The Flora’s Kiss Signature Candle Range came about the way the best things usually do — a conversation between friends who care about making things properly. Green Door Cottage are a small-batch candle maker we know and trust, and from the very first chat it was clear we were cut from the same cloth: the same fussiness about ingredients, the same care for people, animals and the earth, and the same quiet belief that something made slowly, by hand, is worth a great deal more than something made quickly by machine.
So we gave them the brief we give ourselves — nothing rushed, nothing mass-produced, and nothing we wouldn’t happily burn in our own homes. Together we chose five scents and poured them into soy wax with cotton wicks. No paraffin, no palm, nothing from an animal and nothing tested on one. The wax is biodegradable and the aluminium tin and lid are endlessly recyclable, because a candle that’s kind to your home ought to be kind to everything beyond it too.
Every one is poured by hand, in small batches, in a little kitchen in the Adelaide Hills — and each is named for a moment rather than a mood. A cold morning. A garden after rain. A kitchen at the end of a long day. Made slowly, made carefully, and made with love, exactly as everything we make should be.
Frost and Firewood
Rosemary & Wild Mint
There is a particular kind of morning in the Adelaide Hills when the grass has gone white overnight and the air has an edge to it — the sort of morning where the first thing anyone does is light something.
This one opens cold and green. Wild mint arrives first, sharp and unmistakable, with bergamot and orange behind it. Underneath, rosemary and lavender settle into something softer, and a base of clove wood and spearmint holds the whole thing steady long after the match has gone out. Cold air and a warm room, in the same breath.
Hand-poured in small batches. Soy wax, cotton wick, phthalate-free fragrance. Vegan.
Roses and Rain
Rose & Cedarwood
A garden after weather. Not the tidy scent of roses in a vase, but roses outdoors — petals gone heavy, the path darkened, everything smelling faintly of wet timber.
Bergamot and red berries open it, bright and slightly tart. Rose sits at the centre with a thread of clove leaf running through, and cedarwood and amyris give it a dry, resinous floor to stand on. It’s a floral for people who don’t much like florals: soft at the top, and unexpectedly grounded underneath.
Hand-poured in small batches. Soy wax, cotton wick, phthalate-free fragrance. Vegan.
Spice and Embers
Ginger & Cinnamon
This is the one people smell before they see. Somebody has been in the kitchen since morning, the back door is open, and the whole house has gone warm and sweet with it.
Ginger arrives first, bright and with a bit of a bite. Cinnamon comes in underneath, slower and rounder, and the two together land somewhere between baking and mulling — the smell of a pot on the stove, something cooling on the bench, the tea towels holding onto it the next day. It is, frankly, delicious.
It will earn its keep at Christmas, when the doors are open and the kitchen has been busy since breakfast. But it is not a seasonal candle, and we’d argue it’s at its best in the middle of the year — a cold Adelaide Hills evening, the fire going, and a room that smells like something good is about to come out of the oven.
Hand-poured in small batches. Soy wax, cotton wick, phthalate-free fragrance. Vegan.
The Still Garden
Lemon, Chamomile & Lavandin
Every old household kept a still room — the place where the year’s herbs were dried, distilled and put by. Bunches hanging from the beams, lemons on the sill, and beds of herbs outside the door grown for exactly that purpose.
This is that garden. Lemon and basil at the top with chamomile threaded through, clary sage and lavandin in the middle, white thyme keeping it green. Underneath, vetiver, sandalwood and tonka bean give it weight and warmth as it burns down. Herbal, citrus and unhurried — the quietest candle of the five.
Hand-poured in small batches. Soy wax, cotton wick, phthalate-free fragrance. Vegan.
Peel and Thorn
Wild Berry & Clementine
Late summer along a fenceline, where the brambles have taken over and nobody has got round to cutting them back. Sun on the back of your neck, scratched forearms, and a bowl of something dark and sticky to show for it.
Wild berry gives it depth and a jammy sweetness; clementine cuts straight across the top, bright and sharp and full of peel. It’s the loudest and most cheerful of the collection, and the one to light when the house needs waking up rather than settling down.
Hand-poured in small batches. Soy wax, cotton wick, phthalate-free fragrance. Vegan.
