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Candle Business Guides · Fragrance Selection
Scent is now off the table: you have already decided both oils are good enough to sell. What is left is a purchasing question with seven measurable factors, and every one of them is downstream of a single number — the grams of oil that one candle actually consumes.
740 g
extra oil per 100 candles — 1.85 kg at 10% against 1.11 kg at 6%, on a 185 g wax fill · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What is the single most important factor?Grams of oil per candle at the load you will actually pour. On a 185 g wax fill, 6% is 11.1 g and 10% is 18.5 g. That 7.4 g gap is the whole difference, and it reappears in your cost per candle, your pack choice, your months of cover and your cash.
So is the 6% oil the better buy? Only if the 6% figure is real in your wax. CSI product pages state recommended bands — Citrus Lemon states 6–10% for soy, Fresh Strawberries 6–9%, British Rose up to 10% with "Start at 10%, increase for stronger throw". A band's lower edge is a starting point, not a verified performance claim.
What do I compare besides grams? Seven things: grams per candle, cost per candle, whether the load clears both ceilings (your wax's band and the oil's band), pack rounding, months of cover, cash tied up, and the discolouration position stated on the page.
How much cash does the gap move? On British Rose at 1 kg pricing, the oil for 100 candles is ₹3,405.48 at 6% and ₹5,675.80 at 10% — a ₹2,270.32 swing for the identical candle count.
The short answer
Convert both loads to grams before you compare anything: on a 185 g wax fill, 6% = 11.1 g, 7% = 12.95 g, 8% = 14.8 g, 10% = 18.5 g. Price per kilo is meaningless until it is multiplied by one of those numbers.
Check both ceilings, and use the lower:Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% with 10% recommended, so a 6% pour sits below that wax's stated band; CSI 464 states up to 10% with no stated floor.
Then compare the four money factors: cost per candle, what the pack rounding costs, months of cover on one pack, and the cash the pack ties up. The load difference changes all four in the same direction.
Bar length is kilograms of fragrance oil consumed by 100 candles at a 185 g wax fill. The 6% oil and the 10% oil are not competing on scent on this chart — they are competing on 740 g, which is more than two-thirds of a kilo bottle. Loads shown are the figures CSI product pages state or the figure you intend to test; none of them is a performance result we have measured.
Two oils smell equally good but need different loads. What do I actually compare before buying?
Compare grams per candle first, then rupees per candle, then the pack you are forced into. Everything else follows. On a 185 g wax fill, a 6% load is 11.1 g of oil and a 10% load is 18.5 g — a 7.4 g gap per candle and 740 g per 100 candles, which is most of a kilo bottle. Put real prices against it: British Rose at ₹3,068 per kg costs ₹34.05 of oil per candle at 6% and ₹56.76 at 10%; Citrus Lemon at ₹2,832 per kg costs ₹31.44 at 6% and ₹52.39 at 10%. Then check that the load clears both published ranges — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% with 10% recommended, so a 6% pour is below that wax's stated band, while CSI 464 states up to 10% with no stated floor. Then price the pack rounding: 100 candles at 10% plus a 5% allowance needs 1.943 kg, and on British Rose two 1 kg bottles (₹6,136) beat 1 kg + 500 g + five 100 g bottles (₹6,372) for the same 2 kg. Finally check months of cover: at 25 candles a month one kilo lasts 3.6 months at 6% and 2.2 months at 10%. The 6% figure itself is yours to establish — CSI pages publish recommended bands, not measured throw.
One line: turn both loads into grams per candle, multiply by the real price per gram, check the load against your wax's stated band as well as the oil's, and only then look at which pack you have to buy.
Testing a load difference costs less than guessing it. 15 g trials from ₹68.44, 50 g bottles from ₹170 and 100 g from ₹300 across the fragrance range — enough to pour the same jar at two loads and burn both.
A load difference is a grams difference, and grams are what you buy
Nobody sells fragrance oil by the percent. The percent is a recipe instruction; the gram is the invoice line.
Start with the arithmetic, because the entire decision collapses into it. In this series a fragrance load is a percentage of total wax weight, which is how CSI fragrance pages phrase it — "7–11% of total wax weight", "up to 13% of total wax weight". So for a container holding 185 g of wax, the oil is 185 × the load, and the finished candle weighs 185 g plus the oil. A second convention exists, where the load is a share of the finished candle, and it produces slightly smaller oil figures; the floral, woody and gourmand load guide works through both. Pick one and keep it, because mixing them is how a 10% recipe quietly becomes a 9% one.
Load to grams · 185 g wax fill
What each stated load actually costs you in oil, per candle and per 100 candles
Worked out above: oil per candle = 185 g × load. 6% → 11.10 g · 7% → 12.95 g · 8% → 14.80 g · 9% → 16.65 g · 10% → 18.50 g · 13% → 24.05 g. Per 100 candles, multiply by 100 and divide by 1,000. Band edges are quoted from the product pages named in the last column and are the makers' recommended ranges, not measured throw results.
Look at the last column of that table and notice what it does not say. No CSI page says "this oil performs at 6%". What the pages publish is a recommended band, and bands have two edges for a reason: the lower edge is where the page suggests you begin, the upper edge is the most oil the blend is recommended at. When a maker tells you an oil "performs at 6%", they are reporting a result from their wax, their jar diameter, their wick and their cure — four variables you do not share. That claim is a hypothesis you can test cheaply, and the rest of this guide assumes you will.
The mistake: comparing the two oils' price per kilo. Price per kilo is the number the store shows and the number your brain latches onto, and at different loads it is actively misleading. Fresh Strawberries at ₹3,540 per kg looks 15% dearer than British Rose at ₹3,068. Pour Fresh Strawberries at the bottom of its stated 6–9% band and British Rose at the 10% its page points to, and the candles cost ₹39.29 and ₹56.76 of oil respectively — the "dearer" oil is ₹17.46 cheaper per candle. The full method for that flip, including the break-even multiple, is in the cost-per-candle guide.
The seven purchasing factors, in the order they change your decision
Scent has already been settled — that was the premise. These are the seven factors that remain, ranked by how much each one moves the money, with the source you should read it from. Five of the seven are arithmetic you can do in two minutes; two require you to pour a candle.
Purchasing comparison · two oils at different loads
What to compare, where the number comes from, and what reading it wrong costs
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Factor
Where you get it
What a wrong read costs
1
Grams of oil per candle at your fill
185 g × the load you will pour
Every figure below is wrong by the same multiple
2
Cost per candle = ₹/g × grams
Product page price ÷ pack grams
Up to ₹25 per candle on oils priced within ₹700/kg of each other
3
Does the load clear both stated bands?
The oil page and your wax page; use the lower ceiling
A pour outside a published band, which is a test you cannot cite
4
Pack rounding on your run size
The 15 g / 50 g / 100 g / 500 g / 1 kg ladder
₹236 on one 2 kg British Rose purchase; more on oils with gaps in the ladder
5
Months of cover from one pack
Pack grams ÷ (monthly units × grams per candle)
Oil ageing on a shelf, or a stockout mid-run
6
Cash tied up per 100 candles of cover
Pack price × packs needed
₹2,270.32 on British Rose, 6% against 10%
7
Stated discolouration position
The page's vanillin or discolouration line
A dye and jar rethink after you have bought the oil
Factor seven deserves a sentence, because it is the one people skip and it changes the rest of the bill rather than the oil line. CSI pages are explicit about this and the wording differs per oil: British Rose states "Vanillin content 0% — no discolouration or yellowing in wax"; Citrus Lemon states "Vanillin content Approximately 0% — safe for white and light-coloured wax". An oil at the same cost per candle that forces you off white wax, or onto a darker dye and an opaque jar, is not the same purchase. Which way that cuts depends on your range — the point is to read the line before you order, not after.
Write the comparison as two columns, not two prices
Put the two oils side by side with seven rows: grams per candle, ₹/g at the pack you will buy, ₹ per candle, both stated bands, packs for your run, months of cover, stated discolouration. Fill it in from the product pages with a calculator open. The oil that wins on row three is usually not the one that won on the price you first saw, and the oil that wins on row three can still lose on row four if its pack ladder has a gap at the size you need.
Both ceilings have to hold the load — and a low load can miss a floor
A load is only legitimate if it sits inside the band stated for the oil and the band stated for the wax. Use whichever is lower. Most makers know that rule going upward: you cannot pour 13% of an oil whose page stops at 10%, and you cannot pour 13% in a wax rated to 10%. What catches people out on this particular question is the other direction. Several CSI waxes publish a range with a bottom to it.
Stated wax bands · CSI live listings, September 2026
Where a 6% pour and a 10% pour sit inside each container wax's published range
Priced above: wax cost in 185 g = 1 kg price ÷ 1,000 × 185. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹0.599/g → ₹110.82 · CSI 464 ₹0.5074/g → ₹93.87 · CSI 468 ₹0.65/g → ₹120.25 · Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹0.399/g → ₹73.82. Stated loads and temperatures are the product pages' own figures; they are wax formulation ranges, not regulatory limits.
The practical consequence is specific and easy to miss. If you have standardised on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and you now want to run an oil at 6%, you are pouring below the range that wax publishes. That is not dangerous — it is simply outside the window the wax maker describes, so you lose the ability to say your recipe follows the page. Either move that oil onto a wax whose band accommodates it, such as CSI 464 at "up to 10%" with no stated floor, or pour it at 8% and accept the extra 3.7 g per candle. On a ₹3,068/kg oil, that 3.7 g is ₹11.35 per candle — which is exactly the kind of number that should be decided deliberately rather than discovered in a spreadsheet three months later.
A silent page is not permission.Eco Soy CSI 400 states an add temperature of 80–90°C and a two-minute stir, but it does not state a fragrance load, and Saffron Cedarwood publishes a note pyramid with no candle percentage at all. When either side of the pair is silent, you do not get to assume the number you want — you hold the load at a conservative 8%, burn a cured jar, and write down what happened. The same discipline applies to flash point: roughly half the fragrance pages state one, many of those state only a "greater than 93°C" threshold rather than a measured value, and none of those figures is an add temperature. Documentation, including SDS and IFRA paperwork, is supplied on request on WhatsApp.
What the grams do to your pack choice — and what rounding costs
CSI fragrance oils list in up to five sizes: 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg, with 1 kg the largest listed pack on every oil. Not every oil lists every rung — the fine-fragrance listings run 50 g, 100 g and 1 kg with no 500 g — so the pack ladder is part of the comparison, not an afterthought. Below is a 100-candle run costed both ways on British Rose, with a labelled 5% allowance for spills, bottle residue and top-ups.
100 candles · British Rose · 5% wastage allowance stated
The same candle count at 6% and at 10%, and what the pack rounding adds
Load
Oil needed
With 5% allowance
Cheapest listed combination
Oil bought
What you pay
6%
1.110 kg
1.166 kg
1 × 1 kg + 2 × 100 g
1.200 kg
₹3,752.40
6% (alternative)
1.110 kg
1.166 kg
2 × 500 g + 2 × 100 g
1.200 kg
₹3,870.40
8%
1.480 kg
1.554 kg
1 × 1 kg + 1 × 500 g + 1 × 100 g
1.600 kg
₹5,003.20
10%
1.850 kg
1.943 kg
2 × 1 kg
2.000 kg
₹6,136
10% (alternative)
1.850 kg
1.943 kg
1 × 1 kg + 1 × 500 g + 5 × 100 g
2.000 kg
₹6,372
Priced above:British Rose Fragrance Oil at 100 gm ₹342.20, 500 gm ₹1,593 and 1 kg ₹3,068 — CSI live pricing, September 2026. 1 kg + 2 × 100 g = 3,068 + 684.40 = ₹3,752.40 · 2 × 500 g + 2 × 100 g = 3,186 + 684.40 = ₹3,870.40 · 1 kg + 500 g + 100 g = 3,068 + 1,593 + 342.20 = ₹5,003.20 · 2 × 1 kg = ₹6,136 · 1 kg + 500 g + 5 × 100 g = 3,068 + 1,593 + 1,711 = ₹6,372. The 5% allowance is a planning figure, not a measured loss rate.
Two findings worth keeping. First, on this oil the kilo is the cheapest rung per gram — ₹3.068/g at 1 kg against ₹3.186/g at 500 g and ₹3.422/g at 100 g — so once your run needs more than a kilo, buying the second kilo beats assembling the balance from smaller bottles by ₹236 on identical weight. Second, and more important, that is a property of this listing, not a rule of the store. On Saffron Cedarwood the kilo lists at ₹6,867.60 while two 500 g bottles come to ₹5,168.40 — the kilo is ₹1,699.20 worse for the same gram count. Never assume the bigger pack is cheaper per gram on a CSI fragrance oil. Work the ladder out for the specific oil you are buying, every time.
1 kg is the top of the listed ladder
There is no listed 5 kg or 10 kg fragrance pack at CSI. If your 10% recipe needs 1.85 kg per hundred candles and you are planning five hundred, that is 9.25 kg plus allowance — a volume to discuss on WhatsApp, where bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled. What that quote will be is not something this page can tell you; what we can tell you is that the listed per-kilo prices are the ceiling, so multiplying them gives you a safe upper bound for a budget.
Three oils, three stated bands — the same comparison with real numbers
These three are chosen because their pages state different things about load, which is the whole subject of this guide. Each card shows every listed size, the price per kilo at each rung, and how many candles that pack covers at the load its own page points to. Cost per candle in each footer is calculated at 1 kg pricing on a 185 g wax fill.
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Floral · page says start high
British Rose Fragrance Oil
The clearest example of an oil whose page sends you to the top of the band. It states a recommended load of up to 10% for soy wax with a cure of 48–72 hours, up to 6% for paraffin, up to 12% for wax melts — and then adds, in its own words, "Start at 10%, increase for stronger throw". It also states Vanillin content 0% with no discolouration in wax, and a measured flashpoint of 192°C. Read as a purchase, that means you should plan 18.5 g a candle, not 11.1 g, until your own burn test says otherwise. The ladder is unusually friendly: the kilo is the cheapest gram on the listing.
The cheapest gram among the three and a band whose lower edge is the 6% this guide is about: its page states 6–10% for soy wax candles with a 48–72 hour cure, 6–8% for paraffin, 10–15% for wax melts. Its stated vanillin content is approximately 0%, described as safe for white and light-coloured wax. The honest reading is that 6% is where the page suggests you begin, not a promise that 6% will fill a room — citrus profiles are top-note-led, and the throw-without-raising-the-load guide explains what else you can pull before you add grams. At ₹2.832 a gram, every percentage point you can honestly drop is worth about ₹5.24 a candle.
A useful third case because its band is narrow: the page states 6–9% for candles and 8–12% for wax melts, with the instruction to use a lower percentage for a subtle fruity hint and increase toward the upper end. A narrow band is a purchasing advantage — your worst case and your best case are only 5.55 g apart per candle, which is ₹19.65 at this oil's kilo price, so your budget cannot be wrong by much. Its stated pyramid runs ripe strawberry and citrus zest over sweet rose, honeydew and peach, onto vanilla sugar, light musk and creamy sandalwood — a base that gives the fruit something to hold onto after cure.
Do not let a wide band flatter an oil.Japanese Cherry Blossom states 6–13% for candles and breaks that span into three on its own page: 6–8% for a light presence, 9–11% for a balanced version, 12–13% for a richer floral. At ₹4,842 a kilo, those are candles costing ₹53.75 and ₹116.45 of oil at the two extremes — a ₹62.70 spread inside one product. A wide band is flexibility, not cheapness; it means you have to decide where in the band you are pouring before you can budget at all, and it means two makers using "the same oil at the recommended load" can be running completely different cost structures.
Run the comparison on your own wax before you commit. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599 with a stated 8–13% band, CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 stated up to 10%, and Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10 — one kilo of wax pours five test jars at each of two loads.
Months of cover and cash tied up: the same kilo is two different purchases
A pack size means nothing until you divide it by your own monthly usage. That single division is what turns "1 kg of oil" into an inventory decision, and it is where the load difference does its quietest damage. Assume you sell 25 candles a month of a given scent — a figure you should replace with your own as soon as you have one. Monthly oil usage is 25 × grams per candle, and months of cover is pack grams ÷ monthly usage.
Cover and cash · 25 candles a month of one scent
What one kilo buys you at each load, and what 100 candles of oil costs
Load
Oil per month
Months of cover on 1 kg
Oil for 100 candles
Cost at British Rose ₹3,068/kg
Cost at Citrus Lemon ₹2,832/kg
6%
277.5 g
3.6 months
1.110 kg
₹3,405.48
₹3,143.52
7%
323.75 g
3.1 months
1.295 kg
₹3,973.06
₹3,667.44
8%
370 g
2.7 months
1.480 kg
₹4,540.64
₹4,191.36
9%
416.25 g
2.4 months
1.665 kg
₹5,108.22
₹4,715.28
10%
462.5 g
2.2 months
1.850 kg
₹5,675.80
₹5,239.20
Read the two ends of that table together. On British Rose the oil bill for a hundred candles is ₹3,405.48 at 6% and ₹5,675.80 at 10% — a ₹2,270.32 difference for the same number of finished units, which is roughly three-quarters of another kilo bottle. And the kilo you bought stops being a four-month buffer and becomes a two-month one, so you reorder more often and you hold the same scent for less time. Both effects point the same way: a higher required load is a higher working-capital requirement, and it is invisible if you only ever look at the price per kilo.
Set the reorder point from your own lead time
Reorder point = (monthly usage ÷ 30 × your observed lead-time days) + safety stock. At 10% and 25 candles a month that is 462.5 ÷ 30 = 15.4 g a day, so a lead time of ten days means reordering with about 154 g left, plus whatever safety stock your own history justifies. At 6% the same ten days is 92.5 g. Use your own lead-time figure measured from your own orders — not a number from a blog, including this one.
The CSI principle
When two oils smell the same, you are no longer buying a scent. You are buying a number of grams, and the load is the only thing that sets it.
Price per kilo compares bottles. Grams per candle compares candles. One of those is the thing you sell, and the gap between the two is where a range quietly becomes unprofitable — 740 g per hundred candles, every hundred candles, for as long as the SKU exists.
Establishing the load yourself, for about the price of one candle
The 6% claim is the only soft number in this whole comparison, and it is also the cheapest one to harden. You do not need a production run; you need four jars, one wax, one wick size and the discipline to change exactly one variable. Here is the sequence that turns "performs at 6%" into a figure you can budget from.
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Buy the smallest honest quantity of both oilsFour 185 g jars at the loads you want to compare need roughly 11.1 g, 14.8 g and 18.5 g — so a 50 g bottle of each oil covers a three-point test with room over. On the oils in this guide that is ₹212.40 for British Rose, ₹170 for Citrus Lemon and ₹212.40 for Fresh Strawberries. A 15 g trial is for smelling, not for pouring; at 6% it is barely one jar.
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Fix everything except the loadOne wax, one jar, one wick, one add temperature, one stir time, one cure length. If you are using CSI 464, its page states melt and pour at 80–90°C; on Luxury Soy Wax Chunks fragrance goes in at 80–90°C and the pour is 70–80°C. Weigh everything on a weighing scale — load is a weight percentage and millilitres will not reproduce.
3
Pour one jar at each end of the band and one in the middleFor Citrus Lemon that is 11.1 g, 14.8 g and 18.5 g in 185 g of wax. Label each jar with the grams, not the percentage, because grams are what you will be ordering. Pour a fourth jar at the middle load with the other oil so you have a same-load cross-reference between the two candidates.
4
Cure the full distance before you judge anythingBoth pages here state 48–72 hours as a minimum for soy. For a decision you are going to spend thousands of rupees on, give it 14 days with lids on in a closed carton — cure time changes families differently, and judging a fruity top-note oil at 48 hours against a base-heavy one is not a fair fight.
5
Burn in the same room, in the same order, with a score sheetThree hours each, the room aired between jars, throw scored at 30 and 120 minutes on a 1–5 scale, plus minutes to a full melt pool and any soot. The controlled burn test method has the full protocol. One nose, one sitting, written down — not remembered.
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Convert the winner straight into grams, packs and rupeesTake the lowest load that scored acceptably, multiply by your fill, multiply by your run size, add your stated wastage allowance, and price it against the actual pack ladder on that listing. That figure — not the price per kilo, and not the percentage — is the number you put in the purchase decision. Then recheck it the first time you change wax, jar diameter or wick.
A percentage is an instruction. A gram is a cost. Buy against the gram.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. On this page that matters in a very direct way: we sell fragrance oil by the gram, so the commercially convenient advice would be to tell you the 10% oil is the better candle. We are telling you to find the lowest load that passes your own burn test, because a maker whose per-candle costs stay sane keeps buying, and a maker whose margin disappears into fragrance does not.
Every price, pack size and stated band quoted here comes from live CSI listings in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. Fragrance loads are quoted only where the oil page states them — 6–10% on Citrus Lemon, 6–9% on Fresh Strawberries, up to 10% on British Rose with its own "start at 10%" wording, 6–13% on Japanese Cherry Blossom — and wax bands only where the wax page states them. Those are formulation ranges published by the makers, not regulatory limits, and not throw performance we have measured. Where a page states nothing, this guide says so.
For bulk pricing above the listed 1 kg fragrance pack, GST invoicing, MSDS or IFRA documentation, or help matching a load to a specific wax and jar diameter, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
If one oil works at 6% and another needs 10%, is the 6% oil always the better buy?
Not always, but it starts with a large advantage. At a 185 g wax fill, 6% is 11.1 g and 10% is 18.5 g, so the 6% oil can be up to about 1.67 times dearer per kilo and still cost the same per candle. Beyond that multiple the cheaper oil wins again. The other half of the answer is that the 6% figure must be real in your wax, jar and wick — a product page states a recommended band, not a verified result.
How many grams of fragrance oil does one candle use?
Multiply your wax fill by the load. On a 185 g wax fill that is 11.1 g at 6%, 12.95 g at 7%, 14.8 g at 8%, 16.65 g at 9% and 18.5 g at 10%, giving finished candles of 196 g to 203.5 g. For 100 candles, that is 1.11 kg to 1.85 kg before any wastage allowance. Weigh rather than measure by volume — load is a weight percentage and oils differ in density.
Can I pour an oil at 6% in a wax that states 8–13%?
You can, but you are then outside the range that wax publishes, so you cannot say the recipe follows the page. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% with 10% recommended. If you want to run a low load, CSI 464 states up to 10% with no stated floor and CSI 468 states up to 13%. Always use the lower of the two ceilings — the wax's and the oil's.
Is a 1 kg bottle of fragrance oil always cheaper per gram than 500 g?
No, and this is the most expensive assumption on the store. On British Rose the kilo is cheapest per gram at ₹3.068 against ₹3.186 at 500 g. On Saffron Cedarwood the opposite holds: 1 kg at ₹6,867.60 against two 500 g bottles at ₹5,168.40, so the kilo is ₹1,699.20 worse for the same weight. Work the ladder out per oil before every order.
How much oil should I buy for my first 100 candles of a new scent?
Work from the load you have tested, not the one you hope for. At 8% on a 185 g fill, 100 candles need 1.48 kg, or about 1.554 kg with a labelled 5% allowance for spills and bottle residue. On British Rose the cheapest listed combination for that is 1 kg + 500 g + 100 g at ₹5,003.20. If you have not burn-tested the oil yet, buy a 50 g or 100 g bottle first — an untested kilo is the most common form of dead fragrance stock.
Does a higher load always give a stronger candle?
No. Wax holds oil up to a stated limit, and past it the surplus separates, sweats to the surface and can drown the wick — a weaker candle for more money, which is why both ceilings matter. Before adding grams, pull the free levers: a full cure, a wick that opens the melt pool to the glass in two to three hours, the stated add temperature with a proper stir. Why more fragrance oil doesn't always mean stronger candles works through the mechanism.
Compare grams, not bottles
740 g per hundred candles is the real difference between a 6% oil and a 10% one. Find out which one you have.
Citrus Lemon from ₹81.42 for 15 g and ₹2,832 a kilo with a stated 6–10% soy band, British Rose from ₹94.40 and ₹3,068 a kilo stated up to 10%, Fresh Strawberries from ₹113.28 and ₹3,540 a kilo stated 6–9%, Japanese Cherry Blossom at ₹4,842 a kilo across a stated 6–13% band. Wax from ₹399 a kilo. Message us for bulk pricing above 1 kg, GST invoicing and documentation.
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the load-to-grams arithmetic, the seven-factor comparison, the pack-rounding method and the months-of-cover calculation apply to any supplier. No statement on this page describes what any scent sells, or how popular any profile is — CSI publishes no demand data and none is implied here.
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; wording is unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Planning assumptions, all labelled in text — fragrance load expressed as a percentage of total wax weight (the convention CSI fragrance pages use); wax fill of 185 g per candle, giving finished candles of 196.10 g to 209.05 g; 5% wastage allowance for spills, bottle residue and top-ups, a planning figure and not a measured loss rate; 25 candles a month per scent as an illustrative volume to be replaced by the reader's own; lead time in the reorder-point example is the reader's own observed figure, never CSI's; cure of 14 days for a comparison test, against the 48–72 hour soy minimum stated on the oil pages. Oil prices — British Rose 15 gm ₹94.40, 50 gm ₹212.40, 100 gm ₹342.20, 500 gm ₹1,593, 1 kg ₹3,068; Citrus Lemon 15 gm ₹81.42, 50 gm ₹170, 100 gm ₹300, 500 gm ₹1,420, 1 kg ₹2,832; Fresh Strawberries 15 gm ₹113.28, 50 gm ₹212.40, 100 gm ₹377.60, 500 gm ₹1,770, 1 kg ₹3,540; Japanese Cherry Blossom 1 kg ₹4,842; Saffron Cedarwood 500 gm ₹2,584.20 and 1 kg ₹6,867.60. Wax prices at 1 kg — Eco Soy CSI 400 ₹399, Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 ₹507.40, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks ₹599, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 ₹650; Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59 for 10; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Stated specifications as published on the product pages: Citrus Lemon 6–10% soy, 6–8% paraffin, 10–15% wax melts, cure 48–72 hours, vanillin approximately 0%; British Rose up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin, up to 12% wax melts, cure 48–72 hours, "Start at 10%, increase for stronger throw", vanillin 0%, flashpoint 192°C; Fresh Strawberries 6–9% candles, 8–12% wax melts; Japanese Cherry Blossom 6–13% candles, split by the page into 6–8%, 9–11% and 12–13%; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 8–13% with 10% recommended, add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C; CSI 464 up to 10%, melt and pour stated 80–90°C; CSI 468 up to 13%; Eco Soy CSI 400 states no fragrance load. Loads are wax and fragrance formulation ranges, not regulatory limits, and not throw results measured by CSI. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack; larger volumes are quoted on WhatsApp and no figure for such a quote is given here. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.
