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Ashfall
No. 01 · 9 oz · 62 hr
Top
Heart
Base
$58/ 9 oz
Small-batch home fragrance · Est. 2019
Scent for the hours after the lamps go out.
Nocturne Atelier pours slow-burning candles, tapers and diffusers in coconut-soy wax — built as scent pyramids, blended for low light, and hand-finished in Portland. Nothing here smells like a shop. It smells like a room at 10pm.
62 hrs
Average burn
4.9★
2,140 reviews
100%
Coconut-soy wax
No. 07 — Vesper
Plum · Oud · Ember
The collection · Six of twelve
Each one reads top, heart, base — so you know what it becomes.
A candle changes as it burns. The top note is gone in twenty minutes; the base is what stays in the curtains. We print the whole pyramid, in order of how long it lasts.
Signature
Diffuser
Longwick
No. 12 · 200 ml · 16 wk
Top
Heart
Base
$74/ 200 ml
Low & warm
Ember Hour
No. 03 · 9 oz · 58 hr
Top
Heart
Base
$58/ 9 oz
Back in stock
Nightporter
No. 09 · 9 oz · 66 hr
Top
Heart
Base
$62/ 9 oz
Set of 4
The Sampler
4 × 2 oz · 12 hr each
Top
Heart
Base
$36$48
120
Jars per pour
The pour · SE Division St, Portland
We pour 120 jars at a time, then we wait eleven days.
Wax needs to rest. Poured too hot, a candle tunnels; scented too early, the top note burns off before it ever reaches you. So we cure every batch for eleven days before it gets a label — which is why we sometimes sell out, and why we won't rush it.
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01
Blend
Fragrance oils are weighed to 0.1 g and folded into coconut-soy at 76°C — cool enough to keep the citrus alive.
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02
Pour
Hand-poured into hand-thrown stoneware with a single crackling wood wick. No two vessels glaze the same.
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03
Cure
Eleven days in the dark at 18°C. The scent binds to the wax; the throw doubles. Then, and only then, it ships.
Find your scent · By room
A candle is furniture. Put it where it works.
Scent behaves differently in a hallway than it does over a dinner table. Here's where each of ours actually earns its place.
“The rule is simple: the smaller and colder the room, the darker the base note can go.”
Ines Aldarov — Head perfumerEntryway
Cold air, quick pass-through. Needs a base heavy enough to hold at the door.
Bedroom
Low ceiling, soft textiles. A resinous amber settles instead of shouting.
Kitchen table
Competing with dinner. Warm and edible — never floral, never sharp.
Study / desk
Long sittings. Dry, mineral, unsweet — it stays out of the way.
Bathroom
Humidity carries scent hard. Use a diffuser, not a flame.
The Ritual · Subscription
One candle. Every eight weeks. Before you run out.
A 9 oz jar burns about 62 hours. Lit an hour a night, that's roughly eight weeks — so that's when the next one arrives. Skip, swap or cancel any month from your account, no email required.
Free shipping · Members get first access to seasonal pours
The Single
$49/ every 8 weeks
- One 9 oz candle, your pick
- Save 16% on every jar
- Skip or swap anytime
The PairMost chosen
$86/ every 8 weeks
- Two 9 oz candles, mix freely
- Save 26% + free matches
- Seasonal pours 2 weeks early
- Cancel in one click
Proof · 2,140 reviews
What people say once the jar is empty.
★★★★★“I've bought a lot of expensive candles that smell like nothing after five minutes. Vesper filled the whole upstairs and it was still there in the morning.”
Mara OkonjoVerified buyer · Vesper
★★★★★“The note pyramid on the label sold me — it's the only shop that tells you what the thing will smell like in hour three, not just hour one.”
Daniel LindqvistVerified buyer · Ashfall
★★★★★“Burned clean to the edge of the jar, no tunnelling, no soot on the wall. Third re-order. I've stopped looking elsewhere.”
Reeve SalterRitual member · 14 months
As written up in
The Kindling Review
Domicile Quarterly
Slow Goods
Northwest Maker
Olfactive Journal
Gifting · Ships in a black box
The gift you don't have to explain.
Every order arrives in an unbranded charcoal box with a wax-sealed note card, hand-written by whoever packed it. Add a message at checkout and we'll copy it out in ink — no printed receipts, no price anywhere in the parcel.
- Hand-written card
- No prices in parcel
- Free UK & US shipping
- Arrives in 3–5 days
The Journal · Monthly
One letter a month, sent after dark.
New pours, the odd essay on why a scent works, and first refusal on the 120 jars before they go public. No discount spam — we only send when there's something to say.
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