I Changed My Fragrance Oil Supplier and the Scent Smells Almost Identical but My Wick Now Mushrooms — Why Can Apparently Similar Fragrance Oils Burn Differently?

I Changed My Fragrance Oil Supplier and the Scent Smells Almost Identical but My Wick Now Mushrooms — Why Can Apparently Similar Fragrance Oils Burn Differently?

 

Eco C1 wicks ₹59.00 for 10 · every pack in stock Sandalwood 100 g ₹502.68 · up to 10% for soy Santal Noir 100 g ₹919.00 · every size in stock
Same smell, new mushrooming · oil or wick?
Score the old and new oil in one build before you re-wick, stay or switch back.
★★★★★
"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
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"Good product and I fully satisfaction with my end result"
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Sacred Sandal Ember Fragrance Oil
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"Thankyou so much candle supplier M happy with the smell of dark vanilla M obsessed with the vanilla fragrance💕 I ll definitely shop again☺️"
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Dark Vanilla Oud
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"I like it."
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British Rose Fragrance Oil
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"Quality is good. Packaging was done right. Hope to get some discount in future for bulk buys"
Dipali SableVerified buyer · Aug 2024
Soy Pillar Wax (Specially made for Pillar and Designer Candles)
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"Very good"
Reena BagalVerified buyer · Oct 2025
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
★★★★☆
"Good product and I fully satisfaction with my end result"
Urvashi PatelVerified buyer · Aug 2026
Sacred Sandal Ember Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Thankyou so much candle supplier M happy with the smell of dark vanilla M obsessed with the vanilla fragrance💕 I ll definitely shop again☺️"
SUMAN BISHTJul 2025
Dark Vanilla Oud
★★★★★
"I like it."
AshwiniSep 2025
British Rose Fragrance Oil
★★★★★
"Quality is good. Packaging was done right. Hope to get some discount in future for bulk buys"
Dipali SableVerified buyer · Aug 2024
Soy Pillar Wax (Specially made for Pillar and Designer Candles)
★★★★★
"I liked it"
Raajull BhattVerified buyer · Oct 2025
[1 Year Warranty] Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter (1 litre capacity)
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CSI Diagnostics · Supplier Switch, Same Smell
Your nose judged what evaporates; the wick burns the whole oil. Rule out a hidden load or wick change, then score old and new oil in one identical build, plus one wick step down, and let the mushroom scores decide.
6 candles
old oil vs new oil vs new oil one step down, duplicated · CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
Why does a fragrance oil that smells the same burn differently? Because your nose judges only what evaporates at room temperature, and the wick burns everything. Two oils can share a smell and still differ in carriers or diluents, in density (so the same millilitres deliver different grams), and in heavier or slower-burning materials. Mushrooming is commonly linked to more fuel or residue at the wick than it burns cleanly.

How do I prove it is the oil? A paired scorecard: old oil and new oil in an identical build (same wax bag, wick lot, jar, weighed load, pour and day), plus the new oil one wick step down. Score mushrooming 0–3 at the end of every burn, with soot, flame and a blind throw score.

What decides the outcome? If the new oil mushrooms and the old doesn't, and one step down cleans it without losing throw, re-wick the new oil. If the step down costs throw or still mushrooms, keep the old oil or switch back. If both oils mushroom alike, the oil isn't the cause.

What does it cost? Six 150 g candles. Worked example with Santal Noir as the new oil in CSI 464: ₹1,477.21 of CSI materials plus 24 g of your old oil, excluding labour, freight, packaging and GST.
The short answer
The reason: equal smell is not equal burn. Scent is judged on what evaporates; combustion depends on the whole oil, including what you can't smell.
First checks (free): load weighed in grams, not ml; same wick lot; same trimming and burn length. A switch often hides a second change.
The scorecard: old oil ×2 and new oil ×2 on the current wick, new oil ×2 one step down; mushroom 0–3 per burn, soot, flame, blind throw, to the stop line.
The decision: re-wick the new oil if the step down cleans it and throw passes; keep the old oil or switch back if not; look elsewhere if both mushroom alike.
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In this guide
Equal smell, unequal burn: the paired scorecard Worked example, drawn to scale 0–3. Same wax, jar, load and pour; only the oil, then the wick, changes. 0 1 2 3 Old oil current wick New oil current wick New oil one step down 2.6 2.6 Cold throw (smell) 2.2 1.9 Hot throw at 2 h (smell) 0.4 0.6 Mushroom, mean of 6 burns 0.1 0.3 Soot on glass, mean 2.0 1.3 Score smell scores (blind, 0–3) burn scores (0 clean – 3 severe), mean per candle pair Read it: smell lines flat, burn lines jump = the oil changes combustion, not scent. One step down restores the burn at a small throw cost: re-wick, if that throw still passes. Numbers are invented.
A worked-example scorecard as a slope chart, drawn to scale from 0 to 3. The dashed smell lines barely move when the oil changes; the solid burn lines jump. The third column shows the re-wick arm. The numbers are invented to show the reading, not measured.
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Straight answer
I changed my fragrance oil supplier and the scent smells almost identical but my wick now mushrooms. Why can apparently similar fragrance oils burn differently?
Because "smells the same" is a verdict on the part of the oil that evaporates into your nose at room temperature, and a wick burns all of it. Two suppliers can reach a similar smell with different materials, different proportions of heavier or slower-burning components, different carriers or diluents, and a different density, so the same millilitres can carry a different weight of oil into the wax. Any of those can change how much fuel reaches the flame and how cleanly it burns, and mushrooming (a carbon cap on the wick) is commonly linked to more fuel or residue than the wick burns cleanly. None of that is visible on a smelling strip. Prove it before acting: first check that the switch didn't change something else (weighed load, wick lot, trimming, burn length); then pour a paired scorecard in one identical build, old oil against new on your current wick, plus the new oil one wick step down, and score mushrooming 0–3 at the end of every burn with soot, flame and a blind throw score. The scorecard tells you whether to keep the old oil, re-wick the new one, or switch back.
One line: the nose approves the smell, the scorecard approves the burn; pour both oils in one build, score the mushroom every burn, and let the step-down arm decide.
The re-wick arm is the only wick you need to buy: ten Eco C1 cost ₹59.00 (₹5.90 each), enough for the two step-down candles with spares. Every Eco pack is in stock on 26 September 2026.
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Why your nose can't approve a wick

Two oils can agree on everything you can smell and disagree on everything the flame has to burn.

A fragrance oil is a mixture, and your comparison was made on its most volatile part: what leaves a smelling strip or a cold candle at room temperature. At the wick the whole oil is drawn up with the melted wax and burned, including materials you barely smell and whatever the supplier uses to carry or dilute the scent. Suppliers commonly reach similar smells by different routes, and CSI publishes no compositions (suppliers commonly don't), so "almost identical" can hide real differences in what reaches the flame.

Mushrooming, the carbon cap that grows on a wick tip, is commonly linked to a wick that is large for the fuel it is drawing, heavy fragrance loads, some fragrance components, and long burns. Swap the oil and leave the wick, and the balance the wick was chosen for may no longer hold. That is a tendency, not a verdict on either oil: some new oils burn cleaner than the old. The only way to know which way yours went is to burn them side by side in a build where nothing else differs.

Where this sits among neighbouring posts
A new batch of the same oil from the same supplier that soots more is the new-batch mini re-bracket. The full requalification of a new supplier (cold, hot, colour, wick, stability) is the supplier-switch test battery; the minimum retest set when the new oil smells the same is the lookalike-oil retest post. This page owns one thing: proving whether the new oil changed the burn, and deciding what to do about the wick.

Mushrooming after a switch: what else changed?

A supplier switch is rarely one change. Find the others before you blame the oil.

Ranked most common first, which is editorial judgement; CSI publishes no failure statistics. Rows 1 to 3 cost nothing to check and are the ones we would rule out before pouring anything.

Differential table · new oil smells the same, wick now mushrooms
Ranked most common first (judgement) · rule-in and rule-out from your records and the scorecard
# What you find Likely cause Rules it in Rules it out
1 Oil measured by ml or "a cap" A hidden load change: the new oil weighs differently per ml 10 ml of each weighs a different number of grams Both weighed in grams on total weight
2 New wicks arrived around the same time Wick lot, not oil Old oil also mushrooms on the new wicks Old oil clean on the same wick lot
3 Longer burns or less trimming lately Burn habits Mushroom tracks session length, not oil Same session length and trim, still differs
4 Mushroom grows faster with the new oil in an identical build The new oil changes combustion at this wick Scorecard: new oil scores higher every burn, duplicates agree Scorecard: both oils score alike
5 New oil darker, or leaves the wax tinted Colour or heavier materials in the new oil (tendency) Tint in the wax; mushroom and soot worse Same colour, still worse (row 4 applies)
6 Mushroom only in the last third Late-burn heat, not the switch Old oil candles also mushroom late (3247) Early burns already differ

Row 1 deserves its place at the top. A maker who measures "8 ml per 100 g" has set a volume, not a weight; if the new oil is denser, the candle now holds more oil than before, and more fuel at the same wick is a commonly cited route to a carbon cap. That is not the new oil being worse; it's the recipe being in the wrong unit. The load-basis hub sets out weighing on total weight.

Mistake: comparing a new-oil candle poured this week with an old-oil candle poured two months ago. What it does: cure age, wick lot, wax bag and your own process have all moved, and a mushroom difference could belong to any of them. Fix: both oils poured on the same day, from the same wax, with wicks from the same pack. That is the whole point of a paired scorecard.

Three checks before any new candle

Each of these has ended a "bad oil" investigation without a single test pour.

1. Weigh 10 ml of each oil. Same syringe, same scale, tared container. If the grams differ, your volume recipe delivered a different load, and the first fix is to weigh on total weight (150 g at 8% = 12 g of oil and 138 g of wax) and re-pour, not to change the wick. 2. Check the wick lot. If your wicks came from a new pack or carton at the same time as the oil, pour one old-oil candle on the new wicks; if it mushrooms too, the oil is cleared (the new-wick-carton comparison covers wick lots). 3. Compare burn habits. Mushrooming commonly grows with session length and with skipped trims. If the new-oil candles were burned longer, the difference may be the evenings, not the oil.

Ask both suppliers for the paperwork
Ask your old and new suppliers for their SDS (MSDS) and IFRA documents and the lot number of what you bought. They won't show the full formula, but they can show that two "identical" oils are different products. CSI provides MSDS and IFRA documentation on request on WhatsApp. For choosing between supplier samples before a switch, see comparing oil samples before a wholesale supplier.

The paired scorecard

Six candles, one build, one question per arm: does the oil change the burn, and does one wick step fix it?

Three arms, duplicated. A1, A2: old oil, current wick (the control). B1, B2: new oil, current wick. C1, C2: new oil, one wick step down (the re-wick arm). Everything else identical: one bag of wax, wicks from one pack, the same jar, the same load weighed on total weight, poured on the same day at the same temperature. The worked example uses CSI 464 in the 150 g jar at 8%, current wick C2, step-down C1; pour at 80–85°C (the jar page's 85°C governs).

Scoring scale · recorded at the end of every session, before trimming
Editorial judgement: set the scale before you start and don't change it mid-test
Score Mushroom (wick tip) Soot (tissue wipe of the glass) Throw (blind, on entering)
0 Clean tip Nothing on the tissue Nothing noticeable
1 Small bead of carbon Faint grey Only within a metre
2 Distinct cap wider than the wick Clear grey band Noticeable across the room
3 Large cap, smoke, or carbon dropping in the pool Black Fills the room
1
Confirm the smell match, blindBefore burning, check "almost identical" is true: cold candles or strips in coded jars, a second person sniffing. If they can tell the oils apart easily, note it; you are now also changing the scent (3190 covers what that implies).
2
Pour the six on one day48 g of new oil for four candles, 24 g of old oil for two, 828 g of wax. Label bases, not lids, so the scorer can't see which is which. Cure at least 48–72 hours (common for soy); many makers wait a week.
3
Burn in four-hour sessions, one room, same startUp to 4 hours a session (common practice), candles at least 1 metre apart and within sight. Trim every wick to the same length before each session.
4
Score at the end of every session, before trimmingMushroom 0–3, soot 0–3 from a tissue wipe, flame height against a ruler at 2 hours, pool depth at the end. Throw is scored blind on separate evenings, one candle at a time, by someone entering from outside.
5
Carry on to the stop lineAbout 1 cm of wax left. Mushrooming commonly builds over several burns, and a new oil that looks fine for two sessions may not be fine for six (6 scored sessions per candle in the worked example).
6
Average per arm, per burnDuplicates must agree within about a point (judgement); if they don't, the arm needs more candles, not a verdict.
Bill of materials · six-candle paired scorecard · worked example
New oil Santal Noir; CSI 464; 150 g jar; C2 current, C1 step-down; 8% of total weight · CSI live pricing, 26 September 2026
Item Bought as Used Cost of what is used
Santal Noir (new oil) 100 g, ₹919.00 (₹9.19/g) 48 g (52 g left) ₹441.12
Your old oil your own stock 24 g your price
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg, ₹507.40 (₹0.51/g) 828 g (172 g left) ₹420.13
Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10, ₹944.00 6 jars ₹566.40
Eco C2 and C1 10 of each, ₹94.40 and ₹59.00 4 C2 + 2 C1 ₹49.56
Scorecard, CSI materials cash from nothing ₹2,523.80 6 candles ₹1,477.21 (with Sandalwood as the new oil: ₹1,277.37)

Costs are worked examples and exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST, and the old oil at your own price. Santal Noir's page states no candle load, so the worked example stays at 8%, inside CSI 464's "Up to 10%" (15 g per 150 g, or 13.64 g if that unstated basis is wax weight); never go above the lower of the wax page's and any oil page's stated maximum. Two 50 g bottles of Santal Noir would cost ₹79.00 more than the 100 g and a single 50 g leaves only 2 g, so the 100 g is the right test buy.

Keep the old oil, re-wick the new one, or switch back

The scorecard gives you three honest outcomes. Price is only allowed to choose between the ones that pass.
Decision rule · paired scorecard to the stop line
Read arm means per burn · "clean" = mushroom and soot within about a point of the old oil (A) on every burn · "matches" = blind throw within about half a point of A · duplicates agree
What you see What it means Decision Purchase
B scores like A The oil isn't the cause Keep the new oil and current wick; recheck wick lot, trimming, burn length Nothing
B mushrooms more; C is clean, reaches the edge, and its blind throw matches A The new oil needs a smaller wick Re-wick the new oil; record it as a new spec (the spec-lock post) C1 for production, after a burn-down
B mushrooms more; C is clean but throws less or falls short of the edge The new oil costs you performance either way Keep the old oil while you have it, or switch back; the saving isn't free Nothing new
B mushrooms more; C also mushrooms The new oil burns dirtier at this load in this build Switch back, or test a lower load within the page ranges before deciding Nothing yet
B mushrooms less than A The new oil burns cleaner Keep it; the old wick may even run a little small, so watch the pool Nothing

Then do the arithmetic the switch was for. If you changed supplier to save money, work out the saving per candle and set it against the retest and any wick change. Worked example: a new oil ₹1.00 a gram cheaper saves ₹12.00 of oil per 150 g candle at 8%, ₹6,000.00 over a 500-candle run; after the scorecard's ₹1,477.21 of CSI materials, ₹4,522.79 remains. That is worth having only if the re-wicked candle passes to the stop line. If the saving is smaller, or the new oil needs a lower load to burn clean, the old oil may still be the cheaper candle.

Honest about our own oils: if you switched to a perfume-grade oil like our Santal Noir to replace a candle sandalwood, the scorecard may tell you to switch back, and on price alone our own candle-grade Sandalwood (₹60.32 of oil per candle at 1 kg against ₹109.44) is the cheaper candidate to test. We would rather you ran the scorecard on both than bought 1 kg of either on the strength of a smelling strip.

Spending around a supplier switch

Mushrooming invites big fixes. The scorecard is small so that the fix can be small too.
What not to buy yet: A 1 kg of the new oil before the scorecard has reached the stop line; a 100 g covers the test. A different wax: a second variable while the first is unresolved, and a wax change resets the wick anyway (the wax-change retest post). A bigger wick: mushrooming points the other way, and a larger wick commonly makes carbon worse. More oil to match the old strength: if the smell is already the same, more fuel at the wick is the last thing a mushrooming candle needs. A trimmer (₹588.82) if you already trim consistently with scissors.
When the right purchase is nothing: if 10 ml of the two oils weigh differently and you measure by volume, weigh the load in grams and re-pour before anything else. In our judgement, a good share of "the new oil mushrooms" cases end there.

Oils, wicks and tools for the scorecard

Five items: a perfume-grade new-oil example, a candle-grade sandalwood to test alongside it, the re-wick arm, and the two tools that keep the comparison fair. Chosen on page statements, price per gram or unit and stock on 26 September 2026; CSI has no measured burn or throw data, so nothing is ranked on performance. Oil tables show every size and 150 g candles at 8%.

1
fragrance oil · woody · a perfume-grade sandalwood-amber
Santal Noir
If your new oil is a creamy sandalwood, this is the kind of oil the scorecard exists for. The listing gives "Top Notes: Soft Spice, Subtle Green Accord | Heart Notes: Creamy Sandalwood, Light Cedar | Base Notes: Warm Amber, Musk, Dry Woods" and "Best worn as EDP (20–25%)"; that is a perfume figure, not a candle load, and the text we captured states no candle load, cure or wick at all. So it is untested in candles until you test it: stay inside CSI 464's "Up to 10%" (the worked example uses 8%, 12 g per 150 g candle). The description text also calls the scent "Sacred Santal"; confirm on WhatsApp which scent ships under this listing before you compare it with anything. Every size is in stock on 26 September 2026. Argued against our own interest: at the 1 kg price its oil costs ₹109.44 per 150 g candle against ₹60.32 for our candle-grade Sandalwood, ₹49.12 more; it is not a cost-cutting switch, and the 500 g (₹9.20/g) is fractionally dearer per gram than the 100 g.
Size Price Per gram 150 g candles at 8%
15g ₹166.00 ₹11.07 1
50g ₹499.00 ₹9.98 4
100g ₹919.00 ₹9.19 8
500g ₹4,599.00 ₹9.20 41
1kg ₹9,120.00 ₹9.12 83
Four new-oil candles: 48 g = ₹441.12. Buy 100 g — ₹919.00
2
fragrance oil · woody · the candle-grade sandalwood
Sandalwood Fragrance Oil
The alternative with a candle page: "Recommended load up to 10% for soy", a "cure time of 48-72 hours", "0% vanillin - no discolouration" (the page's claim; test anyway) and "Moderate to strong throw", a page description, not a measurement. It describes a "warm, creamy, luxurious single-note sandalwood". If you are switching suppliers to save money on a sandalwood, compare this in the scorecard too. Every size is in stock on 26 September 2026. Argued against our own interest: from 100 g up the price is flat at ₹5.03 a gram, so the 500 g and 1 kg save nothing over the 100 g for a test; and a page that states a load is still no proof of how it burns with your wick. The scorecard decides.
Size Price Per gram 150 g candles at 8%
15 g ₹93.22 ₹6.21 1
50 g ₹271.40 ₹5.43 4
100 g ₹502.68 ₹5.03 8
500 g ₹2,513.40 ₹5.03 41
1 kg ₹5,026.80 ₹5.03 83
Four candles in the scorecard: ₹241.29. Buy 100 g — ₹502.68
3
wick · the re-wick arm
Eco Candle Wicks — Thin (C1) and Thick (C2)
The worked example assumes your current wick is C2 and tests one step down, C1, with the new oil. Mushrooming is commonly linked to a wick that is too large for the fuel reaching it, and a new oil can change that balance with the wick unchanged, which is why the re-wick arm steps down, not up. The page describes wicks made from "natural fibers like cotton and paper" that "pair perfectly with soy wax". Every pack is in stock on 26 September 2026 at a flat price per wick (₹5.90 for C1, ₹9.44 for C2).
Size Price Per unit What it covers
Thick (C2) / 10 ₹94.40 ₹9.44 the four current-wick candles in the worked example
Thin (C1) / 10 ₹59.00 ₹5.90 the two one-step-down candles, eight spare
Thin (C1) / 100 ₹590.00 ₹5.90 production, only if the re-wick verdict holds to the stop line
Scorecard wicks: ₹49.56. Buy C1 — ₹59.00
4
tool · identical trimming between scored burns
Candle Wick Trimmer
A mushroom score means nothing if one candle was trimmed shorter than another. Score at the end of each session, then trim every candle the same way before the next; the page's tip is "Trim your wick to 1/4 inch before every burn", and it has a "debris catcher" for the carbon you remove. Argued against our own interest: the smaller cutter at ₹177.00 (₹411.82 less) or clean scissors on a cooled wick do the same job; what matters is the same length every time.
Size Price Per unit What it covers
Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82 ₹588.82 trimming every candle identically between scored burns
Candle Wick Cutter (smaller) ₹177.00 ₹177.00 the same job for less
Score first, then trim, every session. Buy — ₹588.82
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tool · rules out a hidden load change
Candle Making Weighing Scale
If you measure oil by the millilitre, a switch of supplier can change your load without your knowing: two oils that smell alike need not weigh the same per millilitre. Weigh 10 ml of each on a scale; if the grams differ, your "8%" differs too, and a heavier dose can look like a burn problem. The page describes a digital scale showing "grams or ounces"; it does not state capacity or reading step. Argued against our own interest: any scale that reads single grams with a tare button will do.
Size Price Per unit What it covers
Single ₹354.00 ₹354.00 weighing oil in grams, and weighing 10 ml of each oil (capacity and reading step not stated)
Weigh oil in grams: 12 g is 8% of 150 g. Buy — ₹354.00
Diwali is 8 November 2026, 43 days from 26 September 2026. Six scored sessions to the stop line take time, so a supplier switch that isn't settled by mid-October is safer made after the festive run, with your old oil carrying production meanwhile. Send us your quantities and we will quote oil, wicks and wax with a GST invoice and a dispatch date.
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The CSI principle
The nose approves the smell. Only the flame approves the oil.
Pour the old and new oil in one identical build, score the wick every burn to the stop line, and let a one-step-down arm tell you whether to re-wick, stay or switch back.
"Two oils can agree on every note you can smell and still disagree on what the wick has to burn. That's why the switch needs a scorecard, not a sniff."
— CandleMakingSuppliesIndia
Why trust this guide

CandleMakingSuppliesIndia sells the oils, wax, wicks and tools named here, and does not sell finished candles. This page still tells you that our Santal Noir is not a cost-cutting replacement for a candle sandalwood, that the scorecard may tell you to switch back, that our cheaper cutter or scissors do the trimmer's job, and that the fix is often a scale and a re-pour rather than anything new.

Every price was verified on CSI's live store on 26 September 2026; every size in the pick tables is in stock on that date. Load, cure and wick wording is quoted from the product pages; where a page is silent in the text we captured (Santal Noir's candle load, cure and wick; the scale's capacity), we say so. CSI publishes no oil compositions, batch data or reformulation notices; lot numbers and documents are on request.

The cause ranking, the 0–3 scales, the "within about a point" margin and the decision rows are editorial judgement; the chart's scores and the ₹1.00-a-gram saving are invented worked examples; CSI publishes no measured burn or throw data. For bulk pricing, GST invoicing, and MSDS and IFRA documentation on request, message us on WhatsApp at +91 7397976926.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my wick mushroom with a new fragrance oil?
Mushrooming is commonly linked to more fuel or residue reaching the wick than it burns cleanly. A new oil can differ in heavier materials, carriers or density even when it smells the same. First check the load is weighed in grams and the wick lot is unchanged, then compare the oils in one identical build.
Can two fragrance oils that smell the same burn differently?
Yes. Your nose judges what evaporates at room temperature; the wick burns the whole oil. Different suppliers can reach a similar smell with different materials and diluents, which can change soot, flame and mushrooming. A paired burn test is the only way to know.
Should I use a smaller wick with my new fragrance oil?
Test it rather than assume it. Pour the new oil on your current wick and one step down, with the old oil as a control, and score mushroom and soot each burn to the stop line. Re-wick only if the smaller wick is clean, reaches the edge and still throws like the old oil.
How do I compare two fragrance oil suppliers for candles?
Same wax bag, wick pack, jar, weighed load, pour temperature and day for both oils, duplicated. Score cold throw blind, then burn in 4-hour sessions scoring mushroom, soot, flame and hot throw each time, to about 1 cm left. Ask both suppliers for SDS and IFRA documents.
Does measuring fragrance oil in ml cause problems when I switch oils?
It can. Oils that smell alike need not weigh the same per millilitre, so the same ml can deliver a different load. Weigh 10 ml of each; if they differ, switch to weighing oil in grams on total candle weight before judging the new oil.
What fragrance load should I use for Santal Noir in candles?
Its page states no candle load in the text we captured; the 20–25% on the page is a perfume figure. Work inside your wax's stated ceiling (CSI 464: up to 10%), test at 6% and 8%, and judge the burn with a scorecard before committing.
Before you blame, or keep, the new oil
Weigh 10 ml of each, then score six candles; if one step down cleans it, ten C1 wicks cost ₹59.00.
Rule out a hidden load change, a new wick lot and longer burns. Then pour old and new oil in one build, plus the new oil one wick step down, and score mushroom 0–3 every burn to the stop line. Re-wick, stay or switch back on what the scorecard shows. Send it to us and we will help you read it.
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Continue the read — candles with several problems at once
Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: part of CSI's multi-problem diagnostic cluster (3281–3300). It owns the equal-smell, unequal-burn paired scorecard for a supplier switch (old vs new oil in one identical build, plus the new oil one wick step down; mushroom 0–3 per burn with soot, flame and blind throw) and the keep, re-wick or switch-back decision, with a ranked differential table labelled as judgement, three free pre-checks and a costed bill of materials. Same-supplier batch changes are 3267; full requalification is 3189 and the lookalike minimum retest 3190.

Customer reviews: The six reviews at the top of this page are genuine, published Judge.me reviews left by CSI customers on the product pages named on each card — British Rose Fragrance Oil, Dark Vanilla Oud, Sacred Sandal Ember Fragrance Oil, Sandalwood Fragrance Oil, Soy Pillar Wax (Specially made for Pillar and Designer Candles), [1 Year Warranty] Mini Electric Wax/Soap Melter (1 litre capacity). They are general product reviews, not assessments of the diagnostic advice on this page. Names, star ratings, dates and products are as recorded by Judge.me and wording is unedited. "Verified buyer" appears only on reviews Judge.me recorded as verified — Reena Bagal, Urvashi Patel, Dipali Sable, Raajull Bhatt. The reviews from SUMAN BISHT, Ashwini are published but not recorded as verified, and carry no badge. Reviews below five stars are included as published, not filtered out.

Figures verified 26 September 2026, CSI live pricing: Santal Noir 15 g ₹166.00 (₹11.07/g), 50 g ₹499.00 (₹9.98/g), 100 g ₹919.00 (₹9.19/g), 500 g ₹4,599.00 (₹9.20/g), 1 kg ₹9,120.00 (₹9.12/g); Sandalwood Fragrance Oil 15 g ₹93.22 (₹6.21/g), 50 g ₹271.40 (₹5.43/g), 100 g ₹502.68 (₹5.03/g), 500 g ₹2,513.40 (₹5.03/g), 1 kg ₹5,026.80 (₹5.03/g); Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40; Clear Glass Jar with Golden Lid (150 gram) Pack of 10 ₹944.00; Eco Candle Wicks Thick (C2) 10 ₹94.40, Thin (C1) 10 ₹59.00, 100 ₹590.00; Candle Wick Trimmer ₹588.82; Candle Wick Cutter ₹177.00; Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354.00. All in stock on 26 September 2026. Per gram = price ÷ grams; per unit = pack price ÷ units; two decimals. Worked costs use the exact per-gram price, then round.

Non-price figures: load is a percentage of total candle weight (150 g at 8% = 12 g oil + 138 g wax). CSI 464 up to 10%, pour 80–90°C; 150 g jar hot pour up to 85°C; Sandalwood page up to 10% for soy, cure 48–72 hours; Santal Noir's 20–25% is a perfume (EDP) figure and its page states no candle load; ceilings are formulation limits, not regulatory limits. The 4-hour session cap and 1 cm stop line are common practice. The scoring scales, margins, cause ranking and decisions are editorial judgement; the chart's scores and the ₹1.00-a-gram saving are invented worked examples. Costs exclude labour, freight, packaging and GST, and your old oil. Diwali 8 November 2026 is a calendar fact.
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