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Ember & Wick Book a pour class
A single lit candle against pure darkness

Hand-poured in small batches

Lit slowly, kept long.

Ember & Wick pours candles the patient way — blended in litres, not tanks, cured for a fortnight, and burn-tested in the shop window where anyone can check.

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The pour

Wax has opinions.

Pour soy wax two degrees too hot and it cracks as it sets; too cold and the scent never binds. Factories solve this with additives. We solve it with a thermometer, a slow afternoon and the stubbornness to re-melt anything that isn't right.

Every batch is twelve candles. Every candle gets a batch number, a pour date, and a fortnight on the curing shelf before it's allowed near the till.

A cluster of lit candles glowing warm against the dark

From wax to wick

Four numbers, one candle.

The whole craft is temperature and patience. These are the numbers on the workshop wall.

  1. The melt

    Soy flakes go down slowly in the double boiler. Rushing this is how factories are born.

  2. The scent

    Oils bind at exactly this window — hotter burns them off, cooler leaves them sitting on top like regret.

  3. The pour

    Into the vessel in one patient stream, wick held plumb by a wooden peg our neighbour the joiner makes.

  4. The cure

    Two weeks on the shelf while wax and scent finish their argument. The wait is the recipe.

The shelf

Three families, twelve candles each.

Every scent is layered to change as it burns — the first hour is not the third. Refills for any vessel we've sold, always.

Hearth

€28 50 hours

Woodsmoke, amber and the ghost of a good bakery. The winter shelf's bestseller.

  • Batch-numbered
  • Refill for €14, forever
Reserve one
Most popular

Orchard

€28 50 hours

Fig leaf, pear skin and cut grass — the garden in August, minus the wasps.

  • Batch-numbered
  • Refill for €14, forever
Reserve one

Coast

€28 50 hours

Salt, driftwood and cold air. For people who miss the sea on a Tuesday.

  • Batch-numbered
  • Refill for €14, forever
Reserve one
Shop truth
A candle is a fireplace you can afford in a rental.
Chalked on the workshop door

The Saturday pour

Make the one you'll never sell.

Every Saturday the workshop table clears for eight people, eight vessels and a long morning of melting, blending and pouring your own candle — scent built from our oil wall, mistakes re-melted for free, coffee included.

You leave with a candle that has your name on the batch label and instructions to wait two weeks. Nobody waits two weeks. We understand.

A row of tea lights glowing along dark wood

From the shelf

Burn reports

I bought Hearth in November 'as a gift'. It never left my flat and I'm not sorry. The refill system is dangerously convenient.
Mariana CostaHearth, batch 214
Did the Saturday pour for my mother's birthday. She cried, then made us light it immediately. The two-week rule is a myth in our family now.
Tomás FerreiraSaturday pour, spring
You can smell when it's a real shop the second you walk in. This is a real shop.
A. LindgrenCoast, on her third refill

Book

Take a seat at the table.

Eight seats every Saturday. Morning pours run 10–12, afternoon 14–16 — both end with coffee while the wax sets.

Visitors pick a date and time here, then leave their details.

Open
Sat
Hours
10:00–16:00
Slots
10:00 · 12:00 · 14:00

The shop

Follow the warm window.

Rua das Flores, the small window that glows after dusk — that's the burn test, and it doubles as our only advertising.

Email
shop@example.com
Phone
+351 22 555 0173
Address
Porto
Hours
Tue–Fri 11–19 Sat 10–17 (pour classes) Sun–Mon Closed