Medium – minty, creamy, and sweet.
Bah Humbug Fragrance Oil brings a playful twist to the festive season with its cool, minty sweetness. Refreshing peppermint blends with creamy vanilla and a touch of cane sugar, creating a crisp yet comforting aroma that perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas cheer (or lack thereof!). Ideal for winter candles, wax melts, and festive room fragrances, this scent adds a fun, frosty freshness to your seasonal collection.
Making candles or melts to sell? Here’s how this scent could look on your shelf.
Pair with candy-cane patterns, red and white ribbons, or silver tins for a light-hearted Christmas look.
Work out the fragrance oil for your batch.
Fragrance load is the % of the finished candle’s weight. 1 litre of Bah Humbug weighs about 1.09 kg.
Mix with these to create your own signature scent.
ChocolateAdds a rich chocolate mint twist
CinnamonAdds warm festive spice
PineAdds a fresh Christmas pine edge
OrangeAdds a festive orange zest
How much to use, and the most IFRA allows.
Recommended amounts are starting points – always test. Not recommended means the IFRA limit is too low for a good scent, not that it is banned. No fragrance oil is approved for lip products.
Contains vanillin or ethyl vanillin, which can darken wax, soap and other bases over time – always test before bulk pouring. Vanillin guide
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For the undiluted oil, from its Safety Data Sheet. Full Safety Data Sheet ›
EUH208 Contains alpha-Pinenes, beta-Pinenes, L-Limonene, Neomenthol. May produce an allergic reaction.
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Medium – minty, creamy, and sweet. Top notes: peppermint. Heart: cane sugar. Base: vanilla.
Use 5–10% of the candle’s total weight. For a 200g candle that’s 10–20g of Bah Humbug (about 9–18ml). There is no IFRA limit for candles. The calculator above works it out for any size.
Use 5–10% – that’s 5–10g of fragrance oil for every 100g of finished melts. Check the maximum your wax can hold.
Yes. Use 15–25% Bah Humbug in a reed diffuser base such as Augeo Clean Multi. There is no IFRA limit for reed diffusers. Ready-made reed diffuser CLP labels and an SDS are in the documents above.
Soap, lotion and perfume are cosmetics, so each one needs a safety assessment (CPSR) before you sell it.
Undiluted, Bah Humbug is classified under GB CLP with the signal word Warning:
Candles, wax melts and diffusers you make with it may need their own CLP label. Full details are in the Safety Data Sheet.
No. Its flash point is >100°C, so it isn’t classified as flammable. Like any fragrance oil, keep it away from naked flames.
It may. Bah Humbug contains vanillin (3%), which can turn wax, soap and other bases cream to brown over time. Test before bulk pouring – see our vanillin guide.
Yes. Our free CLP label creator makes a ready-to-print label for candles and wax melts made with Bah Humbug, and for reed diffusers. Safety Data Sheets, IFRA certificates and label files are in the documents above.
Yes. All are 100% vegan with no animal-derived ingredients.
Most can. Where suitable:
They include a blind plug to prevent leaks in transit. Either pierce the centre with a pin or biro to use it as a dropper, or remove the stopper, pour, and replace the plug.
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