Barcelona's Cereria Subirà makes paraffin and beeswax candles, continuing the chandlery business founded in the city in 1761. Monica's Brides & Touch of Glitz Flowers includes candles in its Channelview gift selection, alongside the wedding flowers and houseplants offered by the business. Dayton's Flowers & Flames Gift Shop also combines candles with flowers and gifts, providing another shop within this broader candle-shopping selection.
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This plate lists 39 shops in 19 countries.
Ask what the wax is: ask what the candle is poured from and how the wick is made, then compare two candles side by side.
Ask for the burn time: compare candles by stated burn time and weight rather than by the size of the jar.
Ask how it travels: candles can soften in heat, so ask how the shop packs them for a journey.
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Cereria Subirà sells candles in Barcelona, from traditional and liturgical forms to colourful contemporary designs and beeswax pieces. The business traces its history to 1761, while its present interior dates from a fabric shop opened in 1847. A double staircase and two figures that once held gas lamps remain features of the shop on Baixada de la Llibreteria.
Best for Traditional candles and contemporary wax designs
Cereria Subirà brings an established candle trade into a Barcelona interior originally fitted out for a different business. Its history reaches back to Jacint Galí in 1761, before the Prat family continued the trade. Paulí Subirà took over in 1939, introducing the family name associated with the shop today.
The move to Baixada de la Llibreteria took place early in the twentieth century. The premises had housed La Argentina, a fabric shop whose interior dates from 1847. Its double staircase remains a distinctive feature, flanked by two female figures that originally held gas lamps. The age of that interior therefore differs from the age of the candle business.
The range includes traditional candles and pieces intended for church use, alongside contemporary designs with bolder colours and shapes. Beeswax candles appear as a separate category in the shop's catalogue. A visitor can approach the shelves with a practical candle purchase in mind or compare decorative designs for the home. Neither purpose requires treating every candle as a religious object, despite the business's longstanding connection with liturgical supplies.
Ash & Mill makes cold-processed bar soaps, body butters, liquid castile soaps and face oils described as "100% plant-based, 100% biodegradable," made in Cape Town at 1st Floor, Albert Hall, 208 Albert Rd, Woodstock. The range also includes soy wax candles, bath salts and shaving products.
Candle shop built around a numbered library of 100 house fragrances, with a wax bar where guests pour their own custom candles. Founded in Charleston, it blends and sells its own soy-based candles and home scents.
April & The Bear, at 213 Rathmines Road Lower in Dublin, sells eclectic homewares, exclusive art prints, gifts and furniture spanning sofas, dining furniture, lighting, rugs, candles, cushions and tableware. The shop also runs A+TB Design Studio, offering interior design consulting.
Black Moon Botanica is listed in Edinburgh as a candles; its official website and supplied OpenStreetMap place record provide the public-door evidence.
ArtForFun operates under CraftsVillage Nigeria from a studio on Ogunlana Drive in Surulere, Lagos. Sessions run there and at client venues cover pottery and candle making for both kids and adults.
Best for Pottery and candle-making workshops for kids
Based in Ljubljana-Dobrunje, Slovenia, FerMedica has produced honey and bee products for 30 years, including natural Slovenian honey, Medica honey liqueur, beeswax candles, propolis, pollen, royal jelly and painted beehive panels. Its honey liqueur won a gold medal at the Great American International Spirits Competition in New York in 2021.
Since 1982, two South African art graduates and their successors have hand-sculpted millefiore candles and wax animal shapes at a Malkerns Valley workshop that has grown into the Swazi Candles Centre, a Fair Trade-certified craft hub with galleries and the Sambane Tea Garden.
Best for Hand-sculpted millefiore candles and wax animals
Swazi Candles started in 1982 when two South African art graduates began working out of a converted cowshed in the Malkerns Valley, building a business around millefiore - a technique of layering and cutting colored wax to form intricate patterned shells around each candle. That original workshop has grown into the Swazi Candles Centre, a craft destination combining the working studio with galleries, additional craft shops and the Sambane Tea Garden, alongside a separate manufacturing facility in the Matsapha industrial area for scaled-up production. The range has expanded well past patterned pillar candles to include animal-shaped pieces, 100% soya tea lights, wax-encased battery-powered glow lamps rated for roughly 100 hours of use, handmade vegetable-glycerin soaps and marula-oil body balms. The company is a certified Fair Trade employer through SWIFT, running with 45 permanent staff who receive healthcare and pension benefits, and it maintains an organic vegetable garden as part of its community program - details that place Swazi Candles closer to an accountable manufacturing operation than a roadside craft stall. From that single cowshed workshop, the business now exports to more than 20 countries while keeping the original hand-sculpting technique, and a visit to the valley today means the candle-making floor, the tea garden, and the export warehouse all sit within the same site.
LAU Monte-Carlo sells home décor items, cushions, candles and hair accessories, along with custom-embroidered pouches and apparel personalized with names or phrases. The shop operates in Monaco and completes embroidery on site.
Best for Home décor, candles and custom-embroidered accessories
Wax 'n' Wix runs a hands-on candle-making studio on Montcalm Street in the village, where visitors pour their own soy candles alongside a shelf of pre-made ones and locally sourced gifts. The shop also stocks a second location at the Adirondack Outlet Mall and takes custom orders for weddings and corporate events.
Best for Hand-poured soy candles and candle-making classes
Lolotte Candle is a maker in Osaka known for handcrafted animal-shaped candles that can be engraved with names or dates, plus candle-making workshops with different difficulty levels and themes.
Best for Engraved animal-shaped candles and candle-making workshops
Adaawewigamig, meaning "place of trade" in Anishinaabemowin, opened at 55 Byward Market Square in Ottawa on June 19, 2022 as an Indigenous-owned social enterprise supporting Assembly of Seven Generations. It carries products including Kokum Scrunchies, Mitsoh, Moccasin Joe, Cedar Canoe Candles, Uasau Soaps and Awazibi Maple Syrup, and hosts workshops for Indigenous youth.
Parfums de Nicolaï offers eaux de parfum, candles, soaps and discovery sets with classical French structure. Sampling smaller formats helps shoppers compare the house’s citrus, floral, woody and gourmand directions.
Best for Classic French-structured eaux de parfum, candles, soaps, and discovery sets
Enchanted Florist is a florist and gift shop in Pasadena. Its in-person selection includes fresh arrangements, plants, candles, gifts and gourmet treats, with a focus on custom flowers, plants and locally delivered gifts.
Best for Custom flowers, plants and locally delivered gifts
Kaolin is a cooperative ceramic gallery owned by several ceramic artists and designers, each with their own style, making porcelain vases, bowls, lanterns, candleholders and bottle stoppers that ship worldwide.
An Italian lifestyle brand conceived in Rome and launched in New York in 2015 by Francilla Ronchi and Michelangelo Brancato, Coreterno makes vegan, cruelty-free candles and fragrances in Italy inspired by 19th-century engravings and rock-and-pop iconography.
Best for Gothic dark-romantic candles and scents in matte-black vessels from Rome
Coreterno — Italian for 'eternal heart' — is a lifestyle brand conceived in Rome and formally launched in New York in 2015 by Francilla Ronchi and Michelangelo Brancato. Its aesthetic draws on a self-described 'mysterious world' of rebellious artists, poets and engravers, reworking nineteenth-century portraits, antique seventeenth-century engravings, and archetypal rock-and-pop symbols into vintage-styled black-and-white product labels. The brand's candle range spans distinct collections: Visionary Candles, made with organic wax and labeled with short phrases about moods and states of mind, and the Aphrodite Scented Candles line, framed around themes of love. Coreterno states that all its fragrances are vegan and cruelty-free, produced in Italy using a mix of vegetable and mineral waxes, and markets its products around a stated intent to carry messages of strength through visual and olfactory design rather than function alone. Beyond candles, the brand also produces fragrances and jewelry sold through its own site and stockists including department stores such as David Jones and specialty perfumeries.
At Boegaloe is a furniture and home decor shop at Kaya Grandi 13 in Kralendijk, Bonaire. It sells sofas and scented candles as well as decor pieces in wood and copper, and in stone or glass.
A Sturgeon Bay maker of hand-poured soy candles, wax melts and fragrance oils, using non-toxic scents and a make-your-own candle bar with more than fifty options. The company channels sales into charitable giving, including campaigns for Ukraine relief.
Herrngasse 1, 91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Bavaria, Germany (Old Town)
This year-round Christmas emporium fills roughly 1,000 square meters with Erzgebirge-style decorations — nutcrackers, incense smokers, pyramids, candle arches, hand-blown glass and wooden ornaments. The building also houses the German Christmas Museum.
Best for Traditional German Christmas ornaments, nutcrackers and pyramids
La Tienda Feroz sells handmade Colombian sculpture, illustration, wooden lamps from La Bellota Estudio, ceramics and tableware, textiles, cushions, candles and children's items such as mobiles and dolls, from artisans including Mariana Salazar and Dega Ceramista. It is located at Av Circunvalar, Casa Valentina, in Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.
Appropriately named Mixed Media, this artistic boutique produces beautiful mementos of current exhibits (postcards, prints, and catalogues), and showcases an array of Bahamian talent.
Best for Bahamian baskets, scarves, quilts, sculptures, candles, soaps
From a Water Street studio, Moonsnail makes more than 150 soaps and body-care products in small batches, from shampoo bars and bath salts to balms, facial oils and candles. The nature store leans on simple plant-based ingredients and carries lines for babies, men and dogs.
Larry Kinsella, a founding member of the Made in Kilkenny craftspeople's collective, has hand-poured candles at this riverside studio in Bennettsbridge since 1999, near the Nicholas Mosse pottery. The workshop produces pillar and scented candles alongside studio-only pieces like glow-globes and tortured-wax sculptures that visitors can watch being made.
Danielle opened Seawitch Stores in 2012, a gift boutique in Mousehole's harbour where she hand-pours her own coastal-scented candles and diffusers in a room at the back of the shop. The brick-and-mortar store also carries jewellery, cards, soaps and homeware, with a selection sold online.
Best for Candles, gifts, jewellery, home fragrance
This Clovelly maker produces natural soaps, candles, and skincare by hand in small batches using botanical ingredients. The award-winning range is sold from the village shop and stocked by independent retailers.
Vanilla Bean Dreamz Candle Co. hand-pours nontoxic, coconut-wax candles and home fragrance from its Woodland, California workshop, avoiding essential oils for health-conscious customers. Custom scent orders are taken directly, and products are also sold locally through the Hello Sunshine boutique in Old Sacramento.
Vermont HoneyLights hand-molds and hand-pours pure beeswax candles, along with beeswax wraps and home goods, all made in Vermont. The maker sells through its online shop and a Main Street storefront in Bristol.
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