My Fragrance Oil Smells Different in the Candle Than in the Bottle — Why?
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Is a different smell in the candle a sign of a bad oil? Usually not. A candle that reads heavier, sweeter, softer or less sharp than the bottle is behaving exactly as the oil was built to behave. Suspect a real fault only when you get a burnt, solvent or sour note that was never in the bottle, when two jars from one batch differ, or when you can smell your previous scent.
Which part of the scent survives into the candle? The heart and the base carry the candle. Roasted Coffee publishes top notes of fresh coffee beans over a base of vanilla and caramel — in wax the base is what you live with. Citrus Lemon publishes zesty lemon and lime on top with a tangy mandarin base, which is why a lemon candle smells rounder than the bottle.
How do I check whether the difference is normal? Smell the same oil in four places on one evening: the bottle, a paper blotter at 24 hours, a cured chip of your own wax, and the lit jar. Two votive pours per oil cost about ₹86.15 each in materials. If the blotter dry-down already smells like your candle, nothing is wrong.
Why the bottle and the candle can never smell the same
Here is the situation as makers usually describe it on WhatsApp. You bought Roasted Coffee Fragrance Oil — opened the bottle, got that dark espresso hit, and ordered the kilo. You poured 200 g candles in Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 at 8% of wax weight, waited three days, lit one, and what filled the room was sweet: caramel, cream, something closer to a coffee dessert than to a roastery. Nothing smells wrong. It just does not smell like the bottle you approved. The obvious conclusion — wrong batch, weak oil, something missing — is almost always the wrong one.
Three things change between the neck of that bottle and the jar on your customer’s table, and all three push in the same direction. The first is arithmetic. Neat oil in a bottle is, for practical purposes, 100% fragrance. Your candle at 8% of wax weight carries 16 g of oil in 200 g of wax, which is 16 g in 216 g of poured candle, or 7.4% of the mass in front of you. That is 13.5 times weaker. Push to the 13% maximum that the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page publishes and you are still at 11.5%, or 8.7 times weaker. There is no load available to any maker at which a candle approaches bottle strength, and that is not a limitation to be worked around — it is what a candle is.
The second is the material. A bottle holds fragrance in fragrance. A candle holds fragrance in a solid fat, and fats are not neutral hosts. Heavy, oily, non-volatile materials — vanillin, musks, resins, woods, ambers — are chemically at home in wax and stay dissolved in it, coming out slowly and steadily. Light, thin, volatile materials — citrus terpenes, aldehydes, sharp green and ozonic notes — are the ones that would rather be in the air, and in a soy candle a good share of them leave during the pour, the set and the first days on the shelf. This is general candle-making behaviour rather than a CSI measurement: no supplier publishes how much of each fraction a given wax retains, ours included.
The third is temperature and timing. A bottle sniff is a three-second event at room temperature from a saturated headspace — the air in the neck has been sitting over neat oil for weeks and is thick with whatever evaporates most readily. A candle is a three-hour event. Cold, it releases only what the surface will give up at 28°C in a Chennai living room. Lit, it works from a melt pool at melting heat, which drives out heavier material the bottle never showed you at all. So the bottle is a snapshot of the most volatile part of the oil, and the candle is a slow performance of the rest of it.
| What changes | In the bottle | In the finished candle | What it does to the smell |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concentration | Effectively 100% fragrance | 7.4% of the poured mass at 8% of wax weight | Everything is 13.5 times quieter, and quiet reveals a different balance |
| Host material | Fragrance in fragrance | Fragrance dissolved in a solid fat | Heavy base materials are held and released slowly; light top materials escape early |
| Temperature | Room temperature, saturated headspace | Room temperature cold, melt-pool heat when lit | Heat brings forward materials a bottle sniff never reaches |
| Air volume | A few millilitres in the neck | A whole room, or a lidded jar | A saturated sniff always beats a diluted room; a lid re-concentrates it |
| Time on the nose | Three seconds of top notes | Three hours of heart and base | You judge the opening in the bottle and live with the ending in the candle |
One more factor sits outside the wax entirely: your own expectation. You smelled the bottle while you were excited about it, with no distraction and no context. You smell the candle in a room that already has its own smells, after twenty minutes of pouring the same scent, looking at a jar whose colour tells your brain what to expect. A cream-coloured candle reads sweeter than a white one with the identical oil in it. None of that is measurable, and all of it is real — which is why the test later on this page insists you smell the four windows in a fixed order, on the same evening, before you decide anything.
Four windows on the same oil, and the only one your customer buys
Most disappointment with fragrance oil comes from approving it at window one and selling it at window four. The four windows are the open bottle, the paper blotter at dry-down, a cured chip of your own wax, and the lit jar. They are not four qualities of oil; they are four stages of the same oil, and each predicts the next better than the bottle predicts anything.
| Window | What is in front of your nose | What dominates | What it predicts well | What it cannot tell you |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · The open bottle | Neat concentrate, saturated headspace | Top notes, at full strength | That the oil is the family and character the page describes; that it has not spoiled | Anything about how it behaves in wax |
| 2 · Blotter at 10 min and 24 h | A thin film drying on paper | At 10 minutes the top; at 24 hours the heart and base | What your cured candle will smell of — this is the closest free preview you have | Strength in a room, and how the wax will interact |
| 3 · A cured chip of your own wax | Fragrance at your load, in your wax, unlit | The cold throw the customer meets in the shop | Cold throw, colour change, whether the wax is holding the oil at all | Hot throw, because no pool has formed |
| 4 · The lit jar | A melt pool at burning heat in a real room | Heart and base, driven by heat | Exactly what you are selling | Nothing — this is the answer, not a proxy for it |
Window two is the one most Indian makers skip, and it is free. Put two drops on a strip of paper, write the oil and the date on it, and smell it after ten minutes and again the next morning. What you get at ten minutes is roughly the bottle. What you get the next morning — after the volatile fraction has gone and the heavy materials are all that is left on the paper — is a remarkably good preview of what your cured candle will smell like. If the 24-hour blotter smells like your candle, your candle is correct and your expectation was the thing that was wrong.
Take one sheet of thick paper, cut it into ten strips, and run every oil you own through the ten-minute and 24-hour check on the same day, in the same room, with the strips lined up. Write the oil, the date and one word for each stage on every strip. This costs nothing, takes twenty minutes and gives you the single most useful reference document in a small candle business: your own record of where each oil travels. Do it again when a new lot arrives, and you can compare the new dry-down against the old one rather than against a memory. A Pen Thermometer at ₹354.00 and a set of Bamboo Stirring Sticks at ₹118.00 for five are the only other things the rest of this page asks you to own.
What a normal shift looks like, oil by oil
Where a product page publishes a top, middle and base for an oil, it is telling you in advance which part will lead in the bottle and which part will lead in the candle. Read it as a forecast. The table below takes six in-stock CSI oils whose pages publish that structure and sets the bottle-led note against the candle-led one, with what 16 g of each costs in a 200 g candle at 8% so you can see that the shift has nothing to do with price.
| Oil | Published build (page wording) | The bottle leads with | The cured jar leads with | Oil per 200 g candle at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citrus Lemon | Top zesty lemon and lime · middle bright grapefruit and orange · base tangy mandarin | Sharp, zesty, almost fizzy | Rounder, juicier, more mandarin than lemon | ₹45.31 |
| Blue Ocean | Top sea salt and ozone · middle jasmine and lily of the valley · base driftwood and musk | Crisp, airy, ozonic | Softer, floral, with a warm woody-musk floor | ₹79.30 |
| Lavender | Top fresh lavender · middle herbal green notes · base soft musk | Bright, clean, unmistakably lavender | Calmer and rounder, herbal with a musk finish | ₹83.54 |
| Roasted Coffee | Top fresh coffee beans · middle dark chocolate and espresso · base vanilla and caramel | Bold, roasted, bitter-edged | Sweeter and creamier — coffee dessert rather than roastery | ₹59.81 |
| Woody Oud | Top citrus and spicy notes · middle oud and patchouli · base woody notes, amber and musk | Sharp and bright over something dark | Dark, resinous, long — the citrus opening is gone | ₹72.50 |
| Cinnamon Vanilla | Top cinnamon and clove · middle vanilla bean and sugar · base cream and butter | Spice first, sweetness behind it | Creamy and buttery, with the spice as an accent | ₹72.88 |
Read down that fourth column and a pattern appears. Every one of them moves the same way: towards the base. A citrus goes rounder. An aquatic goes softer and woodier. A spice goes creamier. A woody goes darker. If your candle has moved in that direction, you have a normal candle — and if you wanted the bottle’s opening in the room, no load and no wax will give it to you, because the material that made the opening is the material a candle loses first.
Family by family, what to expect
Citrus and fresh. The biggest apparent loss of all, and the family that most often gets an oil returned. Citrus Lemon, whose page states approximately 0% vanillin and a soy load of 6–10% of wax weight, will always read quieter and rounder in wax than in the bottle. Its page asks for a full 48 to 72 hour cure precisely because citrus needs the time. Aquatic and ozonic. Same story with an extra twist: the base often carries the room. Blue Ocean’s published driftwood-and-musk base is what people describe as “clean laundry” after three days in a jar, even though the bottle smelled of sea air.
Florals. Usually the best-behaved translation, because floral materials tend to sit in the heart rather than the top. British Rose publishes a single-note rose build with a flash point of 192°C, 0% vanillin and a soy load of up to 10%; the candle reads softer than the bottle but recognisably the same flower. Gourmands. These often smell better in wax than in the bottle, which surprises people: the sugar-and-vanilla materials that read as cloying at full strength become the thing that carries the room at 7.4%. Woods, oud and amber. The most faithful of all, and the family where a bottle sniff undersells the candle badly.
One visual footnote on the gourmand families, because it changes how a candle seems to smell. Oils built on vanilla and amber materials contain vanillin, and vanillin warms the colour of white wax over time. The Roasted Coffee page states that its vanilla and caramel base notes contain vanillin, which can cause slight yellowing in white wax over time, and adds that the discolouration is cosmetic only and does not affect burn performance. Cinnamon Vanilla publishes 2.5% vanillin with a moderate discolouration risk in light wax. A jar that has gone cream in three weeks will be described by customers as smelling sweeter than the one they bought, even when the oil in it has not moved at all.
Six differences that are not normal
Everything so far has been the oil behaving as built. These six are not. Each has a characteristic smell, a check you can run without buying anything, and a fix. Work down the table in order — the cheap checks are first for a reason.
| What you smell | Most likely cause | Cheapest check | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| A burnt, scorched or bitter edge that was never in the bottle | Oil added to wax that was too hot, or held hot for a long time in a melter | Read the pot temperature with a thermometer at the moment you add, not before | Add inside the window the wax page publishes — 80–90°C for the Chunks and Eco Soy CSI 400 grades — and pour promptly |
| A solvent, plastic or chemical note over the top of the scent | Contamination: residue in the pitcher, a shared stirring stick, or a cleaning spray that has not flashed off | Melt 60 g of plain wax in the same pitcher with no oil and smell it | Clean and dry the pitcher, dedicate one stick per scent family, let alcohol dry fully before pouring |
| Two jars from the same batch smelling different | Under-stirred pot: the oil has not fully dispersed into the wax | Smell three jars from the same pour blind, side by side | Stir slowly for two full timed minutes after adding, as the Chunks page asks, and pour the pitcher in one go |
| Your previous scent arriving with the new one | Carryover in equipment, or curing new jars beside older ones | Cure the next batch in a different room from your stock | Wash and dry everything between families; never cure a fresh batch next to open stock |
| A sour, rancid or stale note | An oil that has been open and warm for a long time, or a wax stored badly through the monsoon | Blotter the bottle: a degraded oil usually shows on paper at once | Blotter every bottle before a production run; keep oils sealed, dark and cool |
| A scent that is simply a different fragrance | You are not using the oil you tested — a different listing, a different pack, or an unlabelled decant | Check the product page you actually ordered from against your recipe sheet | Record the product page and pack size in the recipe, and reorder from that page |
One honest note on cure, because it is the most common false alarm on this list. A candle test-burned on day two is not showing you the finished product. Several CSI oil pages give 48 to 72 hours as a cure time, and that is a fair statement of the earliest point at which a candle can be usefully burned. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page goes further and asks for a minimum of 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, before burn testing — and 14 to 21 days is standard practice for soy container candles. If your day-two candle smelled thin and your day-fourteen candle does not, nothing was ever wrong with the oil.
One evening, one oil, four windows: the test that settles it
This is deliberately small. You are not testing whether the oil is good — you are testing whether the difference you noticed is the normal bottle-to-base shift or a fault in your process. One oil, two 70 g votives, one blotter, one evening of smelling and one week of waiting. In materials, each votive costs about ₹86.15 with Roasted Coffee in it: ₹30.44 of wax, ₹31.86 for the jar, ₹5.90 for the wick and ₹17.94 of oil at 8% on a 60 g fill.
| 24-hour blotter | Cold candle at day 14 | Lit candle | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smells like your candle | Matches the blotter | Matches, fuller | Normal. The oil translated as built; your expectation was set by the bottle |
| Smells like your candle | Much weaker than the blotter | Weak | Not an oil-character problem — look at load, wax and cure, not at the bottle |
| Smells like the bottle, not the candle | Different from both | Different | Something changed in the pot: temperature, contamination or stirring |
| Sour, flat or off on paper | Off | Off | The bottle itself is the suspect. Blotter a second bottle and message us with the lot |
| Fine | Two jars disagree with each other | Two jars disagree | Dispersion. Stir two timed minutes and pour the pitcher in one go |
| Fine | Carries a second scent | Carries a second scent | Carryover. Clean equipment and separate your curing space |
Two practical warnings about the test itself. First, smell in a fixed order — bottle, blotter, cold jar, lit jar — and never go back up the order on the same evening, because the bottle will overwhelm everything after it for several minutes. Second, do this in the room the candle will actually be used in, not in your pouring space. A workshop that has smelled of coffee all afternoon cannot tell you what a coffee candle smells like, and this is the most common reason a maker declares an oil dead on arrival and orders a replacement that behaves identically.
Putting words on the difference — and what to send us
A vocabulary is a diagnostic tool. The words below are the ones makers actually use, with what each usually points to. Use them in your own notes, and use them when you message a supplier — including us — because the difference between a useful answer and a generic one is almost always the specificity of the description.
| What you say | What it usually means | Where to look first |
|---|---|---|
| “Thinner” | Less top-note lift than the bottle, everything else present | Normal. Check the blotter dry-down before changing anything |
| “Flatter” or “one-dimensional” | Only the base is speaking | Cure time and load; then whether the oil suits the format at all |
| “Sweeter” | Base-note materials leading, which is the usual direction | Normal in gourmands and ambers. Log the wax colour as well |
| “Sharper” or “harsher” | A raw edge that often settles across a cure | Re-smell at day 7 and day 14 before judging |
| “Burnt” or “scorched” | Heat damage at the moment of adding, or long holding in a melter | Pot temperature at the exact moment of adding |
| “Plastic”, “solvent”, “chemical” | Contamination rather than the oil | Pitcher, stirring stick, spray residue, curing space |
| “Soapy” | A musk or floral base reading as clean laundry in wax | Usually normal in aquatics and fresh florals |
| “Not this scent at all” | Wrong listing, wrong pack, or an unlabelled decant | The product page you ordered from, against your recipe sheet |
When you message WhatsApp +91 7397976926 about a scent that has changed, six lines make the difference: the product page and pack size you bought, the wax grade, the load as a percentage of wax weight and the grams behind it, the temperature at which you added the oil, the age of the candle in days, and the word from the table above that fits best. With those six we can tell you whether the behaviour is consistent with what the page publishes, send the MSDS and IFRA documentation, and check what the current lot looks like. Without them, any supplier is guessing — and a supplier who confidently diagnoses a scent from a one-line message is not doing you a favour.
The reference jar is the cheapest quality system in candle making. One unburned 70 g votive per approved scent, sealed, labelled with the oil, the product page, the load in grams and the pour date — about ₹81.80 of materials with Citrus Lemon in it. When a new kilo arrives, pour one votive from the new lot and smell it against the reference. That is a real batch-to-batch comparison, and it is the only way to answer a customer who says this year’s candle is not like last year’s. Label with Candle Care Stickers at ₹413.00 for 500 if you want them to look like part of the brand.
What this changes about how you buy fragrance oil
The practical conclusion is a buying rule, not a formulation change. Buy the small pack first. CSI lists 15 gm bottles on many oils from ₹68.44 — enough for four 200 g candles at 8% with a little over — and a 15 gm bottle that fails in wax has cost you less than a coffee. Then approve in cured wax at your own load, in your own jar, and only then buy the kilo. The per-gram rate rewards the kilo heavily: Citrus Lemon runs ₹5.43 a gram at 15 gm and ₹2.83 at 1 kg, so the discipline of testing small costs you almost nothing and saves the cost of a kilo you cannot use.
Two honest limits on that advice, against our own interest. Not every oil has a 15 gm pack — Blue Ocean starts at 50 gm at ₹247.00, and several of the perfume-grade oils start at 50 g — so for those the trial costs more and it is worth pouring the full two-votive test rather than one hopeful jar. And a trial bottle tells you about that bottle. It does not guarantee the next lot, which is why the sealed reference jar in the tip above matters more than any single test. Three trial bottles to run this page’s test on three different families — Citrus Lemon 15 gm, Roasted Coffee 15 gm and Blue Ocean 50 gm — come to ₹421.64.
The page publishes a full build — zesty lemon and lime on top, bright grapefruit and orange in the middle, tangy mandarin at the base — a soy load of 6–10% of total wax weight, paraffin at 6–8%, approximately 0% vanillin, and a cure of 48 to 72 hours with the note that citrus benefits from a full cure for the best cold throw. That makes it the best teaching oil on this page: the bottle is sharp, the candle is round, and the page told you so in advance.
It is also the cheapest way to see the effect. At ₹2.83 a gram in the kilo, 16 g in a 200 g candle is ₹45.31, and a 15 gm trial bottle is ₹81.42. One verified review reads: “Quality is good with good fragrance.” If you want a lemon candle that smells like the bottle, no oil will do it — pick the mandarin-led ending and market that instead.
| Pack | Price | Per gram | 16 g at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹81.42 | ₹5.43 | — |
| 100 gm | ₹300.00 | ₹3.00 | ₹48.00 |
| 1 kg | ₹2,832.00 | ₹2.83 | ₹45.31 |
Published build: fresh coffee beans on top, dark chocolate and espresso in the middle, vanilla and caramel at the base, with a soy load of 6–10% of total wax weight, a flash point of approximately 191–193°C and a cure of 48 to 72 hours. This is the oil that produces the most “it smells different” messages, and the page explains why in one line: the ending is sweet and the opening is not.
The page also states that its vanilla and caramel base notes contain vanillin, which can cause slight yellowing in white wax over time, and that the discolouration is cosmetic only and does not affect burn performance. Plan an ivory or dark jar rather than a bright white one and the visual half of the surprise disappears too. Three real reviews call it strong; one says the coffee fragrance “is quite strong and feels like yummy”.
| Pack | Price | Per gram | 16 g at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹93.22 | ₹6.21 | — |
| 100 gm | ₹390.00 | ₹3.90 | ₹62.40 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,738.00 | ₹3.74 | ₹59.81 |
Published build: sea salt and ozone on top, jasmine and lily of the valley in the middle, driftwood and musk at the base, with a flash point of 143°C, 0% vanillin and a stated load of up to 10% for soy, paraffin and natural wax blends. The 0% vanillin figure makes it one of the safe choices for a white or pastel jar, which matters here because an aquatic is usually sold in pale packaging.
Expect the softest translation on this page: the ozonic opening thins out and the woody-musk base takes over, which is why customers describe finished aquatic candles as fresh laundry rather than sea air. It starts at 50 gm at ₹247.00 — there is no 15 gm pack in stock — so run the two-votive test rather than one jar. Two verified reviews; one reads “Fresh and soothing”.
| Pack | Price | Per gram | 16 g at 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 gm | ₹247.00 | ₹4.94 | ₹79.04 |
| 100 gm | ₹495.00 | ₹4.95 | ₹79.20 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,956.00 | ₹4.96 | ₹79.30 |
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA sells fragrance oil, so the honest thing this page can say is that the bottle we ship you will never be the thing your customer smells — and that most “my oil changed” messages are not a product fault at all. We would rather you spent ₹81.42 on a 15 gm trial bottle and two votive pours than a kilo on a scent you have only approved at the neck of the bottle. We also publish, in the same breath as recommending Roasted Coffee, that its own page states the vanilla and caramel base notes contain vanillin and can warm the colour of white wax.
Every price on this page comes from live CSI stock in September 2026, taxes included, and the linked product pages are authoritative if anything changes. All note structures, candle usage ranges, flash points, vanillin figures and cure times are quoted from the CSI product pages as printed; fragrance loads are percentages of wax weight, which is how those pages state them, and where a wax or oil page publishes no figure this guide says so instead of estimating. Wax ceilings are the manufacturer’s stated formulation maximums. The retention of light and heavy fragrance fractions in soy is described as general candle-making behaviour because no comparative retention data is published for these products. Candle costs are illustrative arithmetic on 200 g of wax, and exclude jars, labels and packaging unless stated.
Message WhatsApp +91 7397976926 for MSDS and IFRA documentation on any oil, bulk pricing, GST invoicing, or to send the six lines this page asks for — product page and pack, wax grade, load in per cent and grams, adding temperature, candle age in days, and the one word that best describes the change.
Frequently asked questions
- Why Your Candle Smells Strong Cold but Weak When Lit (Real Reasons & Fixes)
- How Cure Time Changes the Smell of Different Fragrance Families
- Best Temperature for Adding Fragrance Oil to Soy Wax
- What is Cold Throw in Candles?
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- Best Fragrance Oils for Strong Cold Throw Before the Candle Is Lit
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- Why Does a Candle Need a 14-Day Cure? Complete Science-Backed Guide to Candle Curing for Indian Candle Makers - Powered by CandleMakingSuppliesIndia (CSI) Luxury Soy Wax and IFRA Certified Fragrance Oils
Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on their product pages. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me. Wording is unedited. Three are below five stars and two are not recorded as a verified purchase — shown as recorded. Not recorded by Judge.me as a verified purchase, so shown without a verified-buyer badge: S.A., Lalitha Jagan. No location is shown against any review because Judge.me does not store one.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing). Costing unit: 200 g of wax plus 16 g of fragrance oil at 8% of wax weight (216 g poured), with wax priced as Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹101.48 per 200 g; 500 g ₹260.00) and one Eco Candle Wick Thin (C1) at ₹5.90 each from the 100-pack at ₹590.00 — base of ₹107.38 per candle before oil. Oil prices per 1 kg: Citrus Lemon ₹2,832.00 (₹2.83/g; 16 g = ₹45.31), Roasted Coffee ₹3,738.00 (₹3.74/g; 16 g = ₹59.81), Blue Ocean ₹4,956.00 (₹4.96/g; 16 g = ₹79.30), Lavender ₹5,221.00 (16 g = ₹83.54), Woody Oud ₹4,531.20 (16 g = ₹72.50), Cinnamon Vanilla ₹4,554.80 (16 g = ₹72.88). Trial packs: Citrus Lemon 15 gm ₹81.42, Roasted Coffee 15 gm ₹93.22, Blue Ocean 50 gm ₹247.00 (no 15 gm pack in stock), Eucalyptus Spearmint 15 gm ₹68.44; three-bottle trial ₹421.64. Test votives (illustrative, 60 g fill at 8%): White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram ₹318.60 for ten (₹31.86 each), 60 g of CSI 464 ₹30.44, 4.8 g of oil, one C1 wick — about ₹86.15 per votive with Roasted Coffee, ₹81.80 with Citrus Lemon, and ₹519.87 for six votives across three oils. Fifty 200 g Roasted Coffee candles at 8%: ₹8,359.40 in wax, wick and oil. Tools: Pen Thermometer ₹354.00, Bamboo Stirring Sticks ₹118.00 for five, Steel Pouring Pitcher 600 ml ₹708.00, Isopropyl Alcohol Spray 150 ml ₹383.00, Candle Care Stickers ₹413.00 for 500. Concentration figures are arithmetic on the costing unit: 16 g in 216 g is 7.4% (13.5× weaker than neat oil), 12 g in 212 g is 5.7% (17.7×), 20 g in 220 g is 9.1% (11.0×), 26 g in 226 g is 11.5% (8.7×). Product-page specs quoted: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks up to 13% of total wax weight (8% start, 10% recommended), melt approximately 80–85°C, fragrance at 80–90°C with a slow two-minute stir, pour 75–80°C, cure minimum 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; CSI 464 up to 10%, page gives 80–90°C as the working range for melting and pouring, creamy opaque finish; Eco Soy CSI 400 fragrance at 85°C within 80–90°C, ceiling not published; Citrus Lemon soy 6–10%, paraffin 6–8%, approximately 0% vanillin, cure 48–72 hours; Roasted Coffee soy 6–10%, paraffin 6–8%, flash point approximately 191–193°C, vanillin present in the vanilla and caramel base, discolouration cosmetic only; Blue Ocean up to 10%, flash point 143°C, 0% vanillin; Lavender 6–10%; Woody Oud soy 6–10%; Cinnamon Vanilla up to 13% and 2.5% vanillin; British Rose soy up to 10%, flash point 192°C, 0% vanillin; Eucalyptus Spearmint soy up to 10%, flash point 199°C, 0% vanillin. Note structures are quoted from the same pages. Diwali 2026 is 8 November 2026; for a 14–21 day cure plus shipping, pour festive candles by about mid-October. Stock notes are a snapshot of 12 September 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.