Cedar and smoke
Black pepper, cedarwood, birch smoke
£24 or £46 for the large jar
Soy candles poured by hand in small batches
We pour six scents into amber glass jars every Tuesday and Thursday in our workshop in Elmsworth. A small jar is £24, a large jar is £46, and delivery is free over £40.
Lavender and oat, small jarMove the cursor quickly past the flame.Scroll quickly and the flame bends.
Six scents, each in a small and a large jar
Small jars hold 200 g of wax and burn for about 40 hours. Large jars hold 500 g, have three wicks and burn for about 70 hours.
Move the cursor along the shelf to light the jars.
The light moves down the shelf as you scroll.
Cedar and smoke
Lavender and oat
Lavender, oat milk, chamomile
£24 or £46 for the large jar
Fig leaf
Fig leaf, grapefruit, violet leaf
£24 or £46 for the large jar
Neroli and bergamot
Bergamot, neroli, orange blossom
£24 or £46 for the large jar
Tonka and amber
Cardamom, tonka bean, vanilla
£24 or £46 for the large jar
Moss and iris
Pink pepper, iris, oakmoss
£24 or £46 for the large jar
Find a scent in three questions
Tell us the room, the smell you like and when you light candles. We suggest one of the six.
Question 1 of 3
Which room is it for?
The six scents by family:
- Woody and warm Cedar and smoke, Tonka and amber
- Floral Lavender and oat, Moss and iris
- Fresh and green Fig leaf, Neroli and bergamot
How a batch is made
Two of us make every candle at one long bench in Elmsworth. A batch is 48 jars of one scent, and we pour two batches a week.
Monday
Melt
We melt the soy wax to 80 degrees and stir in the fragrance oil at 8 percent of the weight.
Tuesday and Thursday
Wick and pour
Each jar gets a cotton wick held straight by two sticks. We pour at 60 degrees and leave the jars overnight to set.
The next ten days
Cure
The jars rest on the shelf so the scent binds with the wax. A candle lit too early smells of very little.
Day eleven
Label and post
We trim the wicks, add labels and lids and pack the orders. Orders placed before 1 pm go out the same day.
How to burn a candle well
The first burn sets how the rest of the candle burns. These four steps keep it even all the way down.
Leave it lit until the melted wax reaches the glass all the way round. That takes 2 to 3 hours for a small jar and 3 to 4 for a large one. If you blow it out sooner, it burns a tunnel down the middle and wastes the wax at the sides.
Before every burn after the first, trim the wick to 5 mm while the wax is cold. A long wick makes a tall, smoky flame and leaves soot on the glass.
Burn it for up to 4 hours at a time, away from open windows and draughts. Put it out with the lid or a snuffer rather than blowing, and the room stays free of smoke.
Stop when 1 cm of wax is left, so the glass does not get too hot. Then post the jar back to us for a refill, or wash it with hot water and keep it.
Gifts, minis and wick care
A gift set with long matches, three minis for trying scents, and the two tools that make a candle last longer.
The evening set
Two small candles and long matches
£62 you choose the two scents
Three mini candles
Three 80 g jars, about 18 hours each
£30 two sets to choose from
Wick trimmer
Black steel or brass, 17.5 cm
£20 or £16 in black steel
Long matches
100 matches, 10 cm, amber jar
£12 or £5 for a refill box
Send the jar back for a refill
Every order comes with a free returns label. Post us an empty Wickwell jar and we clean it, pour a new candle in the scent you choose and post it back within ten days.
£15 for a small jar, £30 for a large jar. About a third less than a new candle.
Order a refill