What does it actually cost to keep a SOSA Safar running?

I know that a page which refuses the number looks like a page that has not done the work. The work is the reason for the refusal: three prices are published, one rate is not, and the sum needs all four. A marker pen gets you the fourth.

The answer, in full

Three numbers, and then an honest gap. Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant, and that is paid once. The oil it runs on is the waterless nebuliser refill, ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm, and those are published too. The number people actually want is the one that joins them up: how much oil the unit gets through in a week of your driving. SOSA has never published that, so no monthly figure and no figure per operating hour exists here, with or without a number. What you can do is measure it. Mark the level on the 20ml bottle with a marker pen, write the date on a card for the glovebox, drive your ordinary month and mark the level again. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.

Three published prices, and the gap between them

Two of these numbers you pay once and one you pay again. The third thing people ask for is not a number at all, because the figure it would be built from has never been printed.

The one-off price: Safar at Rs 3,999, or Rs 4,499 for the hotel-inspired variant

This part is simply a price. ₹3,999 buys the diffuser and ₹4,499 buys the hotel-inspired variant. The published box list is the diffuser, the 20ml bottle, a Type-C cable and a user manual, plus the three fragrance oils set by the variant, so the first run costs nothing beyond the purchase.

One published figure, paid once, printed on the product record.

The refill price: Rs 1,049 for 100 gm or Rs 1,849 for 300 gm

The oil is the only thing you buy again, and both weights are published: ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. Dividing the larger price by its weight comes to about ₹616 per 100 gm, which is arithmetic on two printed numbers and needs nothing invented. How often you are back at that page is the part nobody has published.

The sum nobody can do: rupees per month, per journey or per hour

Joining a price to a period needs a third number: the rate at which the diffuser uses oil. That rate has never been published, so this page carries no monthly figure, no per-journey figure and no figure per operating hour. Anybody who hands you one has multiplied a real price by an invented rate. The measurement that replaces it takes a marker pen and an ordinary month.

A real price times an invented rate is still an invented answer.

Does the scent you choose change what it costs?

Not on the published prices. The nebuliser refill is pure undiluted oil at ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm whatever scent is in it, and SOSA publishes no ranking of the nine, so there is nothing to look up here. Buy the one you want to smell.

The refill price is the one that recurs, and both weights are published: ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. See the nebuliser refill →

What is published, and what would have to be measured

The reason this page stops where it does is that the published numbers stop there. Everything past the gramme needs a rate of use, and the rate is the one thing SOSA has not printed. Your own marked bottle is where it comes from.

“Three prices are published and one rate is not. The sum people want needs all four, which is why this page hands you a marker pen instead.”

Working out your own figure, in four steps

1. Write down Rs 3,999, or Rs 4,499, as the one-off you have paid.
2. Mark the oil level on the 20ml bottle and write today's date beside it.
3. Drive your ordinary month, then mark the level and the date again.
4. Price that drop against Rs 1,049 for 100 gm or Rs 1,849 for 300 gm.

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