Fragrance Oil Supplier for Candle Businesses in Ahmedabad

The paperwork a Ahmedabad candle business needs from its oil supplier

Ahmedabad orders are billed to Gujarat, so the invoice carries IGST. (CSI invoices from Maharashtra, so an interstate delivery carries IGST rather than CGST plus SGST.) Share your GSTIN when you order so the invoice matches your registration.

Designing a core range you can supply every month

A candle business in Ahmedabad — where demand leans towards Navratri and Diwali gifting, the Gujarati New Year, business-to-business gifting, and weddings — is better served by five or six core oils held at depth than by twenty held thinly. Our suggested core for Ahmedabad: Sandalwood, Jasmine, British Rose, Citrus Lemon, Cinnamon Vanilla, Fresh Strawberries.

Costing an order before you quote it

Example: a Satellite-area gift shop preparing Navratri and New Year stock, 500 × 150 g glass jar. At 8% each candle needs 12.0 g of oil and 138 g of wax.

That excludes the vessel, label, packaging, labour, freight and GST, which usually add more than the materials above. Quote from the full unit cost. How to price candles in India in 2026 covers the rest.

A Ahmedabad business, worked through

Navratri and New Year gift shop. Nine nights of Navratri followed by Diwali and the Gujarati New Year: one long season, best planned as two runs.

Say that buyer pours 500 candles of 150 g. At 8% each candle takes 12.0 g of oil, so the run needs 6.00 kg — about 6.0 kg in total, split across however many scents the run carries. If it were all Sandalwood, the oil would cost about ₹30,161 at the 1 kg price.

A second Ahmedabad buyer: business-to-business gifting from trading firms. New Year client gifts in large, single-scent batches; the brief is premium but safe. For 750 candles of 180 g at 8%, the oil comes to 10.80 kg — with Sandalwood at ₹5,026.80 per kg, about ₹54,289.

What Ahmedabad changes about running a candle business

Ahmedabad is hot and semi-arid, with May highs that can pass 45°C, a moderate July–September monsoon and mild, dry winters. Ahmedabad's summer is the risk: a heavily loaded candle can sweat in a May storeroom. Keep the load under the wax maker's maximum and keep finished stock off hot walls.

The Gujarati New Year falls the day after Diwali's main celebrations, so Ahmedabad's gifting runs straight on from Diwali rather than stopping at it.

Navratri in Ahmedabad lasts nine nights and fills the city's evenings. Candles sold as festive décor need to be on shelves before 11 October, which means the test batch should already be done.

Business gifting between trading firms around the New Year favours premium-but-safe profiles such as sandal and white oud.

Dry heat is harder on finished candles than on the oil. Store sealed oil somewhere cool, not in a rooftop room. Nine nights of Navratri from 11 October, Diwali and the Gujarati New Year that follows it, and Uttarayan in January are Ahmedabad's main buying windows.

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 Ahmedabad is confirmed on WhatsApp when you order.

Three oils to start with

Frequently asked questions