My Fragrance Oil Price Increased by ₹500 Per Kg — How Much Does That Actually Change My Cost Per Candle at 8% Fragrance Load?

What ₹500.00 a kilogram costs you, per candle

The increase in your question is yours, not CSI's, and this page uses it exactly as you gave it: ₹500.00 a kilogram. Convert it once and the rest is a single multiplication. A kilogram is 1,000 g, so ₹500.00 a kilogram is ₹0.50 a gram. Nothing else in the candle has changed, so the only line that moves is the fragrance.

The fill reading this page carries: 200 g of wax plus 16 g of oil at 8% of wax weight, 216 g poured. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight, which is how CSI product pages state it, so 8% of 200 g of wax is 16 g of oil and the jar receives 216 g rather than 200 g. Sixteen grams at ₹0.50 a gram is ₹8.00 a candle. Across a batch of a hundred candles it is ₹800.00; across five hundred it is ₹4,000.00.

There is a second, equally honest way to read a 200 g candle, and it changes the answer slightly. If your 200 g is the whole fill rather than the wax, the wax comes down to 185.19 g and the oil to 14.81 g to keep a true 8% of wax weight, and the increase costs ₹7.41 instead — a gap of ₹0.59 a candle. Pick one reading, write it at the top of your cost sheet and never change it mid-sheet. This page carries 200 g of wax throughout.

There is a second route to the same number that is worth knowing, because it is the one that scales to a purchase order. At 16 g a candle, one kilogram of fragrance oil scents 62.5 candles. Spread ₹500.00 across 62.5 candles and you get ₹8.00 each — the same figure, arrived at from the pack rather than from the gram. Use whichever direction suits the question in front of you: per gram when you are costing a candle, per kilogram when you are placing an order.

The table to read every future increase off

An oil increase is the most common input shock a candle maker meets, and it will not be the last one you get. The arithmetic is small enough to tabulate completely, so here it is: rupees per kilogram down the side, fragrance load across the top, the cost per candle in the cells. Everything in the first table assumes 200 g of wax, which is this page's reading. Your ₹500.00 row is the third one.

The same increase on an oil you can buy today

To make the arithmetic checkable, here is your increase applied to a live CSI oil at September 2026 pricing. The oil is Saffron Cedarwood, bought as the 1 kg pack at ₹6,867.60, which is ₹6.87 a gram. The wax is Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at ₹507.40 a kilogram in the 1 kg pack, and the wick is Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each. Same reading as before: 200 g of wax, 16 g of oil at 8%, 216 g poured.

Read the percentages, because they are the part that travels. On the oil line the increase is 7.28% of ₹6,867.60 a kilogram. On the candle — wax, oil and wick together at ₹217.26 — the same ₹8.00 is 3.68%. The gap between those two numbers is the whole reason input shocks feel worse than they are: a supplier quotes you the first figure and your cost sheet only ever feels the second. On this pairing the fragrance is 50.58% of the wax, oil and wick together, which is high for a candle and is why this oil is sensitive at all.

One honest note about this oil before it is used as an example. The Saffron Cedarwood product page publishes no candle usage range, no flash point and no vanillin figure. Where an oil page publishes no usage range, the wax grade's stated maximum is the only published limit — for Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 that is 10% of total wax weight — so 8% sits inside the one published ceiling that exists here. Ask on WhatsApp for the documentation rather than assuming a range.

On this oil, the pack you choose moves more than the increase did

CSI publishes no quantity-discount ladder as a policy, and most rates on the store sit at the same figure across pack sizes. Saffron Cedarwood is one of the products where the published rates genuinely differ, and not in the direction most people expect. Here is every pack size of that oil with the rate it works out at and what 16 g of it costs in one candle.

Read the last two rows twice. The 500 gm pack works out at ₹5.17 a gram and the 1 kg pack at ₹6.87 a gram, a difference of ₹1.70 a gram, or ₹1,699.20 a kilogram. Two 500 gm packs are ₹5,168.40 for the same kilogram of oil that costs ₹6,867.60 in one pack — the smaller packs are ₹1,699.20 cheaper for identical contents. In one candle that is ₹27.19, against the ₹8.00 your supplier's increase costs you. The pack decision on this single product is worth more than three times the shock you came here about.

Before that becomes a rule, two checks. First, freight: the 1 kg pack of Saffron Cedarwood carries a stored packed weight of 1.5 kg and two 500 gm packs come to 1.6 kg together. Both fall in the same published Standard Shipping band at ₹180.00 as at September 2026, so the saving survives the parcel as long as the two packs travel in one consignment. Second, this is one product's ladder and not a pattern: run the rate at every pack size of the oil you actually buy before you assume it behaves the same way. On many oils on the store the rate is the same figure from the 50 g pack upwards.

What else moves the fragrance line, and by how much

Your increase is one of several things that change what fragrance costs in a candle, and it helps to see them next to each other rather than one at a time. Holding 200 g of wax constant and using the increased CSI rate of ₹7,367.60 a kilogram where the load changes, the four levers look like this.

The load row is there as arithmetic, not as advice. Two extra percentage points of fragrance cost ₹29.47 a candle at the increased rate, which is more than three times the increase itself — but a load change is a formulation change and it has to be burn-tested before it is sold. The Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 page states a maximum of 10% of total wax weight, and because the Saffron Cedarwood page publishes no candle range of its own, that 10% is the only published limit on this pairing. Going up to it is legitimate and going past it is not.

The honest reading of the whole table, from a supplier that would rather sell you more fragrance: the cheapest response to a fragrance increase is usually not to buy more fragrance. It is to check the pack ladder on the oil you already use, consolidate the order so the freight band does not eat the difference, and leave the recipe alone. If the pack check comes back flat and the freight is already consolidated, then you have a real ₹8.00 to deal with, and that is a pricing decision rather than a purchasing one.

What an oil increase does not change

A costing page earns its keep as much by what it refuses to move as by what it moves. Your wax cost has not changed. Your wick has not changed. Your vessel has not changed. Your cure time, your pour temperature and your burn test have not changed. Nothing about the candle is different except that 16 g of one ingredient costs ₹8.00 more.

One line does move quietly, and it is worth naming. If you are holding fragrance as stock, the increase raises the value of what you are holding and the cash you need to replace it. One kilogram of Saffron Cedarwood at ₹6,867.60 becomes ₹7,367.60 to replace at your increased rate. That is a cash question rather than a cost-per-candle question, and it is the one most makers feel first — the candle is ₹8.00 dearer, but the purchase order is ₹500.00 dearer per kilogram all at once.

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