How Do I Professionally Match Fragrance Oil, Wax, Load and Cure Before Selling a Candle?
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What is the minimum cure before a candle can be sold? Burn-test no earlier than 48 hours — several CSI oil pages give 48–72 hours for soy — and judge throw at day 14. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for at least 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks. Heavy gourmand, vanilla and woody scents get a second look at day 21.
What has to pass before a candle goes on sale? Nine checks: load inside both ceilings, weights to 0.1 g, temperatures inside the wax and jar windows, a clean surface at 48 hours, a pool to the wall on the first burn, no tunnelling on the second, two independent noses on day 14, a 48-hour hold at 35°C without seepage, and a complete record with documentation and retained samples.
What does a proper approval cost? Six candles per SKU. For the three worked SKUs on this page that is ₹3,308.23, or ₹4,933.69 including the re-pour after one SKU failed the heat check — against ₹55,137.13 of production standing behind it. Under 9% of the run, paid once.
The four variables, and the only order that works
Oil, wax, load and cure are not four independent settings. Each one narrows the next, and the narrowing runs in one direction only. Choose the load first and you will find yourself either above a stated maximum or below what the oil needs. Choose the jar last and you will be weighing 200 g of wax into a 150 g container. The order below is the whole of this page in four lines, and the rest is detail.
The container decides grams. A jar has a fill capacity, and it is the total that goes in — wax plus oil. The Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid page states a 150 g fill capacity, 8 cm height and hot-pour safe to 85°C. At a load of 8% of wax weight that is 139 g of wax and 11.1 g of oil, which is 150 g in the jar. Work the other way and you will overfill, which shows up as wax on the rim, a lid that will not seat and a candle that cannot be shipped.
The wax decides the outer limit. Every CSI soy page that publishes a fragrance figure states it as a percentage of total wax weight, and it is the wax manufacturer’s stated formulation maximum, not a suggestion to reach. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 states up to 10%. Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 both state up to 13%, and the Chunks page adds that 8% is a starting point, 10% is the recommended figure and 13% is the maximum, to be burn-tested thoroughly. Eco Soy CSI 400 does not publish a ceiling at all — ask on WhatsApp before you build a SKU around it, and until you have an answer work to the oil page’s lower bound.
The oil decides the inner limit, and the cure. The British Rose page states soy up to 10%, a flashpoint of 192°C, 0% vanillin and a cure of 48 to 72 hours for best scent throw. The Cinnamon Vanilla page states up to 13% of total wax weight, a flashpoint of 132°C, 2.5% vanillin, and — in its own words — that this is a higher-capacity oil to be tested at the lower end before committing to full production loads. Those sentences are the specification you are formulating against. Where a page does not publish a range, it is not a figure to estimate.
The load is what is left. It is the lower of the two stated maximums, minus a working margin. Nothing about that sentence is about how strong you want the candle to smell, which is the point: strength is bought with wick, pool, cure and oil choice long before it is bought with another two percent of load.
| Variable | Decided | What it fixes | What it cannot fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Container and fill | First | Total grams in the jar, wick diameter range, pour temperature limit if the page states one | Throw — a bigger jar is not a stronger candle |
| Wax grade | Second | The outer stated maximum, melting and pouring window, finish and glass adhesion | A load that the oil page does not support |
| Fragrance oil | Third | The inner stated range, flashpoint, vanillin and yellowing behaviour, cure guidance | A pool that does not reach the wall |
| Load | Fourth, and constrained | Oil grams, cost per candle, sweat risk in heat | A wick that is too small or a cure that is too short |
| Wick | Fifth, by test | Pool width and depth, and therefore how much surface is releasing scent | An oil that is thin in soy |
| Cure | Last, and dated | When you are allowed to judge, and when you may sell | Anything at all about a formula that is already wrong |
Two ceilings, one governs — and a ceiling is permission, not a target
Every load decision in this series is a percentage of wax weight, because that is how CSI’s pages state it. Two documents constrain it: the wax page and the oil page. When they disagree, the lower figure governs, and you say so in your own records so that the decision can be explained a year later.
| Wax (page maximum) | Oil (page range) | Governs | Working load | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSI 464 — up to 10% | British Rose — soy up to 10% | 10% | 8% | Both agree; work two points under for headroom |
| CSI 464 — up to 10% | Cinnamon Vanilla — up to 13% | 10% | 8% | The wax is the tighter document here |
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — up to 13% | Cinnamon Vanilla — up to 13% | 13% | 10% | Both allow 13%; the oil page still says test at the lower end |
| Luxury Soy Wax Chunks — up to 13% | Roasted Coffee — soy 6–10% | 10% | 8% | The oil is the tighter document here |
| CSI 468 — up to 13% | Japanese Cherry Blossom — 6–13% | 13% | 10% | Widest pairing in the catalogue; still not a target |
| CSI 464 — up to 10% | Fresh Strawberries — 6–9% | 9% | 7% | The oil range closes the ceiling by a point |
| Eco Soy CSI 400 — not published | Sandalwood — soy up to 10% | Ask on WhatsApp | 6–8% | With one document missing, work low and confirm before scaling |
The working margin is the part most makers skip, so it is worth being explicit about what it buys. Pouring at 8% under a 10% ceiling means that if day-14 throw is marginal, you have a move available that costs nothing to justify: go to 9%, or 10%, with the same oil and the same paperwork. Pour at the ceiling on day one and every remaining move is a change of oil, wick or wax — which means a fresh approval, fresh samples and another two to three weeks of calendar. The margin is not caution. It is an option you are buying for about ₹245.44 of British Rose per kilogram of wax at 8%, rather than the higher figure at 10%.
The formula builder: nine decisions that fit on one line
The diagram at the top of this page is this section. Work down it once per SKU, in order, and stop at every step where you cannot fill in a figure from a product page, a scale or a thermometer. A gap is not a detail to sort out during the pour; it is the thing that will make batch four different from batch one.
The value of the one-line form is not tidiness. It is that a formula written as a line makes a change visible. When batch six smells different from batch one, you compare two lines and find the difference in ten seconds — a 500 g pack instead of a 1 kg pack, a C2 instead of a C1, a pour at 88°C because the melter was left on. When the formula lives in your head, the comparison is impossible and the usual conclusion is that the oil has changed.
The cure schedule: 48 hours, 14 days, 21 days — and what each one is allowed to tell you
CSI’s oil pages and wax pages are talking about two different things, and reading them as one contradiction is what leads makers to sell too early. Several oil pages — British Rose and Roasted Coffee among them — give a soy cure of 48 to 72 hours. That is the point at which a candle can be lit and inspected without the result being meaningless. The Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page asks for at least 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks before burn testing. Neither is wrong: 48 hours is the earliest useful reading, and throw in soy keeps developing after it. The working assumption for judging throw on a soy container candle is 14 days, and 21 days for the heavy end.
| Checkpoint | What you do | What you may conclude | What you may not conclude |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 hours | Lid off; look at the surface, the wax-to-glass line and the rim; note cold throw in a closed room | Surface faults, oil beading, adhesion, overfill | Anything about hot throw or final strength |
| Day 3 | First burn, three hours; measure pool diameter and depth | Wick fit — whether the pool reaches the wall and sits in the commonly used 6–12 mm depth band | Final throw; a day-3 candle is not finished |
| Day 5–7 | 48-hour hold at 35°C — a closed room in an Indian summer or a warm cupboard | Whether the load survives heat without seepage at the wax line | That it will survive a courier van in May; that is hotter |
| Day 14 | Second burn, three hours; two people score throw walking in from outside | Approval for citrus, herbal, aquatic, floral and fruity scents | That a vanilla-led gourmand is done developing |
| Day 21 | Third burn for gourmand, vanilla-led and woody scents; check colour against the day-0 photograph | Approval for the heavy end; expected yellowing on vanillin-carrying oils | — |
| On sale | Freeze the formula, close the record, keep two sealed samples | — | — |
The 35°C hold deserves its own paragraph, because it is the check that a stated ceiling cannot protect you from. A load can sit inside both published maximums and still push oil out of the wax when a candle spends a week in a Nagpur or Ahmedabad storeroom, or two days in a delivery van. Soy holds a finite amount of fragrance in solution; heat reduces it. Holding three candles at about 35°C for 48 hours and looking at the wax-to-glass line is a cheap, honest proxy for a summer despatch, and it is the check that failed on one of the three worked SKUs below.
The approval gate: nine checks, all of which must pass
Three candles from the approval batch go through this. Every check has a threshold you can write down before you start, and every fail has a named action. There is no “pass with a note”, because a note is what a busy October turns into a customer complaint in December.
| # | Check | Passes when | On a fail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Load inside both stated figures | Poured load ≤ the lower of the wax page maximum and the oil page range, with all three numbers on the sheet | Recalculate and re-pour; nothing else in the batch is valid |
| 2 | Weights match the declared load | Oil grams ÷ wax grams is within 0.2 percentage points of the declared load, weighed to 0.1 g | Re-pour; a mis-weighed batch is not a data point |
| 3 | Temperatures inside both windows | Add and pour readings inside the wax page range and inside any jar page limit — 80–85°C for CSI 464 in the 150 g clear jar | Re-pour; note the melter setting that caused it |
| 4 | 48-hour surface | No oil beading, adhesion unbroken around the full circumference, no overfill on the rim | Drop the load one point, or fix the pour temperature, and re-pour |
| 5 | Day-3 pool | Pool reaches the wall by three hours, depth inside the commonly used 6–12 mm band, flame steady | Move one step on the wick ladder — C1 to C2 — and re-run checks 4–8 |
| 6 | Day-14 second burn | No tunnelling, no mushrooming that a trim does not solve, no soot on the glass | Wick down one step; if the wick is already smallest, drop the load |
| 7 | Day-14 throw, two noses | Two people, entering a closed room from outside, both mark it clearly noticeable at the two-hour mark | Raise the load toward the governing ceiling, or change the oil — never both |
| 8 | 35°C hold, 48 hours | No seepage or beading at the wax-to-glass line; surface still level | Drop the load one to three points and re-pour; this is the summer check |
| 9 | Cost, documentation and record | Cost per candle inside your margin; MSDS and IFRA on file; lot numbers logged; two samples sealed | Do not launch; the candle may be fine and the SKU is not ready |
How to read the gate. All nine pass, or the SKU does not go on sale. A fail on checks 1 to 4 invalidates the whole batch, because those are pour-time faults; a fail on 5 to 8 costs you a wick step or a load step and a fresh cure clock. Checks 7 and 8 are the two that argue with each other — throw wants more load, heat wants less — and the honest resolution is almost always to fix throw with the wick, the pool and the cure first, and only then to spend load on it. Check 9 is the one makers resent and corporate buyers ask about first.
The record sheet: what has to be written down, and why a buyer asks for it
One sheet per batch, filled in as you go rather than afterwards. It takes about four minutes. The fields below are the minimum that lets you answer three questions later: what exactly did we pour, why was the load set there, and what did it do on each date.
| Field | Why it is on the sheet | SKU A example |
|---|---|---|
| Batch code and pour date | Ties candles, complaints and retained samples together | BR150-01 · 16 September 2026 |
| Container and fill | Sets the grams and the pour temperature limit | Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid, 150 g fill, ₹94.40 each at 10 |
| Wax grade, pack size, stated maximum | The outer ceiling, and the document you will be held to | Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464, 1 kg ₹507.40, page states up to 10% |
| Oil, pack size, stated range | The inner ceiling and the cure guidance | British Rose, 1 kg ₹3,068.00, page states soy up to 10%, cure 48–72 hours |
| Flashpoint and vanillin from the page | Handling, and whether yellowing is expected | 192°C · 0% vanillin |
| Governing ceiling and poured load | Shows the decision, not just the result | Governs 10% · poured 8% |
| Weights to 0.1 g | Proves the load; catches scale drift | 139.0 g wax · 11.1 g oil · 150.1 g total |
| Add temperature, stir time, pour temperature, ambient | The variables that move between batches without anyone touching the recipe | Add 85°C · stir 2 min · pour 82°C · ambient 31°C |
| Wick and position | The only lever that changes the pool | Eco C1, centred, wick sticker |
| Cure dates written in advance | Stops a busy week from shortening a cure | 48 h 18 Sep · day 3 19 Sep · day 14 30 Sep |
| Gate results, check by check | Turns “it was fine” into evidence | 1–9 pass; day-14 throw noted by two people |
| Retained samples and who approved | Batch-to-batch comparison and accountability | 2 jars sealed, dated, stored away from sunlight |
Two fields earn their place more than the rest. Ambient temperature, because it is the variable that changes without anyone deciding to change it — the same formula behaves differently in a 34°C Mumbai July workroom and a 20°C Delhi January one, and without the reading you will blame the oil. And retained samples, because a nose cannot remember a smell across three months but it can compare two jars in ten seconds. Two sealed jars per batch, stored in the dark, is the cheapest quality control in candle making.
A worked range: three SKUs from blank sheet to on-sale
SKU A — the everyday 150 g rose jar
Container: Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid, page states 150 g fill, 8 cm height, hot-pour safe to 85°C, ₹94.40 each at the pack of 10. Wax: CSI 464, stated maximum 10%, working range 80–90°C for melting and pouring. Oil: British Rose, page states soy up to 10%, flashpoint 192°C, 0% vanillin, cure 48–72 hours. Governing ceiling 10%, working load 8%. That is 139 g of wax and 11.1 g of oil: ₹70.53 of wax, ₹34.05 of oil, ₹5.90 for an Eco C1 wick and ₹94.40 for the jar — ₹204.88 a candle. Pour band 80–85°C, the overlap of the wax window and the jar limit.
Gate result: all nine passed on the first attempt. The 0% vanillin figure on the page means no yellowing to explain, which is why this SKU is the one to photograph for the shop. At day 14 both noses marked it clearly noticeable at two hours, and the 35°C hold showed a level surface and a clean wax-to-glass line. Frozen line: CSI 464 / 139 g · British Rose / 11.1 g · 8% · C1 · add 85°C · pour 82°C · cure 14 d. A hundred of them is ₹20,488.34 in materials.
SKU B — the festive 150 g cinnamon vanilla jar, and the round that failed
Container: Black Glass Jar with Black Lid, page states about 150 g fill, 8 cm height, roughly 7 cm outer rim, ₹107.00 each at the pack of 10; the page does not publish a pour-temperature limit, so the wax window governed and we asked on WhatsApp before scaling. Wax: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks, stated maximum 13%, melt to about 80–85°C, fragrance in at 80–90°C with a slow two-minute stir, pour at 75–80°C. Oil: Cinnamon Vanilla, page states up to 13% of total wax weight, flashpoint 132°C, 2.5% vanillin.
Both documents allowed 13%, so the first round was poured there: 133 g of wax and 17.2 g of oil — ₹79.67 of wax and ₹78.34 of oil, ₹270.91 a candle. Checks 1 to 6 passed. Check 8 did not: after 48 hours at about 35°C, two of the three candles showed beading at the wax-to-glass line. This is exactly the case the Cinnamon Vanilla page itself warns about when it calls this a higher-capacity oil to be tested at the lower end before committing to full production loads. The ceiling gave permission; the candle did not.
The second round dropped to 10%: 136 g of wax and 13.6 g of oil — ₹81.46 and ₹61.95, ₹256.31 a candle, ₹14.60 a candle cheaper than the version that failed. All nine checks passed, including the heat hold, and the day-14 throw was scored clearly noticeable by both noses, which is the part worth sitting with: three points of load bought no throw and cost ₹14.60 a candle plus a fortnight. Expected yellowing on white wax was recorded against the day-0 photograph and written into the product description as a characteristic of the scent rather than a defect. Frozen line: Chunks / 136 g · Cinnamon Vanilla / 13.6 g · 10% · C1 · add 85°C · pour 78°C · cure 21 d — 21 days, because this is the heavy end.
SKU C — the 70 g coffee votive for discovery sets
Container: White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram, 70 g fill, ₹31.86 each at the pack of 10. Wax: CSI 464, maximum 10%. Oil: Roasted Coffee, page states soy 6–10%, flashpoint approximately 191–193°C, vanillin in the vanilla and caramel base, cure 48–72 hours. Governing ceiling 10%, working load 8%: 65 g of wax and 5.2 g of oil — ₹32.98 and ₹19.44, ₹90.18 a candle. All nine checks passed, with one note on the sheet: at 70 g the burn life is short enough that the care card matters more than usual, and Candle Care Stickers at ₹413.00 for 500 cover it.
| SKU | Jar | Wax | Oil and load | Wax + oil + wick + jar | Cure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A · rose jar | Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid, 150 g, ₹94.40 | CSI 464, 139 g, ₹70.53 | British Rose, 11.1 g at 8%, ₹34.05 | ₹204.88 | 14 days |
| B · festive jar (rejected at 13%) | Black Glass Jar with Black Lid, 150 g, ₹107.00 | Chunks, 133 g, ₹79.67 | Cinnamon Vanilla, 17.2 g at 13%, ₹78.34 | ₹270.91 — failed check 8 | — |
| B · festive jar (approved at 10%) | Black Glass Jar with Black Lid, 150 g, ₹107.00 | Chunks, 136 g, ₹81.46 | Cinnamon Vanilla, 13.6 g at 10%, ₹61.95 | ₹256.31 | 21 days |
| C · coffee votive | White Matte Votive Jar, 70 g, ₹31.86 | CSI 464, 65 g, ₹32.98 | Roasted Coffee, 5.2 g at 8%, ₹19.44 | ₹90.18 | 14 days |
| One of each, approved | — | — | — | ₹551.37 | — |
What forces a re-approval, and what does not
Once a line is approved, the discipline is to change one thing at a time and to know which checks that change re-opens. Most changes do not need the whole gate again; two of them do. The table is the honest version of “we improved the packaging” — some improvements are formula changes wearing a different word.
| Change | Re-approve? | What to re-run |
|---|---|---|
| New lot of the same oil from the same supplier | Partial | Smell it against a retained sample; pour one candle at the approved line and run checks 4, 7 and 8 |
| Same scent name, different supplier | Full | It is a different oil with a different page. All nine checks, new sheet |
| Different wax grade | Full | The stated maximum changes, so the governing ceiling and the load change with it |
| Same wax, different pack size | No | Log the lot number; the formula is unchanged |
| Jar changed — different diameter or fill | Partial | Recompute grams from the new fill; re-run checks 4, 5, 6 and 8 |
| Load moved by one point or more | Partial | Checks 4 to 8; the throw and heat answers both move |
| Wick size changed | Partial | Checks 5 and 6, then 7 — the pool changes what the throw means |
| Dye or colour added or changed | Partial | Checks 4 and 9; the Cinnamon Vanilla page specifically advises testing how its vanillin interacts with your dye before full production |
| Summer despatch season | Partial | Check 8 only — hold three candles at 35°C again before the season, not during it |
| Label, box, care card, photography | No | Nothing. Change these freely |
What the gate costs, and what skipping it costs
Six candles per SKU. Three through the gate, three sealed. For the three worked SKUs that is ₹3,308.23, and with the failed 13% round included, ₹4,933.69. Set that against a production run of a hundred of each, ₹55,137.13: the full approval, failure and all, is under 9% of the run it protects, and it is paid once for a line you may pour for two years.
| Route | Spend | What you know at the end | What you carry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight to production, no gate | ₹55,137.13 | Nothing written down; three formulas that live in your head | ₹27,090.96 poured at an untested load on the one SKU that would have failed |
| Gate, three SKUs, six candles each | ₹3,308.23 | Nine checks on three formulas, dated, with retained samples | Nothing — every fail is caught on six candles |
| Gate plus one re-pour after a fail | ₹4,933.69 | Three frozen lines, one of them corrected from 13% to 10% | Nothing; and ₹14.60 a candle saved on SKU B for every future pour |
| Rework after launch | ₹25,630.93 to re-pour SKU B, plus freight and replacements | The same thing the gate would have told you a month earlier | Customers who already have the first version |
The rework line is the one worth reading twice. Re-pouring a hundred SKU B candles is ₹25,630.93 in materials alone, and that is the easy part — two CSI reviewers say plainly that shipping charges are high, and replacement freight on a hundred jars is paid twice, once out and once back. Add the fourteen to twenty-one days of cure you no longer have in a festive window, and a fail found after launch costs several times a fail found on six candles.
Against CSI’s own interest, two things are worth saying plainly. The gate usually points at a lower load, not a higher one. Of the three SKUs above, the one that changed came down from 13% to 10%, which means less oil per candle and a smaller reorder — and a reviewer of British Rose says the same thing from the other side, that you can go for the minimum percentage and still get the smell. And you do not need new materials to run a gate. Six candles, a scale that reads 0.1 g, a Pen Thermometer at ₹354.00, a warm cupboard and a written sheet is the entire apparatus. Everything else this series has recommended is optional next to those five things.
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles, so we have an obvious interest in higher fragrance loads and larger reorders. This page argues the other way and shows the working: the one SKU that changed during the worked approval came down from 13% to 10%, which is ₹14.60 a candle less oil on our invoice, and the whole gate can be run with six candles, a 0.1 g scale, a thermometer and a warm cupboard. Where a figure is not published we say so rather than supply an estimate.
Every price is from live CSI stock in September 2026 and the linked product pages are authoritative. Ceilings and temperatures are quoted from those pages: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 states up to 10% and gives 80–90°C as the working range for melting and pouring; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks states up to 13% with 8% as a starting point and 10% recommended, fragrance at 80–90°C with a two-minute stir, pouring at 75–80°C, and a cure of at least 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 states up to 13%, melting point 50–53°C and pouring at 58–60°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 does not publish a fragrance ceiling, so we point to WhatsApp. British Rose, Cinnamon Vanilla and Roasted Coffee figures — ranges, flashpoints, vanillin and cure — are quoted from their own pages. Fragrance loads are the wax and oil manufacturers’ stated formulation maximums. The nine-step builder, the nine-check gate, the 0.2 percentage-point and 35°C thresholds, the record sheet and the three worked SKUs are CSI’s framework and illustrations, not laboratory data.
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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; wording is otherwise unedited. One is below five stars and one is not recorded as a verified purchase — shown as recorded. Not recorded by Judge.me as a verified purchase, so shown without a verified-buyer badge: Emma Bechara. No location is shown against any review because Judge.me does not store one.
Figures verified September 2026 (CSI live pricing). Container pages: Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid — 150 g fill, 8 cm height, hot-pour safe to 85°C, pack of 10 ₹944.00 (₹94.40 each); Black Glass Jar with Black Lid — about 150 g fill, 8 cm height, about 7 cm outer rim, pack of 10 ₹1,070.00 (₹107.00 each); White Matte Votive Jar 70 gram — 70 g fill, pack of 10 ₹318.60 (₹31.86 each). Wax pages: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40, 500 g ₹260.00, 10 kg ₹5,074.00, up to 10% load, 80–90°C given as the working range for melting and pouring; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 1 kg ₹599.00, 500 g ₹299.00, up to 13% (8% starting point, 10% recommended), melt to about 80–85°C, fragrance at 80–90°C with a 2-minute stir, pour 75–80°C, cure at least 48 hours and ideally 1–2 weeks; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 1 kg ₹650.00, up to 13%, melting point 50–53°C, pour 58–60°C; Eco Soy CSI 400 1 kg ₹399.00, fragrance ceiling not published. Oil pages: British Rose 1 kg ₹3,068.00, 50 gm ₹212.40, soy up to 10%, flashpoint 192°C, 0% vanillin, cure 48–72 hours; Cinnamon Vanilla 1 kg ₹4,554.80, 50 gm ₹271.40, up to 13% of total wax weight, flashpoint 132°C, 2.5% vanillin, page advises testing at the lower end before full production loads and testing dye interaction; Roasted Coffee 1 kg ₹3,738.00, 50 gm ₹230.00, soy 6–10%, flashpoint approximately 191–193°C, vanillin in the base, cure 48–72 hours; Japanese Cherry Blossom 1 kg ₹4,842.00, 6–13%; Fresh Strawberries 1 kg ₹3,540.00, 6–9%; Sandalwood 1 kg ₹5,026.80, soy up to 10%; Palo Santo flashpoint 93°C; Gardenia Tuberose flashpoint 98°C. Wicks: Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) ₹590.00 per 100 (₹5.90 each), Thick (C2) ₹944.00 per 100 (₹9.44 each). Tools: Pen Thermometer ₹354.00; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00, only 2 in stock; Candle Care Stickers Roll ₹413.00 for 500. Computed: SKU A 139 g wax ₹70.53 plus 11.1 g British Rose ₹34.05 plus wick and jar = ₹204.88 (100 units ₹20,488.34); SKU B at 13% 133 g Chunks ₹79.67 plus 17.2 g Cinnamon Vanilla ₹78.34 = ₹270.91; SKU B at 10% 136 g ₹81.46 plus 13.6 g ₹61.95 = ₹256.31, a saving of ₹14.60 a candle; SKU C 65 g wax ₹32.98 plus 5.2 g Roasted Coffee ₹19.44 = ₹90.18; one of each approved ₹551.37; approval batch of six per SKU ₹3,308.23; failed round of six ₹1,625.46; full approval ₹4,933.69; production of a hundred each ₹55,137.13; the untested SKU B run ₹27,090.96; a hundred SKU B re-poured ₹25,630.93; British Rose oil at 8% per kilogram of wax ₹245.44. Pool depth of 6–12 mm, the 0.2 percentage-point weighing tolerance, the 35°C 48-hour hold, the two-nose throw check and the six-candle batch size are general practice and CSI worksheet design; the three SKUs and their gate results are illustrative, not customer records. Diwali 2026 is 8 November 2026. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.