Lemongrass Candle Fragrance Oil Wholesale in India

The matrix: every size, every rupee, every per-gram rate

CSI stocks one lemongrass candle fragrance oil and its name is Lemongrass and Lime — a citrus-herbal composition rather than a single-note lemongrass. That matters commercially, because the lime is what makes it read as fresh and modern on a shelf rather than as a kitchen note, and it is also what makes it volatile. Both halves of that sentence run through the rest of this page.

Here is the complete price table as it stands in September 2026, with the per-gram rate computed for you and the number of 200g candles each bottle covers at an 8% and a 10% load. The per-gram column is the only one worth making a decision on.

The 15g size is not a bad buy, it is a different buy. At ₹7.77 a gram it is 49% dearer per gram than the 500g rate, and it exists so you can test a scent against your wax, your wick and your jar before committing ₹2,600. Buy 15g, pour three test candles, cure them properly, then order volume. The 50g at ₹6.60 and 100g at ₹5.90 are the sizes to use for a seasonal trial line or a second colourway you are not yet sure about — ₹590 for six candles' worth of oil is a cheap way to find out whether a scent sells in your shop before you scale it. The methodology for that decision is in how much fragrance oil a candle business needs.

That table is the single most useful habit to take away from this page, and it applies to whichever supplier you use. Four of these seven ladders flatten at 500g, one actually turns upward, and only two reward the kilogram. Divide the price by the grams before every order. It takes ten seconds and on a mixed six-scent purchase it routinely changes what goes in the basket. The wider version of this argument is in buying fragrance oils in bulk in India and the complete wholesale buyer's guide.

Per-candle cost, a full bill of materials, and run totals

A per-gram rate is not a cost. A cost is what leaves your bank account per finished candle. Below is a 200g soy jar candle built entirely from CSI stock at September 2026 prices, at both an 8% and a 10% fragrance load. Wax is Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 bought at 10kg — ₹5,074, or ₹0.5074 a gram — whose stated fragrance ceiling is up to 10%, so 10% is the top of the legitimate range on this build.

Two observations. First, fragrance is 38% of the material cost at 8% and 44% at 10% — it is the largest single line after wax, which is exactly why the ₹0.70 per gram between the 100g and 500g tiers is worth chasing and the ₹0.00 between 500g and a kilogram is not. Second, the jump from 8% to 10% adds ₹18.77 per candle, of which ₹20.80 is extra oil and ₹2.03 is wax you no longer buy. If you are pricing at two and a half times material cost, that is roughly ₹47 on the shelf price. Decide it deliberately, not by habit — how to price candles in India 2026 works the retail side of that.

At those volumes the kilogram bottle finally earns a mention, and the reason is logistics rather than money: forty caps is forty opportunities to leave one loose, and a kilogram bottle decanted into a clean pouring jug is a tidier bench than two 500g bottles. The rupees are identical — ₹5.20 a gram either way — so choose on handling. Below roughly a 300-candle month, choose 500g, because the deciding factor is freshness rather than convenience. If you are running at this scale, scaling to 1,000 orders a month covers the rest of the operational picture.

Order for a season, not a year — and here is the calendar

This is the part of the page that actually decides your order size, and it has nothing to do with the price table. Lemongrass and lime is a weather scent. It sells through the Indian summer and hardest through the monsoon, when a bright, sharp, herbal top note is the thing people want in a damp room, and it goes quiet from October onwards when the shelf turns over to cinnamon, saffron, cedarwood, oud and everything else in the festive and winter register. The demand is not spread across twelve months. It is bunched into about seven, and two of those seven do most of the volume.

Which means the standard wholesale instinct — buy the biggest bottle once a year — is wrong here twice over. It is wrong on price, because the ladder gives you nothing above 500g. And it is wrong on timing, because a bottle bought at the wrong end of the calendar spends the dead months slowly losing the exact notes you bought it for.

Now size the order. The first table is the raw consumption arithmetic on a 200g candle if every candle you pour were lemongrass — useful as an upper bound and as the basis for a single-scent run. The second scales it to something closer to reality, where lemongrass is one line in a range of eight or so and takes roughly 15% of units.

Read the small brand's row carefully, because it is the one that makes the argument. A 200-candle-a-month business needs about 3,360g of lemongrass across the whole season — under three and a half kilograms, bought as seven 500g bottles across two orders, for ₹18,200. The alternative of buying three kilogram bottles up front costs the same ₹5.20 a gram, arrives in October if you order badly, and leaves you pouring nine-month-old oil into your April candles. There is no price argument for it. There is only a scent argument against it.

Why a light citrus-herbal oil is the worst thing in your store cupboard to hold

This is the honest counterweight to every bulk-buying page, including the rest of this one. A per-gram saving is only a saving if the oil still performs when you finally pour it.

Fragrance compositions are built from molecules of very different weights. The heavy end — the resins, the woods, the vanillic and balsamic materials that sit under a sandalwood or an oud — is stable, slow to evaporate and forgiving of a long stay in the bottle. The light end is not. Citrus and fresh herbal top notes are the smallest, most volatile molecules in any formula, which is why they are the first thing you smell when a jar is opened and the first thing that goes when it is not. Lemongrass and lime is almost entirely built from that light end. It is a top-note scent with very little underneath it to hold the shape once the top is gone.

Set that against the arithmetic. The saving from moving up the ladder to 500g is ₹0.70 a gram. Beyond 500g the saving is nil. So on this oil you are being offered nothing at all in exchange for holding a bigger bottle for longer — you are simply being offered a bigger bottle. A woody or resinous oil with a genuine kilogram break, such as Cinnamon at ₹5.90 a gram at 500g against ₹5.31 at a kilogram, is the opposite case: it pays you ₹0.59 a gram to hold it, and it holds well. Buy the kilogram on the oils that reward it and store well. Buy 500g on the ones that do neither.

Two practical additions. Write the date of receipt on the bottle in marker the day it arrives, and use oldest first — a first-in-first-out rule costs nothing and removes the commonest cause of a mystery weak batch. And weigh, do not measure: fragrance load is a weight percentage, so a candle making weighing scale at ₹354 is what makes the 8% or 10% in your recipe a real number rather than an estimate. The wax's stated ceiling is a formulation limit set by the manufacturer — up to 10% on CSI 464, up to 13% on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — and you cannot work to it reliably without a scale.

Channels that actually take volume — and the paperwork that comes with them

A seasonal scent only justifies a seasonal order if there is somewhere for the volume to go. Three channels reliably absorb lemongrass in quantity in India, and all three want different vessels rather than different oil. The fragrance line stays at ₹5.20 a gram in every one of them; what changes is the wax weight and the container.

Café and restaurant is the steadiest of the three because it reorders on a schedule rather than on a season. A cluster of small tins on tables is a consumable: they burn down, they get replaced, and the buyer is a manager with a monthly budget rather than a shopper. An 85g aluminium tin at ₹30 keeps the unit cost under ₹115 and the lid makes it stackable and shippable. A fresh citrus-herbal scent is the safe choice for a room where food is being served, because it does not compete with the kitchen the way a gourmand or a heavy spice will.

Verandah and outdoor ranges want mass. A 600g candle in a borosilicate jar at ₹200 or a 500g apothecary jar with a dome lid at ₹212.40 carries a retail price that a small jar cannot, and it consumes 48g of oil per unit at 8% — one 500g bottle covers ten of them. Use two wicks and test the burn properly at that diameter before you commit to a run; the sizing method is in the wick guide by diameter. A large outdoor candle is a scent product sold on atmosphere and evening light, and it should be described that way and no other way.

Monsoon gift sets are where the tail of the season goes. A three-jar box of 70g votives at ₹102.06 a unit is roughly ₹306 of materials plus packaging, and a set sells at a multiple a single votive never reaches. It is also the correct home for the last few hundred grams in the bottle in early October, while the oil is still fresh, rather than storing it through winter. Pair lemongrass with one contrasting scent in the box so the set reads as a range rather than a repeat.

One last commercial note that runs against our own interest. If you are new to this scent, do not open with a seasonal order at all. Buy the 15g at ₹116.52, pour three candles in the vessel you actually sell, cure them for two to three weeks and put them in front of real customers. A scent that does not move in your shop will not move because you bought a kilogram of it, and 15g of evidence is worth more than 500g of optimism. When it does move, come back in February and buy properly — the approach is the same one described in how premium brands buy fragrance wholesale.

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