Born 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 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
C R Ξ Τ Ξ HOMEFounded in 2017 by pouring candles in a Brooklyn apartment, C R Ξ Τ Ξ HOME now hand-pours scented candles in New York’s Hudson Valley and extends those fragrances into room sprays, diffusers, and hand-care products. The brand uses cruelty-free, nontoxic materials and 100% vegetable wax, with scents designed to create what it calls “concrete memories” rather than sugary, cupcake-like aromas. It also brings the scent-making process to life through private candle- and room-spray-making events.
Anecdote CandlesBrooklyn-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.BROOKLYN, NY
NomaterraNomaterra makes destination-inspired fragrances in New York, hand-blending its scents in small batches from ingredients sourced around the world. Its collection turns places such as Oahu, Miami and Cape Cod into wearable perfumes and home fragrance, with the company also offering custom scent branding for brands and spaces. The Cape Cod Wild Beach Rose fragrance was named an Art & Olfaction Awards finalist.BROOKLYN, NY