My 100 g Candle Uses a Premium Fragrance Oil Costing ₹6,000 Per Kg — How Much Does the Fragrance Alone Add to Each Candle at 8% Load?

The fragrance line, and which 100 g you mean

The sum is short enough to do in the queue at the post office. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight — that is how CSI product pages state it, and it is the convention this whole series uses — so 8% of 100 g of wax is 8 g of oil. Your oil is ₹6,000.00 a kilogram, which is ₹6.00 a gram once you divide by 1,000. Eight grams at ₹6.00 is ₹48.00. That is the whole answer to the question in the title, and the rest of this page is about what to do with it.

Before anything else, fix what "100 g candle" means, because it changes the line. This page reads it as 100 g of wax, with 8 g of oil on top, and 108 g going into the jar. That is the reading carried through every table below. The other honest reading is that the finished candle weighs 100 g, in which case the wax and oil have to add up to 100 g between them. Because the load is a percentage of wax, the fill is 1.08 lots of wax: 100 ÷ 1.08 gives 92.59 g of wax and 7.41 g of oil, and the fragrance line falls to ₹44.44. The gap is ₹3.56 a candle, or ₹355.56 across a hundred — small, but it is the kind of small that makes two spreadsheets disagree forever.

Note what does not change: the rate. Your oil is ₹6.00 a gram in both readings, and the mixture of wax and oil at 8% has one cost per gram whichever way you cut it. What changes is how many grams you pour. Write the reading at the top of your cost sheet, in words, and never mix the two inside one workbook. The most expensive costing errors in candle making are not arithmetic — they are two people meaning different things by the same number.

What ₹6,000 a kilogram buys, in candles

Per-kilogram prices are hard to feel, which is why makers either flinch at them or ignore them entirely. Convert once and the number becomes usable: at 8 g a candle, one kilogram of oil scents 125 candles of this size. Those 125 candles also need 12.5 kg of wax to go with them, which is worth knowing before you decide a kilogram of oil is the sensible unit to buy.

At your ₹6,000.00 a kilogram, that kilogram is the entire fragrance bill for 125 candles, and a run of a hundred carries ₹4,800.00 of oil. Write the second number down before a festive push. If you are pouring for Diwali on 8 November 2026 and you want a fortnight of cure and room to get the candles to a customer, the oil is bought by the middle of October at the latest — which means the fragrance for a hundred-candle run is money committed weeks before a single candle sells.

CSI's own ladder on Santal Noir is worth reading in the same units rather than in pack prices. The 1 kg pack is ₹9,120.00, which is ₹9.12 a gram and ₹72.96 of oil in each candle. The 100 g pack is ₹919.00, which is ₹9.19 a gram and ₹73.52 a candle. The whole difference between the two is ₹0.56 a candle. Ten 100 g packs would come to ₹9,190.00 against ₹9,120.00 for the kilogram, so committing to the kilogram is worth ₹70.00 in total and asks ₹8,201.00 more cash up front for one scent. On a scent that is selling, take it. On a scent you have not burn-tested, the 100 g pack is the cheaper mistake.

Where the fragrance sits in a 100 g bill

To see whether ₹48.00 is a lot, it has to sit next to something. Here is your fragrance line inside a bill whose other three lines are live CSI prices — clearly labelled, because mixing your figures with CSI's without saying so is how cost sheets start lying. The wax is Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 at ₹650.00 a kilogram, so 100 g is ₹65.00. The vessel is a Mini Glass Jars at ₹21.24 each in the 100 pack. The wick is an Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90.

That is ₹140.14 of materials, of which your fragrance is 34.3%, the wax 46.4% and the jar and wick together 19.4%. The number that matters for format decisions is the last one. The jar and the wick are ₹27.14 whether you pour 100 g or 250 g into them; the wax and the oil both scale with size. That is why small candles feel expensive per gram and why halving the candle never halves the cost.

It also explains why the fragrance line cannot be diluted away. Pour less wax and you pour proportionally less oil, so the scent's share of the scented wax stays exactly where the load put it. The only levers on this line are the load itself, the rate you pay per gram, and whether the candle is scented at all. Everything else moves the other three lines.

The same candle, costed on materials you can buy today

Here is the identical calculation — 100 g of wax, 8 g of oil at 8%, one vessel, one wick — run entirely on live CSI stock in September 2026, so you can check every figure against a product page. The wax is Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 at the 1 kg pack, ₹650.00, which is ₹650.00 a kilogram. The fragrance is Santal Noir at the 1 kg pack, ₹9,120.00, which is ₹9.12 a gram. The wick is the same Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90.

Read the fragrance row before anything else, because it does not flatter the store. At ₹9.12 a gram, Santal Noir puts ₹72.96 into the candle against ₹48.00 at your rate — ₹24.96 more a candle, or ₹2,496.00 across a hundred. If the oil you are already using performs and your customers buy it again, that is a good reason to keep it. The store is not one price point: British Rose at the 1 kg pack is ₹3.07 a gram, which is ₹24.54 for the same 8 g, well under your figure. What CSI sells at ₹9.12 a gram is a particular oil, not a cheaper way to buy oil in general.

Two things are deliberately not claimed in the table. First, the Santal Noir page publishes no candle usage range, no flash point and no IFRA claim — its guidance is written for perfumery use — so no candle load is quoted for it here. The load on this page comes from the wax: Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 states a maximum of 13% of total wax weight, and where a wax ceiling and an oil range differ, the lower of the two governs. With nothing published on the oil side, ask on WhatsApp before you settle above a conservative starting point. Second, no vessel on this page is claimed to hold your candle: the Mini Glass Jars page gives a 40 ml capacity, which is a votive and sample size, and the jar line is a per-piece price, not a statement that 108 g of wax fits it.

Doing it on your own oil, in four steps

One caution on the per-gram figure: it belongs to your oil at your load. Change the load and it changes; change the oil and it changes. Keep one line per recipe in your sheet, labelled with the oil and the load, and recalculate only when a price or a load moves. That discipline is worth more than any single number on this page.

What the ₹48.00 does not include

₹48.00 is the fragrance and nothing else. The wax, the vessel and the wick are the other three CSI lines, and this page has priced them where it says so. Everything in the table below is real, is not a CSI product, and therefore has no honest figure on this page. Copy the rows, fill in your own, and total your sheet as materials from CSI plus your own costs.

Wastage deserves a sentence of its own on a page about expensive oil. Every gram of fragrance that stays in the jug or the measuring cup is ₹6.00 gone, and on a small candle that is a meaningful fraction of the line. Weigh the oil into the wax rather than pouring by eye; scrape the cup; and if you decant from a kilogram into a working bottle, weigh what you decant. This page assumes zero wastage, which is an assumption and not a measurement, so treat ₹48.00 as a floor.

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