★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
The customer decided about your company years ago, on parts that worked and dates that held; everything the building does now is confirmation rather than argument
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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
★ The modest end, which is the only end this page recommends
SOSA VaayuOne reception, set to be unremarkableView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuA fixed schedule, so the room never variesView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA whole ducted corporate blockView ₹25,999
✓ No claim of any kind that this changes a commercial relationship — it cannot, and we will not make one ✓ Office scented, production floor at zero: a door and an air path, not a line on the drawing ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
Is there any downside to leaving the office exactly as it is? Only if it has drifted, and drift is what usually brings people to this question. A room does not become inconsistent in a day. The signage fades, one chair goes missing, the corridor becomes storage, a repair is postponed twice, and a building that once matched the company stops matching it by degrees. The customer notices none of these individually and registers the sum of them without being able to name it. Correcting the drift is maintenance rather than marketing, and it should be treated as maintenance.
Why has this question come up now rather than ten years ago? Very often because the founder has stepped back. In family firms trust attaches to a person long before it attaches to a company, and while he was in the building the handshake carried what the room did not have to. When he comes in twice a week instead of daily, the customer begins reading the company rather than the man, and everything the building says starts doing work it was never asked to do before. That is a real shift, and it deserves a plain answer rather than a flattering one.
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Facts verified 16 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 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 (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. 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, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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, but not in the direction the question implies. Trust of the kind you are describing was earned by parts that worked and dates that held, over a very long time, and no room has ever added a gram to that — what a room can do is confirm it, or quietly fail to match it, which is a much smaller claim and the only one worth making.
Quick answers — read this first
If they already trust us, what is left for the office to do? Confirm rather than convince. Persuasion is what you do with somebody who has not decided; your customer decided about you years ago, on evidence that had nothing to do with the building. What continues afterwards is a low-level, largely unconscious checking — does this place still look like the company I have been dealing with, is it still being run with the same attention. A room that matches passes without comment. A room that contradicts produces a small moment of reconciliation that nobody ever mentions out loud.Is there any downside to leaving the office exactly as it is? Only if it has drifted, and drift is what usually brings people to this question. A room does not become inconsistent in a day. The signage fades, one chair goes missing, the corridor becomes storage, a repair is postponed twice, and a building that once matched the company stops matching it by degrees. The customer notices none of these individually and registers the sum of them without being able to name it. Correcting the drift is maintenance rather than marketing, and it should be treated as maintenance.
Why has this question come up now rather than ten years ago? Very often because the founder has stepped back. In family firms trust attaches to a person long before it attaches to a company, and while he was in the building the handshake carried what the room did not have to. When he comes in twice a week instead of daily, the customer begins reading the company rather than the man, and everything the building says starts doing work it was never asked to do before. That is a real shift, and it deserves a plain answer rather than a flattering one.
The short answer
Short answer: Trust was earned elsewhere — through delivery, over decades — and a room cannot add to it. What a room does is confirm or contradict, which makes this a consistency question rather than a persuasion one. The upside is modest and the downside is real, so the correct route is restraint: repair the drift, keep the room the same every day, and set the air low enough that nobody remarks on it.
The pick: if anything at all, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the reception volume, set low enough that a customer of twenty years notices nothing new.
Next step: send the reception plan with the ceiling height on it and we will size it in cubic metres rather than guess from the area — ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
The upside here is limited and the downside is real, which is precisely why restraint is the correct answer rather than the cautious one.
The modest end of the ladder — tap through for the coverage figures
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
Whether the room is in the transaction at all
The three-question test
Sized on your own drawing
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
Our name is already trusted — is there anything left for the building to do?
There is, but it runs in one direction only, and being clear about the direction saves you from buying the wrong thing. Trust of the kind you have was produced by delivery: parts that measured right, dates that held, and a telephone answered by somebody who knew the job when a spinning line in Palladam went down at eleven at night. Not a moment of that happened in your reception, and no reception has ever contributed to it. So the room cannot build what you already have. What it can do is confirm it — or, if it has drifted, quietly fail to. That sounds like a small distinction and it is actually the whole of the answer, because it tells you the shape of the opportunity: limited upside, real downside, and therefore restraint rather than investment. Think about what your long-standing customer is doing when he walks in. He is not forming an opinion; he formed one years ago. He is doing something much quieter — checking, without noticing that he is checking, that this is still the same company he decided about. Is the place still being run with the attention he associates with you? Has anything slipped? That check runs in the background and it almost never produces a comment. It produces a very slight adjustment, and a room that has drifted produces the adjustment in the wrong direction. Drift is the actual problem on this page. The signage fades, one chair disappears into a meeting room, the corridor becomes storage during a busy quarter and stays that way, a repair is postponed twice. Each is invisible. The sum is not. And in a family business there is usually a second reason the question has arrived now: the founder has stepped back. While he was in the building every day, the relationship was carried by him, and the room was never asked to carry any of it. When he comes in twice a week, the customer starts reading the company instead of the man, and the building is suddenly doing work nobody designed it to do. The correct response is modest. Repair the drift. Keep the room identical on every visit. If you decide the air should be part of that, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the reception volume, set low enough that a customer of twenty years notices nothing new, with the production floor at zero. Then the limits, which matter more here than on any other page in this series. Ambient fragrance is an interior and brand-experience decision that sits alongside your housekeeping and ventilation. And we make no claim that any of this changes a commercial relationship — not an enquiry, not an order, not a contract, not how a customer deals with you. It cannot, and I will not pretend otherwise.
Trust was earned by delivery and the room cannot add to it. It can only agree with it or quietly fail to. That means limited upside, real downside, and a modest, unremarkable room as the correct answer.
If the air is to be part of the consistency, the modest answer is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the reception volume, set low and locked there. A 400ml tank lasts 90+ days, it draws about 5W, and nothing about it should be noticeable to somebody who has been visiting for years.
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Why the modest setting is the whole recommendation
A long-standing customer notices change, not quality
The machines, and the modest choice among them
This is a page about not overdoing things, so the ladder below should be read from the bottom. For one reception the smallest machine in the commercial range is the answer, and the reason to look at the others is mainly to rule them out. The images go through to the live pages for the coverage figures.
One reception, deliberately unremarkable
SOSA Vaayu
₹11,999. Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, roughly 2,000-3,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling. Adjustable intensity, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, app and onboard control, key-lock, under 38dB, a 400ml tank at 90+ days. Waterless, so no moisture and no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
A whole ducted block, rarely the answer here
SOSA Angaan
₹25,999. HVAC nebulising diffuser rated to 3,000m³, roughly 8,000-10,000 sq ft at an ordinary ceiling, 800ml reservoir, metal body, programmable schedules, under 42dB. Correct for an entire building on air handling; on a page about restraint it is listed largely so you can rule it out.
From ₹25,999
Confirmation, drift, and the founder stepping back
Three things to hold on to: what confirmation actually is and why it is not persuasion, how a consistent building becomes an inconsistent one without anybody deciding, and the arithmetic if you decide the air belongs in the plan.
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Confirmation is quiet, constant and almost never spoken
Persuasion is a thing you do to somebody who has not made up their mind. It is loud by necessity, and it is what almost every article about scenting is really describing. Confirmation is the opposite. A person who settled the question years ago still arrives, still looks around, and still runs a very brief background check: is this the same outfit, is it still being looked after, has anything slipped since last time. The check is not deliberate and its result is never announced. What it produces is a tiny adjustment to how much of the meeting is spent listening and how much is spent reconciling. A room that matches costs nothing. A room that does not costs a small amount every time, invisibly, and you will never be told about it.
Tip: Ask the dealer who has driven in from Salem twice a year for a decade what he would notice if you changed the reception. The answer tells you exactly what he has been reading all along.
This is why a Vaayu here is set low and left. The aim is a room that passes the background check, not one that starts a conversation.
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Drift is what actually breaks consistency
Nobody decides to let a building slip. It happens through a series of individually reasonable postponements. The vinyl fades over four summers. One good chair goes into a meeting room for a training session and never comes back. A busy quarter puts cartons in the corridor and the quarter after that leaves them. A tube goes and gets replaced with whatever was in the store, which is a different colour temperature from the other three. Each of those is nothing. Together they are a room that no longer matches the company, and because the change is gradual, the only people who can see it are the ones who visit twice a year. Treat this as maintenance, put it on somebody's list, and inspect it the way you would inspect anything else that degrades slowly and silently.
Tip: Photograph the reception once a quarter from the same spot. Comparing two photographs a year apart shows you what daily familiarity has hidden.
A timed, key-locked Vaayu is one of the few elements of a room that cannot drift on its own, which is most of its value on a page like this one.
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The founder stepping back, and the sum if you proceed
While the founder is in the building daily, the relationship runs through him and the room carries very little. When that changes, the customer starts reading the company rather than the man, and everything the building says begins doing work it was never designed for. That, far more than fashion, is why this question arrives when it does. If you decide to act, work in cubic metres: square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929. A 900 sq ft reception in a head office off Race Course, under a 3.3 m slab, is 900 × 3.3 × 0.0929, about 276 m³; opened into a corridor and an accounts bay of 1,300 sq ft at the same height, the connected air is about 399 m³. One machine rated to 1000m³ covers either at a low step. And the boundary does not move: the office is in the plan, the production floor is zero, and the boundary is a door and an air path rather than a line on the drawing.
Tip: If the founder still visits, have him judge the level on a morning he arrives from outside. He is the strictest instrument you have and he will enjoy the job.
One Vaayu covers both figures with a wide margin, which is what allows the modest setting this page keeps insisting on.
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The SOSA principle
Persuasion is aimed at somebody who has not decided. Your customer decided years ago, on parts and dates rather than on furniture, and what happens in the room now is a background check rather than an argument — which is why the honest ambition is to pass it without being noticed.
That also sets the ceiling on what anybody can promise you here, and the ceiling is lower than most of this trade will admit.
What a room can confirm, and what it cannot create
It is worth separating the hopes people bring to this question from what a building is actually capable of doing, because the gap between the two is where money gets wasted. The register that suits a long relationship is quiet and unremarkable, and premium without flashy sets that out in detail.
The SOSA plan
The hope brought to the question, and the honest capability
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Make a long-standing customer think better of us
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It cannot, and nothing here claims it can. What a consistent room does is avoid giving him a reason to adjust his existing view downwards, which is a defensive benefit and an honest one. View → |
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Carry the relationship now the founder is less present
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Partly, and only the physical part of it. The room can look and feel like a company that is still run with attention. Everything else that the founder carried has to be carried by the people who took over from him. View → |
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Signal that the company is modernising
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Possible, and usually unwise here. A customer of twenty years reads a visibly changed office as new management wanting something, and that reading arrives before any flattering one does. Restraint avoids the whole exchange. |
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The production floor, the stores and the shop-floor passage
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Outside the plan, whatever the relationship. Not a milder setting, not a smaller machine — nothing. The plant has its own extraction, heat, solvents and safety protocol, and that protocol decides rather than us. |
If you have not yet tested whether the room is part of the transaction at all, the three-question test is the page to read before this one, and it may well tell you to buy nothing. If the founder is still coming in, introducing a standard rather than a statement is how to raise it at all. And the drift described here is easiest to correct with the reversible list in four small upgrades, in order. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts, any commercial number or any commercial relationship.
Modest is a number, not an adjective
Send the reception plan with the ceiling height marked and you will get a specific low setting rather than a vague instruction.
Your customer decided about you years ago. All the building can do now is agree with that decision, or quietly fail to.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where the ladder goes, if you go anywhere at all
One source per connected volume, set once and never adjusted
The SOSA consistency specification
Sized on the connected cubic metres of the office side, set low, fixed hours, locked, and then left alone for a year. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA consistency specification
Modest, because the relationship has already been made
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SOSA Vaayu
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One reception volume, plus whatever shares its air | ₹11,999, 1000m³, steady low settings, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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An entire corporate block on its own air handling | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected where the ducting allows, 800ml reservoir | ₹25,999 View → |
If the drift is the only real issue, fix the drift and buy nothing electrical; a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 is as far as I would go. Ambient scent here is an interior and brand-experience decision, with no claim that it affects enquiries, orders, contracts, any commercial number or any commercial relationship — nobody can promise that, and a supplier who quotes you a figure is selling you a story. It sits alongside housekeeping, ventilation and source control and never replaces them, and it does not remove, settle or reduce dust. The production floor, the stores and any area governed by a plant safety rule or a customer's audit requirement stay unscented, and that protocol decides, not us. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no installation and no maintenance terms; a multi-site question goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and the level comes back as a number.
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A note from Sonal
A man who had taken over a family firm making spares for knitting machines, from an office off Avinashi Road, asked me this question in almost exactly these words, and then added the part that mattered: his father had stopped coming in daily the previous year. Until then, every customer relationship had run through one person standing in a room. Nothing about the building had ever had to do any of that work, and now, without anybody having changed anything, it did.
We did very little. A corridor was cleared and kept clear, a run of faded signage was reprinted, four chairs that had wandered around the building came back to the same room, and a machine went in on its lowest step. He asked me afterwards whether customers had noticed. As far as I know not one of them said a word, which is exactly the outcome the plan was designed for and a difficult thing to put on an invoice.
I want to be unambiguous about the limit here. We make no claim that ambient fragrance, or anything else about a room, changes a commercial relationship — not an enquiry, not an order, not a contract, not the way a customer deals with you. Trust of this kind is earned somewhere else entirely and a building cannot add to it. What a consistent room does is decline to contradict it. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Is there really no upside, only a downside to avoid?
That is close to my honest position. The upside of a well-kept room with a trusted customer is that the visit passes without any small dissonance; the downside of a drifted one is a background check that quietly returns a worse result than it used to. Framed that way, the work is maintenance rather than marketing, and it should be budgeted and reviewed like maintenance. It is a duller argument than the one you will be offered elsewhere, and it is the one that survives scrutiny.
Will a customer of twenty years notice a fragrance in reception?
If you set it where I recommend, no, and that is the intention. Anything a long-standing visitor can name will be read as a change rather than as an improvement, and a change invites the question of why it was made. Set low, held on fixed hours and locked, the room simply feels the same on every visit, which is the entire benefit and the reason restraint is not timidity here.
Our founder still visits customers personally. Does that change the answer?
It reduces the urgency rather than the reasoning. While he is doing that, the relationship is carried by him and the room is asked for very little. What I would suggest is doing the unglamorous maintenance now, while there is no pressure, rather than during the year when the handover actually happens. Correcting drift is far easier before it becomes visible than after somebody has remarked on it.
Should we tell customers we have made changes to the office?
I would not. Announcing it turns maintenance into a statement, and a statement invites a verdict from people who never asked for one. If a customer comments, the true answer is pleasant and small: the room needed attention and it has had some. That is the whole story, and it is a much better story than any explanation involving the word experience.
Can we at least measure whether it made a difference?
Not honestly, and I would be wary of anybody who offers to. There is no claim here that ambient fragrance affects an enquiry, an order, a contract, any commercial figure or any commercial relationship, and a building cannot be isolated from everything else you do in a way that would let anyone measure it. What you can check is consistency itself — whether the room is the same today as it was last quarter — and that is worth checking.
Consistency, not persuasion
SOSA — Consistency Scenting the room can only agree with what you have already earned
Correct the drift, keep the room identical on every visit, and if the air belongs in that, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in the reception volume, set low, locked, with the production floor at zero. No claim of any kind about a commercial relationship. 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 16 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 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 (roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month on a ten-hour daily schedule), freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. 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, and also runs standalone wall-mounted or lay-flat. The SOSA Meenar (₹38,500) is the largest machine in the range, quoted for roughly 12,000-18,000 sq ft of HVAC-connected space. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision: it works alongside proper ventilation, housekeeping and source control and is not a substitute for any of them. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects sales, footfall, enquiries, order value, buyer decisions, contracts or any commercial outcome. SOSA makes no health, clinical, diagnostic or air-treatment claim of any kind, and nothing in this guide is medical advice; in any clinical or treatment setting the facility's own policy and its clinicians decide what is appropriate. CE, RoHS and SGS are electrical and compliance marks. SOSA makes no claim about the effect of ambient fragrance on any product, material, fabric, finish or stock held in a building; what can be stated is that the Vaayu is waterless, adds no moisture to the air and leaves no residue on surfaces. Coimbatore is named here as the location of the businesses these guides are written for; nothing in them is a claim about the city's climate, air or industry beyond what the reader can verify locally. 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.