Since 1978, Northern Lights Candles has made candles and home fragrances in Wellsville, New York, pairing traditional candlemaking with artist-led design. Its artisans develop original forms, fragrances and hand-illustrated packaging, including the distinctive Esque® luminary system with interchangeable candle inserts. The company also emphasizes ethically minded production and designs its candles for gifting, lasting use and repurposing.
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.
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
CandlestockSince opening as a one-room shop in 1970, Woodstock’s Candlestock has handcrafted distinctive candles, including its signature drip candles, in keeping with the town’s artistic spirit. The store has grown into one of Woodstock’s oldest businesses and ships its handmade candles worldwide, while its continuously burning drip candle has become an eight-foot-tall wax mountain at the heart of the shop. Candlestock also invites visitors to make their own candles at its Wax Imagination Studio in nearby Saugerties.WOODSTOCK, NY
DeAndra Craigman StudiosFounded by classically trained fine artist DeAndra Craigman, DeAndra Craigman Studios makes handcrafted home-fragrance products that pair scent with sound, most notably candles accompanied by curated playlists. The New York City studio began in 2020 as an effort to connect Craigman’s paintings with smell and sound, then grew into a lifestyle brand offering sensory objects for everyday rituals. Its candles use clean, phthalate-free fragrance oils, and each home-fragrance item is made by artisans in New York City.LONG ISLAND CITY, NY