Maximum Fragrance Load vs Best-Performing Fragrance Load — What's the Difference?
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Your wax publishes a maximum. Nobody publishes your best-performing load — because it is a property of your candle, not of the bag.
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Candle Business Guides · Fragrance Load
A maximum is a formulation limit: how much oil a specific wax has been formulated to hold, published by whoever made the wax. A best-performing load is the figure at which your particular candle performs best — and no product page anywhere can tell you that number, because it depends on things that live in your workshop rather than in the bag.
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product pages that publish a best-performing load · 4 of CSI's 15 wax pages state a maximum and 1 adds a recommendation, but the performing load is set by your wax × oil × wick × vessel × cure · stated specifications and CSI live pricing, September 2026
Quick answers — read this first
What is the difference between a maximum load and a best-performing load? A maximum is how much oil the wax can hold in solution — a formulation limit, stated by the wax maker. A best-performing load is how much oil your candle performs best with, which is almost always lower, and which only a cured, scored burn test can find. One is a boundary you must not cross. The other is a result you have to produce.Where do I find each number? The maximum is on the product page: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks "up to 13%", CSI 468 "Up to 13%", CSI 464 "Up to 10%". The best-performing load is on your own score sheet, and it is different for each wax-and-oil pair you sell.
Is the maximum ever the best-performing load? Sometimes, and it is a legitimate answer — but it is the least likely single value in the range, because it is the most expensive one and the one closest to sweating. Treat "the ceiling won" as a conclusion that needs the same evidence as any other.
What is the difference worth in money? Two percentage points across a year of 6,000 × 200 g candles is 24 kg of extra oil. On Lavender at 1 kg pricing that is ₹1,25,304, less ₹12,177.60 of wax you no longer buy — a net ₹1,13,126.40 riding on one number you can settle with twelve votive jars.
The short answer
The maximum belongs to the materials; the optimum belongs to the candle: a ceiling describes a wax's capacity. A best-performing load describes an outcome produced by a wax, an oil, a wick, a vessel, a cure and a room acting together.
Your working ceiling is the lower of two published figures: the wax's and the oil's. Your search space is everything underneath it, down to a floor you choose — and the best-performing load is somewhere in that band.
Find it with three loads, two burn days and a score sheet: twelve 70 g votives, ₹1,643.30 of materials, one variable, gates before scores, and the lowest load that nobody can separate from the best one wins.
In this guide
All three ceilings are the lower of the two figures published for that pair, converted to a share of the finished candle where a page phrases its figure as a share of total wax weight. Floors are the lower end of the oil page's own stated band where it gives one (Lavender 6–10% of total wax weight) and 8% where the page says "Start at 8-10%" (Cinnamon Vanilla). Nothing here is a test result.
A stated ceiling to work under
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A stated band to search inside
Lavender · 100 gm ₹540
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Straight answer
What is the difference between the maximum fragrance load and the best-performing fragrance load?
The maximum is a statement about the wax. It describes how much fragrance oil that specific formulation will hold in solution, and it is published by whoever made it: Luxury Soy Wax Chunks state "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 "Fragrance Load Up to 10%". Cross it and the surplus stops dissolving. The best-performing load is a statement about your candle — this oil, in that wax, on that wick, in that vessel, after that many days of cure, judged in a room of that size. It cannot be published, because four of its six inputs are yours. So the two numbers do different jobs: the maximum tells you where the search stops, and the search tells you where to stand inside it. In practice your working ceiling is the lower of two published figures — the wax's and the oil's, which is why Sandalwood's "Up to 10% for soy wax" caps a 13% wax at 10% — and your search space is the band from a floor you can defend up to that ceiling: 16 g to 23 g of oil in a 200 g candle on Chunks with Cinnamon Vanilla, 11.32 g to 18.18 g on CSI 464 with Lavender. Three loads inside that band, four jars each, two burn days, gates before scores, and a rule written down before you smell anything: the lowest load nobody can separate from the best one wins. Twelve 70 g votives and ₹1,643.30 of materials settle a number worth ₹1,13,126.40 a year at 6,000 candles.
One line: the maximum is published and describes the wax; the best-performing load is unpublished and describes your candle — so obey the first and go and measure the second.
Everything a three-load test needs: Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 with a stated ceiling of up to 10%, Lavender 100 gm ₹540 with a stated 6–10% candle band, Clear Glass Votive Jars from ₹159.30 for 5 and Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10.
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Two numbers, two authorities
One of these numbers is handed to you. The other one you have to earn, and nobody can earn it on your behalf.
Most load arguments in maker groups are really this confusion in disguise. Somebody says "soy takes 10%", somebody else says "I run 6% and mine are stronger", and both are talking about different things: the first about a capacity, the second about an outcome. Set them side by side and the argument dissolves.
The two numbers, line by line
Who states each one, what it describes, and what it can never tell you
| Maximum fragrance load | Best-performing fragrance load | |
|---|---|---|
| Who states it | The wax maker, on the wax page; sometimes also the oil, on the oil page | Nobody. You establish it, and it belongs to one recipe |
| What it describes | How much oil that formulation holds in solution | How much oil produces the result you want in your finished candle |
| What it depends on | The wax alone — and, on the oil side, the blend alone | Wax, oil, load, wick, vessel diameter, cure length, and the room it is judged in |
| How it behaves if you exceed it | The oil stops dissolving: separation, a film on the surface, a wick drawing oil | You are paying for oil nobody can detect — an invisible, permanent cost |
| How you find it | Read the page. It takes ten seconds | Pour three loads, cure them, score them blind. It takes three to four weeks |
| How often it changes | Only if the wax formulation changes | Every time you change the oil, the wick, the vessel or the wax |
| What it is for | Telling you where to stop | Telling you where to stand |
| Typical relationship | The upper bound of the search | Usually below it, occasionally at it, never above it |
The last row is the one to internalise. A ceiling is not a target and it is not a quality grade. A wax stated to 13% is not "better" than one stated to 10% — it has more capacity, which is useful if your oil and your candle want it, and irrelevant if they do not. 10% is a ceiling on one CSI wax and a recommendation on another, which is exactly why the number on its own settles nothing.
The mistake: reading "up to 13%" as "use 13%". Capacity language is descriptive. The Chunks page says "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", gives a recommended band of "8% to 13% of total wax weight", and then — in the same description — states "10% Recommended". A maker who reads only the first phrase pours 13%, pays for it forever, and never discovers that their own candle could not be told apart from the same recipe at 9%. Read the whole page, then run the test. And if a page states nothing at all — eleven of CSI's fifteen wax pages do not state a load — you have no ceiling to work under, so hold a conservative figure and establish behaviour before you climb.
What the pages actually publish — all of it
It is worth seeing the whole documentary picture, because it explains why the best-performing load has to be your job. Across CSI's fifteen wax pages and 107 fragrance-oil pages, here is what exists and what does not.
Documentary audit · CSI wax and fragrance-oil pages, September 2026
What is published, how many pages publish it, and what it can settle for you
| What is published | How many pages | What it settles | What it leaves open |
|---|---|---|---|
| A wax's maximum fragrance load | 4 of 15 wax pages | The top of your search space | Everything below it |
| A wax's recommended load | 1 of 15 — Chunks, "10% Recommended" | A sensible place to start the search | Whether your candle agrees |
| A wax's numeric melting point | 4 of 15, from "100°F (37.8°C)" to "80°C – 90°C" | How to handle the wax | Your actual pool temperature in your vessel |
| An oil's candle usage percentage | 81 of 107 oil pages | The oil's own view of the band | Which point in the band performs |
| An oil's measured flash point | 18 of 107 — 32 more give only the "> 93°C" alcohol-based threshold, 56 give nothing | Where to keep your add temperature, on those 18 | Nothing about throw at any load |
| An oil's note pyramid or profile | 88 of 107 give a full pyramid, 14 a profile, 5 neither | What the blend is built from | How much of it survives your pool |
| A best-performing load | 0 of 122 pages | — | The entire question this page is about |
What an IFRA line is, and what it is not
IFRA — the International Fragrance Association — publishes usage standards for fragrance materials by product category, and an IFRA document for a blend states the maximum concentration for those categories. That is a safety-and-compliance framework for the material, not a performance rating and not a candle recipe. CSI pages use many different phrasings: 32 say "IFRA compliance Yes - skin-safe within category limits", 13 carry a bare IFRA specification row whose value is simply "Yes", 26 add "IFRA compliant within these limits" under their own usage table — and 36 of the 107 pages never mention IFRA at all. No page publishes a certificate number, an amendment number, a category number or a date, so this guide does not either, and you should not infer a document exists for a given oil. If documentation matters to your buyer, ask: CSI supplies MSDS and IFRA documentation on request on WhatsApp. None of it will tell you your best-performing load.Your search space, in grams
Before you test, define the band. The top is the lower of your two published figures — that half of the arithmetic is worked through in does adding more fragrance oil improve hot throw. The bottom is a floor you can defend: the low end of the oil page's own band if it gives one, or a figure you are willing to sell at if it does not. Everything between them is where the answer lives, and expressing it in grams rather than percentages is what makes it testable.
Search space per pair · 200 g finished candle · stated figures, September 2026
The floor, the ceiling, the grams between them, and how many 1-point steps that is
| Wax × oil | What each page states | Working ceiling | Defensible floor | Search space (oil in a 200 g candle) | Room for 1-point steps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chunks × Cinnamon Vanilla | Wax "8% to 13% of total wax weight"; oil "Up to 13% of total wax weight", "Start at 8-10%" | 11.5% of the candle (13% of wax weight) | 8% — the oil page's own starting figure | 16 g to 23.01 g · a 7.01 g band | Three steps (8, 9.5, 11.5) |
| CSI 464 × Lavender | Wax "Fragrance Load Up to 10%"; oil "6-10% of total wax weight" | 9.09% of the candle (10% of wax weight) | 5.66% (6% of wax weight) | 11.32 g to 18.18 g · a 6.86 g band | Three steps (6, 8, 9) |
| CSI 468 × Sandalwood | Wax "Fragrance Load Up to 13%"; oil "Up to 10% for soy wax" | 10% — the oil binds, not the wax | 6%, chosen by you (the page states no floor) | 12 g to 20 g · an 8 g band | Four steps (6, 7.5, 9, 10) |
| Natural Soy Pearl Wax × Jasmine | Wax states no load at all; oil "Up to 10% for soy wax" | 10%, on the oil's authority only | 6%, chosen by you | 12 g to 20 g, with less confidence | Test the top of the band last, not first |
Worked out above: oil in a 200 g candle = 200 × the load read as a share of the finished candle. Where a page phrases its figure as a share of total wax weight, it is converted the conservative way: 13% of wax weight = 13 ÷ 113 = 11.504% of the candle = 23.0088 g; 10% of wax weight = 10 ÷ 110 = 9.0909% = 18.1818 g; 6% of wax weight = 6 ÷ 106 = 5.6604% = 11.3208 g. Rounding down is always the safe direction near a ceiling. Prices used in the test below: CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹0.5074/g) and Lavender 1 kg ₹5,221 (₹5.221/g). The two conventions themselves are unpicked in how to calculate fragrance load for candles.
Notice the fourth row. When the wax page is silent, your only published figure comes from the oil, and a single-sided ceiling deserves more caution: run the low and middle arms first, and only pour the top arm once you have seen how the wax behaves with oil in it at all. A blank on a page is not permission.
The three-load test, designed to be scored
A test that produces an opinion is a waste of wax. A test that produces a row of numbers with a decision rule attached is an asset you keep.
The design below is deliberately small — twelve 70 g votives — because the expensive part of establishing a house load is not the materials, it is the four weeks. Keep it small, keep it honest, and write the decision rule down before you pour, so that your conclusion cannot drift towards whichever jar you enjoyed most.
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Fix the five things you are not testingOne wax, one oil, one wick, one vessel, one cure length. For this worked example: CSI 464, Lavender, Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1), Clear Glass Votive Jars at a stated 70 g fill, and day 14. Write the five on the sheet. If any of them changes later, the house load you establish today expires with it.
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Choose three loads spaced by at least a point and a halfYour pair's band is 5.66% to 9.09% of the finished candle, so run 6%, 8% and 9%. Per 70 g votive that is 4.2 g oil + 65.8 g wax, 5.6 g + 64.4 g and 6.3 g + 63.7 g. Do not space them closer: two loads a single point apart are hard to separate and you will spend four weeks producing a shrug. The top arm sits just inside the ceiling, never on it.
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Pour four jars per arm, in one session, with the same melt disciplineTwelve jars: two per arm for day 7 and two per arm for day 14, so a disappointing day-7 result never tempts you to abandon the test. Weigh everything on a Candle Making Weighing Scale — load is a weight percentage and oils differ in density, so millilitres will not do. Follow the wax page: CSI 464 states a melting point and a pour temperature of 80–90°C, so record the readings you actually take with a Pen Thermometer.
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Cure all twelve identically, and label on the baseLids on, one closed carton, room temperature, out of sunlight. Identical treatment is what makes the three arms comparable; a jar left on a sunny windowsill is not in the experiment any more. Labels go underneath so that somebody else can present the jars to you without giving the game away.
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Run the gates before you run the scoresAt day 7 and again at day 14, before anything is lit: look for beading or a wet film on the surface, check the top for frosting or pits, and weigh one jar to confirm it holds what you intended. Any arm that fails a gate is out, whatever it smells like — a candle that sweats is not a candidate however good the throw. This is the step that keeps a load test from quietly becoming an argument for the highest arm.
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Score one candle per session, blind, and apply the rule you wrote downOne jar lit at a time in the same closed room; a helper lights it and hides the label. Record pool width at 60 and 120 minutes with a steel rule, and intensity 1–5 at 30, 60 and 120 minutes from about 2.5 m. Air the room twelve hours between sessions. Then the rule: among arms that passed every gate and burned cleanly, choose the lowest load whose scores nobody can reliably separate from the best arm's. That is your best-performing load, and it is now a line on a recipe card rather than a feeling.
Priced above: the twelve-jar test costs ₹1,643.30 of materials — CSI 464 1 kg ₹507.40 (the twelve jars need 775.6 g), Lavender 100 gm ₹540 (64.4 g needed), Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram one pack of 10 at ₹318.60 plus one pack of 5 at ₹159.30 (fifteen jars, three spare), and Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 20 wicks ₹118. That is ₹136.94 per jar poured. Materials in each votive: ₹93.08 at 6% (65.8 g wax ₹33.39 + 4.2 g oil ₹21.93 + jar ₹31.86 + wick ₹5.90), ₹99.67 at 8% and ₹102.97 at 9%. Add a Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354 and a Pen Thermometer ₹354 if you do not own them — ₹2,351.30 all in, and the two instruments are bought once.
The score sheet
This is the sheet, one copy per jar. The order of the rows is the order you fill them in, and the middle column is the point: gates are pass-or-fail and come first; scores are comparative and come second. A gate protects the customer. A score chooses between candidates that have already earned the right to be compared.
One sheet per jar · gates first, scores second, cost last
What to record, how, when — and the wrong conclusion each row prevents
| Row | Gate or score | How to record it | When | The wrong conclusion it prevents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface film, beading or oil pooling | Gate | Look and touch. Wipe with a white tissue and keep it | Day 7 and day 14, before lighting | Crowning the highest arm on throw while it is quietly separating |
| Surface finish: frosting, pits, sink holes | Gate | One photograph per jar in the same light | Day 7 and day 14 | Shipping a load that looks wrong in a customer's hand |
| Actual poured weight | Gate | Weigh one jar per arm and compare with the intended 70 g | Day 1 | Blaming the load when the real variable was your weighing |
| Cold impression | Score 1–5 | Lid off, 60 seconds, about 5 cm, blind | Day 7 and day 14 | Judging a candle only lit — cold throw is what sells it on a shelf |
| Time to a full melt pool | Score, in minutes | Steel rule across the pool every 30 minutes | First burn | Comparing throw between arms whose pools are different sizes |
| Pool width at 60 and 120 minutes | Score, in cm | Steel rule, written down, not remembered | First burn | Attributing a wick result to the load |
| Hot intensity at 30, 60 and 120 minutes | Score 1–5 | From about 2.5 m, in a closed room, label hidden | First burn | Scoring at 30 minutes, when no arm has finished warming up |
| Soot, mushrooming, flame height | Gate | Note at the two-hour mark and after extinguishing | First burn | Choosing a load that only works with a wick you cannot sell safely |
| Materials cost per candle | Tie-break | Grams × price per gram, from the linked product pages | At the decision | Paying for a difference nobody could name |
Write the decision rule before the first jar is lit
"Choose the lowest load whose 120-minute intensity score is within one point of the best arm's, provided it passed every gate." Sign it and date it. A rule written afterwards is not a rule, it is a justification — and it will always, quietly, favour the arm you already liked. If you want a companion test that isolates whether two loads are separable at all rather than which scores higher, the blind odd-one-out design in does more fragrance oil make a candle smell stronger does exactly that job, and the two together are a complete answer.Four shapes your result can take
A three-load ladder can only come out four ways. Deciding in advance what you will do in each case is what turns a pile of jars into a decision — and it stops you re-running the test because you did not like the answer.
Reading a three-load ladder
The four possible shapes, what each one means, and the action it calls for
| Shape | What the scores look like | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Still climbing | 9% clearly beats 8%, which clearly beats 6% | Concentration was the limiting input across the whole band | Adopt the top arm, then re-verify the wick at that load and confirm no gate has started to slip in the next batch |
| Flattens | 8% clearly beats 6%; 9% is indistinguishable from 8% | You have found the knee. The last point of load bought nothing | Adopt 8% and bank the difference. This is the most common reason a best-performing load sits below a ceiling |
| Peaks and turns | 8% beats both 6% and 9%, and the 9% jars show a gate issue or a lazy pool | The top arm is near the wax's capacity or is loading the wick | Adopt 8%. Do not split the difference at 8.5% without pouring it — a peak you have not measured is a guess |
| Nothing separates | All three arms score within a point at every reading | Load is not your limiting input. Something else is | Adopt the lowest arm and go and look at the wick, the vessel diameter and the cure — those are the inputs with headroom left |
The failure that wastes the whole four weeks: two variables. If the 9% arm also got a thicker wick "because it needed one", the test is void — you no longer know whether the winner won on load or on pool area. The same goes for pouring one arm a week later, curing one arm in a different room, or scoring one arm at night and the others in the morning. If you realise mid-test that a second variable crept in, stop and re-pour. Twelve votives are ₹1,643.30; a house load built on a confounded test is wrong on every candle you make until somebody notices.
The CSI principle
A ceiling is given to you. An optimum is earned, and it is earned once per recipe — not once per workshop.
Change the oil and you owe yourself a new test. Change the jar diameter, the wick or the wax and you owe yourself a new test. That sounds expensive until you price it: twelve votives against a load decision that rides on every candle you will sell this year.
What the answer is worth
The gap between a ceiling and an optimum is not a philosophical distinction. It is a line in your accounts, repeated every batch.
Put a number on it. A small brand pouring 500 × 200 g candles a month makes 6,000 candles a year, which is 1,200 kg of finished candle. At an 8% load that consumes 96 kg of fragrance oil; at 10% it consumes 120 kg. The difference is 24 kg of oil a year. On Lavender at its listed 1 kg price of ₹5,221 that is ₹1,25,304, against which you save the 24 kg of wax you no longer buy — ₹12,177.60 at CSI 464's listed ₹507.40 per kg. Net, the two percentage points cost ₹1,13,126.40 a year.
That is the sum the test is up against, and the comparison is not close: ₹1,643.30 of votives and four weeks of calendar, against ₹1,13,126.40 a year of oil that may or may not be doing anything. Run it the other way round and the logic is even plainer — if the ladder shows that 8% is indistinguishable from 9%, the test has paid for itself sixty-eight times over in its first year. And if it shows the opposite, you now hold something better than a saving: a load you can defend to a wholesale buyer who asks why your candle costs what it costs.
Two honest caveats. First, listed per-kilogram prices are the ceiling of what you pay, not a quote: for recurring volumes at this scale, pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp, and this page will not pretend to know what a quote would be. Second, a load decision interacts with pack sizes. At 96 kg a year you are buying oil in 1 kg bottles regularly, so a change of 24 kg is a change in how many bottles arrive — worth planning against your festive calendar, with Diwali on 8 November 2026 the fixed point most Indian brands work back from.
Establishing a house load across a range? Lavender in 500 gm at ₹2,620 and 1 kg at ₹5,221, Jasmine 1 kg ₹3,923, Apple Cinnamon 1 kg ₹4,743.60, CSI 464 in 5 kg at ₹2,537 and 10 kg at ₹5,074. For recurring volumes, bulk pricing, GST invoicing and documentation are handled directly on WhatsApp.
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Three oils to establish a house load on
If you are going to spend four weeks establishing a number, spend it on an oil you intend to keep selling, and preferably one whose page publishes a band so your search space has a defensible top and bottom. These three each publish a candle figure, and they are deliberately different in what else they publish — which is itself worth noticing.
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Floral herbal · a stated band with both ends
Lavender Fragrance Oil
The oil this guide's worked example uses, because its page states a band rather than a single ceiling: "Candle usage rate 6-10% of total wax weight", which converts to 5.66%–9.09% of the finished candle and gives you a floor as well as a top. Its stated pyramid is "Fresh lavender" on top, "Herbal green notes" through the middle and "Soft musk" at the base, with a stated strength of "Strong" and an IFRA line that asserts compliance for candles, diffusers, room sprays and body products "within recommended rates". It states no flash point — one of the 56 CSI oil pages that do not — so keep your add temperature to the wax page's band and ask for the SDS figure if you need it. Six customer reviews on the page, including Priyanka Purohit's "Quality of fragrance is very good. Cold through and hot though both are perfect."
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 100 g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹105.02 | ₹700.13 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹270 | ₹540 | ≈6 |
| 100 gm | ₹540 | ₹540 | ≈12 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,620 | ₹524 | ≈62 |
| 1 kg | ₹5,221 | ₹522.10 | ≈125 |
₹83.54 of oil per 200 g candle at 8%, 1 kg pricing · ₹62.65 at 6% Buy Lavender
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Floral · a measured flash point and a 10% ceiling
Jasmine Fragrance Oil
The best-documented of the three on the technical side: its page states "Flashpoint 185°C", "Vanillin content 0% - no discolouration, safe for white and light-coloured wax" and "Up to 10% for soy wax with a cure time of 48-72 hours. Up to 6% for paraffin wax". That gives you a clean search space of 12 g to 20 g in a 200 g candle and an add temperature you can reason about rather than guess at. Its profile is stated as a single note — "Sweet, floral, and exotic jasmine" with a "Subtle musk" undertone — rather than a three-tier pyramid. Ignore the page's own line calling it one of the most technically reliable oils in the range; that is copy, not evidence. The flash point and the vanillin figure are the evidence.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 100 g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹103 | ₹686.67 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹230 | ₹460 | ≈6 |
| 100 gm | ₹430 | ₹430 | ≈12 |
| 500 gm | ₹1,961 | ₹392.20 | ≈62 |
| 1 kg | ₹3,923 | ₹392.30 | ≈125 |
₹62.77 of oil per 200 g candle at 8%, 1 kg pricing Buy Jasmine
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Gourmand · a festive volume line with a discolouration note
Apple Cinnamon Fragrance Oil
Worth establishing a load on because it is a repeat-order scent for Diwali, Christmas and winter gifting, so the number you settle will be used thousands of times. Its page states "6-10% for soy wax candles, cure 48 to 72 hours" and "6-8% for paraffin wax", with a pyramid of "Juicy apple, spicy cinnamon" on top, "Baked goods, nutmeg" in the middle and "Vanilla, warm amber" at the base. It also states "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax", which means it can yellow pale wax over time — a gate for your score sheet, not a surprise for your customer. No flash point is published. One CSI customer, PREETHI PRASATH, writes that a customer's visitors noticed the scent on entering the home.
| Size | Price | Per 100g | 100 g candles @ 8% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 gm | ₹93.22 | ₹621.47 | ≈1 |
| 50 gm | ₹237.18 | ₹474.36 | ≈6 |
| 100 gm | ₹474.36 | ₹474.36 | ≈12 |
| 500 gm | ₹2,371.80 | ₹474.36 | ≈62 |
| 1 kg | ₹4,743.60 | ₹474.36 | ≈125 |
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Why trust this guide
CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA supplies raw materials, not finished candles. The convenient version of this page would say "pour at the ceiling" — we sell the oil, and two extra percentage points on 6,000 candles is 24 kg of it. Instead the page tells you to run a test whose most likely outcome is that you buy less oil than the ceiling permits, because a maker with a load they can defend keeps making candles, and a maker quietly over-buying fragrance eventually decides candles do not pay.
Every price, pack size and stated specification comes from live CSI stock in September 2026 and links to the product page, where current pricing and specification always take precedence. Maximum loads are quoted only where a page states them — up to 13% for Luxury Soy Wax Chunks and CSI 468, up to 10% for CSI 464 — and they are wax formulation limits, not regulatory limits. Where a page states nothing, this guide says so: eleven of the fifteen wax pages state no load, 56 of the 107 oil pages state no flash point, and no page anywhere publishes a best-performing load. Nothing here is a burn-test result. The score sheet, the gates and the four outcome shapes are a protocol for you to run; the numbers attached to them are prices, stated specifications and arithmetic.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the maximum fragrance load the same as the recommended one?
No. A maximum is a capacity; a recommendation is somebody's suggested starting point. CSI's Luxury Soy Wax Chunks page publishes both — "up to 13% fragrance load capacity" alongside "10% Recommended" — and it is the only one of the fifteen wax pages that gives a recommendation at all. Neither figure is a best-performing load, because neither can know your wick, your vessel diameter, your cure length or the room the candle ends up in. Read the maximum as a boundary and the recommendation as a sensible first arm in your test.
How do I find the best fragrance load for my candle?
Fix the wax, oil, wick, vessel and cure length; choose three loads at least a point and a half apart inside the band your two product pages permit; pour four jars per arm and cure them identically; apply pass-or-fail gates for sweating, surface finish and clean burning before you score anything; then score cold impression, time to a full pool and hot intensity at 30, 60 and 120 minutes, blind. Adopt the lowest arm nobody can separate from the best arm. Twelve 70 g votives cost ₹1,643.30 of materials.
Can the best-performing load be the maximum?
Yes, and if your test says so then adopt it — but treat it as the least likely single answer in the band rather than the default. It is the most expensive point, it is the closest to the wax's capacity, and it is the point at which a wick that was correct at a lower load may stop coping. If the top arm wins, re-verify the wick at that load and re-run your gates on the next production batch: separation and sweating usually appear during cure rather than on day one.
Do I need a separate test for every fragrance oil?
Strictly, yes — a best-performing load belongs to a recipe, not to a workshop, and oils differ in what they are built from. Practically, most brands run the full three-load ladder on their two or three highest-volume scents, adopt a house default for the rest, and re-test whenever a scent graduates into volume. A default is a decision to stop varying one thing, which is defensible as long as you know it is a default: 8% is the one figure almost every published band contains, which is why it is the usual choice.
What if my wax page states no fragrance load at all?
That is the position with eleven of CSI's fifteen wax pages, including Natural Soy Pearl Wax, Soy Pillar Wax and the paraffins. You then have only one published figure — the oil's — and a single-sided ceiling deserves extra caution. Run your low and middle arms first, keep the top arm modest, watch the gates closely during cure, and never borrow a ceiling from a different wax because it sounds similar. If you need a wax with a published figure to work under, CSI 464 states up to 10% and Chunks state up to 13%.
How much money is riding on getting this number right?
Two percentage points across 6,000 × 200 g candles a year is 24 kg of fragrance oil. At Lavender's listed 1 kg price that is ₹1,25,304, less ₹12,177.60 of wax you stop buying — a net ₹1,13,126.40. The test that settles it costs ₹1,643.30 of materials plus four weeks of calendar. Listed per-kilogram prices are the ceiling of what you pay rather than a quote; for recurring volumes, pricing and GST invoicing are handled on WhatsApp.
Obey the ceiling. Go and find the optimum.
Four wax pages publish a maximum. None publishes your best-performing load — twelve votives and ₹1,643.30 do.
Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 from ₹260 / 500 g with a stated ceiling of up to 10%, Luxury Soy Wax Chunks from ₹299 / 500 g at up to 13%, Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 from ₹325 / 500 g at up to 13%, Lavender from ₹105.02 / 15 gm, Jasmine from ₹103 / 15 gm, Apple Cinnamon from ₹93.22 / 15 gm, Clear Glass Votive Jars from ₹159.30 for 5 and Eco Candle Wicks from ₹59 for 10. Message us for bulk pricing, GST invoicing, MSDS and IFRA documentation.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by the CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA team. Product recommendations reflect the CSI range; the maximum-versus-optimum distinction, the search-space arithmetic, the gates-before-scores sheet and the four outcome shapes apply to any supplier's materials.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; three longer reviews are shortened with an ellipsis and otherwise unedited.
Figures verified September 2026: Stated wax specifications, quoted from product pages — Luxury Soy Wax Chunks "up to 13% fragrance load capacity", "Recommended fragrance load: 8% to 13% of total wax weight", "10% Recommended", fragrance added at 80–90°C, pour 70–80°C, cure "a minimum of 48 hours (ideally 1-2 weeks) before performing burn tests"; Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 "Fragrance Load Up to 10%", "Melting Point 80°C – 90°C", "Pour Temperature 80°C – 90°C"; Premium Coconut Soy CSI 468 "Fragrance Load Up to 13%", "Melting Point 50°C – 53°C", "Pour Temperature 58°C – 60°C"; Eco Soy CSI 400 "Melt Point 100°F (37.8°C)", fragrance added at 80–90°C (85°C) with a two-minute stir; Natural Soy Pearl Wax and Soy Pillar Wax state no fragrance load. Four of the fifteen CSI wax pages state a maximum fragrance load; one (Chunks) adds a recommendation; five state a melting point. Oil pages — Lavender "Candle usage rate 6-10% of total wax weight", "Strength Strong", an IFRA line asserting compliance for candles, diffusers, room sprays and body products "within recommended rates", no flash point stated; Jasmine "Up to 10% for soy wax with a cure time of 48-72 hours", "Up to 6% for paraffin wax", "Flashpoint 185°C", "Vanillin content 0%"; Apple Cinnamon "6-10% for soy wax candles", "6-8% for paraffin wax", "Vanillin content Present - test in white wax", no flash point stated; Cinnamon Vanilla "Up to 13% of total wax weight", "Start at 8-10% and increase toward 13%"; Sandalwood "Up to 10% for soy wax", "Up to 6% for paraffin wax". Across the 107 CSI fragrance-oil pages, 81 state at least one usage percentage, 18 state a measured flash point, 32 state only the template threshold "Flash point > 93°C (suitable for alcohol-based products)", 56 state none, 88 state a full note pyramid, 14 state a profile without one, and 36 never mention IFRA; no page publishes an IFRA certificate, amendment, category number or date, and no page publishes a best-performing load. Prices used — CSI 464 500 g ₹260, 1 kg ₹507.40 (₹0.5074/g), 5 kg ₹2,537, 10 kg ₹5,074; Luxury Soy Wax Chunks 500 g ₹299; CSI 468 500 g ₹325; Lavender 15 gm ₹105.02, 100 gm ₹540, 500 gm ₹2,620, 1 kg ₹5,221 (₹5.221/g); Jasmine 15 gm ₹103, 1 kg ₹3,923 (₹3.923/g); Apple Cinnamon 15 gm ₹93.22, 1 kg ₹4,743.60 (₹4.7436/g); Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram pack of 5 ₹159.30 and pack of 10 ₹318.60 (₹31.86 each); Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) 10 ₹59 and 20 ₹118 (₹5.90 each); Candle Making Weighing Scale ₹354; Pen Thermometer ₹354. Assumptions stated for transparency: fragrance load is calculated as a share of the finished candle (200 g at 8% = 184 g wax + 16 g oil); a page's "% of total wax weight" figure is converted conservatively, so 13% of wax weight = 11.504% of the candle, 10% = 9.0909% and 6% = 5.6604%; the twelve-jar test assumes 70 g of finished candle per votive, four jars at each of 6%, 8% and 9%, consuming 64.4 g of oil and 775.6 g of wax; the annual example assumes 500 × 200 g candles a month for twelve months, 24 kg of extra oil between an 8% and a 10% load, priced at listed 1 kg rates, net of 24 kg of wax no longer bought. Allow 3–5% for spills and top-ups when planning production — a planning allowance, not a yield claim. Cure of 14–21 days reflects standard practice for soy container candles. Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November. Prices and availability change — the linked product pages are always authoritative.