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The collection

Seven glasses on the shelf, and a few we’ve retired.

Every Hale & Wick candle is poured by hand at 628 Vallejo Street in batches of forty. The house glasses are always on the shelf. Seasonal glasses stay until they run out, which is sooner than we plan every single year.

How to buy

We sell from the front room, Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 6. You can also hold any glass by telephone at (415) 555-0148 and collect it within the week, or find us at one of eighteen stockists on the West Coast and in a few places that aren’t.

Standard glass
8.5 oz, single cotton wick
Large glass
16 oz, two wicks, house scents only · $78–$84
Refill pour
Bring back any of our glasses, clean · $34

House collection

Poured year-round.

Seasonal shelf · Autumn & Winter

Here until they aren’t.

Seasonal glasses are poured in a single run when the ingredient is at its best. When the run sells through, it’s gone until next year. We are often asked to pour more. We are always flattered, and we never do.

  • Persimmon Porch candle in ember glass, Persimmon, clove, dry oak leaf

    Persimmon Porch

    Poured from the first cold week of October until the last persimmon falls off the tree next door to Martin.

    Persimmon, clove, dry oak leaf

    $44 45 hours

  • Ocean Beach candle in sea glass, Sea salt, cypress, cold air

    Ocean Beach

    For people who like the beach best in November, when nobody else is on it.

    Sea salt, cypress, cold air

    $46 48 hours

  • Sonoma Hive candle in charcoal glass, Raw beeswax, lavender, honeycomb

    Sonoma Hive

    Pure beeswax from the Ferreira apiary above Two Rock. It burns longer and costs more, for the same reason.

    Raw beeswax, lavender, honeycomb

    $58 60 hours

A linen-covered dining table set for six with green, amber, and clear glass candles lit down the middle
Russian Hill, Mission Fig, and Vallejo Fog, set for six in Mill Valley.

Choosing a scent

A few rules we’ve made up and stuck to.

For a living room, start with Russian Hill. It is the glass most people buy first and the one most people buy again.

For a bedroom, Vallejo Fog. It is quiet enough to forget about, which is the point, but please don’t forget to blow it out.

For a dinner, Mission Fig on the sideboard and nothing at all on the table. Food should be the loudest thing in the room.

For a gift, Brownies & Ice Cream, unless the recipient has recently made a resolution. We will gift-wrap it in brown paper and a cotton ribbon at no charge.

The archive

Retired glasses.

Some scents are retired because a supplier closes, some because the season moves, and a few because they worked a little too well. We keep the formulas in a binder under the counter.

  • Unscented

    2016–2017

    Retired after customers reported that it smelled of nothing. We were unable to dispute this.

  • Fresh Paint

    2018

    Retired after one week. By every internal measure, our most accurate candle.

  • Wet Wool

    2019

    Rain, a wool coat, the 45 bus home. Customers found it moving. Very few bought it twice.

  • Open House

    2020–2022

    Fresh bread, lemon peel, staged optimism. Retired when the market changed.

  • Inbound, 8:40

    2015

    Our first commission. Retired by mutual agreement with the people who ride it.

Refills & empties

Bring the glass back.

Every Hale & Wick glass can be refilled at the counter for $34, or returned for a $4 credit toward your next one. Since 2014 we have taken back 11,204 empty glasses and one fish bowl, which was not ours and which we have kept.

How refills work