Reed Diffuser Gift for a Couple Moving Into a New Home: One Gift Two People Both Own
★ ★ Reed diffuser gifting · housewarmings, hosts, clients and festivalsReed diffusers from ₹749 · 130ml from ₹1,249 · duo gift sets from ₹1,498 · about 6 to 10 weeksAlcohol-free · made in India · a portion funds girl-child education
★ SOSA Home & Body
The gift that works when you do not know what they wear, because a room has no opinion and a person does
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"Took one to a housewarming in Whitefield instead of the usual dry-fruit box. It was the only thing on the table nobody had to find a cupboard for."
Ananya R. Bengaluru
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Bought the Day and Night duo for my sister's new flat. She has since bought the refill herself, which is the only review that matters."
Vikram S. Hyderabad
Day & Night reed duo
★★★★★
"Needed something for a client that was not a hamper and not a bottle of something. This looked considered and cost less than I expected."
Meghna J. Bengaluru
Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
★★★★★
"I never know what perfume my mother-in-law wears. A reed diffuser meant I did not have to know."
Shruti K. Mysuru
Morning Freshness reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Asked which one for a 3BHK and was told to take the 130ml for the living room rather than two 50ml bottles. Good advice, cheaper than what I was about to do."
Rahul N. Hyderabad
Fresh Brew 130ml
★★★★★
"Carried one to dinner instead of mithai. The host had four boxes of sweets on the counter already and none of them were opened."
Deepa M. Bengaluru
Evening Calm reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Took one to a housewarming in Whitefield instead of the usual dry-fruit box. It was the only thing on the table nobody had to find a cupboard for."
Ananya R. Bengaluru
Garden Bloom reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Bought the Day and Night duo for my sister's new flat. She has since bought the refill herself, which is the only review that matters."
Vikram S. Hyderabad
Day & Night reed duo
★★★★★
"Needed something for a client that was not a hamper and not a bottle of something. This looked considered and cost less than I expected."
Meghna J. Bengaluru
Mountain Breeze reed diffuser
★★★★★
"I never know what perfume my mother-in-law wears. A reed diffuser meant I did not have to know."
Shruti K. Mysuru
Morning Freshness reed diffuser
★★★★★
"Asked which one for a 3BHK and was told to take the 130ml for the living room rather than two 50ml bottles. Good advice, cheaper than what I was about to do."
Rahul N. Hyderabad
Fresh Brew 130ml
★★★★★
"Carried one to dinner instead of mithai. The host had four boxes of sweets on the counter already and none of them were opened."
✓ Alcohol-free attars from ₹379 · 3ml, 6ml and 12ml✓ No flame, no socket, nothing to switch off · about 6 to 10 weeks✓ Tell SOSA who it is for on WhatsApp +91 96192 18531
Founder Diaries · Reed Diffuser & Home Fragrance Gifting
By Sonal Sahani · ISIPCA Versailles8 min readUpdated September 2026
The awkward thing about buying for a couple is that almost nothing is genuinely joint. A kettle belongs to whoever cooks, a book belongs to whoever reads, and a perfume belongs to one of them by definition. Home fragrance is one of the few categories that belongs to the room instead of to a person, which means neither of them has to be the one who was really being bought for - and a duo set at ₹1,498 to ₹1,598 takes that one step further by giving them two bottles for two rooms.
One box, two bottles, two rooms. SOSA Day & Night duo, ₹1,498 - Morning Freshness, Malabar lemon and mint, with Evening Calm, lavender and chamomile, which are the names on the bottles. The least declarative of the three sets, which is what you want when you are guessing for two people at once.
Quick answers — read this first
What is a good joint gift for a couple moving in together? Something that belongs to the home rather than to one person. A reed diffuser duo set at ₹1,498 to ₹1,598 gives two 50ml bottles in one box, so they can put one in the living room and one in the bedroom without either taste having to win.
Why a duo set rather than a single bottle for a couple? Because a single bottle means one scent, in one room, chosen by one of them. Two 50ml bottles let them split it. Each runs about 6 to 10 weeks, with no flame, no socket and nothing to switch off. A single 50ml from ₹749 is still right if they are moving into one room.
Which duo set is safest for a couple whose taste I do not know?Day & Night at ₹1,498 - Morning Freshness, Malabar lemon and mint, with Evening Calm, lavender and chamomile. Those are the names on the bottles. It is the least declarative of the three sets, which matters when you are guessing for two people at once.
The short answer
Short answer: A reed diffuser duo set at Rs 1,498 to Rs 1,598. Home fragrance belongs to the room rather than to one partner, and two 50ml bottles let a couple put one in the living room and one in the bedroom instead of picking a single winner.
The pick: The Day & Night duo at ₹1,498 - two 50ml bottles, two rooms, and the least declarative of the three sets.
Why: It is genuinely joint, it splits across two rooms so neither person's taste has to be the one that wins, and each bottle runs about 6 to 10 weeks with nothing to switch off.
A gift cannot change how somebody's week went, and a page that suggests otherwise is not worth reading. What a small parcel does is tell a person you were thinking about them on a day when nothing made you - which is a real thing to say, and worth saying. Keep it small, because a large one asks somebody already short of energy to produce a reaction, and send the words separately, because the object cannot carry them.
What should you give a couple moving into a new home together?
Give something the home owns rather than something one of them owns. That rules out most of the obvious list: a perfume, a watch, a piece of clothing and even a good knife all end up being a gift to one person with the other standing beside them. Home fragrance is the rare category that does not, because it goes into a room that both of them walk through. A duo set of two 50ml bottles makes that explicit - Day & Night at ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded at ₹1,548 and Warmth & Bloom at ₹1,598 - so the living room and the bedroom can be handled at once, each bottle running about 6 to 10 weeks with no flame, no socket and nothing to remember. Where the duo is the wrong call: a couple moving into a studio or one rented room has one room, and two bottles in one room is not generosity, it is a second bottle in a cupboard. Send a single 50ml at ₹749 instead. A portion of every SOSA order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The test for a couple's gift is simple: if one of them moved out, whose would it be? For a bottle standing in the living room, the honest answer is neither.
For two people the useful shape is two bottles, not one bigger bottle: a duo set from ₹1,498 covers a living room and a bedroom. One room only? A 50ml from ₹749 is the right size.
One gift, two owners: why most presents quietly belong to one of them
Three things make a couple's gift different from a gift to one person, and the second one is the reason duo sets exist at all.
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The first thing
Whose gift is it, really?
Run the test before you buy: if the two of them separated next year, who would take it? For most gifts there is an obvious answer, and that answer is the person you were actually buying for. It is fine when you meant it - a birthday present should belong to somebody - but a moving-in gift is addressed to a household, and a household gift that belongs to one half of it lands slightly off.
A bottle standing in a shared room has no such owner. Neither of them chose the scent, neither of them has to like it more, and neither of them is being thanked on the other's behalf. That is the whole reason home fragrance is easy here, and it holds whether you spend ₹749 or ₹1,598.
Tip: If you can name which of the two would keep it, it is not a household gift.
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The second thing
Two people means two tastes, and one bottle cannot hold both
A couple rarely agrees about scent. One of them wants citrus in the morning, the other finds a floral too sweet, and if you send one bottle you have picked a side without meaning to - and the bottle will end up wherever the person who lost the argument does not have to walk past it.
A duo set removes the argument by giving them two. Day & Night at ₹1,498 is Morning Freshness with Evening Calm; Fresh & Grounded at ₹1,548 is Morning Freshness with Mountain Breeze; Warmth & Bloom at ₹1,598 is Fresh Brew with Garden Bloom. Two 50ml bottles per box in every case. They decide which goes where, which is a smaller and better gift than deciding for them.
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The third thing
How many rooms are they actually moving into?
This is the check that stops a duo being the wrong answer. Two bottles are for two rooms - typically the living area and the main bedroom. If the couple is moving into a studio, a single rented room or a small 1BHK where the living space and the bedroom are effectively one, you have bought one bottle for the room and one for a shelf. A single 50ml at ₹749 to ₹849 is the honest gift there.
At the other end, if their living and dining genuinely run together as one open space, the room wants a 130ml at ₹1,249 to ₹1,349 rather than a 50ml - and the 130ml x 2 sets at ₹2,498 to ₹2,598 are the version for a home with two large open rooms. Sizing is still a room decision, not a couples decision.
Tip: Count rooms before you count people. Two bottles need two rooms.
The size decision, before the scent decision
50ml or 130ml is a room question, not a budget question
The 50ml from ₹749 suits a bedroom, a study, a hallway or anybody receiving their first diffuser. The 130ml from ₹1,249 suits an open-plan living and dining area or a large 3BHK living room, and it is genuinely too much for a small closed bedroom - a bigger bottle in the wrong room gets moved into a corridor. All five scents run about 6 to 10 weeks either way.
Ask the ownership question: if they split, who would keep it?
Count rooms, not people - two bottles need two rooms.
Default to Day and Night at Rs 1,498 when both tastes are a guess.
For a studio or one shared room, send a single 50ml at Rs 749.
The SOSA principle
A couple's gift does not have to be about the couple. It is usually better when it is about the flat, because the flat is the only thing the two of them genuinely hold in common on the week they move in.
That is why a bottle in a shared room works where something personal, however well chosen, quietly picks a side.
The three duo sets, and which one suits two people
Each SOSA duo is two 50ml bottles in one box, and the difference between them is how much of an opinion you are handing over. Day & Night at ₹1,498 is Morning Freshness, Malabar lemon and mint, with Evening Calm, lavender and chamomile - the names on the bottles and a description of what is inside them, nothing more. It is the least declarative pairing and the safe choice for two people whose taste you are guessing at. Fresh & Grounded at ₹1,548 is Morning Freshness with Mountain Breeze, Himalayan pine, sage and cedar, dry and green rather than sweet, and it suits a home that leans plain rather than decorative. Warmth & Bloom at ₹1,598 is Fresh Brew, Coorg coffee and Kerala vanilla, with Garden Bloom, British rose and night-blooming jasmine - the most expressive of the three and the one to choose only if you have some idea what the two of them like.
The SOSA gift edit
Four ways to give home fragrance to a couple, and where each fails
The option
Who it suits, and where it fails
Day & Night duo · ₹1,498
Morning Freshness with Evening Calm, two 50ml. The default for a couple you are guessing about, because neither bottle takes a strong position. It fails on one practical point worth knowing: Evening Calm publishes no refill, so if they take to that bottle they will be rebuying it rather than topping it up.
Fresh & Grounded duo · ₹1,548
Morning Freshness with Mountain Breeze, two 50ml, and the driest of the three sets. Right for a home with plain surfaces and not much else going on. It fails for somebody who wants a home to smell sweet or floral, where it will read as austere rather than restrained.
Warmth & Bloom duo · ₹1,598
Fresh Brew with Garden Bloom, two 50ml, and the most decorative pairing. The one that most obviously looks like a present. It fails when you are guessing, because Fresh Brew, coffee and vanilla, is the strongest opinion in the range and the easiest of the five to get wrong for somebody else.
A single 50ml or 130ml · ₹749 to ₹1,349
The right answer when they are moving into one room or one open space. A 50ml from ₹749 for a studio or a small 1BHK, a 130ml from ₹1,249 for an open-plan living and dining area. It fails as a two-room gift, and it puts one scent in the middle of two opinions.
When it has to look like an occasion
A duo set is the readymade gift box, without anybody assembling a hamper
Two 50ml reeds in one box: Day & Night pairs Morning Freshness lemon-mint with Evening Calm lavender-chamomile at ₹1,498, Fresh & Grounded pairs lemon-mint with Mountain Breeze pine and cedar at ₹1,548, and Warmth & Bloom pairs Fresh Brew coffee-vanilla with Garden Bloom rose-jasmine at ₹1,598. The 130ml x 2 versions are ₹2,498, ₹2,548 and ₹2,598.
One honest limit, because moving-in gifts attract a lot of sentiment. A reed diffuser does not make a new place feel like a home, and nothing sold in a bottle does. What it does is narrow: a room that smells of something the two of them chose to keep, rather than of nothing in particular, is a small real difference in a flat where everything else is still in cartons. That is a reasonable thing to give two people in their first week, and it does not need to be described as anything more.
Morning Freshness and Evening Calm in one box, two 50ml bottles. The readymade housewarming and client gift, without a hamper in sight.
₹1,498 · 50ml x 2
When the gift is meant to be the big one
SOSA Safar ₹3,999 for the car, SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 for the whole home
Safar is the waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion perfume diffuser for a car or a travel bag - ₹3,999 for the SOSA-scent trios and ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios. Vaayu is the machine version of the same idea for a building: waterless cold-air nebulising of undiluted oil, rated for approximately 1000 m3 of connected air, with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, DC 12V / 1A 5W mains power and CE, RoHS and SGS marks. Both run waterless nebuliser oil - 100 gm ₹1,049, 300 gm ₹1,849 - and neither takes the ₹299 water-based Hotel Collection bottle. A rating assumes one connected body of air, so a Vaayu suits a large open home or a business and is the wrong gift for a two-bedroom flat with every door closed. It adds a scent to a space; it does not remove one.
Tell SOSA who it is for, roughly how big the room is, whether their home is already scented and what you want to spend - and you will be told which size and which scent, including the times the honest answer is the 50ml rather than the 130ml.
Ask which of them would keep it. If there is an answer, you bought a present for one person and handed it to two.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The SOSA gifting range
Two questions settle almost every reed diffuser gift, and the first one is not price. How big is the room it is going into? A 50ml suits a bedroom, a study, a hallway or a first diffuser; a 130ml suits an open-plan living and dining area, and it is genuinely too much for a small closed bedroom. Then: how much do you actually know about their taste? The less you know, the less declarative the scent should be - Morning Freshness is the safest of the five for a home you have never stood in, and Fresh Brew coffee-vanilla is the strongest opinion in the range. Price follows those two answers rather than leading them.
The SOSA gifting range
Pick the size by the room, then the scent by how little you know about them
Approx 1000 m3 of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer - a large open home or a business, not a flat
₹11,999
Three different fluids run through this range and none of them is interchangeable. Reed diffusers use their own alcohol-free reed oil. The SOSA ultrasonics - Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹5,999 - run the water-basedHotel Collection from ₹299. Vaayu and Safar run waterless nebulising oil, so the ₹299 water-based bottle never goes into either of them. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand. A portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The honest price sheet
What SOSA publishes, and what SOSA does not
Everything below is on the live product pages. Anything not on this list is not something a gifting page should state.
Attars - Adaa ₹379 / ₹669 / ₹1,149, Ameeri ₹385 / ₹679 / ₹1,165, Mastani ₹389 / ₹685 / ₹1,179 and Nawaab ₹399 / ₹699 / ₹1,199 in 3ml, 6ml and 12ml. The Attar Trio is ₹1,055, ₹1,859 or ₹3,189.
Car fragrance - nine scents from ₹449 to ₹549, each in a mild hanging format and a stronger spray at the same price, with 50ml sprays at ₹1,499 and saver combos at ₹899 to ₹949. Safar is ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios.
Candles and wax melts - Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks at ₹399 for approximately 15 to 18 hours, or ₹699 for a two-candle duo at approximately 30 to 36 hours. Woodenwick candles in jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla ₹999. Bubble Candles ₹499 unscented and ₹599 scented. Wax melts from ₹499, which need a ceramic burner at ₹599 - so they are only a complete gift for somebody who already owns one.
Not published, and therefore never stated here: how long any fragrance will be liked, delivery or dispatch timing, any festive discount, any minimum order quantity or bulk rate, and any claim about what a person will feel on receiving a gift. Those questions go to WhatsApp +91 96192 18531.
Not sure which size or which scent? Tell SOSA on WhatsApp at +91 96192 18531 four things: who it is for and how well you know them, roughly how big the room is, whether their home is already scented, and what you want to spend. You will get one straight recommendation rather than a catalogue - including the times the honest answer is the 50ml rather than the 130ml, or a single bottle rather than the duo set. Corporate and client gifting: bulk orders are welcome and custom label or logo on product is available; quantities, terms and anything corporate are discussed on WhatsApp rather than priced on a page. Bespoke composition, a fragrance composed for you by Sonal, is a real SOSA service and is also discussed there. Where SOSA is: SOSA is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune and sends orders across India. There is no SOSA shop, stockist or counter in any other city, so anything you read here about Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru or anywhere else is about the homes in those cities and not about a local branch.
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A note from Sonal
The reed diffuser is the product people are least embarrassed to give and most surprised by afterwards. What they expect is a decorative object. What it actually is, is a small piece of a household that runs for six to ten weeks and then ends, which is a very different thing from an ornament somebody has to keep forever out of politeness.
The reason I recommend it so often for gifting is unromantic: you are buying for a room rather than for a person. Personal fragrance is a taste decision, and when you cannot finish the sentence she usually wears something with..., no amount of money makes the guess better. A room does not have a signature scent it is loyal to. That is why a reed diffuser works for a colleague, a client, a mother-in-law and a friend's new flat - relationships where you may like somebody very much and still have no idea what is on their dressing table.
The one thing I would press on is size, because it is where good intentions go wrong. The 130ml is not the better gift, it is the bigger room's gift. Put it in a small closed bedroom and the person will move it to a corridor within a week. A 50ml at ₹749 in the right room beats a 130ml at ₹1,249 in the wrong one every single time, and if you want to spend more, spend it on the duo set so they get two rooms rather than one very loud one.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good joint gift for a couple moving in together?
Something addressed to the home rather than to either person. Home fragrance qualifies because it goes into a shared room. A reed diffuser duo set of two 50ml bottles at Rs 1,498 to Rs 1,598 goes one better, because they can put one bottle in the living room and one in the bedroom.
Is a duo set always better than a single bottle for a couple?
No. Two bottles are for two rooms. If the couple is moving into a studio, one rented room or a small flat where the living area and the bedroom are effectively one space, a single 50ml at Rs 749 to Rs 849 is the right gift and the second bottle would sit unused.
Which duo set should I pick if I do not know their taste?
Day and Night at Rs 1,498. It pairs Morning Freshness, Malabar lemon and mint, with Evening Calm, lavender and chamomile, and it is the least declarative of the three sets. Warmth and Bloom at Rs 1,598 contains Fresh Brew, coffee and vanilla, which is the hardest of the five to guess for somebody else.
How long does each bottle in a duo set last?
About 6 to 10 weeks, which is the only duration SOSA publishes and it is the same for the 50ml and the 130ml. If both bottles are set up on the same day, both run over roughly the same period rather than one following the other.
Can they refill the bottles afterwards?
Four of the five scents publish refills at Rs 2,399 for 300ml and Rs 3,499 for 500ml - Morning Freshness, Garden Bloom, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew. Evening Calm does not publish a refill, which is worth knowing before choosing the Day and Night set for people who like to reorder.
Take the next step
Give the flat the gift, and let the two of them decide the rooms
A duo set from ₹1,498 puts one 50ml in the living room and one in the bedroom, with no flame and nothing to switch off. Moving into a single room instead? A 50ml from ₹749 is the right answer and the second bottle would only sit in a cupboard. Tell SOSA how many rooms there are on WhatsApp.
Not sure which one suits the person you are buying for? Send SOSA their age, whether they drive, whether they like their home scented and your budget on WhatsApp, and you will get an honest answer - including when the cheaper product is the better gift.
The fragrance gift you can give without having guessed anybody's taste
SOSA — alcohol-free reed diffusers,made in India, about 6 to 10 weeks, nothing to plug in and nothing to switch off
SOSA reed duo gift sets at ₹1,498, ₹1,548 and ₹1,598 for two 50ml bottles, and ₹2,498 to ₹2,598 in 130ml, with single reeds from ₹749 and 130ml from ₹1,249. About 6 to 10 weeks, no flame, nothing to plug in. Alcohol-free, made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the gift-buying reasoning applies to any brand.
Prices and specifications verified from the live SOSA product pages, September 2026: SOSA attars - Adaa ₹379 (3ml), ₹669 (6ml) and ₹1,149 (12ml); Ameeri ₹385, ₹679 and ₹1,165; Mastani ₹389, ₹685 and ₹1,179; Nawaab ₹399, ₹699 and ₹1,199; the Attar Trio of Ameeri, Nawaab and Mastani at ₹1,055, ₹1,859 and ₹3,189. Reed diffusers - Morning Freshness ₹749, Garden Bloom and Evening Calm ₹799, Mountain Breeze and Fresh Brew ₹849 in 50ml, with 130ml from ₹1,249 and refills at ₹2,399 and ₹3,499; reed diffusers last approximately 6 to 10 weeks. Reed duo gift sets ₹1,498, ₹1,548 and ₹1,598. SOSA scented candles - Bookshop, Cozy Corner, Misty Mornings and Evening Walks at ₹399 for a single candle of approximately 15 to 18 hours and ₹699 for a two-candle duo of approximately 30 to 36 hours; Woodenwick candles in jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla at ₹999; Bubble Candles ₹499 unscented and ₹599 scented; wax melts from ₹499 with a ceramic burner at ₹599; the SOSA body massage candle ₹699. Car fragrance from ₹449, each scent available as a mild hanging format or a stronger spray at the same price, 50ml sprays ₹1,499, saver combos ₹899 to ₹949 and a discovery set of three minis from ₹699. SOSA Safar ₹3,999, or ₹4,499 for the hotel-inspired trios, is a waterless, cordless, rechargeable cold-diffusion car and travel perfume diffuser. SOSA Vaayu ₹11,999 is a waterless cold-air nebulising diffuser rated for approximately 1000 cubic metres of connected air with a Bluetooth app and timer, a 400ml tank, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting and a DC 12V / 1A 5W mains supply, CE, RoHS and SGS. The ultrasonic machines Boond ₹899, Sukoon ₹1,899 and Megh ₹5,999 run the water-based Hotel Collection from ₹299; that water-based bottle is not used in a Vaayu or a Safar, which take waterless nebuliser oil at ₹1,049 for 100 gm and ₹1,849 for 300 gm. About SOSA's location: SOSA Home & Body is an Indian fragrance house based in Pune, Maharashtra, and sends orders across India. SOSA has no shop, showroom, stockist, counter or warehouse in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru or any other city, and nothing on this page should be read as claiming one; where a city is named, it refers to the homes and the buyers in that city and nothing more. No delivery date, dispatch time or order cut-off is stated anywhere. Limits of this guide: fragrance adds a scent and does not remove, neutralise or purify odour, and no SOSA product makes any health, antibacterial, air-purifying or wellbeing claim. No claim is made about how any recipient will feel about a gift. No claim is made anywhere on this page about mood, stress, calm, sleep, comfort or wellbeing: fragrance is a scent, not a treatment, and where a product name contains a word such as Calm that is a name and not an effect. Where this guide covers sending something to a person having a difficult time, it treats a gift as a gesture of attention alongside real support and never as a substitute for a person or for professional help, and it gives no mental-health advice. No delivery date, dispatch time, order cut-off, discount or minimum order quantity is stated anywhere on this page; corporate and bulk enquiries are answered on WhatsApp. SOSA blends are SOSA's own hotel-inspired interpretations and SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel brand; the SOSA perfumes are SOSA's own compositions and are not the designer fragrances they are described as being inspired by. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
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