Cost to Make a 100 g Candle in India

What a 100 g candle actually is, and what it is for

Through this series, 100 g means 100 g of wax in the vessel. Fragrance sits on top, as a percentage of wax weight, which is how CSI product pages state it: at 6% you add 6 g and pour 106 g, at 8% you add 8 g and pour 108 g, at 10% you add 10 g and pour 110 g. Nothing about that changes if the jar is labelled 120 gm or 130 ml — the fill is the number you pour to, and it is the number your costing runs on.

The 100 g candle earns its place in an Indian catalogue for three reasons, and none of them is that it is cheap to make. It is the sampler that lets a customer try a scent before committing to your 200 g jar. It is the unit inside a gift set — a trio of scents in one box is the standard Diwali and wedding-favour format, and three 100 g candles is a box a courier can carry without a cold sweat. And it is the corporate order shape: a hundred identical small candles for an office Diwali distribution is a realistic first bulk order for a young brand in a way that a hundred 250 g candles is not.

Costed on CSI's live prices, the standard build lands at ₹139.52: ₹50.74 of wax, ₹35.68 of oil at 8%, ₹5.90 of wick and ₹47.20 of glass. Add a wick sticker at ₹2.50 and a care sticker at ₹0.83 and it is ₹142.85. Three of them in a gift set is ₹428.54 of CSI materials, and the box they go in is not a CSI product and gets no figure on this page.

The vessels CSI sells that actually take 100 g

There is no CSI container whose page states a 100 gram fill. What there is instead is a cluster of vessels around it: a family of shiny glass jars stating 120 gm, a tin stating 135 gram, a votive stating 70 g, a tin stating 85 g, and several jars whose pages give a volume in millilitres. A 100 g candle fits comfortably in anything stating 120 gm or more, sits underfilled in a 200 ml jar, and simply does not fit in a 70 g or 85 g vessel.

The spread matters more at this size than at any other. From the ₹29.50 salsa jar to the ₹96.76 tin is ₹67.26 — more than the entire wax line of a 100 g candle, and more than the fragrance line on every oil in the table below except one. The vessel is not a detail at 100 g. It is the decision.

The bill at 100 g, and the two lines that refuse to shrink

Here is the whole standard build. It is the cheapest candle this series costs in full, and it is also the one where the smallest number of rupees is doing the most work — which is why the composition is worth more attention than the total.

Wax is 36.4% of the bill, the vessel 33.8%, fragrance 25.6% and the wick 4.2%. Put differently: the vessel, the wick and the two stickers come to ₹56.43, and not one rupee of that moves if you fill the jar with 90 g instead of 100 g. Those four lines are 39.5% of the finished bill — close to two rupees in every five. That is the structural fact about small candles, and it has a commercial consequence: a 100 g candle cannot be priced as a fraction of a larger one, because that 39.5% is bought per candle and not per gram, and it is the same ₹56.43 whether you fill the jar with 100 g or 60 g.

Six, eight or ten per cent: the scent line at 100 g

At a 100 g fill the arithmetic is unusually clean: the load percentage is the number of grams. Six per cent is 6 g, eight is 8 g, ten is 10 g. The table prices five CSI oils at all three, at 1 kg pack rates, and then gives the finished candle with the same wax, wick and ₹47.20 jar in every row.

Two ceilings govern every row, and the lower one wins. CSI 464's page states a fragrance load of up to 10% of total wax weight. Japanese Cherry Blossom's page states 6–13% for candles — so on this wax the working ceiling is the wax's 10%, not the oil's 13%. Sandalwood states up to 10% for soy with a flashpoint of 203°C and 0% vanillin. Rajnigandha, Citrus Lemon and Dark Vanilla all state 6–10%. Nothing here allows a load above 10% on this wax, and none of these are ceilings imposed by anyone other than the manufacturers who publish them.

The cost consequence is modest per candle and real per batch. Moving Dark Vanilla from 6% to 10% adds ₹30.58 a candle, which is ₹3,058.40 across a hundred. On Rajnigandha the step from 8% to 10% is ₹8.92. Those are not numbers to make the decision on: throw is decided by burn testing, and a 100 g candle in a 6 cm jar throws into a much smaller room than a 200 g jar does. Test at 8%, and move only if the test tells you to.

Pack size at 100 g: the same candle, bought two ways

A 100 g candle uses 100 g of wax and 8 g of oil, so a 500 g bag of wax makes five candles and a 15 gm bottle of oil makes not quite two. That is the trap: at this fill, the smallest packs on the store look like exactly the right size, and they carry the worst rates. The table takes one identical candle and prices it twice — once bought entirely in the smallest available packs, once in the largest.

₹13.58 a candle is ₹1,358.00 across a hundred, and every rupee of it comes from the oil bottle. Rajnigandha runs ₹6.00 a gram at 15 gm, ₹5.00 at 50 gm, ₹5.00 at 100 gm, ₹4.60 at 500 gm and ₹4.46 at 1 kg — so the same 8 g in the candle costs ₹48.00, ₹40.00, ₹40.00, ₹36.80 or ₹35.68 depending on nothing but which bottle it came out of. The wax barely moves: ₹12.60 a kilogram between the 500 g and 10 kg packs, and nothing at all between 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg. The wick does not move at all.

There is one more pack step worth knowing at this size, and it is the vessel. The salsa jar is ₹40.12 each in the pack of five and ₹29.50 each at a hundred — ₹10.62 a jar, which on a hundred-candle run is more than the entire wick budget. Buying 15 gm bottles to test is sensible. Buying them to produce is not.

Three honest builds: sampler, standard and gift tin

The spread from ₹97.96 to ₹228.83 is ₹130.87 — the premium build is roughly 2.3 times the sampler. Almost all of that gap is the vessel and the scent; the wax difference between Eco Soy CSI 400 and CSI 468 at this fill is only ₹25.10. If you are trying to bring a 100 g candle's cost down, the wax grade is the last place to look and the jar is the first — with the honest caveat that the Eco Soy CSI 400 page does not publish a maximum fragrance load, so ask on WhatsApp for that figure before you build a range on it.

A hundred at 100 g: exactly ten kilograms

If that hundred is a Diwali corporate order, work backwards from 8 November 2026. Soy throw keeps developing for 14 to 21 days — the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page itself asks for a minimum of 48 hours and says ideally one to two weeks — and the parcel still has to travel. That puts the pour at about mid-October, the materials order two to three weeks before that, and the wick test two weeks before that again. A hundred 100 g candles is a comfortable order. A hundred 100 g candles poured in the first week of November is not.

What this page will not price for you

Everything above is a CSI product with a live price. Everything below is real, is not a CSI product, and gets no number here — not a typical figure, not a range, not an estimate. The 100 g candle is the size where this matters most, because a gift box for a trio can easily cost more than the wax in all three candles, and a made-up figure in that row would flatter the whole exercise.

Two things are safe to state because they are ours: CSI prices are inclusive of tax, as the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page says, and GST invoicing is available on request. What your own tax position is, and whether a gifting order changes it, is a question for your accountant.

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