When Should a Candle Business Start Buying Fragrance Oil in 1 Kg Quantities?
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Most makers move to kilos expecting a discount. On nearly half the range there isn't one — so buy the kilo for cover and consistency, not for the price.
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Apple Cinnamon Fragrance Oil
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British Rose Fragrance Oil
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Cinnamon Vanilla
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Apple Cinnamon Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"…you can go for the minimum percentage in candle still it will give amazing smell…"
Emma BecharaJun 2026
British Rose Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"I am really happy with this fragrance.Its absolutely overwhelming fragrance.…"
Ranjita RAOVerified buyer · Feb 2026
Orchard Pear
★★★★★
"Good quality wood fragrance oil with a warm, long-lasting scent and strong performance in candles."
Payal PatelVerified buyer · Mar 2026
Woody Oud Fragrance Oil
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"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
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"Will buy more.. wonderful"
Punam SarmaVerified buyer · Dec 2024
Cinnamon Vanilla
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When one scent — not your whole range, one scent — is selling around thirty 200 g candles a month. That is the point where a kilo is two months of cover rather than a year of it. The price is almost never the reason, and this guide shows you why with the actual numbers.
30 a month
candles of one scent at 16 g of oil each — the threshold where a 1 kg bottle becomes roughly two months' cover instead of dead capital. And on 41 of the 86 oils that list both sizes in stock, the kilo saves nothing at all per gram · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
When is a scent ready for a kilo? At about 30 candles a month of that one scent in a 200 g candle at 8%. One kilo is 62 candles, so 30 a month is two months of cover — the sensible band is one to three months.Will the kilo be cheaper per gram? Usually not. Of 86 CSI oils listing both 100 g and 1 kg in stock, 41 are priced identically per gram and the median saving across all 86 is 1.2%. Four oils do step hard: Citronella's kilo is 62% cheaper per gram than its 100 g.
So why buy the kilo? Two reasons that are not price. Cover — you stop reordering the same scent every fortnight. And consistency — 62 candles poured from one bottle instead of ten is nine fewer change points in your production.
What does it tie up? Six scents in kilos is ₹21,463.40 of oil on the shelf at the example prices below, against ₹10,824.20 in 500 g and ₹2,780.04 in 100 g. Cover 375 candles, 188 candles and 38 candles respectively.
The short answer
The rule: buy a kilo of a scent when it sells 30+ candles a month (200 g at 8%). Below 10 a month buy 100 g; 10–30 a month buy 500 g; above 60 a month buy two kilos and set a reorder level.
The price truth: the ladder steps by size on some oils and not at all on others. 41 of 86 are flat from 100 g to 1 kg; 23 step 5–15% (a median ₹491 per kilo); 4 step 15% or more.
The real payoff: fewer bottle changes. One kilo covers 62 candles from a single fill; the same 62 candles from 100 g bottles means ten fills and ten chances to drift — see batch consistency.
In this guide
Counted across the 86 fragrance oils that list a 100 g and a 1 kg size with both in stock, September 2026. Nearly half are priced at exactly the same rate per gram in both sizes, which means the case for the kilo on those oils has to be made on cover, handling and consistency — not on a discount that is not there. On the four oils at the bottom the price case is real and large.
Where the kilo genuinely pays
Citronella · 100 g ₹767 · 1 kg ₹2,891
Flat per gram in every size
Apple Cinnamon · ₹4.74 a gram at 100 g or 1 kg
Recurring kilos
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Straight answer
At what point does it make sense to buy fragrance oil by the kilo?
When a single scent is selling around thirty 200 g candles a month. The arithmetic is simple: at an 8% load each candle takes 16 g, so 1 kg is 62 candles. Thirty a month makes the kilo two months of cover, which is the comfortable band — enough depth to stop reordering constantly, not so much that your money sits still. Below ten candles a month that same kilo is more than six months of stock and you should be buying 100 g; between ten and thirty, 500 g. What most makers expect is that the kilo will also be cheaper per gram, and on this range that is usually wrong. Of the 86 CSI oils that list both a 100 g and a 1 kg size with both in stock, 41 are priced at exactly the same rate per gram, and the median saving across all 86 is 1.2%. Twenty-three step down by 5–15%, worth a median of ₹491 per kilo. Only four step by 15% or more — Citronella is the extreme, where 1 kg at ₹2,891 undercuts ten 100 g bottles at ₹7,670 by ₹4,779. So make the decision on the two things the kilo reliably delivers: cover, which stops the fortnightly reorder, and consistency, because 62 candles poured from one bottle has nine fewer change points than 62 poured from ten. Then check your specific oil's ladder, because on nearly half the range you can buy hundreds for months without paying a rupee more.
One line: 30 candles a month of one scent earns a kilo — and buy it for the cover and the single lot, not for a discount that only four oils in the range actually give you.
Not ready for a kilo? 100 g is the working size for a scent still proving itself: Apple Cinnamon ₹474.36, Chocolate Fudge ₹396.48, British Rose ₹342.20 — about six 200 g candles each at 8%.
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The kilo is usually not a discount
This is the assumption worth destroying before anything else, because it is the reason most makers buy a kilo a year too early.
On the CSI range the price per gram is a property of the pack size, not the order, and on a lot of oils it does not change with pack size at all. Apple Cinnamon is ₹474.36 per 100 g and ₹4,743.60 per kilo: ten hundreds and one kilo cost exactly the same ₹4,743.60. Sandalwood is the same at ₹5,026.80 either way. Chocolate Fudge, ₹3,964.80 either way. That is the situation for 41 of 86 oils, and it is genuinely useful information: it means buying in hundreds while a scent proves itself costs you nothing but shelf space.
Ten 100 g bottles vs one 1 kg bottle · identical 1,000 g · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Where the step is worth having, where it is small, and where it does not exist
| Oil | 10 × 100 g | 1 × 1 kg | Saved by the kilo | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citronella | ₹7,670 | ₹2,891 | ₹4,779 | 62% |
| Verbena | ₹5,900 | ₹4,720 | ₹1,180 | 20% |
| Mango Coconut | ₹5,000 | ₹3,964 | ₹1,036 | 21% |
| Honeydew Melon | ₹4,354.20 | ₹3,398.40 | ₹955.80 | 22% |
| Lemongrass and Lime | ₹5,900 | ₹5,200 | ₹700 | 12% |
| Eucalyptus Spearmint | ₹3,540 | ₹3,068 | ₹472 | 13% |
| British Rose | ₹3,422 | ₹3,068 | ₹354 | 10% |
| Citrus Lemon | ₹3,000 | ₹2,832 | ₹168 | 6% |
| Apple Cinnamon | ₹4,743.60 | ₹4,743.60 | ₹0 | Flat |
| Sandalwood | ₹5,026.80 | ₹5,026.80 | ₹0 | Flat |
| Chocolate Fudge | ₹3,964.80 | ₹3,964.80 | ₹0 | Flat |
| Woody Oud | ₹4,531.20 | ₹4,531.20 | ₹0 | Flat |
The 500 g step behaves the same way, only flatter: of the 72 oils listing both 500 g and 1 kg in stock, 45 are identical per gram and the median saving is zero. The largest is 11%. So "go up a size to save money" is not a rule on this range — it is a per-oil fact you look up in thirty seconds on the product page, where every size is priced.
The mistake: generalising from the one oil where it is dramatic. Citronella's ladder is striking — ₹7.67 a gram at 100 g against ₹2.89 at 1 kg — and a maker who sees that concludes the whole range works that way and commits eight kilos. It does not. Check the ladder oil by oil, and note the flip side: because 41 oils are flat, a maker with six unproven scents can buy six 100 g bottles for ₹2,780.04 instead of six kilos for ₹21,463.40 and be no worse off per gram on most of them. That is a ₹18,683.36 decision that costs nothing in unit price.
Cover: what a kilo actually buys
Convert every pack into candles and the decision becomes obvious. At an 8% load in a 200 g candle each candle takes 16 g, so: 100 g is 6 candles, 500 g is 31, 1 kg is 62, 2 kg is 125. Those are the only conversions you need. Now put them against how fast one scent actually sells.
Months of cover by pack size · 200 g candles at 8%, 16 g of oil each
Find your row, then read across to the pack that lands in the one-to-three-month band
| Candles a month of this one scent | 100 g (6 candles) | 500 g (31 candles) | 1 kg (62 candles) | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1.3 months | 6.3 months | 12.5 months | 100 g — and consider whether the scent belongs in the range |
| 10 | 0.6 months | 3.1 months | 6.3 months | 100 g, two at a time |
| 15 | 0.4 months | 2.1 months | 4.2 months | 500 g |
| 30 | 0.2 months | 1.0 month | 2.1 months | 1 kg — the threshold |
| 60 | — | 0.5 months | 1.0 month | 1 kg monthly, with a reorder level set at 500 g |
| 125 | — | — | 0.5 months | 2 kg, and read the 1,000-candle plan |
One to three months is the band to aim at, and the reasoning is not sentimental. Under one month you are ordering the same scent more than twelve times a year, which is twelve chances of catching it out of stock — and around 12% of fragrance-oil variants are sold out at any given moment. Over three months you are lending your own business money at no interest, and the risk is not that the oil spoils — no CSI page states a shelf life, so nobody can tell you it will — but that your range changes and the bottle becomes irrelevant.
Adjust the threshold for your candle size
Thirty a month assumes a 200 g candle at 8%. If you pour 100 g candles the oil per candle halves to 8 g, so a kilo is 125 candles and the threshold roughly doubles to 60 a month. If you pour 300 g candles at 24 g each, a kilo is 41 candles and the threshold falls to about 20 a month. Work it out once for your own format: kilo threshold ≈ (1,000 ÷ grams per candle) ÷ 2 candles per month.The cash it takes off the table
A kilo of oil is not an expense you have incurred. It is cash you have converted into something that cannot pay a bill.
Take a six-scent range and price the same range at three pack levels. The oils here are a mixed-price set chosen to be realistic rather than flattering.
One six-scent range, three pack levels · Citrus Lemon, Mango Coconut, Chocolate Fudge, British Rose, Apple Cinnamon, Citronella
What each level costs, what it covers, and how long it lasts at 100 candles a month across six scents
| Pack per scent | Cash on the shelf | Candles covered | Cover at 100 candles a month | Bottles to handle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 g each | ₹2,780.04 | 38 | About 11 days | 6 |
| 500 g each | ₹10,824.20 | 188 | About 8 weeks | 6 |
| 1 kg each | ₹21,463.40 | 375 | About 16 weeks | 6 |
Priced above: Citrus Lemon 100 g ₹300 / 500 g ₹1,420 / 1 kg ₹2,832 · Mango Coconut ₹500 / ₹1,982 / ₹3,964 · Chocolate Fudge ₹396.48 / ₹1,982.40 / ₹3,964.80 · British Rose ₹342.20 / ₹1,593 / ₹3,068 · Apple Cinnamon ₹474.36 / ₹2,371.80 / ₹4,743.60 · Citronella ₹767 / ₹1,475 / ₹2,891.
The middle row is where most growing businesses should sit, and almost nobody does — makers tend to jump from 100 g straight to kilos because kilos feel professional. Eight weeks of cover for ₹10,824.20 is the sweet spot for a six-scent range selling a hundred candles a month: you order roughly every six weeks, you are never nervous, and ₹10,639.20 of your money is still available for jars, labels and photography. The kilo row buys sixteen weeks and takes another ₹10,639.20 out of circulation to do it.
The mistake: moving the whole range up a size at once. Pack size is a per-scent decision, exactly like the split in a production run. A realistic six-scent range in month nine looks like two kilos, two 500 g and two 100 g — the two scents that carry the sales in kilos, the two middling ones in halves, the two you are still testing in hundreds. That costs far less than six kilos, covers the fast lines properly, and keeps the slow lines cheap to abandon. Uniform pack sizes across a range are a sign that nobody has looked at the sales.
62 candles from one bottle, or 62 from ten
This is the argument for the kilo that actually holds on all 86 oils, including the 41 where the price is identical. Every new bottle is a change point. It gets opened by a different person on a different day, poured into a jug that may be warmer or cooler, and dosed by someone who may or may not have zeroed the scale. One kilo gives you 62 candles from a single fill. Ten 100 g bottles give you the same 62 candles across ten fills.
That matters because dose error is unforgiving at this scale. A 200 g candle at 8% wants 16 g of oil; 2 g out in either direction is a full percentage point of load, taking you to 7% or 9%. Weigh, do not measure by volume — no CSI fragrance-oil page publishes a specific gravity, so millilitres cannot be converted into grams reliably for any of them. And note what the CSI candle making weighing scale page does and does not say: it states that it "shows measurements in grams or ounces" at ₹354, but it does not state a resolution or a capacity, so if you need 0.1 g resolution for small doses, ask before you order rather than assuming.
Bridge the bottle change
When you open a new bottle of an established scent, do not switch mid-batch. Finish the batch on the old bottle, pour one jar from the new bottle at your standard recipe, and cure it beside a jar you kept back from the previous bottle. If they read the same at day 14, the new bottle is in production. It costs one candle and it is the only version of "quality control" available to a business that cannot commission a lab — the full routine is in the consistency guide.There is an honest limit to this argument. No CSI page publishes a batch or lot number, so you cannot ask for "the same lot as last time" and expect a documented answer; what you can do is buy in larger single bottles so that fewer fills cover more candles, keep a retained jar per bottle, and raise it with us on WhatsApp if two bottles ever read differently. That is the realistic version — and it is one of the reasons a kilo is worth more to a production business than its price per gram suggests.
The CSI principle
Buy the kilo when a scent has earned the cover, not when the spreadsheet promises a discount. On nearly half this range the discount does not exist — and the kilo is still often the right purchase.
One bottle, 62 candles, one lot, one fill. That is what you are buying. The rupees per gram are frequently identical, and they were never the point.
Moving two or three scents into kilos this month? Citronella 1 kg ₹2,891, Mango Coconut 1 kg ₹3,964 and Apple Cinnamon 1 kg ₹4,743.60. For recurring monthly kilos, quotes, GST invoicing, SDS and IFRA documentation are handled on WhatsApp.
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Where the kilo pays, and where it doesn't
Three oils, chosen for what their ladders do rather than how they smell — one where the price case is overwhelming, one where it is real, and one where it does not exist at all.
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The steepest ladder in the range
Citronella Fragrance Oil
The one oil where price alone settles the question. Its 100 g is ₹767 — ₹7.67 a gram — while the 500 g is ₹1,475 and the 1 kg ₹2,891, which is ₹2.89 a gram. Buying 1,000 g as ten hundreds costs ₹7,670 against ₹2,891 for the kilo: ₹4,779 saved on one bottle, and the 500 g is already most of the way there at ₹2.95 a gram. Nothing else in the range steps like this, so if you make an outdoor or monsoon-season line, look at the 500 g or 1 kg before the 100 g. The page states "Flash Point: 270°F", "Vanillin Content: 0%" and "Phthalate-Free: Yes", with notes given as "Top: Lemon, Lemongrass- Middle: Citronella, Green Herb- Base: Wood". It states no candle load, so work to your wax's stated ceiling and ask for the SDS.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200 g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹141.60 | ₹9,440 | ≈0 |
| 50 gm | ₹383.50 | ₹7,670 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹767 | ₹7,670 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,475 | ₹2,950 | ≈31 |
| 1 kg | ₹2,891 | ₹2,891 | ≈62 |
₹46.26 of oil per 200 g candle at 8% at 1 kg pricing — ₹122.72 at 100 g pricing Buy Citronella
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A real step, on a documented page
Mango Coconut Fragrance Oil
₹500 per 100 g against ₹3,964 per kilo, so the kilo saves ₹1,036 on 1,000 g — a 21% step, and the 500 g at ₹1,982 is on the same ₹3.96 a gram as the kilo. That makes 500 g the smart entry: same rate as the kilo, half the commitment, 31 candles of cover. The page states "Candle usage rate 6-10% of total wax weight" and "Wax melt usage rate 10-15% of total wax weight", and lists it for candles, wax melts, reed diffusers, room sprays and body products, noting it is "suitable for coconut wax and blended waxes. Test wi[th]" your own combination. Be aware of what it does not publish: no flash point and no scent-note pyramid, which makes it one of the pages where a 15 g or 100 g trial is doing more work than usual.
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200 g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹93.22 | ₹6,214.67 | ≈0 |
| 50 gm | ₹250 | ₹5,000 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹500 | ₹5,000 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,982 | ₹3,964 | ≈31 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,964 | ₹3,964 | ≈62 |
₹63.42 of oil per 200 g candle at 8% at 1 kg or 500 g pricing — ₹80 at 100 g Buy Mango Coconut
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Flat in every size — buy for cover, not price
Apple Cinnamon Fragrance Oil
The clean example of the flat ladder: ₹4.74 a gram at 15 g, at 100 g, at 500 g and at 1 kg. Ten 100 g bottles and one kilo are both ₹4,743.60, so there is no financial reason to commit — which makes it the ideal scent to keep buying in hundreds until the sales say otherwise, and then to buy in kilos purely for the single fill. The page states a load of "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48-72 hours" and "6-8% for paraffin wax", notes as "Top Notes Juicy apple, spicy cinnamon - crisp, warm, and immediately inviting", "Middle Notes Baked goods, nutmeg - comforting kitchen warmth with spiced depth" and "Base Notes Vanilla, warm amber - sweet, grounding, long-lasting", and it is honest about discolouration: "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax". No flash point is published. Customer Shivalik Manak: "Really love this fragrance oil."
| Size | Price | Per kg | 200 g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹93.22 | ₹6,214.67 | ≈0 |
| 50 gm | ₹237.18 | ₹4,743.60 | ≈3 |
| 100 gm | ₹474.36 | ₹4,743.60 | ≈6 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,371.80 | ₹4,743.60 | ≈31 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,743.60 | ₹4,743.60 | ≈62 |
₹75.90 of oil per 200 g candle at 8% — the same at every pack size Buy Apple Cinnamon
A kilo on the shelf is not a saving. It is a decision you have already made about which scent your customers will want in three months.
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
The decision, in five minutes
Do this per scent, once a quarter, with your actual sales in front of you.
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Write down candles sold last month, per scent. Not total candles — per scent. This is the only input that matters and it is the one most makers substitute with a feeling. If you genuinely do not know, you are not ready to buy kilos of anything.
2
Convert your candle to grams of oil. Candle weight × load. A 200 g candle at 8% is 16 g; at 10%, 20 g. Then a kilo is 1,000 ÷ that: 62 candles at 16 g, 50 at 20 g, 41 at 24 g. Use your own number, not the one in this guide.
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Divide to get months of cover, and aim for one to three. Kilo candles ÷ monthly candles. Two months is comfortable. Six months means step down a size; under a month means step up, or hold two bottles and set a reorder level at one.
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Look up that oil's ladder before you commit. Every size is priced on the product page. If the per-gram figure is flat — as it is on 41 of 86 — you lose nothing by staying in 500 g for another quarter. If it steps 15% or more, as on four oils, the kilo pays for itself immediately.
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Buy, then qualify the bottle before it reaches production. One jar at your standard recipe, cured beside a retained jar from the previous bottle, checked at day 14. Ask for the SDS and IFRA documentation for the new size in the same message as the order, and write the date on the bottle when it arrives.
The trap in the other direction: waiting too long. Buying hundreds forever has a cost that does not show on an invoice. A scent selling 40 candles a month needs seven 100 g bottles a month, which is seven fills, seven dose set-ups and seven opportunities for a 2 g error — and it means ordering that scent every few weeks with a one-in-eight chance of meeting a sold-out variant. At 30 candles a month and above, the kilo is the operationally correct answer even when the price per gram is identical. Cover and fill count are the reasons; the discount was never the reason.
Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, and the commercially convenient version of this page would be "buy kilos". Instead it publishes the number that argues against that: on 41 of the 86 oils listing both sizes in stock, the kilo is priced at exactly the same rate per gram as the 100 g, and the median saving across all 86 is 1.2%. A maker who buys a kilo of a scent that sells five candles a month has the best part of ₹5,000 asleep for a year and remembers it. A maker who buys 100 g bottles until the sales justify a kilo comes back every month.
Every price and pack size is read from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing always takes precedence. The per-gram comparisons cover the 86 fragrance oils that list both a 100 g and a 1 kg size with both in stock, and the 72 that list both 500 g and 1 kg in stock. Stated loads, notes, flash points and vanillin lines are the product pages' own words; where a page publishes no flash point or no load, this guide says so. The largest listed fragrance pack is 1 kg — there is no 5 kg or 10 kg option, so listed per-kilo prices are the ceiling, and recurring volumes above that are quoted individually rather than published. No page publishes a batch or lot number, and none states a shelf life or storage instruction, so the storage advice here is framed as ordinary good practice.
For recurring kilo orders, GST invoicing, or SDS and IFRA documentation for a specific oil and size, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926 with the product name and size.
Frequently asked questions
When should a candle business start buying fragrance oil in 1 kg quantities?
When a single scent sells about 30 candles a month at 200 g and an 8% load. One kilo is 62 candles at 16 g each, so 30 a month is roughly two months of cover — the comfortable band is one to three months. Below 10 candles a month buy 100 g; between 10 and 30 buy 500 g; above 60 a month hold two kilos and set a reorder level. Scale the threshold to your candle: 100 g candles push it to about 60 a month.
Is 1 kg of fragrance oil cheaper per gram than 100 g?
On this range, usually not. Of the 86 CSI oils listing both sizes in stock, 41 are priced identically per gram, and the median saving across all 86 is 1.2%. Twenty-three step down 5–15%, worth a median ₹491 per kilo, and only four step 15% or more. Citronella is the extreme at 62% — ₹2,891 per kilo against ₹7,670 for ten 100 g bottles. Check the specific oil's page, where every size is priced, before assuming the kilo is cheaper.
How many candles does 1 kg of fragrance oil make?
62 candles of 200 g at an 8% load, since each takes 16 g. At a 10% load it is 50 candles, and at 13% it is 38. Smaller formats stretch further: 100 g candles at 8% take 8 g each, so a kilo covers 125. Those conversions are the whole basis of the pack-size decision — work out candles per kilo for your own format first, then divide by your monthly sales of that scent to get months of cover.
How much cash does a kilo of each scent tie up?
On the mixed six-scent example in this guide, ₹21,463.40 for six kilos — covering 375 candles, or about sixteen weeks at 100 candles a month. The same six scents in 500 g are ₹10,824.20 for 188 candles and roughly eight weeks, and in 100 g are ₹2,780.04 for 38 candles. Most growing businesses belong in the middle row and jump straight to the top one. Mix pack sizes by scent instead: kilos for the fast lines, hundreds for the ones still proving themselves.
Does buying 1 kg help with batch consistency?
Yes, and this is the strongest argument for it. One kilo pours 62 candles from a single fill; the same 62 candles from 100 g bottles means ten separate fills, each a chance for a different dose, temperature or operator. Weigh every dose — no CSI page publishes a specific gravity, so volume cannot be converted to grams reliably, and 2 g out on a 16 g dose is a whole percentage point of load. Note also that no page publishes a lot number, so fewer, larger bottles is the practical substitute for lot matching.
Can I buy fragrance oil in 5 kg or 10 kg?
Not from the listed range — 1 kg is the largest fragrance-oil pack CSI lists, so larger quantities are assembled from kilo bottles and the listed per-kilo price is the ceiling for the order. Wax is different: soy wax lists up to 10 kg. If you need fragrance at a recurring multi-kilo level, message the bulk line on WhatsApp with the scent list and monthly quantity and ask for a quote; no figure for an unlisted quantity is published here.
Thirty a month, then the kilo
Buy the cover and the single fill. Check the ladder first — on nearly half the range there is no discount to wait for.
Where the kilo pays: Citronella 100 g ₹767 vs 1 kg ₹2,891 (₹4,779 saved on 1,000 g), Mango Coconut ₹500 vs ₹3,964 (₹1,036), Verbena ₹590 vs ₹4,720 (₹1,180). Where it is flat: Apple Cinnamon, Sandalwood, Chocolate Fudge and Woody Oud all cost the same per gram at 100 g and 1 kg. Trial sizes from ₹68.44 for 15 g. Recurring quotes and documentation on WhatsApp.
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About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. The cover arithmetic, the one-to-three-month band and the per-scent pack rule apply to any supplier; the ladder counts are specific to the CSI range in September 2026 and should be re-checked on the product pages, which are always authoritative. Monthly sales figures used in the tables are illustrative rows, not forecasts. Quoted loads, notes, flash points and vanillin lines are verbatim from the linked pages; no flash point, load, shelf life or storage instruction is stated here for a product whose page does not state one.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; two longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Load is a share of the finished candle, so a 200 g candle at 8% is 184 g of wax and 16 g of oil; 1,000 g ÷ 16 g = 62 candles (62.5 rounded down), 500 g = 31, 100 g = 6; at a 10% load a kilo is 50 candles and at 13% it is 38; a 100 g candle at 8% takes 8 g, so a kilo covers 125. Ladder counts: of the 107 CSI fragrance-oil product pages, 86 list both a 100 g and a 1 kg size with both in stock — 41 of those are priced identically per gram, 18 step by under 5%, 23 step by 5–15% (median saving ₹491 per kilo, range ₹168 to ₹1,350) and 4 step by 15% or more; median step across all 86 is 1.2%. Of the 72 listing both 500 g and 1 kg in stock, 45 are identical per gram, the median step is 0% and the largest is 11%. Prices used: Citronella 100 g ₹767, 500 g ₹1,475, 1 kg ₹2,891; Verbena 100 g ₹590, 1 kg ₹4,720; Mango Coconut 100 g ₹500, 500 g ₹1,982, 1 kg ₹3,964; Honeydew Melon 100 g ₹435.42, 1 kg ₹3,398.40; Lemongrass and Lime 100 g ₹590, 1 kg ₹5,200; Eucalyptus Spearmint 100 g ₹354, 1 kg ₹3,068, 15 g ₹68.44; British Rose 100 g ₹342.20, 500 g ₹1,593, 1 kg ₹3,068; Citrus Lemon 100 g ₹300, 500 g ₹1,420, 1 kg ₹2,832; Apple Cinnamon 100 g ₹474.36, 500 g ₹2,371.80, 1 kg ₹4,743.60; Sandalwood 100 g ₹502.68, 1 kg ₹5,026.80; Chocolate Fudge 100 g ₹396.48, 500 g ₹1,982.40, 1 kg ₹3,964.80; Woody Oud 100 g ₹453.12, 1 kg ₹4,531.20; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354. Ten-bottle comparisons are 10 × the listed 100 g price against the listed 1 kg price. Six-scent totals: 100 g each ₹2,780.04, 500 g each ₹10,824.20, 1 kg each ₹21,463.40, covering 38, 188 and 375 candles at 16 g; cover in weeks assumes 100 candles a month across the six. Per-candle costs = price per gram × 16 g. Stock: 53 of 437 fragrance-oil variants (12%) are currently sold out. The weighing-scale page states that it "shows measurements in grams or ounces" and states no resolution or capacity. No CSI fragrance-oil page states a shelf life, expiry date, storage temperature, storage instruction, batch number, lot number or specific gravity. 55 of the 107 pages list a 15 g trial size. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.