Citrus Candle Fragrance Oils Wholesale in India

The eleven citrus kilos you can buy

Citrus is the family Indian makers buy most of, because it sells through the summer, the monsoon and the whole gifting calendar, and because it is the cheapest fragrance direction in the catalogue. That combination makes it the family where a wholesale mistake costs the most, so the table starts with the number that matters at volume: what a hundred candles of each one costs in fragrance alone. Everything is calculated from the listed 1 kg price, since that is the wholesale tier this page is about, and a 200 g candle at 8% is 184 g of wax plus 16 g of oil.

Two facts in that table are worth holding on to. The first is the 4.24-to-one ratio between the cheapest and dearest citrus gram, which is wider than most makers assume and which does not correspond to how bright the oil smells on a blotter. What separates a ₹2,832 kilo from an ₹11,999 one is structure — what the page states is underneath the citrus — and that argument is made in full in best citrus fragrance oils for candle making in India, which takes the selection angle where this page takes the purchasing one. The second is the 500 g column: ten of the twelve listings have one, and two do not, which changes how you can step into them at all.

Where the pack break really falls

Wholesale buyers look at the kilo price. In this family the interesting movement happens one rung below it. The table divides every listed pack price by its grams so you can see the actual shape of each ladder, and the last column compares two 500 g packs against one kilo — the two routes to the same thousand grams.

Read down the "fall" column and the family divides into two groups. Citronella is on its own: the same oil costs ₹7.67 a gram in a 100 gm bottle and ₹2.95 in a 500 gm one, so a maker buying 500 g as five 100 gm packs would pay ₹3,835 instead of ₹1,475 — ₹2,360 more for the identical quantity. That is not a discount; it is simply how the packs are priced, and it is worth confirming on the product page before ordering. Verbena's 16% fall and Lemongrass and Lime's 11.9% are real but ordinary. Everything below them is rounding: on Citrus Lemon the entire step from 100 g to a kilo is 17 paise a gram, which on a 200 g candle is ₹2.69.

Three citrus oils to buy in volume

Three picks chosen on wholesale criteria rather than on scent: the cheapest gram in the family, the one listing with a genuine price break, and the cheapest citrus that states a woody anchor underneath the brightness. Each table shows every listed pack, its price per 100 g and how many 150 g candles at 8% — 12 g of oil each — the pack pours, because 150 g is the format most Indian citrus candles sell in.

Costing a four-scent citrus line

Most brands do not buy one citrus oil; they buy a summer range. Here is what four covers the whole commercial spread — a plain lemon, a documented lemon, an outdoor herbal and a single-note herbal lemon — costs at each wholesale tier, with what it pours. This is the arithmetic that decides whether you launch four scents or two.

Notice what the tiers actually buy. The 100 g tier is ₹2,017 for 25 candles — about six of each scent, which is a market stall or a first wholesale sample box, and a per-candle fragrance cost of ₹80.68. The 500 g tier is ₹7,093 for 125 candles, or ₹56.74 of fragrance a candle, and it is the tier that actually rewards you, mostly because of Citronella's step. The kilo tier is ₹13,843 for 250 candles, ₹55.37 a candle — only ₹1.37 better than the 500 g tier, for twice the money committed. On a four-scent citrus line, moving from 500 g to 1 kg saves ₹343 across 250 candles and ties up ₹6,750 more. That is a cash-flow decision, not a pricing one.

Buying citrus by the kilo without getting burned

Every wholesale citrus buyer eventually meets the same complaint: the candle smelled enormous in the jar and quieter in the room a fortnight later. That is a property of the family rather than a fault in a bottle — citrus character lives in the lightest, most volatile part of a composition, which is precisely what makes it read as citrus — and the mechanism, along with what cure, wick size and a stated base note can and cannot do about it, is set out in why citrus fragrances fade in candles and in best citrus fragrance oils for candle making in India. This page is not going to repeat that argument, and it is not going to promise you a result either: nobody can tell you in advance how a given oil will behave in your wax, your jar diameter and your room.

What a wholesale page can do is turn it into a purchasing rule. A kilo is 62 × 200 g candles, or 83 × 150 g. If a citrus scent reads flat three weeks after pouring, that is not one disappointing candle — it is a season of stock, a printed label and a photographed listing. So the qualification below happens before the kilo, not after, and it costs a fraction of one.

Ordering above one kilo

Said plainly: 1 kg is the largest fragrance oil pack CSI lists, on every citrus oil and on every other oil in the range. There is no 5 kg bottle and no 10 kg drum. A requirement of 4 kg a month is four 1 kg bottles at the listed rate; 8 kg is eight. The listed per-kilo price is the ceiling for that quantity rather than a rate that automatically improves with the number — and we will not print what a quote will say, because it depends on your volume, your scent mix and your schedule. What CSI does publish is that bulk pricing, GST invoicing and MSDS or IFRA documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.

A note on that table's honesty: those figures are the listed price multiplied out, not a bulk quotation. They are the number you would pay ordering through the website today, and they are therefore the ceiling for the same quantity through the bulk line. When you message, send quantities per scent, the pack sizes you want, whether you need a GST invoice and whether you need the SDS — a message with numbers in it can be answered; "best price for bulk citrus" cannot. The same logic for the fresh family is in fresh candle fragrance oils wholesale in India.

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