I Want a Signature Scent for My Brand — Should I Blend Fragrance Oils?
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Which ceiling applies when two oils have different ranges? The lowest of three figures: the wax page’s maximum, and each oil page’s stated candle range. Sandalwood publishes up to 10% for soy and Mahogany Teakwood publishes 7–9% in soy, so a blend of those two is governed at 9% even in a wax that allows 13%. When in doubt, take the lower figure and test.
Does blending make a candle smell stronger? No. You are dividing the same allowance between two oils, so total scent material is unchanged and each component is present at less than it would be alone. Blend for character and ownership, never as a fix for weak throw — if the throw is weak, the load, the wick or the cure is the place to look.
What does a signature blend cost? Less than most makers expect and less than one premium single oil. A 70:30 Sandalwood and Jasmine blend is ₹75.13 of oil in a 200 g candle at 8% — against ₹129.65 for White Royal Oud alone. Across the whole 90:10 to 50:50 ladder the cost moves by only ₹7.06.
Should you blend at all? Three cheaper ways to own a scent
The reason to ask the question properly is that a blend is a permanent operating commitment, not a creative afternoon. Once your bestseller is 70% of one oil and 30% of another, your business needs both of those products, in the pack sizes you use, for as long as that candle is on sale. That is a manageable commitment and thousands of brands manage it — but it is a genuinely different thing from buying one bottle, and it should be entered into on purpose.
| Route | What you actually do | Oil cost per candle | Reorder risk | What you can claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · One distinctive single oil | Find an oil few Indian brands use and own it — Gilli Mitti Patchouli, Rajnigandha, Vetiver, White Royal Oud — then win on name, jar and story | ₹71.36 to ₹143.36 | One product to track. Lowest risk of the three | Everything the product page publishes, including its IFRA claim |
| 2 · A house accord across the range | Add the same small share of one anchor oil to every scent in the range — for example 20% of the allowance as Sandalwood in all six candles | Adds ₹16.09 to a 16 g allowance at 20% of the blend | One extra product, used in every batch — so a stock-out stops the whole range | A house character. Each component’s documentation, separately |
| 3 · A true two-oil signature blend | Fix a ratio between a spine and a signal, pre-blend it as a master batch, pour it as one ingredient | ₹47.96 to ₹82.47 for the three worked blends on this page | Two products, both needed in matched quantities | Each component’s documentation. Never a certificate for the blend itself |
| 4 · Do not touch the fragrance | Differentiate on the jar, the lid, the label, the name, the packaging and the photography, with a single well-chosen oil inside | Whatever the one oil costs | None beyond the oil you already buy | Everything, and it is the fastest route to market |
Route four deserves more respect than it usually gets, and saying so costs us fragrance sales. A brand is recognised by its name, its jar, its label and its photographs long before anyone smells it — and a single oil poured at the right load in a well-chosen container is indistinguishable, commercially, from a blend. If you are launching for Diwali, which falls on 8 November 2026 and therefore needs pouring by about mid-October for a 14 to 21 day cure plus courier time, route four is the only one of the four you can still do properly. Blending is a next-season project.
Route two is the one most under-used by Indian brands, and it is the professional answer. Instead of a bespoke scent per candle, you keep one anchor oil and put a fixed small share of it into everything: every candle in the range carries, say, 20% of its allowance as Sandalwood — ₹16.09 of oil per 200 g candle at 8% — under a citrus, a floral or a gourmand. Customers cannot name it, but they recognise the house. It is also the cheapest signature to protect, because there is exactly one extra product to keep in stock.
One allowance, two bottles: the arithmetic that governs every blend
This is the sentence that prevents the expensive mistake: the combined oil counts once. A 200 g candle at 8% of wax weight carries 16 g of fragrance in total. If you blend, that 16 g is divided between your two oils — it does not become 16 g of each, and it does not become 12 g plus 12 g because “each oil is under its own limit”. Makers who get this wrong pour a 24 g candle on a 20 g maximum and then spend a fortnight diagnosing a sweating surface.
The governing figure is the lowest of three published numbers: the maximum the wax page states, and the candle range each oil page states. Take the lowest, then choose your working load at or under it. The table shows four real blends and where each one is actually capped.
| Blend | Oil A range (soy) | Oil B range (soy) | Wax maximum | Governing total | Grams on 200 g of wax |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandalwood + Jasmine | Up to 10% | Up to 10% | CSI 464 up to 10% | 10% | Maximum 20 g · work at 16 g (8%) |
| Eucalyptus Spearmint + Citrus Lemon | Up to 10% | 6–10% | CSI 464 up to 10% | 10% | Maximum 20 g · work at 16 g (8%) |
| Cinnamon Vanilla + Sandalwood | Up to 13% | Up to 10% | Chunks up to 13% | 10% — Sandalwood governs | Maximum 20 g, not 26 g |
| Mahogany Teakwood + Sandalwood | 7–9% | Up to 10% | Chunks up to 13% | 9% — Mahogany Teakwood governs | Maximum 18 g · work at 16 g |
Two consequences follow that are worth planning around. First, adding a component can lower your ceiling. A maker running Cinnamon Vanilla at 12% in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — which is allowed, because both the oil and the wax publish 13% — cannot simply add a splash of Sandalwood and keep 12%, because Sandalwood publishes up to 10%. The whole candle drops to 10%, which is 24 g becoming 20 g on a 200 g pour, and the wick you had dialled in at 12% may need re-testing. Second, the cheapest way to protect a high-load formula is to pick a partner whose page allows at least as much as the oil you already use.
One more figure that a blend changes silently: the cost line. A blend is not automatically dearer. Sandalwood alone is ₹80.43 of oil in a 200 g candle; blended 70:30 with the cheaper Jasmine it is ₹75.13, so the signature version costs ₹5.30 less than the single oil it is built on. Blends only get expensive when you use a premium oil as the signal rather than the spine — Dark Vanilla at ₹7.65 a gram is nearly twice Woody Oud at ₹4.53, so the 80:20 Woody Oud and Dark Vanilla blend at ₹82.47 costs more than Woody Oud alone at ₹72.50.
Building a blend that reads as one scent, not two
The structure that works most reliably is a spine and a signal. The spine is base-heavy and does the work: woods, oud, amber, sandalwood, vanilla, vetiver, patchouli — the materials that sit in wax and come out of a melt pool for hours. The signal is lighter and gives the scent its identity in the first ten seconds: citrus, herbal, floral, a spice. Start at 70:30 in favour of the spine and move from there. This is general perfumery practice rather than a CSI measurement, and the reason it works in candles specifically is that the light material is the part a soy candle loses fastest, so it needs the smaller share and the more forgiving job.
Choosing the pair is where CSI’s product pages are genuinely useful, because many of them publish a “blends well with” list. Those lists are not performance claims and they are not tested combinations in your wax — they are compositional suggestions. But when two CSI pages name each other, you have a pairing that two independent descriptions agree on, and that is a better starting point than a hunch. The table below only includes pairs where both halves are live CSI products.
| Spine | Signal | Why it works as a signature | Oil cost per candle at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandalwood | Jasmine | Indian luxury without a gourmand; both pages publish 0% vanillin, so it stays safe in white and ivory wax | ₹75.13 at 70:30 |
| Eucalyptus Spearmint | Citrus Lemon | Spa and hotel positioning; the two cheapest 0% vanillin oils on the list, and each page names the other family | ₹47.96 at 70:30 |
| Woody Oud | Dark Vanilla | Gifting and festive luxury; the Woody Oud page names Dark Vanilla directly. Both carry vanillin, so plan a dark jar | ₹82.47 at 80:20 |
| Vetiver | Gilli Mitti Patchouli | An unmistakably Indian earthy-petrichor signature; the Gilli Mitti page names vetiver and the Vetiver page names patchouli | ₹107.97 at 70:30 |
| White Royal Oud | Vanilla Bean | A premium modern oriental; the White Royal Oud page names Vanilla Bean. The dearest blend here, and a dark or ceramic jar is the sensible container | ₹128.19 at 80:20 |
| British Rose | Sandalwood | Wedding and favour ranges; the British Rose page names sandalwood and the Sandalwood page names rose, and both publish 0% vanillin for white and blush wax | ₹67.89 at 60:40 |
| Lavender | Eucalyptus Spearmint | Sleep and wellness; the Lavender page names eucalyptus and the Eucalyptus Spearmint page names lavender | ₹73.20 at 70:30 |
| Roasted Coffee | Dark Vanilla | Café-style gifting; each page names the other’s material. Significant vanillin on both sides — dark glass only | ₹72.31 at 80:20 |
Three pairings to avoid, and why
Two spines. Sandalwood with Woody Oud, or Dark Vanilla with Roasted Coffee at 50:50, gives you a heavy, muddy candle in which neither oil is recognisable — you have spent two premium oils to produce one anonymous one. Two signals. Citrus Lemon with Japanese Cherry Blossom has nothing holding it down, and a soy candle will lose most of both within the first week. A 50:50 of anything, as a starting point. Equal halves is the ratio that most often reads as two scents taking turns rather than one scent with a shape; it is worth testing as the end of the ladder, not as the first guess.
One colour warning that catches blenders out. A 0% vanillin oil does not protect a blend — the vanillin comes in with the partner. Sandalwood publishes 0% vanillin and is safe in white wax alone, but blend it 80:20 with Vanilla Bean at 2.5% vanillin and your white candle will warm in tone like any other vanillin candle, in proportion to how much of it is in there. If your brand look is bright white, both halves of the blend have to come from the 0% pages — Sandalwood, Jasmine, British Rose, Eucalyptus Spearmint, Citrus Lemon, Vetiver and the rest of that list.
The five-jar ratio test, then the confirm batch
The ratio is the only thing that changes across these five jars. Same wax, same jar, same wick, same load, same pour day, same cure — because with two variables moving you cannot attribute the result to either. Screen on 70 g votives at about ₹68.20 each in wax, jar and wick, then confirm the winner in your real production jar, because a 60 g pour and a 200 g pour do not behave identically.
Do not mix your two oils into the pot separately on pour day. Blend them in advance, in one weighing, and treat the result as a single ingredient. A 100 g master batch at 70:30 is 70 g of Sandalwood and 30 g of Jasmine — ₹469.57 of oil, or ₹4.70 a gram — and it pours six 200 g candles at 8% with a little over. At 500 g it is 350 g and 150 g, ₹2,347.83, or ₹4.70 a gram. Seal it, label it with the ratio, the component pack sizes and the date, let it stand a day before first use, and store it cool and out of the light like any oil. One weighing per batch of master blend replaces two weighings per candle batch, which is where blend drift comes from.
A note on what the test cannot tell you. Five votives will tell you which ratio you prefer and whether the blend reads as one scent. It will not tell you what a customer prefers, and it will not tell you how the blend performs in a different jar, a different wax or a different wick. Those are separate tests, and the useful discipline is to change one of those four things at a time — ratio, jar, wax, wick — and keep the sealed reference jar from each stage so you always have something to smell against.
What a blend really costs you: continuity and drift
Here is the risk stated plainly, against our own interest. A large fragrance collection is a moving thing: sizes go out of stock, and a pack you relied on may not be available the week you need it. That is true of any supplier and it is true of ours — of the oils named on this page, Vetiver’s 1 kg pack was unavailable when this guide was written, which is why its costings here use the 500 gm pack. If your signature depends on two products, you are exposed twice, and the exposure is worst exactly when it hurts most: the four weeks before Diwali, when everybody is ordering.
Four practical defences, in order of how much they help. One: buy both components in matched quantities, in the same order, so their lots stay aligned and you never have new-lot oil A against year-old oil B. Two: hold a deeper buffer on the spine than the signal, because the spine is 70–80% of the formula and the harder half to substitute. Three: keep a sealed reference votive of the approved blend so a substitution can be judged rather than guessed. Four: confirm reorder availability on WhatsApp before you print labels for a range, not after — bulk pricing and stock position for a specific pack size is exactly the question WhatsApp is for.
| Risk | How it shows up | What it costs | Defence |
|---|---|---|---|
| A component pack goes out of stock | You can buy 100 g when you need 500 g, or the size you costed is unavailable | A production pause, or a formula change mid-season | Matched buying, a deeper buffer on the spine, and a WhatsApp check before you commit a range |
| Weighing drift between batches | Regular customers say this batch is “a bit different”; nothing is visibly wrong | Slow erosion of the one thing a signature is for | Pre-blended master batch, weighed once to 0.1 g, labelled with ratio and date |
| Lot-to-lot variation in one component | A new kilo of the spine shifts the whole blend | A season of candles that do not match the reference | Sealed reference votive, and a blotter check on every new bottle before it enters a master batch |
| Formula loss | The person who knows the ratio is unavailable, or the note was on a phone that broke | The signature itself | One printed recipe sheet per scent: grams, product pages, pack sizes, wax grade, load, date |
Documentation, labels and what you must never claim
Hold the MSDS and IFRA documentation for every component of every blend on file, and send both when a retail or corporate buyer asks. Those documents are available for CSI oils on request via WhatsApp +91 7397976926. What you can say is what each page says: that the product page for Sandalwood or Eucalyptus Spearmint states IFRA certification. What you cannot say is that your blend is certified, because nobody has assessed your ratio — and a claim like that is the kind of thing a buyer’s compliance team checks.
Four further lines to keep off your label and out of your listing, for any candle and especially a blend. Do not claim skin safety, massage use or aromatherapy benefit for a candle fragrance oil — a candle oil is not automatically safe for skin contact, and blending does not change that. Do not describe a blend as natural or pure because one component is a botanical-sounding name. Do not use another brand’s trademark as the name of your signature. And do not publish a vanillin figure, a flash point or a usage percentage for the blend, because those are properties of the components and you have not measured the mixture.
What you can build a story on is genuinely yours: the ratio, the name, the jar, the wax grade, the load and the cure. “Poured at 8% of wax weight in 100% soy, cured fourteen days, in a house accord built on sandalwood” is an honest, specific and completely defensible description — and it is more persuasive to an Indian corporate buyer than an unverifiable claim, because every part of it can be checked. GST invoicing is available on every order, which is usually the other half of what a corporate buyer needs.
The honest verdict: who should blend, and who should not
Blend if you have a range already selling, you weigh in grams, you can hold two products permanently, and the exclusivity is worth a fortnight of testing and a printed recipe sheet. Do not blend if you are pre-launch, if your current candles have an unresolved throw or wick problem, if you measure by drops, or if your festive deadline is inside six weeks — with Diwali on 8 November 2026 and a 14 to 21 day cure, that deadline is already tight. Consider route two instead if you want a house character across several candles rather than one bespoke scent: one anchor oil in every formula is the cheapest signature to run and the easiest to protect.
And here is the figure to keep in view. A 70:30 Sandalwood and Jasmine signature is ₹75.13 of oil in a 200 g candle, ₹182.51 in wax, wick and oil, and ₹9,125.53 for fifty candles. A single distinctive oil like Gilli Mitti Patchouli is ₹143.36 of oil, ₹250.74 a candle. The blend is not the expensive option — the expensive option is a blend you cannot repeat, because the cost of that is the whole reason you blended.
Both pages publish 0% vanillin and up to 10% for soy, so this blend is safe in bright white wax and governed at 10% in every CSI soy grade. Each page names the other as a partner: Sandalwood lists jasmine among vanilla, lavender, patchouli, amber, rose, oud, vetiver and bergamot; Jasmine lists sandalwood first, with vanilla, lavender, rose, patchouli, neroli, white musk, ylang ylang and bergamot. Sandalwood publishes a flash point of 203°C and Jasmine 185°C, both far above the 80–90°C pour window.
At 8% on 200 g of wax: 11.2 g of Sandalwood and 4.8 g of Jasmine, ₹75.13 of oil — ₹5.30 less than the same candle in Sandalwood alone. Honest caveat: Sandalwood stock on the individual packs was thinner than Jasmine’s when this page was written, and the spine is the half you cannot substitute, so confirm the pack you need before you build a range on it.
| Ratio | Sandalwood | Jasmine | Oil per candle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90:10 | 14.4 g | 1.6 g | ₹78.66 |
| 80:20 | 12.8 g | 3.2 g | ₹76.90 |
| 70:30 | 11.2 g | 4.8 g | ₹75.13 |
| 60:40 | 9.6 g | 6.4 g | ₹73.36 |
| 50:50 | 8.0 g | 8.0 g | ₹71.60 |
The two cheapest 0% vanillin oils in the collection, and the pages name each other’s territory: Eucalyptus Spearmint lists lavender, lemon, cedarwood, peppermint, tea tree, rosemary, bergamot, basil, pine and citrus; Citrus Lemon lists mint, basil, eucalyptus, ginger, lemongrass, rosemary, green tea, bergamot and coconut. Eucalyptus Spearmint publishes up to 10% for soy with an IFRA claim and a flash point of 199°C; Citrus Lemon publishes 6–10% for soy, so the blend is governed at 10%.
At 8% on 200 g: 11.2 g and 4.8 g for ₹47.96 of oil — the cheapest signature on this page, and ₹155.34 a candle in wax, wick and oil. The honest limitation is the family: fresh and herbal scents are generally judged quieter than gourmands at the same load, and the citrus signal is the fastest-fading part of the blend, so approve this one at day 14 rather than day 3 and consider the upper end of the ladder for the spine.
| Ratio | Eucalyptus Spearmint | Citrus Lemon | Oil per candle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90:10 | 14.4 g | 1.6 g | ₹48.71 |
| 80:20 | 12.8 g | 3.2 g | ₹48.33 |
| 70:30 | 11.2 g | 4.8 g | ₹47.96 |
| 60:40 | 9.6 g | 6.4 g | ₹47.58 |
| 50:50 | 8.0 g | 8.0 g | ₹47.20 |
The Woody Oud page names Dark Vanilla directly in its blending list, alongside sandalwood, rose, saffron, amber, dark musk, vetiver, patchouli and incense. Both publish 6–10% for soy, so the blend is governed at 10%, and both publish a 48 to 72 hour cure with the note that oud benefits from a full cure for cold-throw development. Woody Oud publishes a top of citrus and spice over oud and patchouli, with woody notes, amber and musk at the base — a textbook spine.
The colour decision comes with it: the Dark Vanilla page states it will yellow white or light wax, so this is an amber, brown, black or ceramic candle by design. At 8% on 200 g: 12.8 g and 3.2 g for ₹82.47 of oil, which is ₹9.97 more than Woody Oud alone because the signal here is the dearer oil at ₹7.65 a gram. Two reviews on Woody Oud; one calls it a “Good quality wood fragrance oil with a warm, long-lasting scent and strong performance in candles”.
| Ratio | Woody Oud | Dark Vanilla | Oil per candle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90:10 | 14.4 g | 1.6 g | ₹77.48 |
| 80:20 | 12.8 g | 3.2 g | ₹82.47 |
| 70:30 | 11.2 g | 4.8 g | ₹87.45 |
| 60:40 | 9.6 g | 6.4 g | ₹92.43 |
| 50:50 | 8.0 g | 8.0 g | ₹97.42 |
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA sells fragrance oil, and a blend sells two bottles instead of one — so the honest position is that most brands do not need one. A single distinctive oil in a well-chosen jar is faster, cheaper and safer to reorder, and we have said so above with prices attached. We have also said plainly that blending cannot fix weak throw, that adding a component can lower your ceiling, and that the pack size you cost a formula on may not always be available.
Every price comes from live CSI stock in September 2026, taxes included, and the linked product pages are authoritative if anything changes. Candle usage ranges, flash points, vanillin figures, cure times and blending partners are quoted from the CSI product pages as printed — the “blends well with” lists are compositional suggestions on those pages, not tested combinations or performance claims, and no CSI page publishes a specification for a blend. Fragrance loads are percentages of wax weight, as those pages state them; wax ceilings are the manufacturer’s stated formulation maximums, and where the wax figure and an oil figure differ the lower one governs. Spine-and-signal structure and the behaviour of 50:50 blends are described as general practice rather than CSI test data. Costings are illustrative arithmetic on 200 g of wax and exclude jars, labels and packaging unless stated.
Message WhatsApp +91 7397976926 for bulk pricing on blend components, confirmation of ongoing availability in a specific pack size before you commit a range, MSDS and IFRA documentation per component, or GST invoicing for a corporate order.
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Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing). Costing unit: 200 g of wax plus 16 g of fragrance oil at 8% of wax weight (216 g poured), wax priced as Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹101.48 per 200 g; 500 g ₹260.00), plus one Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each from the 100-pack at ₹590.00 — base ₹107.38. Oil per gram at the 1 kg pack unless noted: Sandalwood ₹5.03 (1 kg ₹5,026.80; 100 gm ₹502.68 = ₹5.03/g; 15 gm ₹93.22), Jasmine ₹3.92 (50 gm ₹230.00), Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹3.07, Citrus Lemon ₹2.83, Woody Oud ₹4.53, Dark Vanilla ₹7.65, Vetiver ₹5.80 at the 500 gm pack of ₹2,900.00 because the 1 kg pack is out of stock, Gilli Mitti Patchouli ₹8.96, White Royal Oud ₹8.10, Vanilla Bean ₹7.65, British Rose ₹3.07, Lavender ₹5.22, Roasted Coffee ₹3.74, Cinnamon Vanilla ₹4.55, Rajnigandha ₹4.46, Mahogany Teakwood ₹8.80. Ratio ladder, 16 g of Sandalwood and Jasmine blend on 200 g of wax: 90:10 = 14.4 g + 1.6 g ₹78.66; 80:20 = 12.8 + 3.2 ₹76.90; 70:30 = 11.2 + 4.8 ₹75.13; 60:40 = 9.6 + 6.4 ₹73.36; 50:50 = 8 + 8 ₹71.60 — a span of ₹7.06 per candle. Worked blends at 8%: Sandalwood and Jasmine 70:30 ₹75.13 of oil and ₹182.51 a candle (₹9,125.53 for fifty); Eucalyptus Spearmint and Citrus Lemon 70:30 ₹47.96 and ₹155.34; Woody Oud and Dark Vanilla 80:20 ₹82.47 and ₹189.85. Single-oil comparisons at 16 g: Sandalwood ₹80.43, Woody Oud ₹72.50, White Royal Oud ₹129.65, Gilli Mitti ₹143.36 (₹250.74 a candle), Rajnigandha ₹71.36. House-accord anchor at 20% of a 16 g allowance: 3.2 g of Sandalwood, ₹16.09. Master batches at 70:30: 100 g = 70 g + 30 g, ₹469.57 (₹4.70/g), bought as one 100 gm Sandalwood and one 50 gm Jasmine for ₹732.68; 500 g = 350 g + 150 g, ₹2,347.83 (₹4.70/g). Five-jar tests (illustrative): screening on White Matte Votive Jars 70 gram at ₹318.60 for ten (₹31.86 each) with a 60 g fill, ₹68.20 per jar in wax, jar and wick, about ₹453.72 for five with oil; confirm set at 200 g about ₹912.55. Pack-size penalty: Sandalwood at 100 gm rather than 1 kg adds -₹0.00 per candle on 11.2 g of spine, -₹0.00 across fifty. Tools: Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00 (two in stock when written), Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118.00 for five, Steel Pouring Pitcher 600 ml ₹708.00, Candle Care Stickers ₹413.00 for 500. Product-page specs quoted: CSI 464 up to 10% of wax weight and 80–90°C as the working range for melting and pouring; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13%, fragrance at 80–90°C with a slow two-minute stir, cure minimum 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; Sandalwood up to 10% soy, flash point 203°C, 0% vanillin; Jasmine up to 10% soy, flash point 185°C, 0% vanillin; Eucalyptus Spearmint up to 10% soy, flash point 199°C, 0% vanillin, IFRA claim; Citrus Lemon 6–10% soy, approximately 0% vanillin; Woody Oud 6–10% soy, cure 48–72 hours; Dark Vanilla 6–10% soy, vanillin present and will yellow white or light wax; Vanilla Bean 2.5% vanillin; Cinnamon Vanilla up to 13% and 2.5% vanillin; Mahogany Teakwood 7–9% in soy. Blending partner lists are quoted from the same pages. Diwali 2026 is 8 November 2026; pour festive candles by about mid-October for a 14–21 day cure plus shipping. Stock notes are a snapshot of 12 September 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.