About Us

The Richmond Candle Co. trades on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We acknowledge their sovereignty and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

The journey of The Richmond Candle Co. began in 2020 during the covid pandemic after Simon lost his job in the travel industry. With time on his hands, he started learning the art of candle-making after being gifted a candle-making kit from his partner Johan.

Keen to perfect the art, soon Simon was making more candles than we were comfortable keeping, so he posted in the local community group on social media as a way to move them on and hopefully cover the cost while doing so.

The candles sold really quickly and when we found people were loving what we did, it inspired us to seek more ways to grow awareness and perhaps use the income to cover some of the mortgage.

Simon got an ABN, worked out how to start a website and then took out short term leases on pop-up stands in shopping centres and that's when the business really took off.

The communities we visited were wonderful and one of the best things about that experience is the group of repeat customers who still continue to support our business, many years later.

While we can no longer do shopping centre popups due to our day jobs, the repeat and referral business we gained from them helped us grow and now we love knocking on the door of our repeat customers to have a chat when we deliver their orders!

The support from our customers has been amazing and we owe our continued success to them.

Our mission is simple: to help people love where they live through the power of fragrance. 

We design our home fragrance products to bring beauty, comfort, and joy into your daily life, and we do so with an interest in minimising our impact on the environment.

You can read more about the ingredients we use here and our focus on the environment here.

Thank you for choosing The Richmond Candle Co