I Need 1,000 Wedding Candles in a Custom Fragrance — Should the Fragrance Formula Be Completely Finalised Before I Buy Bulk Wax and Wicks?

Your order as numbers

The title gives the quantity and the fact that the fragrance is custom. It gives no fill or recipe, so the page uses the series default (200 g at 8% in your own jar) and a worked-example blend of three CSI oils, British Rose 50%, Jasmine 30% and Sandalwood 20%, all of whose pages state a candle maximum of 10% in soy, the same as CSI 464’s stated ceiling. For a blend, the load applies to the whole blend, and the lowest stated maximum among its components is the conservative limit (a judgement): here 10% either way, and the ladder stops there.

What “completely finalised” has to mean

“The client likes the blend” is not a final formula; it is a liked smell. A frozen formula has six lines, each written down: the blend ratio in grams per kilogram of blend, the load as % of total candle weight, the wax, the wick, the jar and fill, and the cure before judging or shipping. It has a version number (F-03, say), the date, the client’s signature on a physical sample made from exactly that version, and your own full burns of that version finished cleanly. Anything changed after that is a new version, tested as one; the 4801–4900 change-control posts exist because “only 10% of the blend” is still a change (the 10%-of-the-blend post).

That is 28 candles and 448 g of blend before any bulk oil. How much development time a new fragrance adds to a large order, and how to quote it, is the development-time post; how much oil to buy first for testing is the test-quantity post. This page is about what the result of that testing unlocks, purchase by purchase.

Why the oil is frozen before the bulk oil

The load sets the quantity. At 8% the order needs 16.968 kg of blend. If the ladder lands on 6%, 4.242 kg of that is surplus (₹15,764.37 at the blend’s average 3.72 a gram); if it lands on 10%, you are 4.242 kg short and buying again, possibly from new lots, mid-order. The ratio sets the split. A move from 50/30/20 to 40/40/20 leaves 1.6968 kg of rose surplus (₹5,205.78) and a jasmine shortfall of the same weight. The blend is client-specific. Rose, jasmine and sandalwood are common oils you could use in your range; a 17 kg tank of their mixture is one couple’s scent.

Blend maths after the freeze is simple and must be weighed, not poured: grams of each component per melt = melt kg × load × share. A 10 kg melt at 8% takes 400 g rose, 240 g jasmine and 160 g sandalwood. Changing one component later, even for a stock-out, is a retest: read the replaced-one-oil-in-a-blend post before you substitute.

Why the wick waits for the oil

Heavier, woody or resinous oils commonly change how a wick burns: more carbon on the wick, a smaller or sootier flame, sometimes a need to step up; higher loads can do the same. A blend is its own oil for the wick’s purposes, not the average of its components (the reasoning is in the blended-oil wick post). So the wick you use for rose alone in this jar is a starting rung, not an answer, and the load you have not frozen yet changes the answer again (the load-change wick post).

CSI’s tabbed range is short: Eco C1, Eco C2 and Cotton Braided, with no sized, tabbed wick between C1 and C2, and the pages state no jar-diameter ranges for the Eco wicks. Cotton Braided’s page says "engineered for large-diameter candles exceeding 8 cm". That makes the bracket easy to buy and honest to describe: three rungs, three candles each, at the frozen-candidate load, judged on melt pool, flame, soot and jar heat through to the end. If none of the three is right, ask on WhatsApp rather than pretend a finer step exists.

Because all three are flat per wick, there is no saving to chase by buying the 1,000-pack early: the 20-pack costs exactly the same per wick. The only thing early bulk buying gives you is a box of wicks you may not use for this order.

Why the wax can come early

The quantity barely depends on the formula: at 6% the order needs a little more wax than at 8%, at 10% a little less (4.24 kg either way in the worked example). The type does depend on it: the blend is tested in CSI 464 and must stay within its stated "Fragrance Load Up to 10%"; if the testing pushed you to another wax, every result so far would need repeating. So decide the wax before the ratio screen, test in it, and then the bulk purchase is free to happen whenever suits you.

There is no price reason to buy early, which is worth saying plainly: CSI 464 is ₹507.40 a kilo in 1 kg, 5 kg and 10 kg bags, and CSI lists no larger wax pack for it. The reasons to buy early are stock certainty, a single lot for the whole order (ask; it is not promised), and one less delivery to wait for after the freeze. The reasons not to are cash tied up and shelf space for 195.13 kg. Splitting it into tranches costs nothing per kilo; the trade-offs are the buy-at-once-or-split post.

The sequence and risk table, in rupees

Buy in the order the formula answers questions. The table puts each purchase against that order, with what you would be holding if you bought it too soon.

The test stage is 4.5% of the bulk. At the 1 kg prices the blend costs 3.72 a gram, ₹59.46 of oil in each 200 g candle. Costs exclude your jars, labour, freight, packaging and GST.

The decision rule and what protects you

The settling numbers are day 27 for the freeze, ₹7,635.80 before it and ₹1,70,903.00 after it. If the wedding date leaves less time than the freeze plus your production and cure days, the honest options are a proven scent, a smaller custom order (the head table, the favours) with the rest in a proven scent, or a later date; not a bulk purchase made in hope.

What to buy

Six items, chosen on page statements, price and stock on 7 October 2026. CSI publishes no burn or throw data and no wick sizing by diameter for the Eco wicks, so nothing is ranked on performance; the blend is a worked example, not a recipe for your couple.

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