Buy 1 Kg Lavender Fragrance Oil for Candle Making in India

Three lavender oils, cheapest first, with every variant price

CSI carries three lavender candle fragrance oils. They are not variations on a theme at slightly different prices — they occupy three distinct commercial positions, and the cheapest is less than half the price per gram of the dearest. Before you decide which pack size to buy, decide which oil you are buying, because that choice moves your fragrance cost per candle by more than any pack-size decision on this page ever will.

Lavender Fragrance Oil at ₹5,221 per kilogram is the one this page is about. It is the straight lavender, it is the cheapest of the three by a wide margin, and it is the only one of the three with published customer reviews on its own product page — the ones shown at the top of this page, every one of them recorded by Judge.me as a verified buyer. If you sell a lavender candle in India and you are not running a deliberately premium tier, this is the oil.

Lavender Cranberry Coconut at ₹7,999 per kilogram is ₹2,778 more per kilogram — 53.2% dearer per gram. It is a composed accord rather than a single note, so it is a different product on a shelf, not a better version of the same one. Whether the extra ₹44.44 of fragrance in a 200 g candle at 8% is recoverable depends entirely on your retail price, which is a pricing question, not a fragrance question.

Lavender Oud at ₹12,000 per kilogram is 2.30× the straight lavender per gram. Its ladder is also shorter — no 15 g and no 50 g variant — so the smallest amount you can buy to test it is the 100 g at ₹1,200. That is a real barrier to entry and you should know about it before you plan a trial batch. If you want the oud character at a lower ingredient cost, Woody Oud Fragrance Oil is ₹4,531.20 per kilogram, though it is not a lavender.

The ₹19 problem: the kilogram is convenience, not a discount

Here is the arithmetic, and it takes four seconds. Two 500 g packs of Lavender Fragrance Oil: 2 × ₹2,620 = ₹5,240. One 1 kg pack: ₹5,221. Difference: ₹19. As a percentage of the smaller-pack route that is 0.36%. On a 200 g candle at 8% that is about thirty paise per candle across the sixty-two candles the kilogram pours. It is not a volume discount in any meaningful sense of the phrase, and anybody telling you that buying the kilogram is how you cut your fragrance cost is either not checking or not telling you.

It is worth being precise about why this matters. A maker planning a scale-up usually assumes that the next size up is cheaper per gram, because that is how wax behaves — Natural Soy Pearl Wax genuinely does fall from ₹450 per kilogram at 1 kg to ₹424.80 at 5 kg and above, which is a real 5.6% break. Fragrance oil at CSI mostly does not work like that. The 500 g and 1 kg variants are usually priced at or very near the same rate per gram, and the variance across the whole lavender set runs from the kilogram being ₹1 dearer to the kilogram saving ₹400.

The ten-bottle comparison tells the same story from the other end. Ten 100 g bottles of Lavender Fragrance Oil cost 10 × ₹540 = ₹5,400 against ₹5,221 for the kilogram, so here the kilogram does save something real — ₹179, or 3.31%. On Lavender Cranberry Coconut, ten 100 g bottles come to ₹7,990 against ₹7,999 for the kilogram, so the kilogram is ₹9 dearer. On Lavender Oud, ten 100 g bottles are ₹12,000 and the kilogram is ₹12,000 — exactly identical. If you had assumed the big pack always wins, two of those three results contradict you.

What a kilogram of lavender actually pours

Fragrance load at CSI is expressed as a percentage of total finished candle weight, not of the wax. A 200 g candle at 8% is therefore 16 g of oil and 184 g of wax. Get that convention wrong and your order is out by roughly 8%, which is the single commonest reason a maker runs short mid-batch. The table below runs four candle sizes against three loads at ₹5.221 per gram, the 1 kg rate for Lavender Fragrance Oil.

The spread is worth sitting with. The same kilogram is 125 candles or 25 candles depending only on the size and load you chose, and the fragrance cost per candle runs from ₹41.77 to ₹203.62 — a factor of 4.9. Neither end is wrong. A 100 g votive at 8% and a 300 g three-wick at 13% are different products at different price points. But if you are working out whether a kilogram is the right purchase, the answer changes completely between the top row and the bottom row of that table, so start from your own format rather than from a general rule.

The consumption threshold: how many candles a month justify a kilogram

Here is the rule we would apply. Buy the pack size you will finish inside three months. Not because CSI publishes a three-month figure — it does not, and the shelf life on the technical documentation is the authority, not this page — but because an open bottle of fragrance oil is exposed to air every time you use it, and a bottle you will still be pouring from next Diwali is a bottle you have been slowly oxidising for a year. Three months is a working quarter, it lines up with how most small Indian candle businesses plan stock, and it is short enough that the oil in the last candle behaves like the oil in the first.

Run that rule against the yield numbers and you get a straight answer. At a 200 g candle on an 8% load, one kilogram is 62 candles, so finishing it inside three months means pouring 21 lavender candles a month. That is the threshold. Below it, the 500 g at ₹2,620 is the correct purchase and you give up ₹19 for the privilege of being right about your own volume.

Read the row that matches your format and be honest about the number. A maker pouring three 200 g lavender candles a month — a perfectly respectable direct-order business with lavender as one scent among several — uses 48 g of lavender a month, or 144 g a quarter. Buying a kilogram commits ₹5,221 to cover about 21 months of demand, ties up capital that would be better spent on jars, and leaves the bottle open for most of that period. That maker should buy the 100 g at ₹540 and reorder roughly every two months. Six of those across a year is ₹3,240 and 600 g, which covers the 576 g that thirty-six candles need. We would rather sell the same person ₹540 of lavender six times than ₹5,221 once and then watch them stop buying because the last candle out of the bottle did not smell like the first.

Where the fragrance actually sits in a 200 g candle

Per-gram comparisons between oils are useful, but they answer the wrong question when you are pricing a product. The question that matters is what proportion of the finished candle's material cost the fragrance represents, because that is what tells you whether trading up from Lavender Fragrance Oil to Lavender Oud is a ₹108 decision or a business-model decision. Below is a complete 200 g candle built from live CSI prices, with nothing estimated.

Fragrance is ₹83.54 of a ₹219.17 build — 38.1% of the materials cost. That is the number to hold in your head, because it reframes every decision on this page. The ₹19 you save by taking the kilogram instead of two 500 g packs is about thirty paise per candle — 0.14% of this build. Meanwhile, switching from Lavender Fragrance Oil to Lavender Oud on the same candle takes the fragrance line from ₹83.54 to ₹192.00 and the total from ₹219.17 to ₹327.63 — a 49.5% increase in materials cost from one substitution. Pack size is noise. Oil choice is the whole conversation.

Raise the load and the fragrance share rises with it. Pour the same candle at 13% in Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — 26 g of oil and 174 g of wax at ₹0.599 per gram — and the wax line becomes ₹104.23, the fragrance line ₹135.75 and the total ₹282.25, with fragrance now at 48.1% of materials. Nearly half your material cost is one ingredient. That is the load at which choosing the ₹5,221 lavender over the ₹12,000 one stops being a preference and starts being the difference between a viable margin and a hobby.

The wrong lavender, and how to store the right one

CSI also stocks a product with the handle 100-pure-lavender-essential-oil, priced at ₹6,844 per kilogram. It is an essential oil. It is not a candle fragrance oil, and this page is not about it. The two are different categories of material: an essential oil is steam-distilled or expressed from the plant, while a candle fragrance oil is a formulated blend built specifically to dissolve into wax at a stated load and to release from a melt pool. They live in different collections on the store — the essential oil sits in Butters & Essential Oils, while the oil this page is about sits in Fragrance Oils.

This trips people up constantly, and the mechanism is simple: both products have the word "lavender" in the title, both are sold by the gram, and the per-kilogram prices are close enough (₹6,844 against ₹5,221) that a buyer skimming a search results page has no obvious signal that they are looking at two categories. If you are making a candle, buy Lavender Fragrance Oil. Check the product title and the collection before you add to cart, not after the parcel arrives. The same confusion exists on other scents — CSI stocks a pure peppermint essential oil but no peppermint candle fragrance oil at all, so a maker searching for one will be shown the other.

One last point on quantity, because the search that brings people here often carries on upwards. There is no pack larger than 1 kg in the CSI fragrance catalogue. The ladder is 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg, and it stops there. If you need five kilograms of Lavender Fragrance Oil, that is 5 × ₹5,221 = ₹26,105 as five kilogram units; ten kilograms is ₹52,210. The website price does not fall automatically above a kilogram, and CSI publishes no slab, no rate card and no minimum order quantity — so if you are buying at that volume, ask for a quote on WhatsApp rather than assuming a discount is waiting. Further reading on volume buying: buy fragrance oils in bulk in India and the wholesale buyer's guide.

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