₹749 · 50 = ₹37,450 
₹799 · 100 = ₹79,900 
₹849 · 50 = ₹42,450 
₹799 · not a blind buy 
₹664 · 50 = ₹33,200
The arithmetic: 50 × ₹749 = ₹37,450 · 50 × ₹799 = ₹39,950 · 100 × ₹749 = ₹74,900 · 100 × ₹799 = ₹79,900. Every one of those sits under ₹1,000 a head with room left.
The structural fact: each of the five reeds is stocked separately, so a hundred bottles spread across two or three scents is a far easier order to fill than a hundred identical ones. Decide whether you will accept an assortment before you write in. No stock figure is published here, because it changes daily.
The honest gap: ₹1,000 a head does not reach the 130ml reed at ₹1,249 or a duo at ₹1,498, and there is no bulk rate, discount band, GST scheme, custom branding, minimum order or lead time to quote — ₹749 is ₹749 whether you buy one or a hundred. For anything above roughly twenty-five units, write to us through the contact page before you order; availability by scent varies, and it is better to ask than to assume.
2. If you are guessing about the recipients, lead with the two lowest-polarisation bottles. Evening Calm at ₹799 sits at 8.9 on our strength scale, the softest thing we make, with no cultural loading in an Indian home. Morning Freshness at ₹749 is lemon, peppermint and eucalyptus — bright, room-agnostic, and the safest cheap option at volume. Mountain Breeze at ₹849 is the one for lists you know contain people who are hard to buy for.
3. Decide single-scent or mixed before you decide anything else. Each of the five reeds is held separately, so a hundred bottles of one scent is a materially harder order to fill than a hundred spread across two or three. This is the shape of the constraint at this quantity, and it is the reason a buyer who will accept an assortment has far more room than one who will not.
4. Buy identically within whatever tier you choose. Fifty people at ₹1,000 gives you ₹50,000, and fifty at ₹749 leaves ₹12,550 of it unspent. That headroom is not a licence to upgrade eight favourites; it is sixteen more identical bottles at ₹11,984, which covers the names that surface late. A budget spread unevenly across fifty people is a ranking, and the ranking is the only part of your spreadsheet the recipients can read.
5. Above roughly twenty-five units, write in before you order. Use the contact page. There is nothing waiting on the other end — no bulk rate, no discount band, no GST invoicing scheme, no custom branding, no minimum order and no lead time — but availability by scent varies, and one message is cheaper than discovering the problem after you have committed a list.
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What ₹1,000 a head actually opens — and why it is a different page from ₹500
I want to be exact about the step, because most budget guides describe it as a matter of degree and it is not. Between ₹500 and ₹1,000 a head, the object you are buying changes species. Under ₹500 you are buying something that is consumed in an evening or two: a jar candle at ₹379 gives roughly fifteen to eighteen hours, the two-pack at ₹664 roughly thirty to thirty-six. Above ₹749 you are buying something that sits on a shelf and works continuously for six to eight weeks without being lit, watched or remembered. Both are good gifts. They are not the same gift, and pretending the second is simply a nicer version of the first is how bulk budgets get set badly.
Morning Freshness₹749There is nothing in the reed line below ₹749 at any size, and the cheapest diffuser machine is the Boond at ₹899, so ₹749 is a genuine floor rather than a starting point somebody chose. On a list of a hundred, the ₹749 bottle is also the one I would default to for a reason that has nothing to do with thrift: Morning Freshness is the lowest-polarisation scent at volume. Citrus and mint are the two registers a stranger is least likely to have an opinion about. A hundred of them is ₹74,900; fifty is ₹37,450.
Evening Calm₹799Evening Calm is Kashmir lavender, real chamomile and a soft musk drydown, and at 8.9 it is deliberately the gentlest thing we make. It is the scent I recommend when the buyer knows nothing about the recipients, because lavender is the one register that arrives in an Indian home without a memory already attached to it — rose, jasmine, coffee and pine all do. Fifty is ₹39,950 and a hundred is ₹79,900, both comfortably under a ₹1,000 ceiling. The extra ₹50 a head over Morning Freshness buys you the softest projection in the range, which matters in households that dislike scent.
Mountain Breeze₹849At ₹849 the top of the reed line still sits ₹151 under the ceiling, so budget is not the filter here — suitability is. Mountain Breeze, Himalayan pine with sage and Indian cedar, is the best answer on any list you suspect contains people who are hard to buy for, and it is the least gendered scent we make. Garden Bloom at ₹799 is superb and is not a blind buy, because anti-floral is a common and firmly held position. Fresh Brew at ₹849 is a warm gourmand at 9.5, the deepest thing we make, and I would not lead it on a staff or client list however much a coffee lover would enjoy it.
Single scent or mixed — the constraint that actually decides a large order
This is the part of bulk buying that nobody writes about honestly, so here it is plainly. The five SOSA reeds are stocked separately, as five different products. That means the difficulty of a large order is not a function of how much you are spending; it is a function of how much of it lands on one scent. A hundred bottles spread across Morning Freshness, Evening Calm and Mountain Breeze is three ordinary orders sitting next to each other. A hundred bottles of one scent is a single demand on a single line, and it is structurally harder. That is the shape of the constraint, and it is the whole reason this page exists rather than a rate card.
I will not publish a stock figure. It changes daily, it would be wrong within a week of this page going up, and a number on a page is exactly the sort of thing a buyer plans around and is then let down by. What I can tell you is the direction of the difficulty, and the direction is unambiguous: a buyer who will accept an assortment has far more room than one who needs a hundred identical bottles. If uniformity matters to you — and on an employee list it often should, because a visible difference between gifts is worse than a modest gift — there is a middle path. Buy one scent per team, per floor, per office. Everybody who can compare their gift with the person next to them has the same one; the assortment sits across groups who never put the bottles side by side.
If you cannot accept a mixture at all, then the useful thing to do is not to order and hope. It is to write to us through the contact page before you commit the list, describing the quantity and the scent. There is no bulk rate, no discount band, no GST invoicing scheme, no custom branding, no minimum order, no lead time and no dedicated account manager to be put in touch with — I would rather say all six of those things than let a page imply one of them. What there is, is an answer to the question of whether the order you are planning is a sensible one, and that answer is worth more than a rate.
| Plan | Unit price | 50 people | 100 people | Per head | When to choose it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning Freshness 50ml ★ | ₹749 | ₹37,450 | ₹74,900 | ₹749 | The default. Cheapest reed, lowest polarisation at volume |
| Evening Calm 50ml | ₹799 | ₹39,950 | ₹79,900 | ₹799 | When the list is a genuine guess — the safest blind buy |
| Mountain Breeze 50ml | ₹849 | ₹42,450 | ₹84,900 | ₹849 | When the list is full of people who are hard to buy for |
| Mixed: 40% / 40% / 20% of the three above | ₹749–₹849 | ₹39,450 | ₹78,900 | ₹789 | The easiest large order to fill, and the lowest scent risk |
| Jar-candle two-pack | ₹664 | ₹33,200 | ₹66,400 | ₹664 | If the ceiling is really ₹700, or the list may grow |
| Boond ultrasonic machine | ₹899 | ₹44,950 | ₹89,900 | ₹899 | Rarely. It needs power and a surface; a reed needs neither |
50 = ₹37,450 · 100 = ₹74,900₹749Shop → 
50 = ₹39,950 · 100 = ₹79,900₹799Shop → 
50 = ₹42,450 · 100 = ₹84,900₹849Shop →
What ₹1,000 a head does not buy — stated in figures
It does not reach the 130ml reed, and it does not reach a duo. The 130ml bottles are ₹1,249 to ₹1,349 and run fourteen to eighteen weeks; the duos, which are two 50ml bottles rather than a boxed set, are ₹1,498 to ₹1,598. Both are above the ceiling this page is written to, and neither becomes affordable at quantity, because there is no bulk rate to bring them down. A hundred people at ₹1,249 is ₹1,24,900, which is a different budget conversation and should be had as one rather than discovered at checkout. Nor is there a gift set, gift box, gift wrap, gift note, personalisation or gift card at SOSA — none of those exists, and a bulk page is precisely the place a reader will be looking for them.
The second gap is the one people are really asking about when they search for bulk. There is no published bulk programme of any kind. No per-unit bulk price, no discount band by quantity, no GST invoicing arrangement, no custom branding or printed logo, no minimum order and no lead time. Every figure on this page is an ordinary shelf price multiplied by a quantity, and I would rather write that sentence six times than let a hundred-name buyer plan around a rate that does not exist. What we will do is answer the availability question honestly if you ask it first, through the contact page, for anything above roughly twenty-five units.
And a fair word for the alternative, because a fifty-name list is usually a choice between categories rather than products. Mithai is a ritual, not a lazy default, and there are entries on almost every list where it is the correct thing: a first approach to elders, a household where sweets are the expected shape of the greeting, a group that will sit and eat together on the day. Where a reed wins is the rest of the list — fifty households each receiving several near-identical boxes inside one week, where nobody has told you about the diabetic parent, and where the fourth box is an arrival rather than a gift. Duplication and dietary exposure are the two problems home fragrance answers. It does not pretend to answer the others, and on the handful of names where the ritual matters more, buy the sweets.
What to order under ₹1,000 a head, in sequence
In the order I would place it, with the arithmetic against fifty and a hundred names shown rather than described. The last row is the honest gap, printed with its figures, because on a page whose whole subject is quantity the sums that do not work are the most useful part of it.
| Buy | What it is | The arithmetic | Per head |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Morning Freshness 50ml ★ | Malabar lemon, peppermint, eucalyptus. 9.0, bright, room-agnostic | 50 × ₹749 = ₹37,450 · 100 × ₹749 = ₹74,900 | ₹749 |
| 2. Evening Calm 50ml | Kashmir lavender and chamomile, 8.9 — the softest we make | 50 × ₹799 = ₹39,950 · 100 × ₹799 = ₹79,900 | ₹799 |
| 3. The mixed order: 40 / 40 / 20 | Morning Freshness, Evening Calm, Mountain Breeze together | 50 units = ₹39,450 · 100 units = ₹78,900 | ₹789 |
| 4. Mountain Breeze 50ml | Himalayan pine, sage, cedar — least gendered, best for hard-to-buy-for | 50 × ₹849 = ₹42,450 · 100 × ₹849 = ₹84,900 | ₹849 |
| 5. Ask, above roughly 25 units | One message through the contact page before you commit the list | Availability by scent varies; single-scent is harder than mixed | No terms quoted |
| What ₹1,000 a head will not reach: the honest gap | No 130ml, no duo, and no bulk programme of any kind — no rate, band, GST scheme, branding, minimum or lead time | 130ml is ₹1,249–₹1,349; a duo is ₹1,498–₹1,598. 100 × ₹1,249 = ₹1,24,900 | Above the ceiling |
Versailles
The conversation I have most often at this budget starts with the buyer apologising for the number. Fifty, they say, or a hundred, as though the quantity were an imposition. It is not the quantity that makes a large order difficult. It is the insistence that all of it be one scent, and almost nobody realises that when they set the brief.
We make five reeds and we hold them as five separate products, because that is what they are. So the honest structure of the thing is this: your hundred names spread across two or three scents is an ordinary set of orders. Your hundred names on one scent is one very concentrated demand. I am not going to print a stock number to prove it — that figure moves and a page that quotes it is wrong by the following week — but the shape of it is worth knowing before you write the brief rather than after.
And there is no rate to ask me for. No bulk price, no band, no invoicing scheme, no branding, no minimum, no lead time. I know that is not what a bulk page is supposed to say. What I would rather give you is the advice that actually protects a hundred-name order: buy identically within a tier, choose the least polarising scent, and write to us through the contact page above roughly twenty-five units so we can tell you the truth about availability before you commit. Everything is made in Pune, and part of every order funds a girl’s classroom through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
- Bulk gifts under ₹500 per person — the other half of this answer, where the reed is not available and the candles are.
- Fifty employees at ₹500 and a hundred employees at ₹500 — the sums at the tighter figure.
- Fifty clients on a budget — why modest and impersonal beats generous on a client list.
- A hundred premium gifts without overspending — the three levers, applied at scale.
- Home fragrance as a bulk category — why a room-addressed gift suits a list.
- Can reed diffusers be ordered in bulk? and how a SOSA bulk order actually works.
- The complete 50–100+ gifting guide — every decision in this block in one place.
- Brand: the SOSA founder story.
SOSA products — facts verified August 2026: Reed diffusers 50ml: Morning Freshness ₹749, Evening Calm ₹799, Garden Bloom ₹799, Mountain Breeze ₹849, Fresh Brew ₹849, each lasting 6–8 weeks; 130ml ₹1,249–₹1,349, lasting 14–18 weeks. Strength scale: Evening Calm 8.9 softest, Garden Bloom 8.9, Morning Freshness 9.0, Mountain Breeze 9.4, Fresh Brew 9.5 deepest. Duos ₹1,498–₹1,598 are two 50ml bottles, not a boxed set; 130ml duos ₹2,498–₹2,598. Refills 300ml ₹2,399 · 500ml ₹3,499. Scented jar candles ₹379 single (80g soy, roughly 15–18 hours) and ₹664 two-pack (roughly 30–36 hours) in Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks; Sandalwood Scented Candle ₹449 · Smoked Oudh Scented Candle ₹449 · wax melts ₹474 · taper candles set of four ₹569 · woodenwick ₹949. Machines from the Boond ₹899; the Hotel Collection 15ml at ₹299 is an ultrasonic refill, not a gift. The reed line contains no oud, sandalwood, vetiver or amber, and there is no hotel-inspired reed diffuser. All reed diffusers are alcohol-free, on a heat-stable CCT (caprylic/capric triglyceride) base, phthalate-free, paraben-free, IFRA-compliant and 0 ppm formaldehyde, with six fibre reeds in a refillable glass bottle, climate-tested at 45°C and 85% relative humidity, composed and made in Pune, India. Free shipping above ₹499 — a single ₹379 candle does not clear it, a ₹749 reed does. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. SOSA is an independent Indian fragrance house and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any hotel brand. Prices subject to change — see the live product pages.