Glass candles, cement candles, little cement catch-alls and wax diffusers that bring scent, form and a bit of personality into a room.
Poured and cast in small batches in India, and slightly off-beat on purpose. Hatke means different. Not loud different — the kind that makes you look twice at your own shelf.
A gift should not become landfill in a fortnight. We make the vessel first, and treat the candle as what fills it.
Most scented candles are a fragrance in a container. The container is an afterthought, and once the wax is gone it goes in a bin. We build the other way round — the cement is cast in our own studio, the glass is chosen to be kept, and every vessel is designed to be refilled or repurposed.
Fragrance is blended in-house in small quantities, in a palette drawn from where we are: mogra, sandalwood, vetiver, wet earth. Nothing synthetic-smelling, nothing that needs a warning label.
How it's made
1
Cast.
Every vessel is made before it is filled. Cement cast by hand and cured, glass chosen to be kept, each one sealed so it can be used again.
2
Poured.
Soy and coconut wax blended with fragrance in-house, poured at temperature in batches of sixty, cured for two weeks.
3
Finished.
Wicks trimmed, rims cleaned, each piece checked by hand and boxed in moulded pulp — no plastic anywhere in the packaging.
What it's made of
- Soy-coconut waxClean-burning, no paraffin, no lead in the wicks
- GlassAmber, frosted and the ribbed cutting-chai glass, all made to be reused
- Cast cementHand-cast, cured slowly and sealed inside, left raw on the outside
- TerrazzoCement set with chips of coloured stone, like an old Bombay floor
- Natural corkLids and bases that keep cement off your table
The scale is deliberate: a batch of sixty is what two people can pour, cure and check properly in a fortnight.
It means we run out of things. A fragrance sells through and does not come back for a month. We would rather that than pour faster than we can pour well.
- 60Candles per batch
- 14Day cure time
- 5Material families
- 0Plastic in packaging
Boxed in moulded pulp, with no plastic anywhere in the packaging. The only thing left over is the vessel.