My Wax Costs ₹650 Per Kg and Oud Fragrance Costs ₹5,000 Per Kg — What Is the Raw-Material Cost of a 200 g Candle at 6%, 8% and 10% Fragrance Load?

The three rows, and the one line that moves

Before the arithmetic, the reading. A fragrance load is a percentage of wax weight — that is how Luxury Soy Wax Chunks states its maximum and how Woody Oud Fragrance Oil states its soy range — so “a 200 g candle” in a load question means 200 g of wax with the oil added on top. This page carries that reading throughout: 200 g of wax in every row. The jar therefore receives 212 g at 6%, 216 g at 8% and 220 g at 10%, which is an 8 g spread and worth checking against your own vessel before you assume one jar takes all three.

Now the money. Your wax at ₹650.00 a kilogram makes 200 g cost ₹130.00, and that figure is the same in all three rows. A wick — Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90, live CSI pricing, because your question did not name one — is also the same in all three rows. Your vessel, whatever it costs, is the same in all three rows. So the entire difference between a 6% candle and a 10% candle is 8 g of oud, and at your ₹5,000.00 a kilogram that is ₹40.00.

There is a second way to read the same table that is more useful when you are comparing products rather than loads. Express the oud as a share of the scented wax: it is 31.6% of the mixture cost at 6%, 38.1% at 8% and 43.5% at 10%. Past about 8% on an oil this expensive you are no longer making a wax candle with fragrance in it; you are making a fragrance product carried in wax, and it should be priced like one. That is a positioning fact rather than a formulation one, and it is the reason a premium oriental range can carry a higher shelf price honestly.

Cost per gram, and why the 10% candle is dearer twice over

Divide each row by what actually goes in the jar and a second effect appears. At 6% the candle holds 212 g and costs ₹0.92 a gram of finished candle. At 8% it holds 216 g at ₹1.00 a gram. At 10% it holds 220 g at ₹1.07 a gram. The per-gram rate rises even though you are adding grams, because the grams you are adding are the expensive ones. A customer holding two of your candles cannot see that; a costing sheet that reports only totals cannot see it either.

This is the figure to carry into a pricing conversation, because it is the only one that survives a change of jar size. If you sell a 200 g wax pour at 8% and a smaller one at the same load, both are ₹1.00 a gram of finished candle before the vessel, and the difference in their material cost is purely the vessel and the grams. Keep one rate per load, labelled with its load and its date, and re-derive it only when a price or a load changes.

Running the three rows on your own rates

Which published figure caps the top row

A load has two published constraints and makers routinely read only one of them. The wax has a stated maximum: the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page states up to 13% of total wax weight. The oil has a stated range: the Woody Oud Fragrance Oil page states 6–10% of total wax weight for soy candles, and 6–8% for paraffin. Where the two differ, the lower figure governs. On this pairing the oil is the binding constraint, so your 10% row sits exactly on the limit of the published range and there is no headroom above it — even though the wax page would allow another three points on a different oil.

It is worth saying plainly what these two published numbers are. They are the formulation maximums the manufacturers state on their own product pages — not a rule imposed from outside the trade, and not a promise about how a candle will perform. MSDS and IFRA documentation is available on request through WhatsApp, and the Woody Oud Fragrance Oil page does not publish a numeric flash point, so no flash point is quoted here — where a page does not publish a figure, this series says so rather than estimating one.

The same three rows on materials you can buy today

Your rates are yours and may be good ones. Here is the identical exercise — 200 g of wax, three loads, one wick — run on live CSI stock in September 2026. The wax is Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, bought as the 1 kg pack at ₹599.00, which is ₹599.00 a kilogram. The fragrance is Woody Oud Fragrance Oil, bought as the 1 kg pack at ₹4,531.20, which is ₹4.53 a gram. The wick is the same Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) at ₹5.90.

Read the two columns as two separate decisions, because that is what they are. The rate decision is worth ₹10.20 on the wax and ₹7.50 on the oil at 8%, so ₹17.70 a candle in total. The load decision — whether your candle needs 10% or performs at 8% — is worth ₹20.00 a candle on your own materials, and it costs nothing to investigate beyond three test pours and a cure. If you only have the appetite for one experiment this month, run the load test. It is the larger number and it is the one that also tells you something about your product.

A second honest point about the CSI column: its step is smaller, at ₹18.13 rather than ₹20.00, purely because Woody Oud Fragrance Oil is cheaper per gram than your ₹5,000.00/kg oud. A cheaper oil makes load increases cheaper, which is exactly how makers drift upward without noticing. The published range does not widen because the oil got cheaper — it is still 6–10% of total wax weight — so hold the ceiling where the page puts it and let the burn test, not the price per gram, decide where inside it you sit.

Pack sizes, parcels, and what is not in the figure

Once the load is settled, the next instinct is a bigger pack. On Luxury Soy Wax Chunks the rate per kilogram barely moves across the ladder, and not in the direction you would expect: 500 g works out at ₹598.00 a kilogram, the 1 kg and 5 kg packs at ₹599.00, and the 10 kg pack at ₹599.90. The whole spread across the ladder is ₹1.90 a kilogram, which on 200 g of wax is under half a rupee. Across CSI's wax range most grades are the same rate at every pack size, so treat pack choice as a question about parcels and storage, not about rate.

Woody Oud Fragrance Oil does have a ladder and it is entirely at the bottom: ₹6.21 a gram at 15 gm, ₹5.43 at 50 gm, then ₹4.53 at 100 gm, 500 gm and 1 kg alike. Moving from the trial 15 gm size to the 100 gm takes ₹26.94 off a 16 g dose and moving from 50 gm to 100 gm takes ₹14.35; beyond 100 gm the rate does not change, so the kilogram buys you convenience and a single parcel rather than a better rate. At 16 g a candle a kilogram of this oud is 62.5 candles of one scent — 83.3 at 6% and 50 at 10% — which is the real question to ask before committing.

Finally, the blanks. Three of the four lines in this candle are priced above; the fourth, your vessel, is yours because your question does not name it, and it is the same figure in every row. Everything below is not a CSI product at all, which means no honest number for it exists here. Total your sheet as materials from CSI plus your own costs, and never put a typical figure in a blank — the live guide to wax, fragrance, wick, jar and packaging cost per candle walks the rest of the bill.

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