Bulk Candle Fragrance Oil Supplier in Kolkata

How much fragrance oil a Kolkata candle business goes through

At an 8% load, every 200 g candle uses 16 g of oil, so each 1,000 candles needs 16 kg. The table turns candles a month into kilograms a month:

At an average of ₹5,616.15 per kilogram across the first four Kolkata shortlist oils, 5 kg a month is about ₹28,081 and 10 kg about ₹56,162 of oil.

Reorder points: never run out mid-festival

Storing 5–10 kg of fragrance oil

Keep bottles sealed, upright, out of sunlight and off hot walls or rooftop rooms. Oil does not absorb moisture from the air, but heat and light shorten its life, and open bottles lose their top notes. Humidity is the storage problem here: sealed wick and packaging stock matter as much as the oil. Oil itself keeps well sealed, cool and away from light.

Decant a working bottle for daily use rather than opening the kilogram every day, and date every bottle on arrival so the oldest is used first. Storage for the rest of the workshop is in what humidity actually damages.

One Kolkata buyer type, costed

Puja-to-Christmas studio (Salt Lake, New Town). Earthy and sandal profiles for Puja, spiced gourmands for Christmas. Plan two production runs, not one.

Say that buyer pours 350 candles of 180 g. At 8% each candle takes 14.4 g of oil, so the run needs 5.04 kg — about 5.0 kg in total, split across however many scents the run carries. If it were all Gilli Mitti (Patchouli), the oil would cost about ₹45,158 at the 1 kg price.

A second Kolkata buyer: christmas café and retail seller. Park Street-style Christmas demand favours warm gourmands. Buy after Diwali, pour in early December. For 250 candles of 200 g at 8%, the oil comes to 4.00 kg — with Cinnamon Vanilla at ₹4,554.80 per kg, about ₹18,219.

What Kolkata changes about bulk supply

Kolkata is humid subtropical, with a hot, sticky summer, a strong June–September monsoon and a short, mild winter. Humidity is the storage problem here: sealed wick and packaging stock matter as much as the oil. Oil itself keeps well sealed, cool and away from light.

Gilli Mitti — the smell of rain on earth — is an obvious story in a city with a monsoon like Kolkata's; test it early because earthy profiles need a careful wick.

Kolkata's humidity is a storage issue more than a candle issue. Seal wicks, labels and cartons; oil keeps well if the cap is closed.

Kali Puja falls on the night of Diwali, so Kolkata's lamp demand peaks on the same date as the rest of India — a second, separate peak after Puja.

Warm, humid months push a maxed-out candle towards sweating; the short winter is kind to soy. Durga Puja (Ashtami on 18 October), Kali Puja on the night of Diwali, and Christmas on Park Street give Kolkata three separate buying peaks.

The two columns on the right of the calendar are working back from the festival: six weeks to test a new oil in your wax and jar, and four weeks to have production quantities on the shelf. They are planning margins, not delivery promises — transit time to Kolkata is confirmed on WhatsApp when you order.

Three oils to start with

Frequently asked questions