Founded in 2018 by Scott and Stephanie Goodrich, Bowling Green’s family-owned Wyx Brands makes fragranced candles, personal-care and home-care products while helping other brands bring their own lines to market. Its manufacturing work ranges from low-minimum white- and private-label programs to contract filling, alongside consumer brands such as Slippery Elm and Weathervane Candle. Wyx stands out for pairing accessible production quantities with a deliberately personal, family-business customer experience.
Scent Theory ProductsBorn in New York City, family-owned Scent Theory Products creates sensorial personal-care and wellness products built around the power of fragrance. With more than 30 collective years of industry experience, the company develops its own bath-and-body brands, including Scent Theory and Scentfull, while also providing collaborative, turnkey private-brand programs for retailers. Its manufacturing network spans domestic and international partners, supporting the company’s focus on trend-aware design, safe formulations, and speed to market.New York, 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.
Alene CandlesWith nearly 30 years behind it, Alene Candles makes custom fragranced candles and diffusers as a private-label contract manufacturer for retail, boutique and cosmetic brands. Its New Hampshire and Ohio facilities produce millions of candles each year, while an on-site team of chemists and lab technicians develops and tests formulas for reliable performance. Because Alene makes no branded product line of its own, its focus stays on bringing customers’ specifications to production, from development through pack-out and distribution.NEW ALBANY, OH
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.