I am going away for a month. What should I do with my SOSA Safar?

There is a version of this page that reads beautifully and is entirely invented: leave the cell at a particular level, store it at a particular temperature, expect a particular loss over four weeks. Every one of those sentences needs a figure SOSA has never published. What I can give you instead is one real note about sun and a dashboard, one marker line on a bottle, and the honest shape of the gap.

The answer, in full

Less than you might expect, and the reason matters. SOSA publishes no storage instruction for Safar, no battery-cycle life and no self-discharge figure, so every confident paragraph you have read about putting a diffuser away for a month was written by somebody who had no figure either. One published note does bear on it: keep Safar in a cup-holder or a door pocket rather than in direct sun on a closed dashboard. A car standing in the open for four weeks is exactly the condition that note speaks to, so take the unit with you or put it somewhere shaded indoors. Then do the one thing that pays you back: mark the oil level on the 20ml bottle with a marker pen and write the date beside it. SOSA publishes the refill prices and no consumption rate, so no refill interval and no running cost exist to quote. Four weeks in which the car does not move are not four weeks of your driving, so mark the bottle again on the day you return and read your own month from there. Switch the unit off, and leave the rest alone, because there is nothing published to follow. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.

Three things worth doing, and three claims I am not making

One of these is a published note applied to your situation. One is a measurement only you can take. The third is the part of the question that has no answer at all, and saying so is more use than filling it in.

The placement note: the only published guidance that touches this

SOSA publishes one note about where Safar belongs: keep it in a cup-holder or a door pocket rather than in direct sun on a closed dashboard. That note was written for ordinary driving, and it is the only published guidance that touches a car left standing. Four weeks parked in the open is the condition it describes, so carry the unit indoors with you, or move it somewhere shaded. That is an application of a published note and not a storage procedure, because SOSA publishes no storage procedure.

One published note, applied. There is no procedure underneath it.

The bottle: mark the level, write the date, and go

Take a marker pen to the 20ml bottle, draw a line at the oil level and write today's date beside it. SOSA publishes the refill prices and no consumption rate, so no refill interval and no running cost exist to quote. That makes your own marked bottle the only interval that will ever be true for your driving, and it makes a month away useful rather than wasted: the line you drew before you left is the start of a clean reading. The published refill prices are ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm, and the gap between refills is not published at all.

The battery: nothing is published, so nothing is claimed

What is published is a 2000 mAh battery, Type-C charging with the cable in the box, and up to ten hours of continuous running or thirty hours intermittent per charge. Those are running figures per charge. SOSA publishes no battery-cycle life and no self-discharge figure, so there is no published answer to what a spell of standing does, in either direction. So I am not going to tell you to leave it full, or half full, or empty, because not one of those instructions exists on the record. Switch the unit off and deal with it when you are back.

Switch it off. Everything beyond that would be a figure nobody has.

Does a month away change which scent goes back in the bottle?

No, and nothing published would support it if it did. There is no ranking of the nine car scents by strength or by longevity, and no published note about any of them and a bottle that has been sitting, so there is nothing to work from. The nine run ₹459 to ₹559, and the scent you want in the car on the day you get back is the one to put in.

If the month away is the moment you decide to start a clean reading, the nebuliser oils are the refill line SOSA sells for Safar: ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. Prices published, interval not. See the nebuliser refill →

Four weeks away: what is published, and what has no answer

One more reason to mark the bottle before you go rather than after. If the only line you have is the one you drew on the day you came home, your first reading will mix four weeks of a parked car with however long you had been driving before that, and the number will mean nothing. Two lines and two dates, with the month away sitting between them, give you a reading about your driving and not about your holiday.

“I would rather tell you that four weeks of standing has no published answer than hand you a storage ritual with a figure invented inside it.”

Four moves before you leave the car for a month

1. Take the unit out of a car that will stand in the open for four weeks.
2. Mark the oil level on the 20ml bottle and write today's date beside it.
3. Switch it off. No standing or storage figure is published either way.
4. Mark the bottle again on the day you are back, and read from there.

Questions, answered