Does Increasing Fragrance Load Mean I Need a Bigger Wick?
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CSI Troubleshooting · Fragrance Oil × Wick
A higher fragrance load changes the fuel, and the wick may need to move up, stay put or come down. Here is the ceiling check that comes first, a six-candle load × wick grid that settles it, and what each extra percent costs.
₹653.40
the load × wick grid: Japanese Cherry Blossom 100 g plus an Eco C1 and C2 pack · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Does more fragrance oil mean I need a bigger wick? Not automatically. Raising the load changes the fuel the wick draws, and the right wick can go up, stay the same, or occasionally come down. There is no reliable rule that converts load points into wick sizes.How do I find out? A load × wick grid: the same oil at 6%, 8% and 10% (inside the lower of the wax and oil ceilings), each on an Eco C1 and a C2. Six 150 g candles, burned at day 3 and 7.
What does it cost? With Japanese Cherry Blossom 100 g and a pack of each wick, ₹653.40 new spend. In the finished candle, going from 8% on C1 to 10% on C2 adds ₹18.54 per candle at the 500 g price; the wick is 19.1% of that.
First, is the higher load even allowed? If it takes you past the wax page's or the oil page's stated maximum, the answer is not a wick. Bring the load back inside the ceiling.
The short answer
The rule: load is a wick variable. Every time you move it, re-check the wick; do not assume the direction.
The ceiling comes first: CSI 464 states up to 10%; CSI 468 and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13%; the oil page may state less. The lower governs.
The grid: 3 loads × 2 wicks = 6 candles, 72 g of oil, one jar type, one wax. Verdict at day 7.
The money: oil, not wick, is the cost of a higher load: 3 extra grams per candle for 8% to 10%, against ₹3.54 for a wick step.
In this guide
The load × wick grid: the same oil at three loads, each poured on an Eco C1 and a C2, in the same jar and wax. The ₹ in each cell is oil plus wick for one 150 g candle with Japanese Cherry Blossom at the 100 g price; wax and jar are the same in every cell. The bar underneath shows why the grid stops at 10% in CSI 464 and could go to 13% in CSI 468 or the soy chunks.
The grid's columns · C1 + C2 packs ₹153.40
Eco Candle Wicks: three of each size, one oil through three loads
The grid's rows · scale ₹354.00
Weigh 6%, 8% and 10% on total weight, not by the spoon
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Tell us the load change and what the wick did; we suggest the grid
Straight answer
If I increase my fragrance load, do I need a bigger wick?
Not automatically, but you do need to re-check the wick every time you move the load. Load is the share of the melt pool that is fragrance oil rather than wax, so raising it changes the fuel the wick draws. Sometimes the old wick copes; sometimes the pool gets wet and heavy and the flame struggles or drowns, which calls for a step up; and sometimes the flame grows and soots, which calls for staying put or stepping down. No rule turns "+2%" into "+1 wick size". Two checks come first. Is the new load inside the lower of your wax page's and oil page's stated maximum (CSI 464: up to 10%)? If not, the fix is the load, not the wick. And did you weigh it on total weight? Then run a grid: the same oil at 6%, 8% and 10% on an Eco C1 and a C2, six 150 g candles, burned at day 3 and 7. Choose the lowest load and smallest wick that give a clean burn and a throw you accept. With Japanese Cherry Blossom 100 g and a wick pack of each, the grid is ₹653.40 new spend.
One line: a load change is a wick change until a grid proves otherwise, and the ceiling is not negotiable.
The grid's two columns. A pack of 10 Eco Thin (C1) at ₹59.00 and a pack of 10 Thick (C2) at ₹94.40: three of each for the grid and a spare for the repeat. ₹153.40 together, both in stock on 25 September 2026.
Buy the C1/C2 packs — ₹153.40
What a higher load changes at the wick
Going from 8% to 10% is 25% more oil in every candle. The wick notices even when your nose does not.
In a 150 g candle, 6% is 9 g of oil and 141 g of wax; 8% is 12 g and 138 g; 10% is 15 g and 135 g. The wick draws whatever is in the melt pool, so each step up the load ladder hands it a fuel that is a little less wax and a little more fragrance. Three things can follow, and which one you get depends on the oil, the wax and the jar.
What a higher load can do at the wick · tendencies, not rules
Three outcomes, what they look like, and which way the wick moves
| What happens | What you see at the higher load | Wick direction |
|---|---|---|
| The fuel gets harder to draw | Smaller flame, pool slower to reach the glass, sometimes a wet, glossy pool | Often one step up |
| The fuel burns hotter or dirtier | Taller, livelier flame, mushrooming, soot on the glass, a deeper pool | Stay, or one step down |
| Oil past what the wax holds | Sweating, sputtering, a flame drowning in a loose, oily pool | No wick fix: bring the load down |
The first row is commonly associated with heavier, denser oils, where more oil means more of an already thick fuel; that case is the subject of Do Heavy Fragrance Oils Need a Larger Candle Wick?. In our judgement, the second row is more likely with lighter oils and with wicks that were already at the top of their range for the jar. The third row is not a wick problem at all: it is the ceiling, below. When the flame is actually sinking into its own pool in a highly fragranced soy candle, Why Does My Wick Drown in Highly Fragranced Soy Candles? covers the mechanism in depth.
What a higher load does not reliably do is raise hot throw in step. More oil past a point tends to add cost and wick trouble faster than it adds scent; why that happens is explained in Why Doesn't Adding More Fragrance Oil Always Make a Candle Stronger?, and the specific case of going from 8% to 10% with no improvement is I Increased Fragrance Oil From 8% to 10% but Hot Throw Didn't Improve — Why?. This post stays on the wick side of the load question.
Argued against our own interest: every extra percent of load is extra oil sold, and the simplest advice for us would be "go to the maximum and buy a bigger wick". We have no data that says the maximum throws better in your jar, and a grid can show a lower load on a smaller wick burning more cleanly. If it does, pour that and buy less oil from us.
Is it a wick question at all? The ceiling check
If the higher load broke a ceiling, no wick will fix it. Check the ceiling before you buy a single wick.
This is the "is it actually the oil?" step for a load change. Two ceilings apply, and the lower one governs: the wax page's stated maximum and the oil page's stated candle maximum where there is one. Both are formulation limits, not regulatory ones, and never a target.
Ceilings as the pages state them · verified 25 September 2026
Your grid's top row is the lower of the two numbers
| Wax (page) | Stated fragrance maximum | With Japanese Cherry Blossom ("6-13% for candles") | With Autumn ("7-11% for candles") |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | up to 10% | 6% to 10% | 7% to 10% |
| Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 | up to 13% | 6% to 13% | 7% to 11% |
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | "up to 13% fragrance load capacity" | 6% to 13% | 7% to 11% |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 | not stated on the page | work to the oil page and ask the maker | work to the oil page and ask the maker |
If your new load is over the line, bring it back and burn again before touching the wick. Pouring Japanese Cherry Blossom at 12% in CSI 464 puts 3 g per candle above the wax page's ceiling, ₹15.00 per candle at the 500 g price, for oil the wax is not stated to hold. And check the arithmetic: load is a percentage of the finished candle's total weight, so 10% of a 150 g candle is 15 g of oil in 135 g of wax, not 15 g added to 150 g of wax.
Other things that changed with the load
A load increase often arrives with a new oil or a new jar. If either changed too, you have two variables and the grid cannot separate them. Hold the oil and the jar fixed. If the wick was already struggling at your old load, the order of fixes in Why Does My Wick Struggle After I Add Fragrance Oil? comes before any grid.The load × wick grid
Three loads, two wicks, one oil, one jar. Six candles answer a question that guesswork answers expensively.
The grid is two one-variable tests laid over each other. Reading down a column shows what load does on a fixed wick; reading across a row shows what the wick does at a fixed load. The control is the 8% candle on your current wick. Everything else, oil, jar, wax, pour day and cure, is identical across all six cells. Use the loads 6%, 8% and 10% if both ceilings allow; if the oil page's range starts higher (Autumn's starts at 7%), move the bottom row up to meet it.
Grid bill of materials · 150 g candles · one oil
Three jugs from one wax melt, two candles per jug
| Jug | Load | Oil | Wax | Candles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6% | 18 g | 282 g | 6-C1, 6-C2 |
| 2 | 8% | 24 g | 276 g | 8-C1 (the control), 8-C2 |
| 3 | 10% | 30 g | 270 g | 10-C1, 10-C2 |
| Total | 72 g (a 100 g bottle leaves 28 g) | 828 g | 6: 3 C1, 3 C2 |
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Day 0 — one melt, three jugsMelt 828 g of wax. Weigh it into three jugs (282 g, 276 g, 270 g), bring each to your wax page's stated add temperature, and add 18 g, 24 g and 30 g of oil. Stir each for the same time. Pour two 150 g candles from each jug, one on C1 and one on C2. Centre every wick; label the base with load, wick and date.
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Day 3 — first burns, one candle per sessionSame still room, same trim. Burn each until the pool reaches the glass or 4 hours pass. Log pool width every hour, depth at hour 3, flame height at 30 minutes and 2 hours, and any mushrooming, soot, sputtering or sweating.
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Day 7 — second burns and throw notesRepeat the burn log, and this time also score throw at the doorway of a closed room at 30 and 60 minutes. The grid is for the wick, but the load is chosen on throw too.
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Mark each cell pass or failPass: pool at the glass within about 3 to 4 hours, roughly 0.5 to 1 cm deep, steady flame, no heavy soot or mushroom (commonly cited rules of thumb, not CSI data). Fail: say which way, short or over-firing.
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Pick the cheapest passing cell you are happy to smellAmong cells that pass, take the lowest load whose throw you accept, on the smallest wick that passes at that load. Then pour that cell again from a fresh melt and burn it at day 3 and 7 before production.
What the grid costs · Japanese Cherry Blossom 100 g · CSI live pricing, 25 September 2026
New spend ₹653.40; materials consumed ₹1,392.55 (₹232.09 per candle)
| Item | What you use | New spend | Value consumed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese Cherry Blossom 100 g | 72 g (28 g left for the repeat) | ₹500.00 | ₹360.00 |
| Eco C1 + Eco C2, packs of 10 | 3 + 3 | ₹153.40 | ₹46.02 |
| Wax (valued as CSI 464 at the 10 kg price, about ₹0.51/g) | 828 g | already owned | ₹420.13 |
| Jars (valued as the 150 g clear jar, ₹94.40 each from the pack of 10) | 6 | already owned | ₹566.40 |
| Total | 6 candles | ₹653.40 | ₹1,392.55 |
Without a scale, add ₹354.00 (₹1,007.40 in all). The repeat of the winning cell needs 9 to 15 g of the 28 g left. With Autumn, the 7/8/10 grid uses 75 g, so buy its 100 g too. Costs exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST.
Reading the grid: five patterns
Six cells give you a picture, not a single number. Here are five common ones.
Grid patterns · what they mean for wick and load
Read the C1 column top to bottom, then compare with C2
| Pattern | What it means | Decision |
|---|---|---|
| C1 passes at 6, 8 and 10; C2 over-fires | In this range, load does not change the wick this oil needs in this jar | Stay on C1; choose the load on throw alone |
| C1 passes at 6 and 8, falls short at 10; C2 passes at 10 | The textbook case: the higher load needs the step up | Either 8% on C1 or 10% on C2; the cost section decides |
| C1 passes at 6, starts to soot at 8 and 10; C2 soots everywhere | Higher load makes the flame hotter or dirtier here | Stay on C1 at the lower load; never step up for this oil |
| C1 falls short everywhere; C2 passes everywhere | The wick was small for the jar before the load changed | C2 at whichever load throws well; load was never the issue |
| Nothing passes, or 10% sweats on both wicks | Jar beyond this wick range, or the top row over what the wax holds | Drop the top row; for the jar, see choosing a wick after an oil change or ask us |
Two cautions. The grid answers for one oil in one jar and one wax. A different oil, even at the same load, may land on a different wick (managing that across a range is Do Different Fragrance Oils Require Different Wick Sizes in the Same Jar?); a different wax changes the ceiling and the fuel. And a grid is a screen: one candle per cell can be fooled by a bad pour, so the winning cell is always poured again before production.
Mistake: raising the load from 8% to 10% and the wick from C1 to C2 in the same batch, then crediting the load for the better throw. Fix: the grid separates them. Sometimes the 8% candle on C2 throws as well as the 10% on C2, because the bigger pool, not the extra oil, was doing the work. If your grid shows that, it saves 3 g of oil a candle.
What a higher load really costs, wick included
A load decision is a money decision. The wick is the small part of it.
Using Japanese Cherry Blossom at the 500 g price (₹5.00 a gram), here is what moving around the grid costs per finished candle, before wax, jar, labour, freight, packaging and GST. The wick column uses pack-of-10 prices; Eco wicks are priced flat per wick at every pack size on 25 September 2026, so a bigger pack does not change these numbers.
Cost of moving around the grid · per candle, JCB at the 500 g price
Oil drives the cost of a higher load; the wick step is small change
| Move | Extra oil | Extra wick | Extra per candle | Per 100 candles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8% on C1 → 10% on C1 | 3 g, ₹15.00 | nothing | ₹15.00 | ₹1,500.00 |
| 8% on C1 → 8% on C2 | none | ₹3.54 | ₹3.54 | ₹354.00 |
| 8% on C1 → 10% on C2 | 3 g, ₹15.00 | ₹3.54 | ₹18.54 | ₹1,854.00 |
| 6% on C1 → 10% on C2 | 6 g, ₹30.00 | ₹3.54 | ₹33.54 | ₹3,354.00 |
In the 8%-on-C1 to 10%-on-C2 move, the wick is 19.1% of the extra cost; the rest is oil. So the grid's most valuable result is often not "which wick" but "how low can the load go and still throw", because every gram saved is saved on every candle you ever pour. The detailed economics of dropping from 10% to 8% across a business are in How Much Money Can a Candle Business Save by Reducing Fragrance Load From 10% to 8%?; finding the floor load for a given oil is How to Find the Minimum Fragrance Load That Still Gives Strong Hot Throw. For the wick, the conclusion is simpler: if a higher load does need a C2, the wick is not the reason to avoid it. The oil is.
This grid is for you if you have changed, or are about to change, the load of an oil you already pour, and want to know whether the wick must follow. It is not for you if you are switching to a different oil at the same load (that is a re-wick: How to Choose a Wick After Changing Fragrance Oil) or your oil is a dense vanilla, coffee or oud whose wick you have not yet bracketed at any load (Do Heavy Fragrance Oils Need a Larger Candle Wick? first).
What to buy for the grid
The wicks and the scale make the grid work; the three oils are examples of how different page ranges shape it. They are chosen for a stated candle load range, what that range does against the wax ceilings, their notes, price per gram and stock at every size on 25 September 2026; not on burn or throw performance, which CSI has not measured. Candle counts assume 150 g at 8%.
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wick · the grid's two columns · buy first
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2)
The grid needs three of each size per oil, so a pack of 10 of each covers one oil with a spare for the repeat, or two oils if you skip the spares. The page describes the wicks as made from "natural fibers like cotton and paper" and "perfect for natural waxes", and publishes no diameter chart, which is why the grid, not the listing, tells you whether your load needs the C2. Prices are flat per wick at every pack size on 25 September 2026. Limitation: two thicknesses. If both columns fail at every load in a wide jar, the Cotton Braided page states a range above 8 cm; in a narrower jar, ask us.
| Size | Price | Per unit | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks | ₹59.00 | ₹5.90 | one oil through the grid (3 per size), with a spare for a repeat |
| Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks | ₹295.00 | ₹5.90 | the winning cell in a 50-candle batch |
| Thick (C2) / 10 Wicks | ₹94.40 | ₹9.44 | one oil through the grid (3 per size), with a spare for a repeat |
| Thick (C2) / 50 Wicks | ₹472.00 | ₹9.44 | the winning cell in a 50-candle batch |
A pack of each: ₹153.40. Moving a candle from C1 to C2 adds ₹3.54. Buy Eco wicks — from ₹59.00
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tool · makes the rows real · the load is only as good as the weighing
Candle Making Weighing Scale
A load grid is worthless if 6% and 8% are both "about a spoonful". The page describes a digital scale with an LCD that "shows measurements in grams or ounces" and says it "ensures your candle batches have exactly the right ratios"; it does not state a resolution or capacity in the text we hold, so check yours reads the 18 g, 24 g and 30 g the grid needs and zero it with the jug on. Oils differ in density, so a spoon of one oil is not the same weight as a spoon of another. Limitation: if you already own a scale that reads to a gram or better, skip this card.
| Size | Price | Per unit | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single scale | ₹354.00 | ₹354.00 | every oil and wax weighing; the rows of the grid depend on it |
Grid with a scale: ₹1,007.40. Without: ₹653.40. Buy the scale — ₹354.00
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floral · the grid's worked example · a wide stated range
Japanese Cherry Blossom Fragrance Oil
Chosen as the worked example because its stated range is wide enough to show the two-ceilings rule at work. The page states "6-13% for candles", with notes of "sweet cherry and soft pink petals opening into a rose and jasmine heart, grounded by warm sandalwood and musk": a floral with a soft woody base, neither light citrus nor heavy gourmand, so the grid shows the load lever without a heavy-oil effect muddying it. In CSI 464 the wax page's 10% governs, so the grid tops out at 10%; in CSI 468 or Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (up to 13%) a fourth row at 13% is allowed (19.5 g in a 150 g candle), but the maximum is not the best load. The page states no cure time in the text we hold; use day 3 and 7. Limitation: two 500 g packs cost ₹158.00 more than the 1 kg, and the grid needs only 72 g: buy the 100 g.
| Size | Price | Per gram | 150 g candles at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹104.00 | ₹6.93 | 1 |
| 50 gm | ₹270.00 | ₹5.40 | 4 |
| 100 gm | ₹500.00 | ₹5.00 | 8 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,500.00 | ₹5.00 | 41 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,842.00 | ₹4.84 | 83 |
Oil per 8% candle: ₹64.80 at 50 g, ₹58.10 at 1 kg. The grid uses 72 g of a 100 g bottle. Buy Cherry Blossom 100 g
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spiced · a range that starts at 7% · honest reviews
Autumn
An example of a page whose range does not start at 6%. It states "Recommended fragrance load 7-11% for candles", so in CSI 464 the usable window is 7% to 10%, and the grid's bottom row becomes 7% (10.5 g in a 150 g candle). The notes are "crisp red apple, cinnamon leaf, and orange zest top notes, golden maple, clove bud, and nutmeg middle notes, and warm oak, amber, and vanilla base"; the vanilla and amber base make it heavier than the cherry blossom, so expect the load lever and the heavy-oil effect to overlap (see Do Heavy Fragrance Oils Need a Larger Candle Wick?). "Medium to strong throw" is the page's wording. One review on the page is three stars ("Warm comforting fragrance"), shown above as published. Pricing is flat at ₹5.43 per gram from 50 g to 1 kg. Limitation: a 7/8/10 grid uses 75 g (10.5 + 12 + 15 g, twice), so one 50 g bottle is not enough.
| Size | Price | Per gram | 150 g candles at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹94.40 | ₹6.29 | 1 |
| 50 gm | ₹271.40 | ₹5.43 | 4 |
| 100 gm | ₹542.80 | ₹5.43 | 8 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,714.00 | ₹5.43 | 41 |
| 1 kg | ₹5,428.00 | ₹5.43 | 83 |
Oil per 8% candle: ₹65.14 at any size from 50 g. The 7/8/10 grid needs 75 g: buy the 100 g. Buy Autumn 100 g
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citrus amber · two different ceilings · paraffin makers
Bergamot Amber Fragrance Oil
Useful if you pour in more than one wax, because its page states two loads: "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48-72 hours. 6-8% for paraffin wax". A load that is safely inside the range in soy can be over it in paraffin, so a grid built in one wax does not transfer to the other. The notes run from "sparkling bergamot and citrus top notes" through "warm amber and soft floral heart" to a "woody musk and smooth vanilla base". Limitation: the 1 kg costs ₹1.00 more than two 500 g packs, though it is still 2.9% cheaper per gram than the 50 g; for a grid, 100 g is enough.
| Size | Price | Per gram | 150 g candles at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹105.02 | ₹7.00 | 1 |
| 50 gm | ₹280.00 | ₹5.60 | 4 |
| 100 gm | ₹560.00 | ₹5.60 | 8 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,718.00 | ₹5.44 | 41 |
| 1 kg | ₹5,437.00 | ₹5.44 | 83 |
Oil per 8% candle: ₹67.20 at 50 g. Buy Bergamot Amber 100 g
When the right purchase is not oil: if you are running the grid on an oil you already pour, you need only the wicks, and the scale if you do not own one. Cards 3 to 5 are for makers choosing an oil and a load together. We sell all three in 1 kg; buy 100 g, run the grid, and let the cheapest passing cell decide how much you ever need.
Diwali, 8 November 2026, is 44 days from 25 September 2026. The grid gives a verdict at day 7 and a confirmed repeat by day 14, which leaves time to pour and cure a gifting batch at the load and wick it picks. Once you know both, ask for the oil in 500 g or 1 kg and the wicks in 100 packs, with a GST invoice and a dispatch date.
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The CSI principle
Every load change is a wick change until a grid says otherwise.
Stay inside the lower ceiling, move one lever at a time, and choose the lowest load on the smallest wick that burns cleanly and throws well enough. The wick step is cheap; the extra oil is not.
"The question is rarely whether a higher load needs a bigger wick. It is whether you needed the higher load at all."
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CandleMakingSuppliesIndia sells the wicks, scale, wax, jars and fragrance oils named here, and does not sell finished candles. This page shows that a lower load on a smaller wick can be the cheaper passing cell, which means selling you less oil. That is deliberate.
Every price and per-gram figure was verified on CSI's live store on 25 September 2026; every size shown on the cards is in stock on that date, and any that was not would be marked out of stock. Loads, ceilings, notes and throw wording are quoted from product pages; where a page is silent (a cure time, a scale's resolution, Eco Soy CSI 400's maximum), we say so.
The three outcomes of a load change, the grid design, the five patterns and the choice of example oils are editorial judgement; CSI has no measured burn, flame or throw data for any oil or wick. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, and MSDS and IFRA documentation on request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a bigger wick if I add more fragrance oil?
Not automatically. A higher load can make the wick struggle (step up), make the flame hotter and sootier (stay or step down), or, past the ceiling, cause sweating and drowning that no wick fixes. Test the new load on your current wick and one size up.
How much fragrance oil can a wick handle?
There is no per-wick figure. The limit that matters is the wax's: the lower of the wax page's and the oil page's stated maximum (CSI 464: up to 10%; CSI 468 and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks: up to 13%). Inside that, a grid of loads and wicks shows what your jar needs.
What is a load and wick test grid for candles?
The same oil poured at three loads, usually 6%, 8% and 10%, each on two wick sizes, in the same jar and wax: six candles. For 150 g candles it uses 72 g of oil and 828 g of wax. Burn each at day 3 and 7 and keep the cheapest cell that passes.
Why is my candle sooting after I increased the fragrance load?
A higher load can make the flame hotter or leave more carbon, and past the wax's ceiling unbound oil tends to soot. Check the load against the ceiling first; if it is inside, trim to a fixed length and test the same load on your current wick and one size smaller before trying bigger.
Is 10% fragrance load too much for soy wax?
It depends on the wax. CSI 464's page states up to 10%, so 10% is its maximum, not a target; CSI 468 and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state up to 13%. The oil page may state less. The best-performing load is often below the maximum; test 6%, 8% and 10%.
Does a bigger wick make a candle smell stronger than more fragrance oil?
A bigger wick can widen the melt pool, which often helps throw, and it costs ₹3.54 a candle more (Eco C1 to C2). Extra oil costs more per candle and past a point adds little. A grid of loads and wicks shows which lever works in your jar.
Your load × wick grid
Six candles, three loads, two wicks: ₹653.40.
Japanese Cherry Blossom 100 g and a pack each of Eco C1 and C2. By day 7 you will know whether your load change needs a wick change, and which cell gives a clean burn for the least oil.
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About this guide: part of CSI's fragrance-oil-and-wick cluster. It owns how a change in fragrance load changes what the wick needs, the ceiling check that comes first, a costed 3 × 2 load-by-wick grid, how to read it, and what a higher load costs per candle with the wick included.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on the product pages named on each card — Autumn, Eco Candle Wicks, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles, Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes Form) For Container Candles. They are general product reviews, not assessments of the troubleshooting advice on this page. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" appears only on reviews Judge.me recorded as verified — M A, Monika Deep, Subhankar Roy, Thenirvaofficial, Arminder Kaur. The reviews from Ashwini are published but not recorded as verified, and carry no badge. Reviews below five stars are included as published, not filtered out.
Figures verified 25 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59.00, 50 ₹295.00; Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40, 50 ₹472.00 (20, 100, 500 and 1,000 packs also listed and in stock, same price per wick); Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00; Japanese Cherry Blossom 15 g ₹104.00, 50 g ₹270.00, 100 g ₹500.00, 500 g ₹2,500.00, 1 kg ₹4,842.00; Autumn 15 g ₹94.40, 50 g ₹271.40, 100 g ₹542.80, 500 g ₹2,714.00, 1 kg ₹5,428.00; Bergamot Amber 15 g ₹105.02, 50 g ₹280.00, 100 g ₹560.00, 500 g ₹2,718.00, 1 kg ₹5,437.00; all in stock. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 10 kg ₹5,074.00; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) pack of 10 ₹944.00. Per gram = price ÷ grams, two decimals.
Non-price figures: candle maths assume 150 g candles with load as a percentage of total weight (6% = 9 g oil + 141 g wax, 8% = 12 g + 138 g, 10% = 15 g + 135 g, 7% = 10.5 g, 13% = 19.5 g); candle counts are floor(grams ÷ 12). Wax ceilings are as stated on the wax pages (formulation limits, not regulatory limits); Eco Soy CSI 400 states none. Loads, notes and throw wording are quoted from oil pages. The three outcomes of a load change, the grid, the patterns and the pass criteria (commonly cited melt-pool rules of thumb) are editorial judgement, not CSI data. Grid-cell costs in the diagram use the 100 g price; the cost table uses the 500 g price. All costs exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST.