Ember & Essence Santa Fe, New Mexico Shop candles

Botanical candles · Poured in Santa Fe

Gather. Pour. Light.

Soy candles, essential oil blends and candle-making kits, poured in small batches in our Santa Fe studio — with courses and private workshops for anyone who wants to learn the craft.

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Small batches, poured by hand, cured on the sill.

A smooth adobe horno built into a whitewashed wall, glowing warm from a candle inside
The horno in the courtyard — where every batch begins.

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Poured by hand, kept in the wall

Soy wax, cotton wicks and essential oils blended in the studio. Each candle rests in an arched niche in the adobe until the scent holds, so you can smell the room before you take anything home.

Hands pouring melted soy wax into glass vessels in an adobe courtyard
Pouring in the courtyard, mid-batch, with the door open.

Workshops

Private workshops, set around the table

Tell us what you’d like to make and we’ll set the table. Bring a few people or come on your own — the wax doesn’t mind either way.

Session What you’ll make
  • Pour your own Soy candles scented with an essential oil blend you choose from the library, poured and set to cure.
  • Blend bar A session at the blending table, building a scent of your own from the essential oils we keep in stock.
  • Kit table Candle-making kits packed with you, so the second pour happens at home and the first one never really ends.
Inquire about a workshop

Workshops are booked privately, one gathering at a time.

Courses

The course, filmed at the studio

A short course that follows one batch from cold wax to first light. Watch it once, then keep the lessons open beside you while you pour.

  1. 01

    Melt, slowly

    Soy wax wants a low, even heat. We follow the melt from the first clear edge to the moment it comes off.

  2. 02

    Choose the blend

    How much essential oil a wax will hold, and how to build a blend that keeps its character to the bottom of the candle.

  3. 03

    Set the wick

    Centering, anchoring, and the temperatures that keep a wick standing straight through the pour.

  4. 04

    Cure, then light

    Why our candles rest before they are packed, and how to tell when yours is ready for a match.

A candle-making lesson set out on a table with melting soy wax, jars and wicks
Lesson two, shot at the blending table.

Start the course tonight

Stream the lessons from your own kitchen, at your own pace, and keep them while you work.

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Visit

Pull up a chair
to the horno.

Order a candle, book a workshop, or start the course tonight. However you come to it, the wax is already melting.

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Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico · courses stream from anywhere.