NZ Candlesest. 2026

Havelock North · Hawke's Bay

Ahuriri & Orchard

Wine-country candle maker — fig, blackcurrant, oak, fresh herbs from the orchard next door.

  • Orchard-sourced botanicals
  • Soy wax
  • Single-origin write-ups

Wax base

Soy wax

From

$52 NZD

Typical burn

48 hours

Trading

7 years

Team

Family-run, 3 staff

The studio.

Ahuriri & Orchard pour candles at a working orchard in Havelock North, and the proximity is the point — the fig, bay leaf, and rose geranium in their candles is harvested from trees the founder can see out the studio window. Single-origin in the way the local wineries are; written up the same way too.

Signature.

Fig-leaf-blackcurrant, oak-orchard, garden rose

Vessel.

Amber wine-bottle glass, hand-cut and refinished

Scent families they work in.

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Where to find Ahuriri & Orchard.

2 stockists carry this maker — physical and online.

More from Hawke's Bay

Other studios in the region

Wine country. Candle makers in Hastings and Havelock North pour deliberately into amber glass, lean on fig, blackcurrant and oak, and treat scent the way the local vineyards treat varietals — single-origin, written-up, considered.

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