Buy 10 Kg Lavender Fragrance Oil for Candle Manufacturing

625 candles: what 10 kg of lavender actually converts into

CSI states fragrance load as a percentage of the finished candle weight, not of the wax weight. A 200 g candle at 8% is therefore 16 g of fragrance oil and 184 g of wax. Divide 10,000 g of oil by 16 g and you get 625 candles. That single figure should decide whether this purchase is sensible before any price is discussed: if your lavender line does not sell 625 units inside a period you are comfortable financing, the correct order is 1 kg, not 10.

The conversion moves fast with both candle size and load, and the swing is larger than most people expect. Below is the full grid for 10 kg of oil. Read it as the number of finished candles one 10 kg purchase yields — the spread runs from 256 candles to 1,666 candles across the same invoice.

Fragrance cost per candle follows directly. At ₹5,221 per kilogram, Lavender Fragrance Oil is ₹5.221 per gram, so a 200 g candle at 8% carries ₹83.54 of fragrance. At 6% it is ₹62.65; at 10% it is ₹104.42. Those three numbers are the ones that belong in your costing sheet, and if you have not built one yet, the 2026 pricing guide sets out the method. A useful cross-check on the whole batch: wax in kilograms × (load ÷ (1 − load)) = oil in kilograms, so 115 kg of wax at 8% takes exactly 10.0 kg of oil. If instead you mean 8% of the wax weight, 10 kg of oil goes with 125 kg of wax and you make 675 candles of 208 g. Decide which convention your recipe sheet uses and write it down, because this is the single commonest cause of a wrong bulk order.

The rest of the bill: what 625 candles costs besides the fragrance

A 10 kg fragrance order does not stand alone. It arrives attached to 115 kg of wax (625 × 184 g), 625 vessels, 625 wicks and 625 wick stickers. Priced from live CSI stock in real pack sizes only — because CSI sells packs, not kilogram quantities cut to order — the run looks like this.

There is the finding a manufacturer needs. The ₹52,210 fragrance invoice sits inside a raw-material bill of ₹1,45,332 — 2.78 times its own size — and fragrance is 35.92% of it, second to wax at 47.47%. Per candle the bill is ₹232.53, of which ₹83.54 is lavender, ₹110.37 is wax, ₹29.92 is the jar, ₹6.14 is the wick and ₹2.56 is the sticker. Nothing here includes labour, lids, cartons, packaging, freight, GST or wastage. It is the floor, not the cost.

Ten bottles, ten batch codes — the part that actually decides the run

A fragrance oil is a compounded blend. Each production batch of that blend carries a code, and two codes of the same oil can differ very slightly in strength and in colour while both being entirely correct product. On a 50 g bottle nobody ever notices. On a 625-candle run, split across ten bottles that may span more than one code, it can show up as a difference between the first hundred candles and the last hundred — a lavender that reads a shade deeper in the jar, or a hot throw that a careful customer describes as slightly stronger on one order than the next. Neither candle is faulty. They are simply not identical, and if they are sitting side by side on the same shelf, identical is what you sold.

The kilogram is not a discount — and on this oil it is barely a saving

Here is the arithmetic on our own catalogue. Lavender Fragrance Oil is ₹2,620 for 500 g and ₹5,221 for 1 kg. Two 500 g bottles therefore cost ₹5,240 and the kilogram costs ₹5,221 — the kilogram saves ₹19. Across ten kilograms that is ten lots of ₹19, or about ₹190 in total: roughly 0.36% of a ₹52,400 spend. It is one hundred and ninety rupees on a fifty-two thousand rupee order. Nobody should change a purchasing decision over it, and no manufacturer should walk into this expecting a volume break, because CSI has not published one.

Three oils, three different answers, and on one of them the kilogram is dearer than two half-kilos. Buying 10 kg as a hundred 100 g bottles at ₹540 would cost ₹54,000 — ₹1,790 more than ten kilograms, or 3.31% — so the pack ladder does do something; it just does very little between 500 g and 1 kg on this particular scent. The real reasons to order ten kilograms of one lavender are supply continuity and batch consistency: one purchase covers the whole run, you are not re-ordering mid-season, and you have the best available chance of pouring 625 candles from a narrow set of codes. Those are operational reasons, and they are worth money. The invoice is not where the gain lives. Related reading: buying fragrance oils in bulk in India and how premium brands buy fragrance wholesale.

Storage, handling and paperwork for ten open-able bottles

Ten one-kilogram bottles is roughly ten litres of material that you now own and have to keep in condition for as long as the run takes. Treat it as stock, not as a shelf item near the bench.

Keep it cool, dark and sealed, and keep it away from the pour area. Fragrance materials are sensitive to heat, light and air, and the pour area is the hottest, brightest, most disturbed part of a candle workshop. A closed cupboard or a sealed crate in the coolest room you have, off the floor, out of direct sun, with the caps tight and the bottles upright, is the whole specification. Nine bottles stay closed. One is open. Wipe the neck and re-cap immediately after decanting rather than leaving a bottle open through a pour session — headspace air is the thing you are protecting the oil from, and an open bottle on a warm bench for two hours is a small avoidable loss on every pour.

On shelf life, we will not give you a number, because CSI publishes none. You will find confident figures elsewhere; we are not going to invent one for a page you might plan a purchase around. What we can tell you is what to do instead: keep the delivery documentation with the stock, keep the batch codes recorded, request the MSDS and IFRA documentation for the oil and file it with the invoice, and judge the condition of the material by the material — a sealed bottle stored cool and dark, checked on opening against your reference candle, tells you more than a date printed on a website ever would. If your run is going to extend a long way, say so when you enquire and ask what documentation comes with the consignment.

Turnover, working capital, and what has to be true before you order

₹52,210 of one scent is working capital that stops moving until the candles sell. The question is not whether you can afford the order; it is how long the money is asleep. At 8% in a 200 g candle you consume 16 g per candle, so the clearance window is set entirely by your monthly lavender volume.

To be explicit about where that six-month line comes from: it is our editorial judgement, not CSI policy. CSI states no holding period, no recommended stock cover and no shelf life, and nothing in this table is a rule you can hold us to. We think six months is a reasonable outer limit for a single scent at a single load because beyond that you are financing inventory rather than production, and your formulation is likely to have moved anyway. Divide 10,000 g by six and you need 1,667 g a month — about 104 candles of 200 g at 8%. If you are not doing that, the honest advice is to buy less and buy more often. How much fragrance oil a candle business actually needs works through the same maths from the other end, and scaling to 1,000 orders a month covers what changes when the volume is genuinely there.

One last consideration on timing rather than volume. Diwali falls on 8 November 2026, and a 625-candle run has to be poured, cured and packed before it ships. If lavender is part of a festive range, the decision on 10 kg belongs well ahead of the pour, not in the same week — how early to order fragrance for Diwali sets out the working-back schedule, and wholesale raw materials across India covers consolidating the rest of the bill into the same consignment. If you are still choosing between lavender and something else for the volume line, the 2026 fragrance round-up and premium versus cheap fragrance oils are the two worth reading first.

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