Buy Lemongrass Fragrance Oil for Candle Making in India
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What does it cost? ₹116.52 / 15g · ₹330 / 50g · ₹590 / 100g · ₹2,600 / 500g · ₹5,200 / 1000g. At the top two tiers that is ₹5.20 a gram, or ₹83.20 of fragrance in a 200g candle poured at 8%.
Does a lemongrass candle repel insects? No, and CSI makes no such claim. A Lemongrass and Lime candle smells of lemongrass and lime. It is a fragrance oil sold for scent. Do not print a repellent, therapeutic or health claim on your label on the strength of the note name.
Why does it fade? Herbal and citrus-adjacent top notes are the lightest molecules in the catalogue and a soy melt pool is cool. Fix it with the top of your stated load range, a full 14-day cure, a wick that opens the pool to the glass, and a base note underneath.
The product, the price, and what it is not
CSI does not stock a single-note lemongrass. The oil is Lemongrass and Lime, and that is the name on the invoice, the name on the product page and the name you should put on your own label if you want the customer to smell what they expect. Calling it "lemongrass" on your jar is not dishonest, but it under-describes it — and the lime is the part of the accord doing the most work, which the next section explains.
It sits in the fragrance oils collection, which carries 92 oils on the current pull. Five sizes, from a 15g trial to a 1000g production bottle. Pricing below is CSI live pricing, September 2026; the linked product page is always the authoritative source for what you will actually pay today.
| Size | Price | Per gram | 200g candles @ 8% (16g each) | Fragrance cost per candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15g | ₹116.52 | ₹7.77 | Just under 1 — it is 1g short of a single 200g candle | ₹124.29 equivalent |
| 50g | ₹330.00 | ₹6.60 | ≈3 | ₹105.60 |
| 100g | ₹590.00 | ₹5.90 | ≈6 | ₹94.40 |
| 500g | ₹2,600.00 | ₹5.20 | ≈31 | ₹83.20 |
| 1000g | ₹5,200.00 | ₹5.20 | ≈62 | ₹83.20 |
Put that into a finished unit and it stops being abstract. A 200g candle at 8% is 16g of oil and 184g of wax. On Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 per 10kg (₹0.5999 a gram) the wax is ₹110.38, the fragrance at 1000g pricing is ₹83.20, an Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid is ₹47.20 at ₹236 per pack of 5, and a Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wick is ₹5.90 at ₹590 per 100. That is ₹246.68 of materials before labelling, packaging, labour or shipping. Work your retail price up from that number, not down from a competitor's — the method is in how to price candles in India 2026.
Why the lime is in it
Lemongrass on its own is a difficult candle scent. It is green, grassy, faintly oily and it reads as thin — there is a lot of air in it and very little structure. Burn a candle scented with lemongrass alone and most customers describe it as pleasant and then, a minute later, as "not much". The accord has an identity but no definition.
The lime fixes the top. Lime is brighter, sharper and more angular than lemongrass, and it arrives first — so what the customer's nose registers in the opening second is a clear, cut citrus edge rather than a vague green. That edge does three commercial jobs at once. It makes the scent legible in cold throw, which is what sells a jar sitting closed on a shelf or photographed for Instagram. It gives the accord a recognisable shape, so a customer can describe it to someone else, which is how a scent gets reordered. And it separates the product from the generic green candle, which is a crowded, undifferentiated part of every Indian maker's range.
| Component | What it does in the jar | What happens without it |
|---|---|---|
| Lemongrass | Carries the recognisable household character — green, herbal, slightly oily, familiar from the kitchen | You have a lime candle. Pleasant, but it is now competing directly with every citrus on the shelf |
| Lime | Sharpens the opening, gives the accord a defined top, drives cold throw off a closed jar | Thin and vague. Customers say "fresh" and cannot tell you what it smells of |
| What neither supplies | Weight. Both halves sit high, and nothing in the accord is holding the bottom | This is the gap a base note fills — see the next section |
That third row is the honest limitation of the product and the reason the rest of this page exists. Lemongrass and Lime is a top-and-middle accord with no floor. It is excellent at the first impression and structurally weak at the last hour, which is the exact opposite profile to a woody or gourmand oil. You are not going to change that by buying a different lemongrass. You change it by building the floor yourself.
The volatility problem, and the four fixes
Every complaint about lemongrass candles traces back to one physical fact. The molecules that make an accord smell bright and fresh are the small, light ones, and small light molecules evaporate first — off the surface of the wax while the candle is curing in the carton, and off the melt pool while it is burning. Soy makes this worse than paraffin does, because a soy pool runs cooler and does less to push a scent into the room, so the accord is simultaneously leaving the jar in storage and under-performing on the burn.
Nothing you buy makes a citrus-adjacent herbal accord behave like sandalwood. But four interventions, used together, take it from "fades by the second burn" to "consistent across the life of the candle". Three of them are free.
Where lemongrass actually sells in India
This matters because it decides how many you pour. Lemongrass and Lime is not a general-purpose candle scent that suits every room in the house — it is a specific answer to a specific set of rooms and seasons, and it sells extremely well inside them.
| Setting | Why it works there | What to pour |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchens | The one room where a warm gourmand candle competes with the cooking instead of complementing it. A sharp green accord cuts through residual cooking smells rather than layering on top of them | Smaller formats — a 70g votive or a tin. Burn time matters less than the cut |
| Dining rooms | Fresh and clean reads as appetising; heavy sweet notes compete with food on the table. This is the accord's strongest room | 200g container candle, single wick, poured high in the range |
| Verandahs and balconies | Semi-open spaces where a heavy scent disappears into the air anyway. A bright top note still registers close to the candle | Two smaller candles rather than one large — more pool area, two points of release |
| Monsoon and summer ranges | Seasonal ranges sell on contrast. Oud and cinnamon are winter and festive; green, sharp and cool is the counter-programming for April to September | A seasonal three-candle set with the heavier scents dropped out |
| Restaurants and cafés | B2B buyers specifically ask for scents that will not fight the menu. Clean and herbal is the standard brief, and it is a repeat order, not a one-off | Consistent, documented recipe — the reorder depends on batch-to-batch sameness |
The restaurant and café line is worth dwelling on, because it is the one that changes a business rather than a month. A café that takes twelve candles a month for its tables is a recurring order with no acquisition cost attached to it, and the brief they give you is almost always "something fresh that does not clash with the food". That is a green herbal accord, and there are not many of them. The requirement is that batch nine smells like batch one, which is a documentation problem, not a chemistry one — same wax, same load, same cure length, same wick, written down.
On the festive calendar, this is not a Diwali scent. Diwali falls on 8 November 2026, and the volume in that window goes to warm, heavy, gifting-appropriate scents — sandalwood, oud, cinnamon families. Lemongrass and Lime is what you pour in the months before the festive build, and what you keep in the range afterwards when the market has had enough sweetness. If you are planning a festive buy, the timing logic is in how early to order fragrance oils for Diwali and the scent selection in best fragrance oils for festive bulk orders.
Test at 15g, and the case for not buying this at all
Do not buy 500g of anything you have not burned. That applies to every oil, and it applies harder to a volatile one, because the whole question with Lemongrass and Lime is how it behaves at day fourteen in your wax with your wick — and that is a four-week answer, not a four-hour one.
| Size | Price | What it pours | What it answers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15g | ₹116.52 | Just under two 100g test candles at 8%, or one 150g candle with some to spare | Do I like the accord, and does it survive to day 14 in my wax? A yes/no question |
| 50g | ₹330.00 | Six 100g test candles at 8%, or three 200g candles | The comparison test: neat against blended, two wick sizes, two cure lengths — all in one batch |
| 100g | ₹590.00 | ≈6 candles at 200g / 8% | A market test. Enough finished stock to put in front of real customers |
| 500g | ₹2,600.00 | ≈31 candles at 200g / 8% | Production. Only buy this once the trial has answered the first two questions |
The 50g at ₹330 is the size to buy if you are serious, because it is the one that funds a controlled comparison rather than an impression. Pour six 100g test candles on the same day from the same wax batch: three with Lemongrass and Lime alone, three with the same load blended over a base note. Cure all six together. Burn one of each at day 3, day 7 and day 14, in a closed room, and write down what you smell at thirty minutes and at two hours. That is roughly the shape of the diagram at the top of this page, generated in your own workshop with your own materials, for ₹330 of oil plus an anchor. Compare that against ₹2,600 spent on a 500g bottle of something that turns out to fade by day ten in your particular wax.
There is also a cheaper neighbour worth knowing about. Eucalyptus Spearmint runs ₹68.44/15g to ₹3,068/1kg — ₹3.068 a gram at the top tier against ₹5.20 for Lemongrass and Lime, or ₹49.09 of fragrance in a 200g candle at 8% instead of ₹83.20. It is a different scent and a different customer, but if your brief is "a fresh green candle at the lowest viable materials cost", run the comparison before you commit. Equally, if you want the citrus without the herbal body, Juicy Orange at ₹126/15g to ₹7,499/1kg goes in the opposite direction. The full range is in the fragrance oils collection and the round-up is in best fragrance oils for candle making in India 2026.
One last commercial note on sizing the buy. If you are pouring 30 candles a month at 200g and 8%, that is 480g of oil a month — so the 500g at ₹2,600 is roughly a month of production and the 1000g at ₹5,200 is two months, at exactly the same per-gram rate. There is no discount for over-committing, which means there is no reason to hold more stock than you will pour in a quarter. The working-capital argument for restraint is set out in how much fragrance oil a candle business needs, and the bulk-ordering mechanics in buy fragrance oils in bulk India.
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On this page that matters twice over. We have told you that our own lemongrass oil is structurally light and the wrong lead scent for a premium range, and we have told you not to make the insect-repellent claim that would sell the most jars fastest. Both of those cost us orders in the short run. A maker whose candles disappoint, or whose customer disputes a claim on the label, stops reordering — and reorders are the whole business.
Every price, size and ceiling on this page is taken from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. The 13% and 10% figures are the fragrance loads stated by the wax manufacturer for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 respectively; they are formulation limits describing how much oil each wax will hold, not regulatory limits, and they are not interchangeable between waxes. The cure and volatility behaviour described here is standard practice for soy container candles, not a laboratory measurement — CSI publishes no retention testing and the diagram above is labelled as a schematic for that reason.
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No functional claims: CSI makes no insect-repellent, pest-control, therapeutic, medicinal or health claim for Lemongrass and Lime, for Citronella Fragrance Oil, or for any other fragrance oil in the catalogue. These are fragrance oils sold for scenting candles and home fragrance products.
Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers; names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and all six are recorded as verified buyers. None of them reviews Lemongrass and Lime. Avanthi Cheeli (5★, Nov 2025) reviewed Citrus Lemon Fragrance Oil; Priyanka Purohit (5★, Sep 2026), Tina Raha (4★, Jun 2025) and Judy Roy (5★, Dec 2025) reviewed Lavender Fragrance Oil; Yashvi Shah (5★, Jul 2025) and Sooraj R (5★, Aug 2026) reviewed Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil. Wording is unedited.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing): Lemongrass and Lime ₹116.52/15g (₹7.77/g), ₹330/50g (₹6.60/g), ₹590/100g (₹5.90/g), ₹2,600/500g (₹5.20/g), ₹5,200/1000g (₹5.20/g). Gilli Mitti (Patchouli) ₹140/15g, ₹896/100g, ₹8,960/1kg. Saffron Cedarwood ₹103.84/15g, ₹696.20/100g, ₹6,867.60/1kg. Sage and Cedarwood ₹354/50g, ₹696.20/100g, ₹6,867.60/1kg. Bergamot Amber ₹105.02/15g, ₹560/100g, ₹5,437/1kg. Amber Oud Royal ₹1,299/100g, ₹11,640/1kg. Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹68.44/15g, ₹354/100g, ₹3,068/1kg (₹3.068/g). Juicy Orange ₹126/15g, ₹7,499/1kg. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹5,999/10kg (₹0.5999/g); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹260/500g. Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹590 per 100 (₹5.90 each) and Thick (C2) ₹944 per 100 (₹9.44 each). Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹236 per pack of 5 (₹47.20 each). Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Pen Thermometer ₹354. Per-candle maths: a 200g candle at an 8% load is 16g of oil and 184g of wax; ₹83.20 of Lemongrass and Lime at ₹5.20/g, ₹110.38 of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹0.5999/g, ₹47.20 jar and ₹5.90 wick = ₹246.68 of materials. At 10% (20g) the fragrance is ₹104.00 and at 13% (26g) it is ₹135.20. Load ceilings: up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and up to 10% for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 are the wax manufacturers' stated maximum fragrance loads — formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Fragrance oils collection: 92 products. Cure guidance of around 14 days for fresh and citrus-adjacent blends reflects standard practice for soy container candles, not a CSI laboratory result. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.