Lavender vs Mogra: Which Candle Fragrance Sells Better?

 

Lavender ₹540 / 100g · Mogra ₹642 / 100g Both at 100g · ₹1,182 · ≈12 candles Made & stocked in India · ships nationwide
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Two florals, two completely different buyers — the head-to-head that tells you which one belongs in your catalogue
"Lavender sells steadily every month. Mogra sells three times as fast for six weeks and then stops. Both are worth stocking, for different reasons."
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Lavender & Mogra · 100g
"Mogra carried the room at 7% where lavender needed 10% and a thicker wick to do the same job."
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Mogra · 100g
"Wedding favour client picked mogra in ten seconds. They didn't even smell the lavender."
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Mogra · bulk enquiry
"Our sleep and bath range is lavender-led. It is the only scent customers ask for by name without seeing it first."
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Lavender · 1kg
"Judged mogra at day 5 and nearly dropped it. At day 21 it was the strongest candle on the table."
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Mogra · 100g
"Bulk enquiry on WhatsApp sorted volume pricing and documentation for the festive run in one thread."
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Bulk order · 5kg+
"Lavender sells steadily every month. Mogra sells three times as fast for six weeks and then stops. Both are worth stocking, for different reasons."
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Lavender & Mogra · 100g
"Mogra carried the room at 7% where lavender needed 10% and a thicker wick to do the same job."
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Mogra · 100g
"Wedding favour client picked mogra in ten seconds. They didn't even smell the lavender."
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Mogra · bulk enquiry
"Our sleep and bath range is lavender-led. It is the only scent customers ask for by name without seeing it first."
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Lavender · 1kg
"Judged mogra at day 5 and nearly dropped it. At day 21 it was the strongest candle on the table."
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Mogra · 100g
"Bulk enquiry on WhatsApp sorted volume pricing and documentation for the festive run in one thread."
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Fragrance Comparisons · Head-to-head

Lavender vs Mogra: Which Candle Fragrance Sells Better?

Nine dimensions compared — scent, culture, buyer, occasion, seasonality, gifting, soy performance, discolouration and cost — and then a straight recommendation for six specific business situations, not a shrug.
₹1,182
both at 100g · ≈12 candles of 200g · CSI live pricing, August 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Which sells better, lavender or mogra? They sell to different buyers, so the honest answer is: whichever matches yours. Lavender (₹540/100g) sells wider and more evenly all year to a wellness and sleep buyer. Mogra (₹642/100g) sells deeper and in bursts to a festive, wedding and gifting buyer. If your revenue is spread across the calendar, lavender carries more of it; if it concentrates around Diwali and wedding season, mogra earns more per pour.

Which performs better in soy wax? Mogra, generally. It is a heavy indolic white floral, and heavy molecules carry out of a cool soy melt pool better than lavender's lighter herbaceous profile. Mogra usually reads well at 6–8% load; lavender usually wants 8–10% and a correctly sized wick.

Which is cheaper? Lavender, and the gap widens with volume. At 100g it is ₹540 against ₹642. At a kilogram it is ₹5,221 against ₹6,420, because mogra is sold in a single 100g size with no 500g or 1kg step-down.

Should you stock both? Yes, if you can carry two florals. They barely overlap, they peak at different times, and both at 100g costs ₹1,182 for roughly twelve 200g candles.
The short answer
The pick: Lavender for a year-round wellness catalogue; Mogra for a festive, wedding and gifting catalogue. Neither wins in the abstract.
The why: lavender is a borrowed spa signifier that Indian buyers recognise and trust; mogra is a native flower they already have a relationship with. Different familiarity, different purchase trigger.
The next step: buy both at 100g for ₹1,182, pour two candles of each, cure 21 days, and let the reorders decide which moves to volume.
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In this guide
Lavender or mogra — decide in this order, not by which you prefer 1 — Name the buyer first: wellness & sleep, or festive & gifting? 2 — Wellness, year-round, export-neutral → Lavender · ₹540 / 100g 3 — Weddings, Diwali, hampers, export → Mogra · ₹642 / 100g 4 — Undecided? Buy both at 100g · ₹1,182 · ≈12 candles 5 — Scale the winner · bulk on WhatsApp
The comparison only resolves once you have named the buyer. Makers who ask "which sells better" before they have decided who they sell to end up with a catalogue that smells lovely and converts badly.
Contender one
Lavender · ₹540 / 100g
Contender two
Mogra · ₹642 / 100g
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Straight answer
Lavender vs mogra: which candle fragrance sells better?
Do the work first and the answer stops being a shrug. Lavender sells better across a year; mogra sells better across an occasion. Lavender is the wider net: it is understood by a buyer who has never bought a scented candle, it is priced lower per gram at every size, it works in sleep, bath, self-care and corporate wellness, and demand for it barely moves between March and October. Mogra is the deeper hook: it is a flower Indians have worn in their hair, strung at temples and pinned into wedding garlands, so it does not need explaining, it justifies a higher retail price in a gift context, and it carries in soy wax more easily than lavender does. But its demand clusters — weddings, Diwali, hamper season — and it is sold in a single 100g size at ₹642, so a kilogram costs ₹6,420 against ₹5,221 for lavender. The decision is not which scent is better. It is which buyer you are building for. Build for the calendar and take lavender. Build for the occasion and take mogra. Below, nine dimensions, then a named recommendation for six specific situations.
One line: lavender wins the year, mogra wins the occasion — and at ₹1,182 for both at 100g, most makers should stop choosing and stock both.
Testing before you commit? Lavender starts at ₹105 for 15g, enough for one test pour. Mogra is stocked in a single 100g size at ₹642, which is roughly six candles of 200g at an 8% load.
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Nine dimensions, one table

Two florals, one table, no hedging. Read the rows that describe your business and ignore the ones that do not.

This is the format every head-to-head in this cluster follows: a fixed set of dimensions, compared honestly, before any recommendation is made. Nothing here is a sales ranking. It is a commercial reading of two oils based on what they smell like, who buys them, when they buy, what they will pay, and how the oils behave in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks.

Head-to-head · nine dimensions
Lavender Fragrance Oil vs Mogra Fragrance Oil
Dimension Lavender Mogra
Scent character Herbaceous floral. Cool, camphoraceous, slightly medicinal at the top, soft and powdery in the dry-down. Reads clean rather than rich. Indolic white floral. Warm, creamy, faintly green at the edges, unmistakably heady. Reads rich, close to the skin, almost edible.
Cultural resonance in India Borrowed. A Western signifier of calm imported through spas, hotel toiletries and skincare. Familiar as a concept long before it is familiar as a smell. Native. Worn in hair, strung at temples, carried at weddings, sold at traffic lights. Familiar as a memory before it is ever a product.
Buyer profile and age Broad: 22–45, urban, wellness-literate, often buying for themselves. Skews toward first-time candle buyers and gifting to peers. Broader in age, narrower in intent: 25–60, strong pull with buyers over 40 and with anyone buying for parents, in-laws or a household occasion.
Occasion fit Everyday, bedtime, bath, work-from-home, corporate wellness kits, Mother's Day, new-home gifts. Weddings, engagements, Diwali and Navratri, housewarmings, puja rooms, hampers, anniversary gifting.
Year-round vs seasonal Flat and reliable. Sells in similar quantities most months, which makes production planning and stock-holding easy. Spiky. Concentrated around wedding season and the festive quarter, with thinner months in between.
Gifting suitability Safe. Almost nobody dislikes it, which makes it the low-risk choice for corporate gifting where you cannot ask the recipient. Meaningful. Higher emotional payload and higher perceived value in a hamper, at the cost of being genuinely polarising for a minority.
Performance in soy Moderate. Lighter herbaceous top notes are volatile and need a full cure, a generous load and a correctly sized wick to project. Strong. Heavy indolic molecules carry out of a cool soy melt pool readily. Usually reaches a room at a lower load than lavender.
Discolouration risk in white wax Low. One of the safer florals for a clean white or natural cream finish in clear glass. Low to moderate. Rich white florals are often deeper in the bottle and can carry a faint straw tint into white soy over several weeks.
Cost ₹105 / 15g · ₹270 / 50g · ₹540 / 100g · ₹2,620 / 500g · ₹5,221 / 1kg ₹642 / 100g, single size only. A kilogram as ten units = ₹6,420. No published 500g or 1kg step-down.

The row that decides most catalogues is the second one, and it is the one makers skip. Lavender and mogra are familiar in fundamentally different ways. Lavender arrived in India through hotels, spas and imported body care, so a customer recognises the word and the promise — calm, sleep, clean — before they recognise the smell. That is enormously useful commercially, because a label reading "Lavender" pre-sells a benefit with no education required. Mogra needs no education either, but for the opposite reason: the customer has smelled it since childhood. They are not buying a promise, they are buying a memory. Memory converts harder in a gift context and softer in a routine purchase.

The other consequential row is seasonality. A lavender-led catalogue produces flat, plannable revenue: you can order wax, wicks and jars on a steady cycle and hold modest stock. A mogra-led catalogue produces concentrated revenue that demands accurate forecasting, because you will need most of your year's mogra inside a narrow window and you cannot buy it in a single kilogram unit. That is a working-capital difference as much as a scent difference.

The case for lavender

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Herbaceous floral · the year-round net
Lavender Fragrance Oil
Lavender's commercial strength is that it is legible, low-risk and evenly demanded. It is the scent a customer picks when they do not want to think — for a colleague, a new mother, a hotel amenity, their own bedside table. It anchors sleep and bath ranges, it is the obvious lead for a spa and relaxation line, and it is neutral enough to sit in a corporate wellness kit without offending anyone. It is also the cheaper oil at every size CSI stocks, and it is the only one of the two that steps down in price at 500g and 1kg.
Size Price Per gram 200g candles @ 8%
15g ₹105 ₹7.00 ≈1
50g ₹270 ₹5.40 ≈3
100g ₹540 ₹5.40 ≈6
500g ₹2,620 ₹5.24 ≈31
1kg ₹5,221 ₹5.22 ≈62
₹83.50 of fragrance per 200g candle at 1kg pricing Buy Lavender

Where lavender genuinely wins is repeat purchase. A customer who buys a lavender candle for their bedroom will buy it again in eight weeks, because it has become part of a routine rather than an event. That is the single most valuable behaviour a small candle brand can generate, and mogra rarely produces it — mogra candles are more often lit for something.

Where lavender loses is intensity and margin headroom. It is difficult to charge a premium for lavender because every competitor has one, and because the scent itself signals accessibility rather than luxury. If you want a lavender that carries a higher price, the route is a blend rather than the straight note: Lavender Cranberry Coconut at ₹799 per 100g gives a fuller, fruitier reading, and Lavender Oud at ₹1,200 per 100g repositions the note entirely into a luxury tier.

The lavender rule
Do not sell lavender on the flower. Sell it on the outcome — sleep, wind-down, the end of a working day. Lavender is bought for what it does, not for what it is, and product copy that describes the note instead of the effect underperforms almost every time.

The case for mogra

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Indolic white floral · the occasion hook
Mogra Fragrance Oil
Mogra's commercial strength is that it is emotionally pre-loaded and technically easy. It needs no explanation to an Indian buyer, it belongs instantly in a wedding or festive context, and it behaves well in soy — a heavy indolic floral carries out of a low-temperature melt pool where a light herbaceous one struggles. It is also the scent most likely to make a hamper feel considered rather than generic, which is why it earns its place in jasmine and mogra candle ranges and in almost every serious Indian wedding favour brief.
Size Price Per gram 200g candles @ 8%
100g (only stocked size) ₹642 ₹6.42 ≈6
500g as 5 × 100g ₹3,210 ₹6.42 ≈31
1kg as 10 × 100g ₹6,420 ₹6.42 ≈62
₹102.72 of fragrance per 200g candle at any volume Buy Mogra
The single-size problem is a real commercial constraint, not a footnote. Mogra Fragrance Oil is listed in one 100g size at ₹642. Most of the CSI range ships in 15g, 50g, 100g, 500g and 1kg, and the per-gram price falls as the pack grows — lavender drops from ₹5.40 at 100g to ₹5.22 at 1kg. Mogra has no published step-down, so your per-gram cost is flat at ₹6.42 however much you buy, and a kilogram costs ₹6,420 against lavender's ₹5,221. If mogra is going to lead a production run of several hundred candles, confirm volume pricing and availability on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 before you build a launch around it.

Where mogra genuinely wins is perceived value. A mogra candle in a hamper reads as a considered, culturally fluent choice; a lavender candle in the same hamper reads as a safe one. That difference is worth real money at retail, and it is the reason mogra belongs in gifting-led ranges even when the maker's personal preference runs the other way. It also sits naturally alongside the rest of the Indian floral shelf — Rajnigandha at ₹500 per 100g, Raat Ki Rani at ₹700 per 100g and Jasmine at ₹430 per 100g, all of which are covered in the floral fragrance oil guide.

Where mogra loses is breadth and predictability. It is a polarising scent for a minority of buyers — indolic florals always are — and its demand does not spread evenly across a year. A brand that leans entirely on mogra will have three excellent months and a quiet middle, which is survivable if planned for and painful if not.

The CSI principle
Lavender sells to a habit. Mogra sells to an occasion. Habits pay your rent; occasions pay your margin.
A catalogue built only on habit scents is stable and thin. A catalogue built only on occasion scents is profitable and precarious. Most durable Indian candle brands run one of each and know exactly which is which.

The verdict, by situation

"It depends" is only an acceptable answer if you then say what it depends on. Here are six specific situations and a named choice for each. Materials maths throughout assumes a 200g finished candle at an 8% fragrance load — 16g of oil, 184g of wax — on a base cost of ₹163.30 for wax, wick and jar.

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A spa or wellness line → LavenderNot close. Lavender is the category's default language and the buyer is looking for it by name. Pair it in the same range with Eucalyptus Spearmint at ₹354 per 100g and you have a coherent two-scent wellness set for ₹894. Mogra reads as celebratory in this context, which is the wrong signal on a massage table.
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A wedding or festive range → MograAlso not close, in the other direction. Mogra is structurally part of an Indian wedding, so it needs no justification on a favour table and it survives being one of forty things in a hamper. Pair with Sandalwood at ₹503 per 100g for the classic floral-plus-ceremonial pairing that carries a Diwali collection.
3
A gifting-led business → Mogra, with lavender as the safe secondGifting rewards perceived thought, and mogra reads as thought. Lead with mogra and keep lavender for the corporate accounts and the buyer who says "something everyone will like". At ₹266.00 materials for a mogra candle against ₹246.80 for lavender, the ₹19.20 difference is invisible inside a hamper priced at ₹1,500 and up.
4
An export or expat-facing brand → MograThis is the situation where the answer surprises people. Overseas buyers are not short of lavender; every European and American brand has one. What they cannot get easily is a well-made Indian white floral. Mogra is the differentiated product, and the cultural story that makes it a hard sell to a bargain-hunting domestic buyer is exactly what makes it a premium sell abroad.
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A first-ever candle → LavenderA first pour should fail in as few ways as possible. Lavender is available at 15g for ₹105 so a single test candle costs almost nothing, it does not meaningfully discolour white wax, and it forgives a moderate cure. It is also the note that lets you learn wicking without wondering whether the fragrance or the wick is the variable. Start here, add mogra second.
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Only one floral in the whole catalogue → LavenderIf the catalogue can carry exactly one floral, it has to work in every month and for every buyer, and lavender does. It is cheaper per gram, it steps down at 500g and 1kg, it sells in June as well as November, and no customer needs it explained. Take mogra as your one floral only if your entire business is weddings, festivals or export.

The case for stocking both

Everything above assumes you must choose. Most makers do not. Lavender and mogra overlap so little that stocking both is closer to covering two families than to duplicating one. Put them side by side in a blind smell test and no customer confuses them: one is cool, dry and herbaceous, the other warm, creamy and heady. They peak at different points in the year, they are bought for different reasons, and they appeal to different ages. A second lavender-adjacent floral would be redundant. Mogra is not.

The arithmetic is undramatic: ₹540 plus ₹642 is ₹1,182, which yields roughly twelve candles of 200g at an 8% load — six of each, enough to burn-test two, photograph two and sell the rest. Compare that against buying a kilogram of the wrong one at ₹5,221 or ₹6,420 and the case makes itself. Buy both, cure both properly, and let reorders rather than instinct decide which goes to volume.

Materials cost · 200g soy candle @ 8% load
What each candle actually costs to pour
Fragrance Oil (16g) Wax (184g) Wick Jar Total
Lavender @ 1kg pricing ₹83.50 ₹110.20 ₹5.90 ₹47.20 ₹246.80
Lavender @ 100g pricing ₹86.40 ₹110.20 ₹5.90 ₹47.20 ₹249.70
Mogra @ 100g pricing ₹102.72 ₹110.20 ₹5.90 ₹47.20 ₹266.02
The components priced above: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 per 10kg (≈₹0.60/g) · Eco Candle Wicks Thin C1 at ₹590 per 100 (₹5.90 each) · Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid at ₹236 per pack of 5 (₹47.20 each). Swap the vessel and both totals move together — it changes nothing about the comparison.

The gap between the two is ₹19.20 per candle, or ₹9,600 across a run of 500. That is meaningful on a festive production run and irrelevant on a boutique batch of thirty. Treat materials as roughly 30–35% of retail and lavender lands naturally at ₹699–₹799 for a 200g candle, mogra at ₹749–₹899. Notice that the higher-cost oil also supports the higher price, which is why the cost difference is rarely the thing that should decide this.

The pairing note
These two do not blend well together — a cool herbaceous top fights a warm indolic heart and the result reads muddled rather than complex. Pair each with its own family instead. Lavender: Eucalyptus Spearmint, Vetiver or a soft citrus for a wellness trio. Mogra: Sandalwood, Sacred Sandal Ember or Rajnigandha for a festive trio. Sell them as sets of three, not as a two-scent argument.
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Load, cure, wick and wax

A commercial comparison is worthless if one of the two is being poured badly. These two oils want different handling, and most head-to-head tests that "prove" lavender is weak are actually comparing a correctly poured mogra against an under-loaded, under-cured, under-wicked lavender.

Technical settings
How to pour each one properly
Setting Lavender Mogra
Fragrance load 8–10% in soy. Run at the upper end for larger rooms. Ceiling is set by the wax, not the oil. 6–8% in soy. Going higher rarely improves throw and increases the chance of an oily surface.
Cure 14 days minimum. Judging at 48 hours is the most common reason a maker wrongly rejects it. 14 days minimum, and it usually keeps improving to 21. Judge mogra late.
Wick Size up rather than down. A small melt pool releases very little of a light herbaceous note. Eco Wick Thick (C2) for wider jars. Standard sizing. Eco Wick Thin (C1) is usually sufficient for a narrow jar; heavy florals do not need forcing.
Adding temperature Follow the wax, not the oil. Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies fragrance at 80–90°C with two full minutes of stirring; CSI 464 melts and pours at 80–90°C.
Vessel advice Safe in clear glass. Clear Frosted at ₹354 per 5 suits the wellness look. Test in clear glass over four weeks, or default to Amber at ₹236 per 5 or White Matte at ₹354 per 5.
Wax compatibility
Both oils work across the CSI soy range — the wax sets your load ceiling
Wax Best for Load From
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks Jar and container candles; the default for both oils Up to 13% ₹299 / 500g
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (flakes) Single-pour containers, low frosting, strong glass adhesion Up to 10% ₹260 / 500g
Eco Soy CSI 400 Beginners and small test batches; creamy one-pour finish Standard ₹399 / 1kg
Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 Premium tier; smoother finish, softer and fuller throw — flatters lavender Standard ₹325 / 500g
Soy Pillar Wax Moulded and designer candles for wedding favours Standard ₹300 / 500g
If lavender reads weak, do not swap it for mogra. Nine times in ten the lavender is fine and one of three things is wrong: the load is at 6% when it should be at 9%, the cure was five days instead of fourteen, or the wick is undersized so the melt pool never reaches the jar wall. Fix those in order before you conclude that the oil cannot carry. The full diagnostic sequence is in the weak throw guide, and it applies equally to every light floral in the range.
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Why trust this guide

This comparison contains no sales figures, because we do not publish them and would not invent them. Nothing here is a market ranking, a percentage of category share or a claim about units sold. Every judgement in this piece is reasoned commercial analysis drawn from five things we can state plainly: the scent character of each oil, the cultural context each one carries in India, the buyer profile and occasion each maps to, the published price at every size, and how each behaves in soy wax at a given load, cure and wick. Where we say one "sells better", we mean it sells better into a described situation, and we name the situation.

CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. We have no reason to push the more expensive oil — we stock both, alongside a floral shelf that runs from ₹342 to ₹1,200 per 100g. If lavender is right for your catalogue we would rather you bought lavender twice than mogra once.

Every price, size and product link is taken from live CSI stock in August 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Cost-per-candle figures are calculated from named inputs so you can check the arithmetic against your own jar and wick. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation, or volume availability on single-size lines like Mogra, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

Which sells better in India, lavender or mogra candles?
Neither outsells the other in general, because they sell to different buyers. Lavender sells wider and more evenly all year to a wellness, sleep and self-care buyer who already knows the word from spa and skincare. Mogra sells deeper and in bursts to a festive, wedding and gifting buyer who grew up with the flower. If your revenue is spread across the calendar, lavender at ₹540 per 100g carries more of it. If your revenue is concentrated in Diwali, wedding season and hampers, mogra at ₹642 per 100g earns more per pour. This is reasoned commercial judgement from scent character, cultural context, buyer profile, price and burn performance, not a sales ranking.
Is mogra a good fragrance oil for soy candles?
Yes, and generally better than lavender in soy. Mogra is a heavy indolic white floral, and heavy molecules carry out of a low-temperature soy melt pool more reliably than light herbaceous ones. Most makers find mogra reaches a room at 6–8% load, while lavender usually wants 8–10% and a correctly sized wick to read at the same strength. Mogra also improves noticeably between day 14 and day 21 of cure, so judge it late rather than early.
What does a lavender or mogra soy candle cost to make?
For a 200g candle at an 8% fragrance load, materials come to about ₹246.80 for lavender at 1kg oil pricing and about ₹266.00 for mogra. Both share the same base of ₹163.30, which is 184g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹110.20, one Eco Candle Wick at ₹5.90 and an Amber Shiny Glass Jar at ₹47.20. The difference is the 16g of oil: ₹83.50 for lavender against ₹102.72 for mogra, a gap of about ₹19.20 per candle.
Why is Mogra Fragrance Oil only sold in 100g?
Mogra Fragrance Oil is listed in a single 100g size at ₹642, unlike most of the CSI range which ships in 15g, 50g, 100g, 500g and 1kg. That matters commercially: there is no published 500g or 1kg step-down, so a kilogram bought as ten 100g units costs ₹6,420 against ₹5,221 for a kilogram of lavender. If you are planning a production run of several hundred mogra candles, confirm volume pricing and availability on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 before you commit to the scent in a launch.
Do lavender or mogra fragrance oils discolour white soy wax?
Lavender is one of the safer floral oils for white wax and usually leaves it close to its natural cream. Rich white florals such as mogra are more often deeper in the bottle and can carry a faint straw or ivory tint into white soy over the first few weeks. Neither is a fault and neither affects burn or throw. If you sell in clear glass and want a clean white, pour a test tile, leave it four weeks, and choose an amber, black matte or white matte jar if the shift bothers you.
Should a candle brand stock both lavender and mogra?
Yes, if you can carry two florals, because they barely overlap. A blind smell test would never confuse them, they peak at different points in the year, and they are bought as gifts for different reasons. Both at 100g costs ₹1,182 and yields roughly twelve candles of 200g at an 8% load, which is enough to burn-test both, photograph both and let real reorders decide which one moves to volume. Buying both is cheaper than guessing wrong about one.
Settle it properly
₹1,182 buys both, twelve candles and an answer you can trust more than anyone's opinion.
Lavender Fragrance Oil ships in 15g, 50g, 100g, 500g and 1kg from ₹105. Mogra Fragrance Oil ships in a single 100g size at ₹642. Pair either with Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 and Eco Candle Wicks, and message us for bulk pricing, volume availability and documentation.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. This is a comparative buying guide, not a market report. It contains no sales data, category shares or unit rankings, and none should be inferred from it; the commercial judgements are reasoned from scent character, cultural context, buyer profile, occasion fit, published price and burn performance in soy.

Figures verified August 2026: Lavender Fragrance Oil at ₹105 / 15g, ₹270 / 50g, ₹540 / 100g, ₹2,620 / 500g and ₹5,221 / 1kg. Mogra Fragrance Oil at ₹642 for its single stocked 100g size; 500g and 1kg figures are ten and five multiples of that unit, not published pack prices. Cost-per-candle assumes a 200g finished candle at an 8% fragrance load (16g oil, 184g wax), Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹5,999 per 10kg, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹590 per 100, and an Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid at ₹236 per pack of 5. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks are rated to a 13% fragrance load and Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 to 10%; always work to the ceiling stated on the wax you buy. Eco Soy CSI 400 specifies fragrance addition at 80–90°C with two minutes of stirring. Cure times of 14–21 days reflect standard practice for soy container candles. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
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