I Have Five Fragrances in the Same 200 g Jar — Do I Need to Buy Different Wick Sizes for Oud, Vanilla, Lavender, Coffee and Rose?

The five-oil purchase plan

The plan assumes one thing you must check: that your jar already has a house wick, the wick that passed a full-life burn with one light oil. In the worked example that is C2 with lavender in a 200 g jar about 8.0 cm across the inside. If nothing has passed full life in this jar yet, do that first with one oil (the three-rung ladder in the 8 cm first-ladder hub, or the reference-first route in the reference-fragrance post) and come back. Screening five oils against a wick nobody has approved tells you nothing.

Every candle here is a 200 g fill at 8% of total weight: 16 g of oil and 184 g of Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464. That 8% is 8.70% of the wax weight, inside CSI 464's stated "Fragrance Load Up to 10%" on either reading, and inside all five oil pages' stated candle loads (each page tops out at 10%). The 200 g fill and the 8.0 cm inside diameter are labelled worked-example figures: weigh your fill, measure your jar.

From nothing, the plan costs ₹4,453.92 in cash plus twenty of your jars. If you already pour lavender in production, use that bottle (the same lot as your approved candles is the better control) and the order drops to ₹4,183.92. The wicks are ₹308.80 of it; the oils are ₹2,115.52. That ratio is the theme of this cluster: wicks are the cheap line, and the candles you pour around them are where a test plan saves or wastes money.

Batch 1 and batch 2: why the plan pours twice

Batch 1 is 16 candles from one pot of wax, poured on one day into jars from one batch: 2,944 g of CSI 464 and 256 g of oil across the five bottles. Batch 2 is 4 candles, one per oil except lavender, poured after the burn-3 screen on whichever wick led for that oil. Together they give every approved configuration three candles through the full life, the approval standard this series uses. Pour batch 2 from the same wax bag and the same oil bottles, record the date, and burn it with the batch-1 candles of the same oil so you are comparing like with like.

Which oils get a contingency rung, and why

The contingency pairs go where a fail is most likely, read from what each page states, not from burn data, which CSI does not have for any oil. Heavier, vanillin-rich, resinous and dense gourmand oils are commonly linked to a smaller flame, slower edge or more carbon on a wick that suits light oils. Lighter florals and herbals usually burn more easily. Tendencies only: a "heavy" oil can sail through on the house wick, and a "light" one can surprise you.

Why the contingency is the rung above: the common failure of a heavy oil on a light-oil wick is too little melt: a smaller flame and a ring of wax left on the glass. Cotton Braided is the only sized, tabbed wick CSI sells above C2. There is no sized, tabbed wick between C1 and C2, or between C2 and Cotton Braided, so "one step up" in CSI terms is a big step. Better you know that before you order.

Why no contingency for rose? Buying for every possible fail turns two builds back into five ladders; if rose misbehaves you lose one cycle on one oil. If you have a hard launch date and want no cycle at risk, add two rose candles on Cotton Braided; in the worst case the 10-pack then runs short, so add a second one (₹120.00).

The four-oil version of this screen, with an expectations sheet and the branching rule, is the four-oil same-wick screen; we do not repeat its method here. This page owns what to buy for it.

Oil grams matched to real bottle sizes

CSI's oil sizes are 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg for all five of these oils, all in stock on 1 October 2026. At 16 g a candle, a 15 g bottle fills no 200 g candle at all, a 50 g bottle fills three (3, with 2 g over) and a 100 g bottle six (6, with 4 g over). The plan is built around those steps.

The heavy oils need five candles each, so a 100 g bottle is the smallest that covers them, and the 20 g left is one spare candle if a cell splits. For rose, a 100 g bottle (₹342.20) would leave 52 g for a whole three-candle re-pour at ₹129.80 more; worth it only if rose is the oil you are least sure of.

Per candle, the oil dwarfs the wick. A Vanilla Bean candle on C2 is ₹229.20 in materials (₹126.40 of it oil, ₹93.36 wax, ₹9.44 wick); on Cotton Braided, ₹231.76. A Roasted Coffee candle on C2 is ₹165.20; a British Rose candle ₹170.77; a Woody Oud candle ₹175.30; a Lavender control ₹189.20. All of these exclude your jar, labour, freight, packaging and GST. The step from C2 to Cotton Braided adds ₹2.56 to any candle; the oil choice moves the cost by more than ₹58.43.

Why two builds, not five: the money

The alternative to a screen is a full three-rung ladder per oil: C1, C2 and Cotton Braided, three candles each, for every fragrance. That is the right method for a jar nobody has burned. For a jar with an approved house wick, it is the most expensive way to learn that lavender and rose still pass on it.

The two-build plan costs ₹4,568.60 less and needs 25 fewer jars. What it gives up is a documented fail on both sides for every oil. For lavender you already have one from the original ladder. For rose, the house wick passing is the result you want; a hot rose candle on C2 would send you to C1. For the heavy oils, the contingency pair supplies the second side. Where the plan cannot bracket (an oil that fails on both wicks), it tells you so with four candles instead of nine.

Reading the screen: what each result buys next

The lavender row matters most. Lavender passed full life on C2 before; if its two candles now tunnel or run hot, something in this batch changed (a different wax bag, a draught, an off-centre tab, shorter sessions) and every other cell in the batch is suspect. That control costs ₹378.40 in materials. It is the cheapest way to know your screen is a fair one.

Approval is the full life: all three candles of a configuration burned to about 1 cm left with no heat, soot or flame failure in the final third, where heat commonly builds (how far down a test candle must go).

From five approvals to a production order

Once each oil has an approved wick, size the order per wick: wicks of a size = (candles of every oil on that size) × wicks per candle × (1 + allowance). The allowance covers rejects and retests; 5% is our worked-example figure. Because C2 and Cotton Braided are flat per wick, choose packs that add up to the number and nothing more.

Could you run one SKU instead, everything on Cotton Braided? Only if lavender, rose and coffee pass full life on it, which this plan has not tested and which a light oil on a bigger wick commonly does not. Even if they did, the month would cost ₹3,528.00 in wicks, ₹483.84 more than the split, for the convenience of one bin. The sales-mix split in detail, with pack choice per size, is the two-wick quantity post; whether a low-volume oil should share a neighbouring wick instead of holding its own is the wick-sharing post; reorder points per size are the reorder-point post.

What to buy for five oils, and what to skip

Six items, in the order the plan uses them, chosen on page statements, price and stock on 1 October 2026. CSI publishes no wick-performance data for any oil, so nothing here is ranked on burn results. Candle counts use 16 g per 200 g candle and 12 g per 150 g candle. The wax line is in the buy list above: CSI 464 at ₹0.51 a gram, flat from 1 kg to 10 kg.

Skip for this plan: Eco C1 (the 20-pack, ₹118.00): only after a light oil runs hot on C2. Performance Wooden Wicks (₹590.00 for 10): one listing with no widths, so it cannot be a contingency rung. Eco Braided Wicks and the Braided Wick Roll (₹706.82): unsized, cut to length, a gap-filling experiment for later. Fifteen-gram oil bottles: they fill no 200 g candle at 8%; buy them only to smell an oil before committing.

Map of this cluster: 5521–5540

This hub owns the cluster's short answer (buy for two builds, screen every oil on the house wick, add a contingency rung where a fail is likely) and the five-oil plan. Each other post owns one purchasing decision when a fragrance changes how a wick behaves.

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