Our story
How Snapdragon & Ember began, in Melissa's words.
A few years ago I poured my first candles as Christmas gifts for family, homemade and from the heart. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I loved it.
Pouring turned out to be therapeutic. I learned the science of it, from warming the jars to waiting for the wax to cool just right, and began creating scents around a feeling or a memory.
Every candle is still poured by hand, a few at a time, with 100% soy wax.
Flowers that come back every year
“Snapdragons grew beside my mother’s house, and my grandmother’s too. Every year they came back, often in a new shade.”
The snapdragon is for the women who grew them. The ember is the flame. Like the flowers, the collection returns with every season, a little different each time.