I Want One Fragrance Collection Across Jar Candles, Tealights and Wax Melts — What Needs to Be Formulated Separately for Each Product Type?
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Can I use mica in my wax melts but not my candles? Yes, and you should. Mica suits melts and decorative surfaces but can clog a burning wick, so keep it out of jars and tealights.
Does every scent need to be in every format? No. If an oil's stated range starts too high for a tealight's small wick, drop it from the tealight line rather than ship a tealight that drowns.
What does a three-format launch cost for one scent? In the worked example, Juicy Orange needs 1,293 g of oil for 40 jars, 200 tealights and 60 melt packs, which is ₹11,248.00 in oil alone.
What the collection shares, and what it cannot
When a brand launches one fragrance collection across jar candles, tealights and wax melts, the customer sees a single story: the same names, the same mood, the same look on the shelf. What you share behind the scenes is narrower than it looks. The fragrance oils are shared. The brand palette can be shared. Very little else carries across unchanged.
The reason is that the three products work in different ways. A jar candle melts a wide pool around a wick for hours. A tealight melts a tiny pool in a thin aluminium cup, briefly. A wax melt has no wick at all and is warmed from below. Each mechanism puts different demands on wax, oil load, colour and testing, so each needs its own sheet in your specification file.
This page lists what to formulate separately, then costs a three-scent launch across all three formats with CSI materials, so you can see where the quantities and the money actually go.
The formulation matrix: element by element
| Element | Jar candle | Tealight | Wax melt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wax | Container wax (e.g. CSI 464) | Container wax, often the same as the jar | Test for clean clamshell release (e.g. CSI 468 vs CSI 464) |
| Fragrance load | Set by the wick's tolerance | Kept modest for a tiny pool | Set by wax retention, capped by the oil page |
| Wick | Tested per oil in your jar | Smallest that survives to the base | None |
| Colour | Liquid dye or chips, tested last | Usually left undyed | Mica allowed (melts and surfaces) |
| Fill weight | Jar listing or weighed | Weigh your own; not published | Weigh your own; not published |
| Key QC check | Full burn: pool, flame, soot | Burn to the base | Release, surface oil, scent strength when warmed |
| Oils in range | Most of the collection | Only oils that work at low load | Most oils, inside their stated ranges |
Two rows deserve emphasis. Colour is genuinely different: mica is fine in a wax melt, where it adds shimmer, but it does not belong inside a burning candle, where it can clog the wick. So a shimmering melt and a plain candle in the same scent is a normal, sensible result, not an inconsistency.
The last row matters even more. Not every oil in a collection has to appear in every format. Some oils have a stated range whose lower end is already a demanding load for a tealight, and some are so delicate that a tiny pool cannot carry them. Dropping one scent from the tealight line is better than shipping a tealight that drowns.
Choosing which oils go into which format
Take a three-scent collection built from CSI oils: Juicy Orange, Eucalyptus Spearmint and Dark Vanilla Oud. It covers a bright citrus, a fresh herbal and a warm gourmand-wood, which suits a collection meant to sell across moods.
Juicy Orange is the interesting case. Its page states soy 8–10% on the wax-weight basis, which is 8 ÷ 108 = 7.41% to 10 ÷ 110 = 9.09% of total weight. Its floor is therefore higher than the modest load many makers like in tealights. A suggested starting point for its tealight is 7.5% of total weight; in a weighed 13 g cup that is 0.975 g of oil in 12.025 g of wax, or 0.975 ÷ 12.025 = 8.11% of wax weight, just inside the page's range. If the tealight wick cannot cope at that load, Juicy Orange may simply not belong in the tealight line.
Eucalyptus Spearmint lists up to 10% in soy, a 199°C flashpoint and 0% vanillin, which makes it flexible across all three formats. Dark Vanilla Oud lists a 6–10% load with a vanilla and cardamom top; its vanillin percentage is not published, so run a colour check in each format, because a slight warming of tone is far more visible in a pale melt than in a coloured jar.
Costing a launch across all three formats
Suppose the launch per scent is 40 jars, 200 tealights and 60 wax-melt packs (your figures). Fill weights: the 200 ml matte jar at 200 g; tealights at a weighed 13 g; clamshells at a weighed 70 g (weigh your own). Juicy Orange loads, as suggested starting points: jar 9%, tealight 7.5%, melt 9%.
| Format | Wax | Oil | Vessel | Wick | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 g jar at 9% | 182 g × ₹0.5074 = ₹92.35 | 18 g = ₹134.98 | ₹708.00 ÷ 10 = ₹70.80 | ₹9.44 (if C2 is approved) | ₹307.57 |
| 13 g tealight at 7.5% | 12.025 g × ₹0.5074 = ₹6.10 | 0.975 g = ₹7.31 | ₹649.00 ÷ 100 = ₹6.49 | ₹5.90 (if C1 is approved) | ₹25.80 |
| 70 g melt pack at 9% | 63.7 g × ₹0.637 = ₹40.58 | 6.3 g = ₹47.24 | ₹29.50 | none | ₹117.32 |
The wick figures are illustrations; your burn tests decide which Eco size each format uses, and CSI lists no dedicated tealight wick. The clamshell price is ₹1,475.00 ÷ 50 = ₹29.50 each; wax is priced at ₹0.5074 per g for CSI 464 (₹5,074.00 ÷ 10,000 g) and ₹0.637 per g for CSI 468 (₹3,185.00 ÷ 5,000 g). Packaging, labels, labour, shipping and GST are your own figures on top.
Buy this to test, then buy this once validated
Test-first, per scent: the 50 g oil pack (Juicy Orange ₹379.00, Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹212.40, Dark Vanilla Oud ₹320.00), plus shared items: CSI 464 1 kg (₹507.40), CSI 468 500 g (₹325.00), a 5-pack of matte jars (₹354.00), 10 tealight cups (₹94.40), 10 clamshells (₹295.00), Eco C1 20 (₹118.00) and Eco C2 10 (₹94.40). That is ₹379.00 + ₹212.40 + ₹320.00 + ₹507.40 + ₹325.00 + ₹354.00 + ₹94.40 + ₹295.00 + ₹118.00 + ₹94.40 = ₹2,699.60.
Sequence the production run with the formats in mind. Pour the jars first, since they need the longest cure before you can confirm them; melts and tealights set and cure quickly by comparison and can follow. Keep the melt wax and the container wax in clearly separate, labelled containers once you are working with two waxes, because a mix-up between them is invisible until a melt sticks in its clamshell or a jar pulls away from the glass. Clean the pitcher between scents so a trace of Dark Vanilla Oud does not travel into an Eucalyptus Spearmint batch.
Run each scent through each format, approve or drop it format by format, and only then place the launch order above. Your specification file should end with nine sheets, three scents by three formats, or fewer if a scent did not earn its place in one of them. That file, not the collection name, is what keeps the products consistent as you grow.
Where this page fits
CSI already has guides that cover parts of this question. This page turns the product above into a raw-material list; these go deeper on the rest:
Three things to buy for this job
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| 15 g | ₹68.44 | In stock |
| 50 g | ₹212.40 | In stock |
| 100 g | ₹354.00 | In stock |
| 500 g | ₹1,652.00 | In stock |
| 1 kg | ₹3,068.00 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 5 | ₹147.50 | In stock |
| Pack of 10 | ₹295.00 | In stock |
| Pack of 50 | ₹1,475.00 | In stock |
| Pack of 100 | ₹2,950.00 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹94.40 | In stock |
| Pack of 50 | ₹330.40 | In stock |
| Pack of 100 | ₹649.00 | In stock |
| Pack of 500 | ₹3,009.00 | In stock |
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Product facts (October 2026, CSI live store): Eucalyptus Spearmint Fragrance Oil: 15 g ₹68.44, 50 g ₹212.40, 100 g ₹354.00, 500 g ₹1,652.00, 1 kg ₹3,068.00 — flashpoint 199°C · 0% vanillin · up to 10% soy, up to 6% paraffin · rated "moderate to strong". Wax Melts Containers (empty clamshells): Pack of 5 ₹147.50, Pack of 10 ₹295.00, Pack of 50 ₹1,475.00, Pack of 100 ₹2,950.00 — heart or square clamshells. Tea Lights Aluminium (empty cups): Pack of 10 ₹94.40, Pack of 50 ₹330.40, Pack of 100 ₹649.00, Pack of 500 ₹3,009.00 — empty aluminium tealight cups. Juicy Orange Fragrance Oil: 15 g ₹126.00, 50 g ₹379.00, 100 g ₹749.00, 500 g ₹3,749.00, 1 kg ₹7,499.00 — soy 8–10%, cure 48–72 h · page: low discolouration risk (light musk and amber base, not vanilla-heavy).
Assumptions: Fragrance load is a percentage of total candle weight (200 g = 184 g wax + 16 g oil at 8%); CSI wax pages phrase their ceilings as a share of wax weight. Material cost per candle covers wax, oil, vessel, wick and dye only — it excludes packaging, labels, labour, shipping and GST. CSI publishes no wick sizing chart, burn times or wax survival temperatures, so every wick named is a candidate to test. Retail prices, budgets, margins and packaging costs are the reader's own figures. Test counts and loads are suggested starting points. Prices re-checked 1 October 2026; product pages are authoritative.