, the machine belongs at the other end of the floor: the entrance approach, the reception desk, the first displays. This is where a visitor meets the fragrance, and it is where the register should be noticed and then forgotten. It is also, usefully, the end of the floor from which the sales-floor supply tends to carry air toward the kitchen and the hood, so the fragrance travels across the displays, weakens with distance, and is finally removed at the one point on the floor where you want it removed. Scenting the reception without fragrancing the demo area works through the gradient in detail, and entrance or deeper inside explains why the source still sits a little inward from the door itself - the door is a draught, and a machine on the threshold is scenting the street.
Rule: reception side means the far end from the kitchen, not the first wall inside the door.
4
Height
Above the partition line, or the fragrance pools behind a plinth
Appliance floors are full of low walls: display islands, plinths, half-height partitions between kitchen sets. A source at desk height on the reception side sits behind one of these and its output pools in a pocket instead of joining the supply air, which is why so many "weak" machines are simply low. Mount the source above the partition line, high on the wall, where the supply air crosses and can carry it. This is the reason the mounting options matter: a freestanding machine can only be as high as the furniture, while a wall or HVAC mount can be as high as the plan needs. Displays and partition walls covers the same problem on floors without a kitchen; with a kitchen it also decides how quickly the floor clears once the machine goes off, because fragrance that pooled behind a plinth lingers after fragrance in moving air has gone.
Test: stand at the far end of the sales floor with the machine running; if you smell more at the desk than in the corridor, the source is too low.
5
The socket
The wall is the decision - the socket is a cable
The last feature on the plan is the one most installations start with, and it should come last. A socket is a cable run; a wall is a choice about air. If the right wall has no power, the answer is a cable to the right wall, never a machine on the wrong one. The Vaayu runs on DC 12V at 5W - about 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour day - so the run is a small one. And once the machine is on the right wall, two more things keep it there in practice: the key-lock, so nobody responds to a quiet corridor by turning it up, and the timer and app, so it is off while the kitchen works whatever wall it is on. Placement is the quiet-day rule; switching off for the demonstration is the demo-day rule, and on a floor with a live kitchen you need both. The register never changes with the wall: Mountain Breeze or Morning Freshness, nothing edible.
Mountain Breeze - pine, sage and cedar. Carried from the far wall across the floor, and stripped only at the hood.
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The SOSA principle
With a live kitchen on the floor, the scent machine sits where the sales floor's air will carry its output away from the kitchen - and the hood at the far end is the only thing allowed to remove it.
Reception side. Far wall from the hood. High. The sales floor's supply, never the kitchen's. Then a timer, so the wall only has to be right on quiet days.
Every candidate wall, judged
Here is a typical experience centre with a live kitchen at the back, and every wall an installer might propose for the machine, judged one at a time.
The SOSA plan
Candidate positions for the machine, judged one by one
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On the wall beside the hood, because the socket is there
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No. A running hood pulls the output straight into the extract; the floor smells of nothing, the dial goes up, and the kitchen gets the higher dose when the hood stops. |
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On the kitchen's own supply grille or make-up-air duct
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No. That path delivers into the one zone that must smell only of the demonstration. Never, on any day. |
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Inside a display kitchen, live or not
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No. An enclosed set of a few square metres over-scents in minutes, and a set that looks like a kitchen should smell of nothing yet. |
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Freestanding on the reception desk
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Closer, but low. It pools behind the desk and the first display plinth. A reed belongs here; a machine belongs on the wall above. |
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High on the reception-side wall furthest from the hood, on the sales-floor supply
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Yes. The supply carries it across the displays, weakening toward the kitchen, and the hood removes what is left. One Vaayu wall-mounted here from about 1,500 sq ft. View → |
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On an HVAC duct serving the sales floor alone, past ~3,000 sq ft
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Yes, once the plant maintainer confirms the duct serves no part of the kitchen and no shared return. One Angaan with the demo-day schedule saved. View → |
Three sibling pages carry the reasoning behind that table. Whether a showroom with a live kitchen should use commercial fragrance gives the rule the wall serves, whether fragrance can interfere with food aromas explains what happens when the wall is wrong, and demo days versus regular days adds the timer that makes the wall only half the job. SOSA makes no claim that any of this affects footfall, dwell time, conversion or sales; the live kitchen stays unscented and the placement is an interiors decision.
The right wall, marked on your plan - hood, kitchen supply and return accounted for
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 mounts on a wall or a duct, so the far reception wall is available. Send a plan with the hood and grilles marked and we will put a cross where the machine goes.
A socket is a cable run. A wall is a decision about where the air goes. On a floor with a kitchen, only one of those should choose where the machine lives.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The ladder, by floor size
Every size has a placement rule - the desk for a reed, the far wall for a machine, a sales-floor duct for the big centre
The SOSA placement specification for a live kitchen
One register, four ways to carry it, and one placement rule for each: the source sits where the sales floor's air will take it away from the kitchen. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA placement specification for a live kitchen
Far wall from the hood, high, on the reception side - never on the kitchen's air
| Product | Best for | Where it goes | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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Reception desk of a studio under ~300 sq ft | On the desk, on the reception side; to the back office on demo days; reaches one desk zone and never the counter | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
 SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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A white, glass, handleless floor | Same placement rule as Mountain Breeze; lemon, mint, eucalyptus for floors where cedar reads too warm; still nothing edible | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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One studio of 300-750 sq ft, desk end only | At the desk end, away from the hood, off at the switch for a demo; water-based, so it adds a little moisture - say so honestly near appliances | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Connected sales floor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft with a live kitchen | Wall-mounted high on the reception-side wall furthest from the hood, on the sales-floor supply; waterless, 1000m³, timer and app, key-lock, 90+ days a fill | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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One connected floor past ~3,000 sq ft, up to about 8,000-10,000 | On an HVAC duct serving the sales floor alone, confirmed by the plant maintainer, or standalone high on the reception side; programmable schedules | ₹25,999 View → |
Between 750 and 1,500 sq ft a Vaayu is bought for the mount, the timer, the lock, no water and distribution - never for coverage. The four 100ml bottles in the Vaayu box are the supply; confirm refill availability with SOSA before you plan on it. Fragrance here is an interiors and hospitality decision like lighting or music, with no claim about footfall, dwell time, conversion or sales, and no claim about what it does to any appliance or finish. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and extraction, never instead of them. The live kitchen and any coffee counter stay unscented, and whatever wall the machine is on, it is off while a demonstration runs. Ask for a showroom scenting plan and we will mark the wall on your plan.
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A note from Sonal
When a showroom sends me a photograph of their new machine, I can usually tell within a second whether an electrician or a plan chose the wall. The electrician's wall is at shoulder height beside a socket, quite often within sight of the hood. The plan's wall is high, on the far side of the floor from the kitchen, and looks slightly inconvenient. The inconvenient one is right. On a floor with a live kitchen the machine has one job on a quiet day, which is to put fragrance into air that is moving away from the kitchen, and the wall is the whole of that job.
So mark the hood, mark the kitchen's own supply if it has one, mark the sales-floor supply and the return, and then rule walls out. Not near the hood, because the hood will eat the output and someone will turn the dial. Not on the kitchen's supply, because that is the one duct that ends in the demonstration. Not in a display set. What remains is the reception-side wall furthest from the hood, high, and that is where the Vaayu goes, on its wall bracket, with the key-lock on so that nobody mistakes distance for weakness. On a big centre the same logic puts an Angaan on a sales-floor duct and never on a shared one.
The wall only has to be right on quiet days. On demo days the timer takes over, and the machine is off wherever it is. That is the pairing this family is built on: placement for the ordinary afternoon, the off-switch for the afternoon the chef comes in. A Mountain Breeze reed at the desk is the whole plan for a small studio. And the standing lines: no claim that fragrance moves footfall, dwell time or sales, no claim about what it does to any appliance, never a substitute for extraction, an interiors decision like lighting or music. The live kitchen stays unscented. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Which wall should a scent machine be mounted on when the showroom has a demo hood at the back?
The reception-side wall furthest from the hood, high enough to clear the partition line, on a wall the sales-floor AC supply crosses. From there the supply carries the fragrance across the displays and corridors, weakening with distance, and the hood at the far end removes what reaches it - which is the correct place for it to be removed. The walls near the hood and any wall on the kitchen's own supply are ruled out first.
Can the scent machine be connected to the AC duct that also serves the live kitchen?
No. An HVAC-mounted machine goes only on a duct that serves the sales floor alone, confirmed by whoever maintains the plant, and never on a duct that serves the kitchen, its make-up air or a shared return. A source anywhere on the kitchen's supply path is delivered into the one zone that must smell only of the demonstration. If no sales-floor-only duct exists, the machine is wall-mounted high on the reception side instead.
Why is a scent machine placed near the extraction hood always too weak?
Because a running hood draws the air around it toward the canopy and up the extract duct, and it takes the fragrance with it. The output goes out of the building, the floor smells of nothing, and the usual response is to turn the intensity up - which means the kitchen receives the higher dose the moment the hood stops. The fix is to move the source to the far reception wall, never to raise the setting; the key-lock exists for exactly this.
How high on the wall should the machine sit in a showroom full of display islands and plinths?
Above the partition line. Appliance floors are full of low walls, and a source at desk height on the reception side pools its output behind a plinth or an island instead of joining the supply air. Mounted high, where the supply crosses, the fragrance is carried across the floor and also clears faster once the machine goes off for a demo. The wall and HVAC mounting options on the SOSA Vaayu are what make that height available.
Does placing the machine correctly change what it does to the appliances or to the showroom's sales?
SOSA makes no claim on either. Placement decides where the fragrance travels and where it is stripped out; it is an interiors decision like where a light fitting goes. SOSA does not assert that ambient fragrance changes footfall, dwell time, conversion or sales, and makes no claim about what it does to any appliance or finish it hangs above - the only product fact is that a waterless machine adds no moisture and leaves no residue. It is never a substitute for extraction.
Far wall from the hood, high, reception side - never on the kitchen's air
SOSA — Showroom Scenting where the scent machine goes when the showroom has a live kitchen
SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) mounts on a wall or an HVAC duct, so it sits high on the reception-side wall furthest from the hood and goes off on the timer while the kitchen works; SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) does the same on a sales-floor-only duct in a large centre; Mountain Breeze (₹849) and Morning Freshness (₹749) reeds are the honest start for a studio. The live kitchen and coffee counter stay unscented. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a showroom scenting plan → SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
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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 range; the planning advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 7 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and onboard button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, operation under 38dB, DC 12V/1A at 5W (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or displays; the four 100ml bottles in the box are the supply, and refill availability should be confirmed with SOSA. The SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) is an HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft, with an 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules and operation under 42dB; the SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the HVAC machine for 12,000-18,000 sq ft. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft. SOSA reed diffusers - Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349) and Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249), or the two together as the Fresh & Grounded duo (₹1,548 / ₹2,548) - are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with a 50ml bottle lasting 6-8 weeks and a 130ml bottle 14-18 weeks. Ambient fragrance in a showroom is an interior and hospitality decision: SOSA makes no claim that it changes dwell time, footfall, conversion, basket size, sales or any other business number, no claim about what it does to any appliance, surface or finish on display, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning or extraction. Warranty, installation, service and bulk terms are confirmed with SOSA directly. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel or appliance brand named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.