Buy 1 Kg Sandalwood Fragrance Oil for Candle Making in India
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Which kilogram is actually cheaper than buying smaller packs? Only Mint Sandalwood. Ten 100 g packs of it cost ₹5,490 against ₹4,999 for the kilogram — the kilogram saves ₹491, or 8.9%. Straight Sandalwood's kilogram costs ₹5,026.80 and two 500 g packs cost ₹5,026.80: a saving of exactly ₹0.
So should I buy the kilogram? For Mint Sandalwood, yes, if you will use it — it is the only pack priced below ₹5.49 a gram. For straight Sandalwood, buy 500 g twice instead unless one parcel and one batch code matter to you, because the price is identical and two packs keep your options open.
Is Mint Sandalwood the same scent? No. It is a mint-and-sandalwood blend, not a single-note sandalwood. Do not swap one for the other on a 55-paise-per-candle price difference.
Both ladders, with the real prices
Bulk-buying advice assumes every oil comes in five sizes and that the biggest pack is cheapest per gram. Neither is true here. Sandalwood Fragrance Oil ships in all five sizes. Mint Sandalwood ships in three: 50 g, 100 g and 1 kg. There is no 15 g and no 500 g Mint Sandalwood. Any listing quoting you either of those is quoting a pack that does not exist.
| Pack | Sandalwood | ₹ / g | Mint Sandalwood | ₹ / g |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹93.22 | ₹6.215 | Not available | — |
| 50 g | ₹271.40 | ₹5.428 | ₹299.00 | ₹5.980 |
| 100 g | ₹502.68 | ₹5.027 | ₹549.00 | ₹5.490 |
| 500 g | ₹2,513.40 | ₹5.027 | Not available | — |
| 1 kg | ₹5,026.80 | ₹5.027 | ₹4,999.00 | ₹4.999 |
Read the two per-gram columns down rather than across and each oil's shape is obvious. Sandalwood falls twice and then stops. From 15 g to 50 g the gram price drops from ₹6.215 to ₹5.428; from 50 g to 100 g, to ₹5.027; and then it sits there, at 500 g and at 1 kg alike. Every rupee of discount that oil has to offer has been given to you by the time you reach a 100 g bottle.
Mint Sandalwood falls twice as well, but the second fall is at the kilogram. ₹5.980 at 50 g, ₹5.490 at 100 g, ₹4.999 at 1 kg. It starts dearer than straight Sandalwood at both small sizes — 10.2% at 50 g, 9.2% at 100 g — and ends 0.55% cheaper at the kilogram. It is the only oil in this scent family whose largest pack is genuinely its cheapest per gram by a margin worth acting on.
What ₹491 buys you, and what ₹0 buys you
Here is the comparison in full. It takes thirty seconds to check against the product pages yourself.
| Route to 1,000 g | Sandalwood | vs its 1 kg | Mint Sandalwood | vs its 1 kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty 50 g packs | ₹5,428.00 | kg saves ₹401.20 (7.4%) | ₹5,980.00 | kg saves ₹981.00 (16.4%) |
| Ten 100 g packs | ₹5,026.80 | kg saves ₹0.00 | ₹5,490.00 | kg saves ₹491.00 (8.9%) |
| Two 500 g packs | ₹5,026.80 | kg saves ₹0.00 | No 500 g pack exists | — |
| One 1 kg pack | ₹5,026.80 | — | ₹4,999.00 | — |
What that kilogram does buy is two conveniences, worth naming precisely. The first is one parcel instead of two, useful when consolidating a Diwali order against a single GST invoice. The second is one batch: a kilogram bottle is filled from one batch, while two packs ordered weeks apart need not be, and holding the batch constant removes a variable from a comparison that already has too many. Neither is a discount. Both are real.
The ₹491 on Mint Sandalwood, by contrast, is money. Spread across the fifty 200 g candles a kilogram makes at a 10% load, it is ₹9.82 off the fragrance line of every candle — ₹99.98 at kilogram pricing against ₹109.80 at 100 g pricing. Across ten kilograms and a 500-candle festive run, ₹4,910 stays in the business. It exists because Mint Sandalwood has no 500 g step in the middle to soften the fall.
How many candles a kilogram makes, and what the fragrance costs per candle
A kilogram is 1,000 g of oil, and how far it goes depends on two numbers you control: finished candle weight and fragrance load. CSI states load as a percentage of total finished candle weight, so a 200 g candle at 8% is 16 g of oil and 184 g of wax, not 16 g on top of 200 g. Getting that convention wrong is the commonest cause of an order that is 10% too small.
Twelve combinations, with the candle count rounded down to whole candles because a part-poured jar is not a product. Fragrance cost per candle is at kilogram pricing for each oil.
| Candle | Load | Oil per candle | Candles from 1 kg | Sandalwood / candle | Mint Sandalwood / candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 g | 8% | 8 g | 125 | ₹40.21 | ₹39.99 |
| 100 g | 10% | 10 g | 100 | ₹50.27 | ₹49.99 |
| 100 g | 13% | 13 g | 76 | ₹65.35 | ₹64.99 |
| 150 g | 8% | 12 g | 83 | ₹60.32 | ₹59.99 |
| 150 g | 10% | 15 g | 66 | ₹75.40 | ₹74.99 |
| 150 g | 13% | 19.5 g | 51 | ₹98.02 | ₹97.48 |
| 200 g | 8% | 16 g | 62 | ₹80.43 | ₹79.98 |
| 200 g | 10% | 20 g | 50 | ₹100.54 | ₹99.98 |
| 200 g | 13% | 26 g | 38 | ₹130.70 | ₹129.97 |
| 300 g | 8% | 24 g | 41 | ₹120.64 | ₹119.98 |
| 300 g | 10% | 30 g | 33 | ₹150.80 | ₹149.97 |
| 300 g | 13% | 39 g | 25 | ₹196.05 | ₹194.96 |
Two things fall out of the table. First, the per-candle difference between the two oils never exceeds about a rupee at kilogram pricing, and at the commonest commercial format — 200 g at 10% — it is 56 paise, or ₹278 across a 500-candle run. Choosing between a single note and a blend on 56 paise is optimising the wrong line.
The second is scale. At 200 g and 10% a kilogram is fifty candles; at 100 g and 8% it is 125. Work out which row you live on before deciding whether a kilogram is a bulk purchase or a routine restock, and read how much fragrance oil a candle business needs for the annual number.
The monthly volume that justifies a kilogram
Take the standard commercial format: a 200 g candle at a 10% load, 20 g of oil each, so one kilogram is fifty candles. How quickly you will pour fifty decides the pack.
| Oil | Buying 50 g | Buying 100 g | Buying 500 g | Buying 1 kg | Where the saving is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandalwood | ₹108.56 | ₹100.54 | ₹100.54 | ₹100.54 | Entirely between 50 g and 100 g: ₹8.02 a candle. Nothing after that. |
| Mint Sandalwood | ₹119.60 | ₹109.80 | No such pack | ₹99.98 | ₹9.80 a candle at 100 g, then a further ₹9.82 at 1 kg. |
For straight Sandalwood the monthly threshold is five candles, and then it disappears. One hundred grams is five 200 g candles at 10%, so from the sixth candle onwards you should buy 100 g rather than 50 g — that is where the entire discount lives, ₹8.02 per candle or 7.4% of the fragrance line. After that nothing changes. At six candles a month or six hundred, the oil costs ₹5.027 a gram, and the choice between 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg is only about order frequency and cash tied up in stock.
For Mint Sandalwood the threshold is real, and it is the kilogram. With no middle pack, the jump from ₹5.49 a gram to ₹4.999 happens in one move and costs ₹4,999 to make. The rule is turnover, not price: if you will pour fifty 200 g candles of that scent within three months — about seventeen a month — the kilogram is the right pack. Stretched over six months that is about nine a month, still defensible for a permanent line you are happy to hold as stock. Below that, buy 100 g at a time and revisit when the scent has earned its place.
A 200 g candle, costed line by line
Fragrance is the line makers argue about and rarely measure against the rest of the build. Here is a complete 200 g container candle at a 10% load, every line at CSI live pricing, September 2026, with Mint Sandalwood at kilogram pricing.
| Line | Product and pack | Unit basis | Cost per candle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wax, 180 g | Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464, 1 kg ₹507.40 | ₹0.5074 / g | ₹91.33 |
| Fragrance, 20 g | Mint Sandalwood, 1 kg ₹4,999 | ₹4.999 / g | ₹99.98 |
| Vessel | Black Matte Glass Jar, pack of 10 ₹708 | ₹70.80 each | ₹70.80 |
| Wick | Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2), 100 ₹944 | ₹9.44 each | ₹9.44 |
| Wick sticker | Candle Wick Stickers, 40 ₹100 | ₹2.50 each | ₹2.50 |
| Care sticker | Candle Care Stickers Roll, 500 ₹413 | ₹0.83 each | ₹0.83 |
| Total | Materials only — no labour, packaging carton or shipping | — | ₹274.88 |
Fragrance is ₹99.98 of ₹274.88, or 36.4% of the material cost. Swap in straight Sandalwood at kilogram pricing and the fragrance line becomes ₹100.54, the total ₹275.44, and fragrance 36.5%. That is the whole difference between the two oils on a finished candle: 56 paise, a tenth of a percentage point of the bill. Moving from a 100 g pack to the kilogram of Mint Sandalwood saves ₹9.82 a candle — about eighteen times more — and the vessel is worth more still, at ₹70.80 or 25.8% of the build.
Blend versus single note — and when to buy neither
Say this plainly, because the arithmetic pushes one way and the product does not. Mint Sandalwood is a blend. The name is the specification: mint sits over the sandalwood, giving a cooler, fresher reading of the note that sells very differently. Sandalwood Fragrance Oil is the straight single-note profile — the warm, dry, woody register Indian customers associate with puja, Diwali hampers and wedding gifting.
If your sandalwood candle is doing the traditional job — a festive line, a gifting range, a customer who asks for chandan by name — do not substitute the blend for the single note to save 56 paise a candle. You would save ₹278 across a 500-candle run and risk the reorder the run exists to generate. The reverse holds: if mint over sandalwood is the profile you want, the blend is the right oil and the ₹491 is a bonus.
One more thing worth being straight about: if your constraint is cost per candle rather than the sandalwood note itself, neither oil is where you should be looking. Woody Oud at ₹4,531.20 a kilogram sits in the same warm, base-heavy territory at ₹4.531 a gram — 9.9% less than Sandalwood, or ₹9.91 less on a 200 g candle at 10%. British Rose at ₹3,068 a kilogram and Citrus Lemon at ₹2,832 are cheaper still, doing a different job on the shelf. We say so on a page written to sell you a kilogram of sandalwood because a maker who buys the wrong oil in bulk does not come back. For the wider comparison, see premium versus cheap fragrance oils and the 2026 round-up.
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On a page titled "buy 1 kg" the commercially convenient line would be that the kilogram is always the cheaper buy. It is not. On Sandalwood Fragrance Oil the kilogram saves exactly ₹0 against two 500 g packs and exactly ₹0 against ten 100 g packs, and we have put that in the first screen rather than the small print. We would rather lose a kilogram order than have a maker discover the arithmetic afterwards.
Every price here is a live CSI variant price pulled in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification take precedence. Where a pack size does not exist — no 15 g and no 500 g Mint Sandalwood, and no fragrance-oil pack above 1 kg anywhere in the catalogue — we say so rather than quoting an approximation. The ceilings of up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 are the wax manufacturer's stated formulation limits, not regulatory limits, and they are not interchangeable between waxes.
CSI carries 92 fragrance oils, two of them sandalwood. We supply GST invoicing on every order and MSDS and IFRA documentation on request, including storage guidance for the batch you receive. For quantities above one kilogram, documentation, or help matching a wick to a jar diameter, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926. We publish no bulk discount slab, no minimum order quantity and no credit terms, so nothing here promises one.
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Fragrance prices verified September 2026: Sandalwood Fragrance Oil (sandalwood-fragrance-candle-fragrances) 15 g ₹93.22 · 50 g ₹271.40 · 100 g ₹502.68 · 500 g ₹2,513.40 · 1 kg ₹5,026.80, giving ₹6.215, ₹5.428, ₹5.027, ₹5.027 and ₹5.027 per gram. Mint Sandalwood (mint-sandalwood) 50 g ₹299.00 · 100 g ₹549.00 · 1 kg ₹4,999.00, giving ₹5.980, ₹5.490 and ₹4.999 per gram; this oil has no 15 g and no 500 g variant. Volume comparisons: 10 × ₹549 = ₹5,490 against ₹4,999 = ₹491 saved, 8.9% of ₹5,490; 10 × ₹502.68 = ₹5,026.80 and 2 × ₹2,513.40 = ₹5,026.80, both equal to the 1 kg price, so ₹0 saved; 20 × ₹271.40 = ₹5,428.00 against ₹5,026.80 = ₹401.20 saved; 20 × ₹299 = ₹5,980 against ₹4,999 = ₹981 saved. Comparison oils: Woody Oud ₹4,531.20/kg, British Rose ₹3,068/kg, Citrus Lemon ₹2,832/kg. No fragrance-oil pack larger than 1 kg exists at CSI; 5 kg and 10 kg figures on this page are simple multiples of the 1 kg price and are shown as such.
Other figures verified September 2026: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹507.40/1 kg (₹0.5074/g), stated fragrance ceiling up to 10% · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599/1 kg, stated fragrance ceiling up to 13% · Black Matte Glass Jar ₹708 per pack of 10 (₹70.80 each) · Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) ₹944 per 100 (₹9.44 each) and Thin (C1) ₹590 per 100 (₹5.90 each) · Candle Wick Stickers ₹100 per sheet of 40 (₹2.50 each) · Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413 per 500 (₹0.83 each) · Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 g ₹159.30 per 5 (₹31.86 each) · Mini Glass Jars ₹2,124 per 100 (₹21.24 each) · 150 g glass jar with lid ₹1,070 per 10 (₹107 each) · Pen Thermometer ₹354 · Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. The 200 g bill of materials totals ₹91.33 wax + ₹99.98 fragrance + ₹70.80 vessel + ₹9.44 wick + ₹2.50 wick sticker + ₹0.83 care sticker = ₹274.88, of which fragrance is 36.4%; with straight Sandalwood the total is ₹275.44 and fragrance is 36.5%. Fragrance load is a percentage of total finished candle weight. The 13% and 10% ceilings are formulation limits stated by the wax manufacturer — the maximum oil each wax holds in solution — not regulatory limits. CSI carries 92 fragrance oils, of which two are sandalwood. GST invoicing is provided on every order and MSDS and IFRA documentation, including batch storage guidance, is supplied on request via WhatsApp on +91 7397976926. No bulk discount slab, minimum order quantity or credit term is published by CSI, and none is promised here. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.