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
Alene CandlesAlene Candles is a private-label contract manufacturer that develops and produces candles and diffusers for retail, boutique, and cosmetic brands. The company says it has produced these goods for nearly 30 years, making millions of candles and diffusers annually at facilities in New Hampshire and Ohio. Its in-house research and development and testing teams support custom formulation and production projects.NEW ALBANY, OH
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.
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.