Bulk Candle Fragrance Oil Supplier in Mumbai

How much fragrance oil a Mumbai candle business goes through

At an 8% load, every 200 g candle uses 16 g of oil, so each 1,000 candles needs 16 kg. The table turns candles a month into kilograms a month:

At an average of ₹4,730.20 per kilogram across the first four Mumbai shortlist oils, 5 kg a month is about ₹23,651 and 10 kg about ₹47,302 of oil.

Reorder points: never run out mid-festival

Storing 5–10 kg of fragrance oil

Keep bottles sealed, upright, out of sunlight and off hot walls or rooftop rooms. Oil does not absorb moisture from the air, but heat and light shorten its life, and open bottles lose their top notes. Humidity, not heat, is Mumbai's issue. Fragrance oil does not absorb moisture, but wicks, labels and cartons do — so a Mumbai studio buying oil by the kilogram should also be storing wicks and packaging sealed through the monsoon.

Decant a working bottle for daily use rather than opening the kilogram every day, and date every bottle on arrival so the oldest is used first. Storage for the rest of the workshop is in what humidity actually damages.

One Mumbai buyer type, costed

Home-studio seller shipping across Mumbai. Small runs, many scents, fast Instagram turnover. Keep most oils at 100 g and only the top seller at 1 kg; a 150 g tin is a popular gifting size.

Say that buyer pours 120 candles of 150 g. At 8% each candle takes 12.0 g of oil, so the run needs 1.44 kg — about 1.4 kg in total, split across however many scents the run carries. If it were all Blue Ocean, the oil would cost about ₹7,137 at the 1 kg price.

A second Mumbai buyer: corporate-gifting vendor in bkc or lower parel. Clients want one or two safe, recognisable scents in large numbers and a consistent smell across the whole order. Buy the whole order's oil in one go. For 600 candles of 200 g at 8%, the oil comes to 9.60 kg — with Sandalwood at ₹5,026.80 per kg, about ₹48,257.

What Mumbai changes about bulk supply

Mumbai is coastal and humid for most of the year, with one of the heaviest south-west monsoons of any Indian metro from June to September and a mild, short winter. Humidity, not heat, is Mumbai's issue. Fragrance oil does not absorb moisture, but wicks, labels and cartons do — so a Mumbai studio buying oil by the kilogram should also be storing wicks and packaging sealed through the monsoon.

Monsoon courier handovers are where Mumbai parcels suffer. The oil is sealed and does not care about rain; the outer carton does. Ask for poly-wrapped outers on June–September orders.

Many Mumbai buyers first meet a scent in a café, hotel lobby or gym. If you are selling to those spaces, a clean, recognisable profile that works in a large room matters more than novelty.

Suburban studios from Borivali to Kalyan often sell into south Mumbai offices. A single-scent corporate order is the easiest to supply well: one oil, one batch, one wick, logged.

Mild temperatures mean soy sets predictably; the risk is warm, humid rooms pushing a heavily loaded candle to sweat. Stay at or below the wax maker's stated maximum. Ganesh Chaturthi has just passed; the next big buying window is the Navratri–Diwali run, followed by year-end corporate gifting.

The two columns on the right of the calendar are working back from the festival: six weeks to test a new oil in your wax and jar, and four weeks to have production quantities on the shelf. They are planning margins, not delivery promises — transit time to Mumbai is confirmed on WhatsApp when you order.

Three oils to start with

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