The house
A small studio, a long list of noes.
Harbor & Hearth is the house: the water and the fire a candle lives between. We pour in small batches because fragrance is chemistry and rooms are not laboratories.
The line started with three jars: Amber Noir, Fig & Honey, Velvet Smoke. They are still the ones we send when someone asks where to begin. Everything else — the hearth spices, the garden greens, the salt air — had to earn a place next to them.
We use soy wax because it holds scent without the soot of paraffin. Cotton wicks, centered by hand. Fragrance compounds without phthalates, cut with essential oils when they behave. No dyes in the wax; the color you see is the vessel and the blend.
We would rather miss a season than pour a candle that does not throw. Every new scent burns for a week in a real room before it is named. If it only smells on the cold sniff, it does not ship.
Wax
Soy, food-grade. 12 oz jars. Slow, even melt pool.
Wick
Lead-free cotton, trimmed and tested per vessel.
Scent
Phthalate-free oils. Mixed in-house, weighed twice.
The name on the door
harborandhearthcandles.com and handhcandles.com are the same shop. Harbor & Hearth is the name on the door. If you knew the old site — the one that went dark — this is the rebuild: the same house, a clearer table, the jars we actually pour.