★ SOSA Vaayu for Coimbatore Businesses
A ceiling fan does not ventilate a room; it stirs one, and stirring and ventilating do opposite things to anything carried in the air
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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
★ What a building with three states is choosing between
SOSA VaayuOne source, placed for the state that mattersView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuA run window aimed at the visiting hoursView ₹11,999
SOSA AngaanA conditioned block that stays in one stateView ₹25,999
✓ Conditioned interiors and ceiling fans are both normal here, often in the same building ✓ Pick the hours that matter and set for those — do not chase all three states ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Coimbatore
Which one should I set the level for? The state the building is actually in when the people you care about are in it. For most offices here that means the conditioned hours, because appointments and customer visits sit inside them. Set the level in that state, at the end of a run rather than the start, then leave it alone. On fan days the room will read patchy and on open-door days it will read thin, and the correct response to both is to accept them rather than to chase them. A setting that is adjusted for every state ends up right in none of them.
Do ceiling fans help the fragrance travel? They move it around, which is not the same as helping. A fan creates a circulation within the room — down through the middle, out along the floor, up the walls — so the fragrance arrives quickly everywhere the circulation reaches and hardly at all in the corners it does not. That is why a fan room reads strong under the blades and thin at the far wall. And because nothing is being exchanged with outside, a fan does not clear the room either. It is stirring, not ventilating, and the two are often confused.
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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.
Those three conditions are not three moods of one room; they are three different rooms that happen to share a floor plan. Each one does something mechanically distinct to air — one recirculates it, one stirs it, one exchanges it — and a single setting cannot be right for all three, which is the part most people are actually running into.
Quick answers — read this first
Why does the same setting read so differently on different days? Because each of the three conditions is a different mechanism acting on the air. Air conditioning recirculates: the room's own air goes round a loop, so a source is distributed evenly and what you add accumulates across the day. Ceiling fans distribute without exchanging: they stir the room vigorously but bring nothing in and take nothing out, so the fragrance spreads quickly and unevenly. Open doors exchange: air genuinely leaves and street air arrives, so the level falls in steps. Even distribution, uneven distribution and outright loss — three results from one dial position.Which one should I set the level for? The state the building is actually in when the people you care about are in it. For most offices here that means the conditioned hours, because appointments and customer visits sit inside them. Set the level in that state, at the end of a run rather than the start, then leave it alone. On fan days the room will read patchy and on open-door days it will read thin, and the correct response to both is to accept them rather than to chase them. A setting that is adjusted for every state ends up right in none of them.
Do ceiling fans help the fragrance travel? They move it around, which is not the same as helping. A fan creates a circulation within the room — down through the middle, out along the floor, up the walls — so the fragrance arrives quickly everywhere the circulation reaches and hardly at all in the corners it does not. That is why a fan room reads strong under the blades and thin at the far wall. And because nothing is being exchanged with outside, a fan does not clear the room either. It is stirring, not ventilating, and the two are often confused.
The short answer
Short answer: Because each condition does something different to the air. Conditioning recirculates, which spreads a source evenly and lets it accumulate through the day. Ceiling fans stir without exchanging, which spreads it quickly but unevenly and clears nothing. Open doors exchange, which genuinely removes it in steps. Set one level for the state the building is in when visitors arrive, and accept how it reads in the other two.
The pick: one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed and set for the state the room is in during visiting hours rather than for the state it spends the most hours in.
Next step: tell us which state your office is in at ten, at two and at five, and where the fans and the indoor units sit, and we will suggest one placement and one run window rather than three settings — ask for a scenting plan.
In this guide
Conditioned interiors and ceiling fans are both ordinary here, often in the same building and sometimes in the same afternoon.
One machine — the decision is placement and timing, not model
The single-machine answer
SOSA Vaayu · ₹11,999
The conditioned state in detail
What running the AC all day does
Mapped on your own floor plan
A scenting plan, at ₹0
Straight answer
Why does one setting behave so differently with the AC on, the fans on and the doors open?
Because those are not three versions of one room — they are three different rooms sharing a floor plan, and each one is doing something mechanically distinct to the air. Take them in turn. Air conditioning recirculates. An indoor unit draws the room's own air in, cools it and returns it, with very little genuine exchange with outside unless somebody specified a fresh-air supply. That gives you excellent, even distribution from a single source, and it also means that what you add stays in the loop and accumulates through the day, which is why a conditioned office reads correctly at ten in the morning and heavy by four. Ceiling fans distribute without exchanging. A fan sets up a circulation inside the room — down through the centre, outwards along the floor, up the walls — so fragrance arrives quickly wherever that circulation reaches and barely at all in the corners it misses. Nothing leaves the room and nothing enters it, so a fan neither ventilates nor clears; it stirs. A fan room therefore reads strong under the blades, thin at the far wall, and it reaches that unevenness within minutes rather than hours. Open doors exchange. This is the only one of the three that genuinely removes anything: each opening swaps a parcel of your air for a parcel of outside air, so the level falls in steps through the busy part of the day and only partly recovers in the gaps. Even spread, patchy spread, and outright loss — three completely different outcomes from one dial position. So the specification is not three settings; it is one setting for the state the building is in when it matters. For most offices here that means the conditioned hours, because scheduled visits sit inside them. Set the level in that state and towards the end of a run rather than the start, place the source for that state — in the path of the supply air, out of the direct downdraught of a fan, away from the entrance path — and then accept how it reads in the other two. This is the concession and it is a real one: a building that moves between all three conditions in a single day cannot hold a consistent level, and no machine at any price changes that. What you can do is pick the hours that matter and be right in those. Two limits as always: ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision that sits alongside ventilation, cleaning and source control and never replaces them, and nobody can promise you it moves a business number — not an enquiry, not an order, not a contract. One machine at ₹11,999, placed and timed for one state, is the whole of the answer.
They are three different rooms. Conditioning recirculates and accumulates, fans stir without exchanging, open doors exchange and lose. Set one level for the state your visitors arrive in and accept how it reads in the other two.
One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 is enough for any of the three states — the decision here is where you put it and when you run it, not which machine. A 400ml tank lasts 90+ days and it draws about 5W.
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One machine, three rooms, one decision
The variable you are choosing is the state, not the setting
One machine, and a placement decision that matters more than the model
Not one part of this is solved by buying differently. A single machine handles all three states perfectly well; what differs is where it stands and when it runs. The images link through to the live product pages so the coverage figures can be checked against the volume of your own room.
One room, whichever state it is in today
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
A block that stays in one state all day
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. It suits a building on central air handling — which is also the kind of building that does not swing between three states.
From ₹25,999
The three mechanisms, one at a time
Take each condition on its own and the behaviour stops being mysterious. Recirculation, stirring and exchange are three different physical operations, and once you can name which one your room is doing at a given hour, the reading you are getting makes sense.
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One
Air conditioning: recirculation, so even spread and slow accumulation
A split or packaged unit is not ventilating anything. It takes room air, passes it over a coil and returns it, and unless a fresh-air supply was specifically designed in, very little is exchanged with outside. Two consequences follow. First, distribution is excellent — one source placed in the path of the supply throw reaches the far corner of a room that a desk diffuser would never touch, which means you can run at a low setting and still have an even room. Second, nothing clears. What you add stays in the loop, so the level climbs steadily through the day; the room at the end of a long conditioned afternoon is not the room you set at breakfast. The signature is even across the space, rising across the day, and the people inside it adapt and stop noticing the rise.
Tip: Judge a conditioned room late in the afternoon, never in the first half hour after the cooling comes on. That first half hour is the most misleading moment of the day.
With the cooling on, the conditioning does the distributing, so a Vaayu should be run at its lowest useful setting and placed in the supply path rather than near the seating.
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Two
Ceiling fans: distribution without exchange, which is stirring rather than ventilating
This is the state that surprises people, and it surprises people here in particular, because a ceiling fan and a split unit running together is the ordinary arrangement in a Coimbatore office rather than a contradiction, and the fan quietly gets credited with air it is not bringing in. A room with fans running feels airy and is assumed to be ventilated. It is not. A fan drives air downwards through the middle of the room, outwards along the floor and up the walls, creating a circulation that stays entirely inside the space. So the fragrance is carried quickly — a fan room reaches its final state in minutes rather than hours — but carried unevenly, strong in the path of the downdraught and thin in the corners the circulation does not reach. And because nothing is leaving, nothing is clearing either. If your complaint is that the room is obvious near the middle and absent at the far wall, you are describing a fan, not a fault. Place the source at the edge of the circulation rather than directly under the blades, and higher rather than at floor level.
Tip: Stand under the fan and then at the corner furthest from it. If those two readings differ sharply, stop adjusting the dial — the fan is the variable and no setting evens it out.
A Vaayu placed directly beneath a fan gets driven straight down and along the floor. Move it to the edge of the circulation and the same setting reads far more evenly.
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Three
Open doors: real exchange, so the level falls in steps and stays down
This is the only one of the three that genuinely removes fragrance from the building, and it is the only one worth spending money on. Every opening swaps a parcel of inside air for a parcel of outside air; the level drops in discrete steps through the busy part of the day and recovers partly in the gaps. Duration matters more than frequency — a door that opens fifty times and closes itself each time is a series of small exchanges, while a door propped for one delivery is a vent. So the fix is the door rather than the dial: a self-closer, a buffer or second door where the layout allows, and the source moved out of the path between the entrance and the seating. A room whose doors stand open through the working day is not a room the plan can hold, and the honest answer there is to say so.
Tip: Count propped minutes rather than openings. Most of the loss in an open-door building happens during a handful of long propped stretches.
No setting on a Vaayu compensates for an entrance that stands open. Deal with the door first and the machine becomes a reasonable purchase rather than a compensating one.
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The SOSA principle
Almost all scenting advice assumes one room with one behaviour. A building that runs conditioning in the morning, fans after lunch and an open door in between is three rooms sharing a floor plan, and the machine has no way of knowing which one it is standing in today.
Which is why the useful question is not what setting to use but which hours you actually care about — and in a low-footfall building those hours are usually a small and very predictable part of the week.
The three states side by side
Set out together, the three become easy to tell apart from the symptom alone. The conditioned state is examined in more depth in what running the air conditioning all day does to diffusion, which is worth reading if your building spends most of its hours in that one.
The SOSA plan
The three states, and what each does to a level you set once
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Conditioning on, doors closed
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Recirculation. Even across the whole room and rising across the day, because the loop distributes but does not clear. Set the level here, late in a run rather than early, and this is also the state to place the machine for. View → |
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Ceiling fans on, doors closed
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Stirring without exchange. Fast to spread, uneven where it lands — strong in the downdraught, thin in the corners — and it clears no faster than a still room would. Move the source to the edge of the circulation rather than adjusting anything. View → |
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Doors open, with or without fans
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Genuine exchange, and genuine loss. The level falls in steps and stays down while the traffic continues. This is the only state where money is worth spending, and it should go on a self-closer and a buffer rather than on output. |
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All three within the same working day
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No single level is right, and that is the honest position rather than a failure of the equipment. Pick the hours that matter — usually the conditioned hours when visits are scheduled — set for those, and let the rest of the day read however it reads. |
The conditioned state, and the way a level climbs from morning to afternoon inside a closed loop, is the whole subject of what running the AC for much of the day does to diffusion. If the symptom is loss rather than unevenness, the two causes and the ten-minute test are in why the fragrance keeps disappearing. And before spending anything on output at all, run the five checks in fix the airflow first. SOSA makes no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial number.
Tell us which state you are in, and when
Send the room's state at ten, at two and at five, with the fans and indoor units marked, and we will suggest one placement and one window.
A ceiling fan does not ventilate a room, it stirs one — and stirring and ventilating do opposite things to anything carried in the air.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Where the ladder goes, if the building is stable enough to need it
One source per connected volume, chosen for the state that matters
The SOSA specification for a building that changes state
One machine, placed for the state that matters, set late in a run, key-locked, on a window that covers the visiting hours rather than the whole day. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA specification for a changeable building
One setting for the state the building is in when it actually matters
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Vaayu
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One room, set and placed for its conditioned hours | ₹11,999, 1000m³, 1h/4h/8h timers, key-lock, waterless, 5W | ₹11,999 View → |
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SOSA Angaan
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A building on central air handling that stays in one state | ₹25,999, 3,000m³, HVAC-connected where the ducting allows, 800ml reservoir | ₹25,999 View → |
If the office spends most of the working day with doors open and fans running, the honest answer is that it cannot hold a level and a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 on the desk is the proportionate purchase. Ambient scent is an interior and brand-experience decision, with no claim that it affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial number — nobody can promise that, and a supplier who quotes you one is selling. It works alongside ventilation, cleaning and source control rather than replacing them; it treats nothing, and it does not remove or reduce dust — SOSA makes no purifier and no filter. Production floors, workshops, detailing bays and any area governed by a safety protocol or a customer's audit requirement stay unscented, and that protocol decides rather than us. SOSA publishes no bulk pricing, no minimum order, no custom branding, no lead time, no installation and no maintenance terms; anything of that sort goes to our contact page with nothing promised. Ask for a scenting plan and tell us which state the room is in when your visitors arrive.
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A note from Sonal
The building that made me write this was a first-floor office over a knitting unit, and its conference room had a cassette unit, two ceiling fans and a pair of doors onto the corridor that runs to the stair; on any given afternoon it might be running all three. The owner had four different settings written on a slip of paper taped to the wall beside the machine, one for each combination he had identified, and a member of staff whose unofficial job was to change it. He was not being foolish. He had correctly noticed that the room behaves differently, and had drawn the wrong conclusion about what to do.
What I suggested instead took a minute. His buyers come by appointment, always in the morning, most of them driving in from Tiruppur and one or two over from Palakkad, and always with the cooling on and the doors shut. So we set the level in that state, at the end of a run rather than the start, locked it, and threw away the slip of paper. On fan afternoons the room now reads patchy and nobody minds, because the only people in it are the people who work there and they had stopped noticing anything long ago.
That is the whole method: decide which hours you actually care about and be correct in those. We make no claim that ambient fragrance affects enquiries, orders, contracts or any commercial outcome, and nothing here cleans, treats or improves the air — it is an ambience decision and it sits alongside your ventilation and housekeeping rather than standing in for them. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Which of the three states should I set the level for?
The one the building is in when the people you care about are in it. For most offices here that is the conditioned hours, because scheduled visits sit inside them. Set it in that state and late in a run rather than early, then key-lock it. Being correct in the hours that matter is achievable; being correct in all three is not.
Do ceiling fans ventilate a room?
No, and this is the single most useful correction on the page. A fan moves air within the room in a loop — down the middle, out along the floor, up the walls — without bringing anything in or taking anything out. It makes a room feel cooler and it mixes what is in the air, but it exchanges nothing. Stirring and ventilating produce opposite results for anything carried in air.
Why is it obvious under the fan and barely there at the far wall?
Because that is what a fan's circulation looks like. The downdraught carries the fragrance strongly through the centre and along the floor, while the corners outside the circulation receive very little. Moving the source to the edge of the circulation rather than directly beneath it evens the room out far more than any change of setting will, and it costs nothing.
We run the cooling in the morning and fans after lunch. What is the right approach?
Set for the morning, because that is almost certainly when your visits happen, and place the machine for the conditioned state — in the path of the supply air, deep in the room. Then leave it. The afternoon will read unevenly and the people experiencing it will be staff who adapted hours ago. Chasing both states with one dial guarantees being wrong in both.
Can I simply run it higher on the days when the fans are on?
You can, and it will not do what you want. The unevenness on a fan day is a distribution problem rather than a quantity problem, so raising the output makes the strong patch stronger while the far corner stays thin. It also leaves a high setting in place on the next conditioned day, where it will accumulate all afternoon. One level, key-locked, is the more reliable arrangement.
Three rooms, one decision
SOSA — Three Building States recirculation, stirring and exchange are not the same thing
One SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, placed for the conditioned state, set late in a run rather than early, key-locked, and running on a window that covers the hours your visitors actually arrive in. The other two states will read differently and that is the correct outcome. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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The ladder again — though here the decision is placement, not model
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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.