About
Brooklyn Candle Studio:
Our Story
[Music plays throughout] My name is Tamara Mayne and I started Brooklyn Candle Studio as a hobby. Initially I was experimenting with candle-making as gifts and fragrance blending and eventually I decided to open an Etsy shop and kind of took off from there.
[Music] I named my company Brooklyn candle studio after Brooklyn – my home of, of many years – and I just really love how Brooklyn has this creative, renegade spirit and I’m constantly inspired by the people here, the architecture, the energy and the company…and the people that work here embodied that a lot.
[Music] Our mission is to create clean candles with a beautiful minimalist design aesthetic that smell amazing and don't smell fake; that smell botanical; that smell like the amazing smells that you find in nature. And our goal with every candle – every scent – is to evoke nature, a memory, or a place in some way.
My hope is that our candles and home fragrance products will bring a sense of calm and relaxation and ultimately happiness to our customers’ lives in the form of fragrance [Music]
OUR STORY
Here’s to dreamy days and cozy, candlelit nights
Our Story
We are Brooklyn Candle Studio. Our mission is simple: to create home fragrance products with captivating scents, beautiful minimalist design, and the best ingredients. Essentially, everything we love about luxury home fragrance, but at accessible prices. Our dreamy scents are inspired by nature and travel, moments and memories.
For our candles, we use 100% soy wax derived from American-grown soy beans for an eco-friendly, clean burn and lead-free cotton wicks.
All of our products are petroleum-free, cruelty-free, phthalate-free, and 100% vegan. Each of our products is poured and labeled by hand by our in-house team of artisans.
We produce our products out of a 10,000 square foot workshop in Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a hub of makers, designers, artists, and small businesses. All of our employees earn fair wages and benefits: paid time off and subsidized healthcare, dental, and vision.
We like to think of our wares as full sensory experiences—from the artful minimal packaging to the warm candlelight and delicate aromas that fill a room. So, go ahead, light one up.
About Our Founder
Tamara Mayne is a fragrance obsessive and a designer who founded Brooklyn Candle Studio in 2013. Tamara hails from Virginia and studied Fine Art and Economics at the University of Virginia before moving to New York. Creatively unfulfilled after subsequent jobs in the finance and technology fields, she enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009 to study graphic design. Armed with nothing more than a kit from a local craft store, she began making candles as gifts for friends and family in 2012 and soon became deeply immersed in aromatherapy and candle-making. She now spends her days working on creative, marketing, and product development for Brooklyn Candle Studio, shooting campaigns, chasing her young son around, and practicing some sort of art form (current passions are woodworking and painting).
