★ SOSA for Hair Transplant and Hair Restoration Clinics
A split system changes the temperature of your air, not its composition - cold and closed are two different problems
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"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
★ The machine that distributes fragrance, and does not ventilate anything
SOSA VaayuReception and waiting, at a low settingView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuWall or HVAC mount for distribution onlyView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-lock, so nobody raises it to fight a closed roomView ₹11,999
✓ Waterless and under 38dB, so nothing damp or noisy near rooms that do surgical work ✓ Distribution along corridors and past closed cabins - a scent function, never an air-handling one ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Hair Clinics
Is the fix a scent machine on the AC? No. A machine mounted into an air-handling system distributes fragrance further and more evenly - that is a genuine and useful function - but it moves the same air the system was already moving. It does not add outside air, it does not remove anything, and it makes no air-quality claim of any kind. If your clinic is closed, mounting a diffuser into the system gives you a closed clinic with a fragrance in it.
Who should I be talking to? Your HVAC contractor, and the conversation has two parts. First, does this system have any fresh-air intake at all, and if so is it commissioned, open and working? Second, when were the filters last serviced, and on what schedule should they be? Both of those are engineering decisions belonging to them and to your surgeon, not to a fragrance supplier - I have no business specifying either, and I will not.
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Facts verified 5 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 adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. 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.
Your air conditioning has been doing exactly what it was installed to do all day. It has been making the air cold. Nobody ever asked it to make the air new, and it has not been.
Quick answers — read this first
Why does a fully air-conditioned clinic smell closed? Because cooling and ventilating are different jobs and most clinics only have the first one. A typical split or cassette unit draws room air over a cold coil and pushes it back out again - the same air, at a different temperature. Nothing about that process brings outside air in or takes used air out. So a sealed clinic running four units for nine hours can be cold, quiet, comfortable and still, by any honest measure, unventilated. That closed feeling you cannot name is the composition of the air, not its temperature.Is the fix a scent machine on the AC? No. A machine mounted into an air-handling system distributes fragrance further and more evenly - that is a genuine and useful function - but it moves the same air the system was already moving. It does not add outside air, it does not remove anything, and it makes no air-quality claim of any kind. If your clinic is closed, mounting a diffuser into the system gives you a closed clinic with a fragrance in it.
Who should I be talking to? Your HVAC contractor, and the conversation has two parts. First, does this system have any fresh-air intake at all, and if so is it commissioned, open and working? Second, when were the filters last serviced, and on what schedule should they be? Both of those are engineering decisions belonging to them and to your surgeon, not to a fragrance supplier - I have no business specifying either, and I will not.
The short answer
Short answer: because a split or cassette system recirculates the same air and changes its temperature, not its composition. Cooling is not ventilation, so a sealed clinic can run four units all day and still have air that has not been replaced. The answer is a conversation with your HVAC contractor about fresh-air intake and filter servicing, not a diffuser.
The pick: your HVAC contractor's phone number, before anything else. If the system is later confirmed to bring in fresh air properly and you separately want a consistent reception character, one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) - which distributes scent along a corridor and past closed cabins, and does nothing whatever to the air itself.
Next step: tell us what your system actually is - splits, cassettes, ducted, or a central plant - and whether anyone has ever mentioned a fresh-air intake, and we will tell you whether this is a scenting conversation at all - Ask for a clinic scenting plan.
In this guide
This is the post in the family where the honest recommendation is a phone call to somebody who is not me, and where the useful spend is on the building rather than on a machine.
What the machine does and does not do - tap for the specification
Only once the system brings air in
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
The gate before any purchase
When should a clinic fix ventilation before adding fragrance?
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
Why does a fully air-conditioned hair clinic still sometimes smell closed?
Because your air conditioning is not ventilating the building, and it was never designed to. This trips up more clinic founders than any other single mechanism in this family, and it is worth stating in the plainest terms. A standard split or cassette unit - the sort installed in the overwhelming majority of Indian clinics - takes air out of the room, passes it over a cold coil, and pushes the same air back into the room a few degrees cooler and slightly drier. That is the entire cycle. No outside air enters, and no used air leaves. A clinic can therefore run four units continuously for nine hours and be cold, quiet, comfortable and completely unventilated at the same time, which is exactly the sensation people describe to me as closed: air that is perfectly pleasant on the skin and somehow stale in the nose. Comfort and freshness are two different variables and only one of them has a machine attached to it in most buildings. There is a second layer, which is filter servicing. The return grille on a recirculating unit passes the room's whole volume through itself many times a day, and everything it collects sits in the airstream. A neglected filter contributes its own dull, slightly closed note to the air it is recycling, which is why some clinics report that the closed feeling arrived gradually over a year rather than on any particular day. What to do about either of those things is not my decision and not my expertise. Whether your system has a fresh-air intake, whether it was commissioned and left open or quietly shut during a summer when the cooling load was too high, what proportion of intake is appropriate for your building, how filtration should be specified in a building that does surgical work - those belong to your HVAC contractor and to your surgeon, and any fragrance supplier who offers you an opinion on them is telling you something they do not know. The honest instruction is to make the call, ask the two questions, and if the answer is that the money should go into the system, spend it there. What I can tell you is what my own product does, because that is where people get confused. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 can be wall or HVAC mounted, and mounting it into an air-handling system genuinely improves distribution - it carries a consistent low level along a corridor and past closed cabins in a way no free-standing unit reaches. That is a scent function. It is not an air-handling function. It adds fragrance to the air your system is already moving; it does not bring in outside air, remove anything, purify, filter or improve air quality in any respect, and it makes no such claim. Mount one into a closed system and you have a closed clinic with a fragrance in it, which is not what you wanted. Under about 750 sq ft the honest machine is a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 anyway. Reception and waiting only; procedure, recovery and photography rooms unscented; ambience decision, never a substitute for ventilation, and your judgement as the treating clinician overrides all of it. Ask for a clinic scenting plan once you know what your system actually does.
Cooling is not ventilation. A split unit recirculates the same air at a different temperature, so a cold clinic can be a closed one. Ask your HVAC contractor about fresh-air intake and filter servicing - a diffuser distributes scent and ventilates nothing.
Once the system genuinely brings air in, the machine is one SOSA Vaayu - waterless, under 38dB, rated to 1000m³, and wall or HVAC mountable for distribution along a corridor. ₹11,999. That mount is a scent function only. Under about 750 sq ft, buy the Sukoon at ₹1,899 instead.
See the SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 Ask for a clinic scenting plan
Two different jobs
Cooling changes temperature. Ventilating changes the air.
The machine, and what it does not do
I would rather describe the limits of my own product here than let anyone buy it for the wrong reason. Neither of these does anything at all to the air itself.
Distribution, once the ventilation question is answered
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank, 90+ days a fill, app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, 5W, key-lock, freestanding or wall and HVAC mountable. The HVAC mount improves how evenly a fragrance travels. It does not ventilate, filter or change the air in any way.
From ₹11,999
Clinics under about 750 sq ft - buy this instead
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances. For one small reception it is the honest buy, and a Vaayu with an HVAC mount would be an expensive answer to a distribution problem you do not have in a single room.
From ₹1,899
The three questions for your HVAC contractor
Ask these three, in this order, and write down the answers. They decide whether you have a ventilation project or a scenting question, and the difference is several lakh rupees in either direction.
1
Ask whether there is any fresh-air intake at all
In a great many clinic fit-outs the honest answer is no
This is the first and most important question and it has a simple answer that almost nobody in the building knows. Does this system introduce any outside air, and if it does, through what? In a fit-out built around splits and cassettes, the usual answer is that there is none - the units only recirculate, and whatever outside air enters the clinic does so through the front door when it opens. In a ducted or central system there may well be an intake, in which case the follow-up matters: was it commissioned properly, is the damper open, and has anybody closed it during a hot season because the cooling load was uncomfortable? A shut intake is one of the commonest causes of a building that used to feel fine and now feels closed. How much outside air your clinic should have is their engineering judgement and your surgeon's requirement - I have no standing to specify it and I do not.
Tip: Ask for the answer in writing. It is the single most useful piece of paper in this whole cluster.
2
Ask when the filters were last serviced, and on what schedule
A recirculating system passes the whole room through its filters all day
If the same air is going round the loop, every part of that loop is in contact with all of it, repeatedly. Filters and coils collect what the room contains - dust, fibres, hair, product residue - and a neglected return contributes a dull, slightly closed character to the air it keeps recycling. Clinics often describe this as a gradual change: nothing happened, it just is not as fresh as it was two years ago. The service interval is not something I can give you a number for, and I would be suspicious of anybody selling fragrance who tried. It depends on the equipment, the environment and, in a building that does clinical work, on standards your surgeon and facilities engineer are responsible for. What you can do is ask for the service history and get a written schedule, and then treat that schedule as part of the clinic's routine rather than a call made when something smells wrong.
Tip: If nobody can produce a service history, that is the answer to your question about why the clinic feels closed.
3
Decide where the money goes before you decide what to buy
If the honest answer is the system, spend it on the system
This is the part of the conversation that costs me sales and I would rather have it plainly. If the contractor comes back and says the building has no fresh-air provision and that adding some is a real piece of work, then that work is your next spend, not a diffuser. A clinic with genuinely unrefreshed air will not be improved by fragrance; it will simply become a clinic with unrefreshed air and a fragrance in it, and your staff - who sit in it for nine hours while patients sit in it for forty minutes - are the ones who carry that. If the contractor says the intake exists, works, and the filters are on schedule, then the closed feeling probably comes from somewhere else in this cluster, and the scenting question becomes a legitimate small decision at the end. Fragrance is never a substitute for ventilation, and this is the post where that sentence has a price tag attached to it.
Nothing on this page is engineering advice. It is a list of questions to ask the person who does give it.
See SOSA Vaayu →
The SOSA principle
Air conditioning is a temperature machine that people have quietly promoted to an air machine. It cools what is already in the room, and closed is a description of what is in the room.
Mount a diffuser into a recirculating system and you have distributed a fragrance beautifully through air that still has not been changed.
The plan, cooling versus ventilating
Two columns that people run together, separated out. Read down it and you will know which of your problems you actually have.
The SOSA plan
What each system in your clinic is genuinely doing
| The system | What to do |
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Split and cassette AC
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Cools and slightly dries the same room air and returns it. Brings in no outside air and removes none. Comfort, not freshness. |
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Ducted or central plant
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May have a fresh-air intake. Ask whether it exists, whether it was commissioned, and whether anybody has since closed the damper. |
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Filters and returns
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Handle the whole room volume repeatedly. Service history and schedule are the contractor's specification, and your surgeon's requirement in clinical areas. |
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Doors and openable windows
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In most Indian clinic fit-outs, the only genuine air change the building gets. Worth using deliberately at opening and at the quietest slot of the day. |
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A scent machine on the HVAC
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Distributes fragrance evenly along corridors and past cabins. Does not ventilate, filter, purify or change air quality in any way. |
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Clinical rooms
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Airflow, filtration and pressure regimes are the surgeon's and engineer's territory entirely, and they stay unscented regardless. |
If the closed feeling is worst first thing rather than throughout the day, the mechanism is overnight rather than mechanical and it is covered in why a hair clinic smells stale when you open in the morning. If it builds through the afternoon instead, read why a clinic develops a mixed smell by evening, which is the same recirculation problem measured across a working day. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Distribution, not ventilation
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 mounts to a wall or into HVAC to carry one low level along a corridor - a scent function, with no air-quality claim of any kind.
If your contractor tells you the building has no fresh air, buy fresh air. I will still be here afterwards, and the fragrance will be a better idea then.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
What the HVAC mount is actually for
Carrying one level past closed cabins, and nothing more than that
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
Two machines cover almost every hair clinic in India, chosen by size and by whether there is an air path worth distributing along. Neither addresses ventilation, and in this particular post the most useful thing I can tell you is where my product stops. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
The system answered first - then the machine, chosen by size and air path
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A single reception, clinic under about 750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, the honest buy at this size | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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Reception and corridors, clinic 1,500 sq ft and up | 1000m³ (about 2,000-3,000 sq ft), wall or HVAC mount for distribution, adjustable intensity, timers, under 38dB, key-lock, waterless | ₹11,999 View → |
Get the fresh-air intake and the filter schedule answered in writing before you buy anything, and if the money belongs in the system, put it there. Ventilation rates, intake proportions and filtration standards are your HVAC contractor's and your surgeon's decisions and nothing here is engineering advice. Fragrance is an ambience decision with no clinical, therapeutic, purifying or air-quality claim; it is never a mask and never a substitute for ventilation, cleaning or infection control; and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own rooms. Ask for a clinic scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
The sentence I hear most often on this one is that the clinic has full air conditioning, as though that settled the ventilation question. It does not settle it at all, and the confusion is entirely understandable, because a cold room feels like a fresh one for the first few minutes. But a split unit is a temperature machine. It picks the air up, cools it and puts it back. Nothing comes in from outside and nothing leaves, which is why a clinic can run four units for nine hours and still be, in the only sense that matters to your nose, unventilated.
So the honest recommendation in this post is a phone call to somebody who is not me. Two questions: does this system have a fresh-air intake, and if so is it open and working - and when were the filters last serviced, on what schedule. Get the answers in writing. How much outside air a clinic should have, and how filtration should be handled in a building that does surgical work, are decisions for your HVAC contractor and your surgeon. I sell fragrance. I have no business specifying either, and I would not trust a supplier who did.
What I will tell you is exactly where my own machine stops. A SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 mounts to a wall or into a duct and carries one low level evenly along a corridor and past closed cabins - genuinely useful, and purely a distribution function. It does not ventilate, filter or purify anything and it makes no air-quality claim whatsoever. Under about 750 sq ft, a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 is the honest buy instead. The procedure, recovery and photography rooms get nothing at all, none of this substitutes for ventilation or cleaning, and no one can promise it moves a business number. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Why does my fully air-conditioned hair clinic sometimes smell closed?
Because cooling and ventilating are different jobs. A split or cassette unit draws room air over a cold coil and returns the same air a few degrees cooler; no outside air comes in and no used air leaves. A sealed clinic can therefore run its units all day and still have air that has not been replaced. What you notice as closed is the composition of the air, not its temperature.
Will mounting a scent machine into my AC fix it?
No. An HVAC-mounted diffuser distributes fragrance more evenly along corridors and past closed cabins, which is a real and useful function, but it moves the same air the system was already moving. It does not introduce outside air, remove anything, filter or purify, and it makes no air-quality claim. Mounted into a closed system, it gives you a closed clinic with a fragrance in it.
What should I ask my HVAC contractor?
Two questions, and get the answers in writing. First, does this system have any fresh-air intake, and if so was it commissioned, is the damper open, and has anyone closed it during a hot season? Second, when were the filters last serviced and what schedule should they be on? How much outside air is appropriate, and how filtration should be specified in a clinical building, are their decisions and your surgeon's, not a fragrance supplier's.
Should I spend on the system or on fragrance first?
The system, every time, if the contractor says the building has no genuine fresh-air provision. A clinic with unrefreshed air is not improved by fragrance; it becomes a clinic with unrefreshed air and a fragrance in it, and your staff sit in that for nine hours a day. Fragrance is never a substitute for ventilation. Buy the ventilation, and treat the scenting question as a separate and much smaller decision afterwards.
If the system is fine, what should I buy?
Then it is the ordinary size question. A single small reception under about 750 sq ft is a SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899, and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy. From roughly 1,500 sq ft, or wherever there is a corridor and a set of closed cabins for scent to travel along, one SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999 - waterless, under 38dB, wall or HVAC mountable - held at a level no patient can name, in reception and waiting only.
Ask the contractor first. Ask me second.
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for hair transplant and hair restoration clinics
The SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) covers up to 1000m³ and mounts to a wall or into HVAC for even distribution - a scent function with no air-quality claim. Below about 750 sq ft the honest answer is a Sukoon at ₹1,899. Waterless, under 38dB, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Ask for a clinic scenting plan → SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
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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 5 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 adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. 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.