Light the Mood
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Hand-poured soy candles in six moods, from slow-exhale lavender to fireside cedar. One calm flame, up to 70 hours.
Six moods. One ritual.
- Clean-burning soy wax A slow, even burn with no paraffin.
- Lead-free cotton wicks One calm flame, trimmed to burn clean.
- Up to 70 hours 25, 50 or 70 hours, by size.
- Poured in small batches Every candle filled, cured and labelled by hand.
Find Your Mood
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Unwind Candle
Notes – Lavender · Eucalyptus · Sage -
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Glow Candle
Notes – Bergamot · Orange Blossom · Amber -
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Drift Candle
Notes – Sea Salt · Driftwood · Musk -
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Spark Candle
Notes – Grapefruit · Ginger · Black Pepper -
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Ember Candle
Notes – Smoked Cedar · Tobacco Leaf · Vanilla -
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Velvet Candle
Notes – Black Fig · Rose · Oud
Why a candle changes a room
Scent and flame reach the mood before the mind catches up.
Scent goes first
Smell is the one sense routed straight to the brain’s emotion and memory centres, which is why a scent can change a room before you notice it.
Light sets the pace
A low, warm flame is the oldest signal there is that the day is winding down, or that the night is just getting started.
Ritual makes it stick
Light the same mood for the same moment and it becomes a cue: Spark for deep work, Unwind for the bath, Glow when friends arrive.
Before screens, there was firelight.
No apps, no settings. Strike a match and the room changes. Each mood is blended for a moment you already have:
- Closing the laptop at the end of the day
- Slow Sunday mornings
- Having people over
- A long bath and a good book
- Two hours of deep focus
- Late, quiet nights
A Good Burn Builds
Treat the first burn right and every burn after it is better.
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Two to three hours
First burn
Let the wax melt all the way to the edge. The first pool sets the candle’s memory and stops it tunnelling for the rest of its life.
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Trim to 5 mm
Every burn
Trim the wick before you light it and burn for up to four hours at a time. A short wick means a calm flame, no soot, and a cleaner throw.
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Stop at 1 cm
The last burn
When about a centimetre of wax is left, let it go. Then clean out the vessel; it makes a good tumbler, planter or pen cup.
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From pour to flame,
nothing leaves our hands.
Small batches, poured, cured, wicked and labelled by people who burn these candles at home.
Blended in-house
Each mood is built from three notes and tested in real rooms, burn after burn, until the throw is right.
Cured before it ships
Soy needs time. Every batch rests for two weeks before it is boxed, so the scent fills the room from the first light.
Made to be reused
Heavy matte glass and tins you will want to keep. Burned down, cleaned out, they start a second life on your shelf.
Pick the Mood, Not the Scent
- Unwind For the slow exhale Lavender · Eucalyptus · Sage
- Glow Bright, warm, people over Bergamot · Orange Blossom · Amber
- Drift Clean air, open windows Sea Salt · Driftwood · Musk
- Spark Head down, make things Grapefruit · Ginger · Black Pepper
- Ember Fireside, grounded Smoked Cedar · Tobacco Leaf · Vanilla
- Velvet Late night, close Black Fig · Rose · Oud
Your Questions, Answered
Which mood should I start with?
Pick the moment, not the scent. Unwind is for the slow exhale at the end of the day; Spark for focus; Glow for having people over; Drift when you want the room to feel fresh; Ember for cold nights in; Velvet for late, close evenings. Not sure? The Mood Sampler has all six in 4 oz tins.
How long do they burn?
About 25 hours for a Mini Tin, 50 hours for a Classic and 70 hours for a Grand three-wick, burned in sessions of up to four hours with the wick trimmed to 5 mm.
What are the candles made of?
Soy wax, lead-free cotton wicks and fragrance blends made for candles, poured into heavy matte glass (Classic and Grand) or a metal tin (Mini). Each label lists the mood’s three notes.
Where do you ship, and how fast?
We ship across Canada and to the United States. Orders are packed within two business days and you get a tracking link by email when yours leaves. Canadian orders over US$75 ship free. All prices are in US dollars.
My candle is tunnelling. What happened?
Usually the first burn was too short. Soy remembers its first melt pool, so let it melt all the way to the edge the first time (two to three hours). To rescue a tunnelled candle, wrap foil around the rim with a hole in the middle and burn until the surface is level.