★ SOSA for Women's Health and Wellness Centres
Conservative is an order of operations rather than a setting - write the fragrance-free list first, and every decision after it becomes small, cheap and obvious
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"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
★★★★★
"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
★ The machine for whatever the list leaves over
SOSA VaayuPublic zone only, lowest usable levelView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuKey-locked, so the plan cannot drift upwardsView ₹11,999
SOSA VaayuTimers on centre hours, never continuousView ₹11,999
✓ Four steps in order: the fragrance-free list, the leftover zone, the lowest usable level, then standing policy ✓ The off switch and the unscented seat are policy in a centre serving mothers and babies, not courtesies ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
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Why does the list come first? Because in this kind of building it is most of the floor plate, and knowing that changes everything downstream. Care rooms, feeding and lactation rooms, any room with babies present, examination and treatment rooms, recovery. Write those first and you are no longer scenting a building with exceptions - you are leaving a building alone and adding back one small zone. The reason is the same for every room on it: she is in there a long time, she cannot leave, she is often holding a baby, and she did not choose the fragrance.
What does it cost? Only the leftover zone is priced. A small front door is one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849. A reception and short corridor under about 750 sq ft is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, and a Vaayu there would be the wrong buy. A public zone with a lounge and corridors past roughly 1,500 sq ft is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999.
See the SOSA Vaayu Book a scenting plan
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.
Every conservative scenting plan I have ever written came out of the same four steps taken in the same order, and the order matters more than any single decision in it. Done this way the project is small and cheap. Done backwards - fragrance first, rooms later - it becomes an argument nobody can settle by walking around the building.
Quick answers — read this first
How do I plan ambient scent conservatively in a centre serving mothers and babies? Four steps, in this order. One: write the fragrance-free room list before choosing anything. Two: define the scented zone as whatever is left over, and check it is a real volume of air with a door. Three: choose the lowest usable level and the smallest hardware that reaches it. Four: make the off switch and the unscented seat standing policy. The order is the method - taken this way, the whole plan usually costs between ₹849 and ₹11,999.Why does the list come first? Because in this kind of building it is most of the floor plate, and knowing that changes everything downstream. Care rooms, feeding and lactation rooms, any room with babies present, examination and treatment rooms, recovery. Write those first and you are no longer scenting a building with exceptions - you are leaving a building alone and adding back one small zone. The reason is the same for every room on it: she is in there a long time, she cannot leave, she is often holding a baby, and she did not choose the fragrance.
What does it cost? Only the leftover zone is priced. A small front door is one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849. A reception and short corridor under about 750 sq ft is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, and a Vaayu there would be the wrong buy. A public zone with a lounge and corridors past roughly 1,500 sq ft is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999.
The short answer
Short answer: in four steps, in order. Write the fragrance-free room list first - care, feeding, lactation, examination, treatment, any room with babies. Define the scented zone as whatever is left. Choose the lowest usable level and the smallest hardware that reaches it. Then make the off switch and the unscented seat standing policy rather than a courtesy.
The pick: sized by the leftover zone alone: a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) at a small front door, one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) for a reception under about 750 sq ft, or one SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999), key-locked, for a public zone with a lounge and corridors.
Next step: send the floor plan with every room labelled and the doors marked, and we will return the fragrance-free list, the one scented zone and a starting level - Ask for a clinic scenting plan.
In this guide
Nothing in this method is a judgement about fragrance. It is an order of operations, and taken in order it produces a plan small enough to explain in one paragraph.
The leftover-zone machine - tap for the specification
For a public zone past about 1,500 sq ft
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999
Step one in full
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Straight answer
How do I plan ambient scent conservatively in a centre serving mothers and babies?
In four steps, and the order is the method rather than a matter of preference. Step one: write the fragrance-free room list, before you look at a single fragrance and long before you look at hardware. In a centre serving mothers and babies that list is: postpartum care rooms, feeding and lactation rooms, any room in which babies are present whatever it is called on the plan, examination rooms, treatment rooms and cabins, recovery and observation areas, and consultation rooms that carry out any examination. Write them by their door signs rather than as categories, because 'clinical areas' is interpreted generously on a busy morning, and finish with the default sentence: any room not named on the scented list is fragrance-free. The reason attaches to every room on it equally and is complete on its own - she is in that room for a long time, she cannot leave it while the appointment is happening, she is often holding a baby, and she did not choose the fragrance. Nothing else needs to be argued, in either direction. Step two: define the scented zone as whatever is left over, then check that it is a real volume of air rather than a wish. In most centres what remains is the entrance, the reception desk, the waiting seating and any genuinely non-clinical lounge. It qualifies if there is a door between it and the rest of the building and that door is shut as ordinary practice. If the door is propped open all day, the honest reading is that the whole floor is one volume of air, and the correct plan is to scent nothing at all rather than run a machine lower and hope. This step is also where the register is settled, and it is a ten-minute decision: clean, dry and cool - white tea, a dry light citrus, or soft dry woods such as cedar, pine and sage - and never floral, powdery, sweet or lavender, which is the fastest route to making a medical building read as a beauty salon. Step three: choose the lowest usable level, then the smallest hardware that reaches it. That order matters too. Set the level so a visitor registers a clean room rather than a fragrance - if she can identify it, it is too strong - and remember that this building holds people for long, repeated visits, so it sits lower than a general clinic. Then buy by the size of the leftover zone and by nothing else: a small front door is one Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849; a reception and short corridor under about 750 sq ft is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, where a Vaayu would be the wrong buy; a public zone with a lounge and corridors past roughly 1,500 sq ft is one SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999, whose relevant features here are restraint rather than power - a key-lock so the level cannot drift up, app timers so it runs on centre hours, waterless operation and under 38dB. One source per volume of air, placed away from the corridor that leads to the fragrance-free rooms; a second machine belongs only to a second volume of air. Step four: make the off switch and the unscented seat standing policy rather than courtesies. Any member of staff can switch it off in seconds without asking a manager. At least one seating area is kept effectively unscented by design, the front desk knows exactly which chairs those are, and they are offered before anybody has to ask. If a visitor wants it reduced or removed, it is reduced or removed immediately, with no explanation of why she should not mind. A centre serving new mothers receives more of those requests than a general practice does; treat it as an ordinary operational fact and have the two-second answer ready. Then review: walk in from outside once a quarter with an unadapted nose, and re-read the list whenever a room changes use. All of this is an ambience decision with no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim of any kind; it works alongside your cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to mask a smell; and anything at all concerning a patient's or a baby's care is the clinician's judgement rather than this page's. Ask for a clinic scenting plan and send the labelled floor plan - we will do step one for you in writing.
Write the fragrance-free list first, make the scented zone whatever is left, pick the lowest usable level and the smallest hardware that reaches it, and keep the off switch and the unscented seat as policy. ₹849 to ₹11,999.
Where the leftover zone is a genuine lounge and corridor, one SOSA Vaayu - 1000m³ rated, key-lock, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, waterless, under 38dB - at ₹11,999. Under about 750 sq ft, a Sukoon at ₹1,899; at a small front door, a reed at ₹849. The public zone decides this, and nothing else does.
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The order of operations
List first, zone second, level third, policy fourth
The machine for the leftover zone
Nothing is chosen until step three, and then it is chosen by the size of one zone. These are the two machines; the third answer, at a small front door, is a reed.
A public zone with a lounge and corridors
SOSA Vaayu
Waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, about 2,000-3,000 sq ft. 400ml tank running 90+ days a fill, Bluetooth app with 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, auto-stop and key-lock, freestanding or wall and HVAC mountable. In a conservative plan the useful features are the ones that stop it getting louder.
From ₹11,999
A reception and short corridor under about 750 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml fragrances. This is the honest buy for most postpartum and lactation centres, and a Vaayu at six times the price would be covering a small fraction of what it is rated for.
From ₹1,899
The four steps, in order
Three of the four are worth expanding, because they are the ones people take out of sequence. The fourth is policy, and it is set out in the table below.
1
Write the list before anything else
Step one changes the shape of every decision after it
Founders normally start at the fragrance and work outwards to the rooms, which produces a scented building with exceptions and a project full of arguments. Start at the rooms instead. Care rooms, feeding and lactation rooms, any room with babies present, examination, treatment, recovery, and consultation rooms that examine - written by their door signs, with the default line that anything not named on the scented list is fragrance-free. In most centres serving mothers and babies that is the majority of the floor plate, and once it is on paper the remaining question is small enough to answer in a sentence. Name the small things too - no plug-ins, sprays, scented liners, candles or reeds - because that is where plans actually fail.
Tip: Put the list where the front desk and the housekeeping supervisor both see it, and date it.
2
Test the leftover zone before you price it
A scented zone needs a door that is genuinely shut
Step two is not just subtraction. Look at what remains and ask whether it is a real volume of air: is there a door between it and the corridor, and is that door shut as ordinary practice? Watch it for one busy hour rather than assuming. If it is propped open all day, the whole floor is one volume and the honest plan is to scent nothing at all - not to run the machine lower and hope. A door closer is cheaper than every product on this page. This is also where the register is settled in ten minutes: clean, dry and cool, and never floral, powdery, sweet or lavender, however well that would suit the sofa.
Tip: Mark the AC supply and return points too. They decide where fragrance goes more than the setting does.
3
Set the level first, then buy the smallest thing that reaches it
Hardware is the last decision, and it is decided by one zone
Choose the level before the machine: a visitor should register a clean room rather than a fragrance, and this building runs lower than a general clinic because the visits are long and repeated. Then buy for the leftover zone only - a reed at ₹849 for a small front door, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 under about 750 sq ft, a Vaayu at ₹11,999 for a lounge and corridors. One source per volume of air, placed away from the corridor that leads to the fragrance-free rooms, key-locked and on centre hours.
The SOSA principle
Planning conservatively in a centre serving mothers and babies is an order of operations rather than a setting - the fragrance-free list is written first, and everything downstream of it becomes small, cheap and obvious.
Every plan I have been asked to rescue was built in the opposite order: a fragrance chosen in week one, and the rooms argued about ever since.
The method as a checklist
The whole method on one page, in the order it is done. Steps one and two cost nothing; step four costs nothing and matters most.
The SOSA plan
Planning ambient scent conservatively, step by step
| The step | What to do |
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1. Write the fragrance-free list
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Care, feeding and lactation rooms, any room with babies, examination, treatment, recovery, and consultation rooms that examine. By door sign, with the default rule that anything unnamed is fragrance-free. |
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2. Define the leftover zone
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Entrance, reception, waiting and any non-clinical lounge - provided there is a door to the rest of the building and it is shut as ordinary practice. If not, scent nothing. |
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3. Choose the level, then the machine
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Lowest usable level first. Then the smallest hardware that reaches it: a reed at ₹849, a Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a Vaayu at ₹11,999 for a lounge and corridors. |
 3b. Where the leftover zone is one small room
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A reed at the entrance is the complete answer, and there is no hardware in the plan at all. |
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4. Standing policy, not courtesy
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Off switch usable by anyone in seconds, one seating area unscented by design and offered before it is asked for, and no defending the decision to anyone who objects. |
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5. Review
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Walk in from outside once a quarter with an unadapted nose, and re-read the list whenever a room changes use. |
If your building is a dedicated lactation service rather than a mixed centre, the method usually terminates at step three with a ₹849 reed, and that case is argued in full in how a lactation centre should approach ambient fragrance. If you are running several services under one roof, the tier system and the one-source rule are in should a women's centre offering postpartum services use different fragrance rules in different zones. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Step three, and only step three, costs money
SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 covers up to 1000m³ - so in a leftover public zone it runs low, key-locked, on the centre's own hours.
Conservative does not mean timid, and it does not mean a lower setting. It means doing the four decisions in the right order, which is why the cheapest plans I write are also the ones nobody ever has to revisit.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why restraint is the whole specification
In this method the useful features are the ones that stop a plan drifting
The SOSA conservative specification
Three answers, and which one applies is decided entirely by the zone left over after step one - not by the size of the practice, the number of rooms or the ambition of the brand. Most centres serving mothers and babies land on the first two rows rather than the third. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA women's-health specification
Sized by the leftover zone, and nothing else
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
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A small front door, or a dedicated lactation suite | Pine, sage and cedar; alcohol-free; 50ml lasts 6-8 weeks at ₹849; no hardware, nothing to set | ₹849 View → |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A reception and short corridor, public zone under about 750 sq ft | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, lowest usable setting, ₹1,899 total | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Vaayu
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A public zone with a lounge and corridors, roughly 1,500 sq ft and up | 1000m³ coverage, key-lock, app timers, adjustable intensity, under 38dB, waterless, wall or HVAC mountable | ₹11,999 View → |
Take the steps in order, write the fragrance-free list before choosing anything, and keep every care, feeding, lactation, examination, treatment and recovery room completely unscented with no lighter version. Keep the level key-locked while the off switch stays available to every member of staff, and one seating area unscented by design and offered before it is asked for. Fragrance here is an ambience decision like lighting or seating and makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim; it works alongside cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to mask another smell; and your judgement as the treating clinician overrides any plan in your own rooms. Ask for a clinic scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
The founders who write to me about centres serving mothers and babies are usually being careful already, and what they are missing is not caution - it is sequence. They start where everyone starts, with the fragrance, and then spend weeks arguing about rooms. Turn it around and the whole thing becomes easy. Write the fragrance-free list first. In this kind of building it is most of the floor plate, and once that is on paper you are not scenting a building with exceptions, you are leaving a building alone and adding one small zone back.
Then the rest falls out in order. The scented zone is the leftover, and it only qualifies if there is a door and the door is actually shut. The register takes ten minutes - clean, dry and cool, never floral or powdery. The level comes before the machine, and it sits lower here than in a general clinic because the visits are long and they repeat. The machine is last and it is decided by one zone: ₹849, ₹1,899 or ₹11,999, and most centres are on the first two. Then policy, which costs nothing and matters most: an off switch anyone may use, one seat kept unscented on purpose and offered before someone has to ask, and no defending the decision to anybody who would rather not have it.
That is the whole method. It is deliberately dull, and it produces plans nobody has to revisit. A Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849 for a front door, a Sukoon at ₹1,899 for a reception, a Vaayu at ₹11,999 only where there is a genuine lounge and corridor to serve - and nothing at all in the rooms on the list. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How do I plan ambient scent conservatively in a centre serving mothers and babies?
In four steps, in order. Write the fragrance-free room list first. Define the scented zone as whatever is left over, and check it is a real volume of air with a door that stays shut. Choose the lowest usable level and then the smallest hardware that reaches it. Make the off switch and the unscented seating area standing policy rather than courtesies. The order is what makes the plan small.
Which rooms go on the fragrance-free list?
Postpartum care rooms, feeding and lactation rooms, any room where babies are present, examination rooms, treatment rooms and cabins, recovery and observation areas, and consultation rooms that carry out any examination. Write them by their door signs, add the rule that anything not named on the scented list is fragrance-free, and name the small things too: no plug-ins, sprays, scented liners, candles or reeds.
What if the door between reception and the corridor cannot stay shut?
Then the whole floor is one volume of air and the honest plan is to scent nothing at all, rather than running a machine lower and hoping. That is a reading of the layout rather than a failure of it. A door closer, or a door that swings more easily so people stop propping it, costs less than any product in this plan and settles the question permanently.
What should the whole thing cost?
Only the leftover zone is priced. A small front door is a Mountain Breeze reed at Rs 849. A reception and short corridor under about 750 sq ft is a SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899, and a Vaayu would be the wrong buy at that size. A public zone with a lounge and corridors past roughly 1,500 sq ft is a SOSA Vaayu at Rs 11,999, key-locked and on app timers set to the centre's own hours.
Why are the off switch and the unscented seat called policy rather than courtesy?
Because in a centre serving mothers and babies they are used often enough to need a standing answer. Any member of staff switches it off in seconds without asking a manager. One seating area is kept effectively unscented by design, the front desk knows which chairs those are, and they are offered before anybody has to ask. Nobody explains why a visitor should not mind, and no product is ever called hypoallergenic.
List first, zone second, level third, policy fourth
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for postpartum, lactation and new-mother centres
Sized by the leftover public zone alone: a Mountain Breeze reed at ₹849, a SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a SOSA Vaayu at ₹11,999 covering up to 1000m³ where there is a genuine lounge and corridor. Care, feeding, lactation, examination and treatment rooms get nothing at all. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send the labelled floor plan and we will write step one for you.
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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 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.