Duncans Mills Candle Co.

06/08/2026

The opening line of Letter One.
Three letters on the lineage of fragrance now live on the journal — link in bio.

06/05/2026

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Jill Schulz’s: I love this place

I love this place. I wear the oak vanilla perfume and get so many compliments. More than o ever dogs from my 300 dollar perfume that I used to wear. They have fun perfume classes and the service is excellent

Hand-poured soy candles, room sprays & body products inspired by West Sonoma County. Visit our Duncans Mills atelier for a guided scent blending experience.

06/05/2026

An afternoon at the shop!

Vintage china. A glass of something cold. Top, heart, and base notes lined up in a small library of dropper bottles, waiting to be tried.

Ninety minutes to smell, layer, revise. To land on a fragrance that's yours — and walk out with the formula to make it again.

The Fragrance Blending Experience is held by appointment in our Duncans Mills atelier. Booking is at the link in bio. DM BLEND for private bookings — birthdays, date night, bridal parties, girls' weekends, gift experiences.

06/05/2026

🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 5 star review from Customer: Smells lovely

Smells lovely. Fills my home with a slight floral essence. I will be purchasing again.

https://www.duncansmillscandleco.com/products/timber-cove-soy-wax-candle-red-currant-geranium

06/05/2026

Five thousand years ago, along the banks of the Nile, priests blended oils in chambers built into the temple walls.

The Egyptians called these chambers per-wedja — workshop, laboratory, atelier. They were the first of their kind in the recorded world.

The oils blended there were not decorative. They were consequential. They anointed the statues of the gods. They prepared bodies for the long passage. They marked the hours of the day.

Every fragrance house in the modern world descends from this. Every perfumer working today. Every blender of oils. Whether they know it or not, they are working in a tradition that begins in those temples.

Five thousand years is a long inheritance.

The first of three letters on the lineage of fragrance is on the journal. The next two follow on Thursdays in June. Subscribe to email to read more.

Link in bio

06/03/2026

A line from Letter Three.
Three letters on the lineage of fragrance. The trilogy is the prologue to Wax & Reverence. Link in bio to join the email list and read all the letters first! The book! It's coming....

06/02/2026

Your senses are navigational.

A line from a book in progress. Join the Fragrance Society email list for more.

— Stephanie

05/29/2026

At the DIY Fragrance Bar, it's an easy grab and go!

Five families. Sixteen blended notes. Amber bottles on the rack. Try-me sprays on a mirrored tray. Blotter sticks in a brass cup. Smell yourself between to reset your palette. Take your time. But it's fun and fast!

The blend you walk away with is yours.

The Fragrance Blending Class is the unhurried version — seated, ninety minutes, vintage china at the table, a glass of something cold. Same library, more time.

Link in bio. Or DM BLEND for private bookings.

05/27/2026

The bar that's lived inside our shop in Duncans Mills since the beginning now travels.

Here's how it works at your event — every guest is paired to a fragrance, bottled on-site, and goes home with their own. Glass bottle, gold cap, custom-labeled with the date and the name of your gathering.

Two to four scents, composed for the occasion. Sommelier-led, paired the way wine is paired.

Built for weddings, winery rooms, bridal showers, corporate gatherings, and private celebrations of every size — starts at $55 per person.

Inquiries are open. Link in bio — or write to us directly.
https://www.duncansmillscandleco.com/pages/mobile-fragrance-bar
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05/26/2026

A small thing this week. A two-minute ritual you can do at the kitchen table while the tea is still hot.

Five questions, five senses.

What is the most beautiful thing in this room right now?
What can I hear that I wasn't listening to a moment ago?
What is touching my skin right now, and how does it feel?
What flavor is still with me from the morning?
What does this room smell like — and where does it take me?

That's it.

— Stephanie