Fragrance Oil Supplier for Candle Businesses in Surat

The paperwork a Surat candle business needs from its oil supplier

Surat orders are billed to Gujarat, so the invoice carries IGST. (CSI invoices from Maharashtra, so an interstate delivery carries IGST rather than CGST plus 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 Surat — where demand leans towards business-to-business Diwali gifting from the textile and diamond trades, Navratri and wedding orders, and corporate hampers — is better served by five or six core oils held at depth than by twenty held thinly. Our suggested core for Surat: Sandalwood, Jasmine, British Rose, Blue Ocean, Dark Vanilla Oud, Mango Coconut.

Costing an order before you quote it

Example: a Ring Road textile trader ordering Diwali gifts for buyers, 1,200 × 150 g glass jar. At 8% each candle needs 12.0 g of oil and 138 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 Surat business, worked through

Home-studio seller. Small batches, many scents; keep most at 100 g.

Say that buyer pours 120 candles of 150 g. At 8% each candle takes 12.0 g of oil, so the run needs 1.44 kg — about 1.4 kg in total, split across however many scents the run carries. If it were all Blue Ocean, the oil would cost about ₹7,137 at the 1 kg price.

A second Surat buyer: textile or diamond trader ordering diwali gifts for buyers. Very large, single-scent orders for trade gifting. The order's oil should come from one batch, bought at once. For 1,200 candles of 150 g at 8%, the oil comes to 14.40 kg — with Sandalwood at ₹5,026.80 per kg, about ₹72,386.

What Surat changes about running a candle business

Surat is coastal and humid, with a heavy June–September monsoon, hot pre-monsoon months and mild winters. Surat is humid like Mumbai: store wicks, labels and cartons sealed, and keep oil sealed, cool and dark. Finished candles need a cool shelf in April–May.

Surat's trade-gifting orders are some of the largest single-scent runs a candle maker will see. At that scale, the per-gram price break matters — check which oils actually have one.

Surat's textile and diamond trades create very large Diwali gifting orders. At that scale, check which oils have a real per-gram break at 1 kg and ask on WhatsApp for a quote above the listed packs.

Coastal humidity makes Surat's storage advice the same as Mumbai's: seal wick, label and carton stock through the monsoon.

Mild winters make Surat an easy pouring city; humid pre-monsoon heat is the season to watch for sweating. Navratri, Diwali, the Gujarati New Year and a busy wedding season line up one after another, and business gifting between trading firms peaks around Diwali.

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 Surat is confirmed on WhatsApp when you order.

Three oils to start with

Frequently asked questions