I'm Scaling a Custom Fragrance Blend from 100 g to 5 Kg — How Do I Preserve the Exact Ratios and Minimise Weighing Errors?

I'm Scaling a Custom Fragrance Blend from 100 g to 5 Kg — How Do I Preserve the Exact Ratios and Minimise Weighing Errors?

 

5 kg of the example blend: ₹31,475.20 1 kg pilot: ₹6,415.04 Weighing scale ₹354.00
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Multiply by 50, weigh by cumulative addition on one vessel, and record every figure against a target and a tolerance.
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Fragrance Formulation · Scaling a blend
The ratio scales by simple multiplication: 50/30/20 is 50 g, 30 g and 20 g at 100 g, and 2,500 g, 1,500 g and 1,000 g at 5 kg. The risk is not the arithmetic. It is weighing: rounding on small amounts, transfers between cups, overshoots, a scale pushed past its capacity, and figures nobody wrote down.
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100 g → 5 kg · a 1 g reading error is 2.5% of a 20 g component and 0.05% of a 1,000 g one
Quick answers — read this first
How do I scale a fragrance blend from 100 g to 5 kg? Multiply every component by 50. For a 50/30/20 blend: 2,500 g, 1,500 g and 1,000 g. Then weigh by cumulative addition into one tared vessel, record each figure and check the result against a retained sample. See the weighing method.

Will the bigger batch be less accurate? Usually more accurate. A scale's rounding error is a fixed number of grams, so it matters most on small weights. On a scale reading in whole grams, ±0.5 g is 2.5% of a 20 g component but 0.05% of 1,000 g. See the error maths.

What if I overshoot one component? Do not remove oil. Recalculate the rest from the actual figure: if Ylang Ylang lands at 2,512 g instead of 2,500 g, make Vanilla Bean 1,507.2 g and Neroli 1,004.8 g. The ratio is kept; the batch is slightly larger. See the method.

What does 5 kg of blend make? At 8% of finished weight, 5 kg of oil scents 62.5 kg of candles: 312.5 candles of 200 g, with 57.5 kg of wax. The example blend's components cost ₹31,475.20 at listed pack prices.
The short answer
Grams: 50/30/20 blend: 100 g = 50 / 30 / 20 g · 1 kg = 500 / 300 / 200 g · 5 kg = 2,500 / 1,500 / 1,000 g.
Error maths: Rounding error = ± half the scale's readability. At 1 g readability: ±2.5% on 20 g, ±0.05% on 1,000 g. Small test blends are the least accurate; the 5 kg batch is the most.
Method: One vessel, tared once. Add each oil to a cumulative target (2,500 → 4,000 → 5,000 g). Record after each addition. Correct overshoots by recalculating, never by removing oil.
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In this guide
Weighing a 5 kg blend by cumulative addition One vessel, tared once, stays on the scale. Each oil is added up to a cumulative target, so nothing is poured between cups. 0 g Tare Empty vessel on scale 2,500 g Add Ylang Ylang target 2,500 4,000 g Add Vanilla Bean target 1,500 → total 4,000 5,000 g Add Neroli target 1,000 → total 5,000 Record the display after each addition. If one oil overshoots, recalculate the others from the actual figure, not the plan.
Cumulative addition means the vessel is tared once and never leaves the scale, so there are no transfer losses and every reading is taken in the same place. The display is read and written down after each oil. Dashed lines mark the previous totals; the next target is always the running total, not the component weight alone.
Example component · 50%
Ylang Ylang Flower · 1 kg ₹5,310.00
Example component · 30%
Vanilla Bean · 1 kg ₹7,646.00
Check readability and capacity
Weighing Scale · ₹354.00
Straight answer
I'm scaling a custom fragrance blend from 100 g to 5 kg. How do I preserve the exact ratios and minimise weighing errors?
Scale the percentages, not the test grams: a 50/30/20 blend is 2,500 g, 1,500 g and 1,000 g at 5 kg, which is simply 50 times the 100 g batch. The bigger batch is actually the easier one to weigh accurately. A scale's rounding error is a fixed amount, about half its readability, so on a scale that reads in whole grams it is ±0.5 g: 2.5% of a 20 g component but only 0.05% of 1,000 g. The real risks at 5 kg are handling ones. Weigh by cumulative addition into one clean vessel that is tared once and stays on the scale: add the first oil to 2,500 g, the second until the display reads 4,000 g, the third until it reads 5,000 g. There are no transfers between cups, so nothing is lost on the way. If you overshoot, never pour oil back; recalculate the remaining components from the actual figure so the ratio holds. Check your scale's capacity and readability on its label or product page, and split the batch if 5 kg plus the vessel exceeds it. Record target, actual and lot number for every component on a master sheet. Then pilot at 1 kg if the blend has never been made at scale, and check the 5 kg batch against a retained sample before pouring. Whether to premix the whole concentrate covers the next decision.
One line: multiply the percentages, weigh cumulatively into one tared vessel, and correct overshoots by recalculating.
The worked example is a floral-gourmand blend: Ylang Ylang Flower 50%, Vanilla Bean 30% and Neroli 20%. For 5 kg, that is 2 × 1 kg + 500 g of Ylang Ylang, 1 kg + 500 g of Vanilla Bean and 1 kg of Neroli: ₹31,475.20 at listed pack prices. A 1 kg pilot costs ₹6,415.04.
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The ratio is the easy part

A blend is a set of percentages. Grams are just those percentages multiplied by the batch size.

The most common scaling mistake is not arithmetic at all. It is scaling from the wrong starting point: the grams in a test candle, rounded to what the scale could show, rather than the percentages the blend was designed with. If your test candle had 8 g of Ylang Ylang, 5 g of Vanilla Bean and 3 g of Neroli because that was what the scale could manage, your "formula" is 50/31.25/18.75, not 50/30/20. Write the blend down as percentages first, then derive every batch from them. Converting a blend ratio into grams works through the conversion.

50 / 30 / 20 blend · grams at each batch size
The same ratio at four scales
Batch of blend Ylang Ylang Flower (50%) Vanilla Bean (30%) Neroli (20%) Candle weight it scents at 8% 200 g candles
16 g 8.0 g 4.8 g 3.2 g 0.20 kg 1.0
100 g 50.0 g 30.0 g 20.0 g 1.25 kg 6.2
1 kg 500.0 g 300.0 g 200.0 g 12.50 kg 62.5
5 kg 2,500.0 g 1,500.0 g 1,000.0 g 62.50 kg 312.5

The last two columns use CSI's convention: load is a share of the finished candle, so oil = total × 8% and the candle weight is oil ÷ 0.08. 5 kg of blend scents 62.5 kg of finished candles, made of 5 kg of oil and 57.5 kg of wax. If you instead add oil as 8% of the wax weight, 5 kg of oil would go into 62.5 kg of wax, a true load of 7.41%. Both are valid if you use them consistently; the problem is mixing them between the test batch and production. Is 8% applied to each oil or to the blend? and calculating a 10 kg batch without making 10.8 kg cover the conventions.

Weighing error, in numbers

Every digital scale shows weight in fixed steps, its readability: 1 g on many workshop scales, 0.1 g or 0.01 g on finer ones. A reading can be off by up to half a step from the true weight, before any other error. CSI does not publish the readability of its scale in our data, so check the label or the product page for yours. The table shows what half a step means for each component of the example blend, at two readabilities.

Rounding error only (± half the readability) · as a % of each component's target weight
Relative weighing error by batch size and scale
Batch Component Target 1 g scale (±0.5 g) 0.1 g scale (±0.05 g)
16 g Ylang Ylang Flower 8.0 g ±6.25% ±0.625%
16 g Vanilla Bean 4.8 g ±10.42% ±1.042%
16 g Neroli 3.2 g ±15.62% ±1.562%
100 g Ylang Ylang Flower 50.0 g ±1.00% ±0.100%
100 g Vanilla Bean 30.0 g ±1.67% ±0.167%
100 g Neroli 20.0 g ±2.50% ±0.250%
5 kg Ylang Ylang Flower 2,500.0 g ±0.02% ±0.002%
5 kg Vanilla Bean 1,500.0 g ±0.03% ±0.003%
5 kg Neroli 1,000.0 g ±0.05% ±0.005%

Read the table from top to bottom and the pattern is clear. The 16 g blend inside a single test candle is the least accurate batch you will ever make: on a whole-gram scale, the 3.2 g of Neroli could be 15.6% out. The 100 g test blend is better. The 5 kg batch is the best by far: ±0.05% on the smallest component. In the worst case, with Neroli reading high and the other two low, the 100 g batch's Neroli share could drift from 20.0% to about 20.60%; at 5 kg, to about 20.012%. Scaling up does not threaten your ratio. Scaling up carelessly does.

The errors that are bigger than rounding
Rounding is the smallest error in most workshops. Larger ones: a scale not re-zeroed after the vessel was moved; a ceiling fan or open window moving the reading on small weights; oil left clinging to a weighing cup after it is poured into the main vessel; a scale overloaded past its capacity, which can display nonsense or nothing at all; and figures remembered rather than written. The method below is designed around those.
Argued against our own interest, plainly. Buying a finer scale is not always the fix. For a 5 kg batch, a whole-gram scale is already accurate to a twentieth of a percent on every component; what it must have is enough capacity. The place a finer scale earns its cost is the small test blend and any component under about 20 g. If your workshop only ever makes large batches, spend on a clean vessel and a written sheet before a new scale.

Weighing 5 kg without drift

One vessel, tared once, never lifted off the scale until the last oil is in.

Cumulative addition is the standard way to weigh a multi-component batch. Place a clean, dry vessel large enough for 5 kg plus stirring room on the scale and tare it to zero. Pour the first component to its target. Do not re-tare. Pour the second component until the display shows the running total, and the third until it shows the batch total. Every oil goes straight from its bottle into the vessel, so nothing is lost in intermediate cups, and the vessel is weighed once at the start rather than three times.

5 kg of the example blend · cumulative addition on one tared vessel
Cumulative targets
Step Add Component target Display should read Working tolerance (example)
0 Tare the empty vessel — 0 g Exactly 0
1 Ylang Ylang Flower 2,500 g 2,500 g ±5 g (0.2%)
2 Vanilla Bean 1,500 g 4,000 g ±3 g (0.2%)
3 Neroli 1,000 g 5,000 g ±2 g (0.2%)

The tolerance column is a working example, 0.2% of each component, which a whole-gram scale can hold comfortably at this scale. Set your own and write it on the sheet. What matters is what you do when a pour goes past the tolerance. Never pour oil back into the stock bottle or scoop it out: that contaminates the stock and loses oil on the scoop. Instead, recalculate the remaining components from the actual figure. If Ylang Ylang lands at 2,512 g instead of 2,500 g, the blend now needs Vanilla Bean at 2,512 × 30 ÷ 50 = 1,507.2 g and Neroli at 2,512 × 20 ÷ 50 = 1,004.8 g. The batch becomes 5,024.0 g at exactly 50/30/20. That works only if you have that much of each remaining oil to hand, which is one reason to buy a small margin over the plan.

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Check the scale before you startLevel, stable surface, away from fans and draughts. Switch on, let it settle, and check it with a calibration weight or an object you have weighed before. Confirm its capacity covers the vessel plus 5 kg; if not, split the batch.
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Lay out every bottle and the sheetEach component, its lot number or order date visible, the master sheet filled in with targets and tolerances before any oil moves.
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Tare the empty vessel onceClean and dry. Write down the tared vessel so the next person uses the same one.
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Add each component to its cumulative targetPour steadily, slow down for the last few percent, and stop. Wait for the display to settle, then write the actual figure. Initial it.
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Correct, do not removeIf a pour exceeds tolerance, recalculate the remaining targets from the actual figure and write the new targets on the sheet.
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Mix thoroughly and closeStir the full batch well; a fixed time, for example three minutes with a clean stirring stick, is a working practice. Close the vessel, label it with the blend name, version, date, batch weight and your initials.
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Retain a sampleDecant 30–50 g into a small closed bottle, labelled the same way, and store it away from light and heat. It is your reference for this batch.

If the vessel plus 5 kg would exceed your scale's capacity, make the batch as two 2.5 kg sub-batches weighed the same way (1,250 g, then 2,000 g, then 2,500 g on the display), and combine them in a larger container before the final mix. Each sub-batch is independently in ratio, so combining them keeps the ratio. Do not weigh a single component in several separate lots and add them up; each lot adds its own rounding and handling error. Premixing a production concentrate covers storing and dosing the finished batch.

The CSI principle
Scale the percentages, weigh the running total, write every figure.
The arithmetic of scaling is trivial. What keeps a 5 kg batch identical to the 100 g one is a single tared vessel, cumulative targets, recalculation instead of correction by removal, and a sheet with every actual weight and initial on it.

The master weighing sheet

Every production batch of a blend should leave behind one sheet, filled in as the oils are weighed, not afterwards. It is the only record that tells you, months later, whether a batch that smells different was weighed differently. Documenting a custom formula covers the formula card this sheet refers to.

Fill in before, during and after weighing · one sheet per batch
Master weighing sheet (example filled for 5 kg)
Field Entry
Blend name and version Example: Floral Vanilla v1.2
Batch size and date 5,000 g · date · batch number
Scale used, readability, capacity checked Scale ID · 1 g · capacity checked ✔
Vessel tared Vessel ID · 0 g
Ylang Ylang Flower: target / cumulative / actual / lot / initials 2,500 g / 2,500 g / ____ / ____ / ____
Vanilla Bean: target / cumulative / actual / lot / initials 1,500 g / 4,000 g / ____ / ____ / ____
Neroli: target / cumulative / actual / lot / initials 1,000 g / 5,000 g / ____ / ____ / ____
Recalculations (if any) Actual first component · new targets
Final batch weight ____ g
Mixed for / by ____ minutes · initials
Retained sample ____ g · location
Blotter check vs previous retained sample Match / differs — notes

The lot column matters more than it looks. When a new bottle of one component arrives and the blend smells slightly different, the sheet tells you exactly which batches used which lot. CSI does not publish batch-consistency data; keep a retained sample of each lot and ask on WhatsApp about any change. Comparing a new batch of a scent covers that check.

The sheet filled in from memory. A busy workshop weighs three oils, mixes, pours, and writes "2,500 / 1,500 / 1,000" on the sheet at the end of the day because that was the plan. The sheet now says nothing about what actually happened. Write each actual figure the moment the display settles, and never pre-fill the actual column.

Pilot at 1 kg, check against the retained sample

If a blend has only ever been made at 100 g, make a 1 kg pilot before the first 5 kg. It costs ₹6,415.04 for the example blend, scents 12.5 kg of candles (62.5 × 200 g), and tests your method and your vessel at a scale where a mistake is affordable. Pour a few candles from it beside a candle made from the original 100 g blend and compare them blind at the same cure age.

Listed pack prices · CSI live pricing, 24 September 2026
The 1 kg pilot, priced
Component Quantity Line total
Ylang Ylang Flower 500 g 500 g (50%) ₹2,714.00
Vanilla Bean 3 × 100 g 300 g (30%) ₹2,370.00
Neroli 2 × 100 g 200 g (20%) ₹1,331.04
Total ₹6,415.04

The pilot also shows up differences that are not about weighing at all. Larger batches of wax take longer to melt and cool, stirring is harder, and pouring takes longer, so a blend that behaved perfectly in a 100 g jug can behave differently in a 10 kg melter. What changes when you scale from 1 kg to 25 kg and why a production batch can smell weaker cover those production variables. Before any 5 kg batch goes into wax, dip a blotter in it and in the retained sample from the approved batch; if they do not match, stop and find out why.

Your 100 g test blend was the least accurate batch you will ever make. The 5 kg batch can be the most accurate — if the sheet is filled in as you weigh.
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50% of the blend · real bulk step
Ylang Ylang Flower Fragrance Oil
The largest component, and one of the oils where buying bigger saves money: ₹5.31/g at 1 kg against ₹5.90/g at 100 g, a 10.0% step. For the 5 kg batch, two 1 kg packs and a 500 g cover the 2,500 g exactly.
Pack Price Per gram Share of a 5 kg batch covered
15 g ₹106.20 ₹7.08 1%
50 g ₹330.40 ₹6.61 2%
100 g ₹590.00 ₹5.90 4%
500 g ₹2,714.00 ₹5.43 20%
1 kg ₹5,310.00 ₹5.31 40%
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30% of the blend
Vanilla Bean Fragrance Oil
A rich vanilla priced almost flat from 100 g up, at ₹7.65/g at 1 kg. The 1,500 g for a 5 kg batch is one 1 kg and one 500 g. Buy an extra 100 g if you want room to recalculate after an overshoot.
Pack Price Per gram Share of a 5 kg batch covered
15 g ₹130.00 ₹8.67 1%
50 g ₹410.00 ₹8.20 3%
100 g ₹790.00 ₹7.90 7%
500 g ₹3,840.00 ₹7.68 33%
1 kg ₹7,646.00 ₹7.65 67%
1 kg + 500 g for 1,500 g · ₹11,486.00 Buy Vanilla Bean
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20% of the blend · smallest component
Neroli Fragrance Oil
The smallest component, and so the one most exposed to weighing error in small test blends. At 5 kg it is a full 1,000 g, where a whole-gram scale's ±0.5 g is 0.05%. Priced flat per gram from 100 g at ₹6.66/g.
Pack Price Per gram Share of a 5 kg batch covered
15 g ₹118.00 ₹7.87 2%
50 g ₹342.20 ₹6.84 5%
100 g ₹665.52 ₹6.66 10%
500 g ₹3,327.60 ₹6.66 50%
1 kg ₹6,655.20 ₹6.66 100%
1 kg for 1,000 g · ₹6,655.20 Buy Neroli
A 5 kg batch scents 312.5 candles of 200 g — a festive or wedding-season run in one weighing. Diwali falls on 8 November 2026; if your production is timed for it, order components now so every oil is on hand before weighing starts. We quote multi-kilo component orders on WhatsApp, with GST invoice, MSDS and IFRA documentation; no volume discount figure is published.
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Shopping list: 5 kg of the example blend

The list buys exactly 2,500 g, 1,500 g and 1,000 g in the listed pack sizes. Ylang Ylang Flower is one of the oils where the kilo is genuinely cheaper per gram (₹5.31/g against ₹5.90/g at 100 g), so the kilos are the right buy; Vanilla Bean and Neroli are priced almost flat above 100 g. To leave room for an overshoot correction and a retained sample, add a 100 g of each: ₹590.00, ₹790.00 and ₹665.52.

Oils CSI live pricing, 24 September 2026 · stirring sticks pulled 24–25 September · scale verified 10 September 2026
5 kg of blend components, priced
Item Quantity Line total
Ylang Ylang Flower 2 × 1 kg + 500 g 2,500 g (50%) ₹13,334.00
Vanilla Bean 1 kg + 500 g 1,500 g (30%) ₹11,486.00
Neroli 1 kg 1,000 g (20%) ₹6,655.20
Candle Making Weighing Scale 1 (check its capacity and readability) ₹354.00
Bamboo Stirring Sticks pack of 50 1 ₹1,062.00
Total ₹32,891.20

The oils alone are ₹31,475.20, which is ₹6.30 per gram of blend and ₹100.72 of oil in each 200 g candle at 8%. To pour all 312.5 candles you would also need 57.5 kg of wax: in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, five 10 kg bags and one 5 kg bag plus five 500 g bags (₹34,485.00), or ask on WhatsApp for a quote on the full quantity. CSI's listed wax packs stop at 10 kg.

Every component at every size is on its product page: Ylang Ylang Flower from ₹106.20 for 15 g, Vanilla Bean from ₹130.00, Neroli from ₹118.00. For the vessel, use a clean, dry container you already own that holds 5 kg with room to stir; CSI's Candle Wax Pouring Jug (₹531.00) is for wax, and its capacity should be checked on the product page before using it for a blend.
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CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, and it does not sell a blending service. CSI sells single fragrance oils; any blend you build from them is your formula. On a page about scaling, it would be easy to sell a new scale. The page says a whole-gram scale is already accurate enough for a 5 kg batch, and that capacity, method and records matter more.

Every oil and wax price on this page is CSI live pricing, pulled on 24 September 2026. Wick, jar, scale and thermometer prices are those verified for Blog 760 on 10 September 2026; the jug, stirring sticks and other equipment were pulled on 24–25 September 2026. Out-of-stock sizes are flagged, never offered as buyable. Grams, ratios, per-gram and per-candle figures are plain arithmetic on those prices, shown to two decimals so you can check them. Weighing-error figures are arithmetic on an assumed readability (1 g or 0.1 g); the readability and capacity of CSI's scale are not in our data, so check the label or product page.

CSI publishes no throw, cure-time, composition or discolouration data for any individual oil, so nothing here ranks oils by performance. Test ratios, cure checkpoints and tolerances are labelled working assumptions for your own trials, not specifications. For MSDS and IFRA documentation, a restock date, or a quote on a production quantity of any component, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

How do I scale up a fragrance oil blend?
Write the blend as percentages, multiply each by the new batch weight, and weigh by cumulative addition into one tared vessel. For 50/30/20 at 5 kg: 2,500 g, then up to 4,000 g, then up to 5,000 g on the display.
How accurate does my scale need to be for blending fragrance oils?
It depends on the smallest weight you weigh. The rounding error is about half the readability: ±0.5 g on a whole-gram scale is 2.5% of 20 g but 0.05% of 1,000 g. Use a finer scale for small test blends; for kilo batches, capacity matters more.
What if I add too much of one fragrance oil to a blend?
Do not remove it. Recalculate the other components from the actual weight so the ratio holds: 2,512 g of a 50% component means 1,507.2 g of the 30% component and 1,004.8 g of the 20% one.
How many candles does 5 kg of fragrance oil make?
At 8% of finished weight, 312.5 candles of 200 g (16 g of oil each), using 57.5 kg of wax. At 10% it would be 250 candles; at 6%, 416.7.
Should I make one 5 kg batch or several small ones?
One well-weighed 5 kg batch is more consistent than many small ones, because each small batch adds its own weighing error. Split only if the vessel plus 5 kg exceeds your scale's capacity, and then weigh each sub-batch to the full ratio.
Why does my scaled-up candle smell different from the test?
Check the weighing sheet first: were the percentages right, and was the same load convention used? Then look at production differences: melt size, temperature, stirring, pour and cure. My Small Test Batch Has Excellent Hot Throw but the 20 Kg Production Batch Smells Weaker — What Production Differences Should I Investigate Before Blaming the Fragrance Oil? covers those.
Scale the percentages
Multiply by 50, weigh the running total into one vessel, and write every figure down.
Ylang Ylang Flower ₹5,310.00, Vanilla Bean ₹7,646.00 and Neroli ₹6,655.20 per kilo, 500 g and 100 g packs for the balance, a scale at ₹354.00 and stirring sticks from ₹118.00. Send us your blend and batch size for a quote on the components.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team for makers already formulating their own candles. The scaling arithmetic, error maths and cumulative-weighing method apply to any supplier's oils and any scale. The example blend is an illustration; CSI publishes no composition or performance data for any oil.

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Figures pulled 24 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Fragrance oils (size by size, as quoted on this page): Ylang Ylang Flower ₹106.20 / 15 g, ₹330.40 / 50 g, ₹590.00 / 100 g, ₹2,714.00 / 500 g, ₹5,310.00 / 1 kg; Vanilla Bean ₹130.00 / 15 g, ₹410.00 / 50 g, ₹790.00 / 100 g, ₹3,840.00 / 500 g, ₹7,646.00 / 1 kg; Neroli ₹118.00 / 15 g, ₹342.20 / 50 g, ₹665.52 / 100 g, ₹3,327.60 / 500 g, ₹6,655.20 / 1 kg; Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹68.44 / 15 g. Wax, equipment and other catalogue items pulled 24–25 September 2026: Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹1,062.00 / pack of 50; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹5,999.00 / 10 kg; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹2,995.00 / 5 kg; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹299.00 / 500 g; Candle Wax Pouring Jug ₹531.00 / each; Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118.00 / pack of 5. Figures verified 10 September 2026 (Blog 760): Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00 / each.

Non-price figures and assumptions: Load is a share of the finished weight (oil = W × L): 5 kg of oil at 8% scents 62,500 g of candles (312.5 × 200 g) with 57,500 g of wax; if 8% is taken of wax weight instead, 5 kg of oil goes into 62,500 g of wax (true load 7.41%). Rounding error is taken as ± half the scale's readability, shown for assumed readabilities of 1 g and 0.1 g; CSI's scale readability and capacity are not in our data. Worst-case share drift assumes the smallest component reads +d/2 and the others −d/2 each. The 0.2% tolerance, the 3-minute mix, the 30–50 g retained sample and the 2,512 g overshoot are working examples. The wax pack combination for 57.5 kg uses listed Luxury Soy Wax Chunks packs. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
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