My 300 g Candle Uses Two Wicks and 10% Fragrance — How Do I Calculate Its True Material Cost Including Both Wicks, Wax, Fragrance and Jar?

The whole bill, with both wicks on their own lines

Start by fixing what the 300 g means, because a large candle magnifies the error. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight — that is how CSI product pages state it and how this series costs everything — so this page reads your candle as 300 g of wax with 30 g of oil on top, and 330 g going into the jar. If your 300 g is the finished candle instead, divide by 1.10: the wax is 272.73 g, the oil 27.27 g, and the bill falls to ₹672.24, a difference of ₹40.34. Every table below uses the first reading and says so.

Now the rows. The wax is Luxury Soy Wax Chunks bought as the 5 kg pack at ₹2,995.00, which is ₹599.00 a kilogram, so 300 g is ₹179.70. The fragrance is Mahogany Teakwood at the 1 kg pack, ₹8,800.00, which is ₹8.80 a gram, so 30 g is ₹264.00. The vessel is the 700 gm Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid at ₹250.00. And the wicks — the reason you are on this page — are two Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each. Two wicks is two lines, not a doubled line: write them as a quantity and a rate, exactly like the wax, because the day you move to three wicks you want the sheet to change by one number.

The total is ₹712.58 for 330 g of finished candle, which is ₹2.16 a gram. Read the shares before you read anything else: fragrance 37.0%, vessel 35.1%, wax 25.2%, both wicks together 2.6%. The wick question that brought you here is the smallest number in the candle, and the 30 g of oil is the largest.

What the second wick actually costs

Two Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) are ₹18.88, or 2.6% of this candle. The second one is ₹9.44. To put that in scale: it is less than the cost of two grams of Mahogany Teakwood, and roughly what 16 g of wax costs at ₹599.00 a kilogram. If you have been avoiding a second wick to protect your margin, the arithmetic says you have been protecting the wrong line.

The rate is the same at every pack size on this wick — ₹9.44 a wick whether you buy 20 or 1,000 — so the pack you choose changes your outlay and your storage, not your cost per candle. The Thin (C1) is ₹5.90, and the difference between running two C2 and two C1 is ₹7.08 a candle. That is a wick-performance decision, not a costing one: neither figure will move your margin, and the wrong wick will ruin the candle.

There is a genuinely cheaper route, and it is worth naming because it is not the one people expect. Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made are ₹12.00 each at the 10 pack, and the product page describes them as made for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm, 10.16 cm tall. One of those in place of two C2 wicks is ₹6.88 less per candle, ₹688.00 across a hundred. Whether one large wick or two smaller ones suits your jar is a burn-test question and nothing else: wick sizing by diameter is not published on the wick pages, and any supplier who gives you a table without asking about your wax, load and vessel is guessing. Start from the wick guide by diameter and test.

Thirty grams of fragrance is the biggest line in the jar

At 10% of wax weight, a 300 g candle carries 30 g of oil. At ₹8.80 a gram that is ₹264.00 — more than the wax and the wicks put together, and 37.0% of the candle. This is the structural fact about large formats: fragrance scales linearly with wax, so every gram of extra candle carries its share of the most expensive material in the jar.

Before you settle on 10%, read what the oil's own page says. The Mahogany Teakwood page states a 7–9% load in soy wax and describes the hot throw as extremely strong at that range; it also states IFRA certification. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states a maximum of 13% of total wax weight. Where a wax ceiling and an oil range differ, the lower figure governs, which puts this pairing at 9%. Your 10% is your own figure and this page has costed it as you asked, but the buyable version of this candle sits at 9%: 27 g of oil, ₹237.60, and a candle of ₹686.18 — ₹26.40 less, or ₹2,640.00 across a hundred candles, for a load the page supports.

The rate per gram on this oil is the same at every pack size — ₹8.80 a gram at 50 g and at 1 kg alike — so there is no cheaper way to buy it by the kilogram, only a larger or smaller commitment. That is unusually clean, and it means the only lever on this line is the load itself. Across most of the CSI oil range the same is true from the 50 g pack upward, so check the ladder on the oil you actually use rather than assuming the big pack is cheaper per gram.

The 300 g against a single-wick 200 g

The only way to know whether a large format earns its place is to build it out of the smaller one. Take a single-wick 200 g candle at the same 10% load, in the 500 gm size of the same Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid at ₹212.40, with one Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90: 200 g of wax is ₹119.80, 20 g of oil is ₹176.00, and the candle is ₹514.10 for 220 g of fill, or ₹2.34 a gram.

Now add the difference, one step at a time. A hundred grams more wax is ₹59.90. Ten grams more fragrance at the same load is ₹88.00. The larger vessel is ₹37.60. Two Thick (C2) wicks in place of one Thin (C1) is ₹12.98. That is ₹198.48 more per candle, or 38.6% more money for 50% more candle — which is the whole argument for the large format in one line, because the money rises more slowly than the size.

The per-gram figures say the same thing more quietly. The 300 g candle is ₹2.16 a gram against ₹2.34 for the 200 g: a saving of ₹0.18 a gram, worth ₹58.57 on a candle of this size. That is a real efficiency and a modest one. It comes entirely from spreading the vessel and the wicks over more grams — and it is exactly where large formats lose money when the vessel is dear, because a bigger jar can swallow the whole gain.

Where the large format actually loses money

Three things quietly erode the per-gram gain, and none of them is the wick. The first is the vessel itself. At ₹250.00 the 700 gm jar is 35.1% of this candle, and the Apothecary Glass Candle Jar with Dome Lid page gives a fill capacity of approximately 500 g to 700 g across its two sizes. A 330 g pour therefore does not use what you are paying for. Pouring the same candle into the 500 gm size at ₹212.40 takes the bill to ₹674.98 and the rate to ₹2.05 a gram — measure your own intended wax line with water before you decide, because the jar is the one line you choose once and pay for on every unit.

The second is delivery, and it is the one large-format makers underestimate most. Vessels are the heaviest thing in the box: each 700 gm jar carries a stored packed weight of 1.0 kg, so ten of them are 10.0 kg. Sent as ten separate parcels that is ₹1,100.00 on the published bands; consolidated into one parcel it is ₹800.00, a difference of ₹300.00. Even consolidated, that is ₹80.00 a jar, which turns a ₹250.00 vessel into ₹330.00 landed and this candle into ₹792.58. Two real reviews on the store say the delivery charges feel high; that is fair comment, and on glass the honest answer is to order fewer, bigger parcels rather than to pretend the cost is not there. Rates are the published flat bands as at September 2026.

The third is scrap. A 300 g pour that fails is ₹712.58 of materials, against ₹514.10 for the 200 g — so the same failure rate costs ₹198.48 more every time it happens. Large candles also take longer to cool, are more prone to a sunken centre around two wicks, and in an Indian summer a warm room slows the set further. None of that changes the cost sheet; all of it changes how often you pay it. Set aside a wastage percentage of your own once you have poured a batch and measured it — this page assumes none, which is an assumption and not a measurement.

Costing your own multi-wick candle, step by step

One more habit worth building: recost the candle when the load changes, not only when a price does. On this pairing, moving from your 10% to the 9% the oil's page states changes the candle by ₹26.40 — more than the entire wick line — and it is the change most likely to happen after a burn test.

What the ₹712.58 leaves out

CSI sells wax, fragrance, vessels and wicks, so those six lines come from live product pages. Nothing in the table below is a CSI product, which means no honest figure for it exists on this page. Large candles make several of these blanks bigger than they would be on a small one — a heavier parcel, a sturdier outer box, a bigger label — so leave them visible rather than rolling them into a round number.

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