★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
The number that arrives with most villa enquiries is a floor area, and a floor area is the one figure that cannot be scented
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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
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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
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"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
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"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
★ What a large Coimbatore house actually chooses between
SOSA VaayuOne connected entrance, stair and living coreView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuTimers, so the house runs itself at low outputView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA double-height core past 1000m³View ₹25,999
✓ A house is occupied every day for years — the longest exposure of any building we write about, and the reason the settings are low ✓ Count the volumes a closed door creates, then size only the one the household and its visitors actually share ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
What do I measure, and how do I turn it into a number? Square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 = cubic metres. Measure the height yourself; the builder's figure is an area and area is what gets houses sized wrongly. A connected core of 1,800 sq ft under a 3.6 m slab is 1,800 × 3.6 × 0.0929, about 602 m³. If 800 sq ft of it rises double-height to 6.4 m, split the sum: about 334 m³ for the single-height part and about 476 m³ for the tall part, so roughly 810 m³ in total.
Which rooms should stay out of the plan altogether? The kitchen and utility, which have their own extraction and their own strong smell and are a separate matter entirely. The bedroom wing, which carries eight continuous hours of occupancy and belongs at the very bottom of the gradient or at zero. Any store, wardrobe or walk-in where cloth sits closed up. And the theatre or gym, which is its own sealed air and its own decision. Leaving rooms out is not a compromise. It is most of what a good villa plan consists of.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
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.
A villa is not one room with a large number attached to it, and almost every over-specified house I have walked through in Coimbatore was bought on that misunderstanding. Count the volumes the doors actually create, size only the one that matters, and you will usually find the house needs less hardware than the drawing suggested.
Quick answers — read this first
How many machines does a large villa actually need? Usually one, and a considered zero everywhere else. A house of five thousand square feet is not one space — it is three or four volumes with doors between them, and air respects a closed door far more than it respects a floor plan. The volume that matters is the one the household and its visitors share: the entrance, the stair and the living core that run together with nothing between them. Size that in cubic metres. In most villas it lands inside a single machine, run well below what it is capable of.What do I measure, and how do I turn it into a number? Square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 = cubic metres. Measure the height yourself; the builder's figure is an area and area is what gets houses sized wrongly. A connected core of 1,800 sq ft under a 3.6 m slab is 1,800 × 3.6 × 0.0929, about 602 m³. If 800 sq ft of it rises double-height to 6.4 m, split the sum: about 334 m³ for the single-height part and about 476 m³ for the tall part, so roughly 810 m³ in total.
Which rooms should stay out of the plan altogether? The kitchen and utility, which have their own extraction and their own strong smell and are a separate matter entirely. The bedroom wing, which carries eight continuous hours of occupancy and belongs at the very bottom of the gradient or at zero. Any store, wardrobe or walk-in where cloth sits closed up. And the theatre or gym, which is its own sealed air and its own decision. Leaving rooms out is not a compromise. It is most of what a good villa plan consists of.
The short answer
Short answer: Stop treating the house as one number. Walk it once and mark every door that can be shut; what you will find is three or four real volumes rather than fourteen rooms. Size only the connected entrance, stair and living core, in cubic metres rather than square feet. In most villas that figure sits inside one machine run low, with the bedroom wing, the kitchen and the stores at a deliberate zero.
The pick: for the connected core of almost every villa this size, one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, rated to 1000m³ and run at a fraction of it, is the whole of the hardware.
Next step: send the ground-floor plan with the ceiling heights written on it and the doors that actually get closed marked, and the cubic-metre sums come back done on your own drawing — ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
Four of those five lines are measurement rather than purchase, and the measurement is what decides whether the purchase is one machine or three.
The villa ladder — tap through for the coverage figures before you decide anything
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
When the core goes tall
One machine, or zoned?
Sized on your own drawing
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
What is the right scenting setup for a large villa, and how many machines does it actually take?
Begin with the count, because the figure that arrives with almost every villa enquiry is a floor area, and a floor area is the one number that cannot be scented. Five thousand square feet is not a space. It is a sequence of volumes with doors between them, and air respects a closed door far more faithfully than it respects anything drawn on a plan. So walk the house once with a pen and mark every place where a door can be shut. What you will find, in a house that most people describe as fourteen rooms, is three or four genuine volumes: the entrance, the stair and the living core that run together with nothing between them; the kitchen and utility, which have their own extraction and their own strong smell and are a separate matter entirely; the bedroom wing behind a corridor door; and the theatre, gym or guest annexe that nobody opens for weeks at a time. Now size the first one only. Square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 gives cubic metres, and cubic metres is what a machine is rated in. Take a connected core of 1,800 sq ft. All of it single height under a 3.6 m slab gives 1,800 × 3.6 × 0.0929, about 602 m³. If 800 sq ft of that core rises double-height to 6.4 m, the sum splits into about 334 m³ for the single-height part and about 476 m³ for the tall part, so the honest figure is nearer 810 m³. Both sit inside one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, rated to 1000m³ — which is exactly why the arithmetic is worth ten minutes. The correct setup for most villas is one source in the shared core, run at a fraction of its output, with a deliberate zero in the bedroom wing, the kitchen and the stores. Not a machine per room, and not a machine per floor. Two limits, said plainly rather than buried. Ambient fragrance in a house is an interior and atmosphere decision: it sits alongside your ventilation, your housekeeping and your source control and never in place of any of them, and it does not clean, filter or treat the air in any way. And nobody can promise you that this moves a business number of any kind — not a valuation, not a visitor's opinion, not anything countable — and a supplier who offers you a figure for it is selling you a story. What one correctly sized, quietly run source does is let a large house read as one house rather than as a corridor of unrelated rooms.
Count the volumes a closed door creates, not the rooms on the plan. Size only the shared core in cubic metres. One machine, run low, usually covers it — and the bedroom wing, kitchen and stores stay at zero.
For the connected entrance, stair and living core of a large house, the answer is almost always one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, rated to 1000m³ and run nowhere near it. A 400ml tank lasts 90+ days and it draws about 5W.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a showroom scenting plan
Why one source, set low, beats a machine in every room
Two sources in connected air blend at a ratio nobody controls
The machines, and which one a large house actually needs
This ladder is short and, for a villa, the honest end of it is the bottom rung. The images link to the live product pages so the coverage figures can be checked against the cubic-metre number you work out for your own core, rather than against anybody's guess at what a large house ought to need.
One connected core, the usual villa answer
SOSA Vaayu
₹11,999. Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 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 it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces.
From ₹11,999
When the core alone passes 1000m³
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. This is the answer when a double-height core plus its mezzanine genuinely overruns the smaller machine, and not before.
From ₹25,999
Counting the volumes, doing the sum, and drawing the zeros
Three steps, and only the third one involves buying anything. The first is a walk around your own house with a pen. The second is arithmetic you can do on the back of the electricity bill. The third is deciding, deliberately, which rooms are never in the plan at all.
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Walk the house and mark the doors that actually get shut
This takes fifteen minutes and it decides everything that follows. Start at the front door and move through the house marking two things: every doorway where a leaf can be closed, and every doorway where it never is. A wide cased opening between living and dining with no door in it is not a boundary; those two rooms are one volume and always were. The corridor door to the bedroom wing, if it is habitually shut, is a real boundary and the wing behind it is a separate volume. The stair is the one people get wrong — an open stair is a chimney, not a divider, so the upper landing shares air with the hall below it whether or not anybody drew it that way. By the end of the walk you should have three or four volumes written down, not fourteen rooms. The largest of them, and the one the household and its visitors share, is the only one this page is about.
Tip: Mark the doors on the architect's PDF on your phone as you walk. It takes ten minutes and it is the single most useful drawing anybody will make of your house.
One Vaayu per shared volume is the rule. Not one per room, and never two in the same connected air, where they blend at a ratio nobody is controlling.
See SOSA Vaayu →
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Two
The arithmetic, in cubic metres, with the tall part split out
Square feet × ceiling height in metres × 0.0929 = cubic metres. Do it on the connected core alone. A hall, stair and living-dining run of 1,800 sq ft under a uniform 3.6 m slab is 1,800 × 3.6 × 0.0929, about 602 m³. Very few of the new villas going up in the Saravanampatti belt are uniform, though — the ones built by families whose money came out of an engineering business almost all open the hall up through two floors — so split the sum where the ceiling changes: 1,000 sq ft at 3.6 m is about 334 m³, and the 800 sq ft that opens up to 6.4 m is about 476 m³, giving roughly 810 m³. That second figure is a third larger than the first from an identical floor plan, which is the reason area-based sizing keeps producing the wrong machine in both directions. If your sum lands under 1000m³ the hardware question is closed and the rest is settings. If it lands over, the sum has told you something the floor area never would have.
Tip: Measure the slab height with a tape and a helper rather than reading it off the drawing. Finished floor levels and false ceilings both move that number.
Rated to 1000m³, a single Vaayu swallows both of those figures — which means you are buying it to run quietly, not buying it to fill a space.
See SOSA Vaayu →
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Three
The zeros, which are most of what a good plan is
A villa specification is mainly a list of rooms that get nothing, and an owner who has just spent a great deal on a house tends to find that counter-intuitive. The kitchen and utility stay out: they have extraction, they have heat, and they have a strong smell of their own that arrives three times a day and is supposed to. The bedroom wing stays out or sits at the very bottom of the gradient, because eight continuous hours is the longest exposure anywhere in this house and the room you sleep in is the one room where a level that seems pleasant on entering is a level you cannot escape. Wardrobes, walk-ins and linen stores stay out. The theatre stays out unless it is opened often, because a sealed room that is used twice a month holds whatever was in it. Every zero you write down is a room that will still smell like itself in a year.
Tip: Write the zeros on the drawing before you write the one. An owner who can defend the zeros has understood the plan.
The key-lock on the Vaayu exists for exactly this: a house where one adapted person keeps nudging the dial up on a quiet afternoon, and everybody arriving afterwards pays for it.
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The SOSA principle
A house is the longest exposure in this whole series of guides — occupied every day, for years, by people whose noses adapted to it in the first fortnight. That is why a villa is set lower than a showroom of the same size, not higher.
The failure I see in large houses is always the same one, and it is never the machine: the owner is the most adapted person in the building, and so the owner is the worst possible judge of the setting.
Volume by volume, through the house
The register for a large private house is quieter and drier than most owners expect — not a floral, not a dessert, closer to clean stone, cedar and air than to anything sweet. What belongs on this page, though, is not the character but the map: which volumes are in the plan, which are at zero, and why the zeros are the part worth defending.
The SOSA plan
Four volumes, and only one of them gets a machine
| The volume, walked in order | What it carries, and why |
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Entrance, stair and living core
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The one machine, low, on a timer. This is the shared volume, the one a visitor crosses, the one the stair carries upward, and the only place in the house where a single source does real work. Size it on the connected figure rather than the living-room figure. View → |
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The upper landing over an open stair
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Nothing of its own — it is already inside the sum above, because an open stair shares air vertically whether or not the drawing says so. Adding a second source here is the commonest over-specification in a villa and it makes the level upstairs unpredictable. View → |
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Kitchen, utility and the stores behind them
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Zero, and not as a compromise. A kitchen has extraction, heat and a strong smell of its own that belongs to the house three times a day. Wardrobes, linen stores and walk-ins stay out for the same reason: cloth sitting closed up is nobody's business but the household's. |
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The bedroom wing behind the corridor door
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Lowest of everything, or nothing at all. Eight continuous hours is the longest exposure in the house and a level that reads as pleasant on walking in is a level you then cannot leave. If you do only one thing from this table, keep the master bedroom out of the shared plan. |
If your living core goes up two floors, the sum changes shape and one machine versus zoned machines for a double-height room works it both ways with the mezzanine counted in. The gradient between the three rooms people care about most is taken apart in entrance, living room and master bedroom at different intensities. And if you are reading this with a designer beside you, the specification question itself is whether scenting is worth specifying at all. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects any commercial number, and none is offered here.
Sized on cubic metres, on your own drawing
Send the ground-floor plan with the heights written on it and the doors you actually close marked, and the sums come back done rather than guessed.
A large house does not need a machine in every room. It needs one in the volume everybody shares, and the discipline to write zero against the rest.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where the ladder goes once the core is measured
One source per shared volume, never one per room on the plan
The SOSA villa specification
Sized on the connected cubic metres of the shared core only, run far below capacity, on a schedule built around the hours the house is actually used. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA villa specification
Chosen by the largest connected volume, not by the size of the plot
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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The shared entrance, stair and living core of most villas | ₹11,999, 1000m³, low settings that hold, timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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A double-height core whose cubic figure genuinely overruns the smaller machine | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, programmable schedules, 800ml reservoir, HVAC or wall-mounted | ₹25,999 View → |
If the house is modest, or if the core you measured comes out small, the honest answer is a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 in the hall and nothing else at all. Ambient scent in a home is an interior and atmosphere decision, with no claim that it affects a valuation, a visitor's opinion or any commercial number — nobody can promise that, and anybody quoting you a figure for it is selling. It works alongside ventilation, housekeeping and source control rather than replacing them, and it does not clean, filter or treat the air. The kitchen, the utility, the wardrobes and stores, and the master bedroom stay unscented by default, and the household's own preference decides that, not us. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no maintenance terms and no trade programme; anything of that kind goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and the cubic-metre sums come back done on your drawing.
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A note from Sonal
The first large house I was asked to plan in Coimbatore had eleven rooms on the ground floor and the owner wanted eleven machines, one per room, because that felt thorough and because he had spent a great deal on the house and wanted the last layer to match. We walked it together instead, with a pen, and by the time we reached the kitchen we had found four volumes. He bought one machine. The rest of the budget stayed in his pocket and the house is better for it.
What changed his mind was the stair. He had assumed the upper landing needed its own source, and I asked him to stand at the top of the open stair and think about where warm air goes in a house in a city that is warm for most of the year. It goes up the stair. The landing was never a separate room; it was the top of the hall. Once he saw that, the rest of the zeros were easy, and the kitchen argued for itself.
So take the counting seriously and take the buying lightly. I make no claim that ambient fragrance affects a valuation, a visitor's opinion or any commercial outcome, and if that has been put to you as a reason to spend, there is no basis for it. What a correctly sized, quietly run source does is let a big house feel like one place. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a separate machine upstairs in a villa with an open stair?
Usually not. An open stair shares air vertically, so the upper landing is the top of the hall rather than a room of its own, and it is already inside the sum you did downstairs. Add a second source there and you have two outputs mixing in one air mass at a ratio nobody is controlling. Measure first; add hardware only if the connected figure genuinely overruns one machine.
Why is a villa set lower than a shop of the same floor area?
Because of exposure. A shop sees a customer for twenty minutes; a house holds the same people every day for years, and their noses adapt to it within about a fortnight. The setting that feels correct to somebody walking in for the first time is a setting the household will have stopped noticing and the guests will find heavy. Set it for the resident, then take it down one more step.
Should the kitchen be scented if it is open to the living room?
The machine belongs on the living side, as far from the cooking as the room allows, and the kitchen itself gets nothing of its own. An open kitchen is inside the connected volume, so it will carry a little of whatever the core carries, and that is unavoidable and fine. What you should not do is add a second source to it or raise the first one to compete with cooking.
Is a reed diffuser enough for a house this size?
For a whole villa, no — a reed is a table-top object with a radius of a few feet and it will not reach across a connected core. But it is exactly right for the rooms you have written zero against, if you want something there at all: a reed at ₹799 on a guest-room chest gives that room its own quiet character without putting a second output into shared air.
How much does it cost to run a machine in a house all year?
The machine draws about 5W, which on a ten-hour daily schedule is roughly 1.5 units of electricity a month — a rounding error against the air conditioning in the same room. The real consumable is fragrance, and a 400ml tank runs 90+ days depending on the intensity you set and the hours you run. A house set low is the cheapest room in this series to keep going.
Volumes, not floor area
SOSA — Luxury Villa Scenting one house, not fourteen rooms
Walk the house and mark the doors, size the shared core in cubic metres, then put one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 in that core, run far below capacity on a timer, with the kitchen, the stores and the bedroom wing at zero. 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.