One Fragrance Turns My Soy Wax Yellow While Another Stays Almost White — What Should I Test Before Choosing Fragrances for a White Candle Collection?
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0% vanillin oils from ₹68.44 / 15g · 70g votive jars ₹31.86 each 62 of 107 oil pages publish a position · 45 publish none Stocked in India · ships nationwide
CSI stability guides · screening before launch
Twelve candidate fragrances, one melt, one day, one unscented blank. Screening an oil costs less than the materials in a single finished candle.
★★★★★
"I am really happy with this fragrance.Its absolutely overwhelming fragrance.…"
Ranjita RAOVerified buyer · Feb 2026
Orchard Pear Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Absolutely loved it!! Smells so perfect!! Go for itt! Packing is done very carefully and happy for that!❤️"
Kavitha murthyOct 2025
Fresh Strawberries Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Good fragrance 👍"
Sooraj RVerified buyer · Aug 2026
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Cute jars, I like it."
AshwiniSep 2025
White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram
★★★★★
"Fragrance oil is sooo good smell so good we love it a lot"
Arshad ShaikhVerified buyer · Mar 2026
British Rose Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
ThenirvaofficialVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
★★★★★
"I am really happy with this fragrance.Its absolutely overwhelming fragrance.…"
Ranjita RAOVerified buyer · Feb 2026
Orchard Pear Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Absolutely loved it!! Smells so perfect!! Go for itt! Packing is done very carefully and happy for that!❤️"
Kavitha murthyOct 2025
Fresh Strawberries Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Good fragrance 👍"
Sooraj RVerified buyer · Aug 2026
Blue Ocean Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Cute jars, I like it."
AshwiniSep 2025
White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram
★★★★★
"Fragrance oil is sooo good smell so good we love it a lot"
Arshad ShaikhVerified buyer · Mar 2026
British Rose Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner."
ThenirvaofficialVerified buyer · Nov 2025
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464
Reviews collected and published through Judge.me on candlemakingsuppliesindia.store. One longer review is shortened with an ellipsis; wording is otherwise unedited.
✓ Vanillin positions published per oil where stated ✓ 15g to 1kg sizes on most oils ✓ Bulk pricing, GST invoicing & documentation on WhatsApp
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Two things, in this order: read what each candidate's page publishes, then pour every survivor as one 70 gram votive from a single melt on a single day beside an unscented blank. The whole panel costs less than one carton of finished stock.
₹2,355.86
screens 12 candidate oils as 13 identical 70g votives — 12 candidates plus one unscented blank — from one 1 kg melt of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks · ₹196.32 per candidate, less than the materials in one finished 200g candle · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What do I test first? Nothing. You read first. 62 of CSI's 107 oil pages publish a vanillin or discolouration position, so roughly half your shortlist can be ranked before you melt anything. Then pour a panel for the rest — especially the 45 pages that publish nothing.What does the panel look like? 13 × 70 gram votives from one melt, one day, one load, one wick, one shelf — twelve candidates and one unfragranced blank. One variable differs between jars: the oil. Without the blank you cannot separate the oil from the wax.
What does it cost? ₹2,355.86 for twelve candidates — 1 kg of Luxury Soy Wax Chunks at ₹599, fifteen 70 gram votive jars at ₹477.90, twenty Thin (C1) Eco wicks at ₹118, and twelve 15 gm oils at ₹1,160.96. That is ₹196.32 a candidate.
Which oils are safest to shortlist? The ones publishing a figure: Eucalyptus Spearmint and British Rose at ₹49.09 of oil per 200g candle, Zesty Lemon at ₹54.40, Jasmine at ₹62.77. Screen them anyway — a figure describes the oil, not your candle.
The short answer
One melt, one day, one blank: the reason your two oils behaved differently may be the oils — or may be two different melts, two different loads, two different jars or two different shelves. A panel poured together removes every explanation except the one you are testing.
Screen on appearance and on burn: a candidate that stays white and tunnels has failed. Burn one votive per candidate at the end, because appearance testing alone is not enough.
Silence is the trigger for testing: Lavender Fragrance Oil, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Bergamot Amber, Gilli Mitti (Patchouli), Dark Vanilla Oud and Woody Oud all publish nothing on discolouration. They are not cleared. They are unread.
In this guide
The panel's whole value is in the bottom two bars. Twelve candidates poured on twelve different days, in two jar models, at two loads, is not a comparison — it is twelve anecdotes. The blank is the thirteenth jar and it is not optional.
The panel vessel · ~70g wax fill
Clear Glass Votive Jar · ₹31.86 each
Page states 0% vanillin
British Rose · 15 gm ₹94.40
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Straight answer
What should I actually test before committing fragrances to a white candle collection?
Two stages, and the first is free. Stage one is a page audit: for every candidate, find the vanillin or discolouration line and write it down verbatim. 62 of CSI's 107 oil pages publish one — British Rose states "Vanillin Content 0% No discolouration - safe for white, cream, and pastel waxes", while Mint Sandalwood states "moderate cream-to-amber toning in white or light-coloured wax". Mark the silent ones as silent: 45 pages publish nothing, including Lavender, Bergamot Amber, Gilli Mitti (Patchouli) and Dark Vanilla Oud. Stage two is a panel: twelve candidates poured as 13 identical 70 gram votives — the thirteenth is an unfragranced blank — from one 1 kg melt on one day, at one load, in one jar model, on one wick, photographed together against a white card at days 0, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90, with one votive per candidate burned at the end. Materials: ₹2,355.86, or ₹196.32 a candidate — less than the ₹249.69 of materials in one finished 200 g white candle. What you must not expect is a number from anyone: no page states a rate, an endpoint, a shelf life or a storage instruction, and the panel's output is your own ranking plus a written acceptance rule, not a prediction.
One line: read all twelve pages, then pour all twelve oils on the same afternoon in the same jar with one blank beside them — anything else is comparing candles that were never comparable.
The whole panel from one order: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg at ₹599, Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram — 10 for ₹318.60 plus 5 for ₹159.30, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1), 20 for ₹118, and twelve 15 gm oils from ₹68.44 each.
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The verdict on your shortlist
Before the panel, sort the shortlist. A third of it can usually be decided on a Tuesday morning with no wax at all.
Your shortlist splits four ways, and each group gets a different treatment. This is the ruling to make before you spend anything, because a panel is a scarce resource: thirteen jars is a comfortable number to pour, photograph and read, and if you put twenty candidates into it you will pour it badly.
Sorting the shortlist before the panel
Four groups, the ruling on each, and how many panel slots each deserves
| Group | What the page says | Ruling | Panel slots |
|---|---|---|---|
| A — states zero or near zero | "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration", "Approximately 0%", "0.2%" | Eligible for the collection now | Two or three, as your positive controls |
| B — states toning or browning | Names amber, tonka, benzoin, patchouli, resins, cocoa or vanillin and describes a direction of change | Not for a white SKU in clear glass. Keep for opaque, amber or dark ranges | One, as a deliberate negative control |
| C — states that it is low or unlikely | "Discoloration is low", "yellowing is unlikely", "low-to-moderate potential" | Plausible, unproven. Ranks above silence, below a zero figure | Two or three |
| D — page silent | No vanillin figure, no discolouration block, nothing | Unknown. Do not put an unscreened bucket-D oil into a white collection | As many as you have, up to the panel size |
Group B is the one makers get wrong in both directions. Some drop a strong-selling scent because the page mentions toning, when the correct move was to put it in a Black Matte Glass Jar and stop showing the wax. Others keep it in the white range and hope. Either way it does not need a panel slot to discover its behaviour — the page already told you — so give it one slot as a deliberate negative control and spend the rest on group D.
The mistake: screening the two oils you already suspect and calling it a test. The comparison that starts this whole question — one oil yellowed, one stayed white — is exactly the comparison that cannot be trusted, because those two candles were almost certainly poured on different days, possibly in different jars, at different loads, and stored in different places. Three uncontrolled differences are enough to produce the observation with no difference between the oils at all. Pour both again in the panel, next to each other, and you will find out whether the oils differ or your process did.
What the pages publish — and who is silent
Here is a worked shortlist of twelve candidates for a white collection, split into the four groups, with each page's own wording and the oil cost in a finished 200 g candle at 8%. Notice that the silent group contains an oil with "Amber" in its name and an oil whose name announces patchouli — two materials that CSI's other pages explicitly name as responsible for toning. Silence is not a statement about the material.
Twelve candidates · published position quoted · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Group, page wording, 15 gm panel cost and oil cost in a 200g candle at 8%
| Candidate | Group | What the page states | 15 gm | Oil per 200g candle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eucalyptus Spearmint | A | "Vanillin Content 0% Zero discoloration risk - safe in white, light, and uncoloured wax" | ₹68.44 | ₹49.09 |
| Citrus Lemon | A | "Vanillin content Approximately 0% - safe for white and light-coloured wax" | ₹81.42 | ₹45.31 |
| Zesty Lemon | A | "Vanillin Content0% - zero discoloration risk" | ₹90 | ₹54.40 |
| British Rose | A | "Vanillin Content 0% No discolouration - safe for white, cream, and pastel waxes" | ₹94.40 | ₹49.09 |
| Sandalwood | A | "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration, safe for white and neutral wax" | ₹93.22 | ₹80.43 |
| Jasmine | A | "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration, safe for white and light-coloured wax" | ₹103 | ₹62.77 |
| Apple Cinnamon | B | "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax" | ₹93.22 | ₹75.90 |
| Roasted Coffee | B | "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax before full batch production" | ₹93.22 | ₹59.81 |
| Dark Vanilla | B | "Vanillin Content Present ... will yellow white wax over time" | ₹130 | ₹122.34 |
| Lavender Fragrance Oil | D | Silent. No vanillin figure, no discolouration block | ₹105.02 | ₹83.54 |
| Japanese Cherry Blossom | D | Silent. No vanillin figure, no discolouration block | ₹104 | ₹77.47 |
| Orchard Pear | D | Silent. No vanillin figure, no discolouration block | ₹105.02 | ₹59.81 |
Worked out above: oil cost per 200g candle at 8% = 1 kg price ÷ 1,000 × 16 g. Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹3,068/kg → ₹49.09 · Citrus Lemon ₹2,832 → ₹45.31 · Zesty Lemon ₹3,400 → ₹54.40 · British Rose ₹3,068 → ₹49.09 · Sandalwood ₹5,026.80 → ₹80.43 · Jasmine ₹3,923 → ₹62.77 · Apple Cinnamon ₹4,743.60 → ₹75.90 · Roasted Coffee ₹3,738 → ₹59.81 · Dark Vanilla ₹7,646 → ₹122.34 · Lavender ₹5,221 → ₹83.54 · Japanese Cherry Blossom ₹4,842 → ₹77.47 · Orchard Pear ₹3,738 → ₹59.81. Panel oils are the smallest listed size of each: sum of the 15 gm column = ₹1,160.96.
Other silent pages worth naming, because makers reach for them constantly for pale candles: Bergamot Amber (₹5,437/kg), Mango Coconut (₹3,964/kg), Fresh Strawberries (₹3,540/kg), Honeydew Melon (₹3,398.40 per 1000 gm), Fallen Leaves (₹4,248/kg), Autumn (₹5,428/kg), Woody Oud (₹4,531.20/kg), Saffron Cedarwood (₹6,867.60/kg), Gilli Mitti (Patchouli) (₹8,960/kg) and Dark Vanilla Oud (₹5,691/kg). None of those pages says the oil is safe for white wax and none says it is not. If one of them is going to carry a white SKU, it belongs in the panel.
One page declines to state a flash point — and says so
Zesty Lemon's page reads "FlashpointAvailable on request / SDS", which is the honest form of a gap: it tells you the figure exists somewhere rather than leaving you to guess. Thirty-two other pages state only the threshold "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)", which is a template line and not a measured value — never treat it as one, and never treat a flash point as an add temperature. Eighteen pages state an actual measured figure. Apply the same reading discipline to discolouration: a stated figure, a stated threshold, a declared gap and silence are four different things.Designing the 13-jar panel
The panel is a paired comparison scaled up: one variable different, everything else identical. The design below fits one 1 kg wax pack, one afternoon and one shelf, and it produces a ranking you can defend to a retailer.
Panel specification · 13 jars, one melt
Every decision, the value we use, and why it is fixed rather than varied
| Decision | Value used here | Why fixed |
|---|---|---|
| Vessel | Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram, stated capacity ~70g wax fill | Clear glass so you can see the wax; small so 13 jars come out of one kilo |
| Wax | Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, 1 kg ₹599 | Publishes a load range, an add temperature and a pour temperature, so the recipe is documented |
| Load | 8% of the finished candle — 64.4 g wax + 5.6 g oil per jar | Well inside the page's stated 8–13%; the same load for every candidate or the comparison dies |
| Wick | Thin (C1) Eco Candle Wick, ₹5.90 each | One size, because this panel is not a wick test; re-wick properly at production size |
| Jars poured | 13 — twelve candidates and one blank; buy 15 and keep two spare | The blank is the control; the spares cover a cracked jar or a bad pour |
| Oil sizes bought | Smallest listed on each page, usually 15 gm, from ₹68.44 | You need 5.6 g; a 15 gm bottle covers it with enough spare for a second round |
| Storage | One shelf, lids on, out of direct light, all 13 together | Light is a separate cause with its own test; keep it out of this one |
| Checkpoints | Days 0, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90 — our method, not a standard | Fixed dates so the intervals are comparable across candidates |
| Burn | One jar per candidate at day 90, two hours | Appearance alone is not enough; a white candle that tunnels has failed |
One deliberate omission: there is no heat-aged arm and no sunlight arm. Both are legitimate tests and both answer different questions — temperature-driven change and light-driven change each get their own guide in this cluster. Mixing them into a fragrance-screening panel is how you end up with thirteen jars and no conclusion. Screen the oils first, then take the two or three that win into a light or heat arm if your storage demands it.
Pouring it so the result means something
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Write the sheet before you open the waxThirteen rows. Jar number, candidate name, product handle, page wording verbatim, group A/B/C/D, 15 gm price. Row 13 is the blank: "no fragrance". Then the header: wax and pack, load, add temperature, pour temperature, wick, jar, date. A panel without this sheet is thirteen unlabelled candles in three weeks' time.
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Stick and centre every wick first, then weigh 13 × 64.4 g of waxWick stickers in all thirteen jars while the glass is clean and dry. Then weigh the wax into thirteen portions of 64.4 g — total 837.2 g out of the 1 kg pack, leaving ~163 g for spills and top-ups. Weigh; do not estimate by eye. The whole panel rests on every jar holding the same mass of wax.
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Melt once, then portion — do not melt thirteen timesMelt the 837.2 g together so every jar shares one thermal history, then ladle 64.4 g portions into thirteen warmed cups. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page specifies fragrance in at 80–90°C; work fast enough that the portions are still inside that band when you dose them, and write the actual reading for each.
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Dose 5.6 g of oil into twelve cups and nothing into the thirteenthWeigh each dose on the same scale; 5.6 g is small enough that a spoon is not good enough. Stir each cup for a full two minutes — the Eco Soy CSI 400 page specifies exactly that, and it is sound practice on any soy. Rinse or change the stirrer between candidates so you are not carrying one oil into the next.
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Pour all thirteen inside the stated window and leave them alonePour at 70–80°C as the page states. Then do not move them for a full day. Cure with lids on: the Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for a minimum of 48 hours and ideally one to two weeks before burn testing, and your colour checkpoints run alongside the cure rather than after it.
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Photograph on day zero — this is the measurementAll thirteen in one frame, in jar-number order, white card in shot with the date written on it, one lamp, curtains closed, same distance. Repeat exactly at days 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90. If you change the lamp or the angle halfway through, the series is worth very little, so write the setup down: which lamp, which wall, which spot on the bench.
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At day 90, read against the blank and burn every candidateCompare each candidate to the blank, not to its own day-zero photograph — that is what isolates the oil. Then burn all thirteen for two hours, recording time to a full melt pool, flame height, soot, mushrooming and your throw score at 30 and 120 minutes. A candidate only passes if it passes on both appearance and burn.
Do not judge a candidate against its own day-zero photograph alone. If the blank has also warmed slightly — and soy can look different at ninety days for reasons that have nothing to do with fragrance — then measuring each candidate against its own start over-attributes everything to the oil. The blank is the baseline for the whole panel: the finding you want is "candidate 7 is two steps warmer than the blank at day 90", not "candidate 7 is warmer than it used to be". This is also why the blank must come from the same melt and sit on the same shelf, not be a leftover from last month.
₹196.32 a candidate: the arithmetic
The unit of analysis for this post is one candidate oil, so cost it that way. Everything below is materials at CSI live pricing, and every line is a listed pack rather than a fraction of one — this is what you actually put in the basket.
Panel basket · what you buy, not what you consume · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Total, per candidate, and what one candidate of screening buys you
| Line | Pack | Cost | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks | 1 kg | ₹599 | 837.2 g used across 13 jars; ~163 g spare |
| Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram | Pack of 10 + pack of 5 | ₹477.90 | 15 jars at ₹31.86 each; 13 poured, 2 spare |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | 20 wicks | ₹118 | ₹5.90 each; 13 used |
| Twelve candidate oils | Smallest listed size of each | ₹1,160.96 | ₹68.44 to ₹130 per bottle; 5.6 g used from each |
| Panel total | Everything above | ₹2,355.86 | One afternoon of pouring |
| Per candidate screened | ₹2,355.86 ÷ 12 | ₹196.32 | Less than the ₹249.69 of materials in one finished 200 g white candle |
| One 200 g white candle for comparison | 184 g wax + 16 g Jasmine + Clear Frosted Glass Jar + wick | ₹249.69 | ₹110.22 + ₹62.77 + ₹70.80 + ₹5.90 |
| A 150-unit white SKU | 150 × ₹249.69 | ₹37,453.50 | The panel is 6.3% of one SKU's materials |
| A six-SKU white collection | 900 units at ₹249.69 | ₹2,24,721 | The panel is 1.0% of the collection |
Read the last three rows together. Screening twelve oils costs 1.0% of the materials in the collection those oils are going to carry, and it costs less per candidate than one finished candle. There is no version of the arithmetic in which the panel is the expensive option. The expensive option is discovering at month three that two of your six SKUs have warmed past what you photographed, and having to choose between remaking them and explaining them.
The CSI principle
Twelve oils poured on twelve afternoons are twelve opinions. Twelve oils poured on one afternoon are a ranking.
₹196.32 a candidate, one melt, one jar, one load, one wick, one shelf, one blank. The only thing allowed to differ between those thirteen jars is the bottle you dosed from.
Reading the panel and writing the acceptance rule
A panel that ends in a feeling is a wasted afternoon. It should end in a sentence you can print.
At day 90 you have six photographs of thirteen jars and thirteen burn records. Turn that into three artefacts, in this order.
From panel to purchase order
The three things the panel produces and what each is used for
| Artefact | What it is | Where it gets used |
|---|---|---|
| The ranking | Twelve candidates sorted by how far each moved from the blank at day 90, with the burn verdict beside each | Deciding which oils get white SKUs and which get opaque or coloured vessels |
| The acceptance rule | One written sentence naming the two reference photographs a unit must sit between to be sold as part of the white range | Your own quality check, and the answer when a retailer asks what your tolerance is |
| The reorder list | The winners, with the pack size you will actually buy — 500 g or 1 kg — and the per-candle oil cost | The purchase order, and next year's panel baseline |
The acceptance rule is the artefact makers skip, and it is the one that has commercial value. It reads something like: "units in the white range must fall between reference photograph W1 and reference photograph W3; a unit at or beyond W4 is sold through the seconds channel with the tone described." Notice what it does not contain — a month count, a shade-change rate, a promise. Your tolerance is yours to set and yours to state, and no supplier, ours included, can set it for you. What the panel gives you is the evidence to set it on.
Keep the panel jars; do not burn all of them
Burn one jar per candidate at day 90 and keep the rest as your reference set. Those jars are the only physical record of what each candidate looked like at each stage, and next year, when you are choosing between the two oils that tied, you will want them. Store them lids on in a closed box away from light, labelled with jar number and pour date. A reference set costs nothing to keep and is worth more every month it survives.Panel finished and a winner chosen? Production sizes on the group-A oils: Citrus Lemon 1 kg ₹2,832, British Rose 1 kg ₹3,068, Eucalyptus Spearmint 1 kg ₹3,068, Zesty Lemon 1kg ₹3,400, Jasmine 1 kg ₹3,923. 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack — anything above that is quoted on WhatsApp.
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What to buy for the panel
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The panel vessel · clear glass, ~70g fill
Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram
The right jar for a screening panel for three reasons. Its page states a capacity of ~70g wax fill in grams rather than millilitres, so you can plan the wax arithmetic directly instead of weighing a filled jar first. It is clear, which is the point — an opaque jar hides exactly what you are trying to measure. And at ₹31.86 each thirteen of them cost less than half of one 1 kg wax pack, so a panel is never gated on vessels. Buy a pack of 10 and a pack of 5 for fifteen jars: thirteen to pour, two spare. If your production range is opaque, still screen in clear glass and switch at production.
| Size | Price | Per piece | Jars per pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pack of 5 | ₹159.30 | ₹31.86 | ≈5 |
| Pack of 10 | ₹318.60 | ₹31.86 | ≈10 |
₹31.86 per jar · ₹477.90 for the 15 a panel needs Buy votive jars
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The wax with a documented recipe
Luxury Soy Wax Chunks for Jar / Container Candles
Screen in a wax whose page gives you numbers to hold constant. This one states a recommended load of 8% to 13% of total wax weight with 10% recommended, fragrance in at 80–90°C, a pour at 70–80°C and a cure of a minimum of 48 hours, ideally one to two weeks, before burn testing. That is four fixed values written down by someone other than you, which is exactly what a panel needs. One 1 kg pack at ₹599 covers all thirteen jars with 163 g spare; the listed price is flat at ₹599 a kilo from 1 kg through 5 kg, so there is no saving in buying a bigger bag for a panel.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 70g votives @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹299 | ₹598 | ≈7 |
| 1 kg | ₹599 | ₹599 | ≈15 |
| 5 kg | ₹2,995 | ₹599 | ≈77 |
| 10 kg | ₹5,999 | ₹599.90 | ≈155 |
₹38.58 of wax per 70g votive at ₹599/kg Buy Luxury Soy Chunks
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Group A · the positive control worth keeping
British Rose Fragrance Oil
Include at least two group-A oils so that a panel where everything warms tells you something about your wax rather than about your candidates. This page states "Vanillin Content 0% No discolouration - safe for white, cream, and pastel waxes", a measured flashpoint of 192°C, and describes wax compatibility across all types. At ₹3,068 per kilo it is ₹49.09 of oil per 200 g candle — joint cheapest per candle on the whole shortlist. One CSI customer, after five years of testing fragrances, notes that "you can go for the minimum percentage in candle still it will give amazing smell", which is a useful remark if you are considering an 8% rather than 10% production load.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 70g votives @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹94.40 | ₹6,293.33 | ≈2 |
| 50 gm | ₹212.40 | ₹4,248 | ≈8 |
| 100 gm | ₹342.20 | ₹3,422 | ≈17 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,593 | ₹3,186 | ≈89 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,068 | ₹3,068 | ≈178 |
₹49.09 of oil per 200g candle at 8% and 1 kg pricing Buy British Rose
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Group A · the citrus that declares its gaps
Zesty Lemon Fragrance Oil
Worth a slot for the discipline its page shows: "Vanillin Content0% - zero discoloration risk" on the colour question, and "FlashpointAvailable on request / SDS" on the flash point — the only page in the range that states a gap rather than leaving one. A supplier page that tells you what it does not know is more useful than one that fills the space. Commercially it is the cheapest citrus route into a white collection after Citrus Lemon: ₹3,400 per kilo, ₹54.40 of oil per 200 g candle at 8%. Bright citrus tops are also the ones most likely to change in character over a long hold, so pair the colour panel with a scent check at the same checkpoints.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 70g votives @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15g | ₹90 | ₹6,000 | ≈2 |
| 50g | ₹200 | ₹4,000 | ≈8 |
| 100g | ₹360 | ₹3,600 | ≈17 |
| 500g | ₹1,720 | ₹3,440 | ≈89 |
| 1kg | ₹3,400 | ₹3,400 | ≈178 |
₹54.40 of oil per 200g candle at 8% and 1 kg pricing Buy Zesty Lemon
A white collection is not a colour decision. It is twelve purchasing decisions you make once and live with for a year.
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. This page names our own silent product pages as silent, in a table, beside the ones that publish a figure. That is not comfortable copy, and it is the only version that is useful: a maker who knows which of our oils have been documented for white wax and which have not can screen the right ones and buy the winners in 1 kg packs for years. A maker who is told everything is fine comes back once.
Every price, pack size and specification here comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. Vanillin wording, flash points, loads, temperatures and cure guidance are quoted only where the page states them. Counts are across all 107 CSI fragrance-oil pages: 62 publish a vanillin or discolouration position, 45 publish none; 18 pages state a measured flash point, 32 state only the "> 93°C" template threshold, and one declares the figure available on request. No page states a shelf life, a storage instruction, an ageing rate, a discolouration endpoint or an accelerated-storage conversion, and none is asserted here. The thirteen-jar panel, the 8% planning load, the six checkpoints and the two-hour burn are our method, labelled as a method; your acceptance tolerance is yours to set.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I test a fragrance oil for discolouration in white wax?
Pour it as one small candle from the same melt, on the same day, at the same load, in the same jar, on the same wick as every other candidate — plus one unfragranced blank — then photograph the whole set together against a fixed white reference at days 0, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90 and compare each candidate to the blank. Burn one jar per candidate at the end. Thirteen 70 gram votives cost ₹2,355.86 including twelve 15 gm oils, or ₹196.32 a candidate.
How many fragrance oils should I screen at once?
Twelve candidates plus a blank is a comfortable panel: thirteen 70 gram votives come out of a single 1 kg wax pack (837.2 g at 8%), pour in one afternoon and photograph in one frame. That is a defensible working choice, not a standard. Above about sixteen jars the pour takes long enough that the last cups are cooler than the first, which introduces exactly the kind of uncontrolled difference the panel exists to remove. Run two panels rather than one oversized one.
Do I still need to test an oil whose page states 0% vanillin?
Include it, yes — but as a positive control rather than as a doubt. The stated figure describes the oil; your candle is the oil plus your wax, your load, your vessel, your pour temperature and your shelf. Two or three group-A oils in the panel give you a baseline: if they warm too, the finding is about your wax or your conditions, not about your candidates. Group-A oils on CSI's pages include British Rose, Jasmine, Eucalyptus Spearmint and Zesty Lemon.
Which CSI oils publish nothing about discolouration?
45 of the 107 pages. Ones commonly used in pale candles include Lavender Fragrance Oil, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Orchard Pear, Mango Coconut, Fresh Strawberries, Honeydew Melon, Bergamot Amber, Gilli Mitti (Patchouli), Woody Oud, Saffron Cedarwood and Dark Vanilla Oud. A silent page is not a clearance — it is the reason the panel exists. Give every silent candidate a slot.
Can I screen with 15 gm trial bottles or do I need bigger sizes?
A 15 gm bottle is the right size for a panel and the wrong size for production. Each 70 gram votive at 8% needs 5.6 g, so 15 gm covers the jar with enough spare for a second round or for smelling the neat oil. Most CSI oils list 15 gm from ₹68.44, though some start at 50 g or 100 g — check the page. Once a candidate wins, move to the 500 g or 1 kg pack, where the per-kilo price is lower: Citrus Lemon is ₹5,428/kg at 15 gm against ₹2,832 at 1 kg.
Should I also test the wax, the jar and the load?
Yes, but not in this panel. One variable at a time is what makes a panel readable: change the oil only, and hold wax, load, jar, wick and shelf identical. Once you have a ranking, run a second, smaller panel on the winners with the variable you care about next — 8% against 10% is the usual one, since it changes both colour exposure and throw, and the load is a formulation ceiling rather than a target (Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state 8–13% with 10% recommended). Comparing two waxes for long-hold stability is its own exercise again.
One afternoon, thirteen jars, a year of decisions
₹196.32 a candidate — less than the materials in one finished white candle — and 1.0% of the collection those oils will carry.
The basket: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599, Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram 10 for ₹318.60 plus 5 for ₹159.30, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 20 for ₹118, and twelve 15 gm oils totalling ₹1,160.96 — ₹2,355.86 in all. Group-A production sizes: Citrus Lemon 1 kg ₹2,832, British Rose and Eucalyptus Spearmint 1 kg ₹3,068, Zesty Lemon 1kg ₹3,400, Jasmine 1 kg ₹3,923, Sandalwood 1 kg ₹5,026.80. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the thirteen-jar panel design, the four-group shortlist sort and the acceptance-rule method apply to any supplier's fragrance range.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; one longer review is shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Page wording quoted verbatim — British Rose "Vanillin Content 0% No discolouration - safe for white, cream, and pastel waxes" and "Flashpoint 192°C"; Eucalyptus Spearmint "Vanillin Content 0% Zero discoloration risk - safe in white, light, and uncoloured wax"; Citrus Lemon "Vanillin content Approximately 0% - safe for white and light-coloured wax"; Zesty Lemon "Vanillin Content0% - zero discoloration risk" and "FlashpointAvailable on request / SDS"; Sandalwood "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration, safe for white and neutral wax"; Jasmine "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration, safe for white and light-coloured wax"; Apple Cinnamon "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax"; Roasted Coffee "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax before full batch production"; Dark Vanilla "Vanillin Content Present" and "will yellow white wax over time"; Mint Sandalwood "moderate cream-to-amber toning in white or light-coloured wax". Counts across CSI's 107 fragrance-oil pages: 62 publish a vanillin or discolouration position, 45 publish none; 18 state a measured flash point, 32 state only "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)" (a template threshold, not a measurement), and Zesty Lemon states the figure is available on request. Pages named as silent on discolouration: Lavender Fragrance Oil, Japanese Cherry Blossom, Orchard Pear, Mango Coconut, Fresh Strawberries, Honeydew Melon, Bergamot Amber, Fallen Leaves, Autumn, Woody Oud, Saffron Cedarwood, Gilli Mitti (Patchouli), Dark Vanilla Oud. Zero pages state a shelf life, an expiry date, a storage instruction, a discolouration rate or an accelerated-storage conversion, and none is asserted here. Wax specifications as published: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "10% Recommended", add 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, "Allow candles to cure for a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests"; Eco Soy CSI 400 add at 80–90°C (85°C) and stir 2 minutes. Loads are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Prices used in maths: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599 and 5 kg ₹2,995 (both ₹599/kg); Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram pack of 10 ₹318.60 and pack of 5 ₹159.30 (₹31.86 each, stated capacity ~70g wax fill); Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 20 ₹118 (₹5.90 each); Clear Frosted Glass Jar pack of 10 ₹708 (₹70.80 each). Panel oils at their smallest listed size: Eucalyptus Spearmint 15 gm ₹68.44, Citrus Lemon 15 gm ₹81.42, Zesty Lemon 15g ₹90, Sandalwood 15 gm ₹93.22, Apple Cinnamon 15 gm ₹93.22, Roasted Coffee 15 gm ₹93.22, British Rose 15 gm ₹94.40, Jasmine 15 gm ₹103, Japanese Cherry Blossom 15 gm ₹104, Lavender 15 gm ₹105.02, Orchard Pear 15 gm ₹105.02, Dark Vanilla 15 gm ₹130 — sum ₹1,160.96. 1 kg prices: Citrus Lemon ₹2,832, British Rose ₹3,068, Eucalyptus Spearmint ₹3,068, Zesty Lemon ₹3,400, Orchard Pear ₹3,738, Roasted Coffee ₹3,738, Jasmine ₹3,923, Apple Cinnamon ₹4,743.60, Japanese Cherry Blossom ₹4,842, Sandalwood ₹5,026.80, Lavender ₹5,221, Dark Vanilla ₹7,646; other silent oils Mango Coconut ₹3,964, Fresh Strawberries ₹3,540, Honeydew Melon ₹3,398.40 per 1000 gm, Fallen Leaves ₹4,248, Woody Oud ₹4,531.20, Autumn ₹5,428, Bergamot Amber ₹5,437, Dark Vanilla Oud ₹5,691, Saffron Cedarwood ₹6,867.60, Gilli Mitti (Patchouli) ₹8,960. Assumptions stated as method, not standards: 70 g votive at 8% = 64.4 g wax + 5.6 g oil; 13 jars = 837.2 g of wax and 67.2 g of oil; 200 g candle at 8% = 184 g wax + 16 g oil; checkpoints at days 0, 7, 14, 30, 60 and 90; one two-hour burn per candidate at day 90; 150 units per SKU and six SKUs for the collection arithmetic. Panel total ₹599 + ₹477.90 + ₹118 + ₹1,160.96 = ₹2,355.86; ÷ 12 = ₹196.32. Reference 200 g white candle ₹110.22 + ₹62.77 + ₹70.80 + ₹5.90 = ₹249.69; × 150 = ₹37,453.50 (panel = 6.29%); × 900 = ₹2,24,721 (panel = 1.05%). 1 kg is the largest listed fragrance pack; larger volumes are quoted on WhatsApp and no quoted figure is given here. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.