One pair of hands
Melted, scented, poured, labelled, cured and boxed by the same person. No fulfilment partner, no white-label pour house.
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The Evening Ritual
A candle isn't the point. The point is the twenty minutes it protects. Four small steps turn an 8 oz tin of soy wax into the signal that the working day is finished.
- 01
Close the laptop
Not minimise. Close. The candle is a hinge, and a hinge needs something to swing shut.
- 02
Trim the wick, strike one match
A quarter inch of cotton wick, one match, no lighter clicking six times. The small ceremony is half the work.
- 03
Wait for the pool to reach the rim
Roughly twenty minutes in an 8 oz tin. That wait is the product. Soy wax remembers its first burn, so give it the full edge.
- 04
Snuff it, do not blow
A snuffer keeps the room clean and the scent honest. Then the evening is yours, and the day is genuinely behind you.
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Made by one person, in batches small enough to count
Fernhollow is a home studio, not a factory floor. Every candle is poured, labelled, cured and boxed by the same pair of hands — which is a limit, and we'd rather state it than dress it up.
Soy wax and essential oils
US-grown soy, cotton wicks, essential oils rather than synthetic fragrance blends. Recyclable 8 oz tins, paper-wrapped.
Fourteen days of curing
Candles sit for two weeks before they ship so the scent binds to the wax. It slows everything down. It is also why they smell like something.
About 150 candles a month
That is the ceiling of one person with a day that also has an end to it. We would rather publish the number than invent a reason for the wait.
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The Candle Club — intentionally limited
$32 a month. One 8 oz hand-poured candle plus a seasonal tin, delivered on a monthly rhythm so the ritual never runs out of wick. Membership is capped to match what one person can actually pour — about 150 candles a month — so the Club opens by waitlist, in order, as room appears.
per month, cancel whenever
Charged the week your candle is poured, never before. Pause for a month, skip a season, leave without an exit survey.
A candle and a seasonal tin
One 8 oz hand-poured candle each month, plus a seasonal tin — matches, a snuffer, a dried sprig of something from the yard.
Memberships, hard capped
The Club size matches the pour capacity exactly. When someone leaves, the next person on the waitlist is offered the place.
First look at new scents
Members see each new scent a full batch before it reaches the shop, and keep the Club price on single restocks.
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The scent library
Four launch scents, each built from essential oils and poured in 8 oz tins. Available one-time at $28 while a batch lasts — Club members see each one first.
Fernhollow
Cedarwood · vetiver · a thread of bergamot
The house scent. Damp bark and dry wood, like the five minutes after rain stops under trees.
$28Lamplight
Sweet orange · clove bud · benzoin
Warm and slightly sweet without turning into dessert. The one people light in November and keep lighting in March.
$28Rain Porch
Fir needle · eucalyptus · cypress
Cold, green and open. Good for rooms that have been closed all day with a laptop humming in them.
$28Wool Blanket
Lavender · atlas cedar · roman chamomile
The quietest of the four. Poured for people who read in bed and fall asleep before the chapter ends.
$28
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A note from the studio
Fernhollow started because my own evenings had stopped having an edge to them — work bled into dinner, dinner bled into a screen, and nothing told me the day was over. Lighting one candle did. I started pouring soy wax and essential oils at my kitchen table to get that feeling repeatable, and then friends started asking for them. If your days run long and end badly, you're the person I'm making these for. I'd rather be honest about what this is: one person, a home studio, a few dozen candles at a time, and a real belief that twenty protected minutes at the end of a day is worth $28. The Candle Club exists so you don't have to remember to reorder — and it's capped because I'd rather ship 150 good candles than 500 rushed ones.
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Honest answers
Fernhollow is new, so these answers describe exactly how things work today rather than how we hope they'll work later.
When will the Candle Club actually open for me?
Honestly: it depends on who leaves. The Club is capped at roughly 150 memberships because that is one person’s pour capacity. We offer open places in waitlist order and hold each invitation for a few days. Most people currently wait one to three months.
Does joining the waitlist charge me anything?
No. The waitlist stores an email address and nothing else. You are only charged if you accept an invitation and complete checkout yourself.
Can I just buy one candle?
Yes, and plenty of people should. A single 8 oz candle is $28 while the batch lasts. The Club exists for people who have already decided this is a habit, not a trial.
How long does a candle burn?
An 8 oz tin gives roughly 45 to 50 hours with a trimmed wick. At one protected evening hour a day that is about six weeks, which is why the Club runs monthly rather than weekly.
Where do you ship, and how fast?
Across the US, via USPS, usually within three business days of a batch finishing its cure. International shipping is not available yet — wax and customs are a bad combination at this size.
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You're on the list
Check your inbox for a confirmation from Fernhollow — that's the only thing we'll send until a Club membership opens. When it does, you'll get the month's scent, the ship window, and a link that holds your place for a few days. Nothing automatic, nothing charged.
End the day on purpose
The Candle Club is capped at what one person can pour — around 150 candles a month. Join the waitlist and you'll hear from us when a membership opens, with the scent named before you commit. Or light one tonight: a single 8 oz candle is $28.