The Wicksmith

small-batch candles

Hand-poured in small batches

Candles for slow evenings

Six scents, each blended and poured by hand in our workshop. We make a few dozen at a time, and when a batch is gone, the next one takes its place.

The collection

Each candle burns for roughly 50 hours. The wax is a blend of soy and coconut, the wick is cotton, and the vessel is glass you can reuse.

charred oak, smoke, amber

Ember & Oak

$32

A fireside candle with a slow, smoky draw of charred oak and a soft glow of amber.

black fig, cassis, green leaf

Fig & Cassis

$34

Ripe black fig folded into tart cassis, with a green leaf edge that keeps it from going sweet.

sea salt, driftwood, ozone

Sea Salt & Driftwood

$30

Mineral salt air, sun-bleached wood, and a trace of cool ocean spray.

verbena, lemon zest, white musk

Wild Verbena

$28

A bright, lemony verbena lifted with crushed herbs and a base of clean white musk.

tobacco, cedar, clove

Tobacco & Cedar

$36

Sweet pipe tobacco over warm cedar and a hint of clove, like a study in late autumn.

vanilla, toasted sugar, smoke

Smoked Vanilla

$38

Madagascar vanilla deepened with toasted sugar and a thread of woodsmoke.

How we make them

We melt the wax slowly, stir in the fragrance at a low temperature, and let each candle cure for a week before it leaves the workshop. That wait is the part you can smell: a candle poured and shipped the same day burns hot and fast, with almost no scent.

We use cotton wicks trimmed to the right length. No dyes, no paraffin, no plastic packaging. The labels are printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink.

Small batches

A batch is about 24 candles. When one sells out, we pour the next. The waitlist is the price of not mass producing.

Local materials

The wax comes from a supplier in Ohio, the vessels from a glasshouse in Pennsylvania, and the fragrances are mixed in small batches in Vermont.

A considered gift

Every order ships in a plain kraft box with a handwritten note. We do not add plastic filler or gift wrap that goes straight to the bin.

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