A lit Madeleine Lucia soy candle on washed linen beside dried blush roses and eucalyptus
Hand‑poured  ·  Ohio  ·  Editions of forty‑eight

Madeleine Lucia the light you keep coming back to

A coconut–soy candle poured four dozen at a time, cured a full fortnight, and signed by hand before it ever meets a wick.

We make four scents and nothing else. Each one is blended on a bench, poured by hand into thick glass, and left alone for a fortnight because that is how long the oil takes to bind to the wax. Sell it on day three and you have sold a scented paperweight.

45HR Burn time

Tested edge to edge, wick trimmed between each burn.

8% Fragrance load

The point where scent carries and the wax still holds.

14DAY Cure, no less

Untouched on the rack. There is no way to hurry it.

48 Per batch

Small enough that one person can pour the whole run.

Inside the atelier
The signature four

The Collection

Kept deliberately small. Each scent is burned through in full, rested a season, and burned again before it earns a plate number. Every jar is thick‑walled glass you are meant to keep.

A lit candle resting on a folded cashmere throw
On the first burn
Soy has a memory. Whatever pool it makes the first hour, it returns to for life.
Madeleine — on why the first burn is never rushed
Bench to box

The Atelier

Four steps, in order. Skip any one of them and you get a candle that tunnels, sweats, or throws nothing at all. There is no fifth secret.

Molten cream wax being poured from a steel pitcher into a row of glass tumblers on a workbench
Pouring the winter batch — 48 jars, one afternoon
01

Blend

Coconut–soy wax melted slow and held steady, then the oils folded in at eight percent — the point where scent carries without the wax weeping at the glass.

Held at 185°F
02

Pour

Off the heat and resting until it clouds, then poured warm into a pre‑heated jar in one unbroken stream, so no seam or sinkhole forms as it sets.

Poured at 135°F
03

Cure

Onto the rack, untouched, for a fortnight. This is the step everyone shortens and the one that decides whether the candle throws at all.

14 days on the rack
04

Finish

Wick trimmed to a quarter inch, jute tied at the neck, kraft tag dated and initialled — then one last test burn pulled from the batch before any of it leaves.

Signed by hand
Top, heart, base

Scent Register

Cold throw is the scent in the jar. Hot throw is what fills the room an hour in — and the two are rarely the same. So the whole pyramid is printed here, before you buy.

Burn it well

The first
hour decides
the rest

Give the wax the time to reach the glass and your candle will outlast its forty‑five hours. Four rules. Nothing else to remember.

Gifting & wholesale

Wrapped in linen,
tied in jute

Choose any three and we nest them in a kraft box with a hand‑written card and no price anywhere on it. Wedding favours, hotel amenities and stockist orders are poured to your own batch.

Enquire about gifting
From 24 units Custom scent & label 3–4 week lead