Fragrance Oil Supplier for Candle Businesses in Mumbai

The paperwork a Mumbai candle business needs from its oil supplier

Because CSI and Mumbai are both in Maharashtra, a GST invoice for a Mumbai delivery is an intra-state invoice, split into CGST and SGST. Share your GSTIN when you order so the invoice matches your registration.

Designing a core range you can supply every month

A candle business in Mumbai — where demand leans towards corporate and client gifting, café and restaurant retail, weddings, and a large base of home-studio sellers on Instagram — is better served by five or six core oils held at depth than by twenty held thinly. Our suggested core for Mumbai: Blue Ocean, Lemongrass and Lime, Sandalwood, Roasted Coffee, Jasmine, Woody Oud.

Costing an order before you quote it

Example: a Bandra café that wants a house candle for its counter, 300 × 180 g tin. At 8% each candle needs 14.4 g of oil and 166 g of wax.

That excludes the vessel, label, packaging, labour, freight and GST, which usually add more than the materials above. Quote from the full unit cost. How to price candles in India in 2026 covers the rest.

A Mumbai business, worked through

Café or restaurant with a house candle. One signature scent that matches the menu and a reorder every few months. Consistency matters more than range.

Say that buyer pours 300 candles of 180 g. At 8% each candle takes 14.4 g of oil, so the run needs 4.32 kg — about 4.3 kg in total, split across however many scents the run carries. If it were all Roasted Coffee, the oil would cost about ₹16,148 at the 1 kg price.

A second Mumbai buyer: home-studio seller shipping across mumbai. Small runs, many scents, fast Instagram turnover. Keep most oils at 100 g and only the top seller at 1 kg; a 150 g tin is a popular gifting size. For 120 candles of 150 g at 8%, the oil comes to 1.44 kg — with Blue Ocean at ₹4,956.00 per kg, about ₹7,137.

What Mumbai changes about running a candle business

Mumbai is coastal and humid for most of the year, with one of the heaviest south-west monsoons of any Indian metro from June to September and a mild, short winter. Humidity, not heat, is Mumbai's issue. Fragrance oil does not absorb moisture, but wicks, labels and cartons do — so a Mumbai studio buying oil by the kilogram should also be storing wicks and packaging sealed through the monsoon.

Mumbai buyers often mean the whole MMR: a studio in Thane and a corporate client in Nariman Point are both 'Mumbai' orders. Give us the delivery pin code when you ask about timing.

Space is the constraint most Mumbai studios mention. A kilogram of oil takes up very little room; forty kilograms of wax and three hundred jars do not. Plan oil around the jar and wax you can physically store, not the other way round.

A coastal, humid city rewards fresh and aquatic profiles in summer and warmer woods in the October–February season. That suggests a two-season range rather than one year-round list.

Mild temperatures mean soy sets predictably; the risk is warm, humid rooms pushing a heavily loaded candle to sweat. Stay at or below the wax maker's stated maximum. Ganesh Chaturthi has just passed; the next big buying window is the Navratri–Diwali run, followed by year-end corporate gifting.

The two columns on the right of the calendar are working back from the festival: six weeks to test a new oil in your wax and jar, and four weeks to have production quantities on the shelf. They are planning margins, not delivery promises — transit time to Mumbai is confirmed on WhatsApp when you order.

Three oils to start with

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