My Bestselling Fragrance Sells 300 Candles a Month — Should I Buy 1 Kg, 5 Kg or Smaller Quantities Based on Usage and Cash Flow?

What 300 candles a month is, in kilograms

Your figure is 300 candles a month, and it is the only figure in the question, so this page keeps it exactly as you gave it. The first job is to turn it into oil. Fragrance load on this store is stated as a percentage of wax weight, and the costing unit this series uses is 200 g of wax at 8%, which is 16 g of oil and 216 g in the vessel. That is the reading this page carries throughout. At 16 g a candle, 300 candles is 4.8 kg of fragrance oil a month and 57.6 kg a year, alongside roughly 60 kg of wax a month.

If your candle is a different size, rescale before you read anything below: at 20 g a candle 300 candles is 6 kg a month, at 12 g it is 3.6 kg. The pack arithmetic does not change shape, it just slides along. What does not change at all is the shape of the decision, which is the point of this page: at 300 candles a month you are ordering the same oil repeatedly for the foreseeable future, so what you are really choosing is a rhythm, not a purchase.

One thing has to be said before the tables, because the title asks for it directly. CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA publishes no fragrance oil pack larger than 1 kg. Not on Spicy Cinnamon and not anywhere in the fragrance range. So "buy 5 kg" means five 1 kg packs — ₹32,495.00 — or ten 500g packs at ₹32,490.00. For a consignment larger than the published packs, ask on WhatsApp; nothing on the product page answers it and this page will not guess.

What the Spicy Cinnamon ladder actually does

Before any talk of quantity, the rate. Run Spicy Cinnamon rung by rung at September 2026 pricing and it reads ₹7.73 a gram at 15g, ₹6.98 at 50g, ₹6.99 at 100g, ₹6.50 at 500g and ₹6.50 at 1kg. Two of those will surprise anyone expecting a tidy staircase. The 100g pack is fractionally dearer per gram than the 50g pack, by ₹0.16 on a 16 g candle. And the 500g pack is fractionally cheaper per gram than the 1kg pack, by ₹0.02 on a candle.

Carry that out to the five kilograms in the title and it is worth exactly ₹5.00: ten 500g packs come to ₹32,490.00 against ₹32,495.00 for five 1kg packs, for the same five kilograms of the same oil. That is a real figure and it is also a trivial one — around a thousandth of the purchase. It is printed here for one reason only: so you can see what CSI's ladder actually looks like rather than assume a quantity ladder that is not there. CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA publishes no quantity-discount ladder. Some products do move a little between rungs, in both directions, and the only way to know is to divide each pack price by its grams on the page in front of you.

One consequence of that thin page matters for a production decision. The Spicy Cinnamon page prints an olfactory profile — cinnamon bark and pink pepper over clove, nutmeg and vanilla, on amber, tonka and sandalwood — but it publishes no candle usage range. Where an oil page publishes none, the wax grade's stated maximum is the only published limit you have. On Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 that is 10% of total wax weight, so at 16 g on 200 g of wax you are at 8%, with headroom. Do not read a percentage into a page that does not print one, and test-burn before you commit a production run to any load.

The frequency table: a year of orders, priced

Here is the decision as a grid. Every row buys the same 57.6 kg of Spicy Cinnamon over a year and pays the same ₹3,74,342.40 for it. What changes is how many times the order is placed, how heavy each parcel is, what the published band charges for that weight, and how much of your money is sitting in a cupboard between orders. Packs are whole 1 kg packs, rounded up, and parcels are priced on the stored packed weight of 1.1 kg a pack — not on the kilogram on the label, because a parcel is never the weight of its contents.

Read down the freight column and the first thing to notice is that it does not fall in a line. Twelve orders a year is ₹7,560.00. Six is ₹7,200.00, slightly less. Four is ₹9,600.00 — noticeably more. Three is ₹6,000.00, the cheapest of the lot. Two is ₹7,000.00, back up again. The swing from worst to best is ₹3,600.00 a year, or ₹1.00 a candle. Ordering less often does not reliably cost less, and anyone who tells you it does has not checked the bands.

Why a heavier parcel can ship for less

The quarterly row is the instructive one, so it is worth taking apart slowly. Fifteen 1 kg packs of Spicy Cinnamon weigh 16.5 kg packed. Standard Shipping's heaviest published band ends at 15 kg, so that parcel cannot travel on Standard at all; the cheapest published rate covering 16.5 kg is ₹2,400.00 on Expedited. Split the same fifteen packs into two parcels of eight and seven and both fall back inside Standard: 8.8 kg is ₹800.00 and 7.7 kg is ₹800.00, so the pair is ₹1,600.00. Splitting saves ₹800.00 on the same order.

Then look at three orders a year. Twenty packs weigh 22.0 kg and the cheapest published rate covering that weight is ₹2,000.00 on Expedited — less than the ₹2,400.00 charged on the lighter 16.5 kg parcel. More oil in the box, less money on the label. That is not a mistake in the reading; it is what flat weight bands do at their edges, and it is the single most useful thing to know about freight on this store.

That last column is the one to keep. Freight per kilogram of oil falls from ₹180.00 on a single pack to ₹100.00 at twenty packs, and then rises again at twenty-nine. A year of Spicy Cinnamon in one consignment — 58 packs at 63.8 kg — has no published rate at all, because nothing on the store covers a parcel above 50 kg. That is a hard stop, not a negotiating position: if you want a year in one delivery, it is a WhatsApp conversation, not a checkout.

Cash tied against freight saved

Freight is the easy half because it is published. The other half is cash, and it moves the opposite way. Ordering three times a year is the cheapest rhythm on freight — ₹6,000.00 against ₹7,560.00 for monthly, a difference of ₹1,560.00 across the year. But it puts ₹1,29,980.00 into one fragrance at a time against ₹32,495.00 for the monthly rhythm, and that cash is not doing anything else for four months.

Put the two side by side and the arithmetic is unflattering to the bulk instinct. Moving from monthly to three-times-a-year saves ₹1,560.00 a year in freight and asks you to hold ₹97,485.00 more stock to get it. Whether that trade is worth taking depends on things no supplier can price for you: what else that money would buy, whether your sales rate is stable enough that a four-month commitment is safe, and whether you have somewhere cool and dark to keep twenty kilograms of fragrance oil through an Indian summer.

The freight-per-candle column is the honest scale of this whole argument: the entire range from the worst rhythm to the best is ₹1.00 a candle. Against a fragrance line of ₹103.98 and a materials total of ₹211.36 before any vessel, that is not the number that will make or break the business. It is worth taking because it is free, not because it is large. If optimising it would push you into a stock position that makes you nervous, take the monthly rhythm and sleep.

The discounts that do exist at this volume

There is one place where a bigger order genuinely costs less on this store, and it is not a quantity ladder. CSI publishes spend-based codes: HAPPY5 at 5% over ₹5,000.00, BIZWIZ8 at 8% over ₹12,000.00 and YAY10 at 10% over ₹20,000.00. They are order-value discounts. They look at what the basket comes to and nothing else — not the pack size, not the quantity, not the product.

At your volume that changes the shape of the advice. A single month's fragrance order at ₹32,495.00 already clears the highest threshold on its own, before you add the sixty kilograms of wax, the wicks and the vessels that month needs. So every rhythm in the table above reaches YAY10, and the code is worth ₹3,249.50 on the monthly order and ₹12,998.00 on the three-times-a-year one — proportionally identical, because 10% of a bigger number is a bigger number and nothing more. The code is not an argument for ordering less often. It is an argument for ordering your oil, wax and wicks together instead of separately, which is the same advice the freight table gives for a different reason.

Setting your reorder rhythm, step by step

One last calibration, because it is easy to over-engineer this. The full range of freight outcomes on 57.6 kg of oil is ₹3,600.00 a year. The oil itself is ₹3,74,342.40. The freight decision is worth about 1.0% of the fragrance bill. Get it roughly right, avoid the one genuinely bad rhythm — the unsplit quarterly parcel — and spend the rest of your attention on the dose, the wax and the scent itself, all of which move the candle by more.

What this page has not costed

Everything above prices the oil and the parcel, because those are things CANDLEMAKINGSUPPLIESINDIA sells or publishes. The costs of holding twenty kilograms of fragrance oil are real, and every one of them is yours. Copy the rows, fill in your own figures, and total the sheet as materials from CSI plus your own costs.

The first row is the one that quietly decides this question. The cost of cash tied up is not a CSI figure and it is not a number anyone can hand you, but it is the thing that has to be weighed against ₹1,560.00 of freight. If your working capital is tight — and at 300 candles a month, with wax and vessels to buy as well, it usually is — the monthly rhythm is defensible even though the table calls it dearer. Store prices include applicable taxes and GST invoicing is available; your own tax position is for your adviser, not for this page.

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