★ SOSA for Modular Kitchen Showrooms and Experience Centres
Fragrance does not change between display styles because they share one volume of air - what changes is which display the level is judged from, and that is the one a customer sits in longest
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"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
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"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
★★★★★
"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
★ One machine for a floor that carries every style you sell
SOSA VaayuOne profile for the whole volume of airView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuOne level, judged from the longest seatView ₹11,999
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So what does change between them? Which display the level is judged from, and that is a real decision rather than a technicality. The right seat is the one a customer occupies longest, which is almost always the consultation table rather than the most photogenic display. Judge the setting from that chair at minute ninety of a design consultation, because exposure compounds and a level that feels correct while walking the floor is usually too much by the end. Then ask the designers who breathe it nine hours a day.
What machine, and what does it cost? Past about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 upstream on the air path, low and key-locked. Under about 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, where a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. The number of display styles never enters the calculation - it is decided by cubic volume and air path, and a fifteen-display floor is the same problem as a five-display one.
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Facts verified 5 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 adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. 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.
This is the question the whole materials family has been building towards, and the answer is a little deflating: it does not change at all. What is worth your attention is the second half of the sentence, which is where the level comes from - because that does change, and almost nobody sets it from the right place.
Quick answers — read this first
How should fragrance change between modern, classic and luxury displays? It should not, because they share one volume of air. A display kitchen is not a room - it is a set of units on an open floor with no ceiling of its own and no door, so anything you put into the air beside one arrives in the aisle beside the next within minutes. What a customer walking your floor experiences is a mixture, not a sequence. One showroom, one profile, one level. Differentiate the displays with materials, lighting and styling, which are the tools that actually hold a boundary.So what does change between them? Which display the level is judged from, and that is a real decision rather than a technicality. The right seat is the one a customer occupies longest, which is almost always the consultation table rather than the most photogenic display. Judge the setting from that chair at minute ninety of a design consultation, because exposure compounds and a level that feels correct while walking the floor is usually too much by the end. Then ask the designers who breathe it nine hours a day.
What machine, and what does it cost? Past about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 upstream on the air path, low and key-locked. Under about 750 sq ft, one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, where a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. The number of display styles never enters the calculation - it is decided by cubic volume and air path, and a fifteen-display floor is the same problem as a five-display one.
The short answer
Short answer: it does not change, because modern, classic and luxury displays share one volume of air and a fragrance put beside one arrives in the aisle beside the next. One showroom, one profile, one level. What changes is which display the level is judged from, and the honest answer is the one a customer sits in longest - the consultation table, at minute ninety.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) upstream on the air path for a mixed display floor past about 1,500 sq ft, or one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) where the showroom is a single room under about 750 sq ft.
Next step: send your floor plan with the consultation table marked and tell us which display a customer sits in longest, and we will suggest placement and a starting setting judged from that seat - Ask for a retail scenting plan.
In this guide
The family pillar. Everything earlier in this family - wood, stone, minimal, dark - was a register argument. This one is about why the register is a single decision for the whole building.
One machine for a mixed floor - tap to see the specification
For a mixed display floor past 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The brightest room in this family
Best fragrance for a minimal white-and-grey showroom
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Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
How should fragrance change between modern, classic and luxury kitchen displays?
It should not change, and the reason is physical rather than aesthetic. A display kitchen is not a room. It is a set of units standing on an open floor, usually with no ceiling of its own, no door and no separate air path, and the aisle beside it is the same aisle that runs past every other display you have. So a fragrance introduced anywhere on that floor is, within a few minutes, everywhere on that floor. If you gave your modern display something bright and your classic display something woody, a customer walking between them would not experience a change - they would experience a mixture, strongest exactly where the two meet, which is the aisle where your designer is standing explaining the difference between them. That is worse than either fragrance alone, and it costs more. So: one showroom, one volume of air, one profile, one level. Differentiate displays with the tools that actually hold a boundary - materials, lighting temperature, styling, plinth heights, how a display is dressed. Those are visible and they stop at the edge of the display. Smell does not. Now the part that does vary, which is the real content of this post. What changes between display styles is which one you judge the level from. Most owners set the level standing in whichever display they are proudest of, usually the one nearest the entrance and usually the one that photographs best. That is the wrong seat, for two reasons: they are standing rather than sitting, and they are there for four minutes rather than ninety. The right place to judge it is wherever a customer spends longest, which in every kitchen showroom I have worked with is the consultation table - and if your consultation happens inside a particular display, then that display sets the number for the whole building. Sit there for a full ninety minutes before deciding the setting is right, because exposure compounds and your own nose adapts within about twenty minutes of arriving. Then ask the designers who are in that air nine hours a day, six days a week, and treat a yes-but as a no. The honest concession is that this makes your dark-wood display and your bright minimal display share a compromise, and yes, it does. The resolution is dryness, which is the quality every one of these palettes can live with: dry woods lean towards the timber and dark displays, dry green and mineral towards the stone and minimal ones, and a dry profile in the middle serves a mixed floor without arguing with any of it. On hardware: past about 1,500 sq ft one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 placed upstream on the air path rather than in the middle of the floor, and under about 750 sq ft one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, where a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. Ambient scent is a presentation decision like lighting, never a cover for another smell, and no one can promise you it moves a business number. Ask for a retail scenting plan and mark the consultation table on the plan.
It does not change - displays share one volume of air, so per-style fragrances mix in the aisle. One showroom, one profile, one level, and the level is judged from the seat a customer occupies longest. Dryness is the quality every palette here can live with.
For a mixed display floor past about 1,500 sq ft, one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, rated to 1000m³, under 38dB, with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers and a key-lock - placed upstream on the air path. ₹11,999. Under about 750 sq ft the honest buy is a Sukoon at ₹1,899, whatever the number of display styles.
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The pillar rule for this family
One volume of air takes one profile, at one level
One machine for a mixed floor
The number of display styles never enters the sizing calculation. Cubic volume and air path decide it, which is why a fifteen-display floor and a five-display floor of the same size take the same machine.
For a mixed display floor past about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, Bluetooth app with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, auto-stop and key-lock, freestanding or wall and HVAC mountable. One unit upstream on the air path serves every display style on the floor.
From ₹11,999
Under about 750 sq ft - buy this instead
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances. For a single-room showroom this is the honest buy at ₹1,899 no matter how many display styles it holds, and a Vaayu would be rated for several times the volume you have.
From ₹1,899
The three parts of the answer
Why it does not change, what does change instead, and how a single profile can honestly serve four different palettes.
1
Accept that a display is not a room
No ceiling, no door, no separate air path - so no boundary
The reason per-style scenting fails is not taste, it is that there is nothing to hold a smell in place. A display kitchen is open on at least one side, usually open at the top, and shares an aisle and an air path with everything around it. Anything you release beside it is in the next display within minutes, and strongest in the gap between the two. So what a customer walks through is a mixture, and the mixture is worst exactly where your designer is standing explaining the difference between the styles. A zone of air needs a real boundary - a wall, a door or its own air handling - and most showrooms have exactly one such volume, however many displays are standing in it.
Tip: If it has no door, it is not a zone. It is a part of the same room.
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Move the judgement to the longest seat
The display a customer sits in decides the level for the whole building
This is the part that actually changes between display styles, and it is worth doing deliberately. Owners set the level standing in the display they are proudest of, which is usually near the door and usually the one that photographs best - four minutes, on their feet, with a nose that adapted twenty minutes ago. Judge it instead from wherever a customer spends longest, which is the consultation table, and if your consultation sits inside a particular display then that display sets the number for the building. Sit there for a full ninety minutes before you decide. Then ask the design team after a normal week and treat a yes-but as a no.
Tip: The most photogenic display is the worst place to set a level from.
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Let dryness do the reconciling
The one quality every palette on your floor can live with
The fair objection to a single profile is that your dark-wood display and your white minimal display want different things. They do, and dryness is what they have in common. A dry woody register leans towards timber and dark palettes; a dry green or mineral leans towards stone and minimal ones; and a dry profile in the middle belongs to all of them without arguing with any. What fails on a mixed floor is anything with a strong character of its own - sweet, floral, powdery, or anything edible, which is ruled out in a kitchen showroom entirely. Our own Fresh Brew at ₹849 is the clearest example of the register to keep off a mixed display floor.
One profile costs the same as one profile. Three cost three times as much and work worse.
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The SOSA principle
The fragrance is a single decision for the whole building, but the level is a decision about a single chair - and the chair is the one a customer sits in for ninety minutes rather than the display the brand is proudest of.
Which is the only sense in which the answer changes between modern, classic and luxury displays at all.
The register by display style
Here is the whole family on one page. Read it as leanings within a single dry profile rather than as four different fragrances, because four different fragrances is exactly what this post is refusing.
The SOSA plan
One dry profile, and how each display style sits within it
| The display style | What to do |
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 Natural wood and veneer
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The timber speaks first, so the fragrance goes underneath it. Dry pine, sage and cedar extend what the wood is already doing rather than arguing with it. |
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Marble, stone and quartz
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Cool, mineral and dry - and the level comes down, because a hard room with nothing soft in it is the easiest here to over-scent. |
 Minimal white and grey
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The brightest end of the same dry register, run low, with the warning that overdone citrus in a kitchen context reads as floor cleaner. |
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Dark-wood luxury
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Cut rather than match. The palette is already warm everywhere, so the fragrance supplies dryness and air instead of more richness. No oud, no amber. |
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Classic and traditional displays
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The same dry profile. Classic detailing invites something sweet or powdery and that is the same trap the dark palette sets, one register along. |
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All of them together, past 1,500 sq ft
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One Vaayu at ₹11,999, upstream on the air path, at one level judged from the consultation seat at minute ninety. |
The two ends of the register argument are set out in what fragrance works with natural wood displays, where the job is to extend the material, and in what a dark-wood luxury display should smell like, where the job is to cut against it. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
One volume, one profile, one level
The SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 covers up to 1000m³ - one machine for every display style standing in it.
Owners set the level standing in the display they are proudest of, for four minutes, with a nose that stopped working twenty minutes ago. Your customer decides it from a chair, ninety minutes in, and their verdict is the only one that counts.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why one machine beats three
Three sources in one room make three gradients and a seam in the aisle
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
Two machines cover most mixed display floors, with the Aangan taking over at experience-centre scale. Cold-air refill oil is not currently sold separately, so the 400ml supplied runs 90+ days a fill and further supply should be confirmed with SOSA before committing to a rollout. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA kitchen-showroom specification
One dry profile, one level, and the machine chosen by cubic volume
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A single-room showroom under about 750 sq ft, whatever styles it carries | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at this size rather than a Vaayu | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Mixed display floors of about 1,500 sq ft and up | 1000m³ coverage, waterless, adjustable intensity, app timers, key-lock, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
 SOSA Aangan
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Experience centres past roughly 5,000 sq ft | HVAC nebuliser rated to approximately 8,000-10,000 sq ft, specified into the building's air handling rather than placed in a room | ₹25,999 View → |
One profile for one volume of air, one level judged from the longest seat, and the fit-out smell dealt with before any of it. Ambient scent here is a presentation decision like lighting or display styling; it is never used to cover another smell - not laminate, not adhesive, not cooking - and it is never a substitute for ventilation, extraction or cleaning. And plainly: no one can promise you that ambient scent moves footfall, enquiries or order value, and a supplier quoting you a figure is selling. Ask for a retail scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
This question usually arrives from a showroom that has done everything else properly. They have a modern wing, a classic wing and a luxury wing, each styled and lit with real care, and the fragrance feels like the last piece of a well-made puzzle. So they ask me how to vary it across the three, and expect a table. What they get instead is a short physics lesson and a rather deflating answer: you cannot, because those three wings are one room, and one room holds one smell.
I try to make it concrete. Stand in the aisle between your classic display and your modern one. There is no wall there, no door, no ceiling of its own, and the air in both is the same air being pushed around by the same system. Put a woody fragrance one side and a bright one the other, and the place they meet is precisely where your designer stands explaining the difference - so the customer's experience of your careful distinction is a mixture. It also costs three times as much and needs three settings maintained by three people who each think theirs is right. The tools that genuinely differentiate a display are visible ones: material, light temperature, styling, how it is dressed. Those stop at the edge of the display. Smell does not.
What does change is worth doing properly, though, and it is the part most showrooms get wrong: which display you judge the level from. Not the one nearest the door, not the one you photograph, but the one a customer sits in longest - which is the consultation table. Sit there for a full ninety minutes before you decide the setting is right, and then ask your designers, because they hold the only real measurement in the building. On hardware, under about 750 sq ft it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 however many styles you carry; past roughly 1,500 sq ft a Vaayu at ₹11,999 upstream on the air path; past about 5,000 sq ft an Aangan into your air handling. And if the floor still smells of its own fit-out, none of them yet. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How should fragrance change between modern, classic and luxury kitchen displays?
It should not, because they share one volume of air. A display kitchen has no ceiling of its own, no door and no separate air path, so a fragrance released beside one is in the aisle beside the next within minutes and a customer experiences a mixture rather than a sequence. One showroom, one profile, one level. What changes is which display the level is judged from, and that is the one a customer sits in longest.
Could I not just use a very low level for each display so they do not mix?
Lowering three sources does not stop them mixing, it simply makes the mixture quieter and the whole floor less coherent. Two smells in one volume of air combine rather than cancel, whatever the settings, so three settings produce three gradients and a seam in every aisle between them. One correctly placed source produces an even, gentle fall across the whole floor, and it costs a third as much to buy and nothing to maintain.
Which display should I use to set the level?
The one a customer occupies longest, which in practice is the consultation table rather than the display nearest the entrance. Sit in that chair for a full ninety minutes before deciding the setting is right, because exposure compounds across a design consultation and your own nose adapts within about twenty minutes. Then ask the designers who are in that air nine hours a day, and treat a yes-but from them as a no.
Does a floor with fifteen displays need a bigger machine than one with five?
No. The number of displays is a merchandising fact and has no bearing on the scenting decision, which is decided by cubic volume and air path. Measure length by width by height in metres, compare that against the machine's rating, then look at where air enters and leaves the room. A supplier who sizes on square feet alone, or on how many kitchens you have on show, has skipped the first step.
Will one fragrance across the whole showroom make it feel less premium?
That is not something anyone can promise you either way, and I would be wary of a supplier who says otherwise. What can be said is that coherence is what a customer perceives: a building where the air, the lighting, the displays and the price of the kitchens agree reads as considered. Three competing fragrances mixing in the aisles is the opposite of coherent, however carefully each one was chosen.
One volume of air, one profile, one level
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for modular kitchen showrooms and experience centres
Modern, classic and luxury displays share one volume of air, so the fragrance is a single decision for the whole floor and the level is judged from the seat a customer occupies longest. The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999, up to 1000m³) upstream on the air path past 1,500 sq ft, or a Sukoon at ₹1,899 under 750 sq ft. Waterless, under 38dB, key-locked, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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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 5 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 adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. 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.