★ SOSA for Hyderabad Businesses
Yes, provided you give up the ambition of holding a whole room and hold a band of about two metres inside the door instead - because a door that opens every thirty seconds replaces the room's air faster than any machine can fill it, while delivering you a continuous supply of customers whose noses have just come off the street
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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 · Hyderabad
Why is the band enough? Because a customer's impression of a shop's air is formed while they are still in it, in the first seconds, before adaptation sets in.
Why not simply turn the machine up? Because the door replaces air faster than any machine fills it, so the level that survives at the threshold is a level that punishes the back of the shop and the staff all day.
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, if you stop trying to hold a room. Hold two metres inside the door. The same door that makes the room impossible is what makes the band work - every arrival comes in unadapted.
Quick answers — read this first
Does constant door traffic make scenting pointless? It makes whole-room scenting pointless. A band of about two metres inside the entrance is a different proposition and is where the register is judged in any case.Why is the band enough? Because a customer's impression of a shop's air is formed while they are still in it, in the first seconds, before adaptation sets in.
Why not simply turn the machine up? Because the door replaces air faster than any machine fills it, so the level that survives at the threshold is a level that punishes the back of the shop and the staff all day.
The short answer
Short answer: yes, if you hold a two-metre band inside the door rather than a room. The register is judged in the first few seconds by a nose that has just come off the street, which is exactly where the band is.
The pick: a SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) sited where the in-rush has slowed, not at the threshold, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze (₹849) at the counter nearest the entrance.
Next step: hold a strip of tissue at the threshold, at one metre and at three metres while the door swings. Or ask for a scenting plan for your space.
In this guide
The door is not only the problem. It is also the reason the two-metre band is worth holding.
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
Will commercial scenting work in a Secunderabad store with heavy street footfall and constantly opening doors?
Yes, but only if you change what you are trying to do, and the change is a downgrade in ambition that turns out to be an upgrade in results. Start with the honest physics. A street-facing shop on a busy Secunderabad road with a door opening every thirty seconds is not a room with a ventilation rate. It is a room whose air is being replaced continuously, in slugs, by whatever is outside. No machine at any setting outruns that, and the businesses that try end up in the same place: the level creeps up, the shop still smells of the street near the door, and the back of the premises and the staff are now carrying a level that was chosen to lose a fight with a doorway. The arithmetic of door openings is its own subject, but the conclusion is not arithmetic - it is that holding a whole room is the wrong objective for this building. The right objective is a band. Roughly two metres inside the entrance there is a zone where the incoming slug of street air has slowed and mixed and stopped behaving like a jet, and that band is the only part of the shop you should be trying to hold. It is cheap to hold, because it is small. It is stable, because it is continuously refreshed rather than accumulating. And it is the part that matters, for a reason that is the exact inverse of the problem. A customer walking in off a busy road has a nose that has just been in traffic, dust, heat and cooking smells. They arrive unadapted, at maximum sensitivity, and their entire impression of what this shop's air is like is formed in the first few seconds - which they spend inside your two-metre band. Everything after that is invisible to them, because within about ten minutes indoors people stop perceiving a steady background altogether. So the door that makes the room impossible is the same door that keeps delivering you customers at the precise moment the band can be read. Heavy footfall is not working against you here; it is working against your ambition, which is different. Three practical consequences follow. First, siting: not at the threshold, where the in-rush will push output straight back out, but where that in-rush has decelerated, which you find with a strip of tissue held at the threshold, at one metre and at three metres while the door swings. Second, level: set from inside the band with the door working normally at a busy hour, and then key-locked, because the temptation to creep upward on a quiet morning is what produces an unpleasant shop at four in the afternoon. Third, expectation: the far end of the shop will not smell of the register, and it should not. Accepting that in writing is what stops the level rising. One caution specific to a ground-floor street shop: a busy door brings dust and street air with it, and that is a door seal, mat and housekeeping question rather than a fragrance one - the dust list comes first and fragrance never substitutes for it. 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. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the usual instrument because it is key-lockable and timed to trading hours, and a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 at the counter nearest the entrance often carries a small shop's band on its own. Closed one-to-one rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat away from the source is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. 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, if you hold a two-metre band inside the door instead of a room. No machine outruns a door that opens every thirty seconds, but every customer arrives unadapted and forms their impression inside that band.
Sited where the in-rush slows: SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, or a SOSA Mountain Breeze at ₹849 at the front counter.
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, salon or showroom 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
Give up the room, keep the band
The ambition is what fails here, not the equipment. Two metres is winnable and is also the part that gets read.
1
The physics
The air is replaced, not diluted
A door opening every thirty seconds delivers slugs of street air continuously. That is not a ventilation rate you can out-produce at any machine setting.
Rule: so stop trying to out-produce it.
2
The band
Two metres inside the entrance
Past the threshold the in-rush slows, mixes and stops behaving like a jet. That zone is small, cheap to hold and continuously refreshed rather than accumulating.
Rule: small is why it works.
3
The gift
Every arrival is unadapted
A customer off a busy road has just had traffic, dust and heat, and is at maximum sensitivity for a few seconds. Those seconds are spent inside your band.
Test: the busy door is what keeps supplying them.
4
Siting
Find where the in-rush stops
Hold a strip of tissue at the threshold, at one metre and at three metres while the door swings, and place the source past the point where it stops flicking.
Test: at the threshold, output goes back out.
5
The ceiling
Write down that the back gets nothing
The far end of the shop will not smell of the register. Accepting that explicitly is what stops the level creeping upward on a quiet morning and punishing everybody by four.
Rule: set it at a busy hour, then key-lock it.
The SOSA principle
The door that makes a whole-room plan impossible is the same door that hands you a queue of people whose noses have just come off the street. It is only working against your ambition.
Which is why the shops that succeed here are the ones that decided in advance to hold two metres, and the ones that fail are the ones that kept turning the setting up.
A door that never closes, question by question
What is physically happening, what is worth holding, and how to place and set it.
The SOSA Hyderabad table
Scenting a busy street-facing store
| The question | The answer |
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Can a machine keep up with a constantly opening door?
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No. The air is being replaced in slugs rather than diluted, and no setting outruns that. What changes the outcome is the objective, not the equipment. |
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What should I hold instead?
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A band of roughly two metres inside the entrance, where the in-rush has slowed and mixed. It is small, cheap to hold and continuously refreshed. |
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Why is that enough?
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Because a customer arriving off the street is unadapted for a few seconds and forms their impression inside that band. After ten minutes indoors nobody perceives a steady background. |
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Where exactly does the machine go?
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Past the point where a strip of tissue stops flicking when the door swings. At the threshold itself the in-rush pushes the output straight back out. |
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How do I stop the level creeping up?
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Set it inside the band at a busy hour and key-lock it. A Vaayu (₹11,999) for that lock and timer, or a reed (₹849) at the front counter. |
The retention arithmetic is what frequent door openings actually cost, the jewellery version is a store with constant turnover, and the open-front version is where to place it with a wide open front. SOSA makes no claim that fragrance affects footfall or what a customer decides.
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.
Two metres is winnable. A whole shop with a door that opens every thirty seconds is not, and every rupee spent trying is spent making the back of the shop unpleasant.
— 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.
SS
ISIPCA
Versailles
Versailles
A note from Sonal
Yes, but only if you change what you are trying to do, and the change is a downgrade in ambition that turns out to be an upgrade in results. Start with the honest physics. A street-facing shop on a busy road with a door opening every thirty seconds is not a room with a ventilation rate. It is a room whose air is being replaced continuously, in slugs, by whatever is outside. No machine at any setting outruns that, and the businesses that try all end up in the same place: the level creeps up, the shop still smells of the street near the door, and the back of the premises and the staff are carrying a level chosen to lose a fight with a doorway.
The right objective is a band. Roughly two metres inside the entrance there is a zone where the incoming slug has slowed and mixed and stopped behaving like a jet, and that band is the only part of the shop worth trying to hold. It is cheap to hold because it is small, it is stable because it is refreshed rather than accumulating, and it is the part that matters, for a reason that inverts the problem. A customer walking in off a busy road has a nose that has just been in traffic, dust and heat. They arrive unadapted, at maximum sensitivity, and their whole impression of this shop's air is formed in the first few seconds, which they spend inside your band. After about ten minutes indoors, nobody perceives a steady background at all.
So three consequences. Siting: not at the threshold, where the in-rush pushes output back out, but past the point where a strip of tissue stops flicking when the door swings. Level: set from inside the band at a busy hour, then key-locked, because creeping upward on a quiet morning is what produces an unpleasant shop by four in the afternoon. And expectation: the far end will not smell of the register, and writing that down is what stops the level rising. One caution - a busy door brings dust and street air, and that is a door seal, mat and housekeeping question. Fragrance does not remove or reduce anything in the air, it treats nothing and relieves nothing, and I make no claim that it does. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is the usual instrument for the key-lock and the timer, and a SOSA Mountain Breeze Reed Diffuser at ₹849 at the front counter often carries a small shop's band on its own. Closed one-to-one rooms and consultation cabins are never scented. A named seat is kept genuinely fragrance-free and offered rather than requested. 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
Does a constantly opening door make commercial scenting pointless?
It makes whole-room scenting pointless. A band of about two metres inside the entrance is still holdable and is where the register is judged anyway.
Why not just increase the machine setting?
Because the air is replaced in slugs rather than diluted, so no setting outruns the door, and the level that survives there punishes the back of the shop and the staff.
Why is a two-metre band enough?
Because customers arrive off the street unadapted and form their impression in the first few seconds, and after ten minutes indoors nobody perceives a steady background.
Where should the machine be placed?
Past the point where a strip of tissue stops flicking when the door swings. At the threshold itself the in-rush pushes the output straight back outside.
What about the dust that comes in with the door?
That is a door seal, mat and housekeeping question. Fragrance works alongside those and is never a substitute for them.
Hold a tissue while the door swings
SOSA — Studio Scenting two metres, not the room
A door opening every thirty seconds replaces the air in slugs, and no machine outruns that at any setting. So hold a band of about two metres inside the entrance instead, where the in-rush has slowed. It is small, it is cheap to hold, and it is where every customer forms their impression, because a nose arriving off a busy road is unadapted for a few seconds and then stops perceiving the room entirely. Set it at a busy hour and lock it. 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)
- What frequent door openings actually cost
- Jewellery store with constant turnover
- Where to place it with a wide open front
- Street dust: fix this first
- Large shutters and escaping fragrance
- Only for new luxury businesses?
- An hour at the frame wall
- 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.