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Since 2016

Made by hand,
in small batches.

Every Ember & Oak candle is blended, poured, cured and finished by hand in our Distillery District studio. No factories, no shortcuts — just slow, deliberate craft and a scent that feels like coming home.

The beginning —

It started on a kitchen table.

In 2016, Hannah and Theo were pouring their first candles at a wax-spattered kitchen table in Leslieville — one melting pot, a stack of borrowed thermometers, and a stubborn idea that a candle could smell like a real place and a real season, not a perfume counter.

Friends started asking for them. Then friends of friends. A market stall turned into a waitlist, and the waitlist turned into a lease. Today the two of them hand-pour everything from a small studio in Toronto’s Distillery District, where the floors still catch the light the way that first kitchen did.

What hasn’t changed is what goes in: a clean blend of soy & coconut wax, pure cotton wicks, and phthalate-free fragrance — poured in batches small enough that we still smell every single one before it leaves the room.

— Hannah & Theo
Hand-pouring molten wax into a vessel
10Years of
Pouring
How it's made —

Four steps, two weeks, and a lot of patience.

Good candles can’t be rushed. Here’s exactly how a season’s scent goes from a pot of wax to the shelf.

1Blending and measuring the wax

Blend the wax

Soy & coconut wax is melted and married with phthalate-free fragrance, weighed by hand to the gram.

2Pouring candles in small batches

Hand-pour in small batches

Each vessel is centred, wicked and poured by hand — never more than a few dozen at a time.

3Candles curing on the bench

Cure for two weeks

We rest every batch for 14 days so the scent settles deep — the difference between a candle and a great one.

4Finished candles labelled on the shelf

Hand-finish & label

Wicks are trimmed, vessels wiped clean, and each label is signed and dated before it ships.

What we stand for —

Small, clean, and made entirely in Toronto.

Small batches, never mass-made

We pour a few dozen at a time so quality never gets traded for volume.

Clean ingredients

Soy & coconut wax, cotton wicks, phthalate-free fragrance. Nothing you can’t pronounce.

Refillable vessels — less waste

Bring your vessel back and we’ll refill it. Beautiful objects shouldn’t be disposable.

Made entirely in Toronto

Designed, blended and poured here — a small studio in the Distillery District.

Candlelit Ember & Oak studio shop
Come say hello —

Visit the studio in the Distillery District.

Our shop sits inside the studio, so the candle you take home was poured a few steps from where you’re standing. Come smell the new season, watch a pour in progress, and let us help you find your scent.

OpenWed–Sun, 11–6
Where15 Trinity St, Bldg 55
Plan Your Visit
We never set out to build a brand. We set out to make the thing we wished we could buy — honest, made by hand, and lit in our own home first.
Hannah & Theo · Founders, Ember & Oak
Find your scent —

Bring a little warmth home.

Ten scents, hand-poured this season — with free local pickup at the studio.

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