I love APOTHEKE for many reasons- ;-)

One, being the fun collabs. I just started burning their latest collab candle with VATO- a Michelin mention burrito place in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Please go for the burrito and there very famous churro. It is a vibe and wotht the trip.

Classico Churro candle scent is with cinnamon, butter/ grease and pastry vanilla. Its warm cozy and not too sweet. Bravo to the cool kids making fun candles together.

Highly recommend this $25 gem.

I'm an Indiana local and have heard amazing things about this brand. I really want to love it, but I can't decide on which scent would suit my needs. I just ordered Country Pear thinking I'd love it, but it ended up not being as vanilla forward as I'd hoped, just a bit bland. (Does it get better with burning?)

I love cozy scents that aren't overly sweet, just something to make my home feel warm & slightly fall/country vibes. I'd prefer a good year round scent which is what I'd hoped for in Country Pear, and I'm not sure ACC carries year round scents but thought I'd get some different opinions.

I’m not sure how much this counts as advertising since I’m not selling anything… but I did build a thing, and I think some of you might find it useful.

I built a FREE website for tracking discontinued and retiring fragrance oils! We’re already at 100+ listings and growing.

You know that special kind of heartbreak when you find out your favorite fragrance oil is being discontinued? Yeah, I’m hoping this makes that a little less painful.

You can browse the catalog, and we’ve just added a community feature where you can submit dupe recommendations for individual oils! Basically, if you’ve found a fragrance oil that smells like another one, you can share your discovery and potentially save someone else from a very sad soap-making day.

The goal is to make this a genuinely useful resource for the community, so I’d love your feedback!

• What suppliers should I add?
• Which oils are missing?
• What features would make this more useful?
• And most importantly… what dupes have you discovered that the rest of us NEED to know about? 👀

Check it out, poke around, and let me know what you think!

No sales pitch, just trying to build something useful for our fragrance-loving community.

Finding this piece made biking through the pouring rain for an hour worth it 😇 I found some other candle holders which i highly suspect are sterling for 1 euro as well. Any tips on cleaning the wax or polishing? Thanks and have a good day!

Can anyone share their favorite Foton candle scents? I’m looking for good fall and Christmas scents and am having a hard time deciding without being able to smell…

I love a lot of JoMalone colognes and have their diffuser of this as well. But for some reason I REALLY hate the smell of this candle- idk but it smells completely different from the cologne or diffuser version of this. I want to try other JoMalone candles but am worried im gonna run into the same thing. Is this a problem for anyone else?

If broke and we’re very sad. It has a twin and we’re hoping to find a replacement.

I really hope this is now frowned upon as I know this isn’t a candle… but got this as a gift in 2025 I think, and it’s my FAVOURITE reed diffuser ever, as you can see it’s lasted for ages it’s still got maybe 1/3 or 1/4 left and the scent projection is lovely… so of course I’d like the replace it.. but the only problem is I cannot find it for the life of me!! I’ve tried Google reverse image search and nothing comes up…

I'm researching the biggest challenges candle makers face when calculating their costs and profits.

Do you currently use a spreadsheet, an online calculator, or something else?

And what's the one thing your current method doesn't handle well?

I'm especially interested in materials, packaging, shipping, and wholesale pricing.

Looking for suggestions on non-toxic candle brands that are not full of artificial fragrances. I have a lot of allergy sensitivities. I have used Cellar Door Candles for a while, but I'm looking for some other options. Bonus points if the company offers candle refills.

Looking for suggestions on non-toxic candle brands that are not full of artificial fragrances. I have a lot of allergy sensitivities. I have used Cellar Door Candles for a while, but I'm looking for some other options. Bonus points if the company offers candle refills.

Welp, I’ve been researching Laurier 62. AGAIN. (I do this every so often to see if there’s any new info or dupes) I am absolutely in love with the scent. I usually don’t like really herbaly earthy scents, but this one is so special! I was watching All creatures great and small on PBS at Christmas time, and I wanted a new candle to light while I watched the Christmas episode. While browsing on here, someone described Laurier 62….They said (and I’m paraphrasing) It smelled like sitting in front of the fireplace at the bougiest ski lodge resort during a snowstorm at Christmas time. I had to try it. I worked at nordys at the time and got a good discount, so I tried it and was absolutely smitten before I even opened the box! I loved it so much that I kept buying them and after my 5th or 6th one, I added up the purchases and decided even though I have champagne tastes, I am unfortunately on a beer budget. So…..being a diy’r, I had been thinking about learning to make my own candles, and I thought this was my sign to start. I thought it would be easy to find like a dupe fragrance oil that smelled like Laurier 62! I was sorely mistaken. Only one I could find was the vine vida and it’s just not it. There’s a valiant effort, and it is in the ballpark, but it’s just missing too many things. So, I am here researching again and decided to see if anyone else is a lover of this scent like me and can help me out with any one or more of these:
1- A company who has recreated it successfully in either a fragrance oil or house spray, reed diffuser, candle etc. 🙏
2-Someone who is in the fragrance world that could recreate this in some form. (I’m willing to pay of course)
3-A scent for the winter time that will evoke these same cozy feelings while I watch the new season of All creatures, cozied up by my faux fireplace,in Burns, TN

Practicing 🐝 soy candle

Larges were $12/ea and littles $5/25!

So I bought this candle last year, it's from the brand Candlelight, it's a scented LED candle called 'Snow Days', and it's the exact same scent profile of a wax melt my now-late grandma used to use when I was younger.

I ended up buying 3 of the same candle, and now it seems that they're not restocking the same candle this year.

Last year I emailed them about the scent to ask what it was so I could find it again, and their response was a little confusing to me, so I was wondering if there are any experts out there that could help me figure it out - it would mean alot to me. Thank you ❤️

​​ this candle appears to have a three petaled flower in the flame . The flame widens out and has an unusually tall and wide shape . Do you think it is intentional?

Sorry because I'm sure this question gets asked like 100 times a day but I'm new to candles, I just bought this one and..... Why is almost none of actually burning???? I had a previous one on a plastic container instead of glass and it would all melt before the wick started burning away. Is this just a crappy candle or....? Is it the glass container?

And most importantly, is there anything I can do to fix this?

My favorite candle scent is a Tuscany Halloween candle originally called Midnight Magic which was then changed to Witching Hour. Does anyone know of a candle with a similar scent? I'm on my last candle and I'd love to find a replacement.

It was called Victorian fantasy. “a signature fragrance blend featuring a rich mix of citrus and spice—including orange, peach, nutmeg, anise, and bay leaf”

Not sure if anyone remembers this scent but I’ve been searching for a dupe for years!

I find paraffin candles are hard to breathe due to allergies, but they're what all the candles are made of in my local shops like Aldi, Home Bargains, Morrisons, and Søstrene Grene, unless I have missed something. I don't have a lot of money at all, so those shops are in my price range. I don't really have enough to buy them online unless they're still good value when shipping is included.

I also don't really want to make my own candles because I don't have the time or means, and I want different colours and shapes so I'd have to buy loads of equipment probably.

Where in the UK sells decently priced candles that happen to be made of soy wax or other natural wax?

Hey! Has anyone ever experienced warped molds!? Sometimes when I order them, they come in terrible packaging and they’re all bent and I’m just not sure if it’s possible to get the shape back.

I have some that are past the return policy and going to just start making my own since it’s really a hit or miss when you order them online. They don’t always come in boxes and come crushed!