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Hilal-Ay Studio

Floral Candles, Made by Hand

Where wax flowers bloom

Sculptural flower candles in one hundred per cent pure beeswax, shaped petal by petal by hand in the Netherlands. Unscented, made to order, and never quite the same twice.

A sculpture that happens to burn

These are not fragranced candles. There is no scent, no jar and no blended wax. Each one is a flower built from beeswax, made to sit on a table and be looked at, and to be lit if you want to.

100% pure natural beeswax
No blends, no paraffin, no soy. Wax from bees, and nothing added to it.
Unscented
Only the faint honey smell of the beeswax itself, and only once it is lit.
Handmade in the Netherlands
Shaped by hand in a small studio, one petal at a time.
Made to order
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Your candle is made after you ask for it.

Two ways we make them

The same flowers, in beeswax or in soy

One is shaped by hand and never repeats. The other is cast from a mould taken from those hand-shaped originals, so it does. Neither is the lesser thing — they are for different afternoons.

Beeswax

Shaped by hand, petal by petal

Every petal is shaped by hand from one hundred per cent pure beeswax, one at a time. No two are the same, and none of them are quite perfect. They carry the faint honey smell of the wax itself and nothing else.

  • 100% pure beeswax
  • Sculpted by hand
  • No two alike
  • Natural honey aroma
  • Unscented

€55 – €99

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Soy

Cast in a mould taken from the original

The same flowers, cast in soy wax using moulds taken from the hand-sculpted originals. Because the mould does the shaping, each one comes out the same as the last — which makes them right for a table of them, or a first candle.

  • Natural soy wax
  • Cast from a mould we sculpted
  • Consistent shape
  • Clean, even burn
  • Unscented

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The flowers

A small shelf of them

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Beeswax, sculpted by hand

Every petal is shaped by hand from one hundred per cent pure beeswax, one at a time. No two are the same, and none of them are quite perfect. They carry the faint honey smell of the wax itself and nothing else.

5 flowers · €55 – €99

Close view of the layered beeswax petals of the large peony candle

Petal by petal

The slow part is the only part that matters

A peony has more petals than you would think. Each one is shaped on its own, then set against the last, until the flower closes around a cotton wick and starts to look like something that grew rather than something that was made.

Because every petal is placed by hand, no two candles come out identical. Every candle is individually handcrafted. Slight variations in colour and shape make each piece one of a kind.

Read how a beeswax flower candle is made

The studio

This studio is new. There are no reviews on this site yet, and no badges, because there is nothing yet to show you that would be true.

What there is: a small workshop in the Netherlands, a pot of pure beeswax, and one pair of hands that shapes every petal. If you order a flower, I make it for you, and then I send it. That is the whole of it for now.

Meet the maker

Something for a particular day

Weddings, a table full of the same flower, a colour that is not on the list. Tell me what you have in mind and I will tell you honestly whether I can make it.

Custom orders