Fragrance Oil Supplier for Candle Businesses in Kolkata

The paperwork a Kolkata candle business needs from its oil supplier

Kolkata orders are billed to West Bengal, so the invoice carries IGST. (CSI invoices from Maharashtra, so an interstate delivery carries IGST rather than CGST plus SGST.) Share your GSTIN when you order so the invoice matches your registration.

Designing a core range you can supply every month

A candle business in Kolkata — where demand leans towards Puja gifting, Kali Puja and Diwali lamps, Christmas retail, weddings and a strong handmade-craft scene — is better served by five or six core oils held at depth than by twenty held thinly. Our suggested core for Kolkata: Gilli Mitti (Patchouli), Jasmine, Sandalwood, Cinnamon Vanilla, British Rose, Vanilla Bean.

Costing an order before you quote it

Example: a Salt Lake studio preparing a Puja-to-Christmas range, 350 × 180 g glass jar. At 8% each candle needs 14.4 g of oil and 166 g of wax.

That excludes the vessel, label, packaging, labour, freight and GST, which usually add more than the materials above. Quote from the full unit cost. How to price candles in India in 2026 covers the rest.

A Kolkata business, worked through

Handmade-craft seller for fairs and exhibitions. Craft fairs reward small, affordable candles and a range of four or five scents at 100 g depth.

Say that buyer pours 300 candles of 120 g. At 8% each candle takes 9.6 g of oil, so the run needs 2.88 kg — about 2.9 kg in total, split across however many scents the run carries. If it were all Jasmine, the oil would cost about ₹11,298 at the 1 kg price.

A second Kolkata buyer: puja-to-christmas studio (salt lake, new town). Earthy and sandal profiles for Puja, spiced gourmands for Christmas. Plan two production runs, not one. For 350 candles of 180 g at 8%, the oil comes to 5.04 kg — with Gilli Mitti (Patchouli) at ₹8,960.00 per kg, about ₹45,158.

What Kolkata changes about running a candle business

Kolkata is humid subtropical, with a hot, sticky summer, a strong June–September monsoon and a short, mild winter. Humidity is the storage problem here: sealed wick and packaging stock matter as much as the oil. Oil itself keeps well sealed, cool and away from light.

Kolkata's calendar splits into Puja in October, Kali Puja with Diwali in November, and Christmas in December. Few cities give a maker three distinct seasons in ten weeks.

Durga Puja is the moment Kolkata buys gifts, décor and new things for the home. A Puja range needs to be on shelves before Ashtami, which means testing in August–September.

Christmas in Kolkata, centred on Park Street, is a third selling window. Warm gourmands such as cinnamon vanilla and vanilla bean suit it better than Puja florals.

Warm, humid months push a maxed-out candle towards sweating; the short winter is kind to soy. Durga Puja (Ashtami on 18 October), Kali Puja on the night of Diwali, and Christmas on Park Street give Kolkata three separate buying peaks.

The two columns on the right of the calendar are working back from the festival: six weeks to test a new oil in your wax and jar, and four weeks to have production quantities on the shelf. They are planning margins, not delivery promises — transit time to Kolkata is confirmed on WhatsApp when you order.

Three oils to start with

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