The room

Street level, 71 Market Street. The front glass faces the sidewalk. The walls are charcoal. One brass line runs the length of the shelf wall, about at eye height, and stops at the doorway to the bench.

There is no music. You hear Market Street, and you hear the wax when someone is stirring it. If a jar is lit for a check, it sits back from the door swing. The door has a gap at the latch. In January that gap is a draft, and a draft bends a flame. We do not leave a lit wick in that path.

The shelf

Finished candles stand in rows by vessel, not by mood. Tumblers, then jars, then beeswax pillars on the lower shelf. Each glass has a cotton tape around it. The tape names the wax, the wick, the scent if there is one, and the day it was poured. Unscented jars are with the others, not hidden. If a scent in the room is too much, say so. We will cap the open jar and you can stay with the beeswax.

Prices are on the tape: $28, $38, and $26. We do not keep a second price in a drawer.

The bench

The pour bench is behind the shelf, out of the cold coming off the glass. We hold that back room near 20°C. A thermometer sits on the bench. The coconut-soy blend is poured at 62°C after the oil goes in at 68°C. A weekday morning is one pour or two, twelve jars at a time, before the door opens at 10:30. We do not pour on Saturday or Sunday, and we do not pour on Monday, when the street door stays locked.

Jars stay on the back shelf for ten days, then move forward. If you are here while wax is still cooling, you may look. Please do not touch a vessel that is still warm. The glass holds heat longer than the top of the wax suggests.

Wick trim happens at the counter in the afternoon, not on the hot bench. The trim page is the short version of that work. What we pour, and what we will not pour, is on Poured.