Bellwood & Ash

Guelph, Ontario · poured in small batches

Candles that smell like somewhere, not like something.

Nine scents, three sizes, soy and coconut wax with a wooden wick. Made forty minutes from wherever you are reading this, in batches of sixty.

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Three lit Bellwood & Ash candles on a worn oak bench, warm evening light across the wax pools.

Hand-poured Thursday mornings at 42 Cardigan Street. Come and watch, the door is open.

3 scents

Woods & Smoke

Resin, cedar, and a cold hearth. The ones people buy in October and never stop buying.

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3 scents

Florals & Linen

Soft, clean, and grown up. Florals for people who think they dislike florals.

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3 scents

Citrus & Orchard

Bright, green, and a little tart. What a kitchen should smell like at ten in the morning.

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What people keep reordering

The four we cannot pour fast enough

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Bestseller A Bellwood Fir candle by Bellwood & Ash: balsam, pine resin, and cold air off the escarpment.

Bellwood Fir

Cold air accord · Frosted mint · Balsam fir

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Wax being poured from a steel jug into a row of stoneware vessels on a studio bench.

How they are made

Sixty at a time, by one person, on a Thursday.

Every candle is poured by hand in a studio on Cardigan Street. Soy and coconut wax, at a low pour temperature so the surface sets flat. Wooden wicks, because they throw fragrance faster and because the crackle is worth the extra trimming.

The stoneware is thrown by a potter in Fergus and it is meant to outlive the wax. Wash it out when you get to the last centimetre and keep it for pens, or brushes, or nothing at all.

  1. Blend

    Fragrance oils weighed to 0.1 g, cured in the wax for two weeks before a single candle is sold.

  2. Pour

    Low and slow into warmed vessels, which is the only reliable way to avoid a sunken top.

  3. Cure

    Fourteen days on the rack. A candle poured yesterday will not throw properly, whatever the label says.

  4. Burn test

    One candle out of every batch is burned down entirely in the studio before the batch ships.

Bought the Discovery Set as a hedge and came back for the 16 oz of Harrowgate Cedar within a fortnight. It is the only candle I have owned that still smells like itself at the bottom of the jar.
Nadia R., Guelph · verified buyer

Also on the shelf at

  • The Wooly Hollow · Guelph, ON
  • Cardigan Provisions · Guelph, ON
  • Elora Mill Mercantile · Elora, ON
  • Ridge & Furrow · Fergus, ON

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Three travel tins, one from each family, for less than the price of two. It is the honest way to buy a scent you cannot smell through a screen.

The Discovery Set, $72 Read the scent guide