Can Changing Fragrance Oil Change the Way a Candle Burns?
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Yes — and not only because the new oil smells different. A fragrance oil is a liquid fuel dissolved in your wax, and swapping it changes how much of that fuel the wax holds, how fast the wick can draw it, how big the melt pool grows and what colour the candle is in three weeks. This guide separates what carries over from what has to be re-tested, and costs the re-test.
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the difference in oil inside the same 200g candle between the lowest and the highest candle load stated on CSI fragrance pages — 6% is 12 g, 13% is 26 g. Change the bottle and you can legitimately change the fuel in the jar by 117% without breaking either page's numbers · CSI live page text, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Does changing the fragrance oil really change the burn? Yes. The oil is 6–13% of the candle by weight, depending on which page you are following, and it is combustible liquid drawn up the wick along with the wax. A different oil means a different viscosity, a different share of volatile top notes, a different stated ceiling and often a different colour — so the melt pool, the pool time and the flame all move.What has to be re-tested? Wick size, pool time, flame height, colour over three weeks, and throw at day 14. Those five. Everything else — wax, jar, add temperature, pour temperature, cure schedule — carries over unchanged if you genuinely changed only the oil.
How different can two oils be on paper? Very. Japanese Cherry Blossom states 6–13% for candles; Jasmine Fragrance Oil states up to 10% for soy and up to 6% for paraffin; Pink Crush states 8–10% in soy wax; and Gardenia tells you to add it below 98°C because its stated flash point is 98°C.
What does re-testing cost? A five-jar swap test on 120 g jars comes to ₹1,184.45 of materials — about 1% of a 500-candle production run at 150 g, which is ₹1,20,530 of materials on the same recipe.
The short answer
Treat a fragrance change as a formula change, not a shopping change. The candle that comes out is a new product even though nothing about the jar, the wax or the wick order has moved.
Read the new oil's stated ceiling before you weigh anything. The old oil's load is not automatically available to the new one — and where the two pages disagree, the lower number wins, as does your wax page's own ceiling.
Always pour a control of the old oil in the same batch. Without it you cannot tell whether a change in the burn came from the oil or from the day, the room or the wick spool.
In this guide
- The straight answer
- What the oil is actually doing in the flame
- What carries over and what does not
- The evidence is on the pages: loads differ oil by oil
- Why the wick is the thing that breaks first
- The five-jar swap test, costed
- Three good reasons to change an oil, and one bad one
- What to write down so the next swap is cheap
- FAQ
The left column is why a fragrance swap feels like a small change. The right column is why it is not. Nothing in the right-hand list can be read off a product page — every item is answered by a jar you poured and burned yourself.
Widest stated band · 6–13%
Japanese Cherry Blossom · 15 gm ₹104
Two sizes to re-test against
Eco Candle Wicks · C1 ₹5.90 · C2 ₹9.44 each
Swapping an oil?
Ask for the stated load and SDS
Straight answer
If I keep my wax, wick and jar the same and only change the fragrance oil, will the candle burn differently?
Yes, and the reason is structural rather than sensory. At an 8% load a 200g candle is 184 g of wax and 16 g of fragrance oil — the oil is about a twelfth of what the wick has to lift, and closer to an eighth at the 13% some pages allow, and it is a different liquid from the wax with its own viscosity and its own volatility. Change it and four things move at once. The available load moves, because each page states its own figure: Japanese Cherry Blossom states 6–13% for candles, Jasmine Fragrance Oil up to 10% in soy and 6% in paraffin, Pink Crush 8–10% in soy, Lavender Fragrance Oil 6–10%. The wick's work moves, because a heavier or more viscous oil changes how quickly a pool forms and how far it reaches. The colour moves, because some pages warn of browning and others publish "Vanillin content 0%". And your process may move: Gardenia states a flash point of 98°C and instructs makers to "add this oil to your wax at a temperature below 98°C", which is a different pour routine from the 80–90°C your wax page asks for. What does not change is the wax, the jar, the cure schedule or your method. So the honest rule is: re-test the five things in the right-hand column above, keep everything else, and always pour a control jar of the old oil in the same batch. Five 120 g jars — three new oil, two control — cost ₹1,184.45 in materials, against ₹1,20,530 for the 500-candle run you are protecting.
One line: a new oil is a new formula — re-test wick, pool, flame, colour and day-14 throw, keep everything else, and always burn a control of the old oil beside it.
Re-testing a swap? 15 gm samples from ₹90, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 for ₹59 and Thick (C2) 20 for ₹188.80, and Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g at ₹299 — a five-jar test costs less than five candles of finished stock.
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What the oil is actually doing in the flame
A candle does not burn wax. It burns whatever the wick manages to lift and vaporise — and about a twelfth of that, by weight, is your fragrance.
The picture most makers carry is that wax is the fuel and fragrance is a passenger. It is a useful simplification for planning and a misleading one for troubleshooting. A lit candle works as a small pump: heat from the flame melts a shallow pool, capillary action draws that liquid up the wick, the heat at the top of the wick vaporises it, and the vapour burns. Everything in the pool goes up the wick together. At 8% load, 16 g of every 200 g candle is fragrance oil, and at the 13% ceiling some pages publish it is 26 g. The wick is lifting a mixture, and you changed the mixture.
Fragrance oils differ from each other in ways that matter to that pump. They differ in viscosity, which affects how readily the wick draws them. They differ in solubility in soy wax, which is why a load that sits happily in one oil sweats or separates in another. They differ in how much of their mass is volatile top-note material that leaves the pool early versus heavy base material that stays; the same 16 g can behave like more or less fuel depending on that split. And they differ in what they do to the wax's structure as it sets, which shows up as frosting, wet spots or a soft top rather than in the flame.
None of that is exotic chemistry and none of it needs measuring. It is simply the reason a change that looks like swapping one label for another produces a candle that reaches a full pool in ninety minutes instead of a hundred and fifty, or mushrooms at the ninety-minute mark when the old one never did. The mechanism also explains why the fix is almost never the load: it is usually the wick, because the wick is the component you sized for the old mixture.
Where flash point does and does not come in
A flash point is the lowest temperature at which a liquid gives off enough vapour to form an ignitable mixture with air under defined test conditions. It is a handling and classification figure. It is not the temperature at which fragrance "burns off" in a candle, it is not a quality score, and it is not a load limit. It matters to a swap in exactly one way: if the new oil's page states a low value, your process may need to change. Gardenia's page states 98°C and asks for the oil to go in below that; Jasmine's states 185°C, far above any candle-making temperature. Across CSI's 107 fragrance pages only 18 publish a measured value; 32 carry only the line "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)", which is a threshold for alcohol-based products and not a measurement; 56 state nothing. Where nothing is stated, ask for the SDS figure rather than estimating one. The full definition is in what does flash point mean in candle fragrance oil.What carries over and what does not
This is the table that saves you money, because most makers re-test either nothing or everything. Neither is right. If the only thing you changed is the fragrance oil, the left-hand column of your recipe is still valid and you should not spend a single jar re-proving it.
One input moved · the fragrance oil only
Every line of a recipe card, and whether a fragrance swap invalidates it
| Recipe line | Carries over? | Why | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wax and pack size | Yes | Nothing about the wax changed; its stated ceiling and temperatures are unchanged | Reorder the same wax; keep the same lot if you can |
| Add and pour temperature | Usually | The wax page sets the band. The exception is an oil whose page states a low flash point and asks for a lower add temperature | Check the new oil's page for a temperature instruction; otherwise keep the wax's band |
| Fragrance load | No | Each oil page states its own ceiling; the new one may cap lower than your old load | Read the new page, take the lower of oil and wax, start at or below your old percentage |
| Wick size | No | The wick was sized for the old mixture's draw and pool behaviour | Test your current size plus one thinner or thicker in the same batch |
| Jar, diameter, fill weight | Yes | Geometry is unchanged, so the pool area target is unchanged | Keep the same jar so the comparison is clean |
| Minutes to a full melt pool | No | This is the primary measurement that moves; it is the output of oil × wick × diameter | Re-measure on every test jar and record it |
| Colour after three weeks | No | Vanillin and other materials differ by oil; pages disagree and many state nothing | Stand one white jar in daylight and photograph it on day 1, 7 and 21 |
| Cure schedule | Yes | A schedule is a process, not a property of the oil; keep it fixed so the comparison holds | Keep 14–21 days for soy containers; judge at the same day number as before |
| Cold and hot throw | No | This is the thing you changed the oil for; it is also the slowest to appear | Score at day 14 against a control of the old oil |
| Label and candle-care card | Partly | Care instructions are unchanged; the scent description and any colour note are not | Rewrite the scent description from the new page's own words |
The mistake: keeping the old wick because "it is the same wax". It is the same wax, and that is exactly why makers skip this. But the wick was chosen to reach the glass in about two to three hours in a mixture that no longer exists. A swap that leaves the wick alone produces one of two silent failures: a pool that never reaches the glass (tunnelling, and a customer who thinks the candle is faulty) or a pool that overheats (a tall flame, soot on the rim, mushrooming). Both are fixed for the price of ten wicks — ₹59 for ten C1 or ₹188.80 for twenty C2. Diagnosis order for a pool that will not reach the glass is in why does my candle tunnel even with the correct wick.
The evidence is on the pages: loads differ oil by oil
You do not have to take the mechanism on trust, because the suppliers' own pages already publish the consequence. If fragrance oils were interchangeable at a fixed percentage, every page would state the same number. They do not. Below are stated candle loads, quoted verbatim, from in-stock CSI oils — and the spread across them is the reason a swap changes the arithmetic of your candle before it changes anything else.
Stated candle loads, verbatim · CSI live page text, September 2026
What each page allows, and what the same 200g candle then contains
| Oil | Stated candle load (verbatim) | Oil in a 200g candle at the top of its band | Wax in the same candle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese Cherry Blossom | "6-13% for candles" — "6-8% for a light, airy … presence, 9-11% for balanced everyday luxury, and 12-13% for a richer, more pronounced floral" | 26 g at 13% | 174 g |
| Jasmine Fragrance Oil | "Up to 10% for soy wax" · "Up to 6% for paraffin wax" · "Up to 12% for wax melts" | 20 g at 10% in soy; 12 g at 6% in paraffin | 180 g / 188 g |
| British Rose | "Up to 10% for soy wax candles with a cure time of 48-72 hours. Up to 6% for paraffin wax candles" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Lavender Fragrance Oil | "6-10% of total wax weight for candles" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Pink Crush | "8-10% in soy wax" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Mint Sandalwood | "7-10% in soy, paraffin, or blended wax" · "Start at 7%" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Fallen Leaves | "Recommended fragrance load is 6-10% for candles and 8-12% for wax melts" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Rajnigandha (Tuberose) | "Recommended fragrance load is 6-10% for candles and 10-15% for wax melts" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Lavender Oud | "Candles (Soy/Paraffin/Blends) 10%" | 20 g at 10% | 180 g |
| Jasmine Coconut Spa Ceylon | Nothing stated for candles — the page publishes an EDP rate only | Your wax page is the only source | Start at 8% and burn test |
Worked out above: load as a share of the finished candle — 200 g at 6% = 188 g wax + 12 g oil; at 8% = 184 g + 16 g; at 10% = 180 g + 20 g; at 13% = 174 g + 26 g. The 14 g hero figure is 26 g − 12 g, a 117% increase in the oil the same jar holds. Where a page words its figure "of total wax weight" — Lavender Fragrance Oil does — the base is the wax rather than the finished candle, so record which base you used. Loads are formulation limits published by the supplier, not regulatory limits, and the wax page's own ceiling applies on top: CSI 464 up to 10%, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 8–13% with 10% recommended, CSI 468 up to 13%, Eco Soy CSI 400 none stated.
Notice what the right-hand columns mean in practice. Swapping an oil whose page allows 13% for one that allows 8% does not just cap your options — it changes the wax fraction of the candle from 174 g to 184 g. That is 10 g more wax and 10 g less oil in an identical jar. The candle is denser in wax, the pool holds a different mixture, and the wick that suited the first candle is now sized for a fuel blend that no longer exists. The percentage on the batch card looks like a small edit. The jar is a different product.
Why the wick is the thing that breaks first
Every symptom of a bad fragrance swap looks like a wick problem, because by the time you can see it, it is one.
A wick has one job: keep a melt pool of roughly the vessel's diameter, no deeper than it needs to be, without overheating. Pool area grows with the square of the radius, so diameter dominates everything. A vessel with a stated 6 cm diameter — the Amber Shiny Glass Jar states 120 gm capacity and 6 cm — asks the wick to hold a pool of about 28 cm². At 8 cm that becomes about 50 cm², nearly 1.8 times the area, for the same flame.
Pool area by vessel diameter · geometry only
How much surface a wick has to keep molten, and what a swap has to hold up against
| Vessel diameter | Full-pool area | Relative to a 6 cm jar | What a fragrance swap typically does here |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 cm | 19.63 cm² | 0.69× | Small margin for error; a heavier oil shows up as a pool that stalls short of the glass |
| 6 cm | 28.27 cm² | 1.00× | The reference case; a single wick size change usually settles it |
| 7 cm | 38.48 cm² | 1.36× | Pool time stretches noticeably; measure to the minute rather than by eye |
| 8 cm | 50.27 cm² | 1.78× | Single-wick territory ends for many combinations; consider two wicks and re-test both |
| 9 cm | 63.62 cm² | 2.25× | Assume nothing carries over; the swap is effectively a new product |
This is why the wick, not the load, is the first dial to touch after a swap. CSI lists Eco Candle Wicks in Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each and Thick (C2) at ₹9.44 each, which means testing one step up and one step down costs about ₹15.34 per jar. There is also Cotton Braided Wicks Ready Made if your vessel suits a different construction. Sizing by diameter across the range is covered in best wick for candle making: complete guide by diameter, and the mushrooming symptom specifically in why is my candle wick mushrooming.
The CSI principle
A fragrance swap is the cheapest change to make and the most expensive one to assume.
The bottle costs a few hundred rupees and arrives in a week. The consequence — a pool that stalls, a flame that soots, a white candle that goes cream in a customer's window — arrives after you have poured the batch, printed the labels and taken the order. Five jars is the entire price of finding out first.
The five-jar swap test, costed
This is a re-test, not a full qualification: everything except the oil and the wick is held fixed, and two of the five jars are a control poured with the oil you are replacing. Total materials, using Japanese Cherry Blossom as the incoming oil and 120 g jars: ₹1,184.45, plus whatever remains of the old bottle you already own.
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Read the new page before you buy anythingWrite down its stated candle load, any cure figure, any flash point, any discolouration warning and any temperature instruction. If it publishes no flash point, message CSI for the SDS figure now rather than at the pour. Then set your test load at the lower of the new oil's ceiling, your wax's ceiling and the percentage you already use — never above it, because the point is to isolate the oil.
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Buy five jars' worth, two wick sizes and one bottle50 gm of the incoming oil ₹270 (28.8 g needed across three jars at 8% in 120 g jars), five Amber Shiny Glass Jars as a pack of 5 ₹236, ten Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹59, twenty Thick (C2) ₹188.80 (the 10-pack of C2 is currently sold out), one sheet of 40 wick stickers ₹100, and 552 g of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — ₹330.65 out of a 1 kg pack at ₹599.
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Lay the five jars out so each answers one questionJar 1: new oil, your current wick. Jar 2: new oil, one size up or down. Jar 3: new oil, current wick — the duplicate that tells you whether your own pouring is repeatable. Jar 4: old oil, current wick — the control. Jar 5: old oil, the alternative wick. Every jar is 110.4 g of wax and 9.6 g of oil at 8%. Same day, same melt, same room.
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Pour to the wax page, and stand one spare in daylightFragrance in at 80–90°C for Chunks, stir two minutes, pour at 70–80°C, with the reading logged rather than the target. If the incoming oil's page asks for a lower add temperature — as Gardenia's 98°C instruction does — follow the oil page and note the deviation on the sheet. Pour a small extra of the new oil in white wax and put it on a windowsill for the colour question.
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Burn at day 14 and measure four numbers per jarMinutes to a full melt pool touching the glass; flame height at 30 and 120 minutes; any soot, smoke or mushrooming; throw at 30 and 120 minutes on a 1–5 scale. Burn the control jar on the same evening, not last week — the control is only a control if it shares the room, the humidity and your nose.
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Decide against the control, not against memoryIf the new oil at your existing wick matches or beats the control on pool time and shows no soot, the swap is clean and only the scent description changes. If the pool is slower, move one wick size up and re-pour two jars, not five. If the two duplicate jars disagree with each other, your process is the variable — fix that before blaming either oil.
Don't run the swap test on a different jar "because you had one spare". Pool area scales with the square of the radius, so a 7 cm jar asks a wick for 36% more area than a 6 cm one. Test in the jar you sell in, on the wax you sell on, at the load you sell at. A swap test in the wrong vessel produces a confident answer to a question nobody asked — and the cost of that answer is the batch you pour on the strength of it. Why every combination needs its own test is set out in why every new wax × wick × fragrance combination needs burn testing.
Passed the swap test? The same oils ship in 500 gm and 1 kg bottles, and wicks in 100, 500 and 1000 counts. For recurring volumes, GST invoicing, SDS figures and IFRA documentation, message the bulk line before you commit the batch.
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Three good reasons to change an oil, and one bad one
Because a swap costs a real test, it is worth being clear about when it is worth doing. Three reasons justify the ₹1,184.45 immediately. One very common reason does not.
Why you are swapping · what it is worth · CSI live pricing, September 2026
The four reasons makers change an oil, priced against the re-test
| Reason | A real example from the range | What it is worth | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your oil is out of stock | Mogra Fragrance Oil is listed in one 100g size and is currently sold out | The alternative is not selling the candle at all | Swap, re-test, and qualify a second oil for that slot permanently |
| The oil is too expensive for the format | Pink Crush at ₹142.38 per 200g candle at 8% against British Rose at ₹49.09 | ₹93.29 a candle · ₹9,329 per hundred | Swap — the re-test pays for itself eight times over on the first hundred |
| The oil discolours a white candle | Love Spell states vanillin "Present - slight yellowing possible in white wax"; Jasmine states "Vanillin content 0%" | Saves the reshoot, the returns and ₹9.21 a candle as well | Swap, and keep the colour-risk oil for a darker vessel |
| The new one smells stronger from the bottle | Any two oils sniffed side by side on a counter | Nothing reliable — bottle strength is not throw in a pool | Don't swap on this alone. Run the test first; the bottle has misled better makers than us |
The cost comparison at the heart of that table is worth stating plainly. A five-jar swap test is ₹1,184.45. Five hundred 150 g candles built on the same recipe — 138 g of wax and 12 g of oil each, in a ₹94.40 jar with a ₹5.90 wick — come to ₹1,20,530 of materials at ₹241.06 a candle. The test is a hundredth of the run. Nobody insures a lorry by weighing the driver, but every maker who has reworked five hundred candles has done the arithmetic once and never skipped a swap test again.
Three oils that make the point, and the wick to test them with
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The widest stated band in the range · 6–13%
Japanese Cherry Blossom Fragrance Oil
The clearest illustration that the oil sets the arithmetic. Its page publishes "6-13% for candles" and then divides that band by intent: "6-8% for a light, airy cherry blossom presence, 9-11% for balanced everyday luxury, and 12-13% for a richer, more pronounced floral". In a 200g candle that is anything from 12 g to 26 g of oil — the full 14 g swing in this guide's hero figure, available inside one listing. Stated notes are "Top Notes Sweet cherry, pink petals", "Middle Notes Rose, jasmine" and "Base Notes Sandalwood, musk". Remember that your wax's ceiling still applies: 13% is only reachable on a wax whose own page allows it.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 200g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹104 | ₹693.33 | ≈0 |
| 50 gm | ₹270 | ₹540 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹500 | ₹500 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,500 | ₹500 | ≈31 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,842 | ₹484.20 | ≈62 |
₹77.47 of oil per 200g candle at 8% · ₹125.89 at 13% Buy Japanese Cherry Blossom
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Different ceiling per wax · 185°C stated flash point
Jasmine Fragrance Oil
The oil that shows a ceiling can depend on the wax as well as on the bottle: its page states "Up to 10% for soy wax" with a 48–72 hour cure and "Up to 6% for paraffin wax" with 24–48 hours. Swap this oil into a paraffin candle at the soy percentage and you are outside its own guidance without having touched a dial. It also publishes a measured Flashpoint 185°C — one of only 18 such figures across CSI's fragrance range — and "Vanillin content 0%", so on a white candle it removes the colour question rather than adding one.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 200g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹103 | ₹686.67 | ≈0 |
| 50 gm | ₹230 | ₹460 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹430 | ₹430 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,961 | ₹392.20 | ≈31 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,923 | ₹392.30 | ≈62 |
₹62.77 of oil per 200g candle at 8% · ₹78.46 at 10% Buy Jasmine Fragrance Oil
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The oil that changes your process, not just your scent
Gardenia Fragrance Oil
The one page in this guide that asks you to pour differently. It states Flashpoint 98°C and spells out the consequence: "This is a lower flashpoint than many fragrance oils - ensure you add this oil to your wax at a temperature below 98°C." Since the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for fragrance at 80–90°C, the two instructions are compatible — but only if you know both before the melt. Stated notes describe it as "Rich, creamy, and velvety gardenia" and, usefully for anyone choosing between white florals, "Softer and creamier than jasmine, more velvety than rose". Stated loads: up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin, and "Vanillin content 0%".
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 200g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹105.02 | ₹700.13 | ≈0 |
| 50 gm | ₹223.02 | ₹446.04 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹433 | ₹433 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,166 | ₹433.20 | ≈31 |
| 1000 gm | ₹4,332 | ₹433.20 | ≈62 |
₹69.31 of oil per 200g candle at 8% at 1000 gm pricing Buy Gardenia Fragrance Oil
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The dial you actually turn after a swap
Eco Candle Wicks | Eco Wicks for Candle Making
Two sizes, flat per-piece pricing, and the cheapest way to answer the only question a swap really raises. Thin (C1) is ₹5.90 a wick at every count from 10 to 1000; Thick (C2) is ₹9.44 from the 20-pack upward, with the 10-pack of C2 currently sold out. Buying ten C1 and twenty C2 — ₹247.80 — gives you two sizes to bracket any swap for the next several tests. The Eco Soy CSI 400 page recommends Eco Wicks specifically, which makes the pairing an easy default while you isolate the oil.
| Size | Price | Per piece |
|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) / 10 Wicks | ₹59 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 20 Wicks | ₹118 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 50 Wicks | ₹295 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 100 Wicks | ₹590 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 500 Wicks | ₹2,950 | ₹5.90 |
| Thin (C1) / 1000 Wicks | ₹5,900 | ₹5.90 |
₹15.34 to bracket one jar with one size up and one down Buy Eco Candle Wicks
What to write down so the next swap is cheap
The first swap costs ₹1,184.45 and a fortnight. The fifth should cost less, because by then you should know how your wax and your jar behave when the oil moves. That only happens if each test leaves behind a comparable record. Keep it to one line per jar, in the same order every time, so two tests six months apart can be read side by side.
The line needs the incoming oil and its bottle size, the load and the base it was calculated on, the wax and its pack, the add and pour temperatures actually read, the wick and its size, the jar and its stated diameter, the pour date, the burn date, minutes to a full pool, flame height, soot, and throw at 30 and 120 minutes. Then one more field that most makers omit and everyone needs: what the control jar did. A number with no control is an anecdote.
File the paperwork with the result, not separately
When you swap an oil, file three things together: your test line, the page text you relied on (stated load, cure, flash point, discolouration) as it read on the day, and the SDS or IFRA documentation you requested for that oil. Product pages change; your batch record should show what you were told at the time you poured. CSI supplies SDS and IFRA documentation on request via WhatsApp — ask once, when you buy the sample, and the file is ready before anyone asks you for it.The wick does not know you only changed the label. It only knows the pool got heavier.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. A guide that told you fragrance oils were interchangeable would sell more bottles faster. This one tells you that every new bottle costs you five jars and a fortnight before it earns a place in a production run — because makers who swap carelessly get returns, and makers who get returns stop making candles.
Every stated load, cure time, flash point, vanillin figure and temperature instruction quoted above comes from the CSI product page as published in September 2026, in its own words. Where a page states nothing — and 56 of the 107 CSI fragrance-oil pages publish no flash point, while 32 carry only the "> 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)" threshold line that is not a measurement — this guide says so rather than estimating. Prices and pack sizes are live CSI figures; the linked product pages always take precedence. The burn-test protocol, the pool-area arithmetic and the control-jar rule are general practice and apply to any supplier's oil. No lab result, certificate content or burn-test outcome of our own is claimed anywhere on this page.
For the SDS flash-point figure on an oil whose page publishes none, for IFRA documentation, for bulk pricing above the listed packs or for a GST invoice, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.
Frequently asked questions
If I keep the same wax and wick, can a new fragrance oil really change the burn?
Yes. At 8% the oil is 16 g of a 200g candle and it goes up the wick with the wax, so a different viscosity, a different share of volatile top notes and a different stated ceiling all change what the wick is lifting. In practice the visible effects are a different time to a full melt pool, a different flame height, and sometimes soot or mushrooming that was never there before. Keep the wax, jar and cure; re-test wick, pool, flame, colour and throw.
Can I use the same fragrance percentage for a different oil?
Only if both pages allow it. Stated candle loads differ oil by oil: 6–13% on Japanese Cherry Blossom, up to 10% in soy and 6% in paraffin on Jasmine and British Rose, 8–10% on Pink Crush, 7–10% on Mint Sandalwood, and nothing at all on some perfume-grade listings. Take the lower of the new oil's ceiling and your wax's ceiling, and for a swap test hold the percentage at your existing figure so the oil is the only variable.
How many test candles do I need for a fragrance swap?
Five, if you spend them properly: three with the new oil (two on your current wick, one on the next size) and two controls with the old oil on both wicks. In 120 g jars at 8% that is 552 g of wax, 48 g of oil and five wicks — ₹1,184.45 of materials with a 50 gm bottle of the incoming oil. The duplicate pair matters: if your two identical jars disagree, the variable is your process, not the oil.
Does a fragrance oil's flash point tell me anything about how it will burn?
No. A flash point is the lowest temperature at which vapours form an ignitable mixture with air under test conditions — a handling and classification figure, not a burn-off temperature or a quality score. It affects a swap only when a page states a low value and gives an instruction with it, as Gardenia does at 98°C: "ensure you add this oil to your wax at a temperature below 98°C". Jasmine's stated 185°C is far above any working temperature. Where no value is published, ask for the SDS figure.
My new oil tunnels in the same jar the old one was fine in. What is wrong?
Most often the wick, and the fix is one size up. The pool has to reach the glass — about 28 cm² in a 6 cm jar, 38 cm² at 7 cm — in roughly two to three hours, and a heavier mixture can stall short of it. Before you change anything else, re-pour two jars with the next wick size, keep the wax, jar, load and cure identical, and burn them beside the old-oil control. Only if a bigger wick soots or overheats should you look at reducing the load.
Do I have to re-test if the new oil is from the same supplier and the same family?
Yes. Family and supplier tell you about the scent, not about the pour. Two white florals from the same range can state different ceilings and different flash points — Jasmine states up to 10% in soy and 185°C, Gardenia states up to 10% and 98°C with a temperature instruction, and Jasmine Coconut Spa Ceylon states no candle load at all. A new bottle is a new formula. What it does not need is a re-test of your wax, jar or cure schedule.
Swap the bottle, re-test five things
₹1,184.45 of jars, wicks and wax buys certainty about a ₹1,20,530 production run.
15 gm and 50 gm samples from ₹90 · Japanese Cherry Blossom from ₹104 / 15 gm (stated 6–13% for candles) · Jasmine Fragrance Oil from ₹103 / 15 gm (stated 185°C, 0% vanillin, up to 10% soy) · Gardenia from ₹105.02 / 15 gm (stated 98°C, add below 98°C) · Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 for ₹59 and Thick (C2) 20 for ₹188.80 · Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299. Message us for SDS figures, IFRA documentation, bulk pricing and GST invoicing.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the mechanism, the carry-over table, the pool-area arithmetic, the five-jar swap layout and the control-jar rule apply to any supplier's fragrance oil. Stated loads, cure times, flash points, vanillin figures and temperature instructions are quoted from the CSI product pages as published, in their own words and punctuation; where a page states nothing, this guide reports the blank rather than estimating. No burn-test result, lab measurement or certificate content of our own is claimed.Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me; five longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Stated candle loads — Japanese Cherry Blossom "6-13% for candles" (6–8% light, 9–11% balanced, 12–13% rich), 15 gm ₹104 · 50 gm ₹270 · 100 gm ₹500 · 500 gm ₹2,500 · 1 kg ₹4,842; Jasmine Fragrance Oil "Up to 10% for soy wax" (cure 48–72 hours) and "Up to 6% for paraffin wax" (cure 24–48 hours), up to 12% wax melts, Flashpoint 185°C, "Vanillin content 0%", 15 gm ₹103 · 1 kg ₹3,923; British Rose up to 10% soy / 6% paraffin, Flashpoint 192°C, vanillin 0%, 15 gm ₹94.40 · 1 kg ₹3,068; Lavender Fragrance Oil "6-10% of total wax weight", 1 kg ₹5,221; Pink Crush "8-10% in soy wax", 1kg ₹8,899; Mint Sandalwood "7-10%", start at 7%, 1kg ₹4,999; Fallen Leaves 6–10% candles, 1 kg ₹4,248; Rajnigandha 6–10% candles, 1 kg ₹4,460; Lavender Oud "Candles (Soy/Paraffin/Blends) 10%", 1 kg ₹12,000; Jasmine Coconut Spa Ceylon publishes no candle load, 1kg ₹7,999; Gardenia Fragrance Oil Flashpoint 98°C with "ensure you add this oil to your wax at a temperature below 98°C", up to 10% soy / 6% paraffin, vanillin 0%, 15 gm ₹105.02 · 1000 gm ₹4,332; Love Spell vanillin "Present - slight yellowing possible in white wax", 8–10% soy, 1kg ₹4,499. Waxes: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299 / 1 kg ₹599 (8–13%, 10% recommended, add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, cure minimum 48 hours ideally 1–2 weeks); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 (up to 10%, page states melt and pour 80–90°C); Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 1 kg ₹650 (up to 13%, melt 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C); Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399 (add at 80–90°C/85°C, stir 2 minutes, page recommends Eco Wicks). Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹5.90 each at every count 10 to 1000, Thick (C2) ₹9.44 each from the 20-pack (10-pack C2 sold out); Amber Shiny Glass Jar with Black Lid ₹47.20 each, pack of 5 ₹236, stated 120 gm capacity and 6 cm diameter; Candle Wick Stickers sheet of 40 ₹100; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) ₹94.40 each in the pack of 10. Maths: load as a share of the finished candle (200 g at 6% = 188 g wax + 12 g oil; 8% = 184 g + 16 g; 10% = 180 g + 20 g; 13% = 174 g + 26 g; 120 g jar at 8% = 110.4 g + 9.6 g); hero figure 26 g − 12 g = 14 g, a 117% increase; pool area = πr², giving 19.63, 28.27, 38.48, 50.27 and 63.62 cm² at 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 cm diameter; five-jar swap test ₹270 oil + ₹236 jars + ₹59 C1 + ₹188.80 C2 + ₹100 stickers + ₹330.65 wax (552 g at ₹0.599/g) = ₹1,184.45, excluding the old oil already in stock; 500 × 150 g candles at 8% = ₹82.66 wax + ₹58.10 oil (Japanese Cherry Blossom at 1 kg pricing) + ₹94.40 jar + ₹5.90 wick = ₹241.06 each, ₹1,20,530 for the run; Pink Crush ₹142.38 against British Rose ₹49.09 at 8% is ₹93.29 a candle; Love Spell ₹71.98 against Jasmine ₹62.77 is ₹9.21. Across CSI's 107 fragrance-oil pages 18 state a measured flash point, 32 carry only the "> 93°C" threshold line and 56 state none. Loads are supplier formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.