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Ask for the socket now. Buy the machine later.
Fragrance belongs in an interior project twice: once as a thirty-second conversation with your electrician, and once about three months after you move in. Everything in between is a mistake waiting to be made.
A newly finished home smells of itself — paint, adhesive, sealant, new timber, fresh textiles. Adding fragrance to that is not a head start. It is a combination nobody wants, laid over something that was going to resolve on its own.
The answer in 30 seconds
Planning Home Fragrance During an Interior Project at 24K Manor
- In one line. During the project, ask only for sockets in the right positions. Buy and set up the machines two to three months after you move in, not before.₹6,999
- The short answer. Nothing about either machine requires joinery, plumbing or a cable run — they plug into wall sockets. So the fit-out decision is a socket decision, and the fragrance decision belongs after the home has finished off-gassing and you know how you actually use the rooms.
- If you only do one thing on site: ask for a low-level socket at the end of the main living run and one in each principal bedroom, clear of where furniture will go.
- Do not scent a new home. Paint, adhesives and new materials release odour for weeks. Fragrance layered on top produces a combination, not a cover, and the underlying smell resolves by itself with ventilation.
- Do not size equipment from drawings alone. How you use a home differs from how it was drawn. Wait until you know which doors stay shut.
- Still needed: your own unit layout. Manor lists four and four-and-a-half bedroom configurations and the plans vary.
The answer, in full
Interior designers ask me when fragrance should enter a project, and the honest answer disappoints people who were hoping for a specification item. It enters twice, and only the first of those happens during the works. The first moment is electrical. Both machines run from ordinary wall sockets — no plumbing, no drainage, no dedicated circuit, no joinery provision, no cable to chase. What they need is a socket that is low, clear of where furniture will stand, not directly beneath an air-conditioning return, and not immediately beside the main door. Asking for that costs nothing at first-fix stage and is genuinely irritating to retrofit later, because the alternative is a visible lead across a finished floor. That is the whole of the fit-out involvement: a socket at the end of the main living run, one in each principal bedroom, positioned deliberately. The second moment is months later, and it should not be rushed, for two reasons. The first is that a newly completed interior has a smell of its own. Paints, adhesives, sealants, engineered timber, new upholstery and fresh textiles all release odour for a period after installation, and that period is measured in weeks rather than days. Introducing fragrance into it does not mask it — fragrance adds rather than subtracts — so you get both at once, and you also form your first judgement of a scent while the room is working against it. What that smell actually needs is air, and time, both of which are free. The second reason is that a home on paper and a home in use are different documents. The study that was drawn as a study becomes a guest room. The door that was going to stay open stays shut. The family sits in the smaller room rather than the larger one. Equipment sized from the drawing is sized for a household that does not yet exist, and waiting a season costs you nothing while telling you most of what you need to know. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
What is published, and what is yours
Published: the configuration
24K Manor at Pimple Nilakh lists residences at four and four-and-a-half bedroom configurations. For a fit-out page the relevant consequence is the socket count: a home of this size usually wants one considered position in the living run and two or three in bedrooms, which is a small ask within a larger electrical schedule.
Yours: the electrical drawing and the furniture plan together
Socket positions are only meaningful read against where furniture will actually stand, and against where the air-conditioning returns are. Those three drawings together answer the question; any one of them alone does not.
A socket behind a sofa is a socket you cannot use.
What to ask for, and when
At first fix: four sockets, placed deliberately
One at the far end of the main living run, low, on a wall that will stay clear. One in each principal bedroom, again clear of the bed and wardrobe positions. Avoid anything directly beneath an air-conditioning return, and avoid the wall immediately beside the main entrance door where arrival draught is constant.
At handover: nothing
This is the point at which people most want to install fragrance, and the point at which it does least good. The home is at its most odorous from its own materials, and anything you run now will be judged against that. Ventilate instead — generously, daily, for several weeks.
Two to three months in: decide properly
By now the material smell has settled and you know how the home is used. Measure the connected living run in metres, count the doors that genuinely open and close each day, and size from that. This is also when a designer's handover note earns its keep, because the owner is making a decision rather than inheriting one.
The provision list for your contractor
| What is actually required | |
|---|---|
| Electrical | Ordinary 5A/15A wall sockets. No dedicated circuit, no special supply. One at the end of the living run, one per principal bedroom. |
| Plumbing | None. Both SOSA Pawan at ₹6,999 and SOSA Vaayu at ₹12,499 are waterless, running on pure oil with no tank to fill or drain. |
| Joinery | None, and do not build a recess to conceal a device — enclosed, it scents the enclosure rather than the room. |
| Positions to avoid | Beneath an air-conditioning return, beside the main entrance door, behind planned furniture, and inside any closed cabinetry. |
| Handover note | Model, position, refill type and schedule. Refills are ₹1,049 for 100 g and ₹1,849 for 300 g, shared between both machines. |
“Specify the socket. Postpone the scent. A new home has a smell of its own and it is entitled to finish having it.”
The project sequence
- At first fix, mark the four socket positions on the electrical drawing against the furniture plan.
- Check none sits beneath an AC return or beside the entrance door.
- At handover, install nothing. Ventilate daily for several weeks.
- Live in the home for two to three months and note which doors stay shut.
- Measure the connected run in metres and choose: Vaayu for the volume, Pawan for rooms.
- Record model, position and refill schedule in the handover file so the owner is not guessing a year later.
SOSA for Pune residences
One line in the electrical schedule
That is the entire fit-out requirement. Everything else is a decision the owner should make once the home is actually lived in.
SOSA Pawan ₹6,999 · SOSA Vaayu ₹12,499, ₹12,999 hotel-inspired · waterless refill oils ₹1,049 for 100 g, ₹1,849 for 300 g
View SOSA PawanView SOSA VaayuQuestions, answered
What provision do I need in the fit-out?
Can I install fragrance as soon as the interiors are done?
Should I build a recess or niche to hide the device?
Can I specify the machine from the drawings?
What should go in the client handover file?
The client wants it ready for the housewarming. What do I do?
If you would rather ask a person
Send me the electrical drawing
At first-fix stage I can mark the socket positions in a few minutes, and that is the only thing the project genuinely needs from me. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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