SOSA · The Founder Diaries · Car Fragrance
The number does not exist yet
People ask me for this number every week, and the answer is not that we are being coy. It is that the figure would have to be measured under conditions nobody has stated, and an unstated condition makes the number useless.
The uncomfortable version of this page is the true one. I do not have this number. Nobody at SOSA has published it, I am not going to estimate it from the battery figures, and I would rather you left this page with a marker pen in mind than with a figure of mine in your diary.
The answer in 30 seconds
Why does SOSA not publish how fast Safar uses oil?
- In one line. A rate needs a quantity, a time and a stated setting. SOSA publishes none of that, so no interval and no running cost exist.₹3,999
- The short answer. A rate of use is a quantity over a time, measured on one of the three speeds, for a stated number of hours a day. SOSA has published no such measurement, so no interval and no running cost can be derived from the refill price of Rs 1,049 for 100 gm. The honest figure is the one you measure in your own car.
- If you only remember one thing: the refill price is published and the rate of use is not, and you need both to get a cost. Anyone who hands you a monthly figure has supplied the missing half themselves.
- Why is there no figure? Because a rate is a quantity over a time on a stated setting, and SOSA has published no such measurement for the diffuser.
- Is the ten-hour figure not the answer? No. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how much oil the diffuser uses. They are two different measurements of two different things.
- What should I do instead? Measure your own. Mark the level on the 20ml bottle with a marker pen, write the date, drive your ordinary month and mark it again.
The answer, in full
Because of what the figure would have to be. A rate of use is a quantity of oil over a period of time, and it only means anything if the conditions come with it: which of the three speeds, how many hours a day, and for how long. SOSA has published no such measurement, so there is no rate, and without a rate there is no interval between refills and no running cost, with or without a number attached. What is published is the price by weight, ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm, and the battery figures per charge. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how much oil the diffuser uses. So the two published numbers people try to combine are a price and a battery figure, and neither of them is about the oil going down. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
What a rate of use would need, and what exists instead
The first card is what the missing figure is made of. The second is what SOSA does publish, which people keep mistaking for it. The third is what goes wrong when somebody supplies the gap themselves.
What a rate is made of: a quantity, a time and a stated setting
To be worth printing, a rate has to say how much oil went in which period, on which of the three speeds, over how many hours of running. Change any one of those and the figure changes. SOSA publishes no measurement of that shape for the diffuser, and it publishes no per-speed duration either, so there is nothing to convert between settings even if a figure for one existed.
No stated conditions, no usable rate. That is the whole reason.
What is published instead: a price by weight and a battery figure
Two real numbers sit near this question and neither is the one being asked for. The first is the refill price: ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm, which is a price over a weight. The second is the battery, up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent on a charge from the 2000 mAh cell. The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how much oil the diffuser uses.
What an invented average costs you: a plan built on somebody else's driving
If I printed a figure, it would be an average over driving patterns SOSA has not measured and I have never seen, and it would read as official because it appeared on the brand's own blog. You would stock up against it, or not stock up against it, and the error would be invisible until the bottle was empty on the wrong morning. A blank space is better than that.
An official-looking average is worse than an honest gap.
Would the scent change the answer?
It might, and nothing published says either way. SOSA publishes the nine scent names, no ranking across them and no consumption figure for any of them, so there is nothing to look up and nothing to compare. If you change scent and you care, note which oil was in the bottle when you took your own measurement, and the record you build will be about your own car.
Measuring is easier when the cupboard is not empty. The nebuliser refill oil is ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. See the nebuliser refill →
The numbers near this question, and what each one is
| What the record says | |
|---|---|
| The refill price | Published. ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm: a price over a weight, and the per-gram comparison between the two is exact arithmetic. |
| The battery figures | The ten and thirty hour figures describe the 2000 mAh battery per charge, not how much oil the diffuser uses. Up to ten hours continuous or thirty hours intermittent on a charge. |
| A rate of use | Not published, in any form. No measurement of oil against time on a stated setting appears on the record, so there is nothing to quote. |
| A monthly cost or a refill interval | Neither exists, because each one needs the rate. No figure of that kind is given here, with or without a number. |
If you see a figure of this kind quoted anywhere, including on a page that looks like ours, check it for the three things a rate needs: the quantity, the period and the setting it was measured on. A figure missing any of the three was assembled rather than measured.
“The refill price is published and the rate of use is not. A monthly cost needs both halves, and only one half exists.”
Auditing any figure you are shown, in four steps
- Ask which quantity of oil the figure came from.
- Ask over what period, and on which of the three speeds.
- Ask how many hours a day of running it assumed.
- If any answer is missing, the figure was assembled, not measured.
SOSA car fragrance
A marker pen beats a figure nobody measured
The published prices are real and the rate of use is yours to measure. Keeping a refill in the cupboard is what stops the measurement becoming urgent.
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View SOSA SafarSee the nebuliser refillQuestions, answered
Why does SOSA not publish an oil-consumption rate for Safar?
Can you not work it out from the ten-hour battery figure?
Does that mean SOSA is hiding something?
So how do I budget for refills?
Will SOSA publish a figure later?
If you would rather ask a person
Ask Sonal
Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant, and the refill oil is ₹1,049 for 100 gm or ₹1,849 for 300 gm. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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