Brooklyn-based Anecdote Candles hand-pours modern, story-driven candles designed to turn fragrance into a conversation piece. Inspired by personal recollections and cultural trends, the company develops its scents with master perfumers and invites customers to help shape new ideas. Its custom candle program lets customers create a personalized name, anecdote, color and fragrance.
Aerangis LLCNamed for the star-shaped orchid that sparked founder Alicia Tsai’s first scent memory, Aerangis creates hand-poured candles designed to turn personal stories and places into fragrance. Tsai trained at the Fashion Institute of Technology and works with perfumers to develop both signature and bespoke scents, including custom candles for weddings, milestones, and businesses. The candles are made in small batches in the USA, with reusable ceramic jars crafted at Taiwan’s century-old Shuili Snake Kiln and plastic-free packaging.
APOTHEKEBorn from Chrissy Fichte’s 2011 scent-making experiments in a Brooklyn kitchen, APOTHEKE creates handmade home and personal fragrances, including its signature candles and soaps. The Brooklyn-based brand opened its own factory in 2012 and continues to thoughtfully blend fragrances and handcraft candles and soaps there. Its fragrance-focused Studio also invites visitors to make custom candles and perfumes.BROOKLYN, NY
Brooklyn Candle StudioFounded by Tamara Mayne in 2013 after candle-making began as a hobby, Brooklyn Candle Studio has grown into a Brooklyn-based maker shaped by its founder’s design background and love of nature. Its in-house artisans hand-pour and label home fragrance in a 20,000-square-foot Industry City workshop, creating minimalist candles with botanical scents for people seeking a calmer atmosphere at home.BROOKLYN, NY
HomesickFounded in 2016, Homesick makes fragrance and lifestyle products designed to turn memories of places, people and moments into scents for the home. Its signature candles are developed with input from local communities—sometimes 30 to 100 people per candle—and poured in small batches using a natural soy wax blend. The range spans location-inspired fragrances, meaningful occasions and licensed pop-culture memories, including a FRIENDS™ Central Perk candle.