About
We started with one bad candle.
It slumped, it tunnelled, and it smelled faintly of nothing. Five years later we pour about four hundred a month from a second-floor studio in Delhi, and we still throw out the ones that slump.
How it is made
We pour soy wax and nothing else, colour it with plant-derived pigment, and work at a temperature low enough to keep the surface matte and hold a piped edge.
The flowers are piped in the fifteen-minute window before the wax sets — roses turned on a nail, lotus petals laid one at a time, leaves scored with a warm tool.
What we will not do
No paraffin, no synthetic dye in the wax body, and no mass moulds bought off a catalogue that a hundred other studios also use.
And no digital retouching of shape. The candle in the photograph is the candle you receive, give or take the small differences that come with hands.
400
candles a month, from two pairs of hands
44
shapes in the catalogue, across five collections
15 min
to pipe every flower before the wax sets
0
paraffin, synthetic wax dye or bought-in moulds