Duncans Mills Candle Co.

Duncans Mills Candle Co. Small-batch hand-poured candles made in Sonoma County.
100% natural soy wax, premium fragrance oils, and cotton wicks.

Hand poured luxury candles, fragrance blending experiences & artisanal bath + body products made in small batches in historic Duncans Mills, CA. 🕯✨ Soy wax candles, essential oil based fragrances, natural home scents. 🌿💫 Join our email list for updates Duncans Mills Candle Co is dedicated to creating handcrafted vegan-friendly candles that
offer tribute to the peace, rejuvenation, and rustic char

m of small-town coastal living. Each candle and its unique scent is reminiscent of a time and place where the majestic redwoods meet the Sonoma Coast alongside the beauty of the Russian River.

I sat for a long time at the foot of a column at Edfu.I felt sad first. Then contemplative. Then, after a while, at peac...
06/23/2026

I sat for a long time at the foot of a column at Edfu.

I felt sad first. Then contemplative. Then, after a while, at peace.

The Egyptian guides at the temple recognized something in me. Not the work — me. I did not earn it. I was simply held by it.

What came back was not a new practice. It was the language of recognition for the practice I already had.

The lineage is not the recipes. The lineage is the act of recognition itself, passed forward, made daily.

The Fragrance Bar at the shop in Duncans Mills is smaller than a temple. The same care for materials. The same attention to the hours. Part of the same lineage.

This is also where the book begins — Wax & Reverence. The third letter is on the journal now.

Link to join the email list in bio.

Close your eyes in the kitchen and you are back on the lanai.That is what this candle does. Light it once and the garden...
06/22/2026

Close your eyes in the kitchen and you are back on the lanai.

That is what this candle does. Light it once and the gardenia moves. Through the kitchen. Down the hall. Into the bedroom where you forgot you left a window open. The whole house, suddenly, an island.

Aloha Bloom is a small-batch pour from our Duncans Mills shop. White florals settled into a frosted tumbler, the flora made into the formula and left visible. Poured by hand. Labeled by the maker. Cured slow.

Same bloom in the jar as the bloom at the base. What you smell when you lift the lid is the gardenia vine, the jasmine, the hush of green at the edge of a Sonoma summer carrying a Hawaiian afternoon inside it.

Only the June batch. When it's gone, it's gone until the garden comes around again.

Light it on a Tuesday. The hour before dinner. The long quiet after the house has gone still. May you light it and remember a holiday you are still carrying. 🤍

Order yours here: https://www.duncansmillscandleco.com/products/aloha-bloom-candle-gardenia-jasmine

Soy wax, poured steady, cooled slow. The kind of small work that doesn't announce itself.Bodega Bay in the Infinity Tin....
06/19/2026

Soy wax, poured steady, cooled slow. The kind of small work that doesn't announce itself.

Bodega Bay in the Infinity Tin. Sea salt and honeydew. The coast in the hour the fog lifts and the light comes back to the water. Breezy and beautiful. Our best-selling scent, and we understand why.

Ninety-six hours of burn. A season of small rituals held in a single gold tin vessel.

Set it on the stone counter in the afternoon and watch what happens. The tin throws its own shadow, a second form beside it. Quiet company.

Unlit, and already saying something.

Bring Bodega Bay home. Shop the Infinity Tin at duncansmillscandleco.com, or come find us in the shop.

May you notice the small light before you strike the match.

A long evening. A slow one.☀️ Summer Solstice Social · 5–7 PM tonight20% off Aloha Bloom — one night onlyLive music. Lib...
06/18/2026

A long evening. A slow one.
☀️ Summer Solstice Social · 5–7 PM tonight
20% off Aloha Bloom — one night only

Live music. Libations. Late-night shopping.
Free, dog-friendly, family-friendly.



He's not the loud one.He's the one who waxes the board, packs the cooler, builds the fire — and never asks for the credi...
06/18/2026

He's not the loud one.
He's the one who waxes the board, packs the cooler, builds the fire — and never asks for the credit.

This Father's Day, we're thinking about the quiet ones. The fixers. The early risers. The men who get it done before anyone notices it needs to be done.

For him, four scents that smell like the places he loves:

Lumberjack — pine and patchouli. The campsite at first light.
Marine Layer — bergamot and moss. The dock before the fog lifts.
Midnight Coast — cedar and vetiver. The water after dark.
Coastal Mist — marine lavender. Salt air, and a long exhale.

Come find us in Historic Duncans Mills.

Build him a scent of his own at the fragrance bar — quick, easy, entirely his.
Or sit down for a guided blending session. Ninety unhurried minutes, start to finish. DM us to reserve a seat.

Can't make it by Sunday? The good ones never keep score on the date. Find the candles online — link in bio, whenever you're ready.

To the dads and the stepdads. The granddads. The father figures, and every man who quietly became one —
Happy Father's Day.

— from L'atelier

Solstice week. The longest evenings of the year are here.☀️ Summer Solstice Social · Thursday, June 18 · 5–7 PMHistoric ...
06/16/2026

Solstice week. The longest evenings of the year are here.
☀️ Summer Solstice Social · Thursday, June 18 · 5–7 PM
Historic Duncans Mills, California

Live music. Libations. Late-night shopping across the village.
One night only at the candle shop: 20% off Aloha Bloom — gardenia and jasmine, the white-floral hush of a long summer evening.

Free. Dog-friendly. Family-friendly.
Come stretch the day with us.



There's something quietly powerful about women gathering in the right room.Last Thursday, on a warm June evening at Sant...
06/13/2026

There's something quietly powerful about women gathering in the right room.

Last Thursday, on a warm June evening at Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club, forty or so of us came together for connection, community, and a cause — every glass raised gave back to the YWCA Sonoma County, keeping families safe since 1976.

Thank you to Lesley & Pam for the invitation, and to every woman who let me bottle a little scent magic at the L'Atelier Mobile Fragrance Bar.

Wonderful company all around: a forever-necklace from .links.jewelry (I finally did it!), modern wellness from Modwella, and a warm hello to Amy and Dr. Marisha Chilcott of Morpheus.

Come find us in Historic Duncans Mills — or bring the Mobile Fragrance Bar to your own gathering.

Santa Rosa Golf & Country Club - CA

Wow. What a night.On Wednesday, Sonoma County Tourism gathered our whole hospitality community for the Stars of the Indu...
06/12/2026

Wow. What a night.

On Wednesday, Sonoma County Tourism gathered our whole hospitality community for the Stars of the Industry Awards at The Event at Graton Resort & Casino — and I walked out so proud to call this county home.

West County took home the night:
🌟 Gravenstein Apple Fair — Environmental Stewardship
🌟 Rainbow Cattle Company — Community Enrichment
🌟 Russian River Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center — Visitor Center Program of the Year Russian River Chamber of Commerce 🌟 Margaret Grahame, Timber Cove Resort — Champion of the Industry Timber Cove Resort
🌟 The Inn at Occidental — Lodging Property of the Year Inn At Occidental
🌟 Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary, Freestone — Heart of the House Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary

A huge shout-out to Jennifer Lopez of Shugcuterie, a Rising Star nominee, Shugcuterie and to the Schulz Family on a beautiful Legacy Award. Charles M. Schulz Museum

And a special thank you to the entire Sonoma County Tourism team — their support, coaching, and ongoing education create a platform for all of us to shine. Meet In Sonoma

As a business owner and a homeowner here, I feel so honored to be part of this community. Sonoma County is the place I chose, and nights like this remind me why.

Hospitality is the root of everything here.

Thank you to everyone who makes it so. 💛

The closing rhythm of Letter Two — on the five chambers where the oils were once blended.Read the trilogy at the link in...
06/12/2026

The closing rhythm of Letter Two — on the five chambers where the oils were once blended.
Read the trilogy at the link in bio.

Karnak. Dendera. Abydos. Edfu. Philae.Five temples. Five chambers where the oils were once blended.The Egyptians called ...
06/10/2026

Karnak. Dendera. Abydos. Edfu. Philae.

Five temples. Five chambers where the oils were once blended.

The Egyptians called them per-wedja — workshop, laboratory, atelier. Inside the Edfu Laboratory, the kyphi recipes are still inscribed in the chamber walls. The hieroglyphs are legible. The proportions are noted. The ingredients can be named.

Frankincense. Myrrh. Raisins soaked in wine. Honey. Cinnamon. Mastic. Juniper. Mint. Henna. Calamus. Pine resin. Ground in a particular order. Aged in a copper vessel. Lit at the moment when the sun touched the horizon.

The recipes have changed. The hands have changed. The thread has not broken.

Letter Two of three is on the journal now. The last letter follows Thursday.

Link to get on the email list in bio.

Address

25171 CA-116, Studio 2
Duncans Mills, CA
95430

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 5pm
Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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