Buy Fragrance Oils for Pillar Candle Making

What each pack size scents, in pillars

CSI lists oils in up to five sizes: 15 g, 50 g, 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg. For a pillar maker the useful way to read that ladder is in pillars. The table below does it for Lavender, which sits at the top of CSI's best-selling sort and is listed in all five sizes. We show two illustrative pillar weights, 250 g and 400 g, and three loads for the smaller pillar. The loads are a labelled test range, not a published ceiling. CSI does not publish a fragrance maximum for its pillar wax.

Read down the 8% column and the ladder becomes a production plan. A 50 g bottle is a test. A 100 g bottle is a small launch of five pillars. A 500 g bottle is a festive run of 25, and a kilo is 50. At 400 g the numbers fall by more than a third: a kilo scents 31.25 pillars. If your range mixes sizes, work in grams of oil, not in bottles. Add up the oil every pillar in the plan needs, then buy the pack sizes that cover it with a margin.

The price column tells the other half of the story. Lavender costs ₹7.00 a gram at 15 g and ₹5.40 at both 50 g and 100 g. It is ₹5.24 at 500 g and ₹5.22 at a kilo. For this oil, and for most of the catalogue, the only real per-gram step is from 15 g to 50 g. Above 50 g you are mostly buying more pillars before the next reorder, not a lower rate. Across the collection, 52 of 91 oils cost within 1% per gram at 1 kg and at 100 g. Only 24 show a kilo saving of 5% or more. Buy 1 Kg Fragrance Oil for Pillar and Mould Candle Making works through the kilo decision oil by oil.

Why the 15 g tester is too small for a pillar

Across CSI's catalogue, 15 g is the de facto sample size, and 51 oils offer it in stock. For jar candles it works well: 15 g scents about one 180–200 g candle at 8%. For pillars it falls short, because an illustrative 250 g pillar at 8% needs 20 g. You would be testing a smaller pillar than the one you plan to sell, or a lower load, and either one gives you a result that does not carry over.

The real pillar test is a three-load ladder: 6%, 8% and 10% in three 250 g pillars. That takes 15 + 20 + 25 = 60 g of oil per scent. There are two ways to buy 60 g, and the table prices both for three oils.

The 50 g + 15 g route is the cheaper way to run exactly one ladder, by ₹141.60 to ₹174.98 per scent. The 100 g leaves you 40 g after the ladder. That is enough to repeat the winning load in two more pillars, or to pour a second batch after a wick change. If you are confident enough in a scent to want a re-test, the 100 g is the better buy. If you are screening many scents to drop most of them, buy 50 g + 15 g. For a full method to screen scents side by side, see Strong Fragrance Oils for Scented Mould Candles.

Pairing each bottle of oil with the wax it needs

Load is a share of the finished pillar's weight: oil = weight × load, and wax = weight − oil. Turn that round and each gram of oil tells you how much wax it needs. The table uses 100 g of oil as the unit, because that is the launch size, and prices the wax in Soy Pillar Wax at ₹0.60 a gram. Soy Pillar Wax is flat-priced: ₹300.00 for 500 g, ₹600.00 for a kilo, ₹3,000.00 for 5 kg and ₹6,000.00 for 10 kg.

At 8%, three 100 g bottles need 3.45 kg of wax, so the 5 kg bag covers them with room for test pours and remelts. Three 500 g bottles need 17.25 kg, which is two 10 kg bags. Because pillar wax has no bulk break, buying it in 10 kg saves nothing per gram. Buy the bag size that matches the oil you have committed to. For Beeswax Pellets (₹800.00 a kilo) or Fully Refined Paraffin (₹354.00 a kilo) the weights are the same and only the rupees change. Best Fragrance Oils for Pillar Candles compares the four pillar waxes.

Two pillar carts, priced

Here are two complete orders built from CSI's listed prices. The launch cart is for a maker starting a three-scent pillar line. The season cart is for a maker who has tested those scents and is producing for a festive window. Neither is a CSI kit. CSI does not list a fragrance sample pack or a pillar fragrance kit, and the fragrance contents of its candle-making kits are not published.

Cart A holds 300 g of oil, which is 15 illustrative 250 g pillars at 8% (five per scent), and 5 kg of wax against the 3.45 kg those pillars need. Two moulds give two shapes. The Ribbed Pillar Mould is ₹1,060.82 in 5 × 10 cm and ₹1,414.82 in 5 × 15 cm (the 5 × 7 cm is out of stock). The Daisy Pillar Mould is ₹942.82. Weigh each mould's wax fill before you pour, because neither mould's volume is published and your pillars may not weigh 250 g. The red dye chips are there for the Fallen Leaves pillars. Dye dose is not published, so follow the product page.

Cart B holds 1.5 kg of oil: 75 illustrative 250 g pillars at 8%, needing 17.25 kg of wax. Two 10 kg bags leave a small working margin. It assumes you already own the moulds, and at 75 pillars you will want more than two. How many depends on how often each mould can be refilled, which is covered in Bulk Fragrance Oils for Pillar Candle Manufacturing. Note one detail in the oil lines. Lavender's 500 g costs ₹5.24 a gram, against ₹5.40 at 100 g. Fallen Leaves drops from ₹4.72 to ₹4.25, and Bergamot Amber from ₹5.60 to ₹5.44. The 500 g is worth it here because you are using the oil. It is not a discount to chase on untested scents.

Placing the order without surprises

A pillar order has more moving parts than a jar order. You are buying moulds that cannot be substituted mid-run, as well as oil, wax and wicks. The steps below are the order we would place them in.

If your order goes past the listed packs — several kilos of one scent, or 10 kg of wax several times over — ask on WhatsApp for a quote. No volume discount figure is published, so do not build one into your costing until you have it in writing. Bulk Fragrance Oils for Pillar Candle Manufacturing covers that route for pillar production, and Where to Buy Fragrance Oils for Commercial Decorative Candle Production covers what to check in any supplier before a commercial run.

Two more reads are useful before you buy. If your pillars are decorative shapes rather than plain cylinders, Fragrance Oils for Silicone Mould Candles and Best Fragrance Oils for Moulded Candles cover silicone moulds and scent-to-shape pairing. For how the load you choose changes both the oil bill and the pillar's structure, see How Much Fragrance Oil Should I Use in Pillar Candles?. For a structural question specific to decorative moulds, see I'm Making Decorative Mould Candles — How Much Fragrance Oil Can I Add Without Affecting the Candle Structure?.

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