My Candle Was Stored Inside a Tightly Closed Box and Smells Extremely Strong When First Opened — Is That Evidence of Better Fragrance Retention or Simply Trapped Headspace?
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Trapped headspace, on the evidence described — and the stock is dispatchable. A closed 11 × 11 × 8 cm box around one 120 gm jar holds roughly 784 ml of air, and everything you smell in that first breath is fragrance that had already left the wax. Nothing about the burst tells you how much is still in the candle.
≈784 ml
the air trapped inside one closed corrugated box (stated 11 × 11 × 8 cm) around a jar of stated 6 cm diameter and 6.5 cm height — about 28 times the jar's own headspace · estimated from stated dimensions, not a published specification · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Is a huge first sniff good news? It is neutral news, and read carefully it leans slightly the other way. The burst is fragrance that has already left the wax and accumulated in the box. A box does not add fragrance to a candle; it only slows how fast what escapes is carried away. So a strong opening tells you release has been happening, not that retention has been winning.Then why does it smell stronger than the candle ever did? Because you are smelling the accumulation of weeks in one breath, from a volume of roughly 784 ml instead of a whole room. Put the same candle on a table for four hours and it goes back to being an ordinary candle — which it was the entire time.
What is the actual risk here? Quality control. If your approval sniff happens at the moment a carton is opened, every batch passes and every later assessment looks like a decline. That single habit produces more false "my fragrance is fading" conclusions than any real storage effect.
What should I do instead? The second sniff. Record the opening score as a property of the carton, then leave the jar standing open in a still room for four hours and score it blind against a control. Twelve retained units on a 600-unit boxed run cost ₹2,399.07 — 2.0% of ₹119,953.44 of stock.
The short answer
The burst is the box, not the candle: ≈784 ml of accumulated air in a closed box, against ≈28 ml in the closed jar and ≈33,000 litres in a room. Same candle in all three cases.
Never approve or reject a batch at carton opening: it is the single most flattering moment in a candle's life, and it makes every honest later reading look like a loss.
Box for the reasons boxes are good at: dust, light, transit protection and presentation — all real, all certain. No CSI packaging page states a barrier property or a fragrance-retention figure, so do not price one in.
In this guide
Everything about the "extremely strong" first sniff is on the second row. Open the box in the fourth row's volume and the same molecules are diluted about forty thousand times. That is the whole phenomenon — and it is why the opening score belongs in a column marked carton rather than a column marked candle.
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Straight answer
My candle was stored in a tightly closed box and smells extremely strong when first opened. Is that better fragrance retention, or trapped headspace?
Trapped headspace, and the arithmetic is straightforward enough to check yourself. A corrugated candle box stated at 11 × 11 × 8 cm encloses about 968 ml; a jar of the stated 6 cm diameter and 6.5 cm height displaces about 184 ml of that, leaving roughly 784 ml of air — around 28 times the jar's own ≈28 ml headspace, and around 1/42,000th of an ordinary room. Everything you smelled in that first breath had already left the wax; it was simply waiting in a very small space instead of being carried off into a large one. This is worth being precise about, because the intuitive reading is backwards. A box cannot put fragrance into a candle. It can only slow the rate at which whatever escapes is removed. So a dramatic opening is evidence that release has been happening all along, not that retention has been unusually good. The practical consequence is a quality-control one and it costs real money: if your batch approval happens when a carton is opened, you are using the most flattering measurement available, and every honest later reading — in a shop, in a customer's home, at your own bench — will look like a decline. The fix is the second sniff: record the opening as a carton observation, stand the jar open in a still room for four hours (this guide's chosen interval, not a published standard), then score it blind against a cool-stored control from the same pour. On a 600-unit boxed run at ₹199.92 of materials each, twelve retained units cost ₹2,399.07, or 2.0% of ₹119,953.44 of stock.
One line: the box concentrated what the candle had already lost — score the opening as a carton reading, then judge the candle four hours later against a control.
Boxing stock properly? Corrugated candle boxes at ₹22.42 each in packs of 50 and 100, Candle Packaging Paper at ₹8.26 a sheet, and Premium Packing Tissue Paper at ₹6.50 a sheet for 100 sheets — dust, light and transit protection, which is what packaging is genuinely for.
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The four volumes a stored candle breathes into
A cold throw has no units. It is always a comparison against whatever volume of air you happen to be standing in.
Here is the arithmetic behind the diagram, with every assumption stated so you can substitute your own boxes and jars. The stated dimensions on CSI's pages are external, and internal geometry is not published, so these figures are estimates — which is exactly why they appear as a ladder of ratios rather than as a specification.
Air volumes · calculated from stated box and jar dimensions
Where the candle sits, how much air is above it, and what that does to a first sniff
| Situation | Stated dimensions used | Air available | Relative to the jar's headspace | What a first sniff here tells you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jar closed, lid on | 6 cm diameter, fill 1 cm below the rim | ≈28.27 ml | 1 × | The concentration in a very small trapped volume |
| Jar inside a closed candle box | Box 11 × 11 × 8 cm = 968 ml, less ≈184 ml of jar | ≈784.22 ml | ≈28 × | Accumulation over weeks, released in one breath |
| Jar inside a 3-ply master carton | 7 × 5 × 4 inch ≈ 2,294 ml, less ≈184 ml of jar | ≈2,110 ml | ≈75 × | The same accumulation in a bigger reservoir |
| Jar open on a table | Assumed room 3 m × 4 m × 2.75 m | ≈33,000 litres | more than 1,000,000 × | The candle, roughly as a customer meets it |
Worked out above: a closed box's air = box volume − jar volume. Box 11 × 11 × 8 = 968 cm³; jar volume = π × 3² × 6.5 = 183.78 cm³; 968 − 183.78 = 784.22 cm³, which is 784.22 ml. The jar's own headspace = π × 3² × 1 = 28.27 ml, so 784.22 ÷ 28.27 ≈ 28. The 3-ply box at 7 × 5 × 4 inch is 140 in³ ≈ 2,294 cm³. The assumed room is 33 m³ = 33,000 litres = 33,000,000 ml, so 33,000,000 ÷ 784.22 ≈ 42,000. None of these is a published specification. The box dimensions are from the product title, the jar dimensions from its page, the 1 cm ullage and the room size are this guide's assumptions, and internal box and jar dimensions are not stated anywhere.
Two practical notes fall out of the table. A bigger box makes the burst last longer rather than making it stronger, because it is a larger reservoir at a similar concentration — which is why a master carton of twelve can smell dramatic for several minutes after opening. And the relative figures are what matter, not the absolutes: if you box in a different size, the ratio changes but the conclusion does not.
Why a strong burst is not evidence of retention — and what it is evidence of
This is the part that repays a careful minute, because it reverses most people's instinct. Follow where the fragrance in that burst came from.
It came out of the candle. There is nowhere else for it to have come from. The box contained air and cardboard; the jar contained wax, oil and a wick. Over the weeks the carton was closed, aroma materials left the wax surface into the box's ≈784 ml and stayed there, because a closed box exchanges air slowly. When you opened the lid, that accumulation reached your nose all at once. The burst is a measure of what the candle released, not of what it kept.
Which does not mean the box was a mistake. Slowing the removal of released fragrance is precisely how a closed container plausibly helps: once the small volume above the wax carries a higher concentration, the net rate of release into it falls. That is a directionally sound physical argument, it is the same one behind keeping lids on stored stock, and it is unquantified — no CSI packaging, jar or lid page states a barrier property, a seal specification or a retention figure. So the honest summary is: boxing probably helped a little, the burst does not measure how much, and nothing about the burst should enter a quality decision.
The mistake: approving a fragrance at the moment a carton is opened. It feels like the ideal moment — the smell is unmistakable and the candle is fresh out of storage. It is in fact the worst possible reference point, because it is the only measurement in the whole product lifecycle taken in 784 ml of air. Every later reading, in every larger volume, will be lower. Makers who set their internal benchmark at carton opening end up convinced their oils are weakening, raise loads to chase a number that was never real, and spend money on every candle they ever pour again. Fix the assessment point: one room, one interval, one distance, every time. The mechanism behind the temperature half of this problem is in can temperature temporarily change perceived cold throw.
A candle out of a carton is not at room temperature either
There is a second reason a just-opened unit reads oddly, and it compounds the first. A jar inside a closed box in a warm store tracks the room's temperature slowly, so a unit carried into a cooler office and opened immediately is at neither room's temperature. That matters more with soy and coconut-soy waxes because they are soft, low-melting materials: the Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 page states a melting point of 50–53°C and a pour temperature of 58–60°C, and the Eco Soy CSI 400 page states a melt point of 100°F (37.8°C). Unbox, then wait. That single habit removes two confounds at once.The differential at the moment of opening
Four readings of the same event. The first three require nothing but patience to rule out, and the fourth is the only one that could ever justify changing a product.
The differential · "extremely strong when first opened"
Candidate, what would confirm it, and what it changes
| Candidate | What confirms it | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Accumulated headspace in the box | The jar reads ordinary after four hours standing open, and a second unit from the same carton also bursts on opening | Nothing in the candle. Your assessment point |
| Temperature of a unit straight out of a carton | The reading changes again once the jar has equilibrated, in either direction | Your inspection protocol |
| Contrast with the room you are standing in | Someone who has just walked in scores it lower than you do; a second carton opened in a different room reads differently | Who assesses, and where |
| The candle really is stronger than a comparable unit | Blind comparison against a control from the same pour, both equilibrated four hours, separates them repeatedly | Worth investigating — but note this compares candles, not packaging |
Notice that none of the four rows implies a problem with the stock. That is the correct conclusion here: a strong first sniff is not a defect and not a distinction. Dispatch on the ordinary inspection — glass, wick, surface, a test burn on a sampled unit — and treat the burst as a fact about cartons.
Do not let the burst substitute for the inspection. A carton that smells wonderful on opening is exactly where a rushed inspection happens, and the items that decide dispatch are all visual or mechanical: cracked or chipped glass, a wick leaning on or touching the glass, a wick that will not stay lit or clogs, wax that has pulled away enough to move inside the jar, or a jar that runs unsafely hot in a test burn. None of those is detectable by smell, and boxed stock has spent months being stacked and moved. Sample across several cartons from different positions in the store rather than opening the nearest one.
The second-sniff protocol
This is the instrument: two readings of the same unit, separated by a stated interval, with only the second one allowed into a quality decision. Intervals and sample counts are this guide's method rather than a published standard — choose yours and keep them fixed across every carton you ever open.
1
Before you open anything, get a control outOne unit from the same pour that has been stored cool, dark and boxed, and one that has been stored with the saleable inventory. If you kept no controls, note that now and start keeping them on the next pour — twelve units on the run costed below is ₹2,399.07, or 2.0%. Without a control, everything that follows is a description rather than a comparison.
2
Open the carton and score it — in the carton columnWrite the opening score 1 to 5 on the sheet under a heading that says carton, with the box size and how long it had been closed. This reading is genuinely useful; it is just not a reading of the candle. Over several batches it tells you how much accumulation your packaging produces, which is worth knowing when a customer opens the same box.
3
Take the lid off both jars and walk away for four hoursSame room, same table, same height, out of direct sun and away from anything warm. Both the aged unit and the control, side by side, lids off. This does two jobs at once: it lets the accumulated headspace disperse from both jars and it brings both to the same temperature. It is the whole trick of this protocol.
4
Score blind, twice, with the order reversedSomeone covers both jars, hands them to you in random order, and you score cold throw 1 to 5 at a fixed distance and a fixed number of breaths. Then they reverse the order and you do it again without being reminded of the first answer. Bring in a second person who has been out of the room for at least ten minutes and repeat. Four scores per jar per checkpoint.
5
Re-box one unit and check the refillPut the aged unit back in a closed box for a fortnight, then open it again and score the carton column a second time. If the burst returns, you have demonstrated on your own product that the effect is a refilling headspace rather than a recovering candle — which is the cleanest possible answer to the question this page is about, and it is free.
6
Burn one unit before you sign anything offUp to three hours in a closed room with no competing scent: time to a full melt pool at the glass, flame height and stability, soot or mushrooming, and hot throw scored at 30 and 120 minutes. A boxed candle with a strong hot throw is a candle whose fragrance is still in the wax, whatever the cold reading did. The hot throw testing guide has the score sheet.
Give the customer the burst on purpose
There is a commercial flip side worth taking seriously. If a closed box produces a dramatic first impression, then a boxed candle arrives better than an unboxed one — and that is a real, cheap, honest improvement to the unboxing moment, at ₹22.42 for a box or ₹8.26 for a sheet of packaging paper. Use it deliberately: box the candle, keep the lid on inside the box, and let the customer open it. Just do not let the same effect run your own quality control.Packaging and wax for stock that will be boxed
Chosen on what the pages state and on cost per unit. Each card shows every pack the item ships in.
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Retail box · stated 11 × 11 × 8 cm
Corrugated Box for Candle Packaging
The box the arithmetic on this page is built on, at a flat ₹22.42 each in packs of 50 (₹1,121) and 100 (₹2,242). Its stated 11 × 11 × 8 cm suits a jar of roughly 6–7 cm diameter and 6.5–8 cm height, which covers most of CSI's lidded jars — measure yours before ordering, since the stated dimensions are external. What it certainly gives you is dust exclusion, light exclusion, transit protection and a presentation box in one. What no packaging page states is a barrier property or a retention figure, so buy it for the four certainties rather than the unmeasured fifth.
| Size | Price | Per piece | boxed candles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 50 | ₹1,121 | ₹22.42 | ≈50 |
| Pack of 100 | ₹2,242 | ₹22.42 | ≈100 |
₹22.42 per box at both listed packs Buy candle boxes
2
Cheapest cover for a lidless jar
Candle Packaging Paper
The low-cost option when the jar has no lid and a box is more than the candle needs: ₹8.26 a sheet in the pack of 50 at ₹413, with the pack of 100 currently sold out. Paper keeps settled dust off the wax surface and shades it, without touching the surface the way film does — which matters on a soft wax. It is not a closure and does not pretend to be; it slows nothing measurable. For a fuller wrap, CSI also lists Premium Packing Tissue Paper, 50 × 75 cm at 22 GSM, 100 sheets for ₹650 — ₹6.50 a sheet — and an Air Bubble Roll at ₹900 for transit.
| Size | Price | Per piece | candles covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 50 | ₹413 | ₹8.26 | ≈50 |
| Pack of 100 (sold out) | ₹826 | ₹8.26 | ≈100 |
₹8.26 per sheet in the pack of 50 Buy packaging paper
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Container wax · lowest stated melting point
Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 (Flakes)
Included because a boxed candle's temperature lags the room, and this is the container wax whose published figures make that worth thinking about: its page states a melting point of 50–53°C, a pour temperature of 58–60°C and a fragrance load of up to 13%. It is also one of the few CSI waxes whose listed price genuinely steps down with volume — ₹650 a kilo at 500 g and 1 kg, falling to ₹637 at 5 kg and 10 kg — so a production run boxed for a festive delivery buys at the lower figure. At ₹637 a kilo, a 120 g candle at 8% carries ₹70.32 of wax. One CSI customer, Arminder Kaur, records that "all the materials are high quality and ultimate fragrance range".
| Size | Price | Per kg | 120g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹325 | ₹650 | ≈4 |
| 1 kg | ₹650 | ₹650 | ≈9 |
| 5 kg | ₹3,185 | ₹637 | ≈45 |
| 10 kg | ₹6,370 | ₹637 | ≈90 |
₹70.32 of wax per 120g candle at ₹637/kg Buy CSI 468
What boxing costs, and what the record costs
Six hundred boxed 120 g candles on Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 at the 10 kg price, with Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil at the 1 kg price, a C1 wick from a 100-pack, a ₹47.20 lidded amber jar, a ₹22.42 box and a ₹6.50 tissue sheet. All listed prices; the working is in the citation strip.
600 boxed units · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Cost per boxed candle, value on the shelf, and the price of a real second-sniff record
| Line | Quantity | Per unit | Across 600 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 | 110.4 g at ₹0.637/g | ₹70.32 | ₹42,192 |
| Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil | 9.6 g at ₹4.956/g | ₹47.58 | ₹28,548 |
| Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid | 1 | ₹47.20 | ₹28,320 |
| Eco Candle Wick · Thin (C1) | 1 from the 100-pack | ₹5.90 | ₹3,540 |
| Candle subtotal | ₹171 | ₹102,600 | |
| Corrugated box, 11 × 11 × 8 cm | 1 | ₹22.42 | ₹13,452 |
| Premium Packing Tissue Paper | 1 sheet of 100 | ₹6.50 | ₹3,900 |
| Boxed unit | ₹199.92 | ₹119,953.44 | |
| Twelve retained units for the record | 6 cool + 6 with stock | ₹2,399.07 — 2.0% |
Packaging is ₹28.92 of a ₹199.92 unit — 14.5% of materials, which is a real line and worth deciding deliberately rather than by habit. The honest case for it is built entirely from certainties: dust, light, transit damage and the unboxing moment. The fragrance argument is directional and unquantified, and if it were the only reason to box you should not be boxing. Meanwhile the record that answers this whole question is 2.0% — the cheapest line in the table and the only one that produces information.
The CSI principle
Measure the candle in the volume your customer will smell it in, not in the 784 ml you stored it in.
Every benchmark you set at carton opening is a benchmark no candle can meet again. Set it on an open jar, in a fixed room, after a fixed wait, against a control — and your fragrance range stops appearing to decline every time you improve your packaging.
Scaling a boxed run? Corrugated candle boxes ₹1,121 for 50 and ₹2,242 for 100, 3-ply 7 × 5 × 4 inch boxes ₹1,336 for 50, CSI 468 at ₹3,185 for 5 kg and ₹6,370 for 10 kg. For quantities above the listed packs, bulk pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
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Fixing the point of assessment
You do not need a better fragrance. You need a benchmark that is not the best moment in the candle's life.
Everything worth changing here is a habit, and the habits are free. One purchase decision follows, and it is about packaging rather than about the candle.
After the second sniff
What to change, on what evidence, and at what cost
| Change | Evidence behind it | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Never score a candle at carton opening | Arithmetic: ≈784 ml against ≈33,000 litres | Nothing — and it stops a false decline |
| One assessment room, one interval, one distance | Makes every reading comparable to every other | Nothing |
| Keep a carton column on the sheet as well | The opening score is real data about your packaging | Nothing |
| Retain twelve units per batch, six cool and six with stock | Without a control nothing can be attributed to storage | ₹2,399.07 — 2.0% of the run above |
| Box deliberately for the customer's first impression | The burst is real and arrives in their hands, not just yours | ₹22.42 a box, or ₹8.26 for a sheet of paper |
| Raise the fragrance load to match the carton smell | None. The carton smell is not a target any open candle can hit | Money on every candle you ever pour |
One seasonal note. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November 2026, and festive stock is boxed stock — often boxed for weeks. That makes this the season when the carton-opening illusion does the most damage, because it is exactly when makers are opening stored cartons and deciding whether a batch is still good. Write the four-hour rule on the wall of the room where you do it, and keep the controls where you can reach them.
A sealed box does not keep fragrance in the candle. It keeps what escaped close enough for you to notice.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. We sell the boxes and the papers on this page, and the easy version of this article would attach a fragrance-retention claim to them. Instead this page says plainly that the dramatic first sniff is fragrance that already left your wax, that packaging should be bought for dust, light, transit and presentation, and that a load increase based on a carton smell is money wasted forever.
Every price, pack size and dimension comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, which is always authoritative. Stated capacities, dimensions, melting points, pour temperatures, loads, cure times, flash points and vanillin positions are quoted from the product pages. Every volume and ratio on this page is arithmetic on stated external dimensions plus assumptions that are named in the text and in the citation strip — internal box and jar dimensions are not published, and neither is a room size. No CSI packaging, jar, lid or wax page states a barrier property, a seal specification or a storage instruction, and none of the 107 fragrance-oil pages states a shelf life, expiry or storage instruction — so no retention percentage, ageing rate, decay curve, percentage-loss figure or accelerated-to-real-time conversion appears anywhere on this page.
For bulk pricing on packaging above the listed packs, GST invoicing, or documentation such as an SDS or IFRA paperwork for a specific oil, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
Does storing candles in sealed boxes keep the fragrance stronger?
It plausibly slows the loss, and nobody has published by how much. No CSI packaging, jar or lid page states a barrier property or a retention figure. What a closed box definitely does is let released fragrance accumulate in a small volume — roughly 784 ml around one jar in an 11 × 11 × 8 cm box — which is why opening one is dramatic. Box your stock for dust, light, transit protection and the customer's first impression; treat any fragrance benefit as unmeasured upside.
Why does my candle smell weaker a few hours after I unbox it?
Because the accumulated headspace has dispersed and you are now smelling the candle in a room rather than in a box. Nothing has been lost in those hours that was still in the wax. The comparison you want is between the unboxed jar after a fixed wait and a control from the same pour after the same wait, both in the same room. This guide uses four hours and says openly that it is a chosen method, not a published standard.
Should I judge a candle right after opening the box or later?
Later, always — and record both. Write the opening score under a heading that says carton, because it tells you what your packaging does for a customer, then score the candle after the jars have stood open together for your fixed interval. Judging at opening sets a benchmark taken in under a litre of air, and no open candle in a real room will ever match it. That is the origin of a great many false "my fragrance is fading" conclusions.
Is the strong smell a sign the candle was over-fragranced?
Not on its own — the burst is about the volume you smelled it in, not the load. The load question is answered by the wax page and your own burn test: CSI 468 states up to 13%, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, and Blue Ocean states up to 10% for soy. What would point at over-fragrancing is visible: oil beading on the surface or the glass, or a wick that drowns. Check for those, and never raise a load in response to how a carton smelled.
How much air is trapped in a closed candle box?
For the box CSI lists at 11 × 11 × 8 cm — about 968 ml of internal space — holding one jar of stated 6 cm diameter and 6.5 cm height, which occupies about 184 ml, roughly 784 ml remains. That is about 28 times the ≈28 ml above the wax inside the closed jar and about 1/42,000th of an ordinary room. Those figures are arithmetic on stated external dimensions with an assumed room size; no page publishes internal volumes.
What does boxing add to the cost of a candle?
On the run costed above, ₹28.92 on a ₹199.92 boxed unit — 14.5% of materials: ₹22.42 for the corrugated box and ₹6.50 for a tissue sheet from the 100-sheet pack at ₹650. Candle Packaging Paper at ₹8.26 a sheet is the cheaper alternative where a full box is not needed. Across 600 units that is ₹13,452 in boxes and ₹3,900 in tissue against ₹102,600 of candles. Decide it on presentation and protection, which are certain, rather than on retention, which is not published.
Score the carton, then score the candle
≈784 ml of trapped air, four hours of patience, one control jar — and a benchmark your candles can actually meet.
Corrugated Box for Candle Packaging (11 × 11 × 8 cm) ₹1,121 for 50 and ₹2,242 for 100, Candle Packaging Paper ₹413 for 50, Premium Packing Tissue Paper 50 × 75 cm at 22 GSM ₹650 for 100 sheets, Air Bubble Roll ₹900, 3-ply 7 × 5 × 4 inch boxes ₹1,336 for 50. Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500 g, stepping to ₹637 a kilo at 5 kg and 10 kg, with a stated 50–53°C melting point and up to 13% load. Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil from ₹247 / 50 g with a stated 143°C flash point and 0% vanillin. Amber lidded 120 gm jars ₹47.20, Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10. Bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation on WhatsApp.
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Continue the read
- Lids off for months — does that affect fragrance retention?
- Stronger after warm storage, softer in AC — can temperature change perceived cold throw?
- Strong at two weeks, softer at three months — what could cause it?
- Did the fragrance change, or did the wax change how I perceive it?
- What is cold throw in candles?
- How to compare two fragrance oils using a controlled burn test
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the volume ladder, the differential, the second-sniff protocol and the dispatch line apply to any supplier's packaging.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; three longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Packaging — Corrugated Box for Candle Packaging (11 × 11 × 8 cm) Pack of 50 ₹1,121 and Pack of 100 ₹2,242 (₹22.42 each); Corrugated 3 ply box 7 × 5 × 4 Inch (Pack of 50) ₹1,336; Candle Packaging Paper Pack of 50 ₹413 (₹8.26 each), Pack of 100 currently sold out; Premium Packing Tissue Paper 50 × 75 cm, 22 GSM, set of 100 sheets ₹650 (₹6.50 each); Air Bubble Roll ₹900. Materials — Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 500 g ₹325, 1 kg ₹650, 5 kg ₹3,185 and 10 kg ₹6,370 (₹637 per kilo at 5 kg and 10 kg, ₹650 at 500 g and 1 kg); Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil 50 gm ₹247, 100 gm ₹495, 500 gm ₹2,478, 1 kg ₹4,956, with the 15 gm size currently sold out; Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹47.20 each (Pack of 1 ₹47.20, Pack of 5 ₹236); Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 100 ₹590 (₹5.90 each), 10 ₹59. Per-unit maths for a 120 g candle at an 8% load (110.4 g wax + 9.6 g oil): wax 110.4 × ₹0.637 = ₹70.32, oil 9.6 × ₹4.956 = ₹47.58, jar ₹47.20, wick ₹5.90 → candle subtotal ₹171; plus box ₹22.42 and tissue ₹6.50 → boxed unit ₹199.92, so packaging is ₹28.92 or 14.5% of materials. Across 600 units: wax ₹42,192, oil ₹28,548, jars ₹28,320, wicks ₹3,540, candles ₹102,600, boxes ₹13,452, tissue ₹3,900, total ₹119,953.44; twelve retained units ₹2,399.07, which is 2.0%. Volume arithmetic, all of it this guide's own and none of it published: box 11 × 11 × 8 = 968 cm³; jar volume π × 3² × 6.5 = 183.78 cm³; trapped air 968 − 183.78 = 784.22 ml; jar headspace π × 3² × 1 = 28.27 ml, so the box holds about 28 × the jar's headspace; 3-ply box 7 × 5 × 4 inch = 140 in³ ≈ 2,294 cm³, less the jar ≈ 2,110 ml, about 75 × the jar's headspace; assumed room 3 m × 4 m × 2.75 m = 33 m³ = 33,000 litres = 33,000,000 ml, which is about 42,000 × the box and more than 1,000,000 × the jar headspace. Box and jar dimensions are external figures taken from the product title and product page; internal volumes, the 1 cm ullage and the room size are assumptions stated here and are not specifications. Stated specifications as published on product pages: Premium Coconut Soy Wax CSI 468 "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C", "Suitable for single-pour container applications"; Eco Soy CSI 400 melt point "100°F (37.8°C)"; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 8–13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, cure minimum 48 hours ideally 1–2 weeks before burn testing; Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil "Flashpoint 143°C (290°F)", "0% vanillin - no discolouration", soy and natural wax load "Up to 10%" with a 48–72 hour cure, paraffin up to 10% with 24–48 hours, strength "Strong - excellent cold and hot throw", base notes "Driftwood, musk"; Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid "Capacity: 120 gm", "6 cm diameter, 6.5 cm height", with body text that describes a black shiny jar with a golden lid. Loads are formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Planning assumptions labelled in-text: fragrance load as a percentage of finished candle weight (120 g at 8% = 110.4 g wax + 9.6 g oil); a four-hour open-jar equilibration before any blind round; twelve retained units split six cool and six with the inventory; two assessors × two blind rounds; a 1–5 cold-throw scale; a fortnight of re-boxing to test the headspace refill — all of these are this guide's chosen method, not a published standard. No fragrance-retention percentage, barrier or seal specification, ageing rate, migration rate, percentage-loss figure or accelerated-to-real-time conversion appears anywhere on this page, because no CSI packaging, jar, lid or wax page states a storage instruction and none of the 107 fragrance-oil pages states a shelf life, expiry, storage temperature or storage instruction. Diwali 2026 is 8 November 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.