★ SOSA for Indore Businesses
Yes, and the programming exercise is not really a scenting exercise at all - it is transcribing a record the business already owns, because the appointment book and the hourly billing data describe when people actually arrived, which is almost never the same shape as the shutter hours
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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
★ Sized to the visitor-facing zone, in the register the business runs
SOSA VaayuA connected reception, lounge and corridorView ₹11,999
Mountain BreezeThe dry pine, sage and cedar registerView ₹849
Morning FreshnessThe cool register for a white, daylit officeView ₹749
✓ One register in the visitor-facing zone only - entrance, reception and the waiting area - set from the furthest seat at the end of the longest wait and then key-locked ✓ Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented, a named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Indore
Why not just use opening hours? Because the shutter describes when staff are present, not when visitors arrive. The two documents usually disagree by hours at both ends of the day.
Does one schedule fit the whole week? Rarely. Most businesses find two or three distinct shapes - a weekday shape, a Saturday shape, and a slow morning - so one setting is wrong on several days.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 9 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 roughly 75-90 days 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, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply 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 Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), 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 commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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 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.
Yes - and the schedule is already written down inside your business. The appointment book and the hourly billing data describe a week with two or three shapes, not one, and none of them is the shutter.
Quick answers — read this first
Where does the traffic data come from? From records the business already keeps: the appointment book, billing or invoice timestamps by hour, the delivery log, and the reception diary. No new measurement is needed.Why not just use opening hours? Because the shutter describes when staff are present, not when visitors arrive. The two documents usually disagree by hours at both ends of the day.
Does one schedule fit the whole week? Rarely. Most businesses find two or three distinct shapes - a weekday shape, a Saturday shape, and a slow morning - so one setting is wrong on several days.
The short answer
Short answer: yes, and the data already exists. Pull arrival times from the appointment book or hourly billing records, and expect the week to have two or three shapes rather than one.
The pick: a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) with its 1h/4h/8h/24h blocks set to the dominant shape, and a manual start for the exception day.
Next step: print last month's arrivals by hour and mark the two busiest bands. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
This is a transcription job, not a measurement project. The numbers are already in the system you bill from.
Sized to the visitor zone - tap to see each
One machine, the visitor floor
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The areas that carry nothing
Which areas stay fragrance-free
Send the floor plan
Free scenting plan for your space
Straight answer
Can commercial scenting be programmed around real customer traffic instead of business hours?
Yes, and the useful realisation is that this is not a measurement project at all. Every business that asks this question is already holding the data it needs, usually in a system it looks at daily for other reasons. A clinic has an appointment book with times in it. A showroom has invoice or billing timestamps. A salon has a booking diary. An advisory office has a meeting calendar. A dealership has a delivery log. Any of those, exported for the last month and sorted by hour, tells you exactly when people walked in - which is the only input the schedule actually needs, and it takes about twenty minutes to produce. Do that and the first finding is almost always the same: the business has two documents describing its week and they disagree. The shutter hours describe when staff are present. The arrival record describes when visitors are present. The gap between them is usually largest first thing in the morning - a business that opens at ten and sees its first visitor at half past eleven has been scenting an empty room for ninety minutes a day, every day, without anybody ever noticing, because the people in that room during those ninety minutes work there. The second finding is the one that matters more, and it is the reason the phrase "actual customer traffic" is slightly misleading in the singular. A week does not have one shape. It typically has two or three. A weekday shape, with arrivals concentrated in a narrow band. A Saturday shape, which in most Indore premium categories starts earlier, runs longer and is far denser. And often a slow shape - a Monday morning, or whichever half-day the category treats as dead. Which means a single schedule cannot be right on every day of the week, and pretending otherwise is how businesses end up back at the shutter hours. The honest way to handle it is to set the machine to the shape that covers most days, and to treat the exception as a manual action: one person, one instruction, start the block early on Saturday. That is a rota item rather than a technology problem, and it works because it is written down rather than remembered. The lead-in still applies within whichever shape you programme, because a room reaches its level some time after the machine starts. And there is a limit worth stating plainly: the machine follows a clock, not people. A schedule built from last month's arrivals is a prediction, and predictions go stale - a season changes, a festival week rearranges everything, a clinic moves its consulting hours, a new competitor opens across the road. So the schedule belongs on the same review cycle as everything else, which is to say it is looked at twice a year against fresh data rather than set once at installation and inherited by people who never knew why those hours were chosen. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 offers 1h, 4h, 8h and 24h blocks and a key-lock, which is enough for this if the shape is known and not enough if it is guessed. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and SOSA makes no claim that it does. Closed one-to-one rooms - consultation cabins, treatment rooms, any room where a visitor is alone with a professional - are never scented, on any schedule. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Yes, and the arrival record already exists in the appointment book or the billing data. Expect two or three shapes in the week rather than one, programme the dominant shape, and handle the exception day by hand.
Programmed to the shape you found: SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, 1h/4h/8h/24h blocks with a key-locked level.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a scenting plan for your space
The honest ladder
One source for the visitor zone, sized to the floor
What to buy, and for which space
The honest options for the visitor-facing zone, sized to the floor rather than to the ambition. The images link to the product pages so every figure here can be checked.
A connected reception, waiting area and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³ - about 2,000-3,000 sq ft - on one unit. In a clinic, showroom or office its value is control rather than reach: the key-lock holds the level the furthest waiting chair was judged to, so it survives every shift and every new receptionist, and the 1h/4h/8h/24h timer keeps it on opening hours rather than saturating an empty room overnight. Waterless, so it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on stock, mirrors, screens or displays. 400ml tank, roughly 75-90 days depending on intensity and run hours, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mount.
From ₹11,999
The register - or the whole answer where reception is one seating zone
SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
Himalayan pine, sage and Indian cedar - the driest register SOSA makes and the house default, because it reads as a considered room rather than as a hotel lobby. Where reception is a single seating group, this bottle at the staff end of the desk at ₹849 for 50ml carries the register on its own, three or four reeds in, flipped weekly; 130ml at ₹1,349 lasts 14-18 weeks. Alcohol-free, phthalate-free, six fibre reeds, and carried out of the room in seconds if a client asks.
From ₹849
Twenty minutes with data you already own
No sensors, no survey, no counting exercise. Export the arrivals you already record and sort them by hour.
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The source
It is already in your system
An appointment book, invoice or billing timestamps, a booking diary, a meeting calendar, a delivery log. Export last month, sort by hour, and the schedule writes itself.
Test: about twenty minutes of work.
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The gap
Two documents that disagree
Shutter hours describe when staff are present; the arrival record describes when visitors are. The difference is usually largest first thing in the morning.
Rule: nobody notices, because staff are in the room.
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Shapes
A week has two or three of them
A weekday shape with a narrow band, a Saturday shape that starts earlier and runs denser, and often a dead half-day. One schedule cannot be right on all of them.
Rule: programme the shape that covers most days.
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The exception
A rota item, not a technology problem
One person, one written instruction: start the block early on Saturday. It works because it is written into the opening routine rather than remembered by whoever is on shift.
Rule: written down, not remembered.
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Staleness
A schedule is a prediction
Seasons change, festival weeks rearrange everything, consulting hours move, a competitor opens. A schedule set at installation gets inherited by people who never knew why those hours were chosen.
Test: re-read the data twice a year.
The SOSA principle
A business that opens at ten and sees its first visitor at half past eleven has been scenting an empty room for ninety minutes a day - unnoticed, because the only people in it during those ninety minutes work there.
Which is the whole argument for programming against the arrival record rather than the shutter: the waste is invisible from inside the business by definition.
Programming to traffic, question by question
Where the data comes from, what it shows, and what it cannot promise.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Business hours against arrival records
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Do I need to measure traffic first?
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No. The appointment book, billing timestamps, booking diary or delivery log already record arrival times. Export a month and sort by hour. |
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What does that usually show?
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A gap between shutter hours and arrivals, largest first thing in the morning, plus a week that has two or three distinct shapes rather than one. |
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Can one schedule cover the whole week?
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Rarely. Programme the shape that covers most days and handle the exception - usually Saturday - as a written instruction in the opening routine. |
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Does the lead-in still apply?
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Yes. Whatever shape you programme, the room reaches its level some time after the machine starts, so the block begins before the arrivals do. |
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What is the limit of this?
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The machine follows a clock, not people. A schedule is a prediction, so it is re-read against fresh data twice a year. A Vaayu is ₹11,999. |
The run-length version is ten hours for a four-hour window, the seasonal version is Diwali and wedding-season peaks, and the review version is what to measure after installing. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance removes or reduces anything in the air.
One register, the visitor-facing zone only, set from the furthest seat
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 waterless, key-locked and timed to opening hours; Mountain Breeze ₹849 or Morning Freshness ₹749 as the register. Send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked and we will return it with the placement and the fragrance-free seat.
You do not need to measure your traffic. You need to open the system you bill from, export last month, and sort it by hour - which is a twenty-minute job, not a project.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Sized to the floor
The visitor zone gets one source; closed treatment and consultation rooms get none
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
One register, delivered at whatever size the visitor-facing zone is, with the rule that travels alongside each product. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA Hyderabad specification
What goes where in a clinic, salon, showroom or office
| Product | The space it fits | The rule that travels with it | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A connected reception, waiting area and corridor of ~1,500-3,000 sq ft | Wall or HVAC mounted on the far side of the client zone from the meeting-room doors; level set from the furthest chair at the end of the longest wait, then key-locked; timer on opening hours | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser
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The register for the whole client zone; alone where reception is one seating group | Pine, sage and cedar - dry, and reads as a considered room rather than a hotel lobby; three or four reeds in at the staff end of the desk | ₹849 / ₹1,349 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness Reed Diffuser
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The same job in a white, glazed, daylit interior | Malabar lemon, mint and eucalyptus - cool with no warmth; one register for the whole business, never one per branch | ₹749 / ₹1,249 View → |
 SOSA Sukoon
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A reception or waiting area that is a closed room of 270-320 sq ft | High shelf on the wall the seating faces, on low, during opening hours, rinsed between refills; water-based, so not the choice in a damp building | ₹1,899 View → |
 SOSA Boond
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A director's cabin, a small reception or a single desk | One small enclosed space only, on low; never in a closed treatment room or consultation cabin | ₹899 View → |
A SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is the water-based rung for a single enclosed reception or client lounge of roughly 270-320 sq ft in a dry room, and a Boond (₹899) for a single cabin; both run on the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (from ₹299), which is not reed diffuser oil and is not interchangeable with it. Above about 3,000 sq ft of one connected volume the step is one SOSA Angaan (₹25,999) on the duct, not a second Vaayu. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented - the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there - and that is achieved by placement and doors rather than by a lower setting. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk rather than waiting to be asked. Fragrance is an ambience decision like lighting or seating: it does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, it makes no contribution to what a visitor buys, books or decides, and it works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them. The visitor's preference overrides any plan. Ask for a scenting plan for your space and send the floor plan with the closed rooms and the entrance marked.
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ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
Yes, and the useful realisation is that this is not a measurement project. Every business asking the question already holds the data, usually in a system it looks at daily for other reasons. A clinic has an appointment book with times in it. A showroom has billing timestamps. A salon has a booking diary, an advisory office a meeting calendar, a dealership a delivery log. Export last month, sort by hour, and you have the only input the schedule needs. It takes about twenty minutes.
The first finding is almost always the same: the business has two documents describing its week and they disagree. Shutter hours describe when staff are present; the arrival record describes when visitors are. The gap is usually largest first thing in the morning, and a business that opens at ten and sees its first visitor at half past eleven has been scenting an empty room for ninety minutes a day without anybody noticing, because the only people in it during those ninety minutes work there. The second finding matters more. A week does not have one shape. It has a weekday shape with arrivals in a narrow band, a Saturday shape that starts earlier and runs denser, and often a dead half-day - so one schedule cannot be right on every day, and pretending otherwise is how businesses drift back to the shutter hours.
Handle it honestly: set the machine to the shape that covers most days, and make the exception a written instruction in the opening routine rather than something remembered by whoever is on shift. And state the limit plainly, because it is the part suppliers skip. The machine follows a clock, not people, so a schedule built from last month's arrivals is a prediction, and predictions go stale when a season turns, a festival week rearranges everything or consulting hours move. Look at it twice a year against fresh data rather than setting it once and letting it be inherited by people who never knew why those hours were chosen. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 gives you 1h, 4h, 8h and 24h blocks and a key-lock, which is enough if the shape is known and not enough if it is guessed. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. Closed treatment rooms and consultation cabins are never scented, on any schedule. A named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered at the desk. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and housekeeping, never instead of them, and the visitor's preference overrides any plan. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Can a scent machine be scheduled to real customer traffic?
Yes, and the arrival data already exists in the appointment book, billing timestamps, booking diary or delivery log. Export a month and sort by hour.
Why are business hours the wrong basis?
Because they describe when staff are present, not when visitors arrive. The gap is usually largest first thing in the morning and is invisible from inside.
Does a single schedule work for the whole week?
Rarely. Most businesses find two or three shapes, so the dominant one is programmed and the exception day is handled by a written instruction.
How often should the schedule be revisited?
Twice a year against fresh data. Seasons, festival weeks and changed consulting hours all move the arrival pattern the schedule was built from.
What machine settings does this need?
Timed blocks and a key-locked level. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 offers 1h, 4h, 8h and 24h blocks with the intensity locked.
Export last month by hour
SOSA — Studio Scenting already in your system
Programming to real traffic is a transcription job, not a measurement project. The appointment book, the billing timestamps and the delivery log already record when people arrived, and sorting a month of that by hour usually shows two things: a gap between the shutter and the first visitor, and a week with two or three shapes rather than one. Programme the dominant shape, write the exception into the opening routine, and re-read the data twice a year. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a scenting plan for your space → SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
One more look at the range
Continue the read
More from SOSA
- SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999)
- SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser (₹849)
- Ten hours for a four-hour window
- What to measure after installing
- Diwali and wedding-season peaks
- 500 sq ft reception, 4,000 sq ft office
- One zone before expanding
- Whole office or only what customers see
- One fragrance, different settings
- Ask us: Ask for a scenting plan for your space
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
Editorial standards & sources
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 9 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 roughly 75-90 days 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, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification - electrical and compliance marks only. Being waterless it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on paper, screens or documents; refill supply 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 Sukoon (₹1,899) is a 500ml water-based ultrasonic diffuser for a single room of roughly 270-320 sq ft, and the SOSA Boond (₹899) is its compact equivalent; both use the water-based Hotel Collection fragrance (15ml from ₹299, 100ml ₹999, 300ml ₹1,799), which is made for ultrasonic diffusers and is not reed diffuser oil. SOSA reed diffusers - Morning Freshness (₹749 / ₹1,249) and Mountain Breeze (₹849 / ₹1,349), 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 commercial space is an interior and hospitality decision only. SOSA makes no claim that it treats, relieves, prevents or improves any medical, dental or psychological condition, that it makes anyone feel calmer, more comfortable or more confident, that it affects recovery, patient comfort or any clinical outcome, or that it affects footfall, walk-ins, enquiries, bookings, conversions, sales, average spend, dwell time, customer retention or revenue. It does not remove or reduce any odour in the air, and it is never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning, housekeeping or fresh-air exchange - an office with a persistent smell has a source to find and fix first. Closed treatment rooms, consultation cabins and any closed one-to-one room are never scented, because the person inside cannot leave and did not choose to be there. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free in the reception or waiting area and offered rather than waiting to be requested. The visitor's preference overrides any plan on this page, and where a customer, patient or member of staff is sensitive to fragrance the correct response is to reduce or switch off. 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 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.