What's in the Fragrance Lab
The Fragrance Lab is the Sunday Maker module for candle makers, soap makers, and anyone who works with fragrance oils. It adds three tools to your sidebar:
- Formulas — your saved scent recipes with IFRA compliance and costing built in
- Idea Generator — suggests fragrance combinations and product ideas based on your saved oils
- Fragrance Search — search hundreds of pre-loaded fragrance oils with IFRA data
All three tools connect to the costing engine — a formula's cost flows into any product that uses it.
Step 1 — Find your fragrance oil
Go to Fragrance Search and search by name, scent family, or supplier. Each oil listing shows its IFRA category limits — the maximum safe usage percentages for different product types (candles, leave-on cosmetics, rinse-off products, and others).
When you find an oil you use or want to try, click Add to Materials. This adds it to your Materials library where you can set your purchase cost and it becomes available in your formulas.
Step 2 — Set your oil cost
Go to Materials and find the fragrance oil you just added. Click to edit it and enter the cost per gram (or per ml). This is what you paid divided by how much you got — if you paid $12 for 4oz of oil, that's $12 ÷ 113g = $0.106 per gram.
Do the same for any other ingredients you'll use: soy wax, additives, wicks, vessels.
Step 3 — Build a formula
Go to Formulas → New Formula. Enter your batch size (total grams), select your fragrance oil, set your fragrance load percentage, and add your base ingredients. Sunday Maker checks IFRA compliance as you build and shows a running ingredient total.
When all ingredients have costs, you'll see the batch cost, cost per gram, and cost per oz. Save the formula.
Step 4 — Build a candle product
Go to Products → New Product, category Fragrance. Add your vessel as a Finished Blank. In the Fragrance Formula section, select the formula you just built and enter the fill weight for your vessel (an 8oz jar typically holds 180–227g of wax/fragrance blend). Add your wick and any packaging.
The Summary panel shows your all-in base cost and suggested retail price. Save the product.
What to explore next
- Idea Generator — add a few oils to Materials and let the Idea Generator suggest scent combinations and product types based on what you have
- IFRA category reference — a plain-language guide to IFRA categories and what the limits mean for common product types
- Formula building guide — a deeper walkthrough of formula scaling, batch worksheets, and costing