Bulk Floral Fragrance Oils for Candle Manufacturers

Kilograms per production run

Here is the whole planning table. Find your run size and your finished candle weight, read off the kilograms of oil and wax, and note the pack count — because at this scale the pack count is what the purchase order actually says. All figures use an 8% fragrance load calculated as a share of the finished candle, which is the convention used across this series.

Two notes on the load figure before anyone scales it. First, 8% is a planning convention, not a specification: most of these floral pages state a band, several state 8–10% for soy, one states "start at 7%" and one states 10% for candles. Second, your wax has its own stated ceiling — CSI 464 states up to 10%, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% with 10% recommended — and the lower of the two numbers is the one a production run must obey. Moving from 8% to 10% adds 25% to the fragrance line: 16 kg becomes 20 kg.

What 16 kg costs, floral by floral

The same run, priced across the whole floral shelf. This is the number a production costing needs: not the price per kilogram, but the fragrance line for one complete run and what it contributes to a single unit. Every total is sixteen 1 kg packs at the listed price — the ceiling, using packs anybody can buy today.

The 53% at the top and the 249% at the bottom are the whole commercial story of this family. On a British Rose run, fragrance is a little over half the wax cost and a manufacturer can treat it as a manageable line. On an English Pear & Freesia run it is two and a half times the wax, and the fragrance becomes the single largest raw-material decision in the product. That is not a reason to avoid the expensive oil — it is a reason to know which kind of product you are costing before you choose one.

The pack mix that beats whole kilos

Here is the purchasing habit worth changing. A production run split across four scents almost never needs a whole number of kilograms of each, and the reflex is to round each one up. Because CSI lists 500 g, 100 g, 50 g and 15 g sizes underneath the kilo on most florals, the remainder can be bought as a remainder. This is a real 1,000-candle run, split 400 / 300 / 200 / 100 across four scents — the weighting a range usually ends up with once one floral is outselling the rest.

Nearly ₹7.67 a candle, on identical oil, from nothing but pack selection. The reason the saving is so large is that rounding up bought 2 kg of oil the run did not need — and unlike wax, unused fragrance is capital sitting in a bottle rather than stock you will certainly use. The effect is biggest on Rajnigandha, where a 200 g remainder was being rounded to a full extra kilogram at ₹4,460 when two 100 g bottles cover it for ₹1,000.

Three florals that scale cleanly

Scaling cleanly means three things at once: a live kilo, a full ladder underneath it for trimming a production order, and a stated load you can write into a bill of materials. These three do all of it. Each card shows every listed size with its price per kilogram and how many 200 g candles at an 8% load it would scent.

What changes at 1,000 candles

Everything in bench practice still applies at volume, but five things change enough to need their own rules. None of them is about the oil being different; all of them are about the same oil being handled a hundred times instead of twice.

The discolouration row is the one that catches manufacturers rather than hobbyists, because the timescale of the problem is longer than the timescale of the test. Twelve of the 23 floral pages publish a vanillin or discolouration line and eleven publish nothing. Where the page warns — Pink Crush states "yellowing in white or uncoloured wax over time", Solar Bloom states "warm golden or cream toning in white or light-coloured wax over time" — design the vessel and the wax colour around the warning instead of fighting it. Where the page says nothing, pour a tile and leave it a month before a white-wax range is committed. The chemistry behind it is in why some vanilla fragrance oils turn candle wax yellow.

The procurement sequence

Six steps, in order, from a run size to a purchase order that will not need a second one. Each step produces a number the next step uses.

Timing deserves one line of its own. Working back from Diwali on 8 November 2026, a floral run has to clear the cure before it is packed: several of these oil pages state 48–72 hours for soy as their own minimum, while 14 to 21 days is the standard practice for judging a soy container candle commercially. On a 1,000-candle run poured across several days, that cure window sits on top of the pour schedule, not inside it. The festive planning maths is worked through in manufacturing 1,000 candles for Diwali.

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