5 Fragrance Oil Combo for Candle Making

Why one per family

Say it first: CSI does not sell a five-oil fragrance combo. Nothing on the store is a ready-made set of five. You pick five oils from the Fragrance Oils collection and put them in one order. That makes the question on this page a planning question: which five?

The most useful answer for a new range is one oil from each of the five families that most candle scents fall into. Floral covers rose, jasmine, gardenia and the Indian night-blooming florals. Fresh covers green, herbal, citrus-leaf and clean-linen styles. Fruity covers berries, melons, stone fruit and orchard fruit. Gourmand covers vanilla, chocolate, coffee, coconut and bakery notes. Woody covers sandalwood, cedar, oud and resins. A buyer who does not like one family usually likes another, so five families give a tiny range the widest reach.

There is a practical reason too. When one scent sells and another does not, you want to know whether it was the scent or the family. A five that covers five families answers that. If the gourmand sells out and the fresh sits on the shelf, your next order should go deeper in gourmands. 10 Fragrance Oil Combo for Candle Making then takes two oils per family, and 20 Fragrance Oil Combo for Candle Making takes four.

The five slots, three picks each

Each slot below has three real, in-stock candidates at 50 g: a value pick near the bottom of the family's price range, a mid pick and a premium pick. Build your five by choosing one from each row. The totals at the bottom are the three straight columns.

The premium five costs about twice the value five: ₹2,369.00 against ₹1,121.59. That gap is not spread evenly. The fresh slot contributes the biggest jump, because Freshwater (BBW Inspired) is an inspired-by profile at ₹11.98 a gram, against ₹3.53 for Cucumber Green Tea. The fruity and floral slots move far less. So the first question for any upgrade is which slot, not which tier.

A note on sizes. Not every candidate is sold at every size. Sparkling Fruit, Coffee Vanilla Tobacco and Sage and Cedarwood start at 50 g, so for those the 50 g is effectively the minimum. Chocolate Fudge has an in-stock 15 g and 50 g but its 100 g is out of stock on the pull date. This page prices everything at 50 g so every column is buyable, and handles the Chocolate Fudge 100 g honestly below.

The value five at 15 g, 50 g and 100 g

*The 100 g total uses two 50 g bottles of Chocolate Fudge (₹396.48), because its 100 g is out of stock. Its listed 100 g price is ₹396.48, exactly the same as two 50 g bottles, so nothing is lost. Of the other four, Gardenia drops from ₹4.46 to ₹4.33 a gram at 100 g and Peach Melon Berry from ₹4.46 to ₹4.18; Cucumber Green Tea (₹3.53) and Palo Santo (₹6.02) cost the same per gram at both sizes.

The step that matters is 15 g. The value five averages ₹6.39 a gram at 15 g and ₹4.49 at 50 g, a premium of 42.4%. Across the catalogue the median 15 g premium over 100 g is 23.1%. So buy the five at 15 g only if you genuinely do not know yet whether you will use them. If you already plan to pour three candles of each, 50 g is the cheaper route by a distance, and it makes 15 candles instead of about five.

What each slot costs per candle

Once the five are in the cart, work out what each scent puts into a candle. Every figure below is a 200 g candle at an 8% load: 16 g of oil, 184 g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599.00 a kilo (₹110.22), one Eco Thin C1 wick (₹5.90) and one White Matte Glass Jar (₹70.80). That fixed base is ₹186.92; the oil sits on top.

The value five keeps every candle between ₹243.37 and ₹283.20 in materials. That narrow band is a real advantage for a new maker: you can sell all five at one price and the margin barely moves between scents. The premium five spreads from ₹314.60 to ₹378.60, which is wide enough that one price across all five would either overcharge for the floral or under-earn on the fresh. Best Fragrance Oil Combo for Starting a Candle Business builds a combo around those cost bands.

Trading up one slot at a time

You do not need to choose between an all-value and an all-premium five. The better move is usually a value five with one or two slots traded up, where your customer is most likely to notice. Every swap changes the combo by the difference between two 50 g prices, and changes that scent's candle by the difference in oil cost.

A few swaps stand out. Trading Peach Melon Berry for Spicy Raspberry costs ₹75.98 in the order and ₹24.31 per candle, a small price for a more distinctive fruity scent. Trading Cucumber Green Tea for Freshwater (BBW Inspired) costs ₹422.59 in the order and ₹135.23 per candle, the largest single jump available. That can be the right move if your buyers ask for that profile by name, but it should be a decision, not a default.

Here are the three value picks that show the combo's three pricing situations: a floral that gets cheaper at 100 g, a fresh oil that is the cheapest per gram in the combo, and a gourmand whose 100 g is out of stock.

Building and ordering the five

If the five do their job, you will know which family to go deeper in. That is when the ten- and twenty-oil combos make sense. 10 Fragrance Oil Combo for Candle Making builds a ten with two per family, 20 Fragrance Oil Combo for Candle Making prices twenty at three sizes, and Candle Fragrance Oil Combo Pack in India explains why a combo you build beats one built for you.

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