How much fragrance oil does your candle need?
Pick your wax, enter a weight or your containers, and choose a fragrance load. You get the exact amount of oil in ounces, grams and millilitres, with a warning if you go past the typical limit for your wax.
Fragrance oil needed
≈ 36.3 g · about 38.2 ml
- Wax
- 16 oz
- Fragrance oil
- 1.28 oz
- Total batch
- 17.28 oz
- Same as
- 1.28 oz per lb of wax
- Volume (approx.)
- 38.2 ml / 7.7 tsp
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Fragrance load in one paragraph
Fragrance load is the amount of fragrance oil in a candle, written as a percentage. Most US suppliers measure it against the weight of the wax, so a 10% load means 1.6 oz of oil for every pound (16 oz) of wax. Container waxes are commonly used somewhere between 6% and 10%, and some blends are rated higher. The right number depends on your wax, your fragrance and your wick, which is why test burns matter more than any chart.
New to this? Start with how much fragrance oil per pound of wax and then why a candle might have no scent throw.