Professional Candle Fragrance Oil Collection for Small Businesses

Why a collection needs tiers

Start with the plain fact: CSI does not sell a professional fragrance collection. No ready-made set exists on the store, and there is no fragrance combo pack or sample pack either. What CSI lists is 93 oils sold singly, 64 of them in stock at 500 g and 73 at 1 kg on the pull date. A small business builds its own collection from those, and the useful question is how to structure it.

Most small candle businesses buy every scent the same way: the same size, reordered when it runs out. That works for six scents. It stops working at twelve or fifteen, because the scents are doing different jobs. Some sell every week of the year. Some sell hard for six weeks before Diwali and then stop. Some sell slowly at a high price to a particular customer. Buying them all the same way means running out of the first kind, carrying leftovers of the second and tying up money in the third. Tiers fix that by giving each scent a buying rule.

The tiers are a planning structure, not a claim about which scents sell. CSI does not publish sales figures and this page does not invent any. The core oils here include several near the top of the Fragrance Oils collection's best-selling sort on the pull date — Lavender first, British Rose second, Dark Vanilla fourth and Sandalwood sixth — which is a store sort order and a reasonable signal, nothing more. Your own sales data should decide your core within a few months. Which Candle Fragrance Oils Should I Always Keep in Stock? discusses which scents to keep in stock.

The three tiers, priced

Material cost here is 16 g of oil at the size bought, plus 184 g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (₹110.22), an Eco Thin C1 wick (₹5.90) and a White Matte Glass Jar (₹70.80), a base of ₹186.92. It excludes labour, packaging, freight and GST. The tier averages are ₹261.21 for core, ₹288.04 for seasonal and ₹342.33 for premium. Core is cheapest per candle partly because it is bought at 500 g, and partly because three of its six oils are value oils; Dark Vanilla is the deliberate exception, a core gourmand at ₹7.68 a gram.

Core: bought big, never out

The core tier's only job is to be there. Buy it in a size that lasts several weeks, and reorder at a fixed level rather than when the bottle is empty. A simple working rule: work out how many candles of each core scent you pour in a typical month, multiply by 16 g, and reorder when what is left would cover two weeks. The table below shows the rule for three illustrative monthly volumes; the volumes are assumptions, not forecasts.

Two weeks is a working buffer, not a delivery promise. CSI does not publish delivery times, so set the buffer from your own experience of ordering and ask on WhatsApp when you need a firmer date. Before festive peaks, widen it. How to Set Reorder Levels for Candle Fragrance Oils covers reorder levels in detail, and How to Avoid Running Out of Best-Selling Candle Fragrances covers keeping best sellers in stock.

Seasonal: bought for a window

Seasonal scents are bought to be sold through. The Indian candle calendar gives a small business two strong windows close together: Diwali on 8 November 2026, and the November–February wedding season with its return gifts and winter gifting. The seasonal tier here leans warm and spiced for those months. Buy each at 100 g for a known window; buy 50 g the first time you run a scent, to find out whether it earns a place.

Pumpkin Spice and Spicy Cinnamon both have 1 kg packs that are cheaper per gram than their 100 g (10.0% and 7.0%), but seasonal oil is the last place to buy a kilo: whatever is left in February waits until October. If a seasonal scent sells so well that you need more than 500 g of it every season, that is a sign it has become core. Plan the window backwards from Diwali: When Should Candle Businesses Order Fragrance Oils for Diwali Production? covers when to order for festive production, and Diwali Fragrance Oil Collection for Candle Businesses builds a Diwali collection in full.

Premium: bought small, priced high

The premium tier gives the collection a top shelf: scents for gifting clients, special orders and customers who ask for something distinctive. They are the dearest oils in the collection per gram, from ₹7.99 to ₹11.96, so they are bought small and priced for the oil. Two of the three have size quirks worth knowing. Smoked Rose Royale starts at 100 g; there is no smaller size. Delina (Parfums De Marly Inspired) is an inspired-by profile listed from 50 g, and its 50 g, 100 g and 1 kg are priced almost exactly the same per gram, so there is no reason to buy more than you have orders for.

Two scales of the same collection

Not every small business pours 180 candles a month. The same thirteen scents can be bought at a smaller scale, with core at 100 g, seasonal at 50 g and premium at its smallest listed size. The structure stays; only the sizes change.

The smaller scale holds a quarter of the oil for 32.8% of the money, because 100 g is dearer per gram than 500 g for several core oils. British Rose, for example, is ₹3.42 at 100 g against ₹3.19 at 500 g. Start small if you are still learning your volumes, and move each core scent to 500 g as its reorder frequency tells you to.

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