Fig & Cedar has been on my mantelpiece for three years. Friends ask what it is every time they come round.
Small-batch candles · Bolton
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Scented jars, beeswax pillars, dinner tapers and sculptural candles, hand-poured in an old cotton mill and made to burn slowly, cleanly and beautifully.
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From long dinner tapers to a wooden wick that crackles like a fire. Hover over any of them to light it.
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Amber & Oud · New
When the lights go down, it's three small flames and the smell of warm amber.
Our richest scent yet. Saffron and dark oud over amber resin, poured into a heavy hand-blown bowl with three wicks. It fills a big room and burns for 80 hours.
Meet Amber & Oud80 hr burnThree cotton wicks£58
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Our craft
Poured by hand, a few hundred at a time.
Mothlight started on a kitchen table in 2017. Today we pour every candle on the second floor of an old cotton mill in Bolton, in batches small enough that we still know each scent by its wick.
- Clean-burning waxA soft soy and British rapeseed blend, or pure beeswax. No paraffin.
- Cured for two weeksEvery scented candle rests for 14 days so the fragrance can settle before it reaches you.
- Vessels worth keepingGlass, stoneware and tins you can clean out and use again. We'll even refill them.
Gifts
The easiest present you'll give this year.
Gift sets wrapped in tissue and tied with linen, with a handwritten note if you'd like one. Order by 2pm and it goes out today.
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Burned, loved, reordered.
4.9 out of 5 from more than 2,300 verified buyers.
The tapers really don't drip. Four hours of Christmas dinner and the tablecloth survived.
Bought the Evening Ritual for my mum. It arrived wrapped so beautifully she didn't want to open it.
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New scents first, and 10% off your first order.
One email a month, never more. New pours, limited runs and the odd story from the mill.
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