Natural candles for slow evenings at home.
Soy and beeswax, essential oils and wooden or cotton wicks, nothing else. Poured by hand in small batches in Bratislava, with up to 55 hours of light in every jar.
- 55 hburn time in a 180 g jar
- 6scents, poured every Tuesday
- €3back for every jar you return
Six scents for the hours after dark
One jar size, one honest wax blend, six moods. Each candle is cured for two weeks before it leaves the studio, so it smells the way it should from the first light.
Cedar & Smoke
A cabin after the fire has burned down: dry cedar, a thread of birch smoke and vetiver at the base. Poured with a wooden wick that crackles softly for the first hour.
- Top
- Black pepper, juniper
- Heart
- Cedarwood, birch tar
- Base
- Vetiver, beeswax, amber
Size
Leaves the studio within two working days. Free shipping in Slovakia over €60.
Ingredients
Rapeseed-soy wax blend (70%), Slovak beeswax (20%), essential oils of cedarwood, vetiver, juniper and black pepper (10%). Untreated cherry-wood wick. No paraffin, no synthetic dyes.
Burning and refills
Burn for two to three hours the first time so the wax melts to the edge. When it's done, send the clean jar back with your next order and we take €3 off.
How they're made
Four steps, one long table in a former bakery in Nové Mesto. A batch is 120 jars and takes us two weeks from melting pot to parcel.
- i.
Melt
Rapeseed-soy wax and local beeswax are melted together slowly at 75 °C. Beeswax makes the candle burn longer and cleaner.
Monday - ii.
Scent
Only essential oils, weighed to the tenth of a gram. Ten percent of every jar is scent, which is why one candle fills a room.
Tuesday morning - iii.
Wick & pour
Wooden or cotton wicks are centred by hand, then the wax is poured at 60 °C in two layers so the top sets perfectly flat.
Tuesday afternoon - iv.
Cure
The jars rest in the dark for fourteen days while the oils bind to the wax. Then we light one from every batch and live with it for an evening.
Two weeks later
Burn it well
A good candle is half wax and half habit. Four small rules give you every one of the 55 hours, and a jar clean enough to send back.
- 2hLet the first burn take its timeTwo to three hours, until the melt reaches the glass. It sets the memory of the wax.
- 5mmTrim the wick before lightingA short wick gives a calm, low flame and no soot on the jar.
- 4hNever longer than four hoursSnuff it, let it cool, light it again tomorrow evening.
- €3Send the empty jar backPut it in your next parcel and we take three euros off.