15 g trials from ₹68.44 · 100 g from ₹300Five sizes per oil — 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g, 1 kgStocked in India · ships nationwide
CSI buying guides · Patna
Buying scent online is not a gamble. It is a two-step order: ₹390.90 to find out what you like, then ₹2,033.88 to pour it properly.
★★★★★
"…I found what am looking for strong fragrance in cold throw and hot throw…"
Emma BecharaJun 2026
British Rose Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"…Packing is done very carefully and happy for that!…"
Kavitha murthyOct 2025
Fresh Strawberries
★★★★★
"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Quality wick, works very well"
AshwiniSep 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
ThenirvaofficialVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★★
"The jars were of good quality"
Soumili GopeVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid
★★★★★
"…I found what am looking for strong fragrance in cold throw and hot throw…"
Emma BecharaJun 2026
British Rose Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"…Packing is done very carefully and happy for that!…"
Kavitha murthyOct 2025
Fresh Strawberries
★★★★★
"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Quality wick, works very well"
AshwiniSep 2025
Eco Candle Wicks
★★★★★
"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
ThenirvaofficialVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★★
"The jars were of good quality"
Soumili GopeVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. Two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis; wording is otherwise unedited.
✓ Five sizes listed on most oils✓ Stated notes, loads & cure times on the page✓ GST invoicing & documentation on WhatsApp
Candle Business Guides · Patna
Ordering scent you have not smelled feels like the riskiest click in candle making, and it stops being risky the moment you split it into two orders instead of one. This guide gives you the exact sequence — which of the five listed sizes to choose, what a first order costs to the rupee, and what to check when the box opens in a Patna July.
₹2,424.78
a complete two-step first order — four 15 g trials at ₹390.90 to shortlist, then two 100 g bottles, a kilo of wax, twenty wicks and ten jars at ₹2,033.88 · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What size should I order first?15 g to smell, 100 g to pour. Most CSI oils are listed in five sizes — 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg. A 15 g bottle is a smelling sample and pours barely one 120 g jar; a 100 g bottle pours ten at an 8% load, which is enough to test two wick sizes and two burn dates.
How do I judge an oil I cannot smell first? By what the page states: the note pyramid, the stated strength wording, the stated soy load and cure, the vanillin figure where given, and any published reviews. Four of those are free to read. None of them replaces a jar you pour and burn yourself, which is why the trial step exists.
What should I check when the box arrives? Count against the invoice, check every cap, weigh one bottle on your own scale, and let the box reach room temperature before you sniff anything. In a Patna July, also dry and warm your jars before pouring — the glass will be cooler than the air and condensation is what ruins first pours.
The short answer
Two orders, not one: the first is small and exists only to decide; the second is the one you pour. Combining them is how makers end up with 500 g of a scent they are lukewarm about.
Skip the 50 g rung on a first pour: 50 g gives five jars, which is not enough to change two variables and keep a jar back for a customer to smell. The 100 g bottle costs more and answers more.
Read the page like a spec sheet: stated notes, stated strength wording, stated soy load, stated cure, vanillin where given. Where a field is missing, that is information — the oil simply needs a more careful test.
Segment width is each line's share of the ₹2,424.78 total. The fragrance is the largest single block at ₹844.88 — more than the wax and the jars separately — which is exactly why the ₹390.90 trial step at the front is cheap insurance rather than an extra cost.
How should a candle maker in Patna buy fragrance oils online for the first time?
In two orders. First spend ₹390.90 on four 15 g bottles chosen across different families — British Rose ₹94.40, Fresh Strawberries ₹113.28, Sandalwood ₹93.22 and Zesty Lemon ₹90 — and smell them over a week on paper blotters, not from the bottle neck. Then order the pouring step: 100 g of the two you would put your own name on, a kilo of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599, twenty Eco Candle Wicks at ₹118 and ten 120 g amber jars at ₹472. With British Rose and Sandalwood that second order is ₹2,033.88, and the whole sequence ₹2,424.78. Nine 120 g jars at an 8% load consume 993.6 g of wax and 9.6 g of oil each, so the kilo lands almost exactly and you keep about 113 g of oil for a second round. Skip the 500 g and 1 kg rungs entirely until one jar has cured a fortnight and burned three hours in a closed room. On arrival, count against the invoice, check the caps, weigh one bottle, and let the box reach room temperature before judging any smell.
One line: buy 15 g to decide and 100 g to pour, keep the wax, wick and load identical across all nine jars, and let your own burn test — not the bottle — pick what you scale.
Ready to start? British Rose 15 g at ₹94.40, Sandalwood 15 g at ₹93.22, Fresh Strawberries 15 g at ₹113.28 and Zesty Lemon 15 g at ₹90 — four families to smell for ₹390.90 before you commit to anything.
Every size on the page is honest about what it weighs. None of them tells you what it is for. That is the decision that costs money.
Most CSI fragrance oils list five sizes, and the checkout treats them as interchangeable quantities of the same thing. They are not. Each rung has a job, and each rung has a specific way of going wrong. The table below is the decision, not the price list — the arithmetic behind it is simply that a 120 g jar at an 8% load carries 9.6 g of oil, and a 200 g candle carries 16 g.
The five rungs · what each is for and how each goes wrong
Choose the rung by the question you are answering, not by the price
Size
The job it does
120 g jars at 8%
How it goes wrong
Click it when
15 g
Smelling and shortlisting several oils at once
1
People try to pour a candle from it and judge the scent from a single under-cured jar
You have four or more candidates and no first-hand knowledge of any of them
50 g
One small batch of a scent you are already fairly sure about
5
Five jars cannot hold two wick sizes, two burn dates and a customer sample at once
You are replacing a nearly finished bottle, not testing
100 g
A full test round plus a repeat on the winner
10
Rarely goes wrong. Its only cost is that you will own leftovers — which is the point
Almost always, on a first pouring order
500 g
A proven scent going into production for a season
52
Bought before a fortnight-cured jar has been burned, on the strength of a bottle sniff
One recipe has passed your own burn test and you have somewhere for 52 jars to go
1 kg
A repeat bestseller you reorder without thinking
104
Bought for the per-gram saving, which on many oils is zero above 100 g
You have sold the previous 500 g and know the reorder rate
Worked out above: jars per pack = pack weight ÷ 9.6 g of oil per 120 g jar at an 8% load (15 g → 1, 50 g → 5, 100 g → 10, 500 g → 52, 1 kg → 104). Oil per 200 g candle = 16 g, so a 100 g bottle covers six 200 g candles and a kilo covers 62. Load is calculated as a share of the finished candle — a 200 g candle at 8% is 184 g of wax plus 16 g of oil; some product pages phrase the same percentage as a share of total wax weight, which shifts the figure slightly and is worth noticing when you scale.
There is a second reason the 100 g rung wins on a first order, and it is not about jars. It is about the second round. A test that produces a clear winner almost always also produces one obvious question — would this be better at a slightly higher load, or on the thicker wick? Answering that needs oil you already own. Buy 50 g and you will be reordering before you can answer it; buy 100 g and the answer costs you nothing but an evening.
The 15 g bottle is for your nose, not your wax
Fifteen grams is about one 120 g jar at 8%, and a single jar tells you almost nothing — you cannot compare it against anything, and a lone under-cured candle is the most misleading object in candle making. Use the trial bottles properly instead: put two drops on a paper blotter, label it, and smell it at ten minutes, an hour and a day. You are looking for what survives, because the note that is still there after a day is the note your customer will meet when the jar has been burning for an hour. Then pour the ones that survive. The method for the pouring stage is in how to compare two fragrance oils using a controlled burn test.
Four oils to build a first order around
These four are chosen because their pages are unusually informative, they sit in four different families, and all four are listed at every rung from 15 g to 1 kg — so the same shortlist carries you from smelling to production without changing oils. Each card shows every listed size and how many 120 g jars the pack pours at 8%.
1
Floral · the best-documented page here
British Rose Fragrance Oil
A single-note rose, and the page a beginner should read first because it states almost everything you would ask for: strength "Moderate to strong — clean and noticeable throw", a measured flashpoint of 192°C, vanillin content 0% — no discolouration or yellowing in wax, a soy load of up to 10% with a 48 to 72 hour cure and up to 6% for paraffin. It is also honest by omission: this page never mentions IFRA at all, which is worth knowing rather than assuming. Emma Bechara's five-star review says she "found what am looking for strong fragrance in cold throw and hot throw" — one buyer, in their wax, not a measurement.
Size
Price
Per kg
120g jars @ 8%
15 gm
₹94.40
₹6,293.33
≈1
50 gm
₹212.40
₹4,248
≈5
100 gm
₹342.20
₹3,422
≈10
500 gm
₹1,593
₹3,186
≈52
1 kg
₹3,068
₹3,068
≈104
₹54.75 of oil per 200 g candle at 100 g pricing · ₹49.09 at 1 kgBuy British Rose
2
Woody / creamy · the gifting jar
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
The scent that does the most work in an Indian gifting candle, and a good partner to rose in a first test because the two behave nothing alike. The page states a strength of "Moderate to strong — elegant and lasting throw", a measured flashpoint of 203°C, vanillin content 0% so white and frosted glass stay clean, and a soy load of up to 10% with a 48 to 72 hour cure. Its stated profile is warm creamy sandalwood over a subtle earthy depth. Note the page also carries a superlative about having the range's highest flash point; another CSI oil is listed higher, so ignore that line and use the number.
Size
Price
Per kg
120g jars @ 8%
15 gm
₹93.22
₹6,214.67
≈1
50 gm
₹271.40
₹5,428
≈5
100 gm
₹502.68
₹5,026.80
≈10
500 gm
₹2,513.40
₹5,026.80
≈52
1 kg
₹5,026.80
₹5,026.80
≈104
₹80.43 of oil per 200 g candle — flat per gram from 100 g upwardBuy Sandalwood
3
Fruity · the one that teaches you to read carefully
Fresh Strawberries
A bright fruity-creamy blend with a stated pyramid of ripe strawberry, green leaf and citrus zest over sweet rose, honeydew and peach, on vanilla sugar, light musk and creamy sandalwood — and a useful lesson in reading a page properly. One block on this listing describes the strength as "High" while a technical row further down says "Medium". Both are on the same page. The number that actually helps is the stated candle usage rate of 6–9% of total wax weight, which is narrower than most, and a wax-melt rate of 8–12%. Two published five-star reviews, one of them praising the packing.
The lowest-priced 100 g bottle of these four at ₹360, and the one whose page is most specific about how to start: it states a strength of "Moderate — present and noticeable, never overpowering", 0% vanillin, a soy load of up to 10% and paraffin up to 6%, cure times of 48–72 hours for soy and 24–48 for paraffin, and advises that it performs best at 8–10% in soy with 8% as the first test. It also declines to state a flash point, listing it as available on request or via the SDS — so no flash point is quoted here. A clean, bright jar for a hot Patna April.
Size
Price
Per kg
120g jars @ 8%
15g
₹90
₹6,000
≈1
50g
₹200
₹4,000
≈5
100g
₹360
₹3,600
≈10
500g
₹1,720
₹3,440
≈52
1kg
₹3,400
₹3,400
≈104
₹57.60 of oil per 200 g candle at 100 g pricing · ₹54.40 at 1 kgBuy Zesty Lemon
Do not judge an oil by the first ten seconds out of the bottle. Neat fragrance oil at room temperature smells nothing like the same oil at 8% in cured wax with a flame on it — the top notes are enormous and the base is barely present. Makers reject good oils because the neat sniff was "too sharp", and buy weak ones because the neat sniff was lovely. Use a blotter, wait a day, and judge what is left. The difference between the bottle, the cold jar and the lit candle is set out in why your candle fragrance smells different after burning.
The costed two-step order
Here is the whole thing, line by line, at live September 2026 prices. Step one is for your nose. Step two is for your wax. Nothing in either step is optional, and nothing in either step is speculative.
A Patna first order · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Two steps, ₹2,424.78, and nine labelled test jars at the end of it
120 gm capacity, 6 cm × 6.5 cm · nine to pour, one spare
Step two subtotal
₹2,033.88
Nine poured jars, two scents, one wick size
Both steps
₹2,424.78
₹269.42 a jar across nine — against ₹152.08 of materials in one poured jar
Two figures in that table deserve a second look. The fragrance is ₹844.88 of a ₹2,033.88 pouring order — more than the wax and the wicks together — which is the real reason to spend ₹390.90 deciding first. And nine jars use only 86.4 g of the 200 g of oil you bought, so the 113.6 g left is not waste: it is the second round, at a higher load or on a thicker wick, already paid for. The materials inside one British Rose jar come to ₹152.08 — 110.4 g of wax at ₹66.13, 9.6 g of oil at ₹32.85, a ₹5.90 wick and a ₹47.20 jar. Add a 3–5% allowance for spills and top-ups when you plan any batch; that is our planning figure, not a published one.
Do not order jars and wax from one place and oil from another on a first order. Not for loyalty — for diagnosis. When nine jars come from one set of materials and one of them tunnels, you have four variables to examine. When the wax arrived from one seller, the wick from another and the jar from a third, you have four variables and three invoices, and no way to ask a sensible question of anyone. Keep the first test's materials together, and once a recipe works you can source however you like. The single-supplier argument in full: can I buy all my candle making materials from one supplier.
The CSI principle
Buy the decision before you buy the quantity.
₹390.90 of trial bottles cannot make a single saleable candle, and that is what makes them the most valuable line on the order. Every rupee after them is spent on something you have smelled, in a family you have chosen, at a size you can justify. Makers who skip step one do not save the ₹390.90 — they spend it again later, on a 500 g bottle they are quietly disappointed by.
What to check when the box opens
The five minutes after a box is opened are the only cheap chance you get to catch a problem. Spend them properly.
CSI ships across India and does not publish delivery days or courier details, so this section says nothing about how long a parcel takes. What it does say is what to do the moment it arrives — and in Patna the answer changes a little with the month, because a box that has travelled through a humid August and a box that has travelled through a dry May do not arrive in the same condition.
1
Count and match before anything elseOpen the box on a clear table, lay every item out, and match it against the invoice line by line — oil sizes, wick variant, jar count. Do this before you open a single cap. If something is short or wrong, you want to be reporting it from a laid-out table, not from memory.
2
Check every cap and the inside of the bagRun a finger around each cap and look at the bag or wrap the bottles travelled in. You are looking for a loose cap or a trace of oil, not for damage to the box. A bottle that arrived fine and was then stood on its side with a half-turned cap is a slow leak you will find in a fortnight.
3
Let the box reach room temperature before you sniffThis matters more in Patna than in a mild city. Oil that has spent a day somewhere hot reads sharp and thin; oil that arrives on a cold January morning is thicker and reads muted and closed. Neither is the oil's real character. Leave everything on the shelf for a few hours, then smell it.
4
Weigh one bottle on your own scalePut a 100 g bottle on the scale you will use for batching, note the gross weight, and write it on the bottle. It confirms your scale reads sensibly, gives you a tare you can subtract for the rest of the bottle's life, and turns "about half left" into a number. A weighing scale at ₹354 is the cheapest accuracy you will ever buy.
5
Label, date and shelve — upright, capped, out of the sunWrite the opening date on each bottle. No CSI page states a shelf life or a storage instruction for any oil, so treat this as ordinary workshop practice rather than a rule from a specification: upright, capped tight, off the floor, away from the wall the afternoon sun hits, and nothing decanted into an unlabelled container.
6
Dry and warm the jars before the first pourIn a Patna monsoon, glass that has been sitting in a cupboard is cooler than the air, and the moment you bring it out it fogs. Wipe each jar, stand them somewhere warm and dry for an hour, and pour into warm glass. Half the wet-spot complaints in July are condensation that was already on the glass before the wax arrived.
Ask for the GST invoice with the order, not after it
If you are running the candles as a business — and in Patna a great deal of selling happens through Instagram and WhatsApp rather than a shop — say so when you order rather than chasing paperwork afterwards. GST invoicing, an SDS or IFRA documentation on a specific oil, and bulk pricing above the listed 1 kg pack are all handled on WhatsApp, per order and per oil. On licensing and registration generally, do I need a licence to make and sell candles in India is the place to start.
Shortlist decided? Move to the pouring order: British Rose 100 g at ₹342.20, Sandalwood 100 g at ₹502.68, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg at ₹599 and twenty Eco Candle Wicks at ₹118. GST invoicing and documentation on request.
A test only means something if everything except the one variable stays fixed. The trouble is that in Patna the weather is itself a variable, so the honest approach is to hold the recipe constant and adjust your process for the month you happen to be pouring in. The table sets out what stays and what moves. Every figure in it is general material behaviour you can check yourself with a thermometer, not a statistic about the city.
Hold constant, adjust for the month
The same nine-jar test, poured in May, in July and in January
Variable
Hold it at
Pouring in May
Pouring in July
Pouring in January
Fragrance load
8% in every jar
No change — resist raising it because the room is hot
No change
No change — a cold room flatters nothing, but the recipe is the recipe
Wax and wick
One wax, one wick size across all nine jars
No change
No change
No change
Add temperature
As the wax page states — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 80–90°C
Reaches temperature quickly; watch the thermometer, not the clock
Unchanged
Cools fast while you weigh; keep the melt covered
Jar temperature
Warm, dry glass
Already warm — just wipe the dust off
Warm and dry for an hour first — condensation is the July problem
Warm properly — cold glass gives wet spots and frosting
Pour speed
Slow and steady
Normal
Normal
Slower — wax sets against cold glass before it has levelled
Cure
A fortnight, lids on, in a closed carton
Keep the carton out of the sun and off a warm floor
Keep the carton closed and off a damp floor
No change
Where you judge it
A closed room with nothing else scented
Any room
Any room
A warm room — cold throw judged on a cold morning reads far weaker than it is
That last row is the one Patna makers get caught by, and it costs good oils their place in a range. Cold throw — the scent a jar gives off unlit — depends on molecules leaving the wax surface, and a January morning slows that down. A jar that seems dead on a foggy morning can be perfectly good in a warm sitting room that evening. Judge cold throw in the conditions your customer will keep the candle in, note the room temperature alongside the score, and never eliminate an oil on the strength of one cold morning.
Do not raise the load because a hot room made the candle smell weaker. Two different things are happening in a Patna May, and the fix for one makes the other worse. A hot room genuinely does change how you perceive a scent; it also softens the wax surface so more oil sits at the top. Pushing the load higher on a soy container candle invites sweating and a poorer burn without reliably giving you more throw. Hold 8%, cure properly, and change the wick or the oil instead. The mechanism is explained in can too much fragrance oil make a candle smell weaker, and the summer-specific version in best candle scents for summer in India.
Working back to 8 November
A first online order has one hard deadline in it, and in Patna the deadline is tighter than the national one. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November, and Chhath follows within the same fortnight, on the sixth day of the bright half of Kartik. That is two selling peaks days apart, with no gap in between to reorder into. For a maker whose oils are still being chosen, the sequence has to start about eight weeks out.
Counting backwards from 8 November 2026: a fortnight of cure means pouring by 25 October. Ordering the pouring step with time to spare means placing it in the first week of October. Running a nine-jar test and cure before that means the trial bottles need to be in your hands by mid-September. If you are reading this later than that, do the honest thing — shorten the shortlist rather than the cure. Two oils tested properly beat four oils poured in a hurry, and an under-cured candle sold in the Kartik fortnight costs you the customer who would have reordered at Saraswati Puja.
Nobody in Patna has ever regretted spending four hundred rupees to find out what they like. Plenty have regretted spending three thousand to find out what they do not.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials. We do not sell finished candles, and we are not a manufacturer of wax or fragrance oil. A supplier writing this page has an obvious incentive to send a first-time buyer straight to a 500 g bottle. We are telling you to spend ₹390.90 on four bottles you cannot sell a candle from, because the maker whose first nine jars worked is the one still ordering in three years.
Every price and pack size here is live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where the current price always takes precedence. Stated strengths, loads, cure times, vanillin figures and flash points are quoted only where the product page states them — the flash points for British Rose and Sandalwood are measured values published on those pages, and Zesty Lemon's page gives none, so none is quoted. Where a page contradicts itself, as Fresh Strawberries does on strength, we say so instead of picking the flattering half. No CSI page states a shelf life or storage specification, so the storage advice here is ordinary workshop practice.
We ship across India and take bulk orders on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926; we publish no delivery days, courier names or shipping rates and do not imply any here. For a GST invoice, an SDS, IFRA documentation on a specific oil, or pricing above the listed 1 kg pack, message that line.
Frequently asked questions
How do I buy candle fragrance oil online in Patna?
Order from the CSI store the way you would from any national supplier — the catalogue, prices and specifications are on the product pages, the store ships across India, and larger or recurring orders go through WhatsApp on +91 7397976926. There is no CSI shop in Patna. Buy in two steps: 15 g trials to shortlist, then 100 g bottles to pour. A full first order of trials, two oils, wax, wicks and ten jars comes to ₹2,424.78.
Is a 15 g fragrance oil sample worth buying?
Yes, for smelling — not for pouring. Fifteen grams is about one 120 g jar at an 8% load, and one jar cannot be compared against anything. Use blotters instead: two drops on paper, labelled, smelled at ten minutes, an hour and a day. Four 15 g bottles across four families cost ₹390.90 and remove the guesswork from a ₹2,000 pouring order. Per gram trials are the dearest rung — British Rose is ₹6.29 a gram at 15 g against ₹3.42 at 100 g.
How many candles will 100 g of fragrance oil make?
At an 8% load, ten 120 g jars (9.6 g of oil each) or six 200 g candles (16 g each), with a little left over. That is the reason 100 g is the right first pouring size: nine jars is enough to run two wick sizes across two burn dates and still keep one back for a customer to smell, and the leftover funds a second round on the winner without another order.
What should I check when my fragrance oil order arrives?
Lay everything out and match it to the invoice before opening any cap. Then check each cap and the inside of the wrap for traces of oil, let the box reach room temperature before you smell anything — hot or cold arrival both mislead — weigh one bottle on your own scale and write the gross weight on it, and shelve everything upright, capped and out of direct sun with the opening date written on. In the monsoon, warm and dry your jars for an hour before the first pour.
Which fragrance oils are safe for white or pale candle wax?
Look for a stated vanillin figure. British Rose states vanillin content 0% — no discolouration or yellowing in wax; Sandalwood and Zesty Lemon also state 0%. Heavy vanilla and tobacco blends commonly state that vanillin is present, and some warn of browning in pale wax. Where a page states nothing, pour one jar and leave it in daylight for a month before you build a pale-wax product on it.
When should I place my order for Diwali and Chhath?
Trials by mid-September, the pouring order in the first week of October, poured by 25 October for a fortnight's cure before Diwali on 8 November 2026. Chhath falls inside the same fortnight, on the sixth day of the bright half of Kartik, so there is no reorder window between the two peaks. If you are starting late, cut the number of scents rather than the cure — an under-cured candle costs you the repeat customer.
Two orders, nine jars, one recipe
₹390.90 to decide. ₹2,033.88 to pour. Nothing bought at 500 g until a jar you burned yourself has earned it.
British Rose 15 g ₹94.40 and 100 g ₹342.20, Sandalwood 15 g ₹93.22 and 100 g ₹502.68, Fresh Strawberries 15 g ₹113.28, Zesty Lemon 15g ₹90 and 100g ₹360, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599, twenty Eco Candle Wicks ₹118 and ten 120 g amber jars ₹472. GST invoicing and documentation on request.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the two-step ordering logic, the arrival checks and the month-by-month pour adjustments apply whoever you buy from. CSI supplies raw materials and is not a manufacturer.
Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: British Rose 15 gm ₹94.40, 50 gm ₹212.40, 100 gm ₹342.20, 500 gm ₹1,593, 1 kg ₹3,068; Sandalwood 15 gm ₹93.22, 100 gm ₹502.68, 1 kg ₹5,026.80; Fresh Strawberries 15 gm ₹113.28, 100 gm ₹377.60, 1 kg ₹3,540; Zesty Lemon 15g ₹90, 100g ₹360, 1kg ₹3,400; Eucalyptus Spearmint 15 gm ₹68.44 (cheapest in-stock 15 g); Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 20 for ₹118 (₹5.90 each); Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid pack of 5 ₹236; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Arithmetic: load is a percentage of the finished candle, so a 120 g jar at 8% is 110.4 g wax + 9.6 g oil and a 200 g candle is 184 g wax + 16 g oil; jars per pack = pack ÷ 9.6; oil per 200 g candle = price per gram × 16 (British Rose ₹54.75 at 100 g and ₹49.09 at 1 kg; Sandalwood ₹80.43; Fresh Strawberries ₹60.42 at 100 g and ₹56.64 at 1 kg; Zesty Lemon ₹57.60 at 100 g and ₹54.40 at 1 kg); step one ₹94.40 + ₹113.28 + ₹93.22 + ₹90 = ₹390.90; step two ₹342.20 + ₹502.68 + ₹599 + ₹118 + ₹472 = ₹2,033.88; both steps ₹2,424.78; nine jars use 993.6 g wax and 86.4 g oil of the 200 g bought, leaving 113.6 g; materials in one British Rose jar = ₹66.13 wax (110.4 g at ₹599/kg) + ₹32.85 oil (9.6 g at ₹3.422/g) + ₹5.90 wick + ₹47.20 jar = ₹152.08; ₹2,424.78 ÷ 9 = ₹269.42 a jar. Stated specifications as published: British Rose strength "Moderate to strong — clean and noticeable throw", flashpoint 192°C, vanillin content 0%, soy load up to 10% with a 48 to 72 hour cure, paraffin up to 6%, and no mention of IFRA anywhere on the page; Sandalwood strength "Moderate to strong — elegant and lasting throw", flashpoint 203°C, vanillin 0%, soy up to 10% with a 48 to 72 hour cure (the page's "highest flashpoint in the range" line is contradicted by another CSI listing and is not repeated); Fresh Strawberries candle usage rate 6–9% of total wax weight, wax melts 8–12%, strength given as both "High" and "Medium" in different blocks, no flash point stated; Zesty Lemon strength "Moderate — present and noticeable, never overpowering", vanillin 0%, soy up to 10%, paraffin up to 6%, cure 48–72 hours soy and 24–48 hours paraffin, best at 8–10% starting at 8%, flash point listed as available on request or via the SDS and therefore not quoted; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks stated 8–13% load with 10% recommended, fragrance added at 80–90°C, poured at 70–80°C. Dates: Diwali 2026 is 8 November; Chhath is observed on the sixth day of the bright half of Kartik, inside the same fortnight. The 3–5% spill allowance and the fortnight cure are our planning figures. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.