Small batch · No. 12 Constitution Street
Hand-poured soy wax, cotton wicks and scents built like perfume. Every candle burns for at least fifty hours.
Cedar, vetiver, peat smoke
6 candles
Neroli, iris, wet jasmine
4 candles
Fig leaf, tomato vine, bergamot
5 candles
Clove, orange peel, pine
3 candles
55 hour burn
Peat smoke · cedar · dry moss
55h burn
£36
Fig leaf · green sap · musk
55h burn
£34
Old paper · leather · tonka
55h burn
£35
Sea salt · driftwood · kelp
55h burn
£34
Tomato vine · basil · soil
55h burn
£35
Clove · orange peel · pine
55h burn
£36
Made by hand
Each scent is built like a perfume — top, heart and base — then tested for six weeks before it earns a name.
Forty candles at a time in our Leith workshop, at 54°C, so the wax sets without a single sinkhole.
We let every batch rest before it ships. Patience is what makes the scent carry across a whole room.
“A scent should arrive like weather — you notice the room changed before you notice the candle.”
Aileen Ross · Founder & perfumer
Bothy and Library, boxed in cream tissue with matches and a brass wick trimmer.
£72
Three votives — Fig Terrace, Leith Harbour and Glasshouse. Twelve hours each.
£45
Burn until the melt pool reaches the glass. It sets the memory of the wax.
Five millimetres before every light. Less soot, a steadier flame.
Longer and the wick mushrooms and the scent turns flat.
It keeps dust out and holds the top notes between evenings.
Leith workshop
Three hours at the bench: blend your own scent from forty oils, pour two candles and take them home once they set. Wine and something to eat included.
Thursday 14 May · 6.30–9.30pm · £55 per person