Which Jasmine or Mogra Fragrance Oil Should You Buy for Candles?

What is actually on the shelf

Indian white florals are not one category with a budget and a premium end. Jasmine, tuberose, night-blooming jasmine and gardenia smell different from each other, sell to different customers and sit at different loads. Here is what each CSI page publishes, in its own terms.

Jasmine Fragrance Oil — the anchor

The page describes a rich, exotic single-note jasmine: sweet and floral at the top with a subtle musky undertone that it calls the indolic quality — the warm depth underneath the sweetness that makes it read as a real flower rather than a sweet. Family: Floral / Exotic / Sweet. Strength: strong, with the page claiming excellent cold and hot throw. Technically it is the best-furnished jasmine page on the list: soy up to 10% of total wax weight with a 48–72 hour cure, paraffin up to 6% with 24–48 hours, wax melts up to 12%, reed diffusers 10–30%, room sprays 8–15%, body products within IFRA rates, flash point 185°C, 0% vanillin with the page noting it as safe for white, frosted and gold-accented designs. Sizes: 15 gm ₹103.00, 50 gm ₹230.00, 100 gm ₹430.00, 500 gm ₹1,961.00, 1 kg ₹3,923.00.

Rajnigandha — tuberose, and the cheapest entry

The page gives dewy greens and crisp apple at the top, creamy tuberose with jasmine and ylang ylang in the heart, and soft musk over gentle sandalwood at the base. Strength: strong. Characteristics: luxurious, floral, romantic — and the page names bedrooms, prayer rooms, spas and evening collections as its best uses, which is a useful signal for anyone building a pooja or gifting line. Fragrance load: 6–10% for candles, 10–15% for wax melts. It publishes no flash point, vanillin figure or IFRA statement. Sizes: 15 gm ₹90.00, 50 gm ₹250.00, 100 gm ₹500.00, 500 gm ₹2,300.00, 1 kg ₹4,460.00 — ₹4.46 a gram at the kilo, the cheapest of the four.

Raat Ki Rani — the evening candle

Green stems and fresh ozone at the top, night-blooming jasmine and white florals in the heart, soft amber and musk at the base. The page calls it strong, deep, floral and captivating, and recommends bedrooms, meditation spaces and evening collections. Blending suggestions on the page are sandalwood, lavender, patchouli and rose. Fragrance load: 6–10% for candles, 10–15% for wax melts; no flash point, vanillin or IFRA figure published. Sizes: 15 gm ₹130.00, 50 gm ₹370.00, 100 gm ₹700.00, 500 gm ₹3,387.00, 1 kg ₹6,774.00.

Gardenia Tuberose — the documented one

Family: Floral / Creamy / Luxury. The page states soy up to 10% of total wax weight and paraffin up to 6%, a flash point of 98°C, 0.2% vanillin with minimal discolouration risk and a recommendation to test, and IFRA certification. That is the fullest technical block of any oil in this guide, and the 98°C flash point is genuinely useful to know before you stand over a pot. Sizes: 15 gm ₹105.02, 50 gm ₹223.02, 100 gm ₹433.00 and 1000 gm ₹4,332.00.

Jasmine Coconut Spa Ceylon — the perfume-grade outlier

Coconut milk and bergamot at the top, jasmine sambac and tiare flower in the heart, vanilla cream, sandalwood and soft musk at the base. The page is written for perfumery — it gives an EDP rate of 18–22%, describes moderate projection with elegant sillage, and positions the oil as a summer and resort fragrance. It publishes no candle percentage, no flash point and no vanillin figure. Sizes: 15g ₹133.00, up to 1kg ₹7,999.00 at ₹8.00 a gram.

The mogra question, answered straight

Mogra is probably the single most requested Indian candle scent, and it is worth being direct about what a supplier can and cannot give you this month.

CSI's Mogra Fragrance Oil listing is currently out of stock, so it is not orderable and it is not linked anywhere on this page. Its page describes the flower the way anyone who grew up with it would recognise — fresh green, soft citrus and airy floral at the top, rich jasmine and creamy white florals with a powdery edge in the heart, soft musk and warm woody undertones at the base, with a blooming effect as it settles — and names candles, attar-style solid perfumes and reed diffusers as its uses. What it does not publish is a candle percentage, a flash point, a vanillin figure or an IFRA statement. So even when it returns, the load is a conversation to have on WhatsApp rather than a number to read off the page.

That leaves two honest options. The first is to plan around what is packed: if your Diwali or wedding run needs a white floral in October, build it on Jasmine or Rajnigandha and name it accordingly. The second is to build a jasmine-led white floral that sits in the same broad territory — creamy, powdery, temple-flower — from oils that are in stock, and to be clear with yourself and your customer that it is a jasmine candle rather than a mogra reproduction.

A worked example, on the series unit of 200 g of wax at 8%: 10 g of Jasmine, 4 g of Gardenia Tuberose and 2 g of Sandalwood comes to ₹66.61 of oil against ₹62.77 for jasmine alone — ₹3.84 more per candle for a noticeably rounder, creamier floral. Note the Neroli row's 85°C flash point and the Gardenia Tuberose 98°C: in a blend that includes either, add the whole fragrance charge at the lower end of the 80–90°C window.

Where an Indian floral candle actually sells

White florals behave differently from gourmands commercially. They sell into occasions rather than moods, and the occasion decides the size, the vessel and the load long before it decides the scent.

Two numbers in that table are worth pulling out. A hundred 70 g wedding favours in Rajnigandha come to ₹9,825.40 in materials, of which the oil is only ₹24.98 a candle — which is why a favour run lives or dies on the vessel price, not the fragrance. And a 200 g Raat Ki Rani jar at ₹322.76 carries ₹108.38 of oil, ₹45.62 more than the same jar in jasmine: real money at volume, and entirely justifiable in a single evening-range hero product.

The load, the ceiling and the 98°C detail

Two published numbers cap every fragrance decision: the wax grade's stated maximum load and the oil page's stated candle range. The lower one governs. Across this family that arithmetic is unusually simple, with one exception worth knowing.

So no white floral in this guide goes above 10% in a CSI soy, whatever the wax page allows. If you were thinking of switching to a 13% wax to get a stronger jasmine candle, that is not what will happen. On 200 g of wax the practical range is 12 g at 6% to 20 g at 10% — for jasmine, ₹47.08 to ₹78.46 of oil; for Rajnigandha ₹53.52 to ₹89.20; for Raat Ki Rani ₹81.29 to ₹135.48. Moving a hundred Raat Ki Rani candles from 8% to 10% costs ₹2,709.60.

Why 98°C matters and 185°C does not

Flash point is a transport, storage and handling property: the temperature at which vapour above the liquid can ignite. It says nothing about throw and it is not the temperature at which fragrance burns off in wax. Most of this family sits far above working temperatures — Jasmine at 185°C, Sandalwood at 203°C. Gardenia Tuberose at 98°C and Neroli at 85°C are the two on this page that sit close to the 80–90°C window in which fragrance is normally added to soy. The practical instruction is small and worth following: add those at the lower end of the window, keep the pot off direct heat while you stir, and do not add fragrance to wax that has just come off a melter at its hottest.

A four-step way to settle it in one afternoon

This costs ₹428.02 in oil and a handful of vessels, and it replaces several weeks of guessing.

Blending is the second lever, and the pages themselves point the way. The Jasmine page lists sandalwood, vanilla, lavender, rose, patchouli, neroli and white musk as partners; Rajnigandha lists sandalwood, vanilla, patchouli and rose; Raat Ki Rani lists sandalwood, lavender, patchouli and rose. Sandalwood appears on all three. On 200 g of wax at 8%, keeping jasmine as the lead at 12 g with 4 g of partner:

What to watch with this family

Pale wax is an asset here, and two of the pages protect it

Jasmine states 0% vanillin and no discolouration in white or light wax, and the page explicitly connects that to frosted glass, white wax and gold-accented designs — the aesthetics a jasmine candle usually wants. Gardenia Tuberose states 0.2% vanillin with minimal risk and a recommendation to test. Rajnigandha, Raat Ki Rani and Jasmine Coconut Spa Ceylon publish no vanillin figure, so if a stark white candle is central to the product, pour one undyed test votive and photograph it on day 0 and day 45 under the same light before you scale. Yellowing is cosmetic — the candle burns and smells the same — but it shows up in a reseller's photograph weeks after you have signed off the batch.

Humidity, not heat, is the Indian variable

Monsoon air in Mumbai, Kochi or Kolkata changes how a heavy floral lands in a closed room — the same jar that is elegant in a dry Delhi winter can read as cloying in August. That is not a fault in the oil and it is not something a load change fixes reliably. It is a reason to test in the season you sell in, and a reason to keep a lower-load version of your best white floral in the range for the wet months.

One oil, several products

The Jasmine page is unusual in giving rates across formats from a single bottle: candles up to 10%, wax melts up to 12%, reed diffusers 10–30%, room sprays 8–15% and body products within IFRA rates. For a small brand that is inventory efficiency — one kilo at ₹3,923.00 can serve a candle line, a melt line and a diffuser line rather than three separate purchases. Rajnigandha and Raat Ki Rani both publish a wax melt figure of 10–15% alongside their candle range, which covers the two formats most Indian makers actually run.

Ask before a festive run, not during one

Pack sizes and availability shift, and this family shifts more than most in the weeks before Diwali and through wedding season. The mogra situation is the clearest example of why. The product pages are the authority on what is currently packed, and a WhatsApp message in late September is a great deal cheaper than discovering in mid-October that the kilo you planned a hundred-candle run around is not there. Consolidating oil, wax, wicks and vessels into one order at the same time is also the practical answer to freight costs, which is a fair criticism customers do make of CSI.

If you want one sentence to act on: buy Jasmine at ₹103.00 and Rajnigandha at ₹90.00, pour them side by side in the vessel you actually sell, and let the hour-three burn pick the one your range is built on.

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