Buy 1 Kg Premium Fragrance Oils for Luxury Candle Production

Every premium kilo in stock

The table lists the 32 oils whose in-stock 1 kg costs ₹6.50 a gram or more, cheapest first. "Oil per candle" is 16 g at the kilo rate, for a 200 g candle at 8%. "vs 100 g" is the kilo's per-gram saving against the same oil's 100 g. A negative figure means the kilo costs fractionally more per gram. The last column shows the 500 g per gram where one is listed.

Three things stand out. First, the savings column is almost empty. Only Neroli Signature Grade (4.9%), Coffee Vanilla Tobacco (4.3%) and three oils at 3.2% (Raat Ki Rani (Night-Blooming Jasmine), Vanilla Bean and Dark Vanilla) save more than 2%. Second, eight kilos are 0.1% dearer than their 100 g, including the ₹7,999.00 group. Third, ten of the 32 have no 500 g listed at all, so for those the next step above 100 g is a full kilo.

Across the whole Fragrance Oils collection, 24 of 91 oils save 5% or more at 1 kg, but most are value oils such as Citronella (62.3%) and Honeydew Melon (22.0%). Premium oils are priced almost linearly. That is not a reason to avoid the kilo. It means the kilo decision is about how fast you use the oil, not about the rate. Wholesale luxury fragrance oils analyses the breaks in more detail, including the two near-premium oils at 7.0%.

When the kilo pays

If the per-gram price barely changes, the kilo is a stock decision. The question is how long one kilo of a scent will sit on your shelf. A 1 kg pours 62.5 candles at 16 g each. Here is how long it lasts at different monthly volumes for one scent:

Our working rule: buy the kilo when one scent will use it within about three months, around 20 or more candles a month. Between three and six months, a 500 g is a sensible middle step where it is listed, or the kilo if you are confident. Beyond six months, stay with 100 g bottles. You pay essentially the same per gram and keep the cash for something that sells. Storage life is not in our data. Ask CSI for guidance on each oil, and keep all oils sealed, cool and away from light, which is general good practice.

The load you settle on in testing changes how far a kilo goes by two-thirds between 6% and 10%. Settle it before you buy kilos. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks are rated up to 13% and CSI 464 up to 10% by the wax maker, and those are ceilings, not targets. How to Choose Fragrance Oils That Make Candles Smell Expensive explains why a moderate load often reads as more expensive, and a moderate load also makes every kilo pour more candles.

When another size beats the kilo

Three premium oils are cheaper per gram in a smaller size than in the kilo, on the pull-date listings. Saffron Cedarwood and Sage and Cedarwood list their 500 g at ₹5.17 a gram against ₹6.87 for the 1 kg. Two 500 g packs cost ₹5,168.40 against ₹6,867.60, a saving of ₹1,699.20 on the same kilo of oil. Pink Crush lists its 50 g at ₹8.88 a gram, below both its 100 g (₹8.99) and its kilo (₹8.90). Twenty 50 g bottles would cost ₹8,880.00 against ₹8,899.00 for the kilo, which is only ₹19.00 less and far more handling.

The kilo is also the wrong size for any scent you are not sure about, however attractive the price per gram looks. A slow-selling premium scent in a kilo is ₹8,294.00 or so of stock, the middle of this list, sitting on a shelf for six months or more. In 100 g bottles you pay essentially the same rate and can stop buying the moment the scent stops selling.

Premium kilos you cannot buy today

Nine premium oils list a 1 kg that is out of stock on the pull date: Freshwater (BBW Inspired), Moca Coffee, Into The Night (BBW Inspired), Dahlia (BBW Inspired), Sacred Sandal Ember, Khamrah (Lattafa Inspired), Coffee Blast, Butterfly (BBW Inspired), Ombre Leather (Tom Ford Inspired). For those, production means 500 g where it is in stock (Into The Night (BBW Inspired), Sacred Sandal Ember, Butterfly (BBW Inspired)), or 100 g bottles, or waiting. Seven oils in the collection have no size in stock at all. Do not schedule a production run on a kilo that is out of stock. Message CSI on WhatsApp for a restock date and plan around the answer.

A two-kilo production order

Here is a production order for two proven scents, one kilo each: Spicy Cinnamon and Pink Crush. Two kilos pour 125 candles of 200 g at 8%, and we plan 124 to leave a little for pour loss. That is thinner than the 3–5% we usually suggest as a working assumption, so top up with a 100 g if your loss runs higher. Wax: 124 × 184 g is 22.816 kg, so five 5 kg packs of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks (25 kg), which cost ₹599.00 a kilo against ₹599.90 in the 10 kg. Jars: 25 packs of White Matte Glass Jars (125). Wicks: 13 packs of 10 Cotton Braided (130).

That is ₹40,783.00, or ₹328.90 a candle across 124 candles, before labour, packaging, freight and GST. The spare wax (2.18 kg), one jar and six wicks cover test burns. The Cotton Braided 100-pack plus three 10-packs would cost the same ₹12.00 per wick. For a larger run, bulk premium oils for luxury manufacturers scales the same maths to 1,000 candles. For the soy and container versions of the kilo decision, see buying 1 kg fragrance oil for soy candle making and 1 kg fragrance oil for container candle production.

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