★ SOSA Car Perfume · Alcohol-Free · Spray or Hanging
Spray or controlled diffusion is decided by how many hours you spend in the cabin and how much deciding you want to do about it, and cabin size belongs nowhere on that list except as a note about where to put things
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★★★★★
"I wanted something I could put on without thinking about the person sitting opposite me. One pass on the wrist and it just stays where I put it."
SOSA Adaa · daytime wear
★★★★★
"The 3ml lives in my bag. I put it on after I change, never before, and that small routine has become the end of my working day."
SOSA Adaa · after clinic
★★★★★
"No alcohol hit at all, which is the whole reason I moved to an oil. It goes on warm instead of sharp."
SOSA Nawaab · roll-on attar
★★★★★
"Kept it in my bag through a full summer of site visits. Glass is small enough that it never became a thing I had to plan around."
SOSA Ameeri · 3ml carry size
★★★★★
"Wore Nawaab to a conference dinner and two people asked. In the clinic I wear nothing, which is its own answer."
SOSA Nawaab · evening wear
★★★★★
"Bought the trio to work out which one was mine before committing to a bigger bottle. Ended up on Mastani."
SOSA Attar Trio · 3ml
★★★★★
"I wanted something I could put on without thinking about the person sitting opposite me. One pass on the wrist and it just stays where I put it."
SOSA Adaa · daytime wear
★★★★★
"The 3ml lives in my bag. I put it on after I change, never before, and that small routine has become the end of my working day."
SOSA Adaa · after clinic
★★★★★
"No alcohol hit at all, which is the whole reason I moved to an oil. It goes on warm instead of sharp."
SOSA Nawaab · roll-on attar
★★★★★
"Kept it in my bag through a full summer of site visits. Glass is small enough that it never became a thing I had to plan around."
SOSA Ameeri · 3ml carry size
★★★★★
"Wore Nawaab to a conference dinner and two people asked. In the clinic I wear nothing, which is its own answer."
SOSA Nawaab · evening wear
★★★★★
"Bought the trio to work out which one was mine before committing to a bigger bottle. Ended up on Mastani."
SOSA Attar Trio · 3ml
★ The two axes this decision actually runs on
SOSA Lemon Car PerfumeFew hours, happy to decide — the sprayView ₹499
SOSA Jasmine Car PerfumeFew hours, no decisions — one mild hangingView ₹449
SOSA Sandalwood Car PerfumeMany hours, a register that holdsView ₹479
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Founder Diaries · Car Fragrance Guides · SUV & Large Cabins
What does convenience actually mean here? How many decisions you want to make, and when. A spray asks for one small decision at the start of every journey and gives you complete control in exchange. A controlled diffuser asks for a setting once and then runs to its own timer. A hanging asks for nothing and gives you no say at all. That is a real difference in daily life, and for people who drive a great deal it matters more than anything about the fragrance itself.
So when is a controlled diffuser genuinely the right answer? When the hours are long and you would rather not be deciding. The SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 gives three speeds and a one, two or three-hour auto-off timer, which is a level you set once and an end time you do not have to remember. Those are control arguments. SOSA publishes no figure for what it carries in any vehicle, and one unit is the whole plan — so the case for it is never about a big cabin.
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Facts verified 1 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: SOSA makes eight alcohol-free car fragrances — Jasmine from ₹449, Lavender and Sandalwood from ₹479, Icy Mint from ₹489, Lemon from ₹499, and Vetiver, Sea Breeze and Oud from ₹509. Each is sold in two 12ml formats whose own product pages describe them as a spray with a strong scent-throw and a hanging with a mild scent-throw, plus a 50ml car perfume spray at ₹1,499; saver combos start at ₹899. Car fragrance is a comfort and personal-preference decision. SOSA makes no health, medical or air-treatment claim of any kind, no claim that any fragrance removes, neutralises or masks an odour, and no claim that fragrance affects driving, alertness or safety. Fragrance sits over whatever a cabin already smells of: the order is find the source, clean or remove it, ventilate, and only then add scent. How far a car fragrance carries and how long it lasts depend on cabin volume, ventilation, temperature, occupancy and the day, and vary from vehicle to vehicle. Keep fragrance products out of direct sunlight and do not leave them loose in a vehicle where they could move while driving. Prices, formats and availability are subject to change — see the live product pages.
Size is the only variable in this decision that you can see from the outside, and it is the one that misleads. The two that actually decide between a spray and a controlled diffuser are how many hours you spend in the cabin and how much deciding you are willing to do about it.
Quick answers — read this first
Should hours driven matter more than SUV size in this choice? Considerably more. Hours decide whether a level has to merely start well or hold for a long time, and holding is the harder requirement by a wide margin. A short daily run forgives almost any sensible setting, while three hours in a sealed cabin exposes every weakness in a fragrance plan. Cabin size, by contrast, changes how much a source is diluted and how far it is from the back rows — a placement question, answered for nothing, and not a reason to change format.What does convenience actually mean here? How many decisions you want to make, and when. A spray asks for one small decision at the start of every journey and gives you complete control in exchange. A controlled diffuser asks for a setting once and then runs to its own timer. A hanging asks for nothing and gives you no say at all. That is a real difference in daily life, and for people who drive a great deal it matters more than anything about the fragrance itself.
So when is a controlled diffuser genuinely the right answer? When the hours are long and you would rather not be deciding. The SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 gives three speeds and a one, two or three-hour auto-off timer, which is a level you set once and an end time you do not have to remember. Those are control arguments. SOSA publishes no figure for what it carries in any vehicle, and one unit is the whole plan — so the case for it is never about a big cabin.
The short answer
Short answer: Yes. Two variables decide this: how many hours you spend in the cabin, and how much deciding you want to do. Long hours make a level that holds more valuable than a level that starts well; low tolerance for decisions makes a set-and-forget device worth paying for. Cabin size changes only where the source goes, which is free, and should not appear in the format decision at all.
The pick: Few hours and happy to decide each morning: a Lemon car perfume at ₹499 as the Spray (Strong scent-throw). Many hours and tired of deciding: the SOSA Safar at ₹3,999, for its speeds and timer.
Next step: Tell us how many hours a day you are in the car and how you feel about making a decision at the start of each journey, and we will answer on those two axes alone — ask for an SUV fragrance plan.
In this guide
The one variable everybody leads with is the one that does not appear in the answer.
Three points on the grid, from few hours to many — tap through for variants and prices
Few hours, happy to decide
SOSA Lemon Car Perfume · ₹499
The format question for a commuter
What format suits an SUV worked like a solo commuter
Plotted on your own two axes, at ₹0
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Straight answer
Should I choose between a spray and controlled diffusion based on hours driven and convenience rather than on the size of the SUV?
Yes, and I will say it as plainly as this cluster can: hours driven and how much deciding you want to do are the two real purchase variables, and cabin size is not one of them. Take the first axis. Hours in the cabin decide whether a fragrance has to merely start well or hold for a long time, and those are very different requirements. A short daily run is forgiving — nothing accumulates, nobody adapts, and almost any sensible setting survives it, which is why a spray used once at the start is a complete answer. Three hours a day is unforgiving. A sealed cabin keeps what is put into it, your own nose stops reporting accurately somewhere in the second hour, and the level you chose at departure is not the level anybody is sitting in by the end. Holding is the harder requirement, and it is the one that justifies paying for control. Now the second axis, which people leave out of the conversation entirely. Convenience here means decision load: how many small choices you are prepared to make about this, and when. A spray asks for one decision every journey and gives you complete authority over the result. A Hanging (Mild scent-throw) asks for none and gives you no say beyond removing it. A controlled diffuser sits between them — you set a speed and a duration once, and it does the rest; the SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 offers three speeds and a one, two or three-hour auto-off timer, which are arguments about control and nothing else, since SOSA publishes no figure for what it carries in any vehicle. Plot yourself on those two axes and the answer appears: few hours and happy to decide, buy the Lemon spray at ₹499; few hours and no interest in deciding, buy the Jasmine hanging at ₹449; many hours and happy to decide, a mild hanging sited mid-cabin and set low will do; many hours and tired of deciding is the one quadrant where a device earns its price. Now the concession, and it is the reason this page needs writing at all: size is the variable you can see. It is the one property of your situation you can state in three words, the one a shop can act on immediately, and the one that correlates with what people expect to spend. Hours and decision load both need a conversation. So the visible variable wins by default, and a great many people end up buying a specification their week does not justify because the thing they could most easily describe was the thing that mattered least. Car fragrance is a comfort and personal-preference decision, and SOSA makes no claim that it removes, neutralises or masks whatever a cabin already smells of. And SOSA makes no claim that fragrance has any effect on driving, alertness or safety.
Plot yourself on two axes — hours in the cabin, and how much deciding you want to do. Those two answer the spray-or-diffuser question completely. Cabin size only decides where the source goes, and that part costs nothing.
At the low-hours, happy-to-decide corner of the grid: a Lemon car perfume at ₹499 as the Spray (Strong scent-throw), used once into an aired cabin at the start of the drive. Complete control, one decision a morning, and nothing running while the car stands.
See the SOSA car perfume range ₹449 Ask for an SUV fragrance plan
Three points on a two-axis grid
Hours in the cabin and decision load, with the bodywork left out of it
The formats, placed on the two axes that matter
SOSA makes eight alcohol-free car fragrances and every one ships in the same three variants: a 12ml spray, a 12ml hanging at the same price, and a 50 ML Car Perfume Spray at ₹1,499. Above those sits one device, referenced by name rather than shown here. The product pages label the two bottles by behaviour — a Spray (Strong scent-throw) and a Hanging (Mild scent-throw) — and the device adds speeds and a timer. Place each on the hours axis and the decision axis, and the shortlist writes itself.
Low hours, high willingness to decide
SOSA Lemon Car Perfume
₹499 for the 12ml, bright citrus and alcohol-free. The spray gives you complete authority over when the fragrance exists and asks for one small decision at the start of each journey. For a short daily run that is the most control available at the lowest price.
From ₹499
High hours, moderate willingness to decide
SOSA Sandalwood Car Perfume
₹479 for the 12ml, Indian-sandalwood inspired and alcohol-free. In the hanging variant it holds a quiet steady level across a long drive, which is what the hours axis asks for. Set it low at departure and leave it rather than refreshing at the two-hour mark.
From ₹479
Two variables that decide this, and one that misleads
The first two sections below are the axes. The third is the variable everybody leads with, examined honestly rather than dismissed, because it does change something — just not the thing people think it changes. Work through all three and you will have a format, a level and a position, in that order.
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One
Hours decide whether a level must hold or merely start
This is the axis that does most of the work. A twenty-minute journey is over before anything in a cabin has had time to develop: no accumulation, no adaptation, no drift. A setting only has to be approximately right, which is why a spray — a strong opening followed by a decay nobody is present for — is a perfectly good answer. Three hours a day inverts all of it. A sealed cabin keeps what is emitted into it, so the level climbs rather than settles; your own nose quietly stops reporting around the second hour; and anybody else in the car is inside the result for the duration. The requirement becomes a level that is still welcome late on, which is a genuinely harder thing to buy and the only honest reason to spend more.
Tip: Set a long journey for its last hour rather than its first. The opening will feel understated, and that is the correct direction to be wrong in.
Sandalwood at ₹479 is low and slow, which is the quality a long-hours driver is actually shopping for — a register that is still comfortable at the end.
See SOSA Sandalwood Car Perfume →
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Two
Decision load decides who does the thinking, and how often
Nobody writes this one down, and for people who drive a great deal it decides more than the fragrance does. Ask yourself honestly how you feel about making a small choice at the start of every journey. Some people like it: the two passes before setting off are a pleasant piece of punctuation, and the complete control is worth the ritual. Others find that after three hours a day in a car they do not want one more thing to remember, and for them a device that is set once and ends itself is worth real money. That is the whole case for controlled diffusion, and it is a case about convenience rather than capability. If somebody tells you it is about a big cabin, they are selling you the visible variable.
Tip: Be honest about your own temperament rather than aspirational. A ritual you will not keep is worse than a setting you never touch.
Lemon at ₹499 as a Spray (Strong scent-throw) is the maximum-control, maximum-ritual end of the axis — nothing happens unless you make it happen.
See SOSA Lemon Car Perfume →
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Three
Size is visible, which is exactly why it misleads
Cabin volume does change two real things: a source is diluted a little more, and the back rows are further from it. Both are answered by moving the source, which costs nothing, and neither of them is a reason to choose a different format. So why does size dominate every conversation in this category? Because it is the one fact about your situation you can state in three words, the one a shop can act on in three seconds, and the one that correlates with what a customer expects to spend. Hours and decision load both require someone to ask you questions. Given a choice between a variable that needs a conversation and one that can be read off the number plate, the market picks the second one every time, and the customer pays for it.
Tip: When a recommendation changes because you mentioned the size of your vehicle and nothing else, ask what the size changed. The honest answer is the position.
A Jasmine hanging at ₹449 is the cheapest thing we make and the right answer for a large number of large vehicles, which is the whole point of this section.
See SOSA Jasmine Car Perfume →
The SOSA principle
Hours in the cabin and tolerance for decisions are the two variables that choose a format, and cabin size is a placement note that has been promoted far above its rank because it is the only one visible from the kerb.
Which is why the SOSA answer runs on a two-axis grid rather than on vehicle class, and why three of its four quadrants are answered by a bottle costing less than ₹509.
Hours against decision load, drawn as four quadrants
Here is the grid. Find the row that describes your week honestly rather than the one that describes the week you intend to have, and read across. Only one of the four quadrants justifies a device, and it is not the one with the biggest vehicle in it — vehicle size does not appear in this table at all.
The SOSA plan
Hours in the cabin against decision load, drawn as four quadrants
| Where you sit on hours and on decision load | The format that follows, and what it asks of you |
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Few hours, and you do not mind deciding each morning
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A spray, used once into an aired cabin at the start of the drive. Maximum control at minimum cost, nothing running while the car stands, and a decision small enough to become a habit inside a week. Lemon at ₹499 as the Spray (Strong scent-throw) is the whole plan. View → |
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Few hours, and you would rather decide nothing
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One mild hanging, sited where the occupied seats are, run low and then forgotten. It will also run through the parked hours, which is the trade for asking nothing of you. Jasmine at ₹449 is the least expensive thing in the range and complete here. View → |
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Many hours, and you are willing to manage it by hand
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A mild hanging sited mid-cabin, set low at departure for the end of the journey rather than the start, with fresh air used instead of recirculation when the cabin gets heavy. Sandalwood at ₹479 holds a quiet level well across a long drive. View → |
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Many hours, and you are tired of deciding
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The one quadrant where a device earns its price. The SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 offers three speeds and a one, two or three-hour auto-off timer, so the level is set once and the block ends on its own. The argument is control and convenience only; SOSA publishes no figure for what it carries in any vehicle, and one unit is the whole plan. |
If you want the format question answered for a car used like a commuter, that page is what format makes sense for an SUV worked like a solo commuter. If the hours half is where you sit, the page that puts journey length above vehicle size is whether a large SUV automatically needs more than a sedan. And the fullest version of the control argument, with refills and operating convenience included, is comparing devices on control and convenience rather than claimed coverage. SOSA makes no claim that any car fragrance removes, neutralises or masks a smell a cabin already has, and no claim that fragrance has any effect on driving, alertness or safety.
Two axes. The bodywork is not one of them.
Tell us how many hours a day you spend in the car and how you feel about deciding each morning, and we will put you on the grid.
Size is the variable you can state in three words and the market will always prefer the variable that needs no conversation — which is how people end up buying for the one property of their situation that changes the least.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
The eight scents, all in the same two formats
The grid chooses the format; the register is the only part that is purely yours
The SOSA specification, read off two axes
Three lines, each of them a quadrant rather than a rung. Every scent below exists as a 12ml Spray (Strong scent-throw), a 12ml Hanging (Mild scent-throw) at the same price, and a 50 ML Car Perfume Spray at ₹1,499. The scent is your taste; the hours and the decision load are what this page is about.
The SOSA specification on two axes
Chosen on hours driven and decision load, with size excluded on purpose
| Format | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Lemon Car Perfume
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Few hours, and a small decision each morning is welcome | ₹499 for the 12ml as the Spray (Strong scent-throw) it is sold as. The most control available at the lowest price, with nothing running while the car stands | ₹499 View → |
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SOSA Jasmine Car Perfume
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Few hours, and you would rather not think about it again | ₹449 for the 12ml in the Hanging (Mild scent-throw) variant. The cheapest thing in the range, sited forward, run low, and asking nothing of you | ₹449 View → |
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SOSA Sandalwood Car Perfume
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Many hours, managed by hand rather than by a timer | ₹479 for the 12ml. Low and slow, set at departure for the end of the journey rather than the start, with fresh air as the correction instead of a top-up | ₹479 View → |
Before any of them: answer the two questions — how many hours, and how much deciding — because those two choose the format completely and the size of the vehicle only decides where the thing goes afterwards. For the fourth quadrant, many hours with no appetite for deciding, the SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 is SOSA's waterless cold-diffusion unit for a car: 20ml of pure undiluted oil, 6.9 cm, fully cordless on a 2000 mAh Type-C battery, with three speeds and a one, two or three-hour auto-off timer, and up to ten hours continuous or about thirty hours intermittent per charge. Every one of those is an argument about control and convenience, which is the only argument this page accepts for it. Nothing there is an argument about how far it carries — SOSA publishes no figure for that in any vehicle and I will not invent one, one unit is the whole plan, and it was not listed on the live store when this page was written, so nothing here is a promise about when it can be bought. Car fragrance is a comfort and personal-preference decision, and SOSA makes no claim that any of it removes, neutralises or masks a smell a cabin already has, and no claim that fragrance has any effect on driving, alertness or safety. Where a passenger who has just got in says it is too much, that outranks this table. Your vehicle's own manual governs its fittings; ours is a contact page and a person who will reply. Ask for an SUV fragrance plan.
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A note from Sonal
When somebody writes to me about a car, the first thing they tell me is almost always what the car is. The second thing, if I ask, is how long they are in it. Those two facts arrive in that order every single time, and they are useful in exactly the reverse order. I have stopped being surprised by it, because the first fact is visible and the second one requires a person to think about their own week.
The two questions I actually need are short. How many hours a day are you in that cabin, and how do you feel about doing something about the fragrance at the start of every journey? With those two answers I can name a format and a level without knowing anything else about the vehicle, and I will be right far more often than if I knew the model and nothing else.
So that is the whole of this page: answer the two questions honestly, buy what the quadrant says, and let the size of the car decide only where you hang the thing. SOSA makes no claim that a car fragrance removes, neutralises or masks anything a cabin already smells of, and no claim that fragrance has any effect on driving, alertness or safety. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
Does cabin size change nothing at all in this decision?
It changes where the source goes and nothing else. A larger cabin dilutes a source a little more and puts the rear rows further from it, so placement matters more than in a small car. That is answered by moving the thing, which costs nothing. It never changes whether a spray or a controlled diffuser is the right format for how you use the vehicle.
How many hours a day make a device worth considering?
There is no threshold I would publish, because it depends as much on your tolerance for deciding as on the clock. What I would say is that below about an hour a day almost nobody needs one, and above two or three hours a day the question becomes genuinely reasonable — not because the fragrance must be stronger, but because a level that holds across a long stretch is harder to manage by hand.
Is a spray really as good as controlled diffusion for short drives?
For short drives it is often better, because you are present only for the opening and a spray is the format that is genuinely best at openings. It also produces nothing while the car is parked, which a continuous source cannot claim. The only thing it asks of you is a small decision each morning, and that is a temperament question rather than a quality one.
What if I drive long hours but hate spending on gadgets?
Then take the third quadrant: a mild hanging sited mid-cabin, set low at departure for the end of the journey, with fresh air rather than recirculation as your correction when the cabin gets heavy, and a firm rule against topping up at the two-hour mark. It is managed entirely by hand and it works. The device buys convenience, not a better result.
What exactly does the SOSA Safar give me over a bottle?
Speeds and an end time. The SOSA Safar at ₹3,999 is waterless cold diffusion of pure undiluted oil, fully cordless, with three speeds and a one, two or three-hour auto-off timer, so a level is set once and a block ends without you. Those are convenience and control. SOSA publishes no figure for what it carries in any vehicle, one unit is the whole plan, and it was not listed on the live store when this page was written.
Answer two questions. Ignore the third.
SOSA — Car Fragrance for Large Cabins hours and convenience, not size
How many hours a day are you in the cabin, and how much deciding do you want to do about it? Those two answers name the format; the size of the vehicle only decides where the source hangs: eight alcohol-free car scents from ₹449, each as a Spray (Strong scent-throw), a Hanging (Mild scent-throw) or a 50 ML Car Perfume Spray at ₹1,499. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
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More from SOSA
- SOSA Lemon Car Perfume - maximum control at the lowest price, for the few-hours quadrant (₹499)
- SOSA Sandalwood Car Perfume - a quiet level that holds when the hours are long (₹479)
- Comparing devices on control and convenience rather than claimed coverage
- Ask us: Ask for an SUV fragrance plan
- Brand: Founder story — why SOSA exists
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the placement and intensity advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 1 October 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: SOSA makes eight alcohol-free car fragrances — Jasmine from ₹449, Lavender and Sandalwood from ₹479, Icy Mint from ₹489, Lemon from ₹499, and Vetiver, Sea Breeze and Oud from ₹509. Each is sold in two 12ml formats whose own product pages describe them as a spray with a strong scent-throw and a hanging with a mild scent-throw, plus a 50ml car perfume spray at ₹1,499; saver combos start at ₹899. Car fragrance is a comfort and personal-preference decision. SOSA makes no health, medical or air-treatment claim of any kind, no claim that any fragrance removes, neutralises or masks an odour, and no claim that fragrance affects driving, alertness or safety. Fragrance sits over whatever a cabin already smells of: the order is find the source, clean or remove it, ventilate, and only then add scent. How far a car fragrance carries and how long it lasts depend on cabin volume, ventilation, temperature, occupancy and the day, and vary from vehicle to vehicle. Keep fragrance products out of direct sunlight and do not leave them loose in a vehicle where they could move while driving. Prices, formats and availability are subject to change — see the live product pages.