Patchouli Candle Fragrance Oil 1 Kg Price in India

The price, and every tier around it

Patchouli on the CSI store is sold as Gilli Mitti (Patchouli) — the wet-earth, first-monsoon-rain accord that patchouli anchors, named for what Indian customers recognise it as. It ships in five sizes. Every figure below is the live variant price on the product page, which is always authoritative; CSI live pricing, September 2026.

A flat rate here is normal rather than suspicious. Waxes step down with volume because packaging and freight are a large share of the total — Natural Soy Pearl Wax falls from ₹450 per kilogram at 1kg to ₹424.80 at 5kg and above, a genuine 5.6% step. Oils at CSI generally do not. Where you see a per-gram gap on an oil it is usually the 15g trial bottle being dearer, not the kilogram being cheaper, and Gilli Mitti follows that pattern exactly: ₹9.33 per gram at 15g against ₹8.96 everywhere else. The 15g bottle is a testing tool, priced as one. Buy it to check the scent against your wax, not to make candles with.

So ₹8,960 is a premium kilogram but not an extreme one. Across all 92 oils in the fragrance oils collection, kilogram pricing runs from ₹2,832 to ₹24,056, and Gilli Mitti sits in the upper third — priced like the other complex naturals-led accords, not like a single-note citrus. Do the arithmetic on what that costs you: at 8% in a 200g candle, Gilli Mitti is ₹143.36 of fragrance and Citrus Lemon is ₹45.31 — a gap of ₹98.05 per candle, or ₹6,128 across a 62-candle kilogram. If your retail price cannot absorb that, the honest answer is that patchouli is not the scent for that line. Work through how to price candles in India 2026 before you commit the cash, and premium versus cheap fragrance oils if you are weighing the trade.

What 1 kg actually makes

This is the table the page exists for. A kilogram of fragrance oil is 1,000 grams; the number of candles it pours is simply 1,000 divided by the grams of oil in each candle, and the grams of oil in each candle is the fill weight multiplied by the load percentage. A 200g candle at 8% takes 16g. A 300g candle at 13% takes 39g. Those two facts are the whole difference between 62 candles and 25 candles from the same bottle.

Now the same grid as money, because candle counts are only half of what you need. At a flat ₹8.96 per gram the cost per candle is simply grams of oil × ₹8.96 — and it is identical whether you bought the 50g bottle or the kilogram. The kilogram does not make your candles cheaper to build. It makes them easier to keep building.

Two things fall out of that grid. First, the jump from 8% to 13% on a 300g candle costs ₹134.40 of extra fragrance per unit — ₹215.04 becomes ₹349.44 — and shrinks the kilogram from 41 candles to 25. That is an expensive way to chase throw when cure time, wick size and pour temperature are free. Second, ₹71.68 in a 100g votive is a sane ingredient cost, while ₹349.44 in a 300g jar demands a premium retail price to work at all. If Gilli Mitti feels expensive, the fix is usually a smaller fill weight, not a lower load. A 100g candle at a full 8% smells correct; a 300g candle at 5% smells like nothing and wastes the wax too.

Is 1 kg the right buy for you? The consumption test

Run this test on your own sales figures. Take a season as three months — the realistic length of a festive window, from the first October orders to the post-Diwali and wedding tail. A kilogram is the right buy if this single scent consumes 1,000g of oil inside that window. Which means:

Note which way the threshold moves, because it is counter-intuitive. Larger candles make a kilogram easier to justify, not harder. A brand selling nine 300g jars a month at 13% clears a kilogram in a quarter; a brand selling forty 100g votives does not, because it needs forty-two. The size of your candle matters more here than the size of your business — which is why a small, high-value 300g line can sensibly buy a kilogram while a higher-volume votive brand should not.

If patchouli is a permanent line rather than a festive special, run the test on a six-month horizon and halve the thresholds: a 200g / 8% build then needs about 11 units a month sustained over six months. That is legitimate, provided your storage is genuinely good — which is the part of this decision nobody puts on a price page.

The full bill of materials for one 200g patchouli candle

A fragrance price only means something next to the rest of the build. Below is a complete, costed 200g container candle using Gilli Mitti at 8%, every line at the bulk tier a working brand actually buys at. It excludes dye, outer packaging, labels beyond the care sticker, labour and shipping, which vary too much between brands to be useful as one number.

The fragrance is ₹143.36 of a ₹296.01 build, which is 48.4% — very nearly half the material cost, from a component that is 8% of the candle's weight. Everything else together, wax and glass and wick and two stickers, comes to ₹152.65. That ratio tells you where your margin lives. If you want the candle cheaper, arguing about jars will not get you there: the jar is ₹29.50. The levers that matter are fill weight, load percentage and choice of oil.

Scaled up, that is a coherent purchase order. Sixty-two 200g candles at ₹296.01 of materials each is ₹18,352.62 for a complete 62-unit patchouli run: the ₹8,960 kilogram, roughly 11.4 kg of wax, 62 jars, 62 wicks and the stickers. Holding that whole picture is more useful than staring at ₹8,960 alone. If you are building a first purchase order from scratch, the complete candle making raw material list and how much fragrance oil a candle business needs cover the rest of the sheet.

Storing a kilogram without losing it

A 100g bottle is used up before storage matters. A kilogram is not, and a kilogram you have degraded is a ₹8,960 write-off rather than a ₹896 one. There are four rules.

One note specific to patchouli. Earthy, patchouli-led accords are base-note heavy, which is what makes them carry from a cool soy melt pool and also what makes them forgiving in storage — there is less delicate top-note material to lose than in a Citrus Lemon. That does not override the consumption test, but if you are borderline at eighteen or nineteen units a month, the chemistry argues for the kilogram rather than against it. Renu, who bought the oil, put it plainly: "Gilli Mitti and Pumpkin Spice scents are amazing and authentic." Authentic is the right word for what this accord has to get right — wet earth reads as fake immediately if it is thin.

Documentation, GST and ordering a kilogram

At the kilogram level you are no longer a hobby buyer, and the paperwork matters as much as the price.

Two notes on that table. Fragrance load ceilings and IFRA guidance are different documents answering different questions: the 10% and 13% figures on this page are wax formulation limits stated by the wax manufacturer, while IFRA guidance comes from the fragrance side and states usage per application. You need both. And if the kilogram is going into a dated commercial order, confirm stock on WhatsApp before you promise the delivery date, not after — it takes a minute and it is the cheapest risk control a small brand has. For the wider sourcing picture, the complete wholesale buyer's guide and how premium brands buy fragrance wholesale are the next reads.

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