Amber jar soy candle with smoke and eucalyptus

Wax & Wick Studio

For the hours that belong to you.

There is a particular kind of Tuesday in November when the light is gone by four and the flat feels like somewhere you are staying temporarily rather than somewhere you actually live. Maya had been having a lot of those Tuesdays. She bought wax and fragrance oils the way other people pick up a bottle of wine on the way home: impulsively, without thinking too hard about why.

The first batch smelled wrong. Too much bergamot, not enough of whatever she was actually looking for. She poured it anyway and let it cool on the kitchen counter next to a stack of unopened post. She lit it before she had even eaten dinner. Something shifted. Not dramatically and not in any way she could explain to someone else. The particular quality of the air in the room changed, and for the first time in weeks she sat down without reaching for her phone.

Her neighbour knocked to ask what she was burning. Could she have one?

That was the beginning, though Maya would not have recognised it as such at the time.

Hand poured soy candle in kraft gift box with botanicals

The one that started it all.

November.

Bergamot, clove and something that smells like the inside of a bookshop on a cold afternoon. The scent Maya kept adjusting for two years until she could not think of a single thing she would change.

€34

Close up texture of poured soy wax in a stoneware vessel

Everything comes from somewhere and Maya thinks you should know where. The wax is soy, grown and processed without the things she cannot pronounce. The fragrance oils are skin-safe and phthalate-free, which matters if you are burning something in a room where you sleep. The vessels are made by a ceramicist who works alone in a small studio and has been making things with her hands for longer than Maya has been alive.

It will not make the candles burn longer or smell better, but when you buy one you know exactly what you bought.

Three handmade candle vessels grouped on a wooden surface
Small amber glass candle vessel with orange blossom on a cream background

Apiary

Orange blossom, raw honey, warm cedar

€28

Tall dark ceramic candle vessel with dried eucalyptus and a lit flame

After Closing

Eucalyptus, white musk, something slightly smoky

€34

Clear glass candle with dried botanicals suspended in pale soy wax

Slow Morning

Linen, bergamot, the faintest trace of something baked

€28

Candle, matches and wax melts arranged on a dark slate tray

“I have bought November three times. Once for myself, once as a gift, once because I ran out and could not face the week without it.”

R., London

“I never used to notice candles. Now I notice them everywhere.”

T., Amsterdam

“My flat smells like somewhere I want to be, and I did not expect a candle to do that.”

C., Berlin

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