The Scent Queens Candle Company & Apothecary Shoppe

The Scent Queens Candle Company & Apothecary Shoppe Two husbands looking out for everyone by offering luxury candles at an affordable price. High quality yet completely affordable. What is a fragrance oil you ask?

We offer handmade candles in various sizes within various vessels, along with wax melts, fun shapes & pillars. Our very own hand-made & hand-poured candles in life-inspired (and holiday) scents that awaken your senses, invoke nostalgia & catapult you to far away places. Frame your mood with our enticing fragrances. We even offer handmade room sprays, soaps, sugar scrubs, unique home decor items,

house plants, dry teas and roasted coffee beans. We chose essential & fragrance oils that are not tested on animals. And trust when we say they are free of those nasty a** parabens, phthalates, carcinogens, toxins, and other hazardous chemicals commonly found in other (and cheap) fragrance oils. So all of our candle lines and collections are non-toxic. Well, because essential oils are not available for every scent that we (or any other candlemaker or even soap makers) like to use, synthetic fragrance chemicals are available to us that come in either powder or liquid form. And we use these safe, concentrated compounds when no essential oil is available to create the scent of, let's say chocolate or apples. Our waxes are made of 100% Natural Soy and sometimes we use 100% Natural Beeswax to create unique molded pillar candles (and will be labeled as such for those that believe the use of Beeswax is non-vegan) and we can assure you the process of which the Beeswax is procured, no harm is done to any bees. Also, our wicks are 100% all-natural ring-spun cotton and do not contain zinc, lead or any other metals. They also have a natural wax coating, comprised of vegetable wax to make the wicks easy to light and so they produce no harmful smoke. We want to give you some peace of mind by letting you know we only work with the safest supplies available. We will always be committed to using the safest, highest quality, most thoroughly tested fragrance and essential oil lines in the industry. It's OK to Blind Buy--Be Daring, Live That Best Life! We get it ... OMG do we f*cking get it! When it comes to finding a signature scent or just a fun fragrance but scared it's going to smell like cat piss & baby powder, we got you. It's scary to buy sh*t online--trust--we know! So that's why we tried to take the scary part out of it by creating unique fragrances that literally smell like we state. We create stories for some of our signature lines and we list all the oils and notes for most of our candles. We have style, we have grace...better yet, we have taste! Our candles have undergone rigorous smell tests and smell exactly like the label and description says. Our test subjects have been parents (yes, even the helicopter kind), children and pet-owners (and yes, even the helicopter kind). And besides, that's what reviews are for, so check those out! We can 100% say we have yet to receive a bad review on here or on our social media. And we welcome feedback no matter what. We do not believe in all the bullsh*t retail mark-ups, expensive a** packaging and celebrity endorsements, so that the cost savings... go to you. Let us help you find your fragrance at a fraction of the cost, because we truly believe in luxury for less.

Added some new vintage and antique items and furniture to our booth at The New Lincoln Antique Mall at 3115 W Irving Par...
08/27/2026

Added some new vintage and antique items and furniture to our booth at The New Lincoln Antique Mall at 3115 W Irving Park Rd.

Go check out all these unique and fun pieces and make your home or office a very unique and fun place.

𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚗 𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚚𝚞𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚕 is a great place to walk around and check out all the different booths and support many small businesses.

08/25/2026

Apparently we need to clear something up. 👀

Andersonville is not replacing Albany Park.

The Midnight Treasury is not replacing us.

We're growing, evolving, changing the name and building something we've dreamed about for a very long time...but our original Shoppe is OPEN, stocked and very much alive while all of that happens.

So if you've been telling yourself, “I'll wait until Andersonville opens…” Don't.

Come see us now.

There are new finds hitting the shelves, fall is beginning to make its way into the Shoppe and this strange little chapter between The Scent Queens and The Midnight Treasury may actually be one of our favorites.

Andersonville is coming. Albany Park is already here. So come get lost for a while.

We'd love to see you and finish out August strong in sales.

Love you. And seriously put questions, concerns or feedback in our comments.

08/25/2026

We're getting closer and closer.

Look at the gorgeous window signage by Andrew & Kelsey McClellan

The only thing left is a brand new Shoppe door will be installed on Tuesday of next week then the door will get the same gorgeous treatment as the windows.

We still have to move furniture around, bring in new furniture, install sale system, stock the place up, make a ton of candles and get the candle bar up and ready.

It's looking like mid-September, maybe will shoot for Curtis' birthday or first day of Autumn to really kick off "Candle Season"... We'll keep you all posted.

For now ENJOY! 🔥

🖤 🌙 🗝️

Take me back here...Coming home from vacation always feels a little strange. You spend over a week remembering how littl...
08/23/2026

Take me back here...

Coming home from vacation always feels a little strange. You spend over a week remembering how little you actually need to feel alive.

Fresh food. Warm air. Bare feet. The sound of the ocean. Long conversations.

Nowhere you have to be and nothing demanding your attention every five minutes.

And then you come home to the life you’ve spent years building...the businesses, the house, the dogs, the schedules, the responsibilities, the endless list of things that supposedly need to happen right now.

I’m grateful for that life. I worked incredibly hard for it. But sitting here (in this photo) doing absolutely nothing and somehow feeling like I had everything, really made me think.

We spend so much of our lives adding more. More work, more plans, more goals, more things to accomplish. And then we travel to paradise and suddenly the luxury is having none of it to think about.

There’s something about that I don’t want to forget. Less rushing. Less noise. More presence...but most definitely a new way to approach new business decisions, ideas and production.

Stay curious people!!!!!

One of our friends walked by and got a photo of our fully done window design by Andrew & Kelsey McClellanThe door will b...
08/23/2026

One of our friends walked by and got a photo of our fully done window design by Andrew & Kelsey McClellan

The door will be done once it's fully replaced in hopefully the next few days, installation day is pending.

We aren't able to go see it yet which bums us out...so we want to see it all through your eyes/lens. So go by and snap a photo and tag us!!!

We took this vacation for relaxation and for a major reset to do some thinking.Some of the thought process was very hard...
08/22/2026

We took this vacation for relaxation and for a major reset to do some thinking.

Some of the thought process was very hard while some was very simple as we based it on sales, location and schedules.

We'll announce later this week on some changes, improvements and exciting news from The Scent Queens Candle Company and Apothecary Shoppe in the final days before official rebranding takes place.

Thank you.

♍️ VIRGO SEASON HAS ENTERED THE CHAT.Hi, it's Curtis...a September Virgo here, which means if you ask me what I think, p...
08/22/2026

♍️ VIRGO SEASON HAS ENTERED THE CHAT.

Hi, it's Curtis...a September Virgo here, which means if you ask me what I think, please understand that I assumed you actually wanted to know.

We’re not rude...we’re alarmingly specific.
And we're not judgmental...we just noticed the problem three weeks ago and have been patiently waiting for everyone else to catch up, it's not our fault you're lacking.

I was basically born with a business plan, a list of corrections & concerns about how YOU are doing things. I own multiple businesses with my beautiful husband... because apparently having one thing to obsess over, reorganize, improve, lose sleep over and personally supervise wasn’t enough. Do you not stay up till 2:37 in the morning figuring out goals and numbers?

My love language is fixing things nobody asked me to fix.

My toxic trait is saying “I’ll just do it myself...and do it”

My cardio is walking into one of the businesses and immediately noticing 17 things that need attention.

And yes, I can relax...I actually have it scheduled for Thursday from 2:15–2:30 which will keep me set till next year.

Happy Virgo Season to everyone who understands that it’s not controlling if our way is objectively better.

And please note...we aren’t being difficult...we are just always right. ♍️

Thanks!

08/22/2026

The point was never just to make a living, it was to make a life.

So take the trip because you're always going to talk yourself out of something you think you don't deserve because of price tags.

It's been since 2017 since we've been on a vacation. We saved and saved and kept saying next year, that goes by... Ok next summer for sure, that also goes by...all because we thought why would we spend this money on ourselves like this...

We missed all those sunsets. All the oceans. Because we kept thinking it'll be there next year, yeah it may be, but we may not. So we said F**K IT and booked a goddamn vacation because we said... WE F**KING DESERVE IT.

Life is happening now. Don’t save it for later because later is never guaranteed.

**this video was taken literally 3 hours ago sitting by the pool on our terrace at the resort in the Dominican Republic...it's our last night here and we don't want to leave.

08/20/2026

13 years married and apparently we’re still cruising each other. 😂

There’s something pretty special about exploring the person you’ve built a life with and somehow still getting to experience them like they’re brand new.
New places. New memories. Same man I’d choose all over again.

And after 13 years, I can confidently say: get yourself a husband who will look around at the original resort we booked and was like this is not what was advertised, poor conditions (along with full blown construction) you already paid for and say, “Nope. We're going to another place..."

So we packed our things, switched resorts, and started the vacation all over again because sometimes the best anniversary gift is knowing when the vibe is OFF and refusing to settle.

13 years of marriage, countless adventures, five dogs, three businesses, a whole life we somehow built together… and I’m still cruising him from across the pool.

Happy 13 years to my favorite person to explore and my favorite person to escape a mediocre resort with.

Here’s to never settling. Not in love. Not in life. And apparently, not in all-inclusive resorts either.

Address

3728 W Montrose Avenue, Suite 1
Chicago, IL
60618

Opening Hours

Wednesday 12pm - 8pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 2pm

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