Buy 5 Kg Lavender Fragrance Oil for Candle Making in India

What 5 kg costs, and what it does not buy you

Start with the pack sizes, because they decide the arithmetic. Every CSI fragrance oil ships in some subset of 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg. There is no 2 kg pack, no 5 kg pack and no 10 kg drum anywhere in the catalogue, for lavender or for anything else. If you want five kilograms, you are buying five 1 kg bottles, and the price is the 1 kg price multiplied by five. That is not a workaround; it is the actual mechanism, and it is worth stating plainly because a large number of "bulk fragrance oil India" pages imply a drum tier that the seller cannot actually supply.

Three oils with lavender in the name, and a 2.3× spread per gram between the cheapest and the dearest. At five kilograms that spread is ₹33,895 of difference in one purchase decision. Lavender Oud puts ₹192.00 of fragrance into a single 200 g candle — 2.3 times the ₹83.54 that Lavender Fragrance Oil puts into the same jar — so it only works if your retail price can carry it. Run the numbers through the 2026 candle pricing guide before committing.

What 5 kg actually makes — the conversion table

This is the number the reader needs and almost nobody publishes. Fragrance load on CSI's pages is a percentage of total finished candle weight, so a 200 g candle at 8% is 16 g of oil and 184 g of wax. Divide 5,000 g by the per-candle oil weight and you have your run size. Figures below are rounded down to whole candles, because a partial candle is not a unit you can sell.

Read across the 200 g row and the range is 192 to 416 candles from the same ₹26,105, purely on the load you choose. Read down the 8% column and it is 208 to 625 candles, purely on candle size. Those two decisions together swing your output by more than 3×, which is why "how much oil do I need" is unanswerable until you have fixed your format. If you have not fixed it yet, fix it before you buy five kilograms of anything.

The wax, wicks and vessels that come with it

A buyer thinking about ₹26,105 is usually planning a much larger outlay than they have written down. At 200 g and 8%, each candle is 16 g of oil and 184 g of wax. Across 312 candles that is 57,408 g — 57.4 kg. Since wax does not come in 0.4 kg increments, the practical purchase is 58 kg, and the four soy waxes CSI stocks in 10 kg packs price it like this.

On every one of those four rows, the wax costs as much as the oil or more. With CSI 464 the wax is ₹29,429.20 against ₹26,105 of lavender — the oil is the second-largest line, not the first. Eco Soy CSI 400 is the only build where wax comes in below the fragrance, at ₹23,153.00, and it does so because it is the cheapest soy per kilogram in the range at ₹399.00. If your working budget was ₹26,105 for the oil, the true figure for oil plus wax together is ₹49,258 to ₹63,090 depending on which wax you pour.

Working capital, turnover and the case for 2 kg

Here is the argument against our own invoice, because it is true often enough to be worth making first. Most makers searching "5 kg lavender fragrance oil" do not need 5 kg. They need proof that lavender sells in their format, at their price, to their customer, and 5 kg is an expensive way to find that out. The threshold is arithmetical: 312 candles is 26 candles a month if you intend to clear the stock inside a year, or 17 a month over eighteen months. If lavender is not already moving at roughly that rate as a single scent in a single format, five kilograms is not bulk buying — it is inventory.

The ₹15,663 released by stopping at 2 kg is not abstract. It buys a full kilogram each of British Rose at ₹3,068, Citrus Lemon at ₹2,832 and Roasted Coffee at ₹3,738 — ₹9,638 for three more scents, 187 more candles of range, and ₹6,025 still in the bank. A three-scent shelf sells better than a one-scent shelf almost everywhere, and it protects you against the one outcome five kilograms cannot survive: lavender not being the scent your customers want. That is the same logic set out in buying fragrance oils in bulk in India, and it is why established brands buy deep only on proven scents.

The counter-case is real too, and worth stating fairly. If you are already running a proven lavender line at a few hundred units a month, the argument flips: consistent stock in hand, fewer reorder cycles, one freight cost instead of five, and no risk of a scent being out of stock in the week your festive orders land. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November, and fragrance for a festive run needs to be decided early enough to pour, cure and ship — the ordering calendar is here. For a proven scent heading into a known peak, five kilograms is a reasonable decision. For an unproven one, it is a guess with a ₹26,105 stake.

Five bottles, five batch codes — and the wrong lavender

Because five kilograms arrives as five separate 1 kg bottles rather than one container, you have a practical problem that a drum buyer does not: five fill lots, and therefore potentially five batch codes. Fragrance oils are blended in batches, and while a good oil is made to a fixed specification, tiny variation in colour and in the balance of top notes between lots is normal across the industry. On a 312-candle run poured over several weeks, that variation can show up as a visible shade difference between the candles you poured in week one and week four, or as a customer telling you the repeat purchase "smells slightly different".

Two last practical points on an order of this size. First, storage: five kilograms of oil plus 58 kg of wax plus 312 jars is a genuine volume of material, and it needs somewhere dry, dark and cool that is not the same shelf as your finished candles. Second, documentation: ask for MSDS and IFRA statements with the order rather than after it, keep them filed against the batch codes, and keep the GST invoice with them. If you are ever asked by a marketplace, a corporate gifting client or a retailer to show what is in your candle, that folder is the answer. The wider sourcing picture — freight, consolidation and buying multiple categories on one invoice — is covered in wholesale candle making raw materials across India.

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