The Scented Essence Candle Co.

The Scented Essence Candle Co. ✨Scented, soy wax candles + wax melts
🌿 Phthalate-free • No hormone disruptors • Clean ingredients • A tree planted with every order 🇬🇧 Hertfordshire

27/05/2026

Orders packed and ready to go. Palo Santo and Wild Tuberose have been very popular in this sunnier weather. ☀️ Perfect for those lighter evenings.

Market Day. 📸
02/05/2026

Market Day. 📸

Market days don’t always go to plan.Last month I found myself already set up at a pop-up shop when an opportunity came u...
29/04/2026

Market days don’t always go to plan.
Last month I found myself already set up at a pop-up shop when an opportunity came up at Satsuma Market in Harpenden, a market I’d been wanting to join for a while. Three minutes across the road. I couldn’t say no 😅🤭

So I did what any slightly panicked small business owner would do. I went to the girls chat.
My besties showed up, all 3 of them 🥹 (one managed to dodge the camera 🤭) and we ran between both venues all day. There were coffee runs, customers, chats, chaos and laughter and it was actually just the best day together. They even stayed to help me pack down at the end.

I really couldn’t have done it without them and I am beyond grateful to have these girls in my life. The real ones, the ones who are always there, who don’t hesitate for a second when you need them, who support your dreams like they’re their own. Girls who love fiercely and lift each other up. I love you all so much💖
Good friends are everything and I feel very lucky🥰
So… I’m back at Satsuma Market this Saturday 2nd May, 10am to 4pm at Harpenden High Street Methodist Church & I haven’t double booked this time 😅🤭 So pop by and say hello. ❤️

22/04/2026

Happy Earth Day 🌍✨ April 22nd 2026!

Here at The Scented Essence Candle Co. we’re celebrating Earth Day with a little something special….
We are planting an EXTRA TWO trees for every candle order placed today 🙌🌳 (so that’s 3 trees per order in total - your usual 1 + the extra 2!)

Were planting with Ecologi, so you’ll receive your first tree confirmation by email today and tomorrow I’ll be counting up orders and placing an order to plant even more trees based on today’s orders 🌱

If you’ve been thinking about a little candle top-up… today’s the day.
Let’s get planting trees 💛

19/04/2026

This and nowhere else to be! When was the last time you lit a candle and just read a good book?! 🤍 I love these kind of evenings! 🥰

17/04/2026

When a corporate order lands and you actually get to walk it in yourself. This is what it’s all about. 🕯✨
Thrilled to be supplying Savills Harpenden with a little something special for their clients. 🏡 Small Batch & Hand packed and poured! :)

13/04/2026

I’m going to be really honest…

After 10 days at the pop up shop, I packed everything down, came home, unpacked it all again to put away… and I cried.

I think I was just absolutely exhausted.
10 days straight, open 10–5 every day, over Easter &
then coming home each evening and keeping on top of the business.

It was a lot.
And the reality is… I’d just spent 10 days working all day and all evening and barely covered my costs.

I felt so disheartened, overwhelmed and mentally, emotionally and physically drained.
My anxiety was through the roof and all the thoughts started creeping in…
maybe my business is just not good enough.
But… I had to give myself a reality check.

This is not failure, it’s another lesson in business.

This just isn’t my season.
This town is family orientated and people were away over Easter, so the footfall just wasn’t there.

And I had to remind myself…
on any other week during autumn/winter when I’ve done this shop before, my products do sell and they do really well. :))

They sell online.
I have returning customers.
I’ve built something I’m proud of.

A year ago, I would have given anything to have consistent online orders each month… and now I do.

I am good enough.
My business is good enough. I am learning and I’m growing all the time. Every experience teaches us something!

But also… it wasn’t all negative 🤍

The girls I was in the shop with made such a difference - chats about life, space 🚀🪐, books 📚 and business (made some friends for life 💖).

Getting to spend that time with other small business owners - Emily with her beautiful terrariums .mk and May with her stunning tumblers made the experience extra special and not forgetting the lovely Hilary and with her wonderful jewellery.

Meeting the lovely people in the Harpenden community is always something I love doing. Chatting with everyone and hearing which candles are their favourites.

So I’m choosing to take the lesson, keep the good parts, and leave the rest behind.
Take a deep breath and reset.

And… today looks a little different - I’m preparing my first corporate order 🤍

So incredibly happy to announce that Savills Harpenden now have new completion gifts. Our locally hand poured, phthalate...
13/04/2026

So incredibly happy to announce that Savills Harpenden now have new completion gifts. Our locally hand poured, phthalate free candles and I couldn’t be more excited. 🤭🥹
The Scented Essence Candle Co. Is a small, female owned business based in Hertfordshire, making and selling candles and wax melts with no hormone disrupting chemicals and no nasties - a tree planted with every order, suitable for vegans and cruelty free. 🙌 Thank You I’m so grateful 🫶

10/04/2026

Come by and see us this weekend at the Harpenden Pop Up Shop! Opposite Waitrose.

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