Your candle can be personalized further by leaving kiss marks or your own doodle on the label. Not only are you designing your own scents, you can place them in the container of your choosing to match your style and the bespoke touches don’t stop there. “To me, that’s the scent of my home and how it smells and is a big part of how we create our space.” Blend your favorite scents and create an original candle to take home. “It is tied into memories and always coming home and lighting a candle or setting the mood,” said Bromley-Sung. Scent is largely tied to memory and emotion and Wax Poetic gets that. and Matchbox diner nearby.Ĭandle popularity is real, and this custom-service only brings the following more credibility. Shopping can take up some time while you wait so visit Rebel Reclaimed, Eastown Antiques or kill time at Gallery 154. “It’s a great walking community.” Terra is right next door as well as the coffee shop and eatery The Early Bird. “We are tied to a neighborhood with great restaurants and shopping and things to do,” says Bromley-Sung. After 90 minutes the candle is ready, so while you wait, it’s fun to shop around at neighboring businesses, grab a bite to eat at one of the restaurants or enjoy a drink or two.

There are single-scent candles available for purchase (browse through more than 130 scents), but if you’d like to mix scents you loved from a handy fragrance sheet, it’s off to the candle bar for the custom, hand-poured candle process (it takes around a half hour from the time you walk into the shop until you finish pouring your candle). I thought this would make a really cool business and who makes a wasabi pineapple candle anyway?” laughs Bromley-Sung, explaining how creating a studio next to her home and building her own candle line morphed into owning the business at 1423 Lake Drive SE, which opened this past November. “It’s a great way to get together with friends and have a good time and make gifts. Jill Bromley-Sung, owner of Wax Poetic Candle Bar

After some research, she came across a similar establishment in Ohio and ultimately wound up hiring the owner as a consultant. “I invited my friends over to make candles and the experience of the evening was so much fun and so different from anything we had done or anything that was out there,” said Bromley-Sung, and that was what gave her the idea for the business venture. And combinations are key-especially when it comes to fragrances.

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