NZ Candlesest. 2026

Te Aro · Wellington

Te Aro Candle Studio

The studio that pours for half the Cuba St homewares stockists. Quiet, technical, reliable.

  • Wick-tested in-house
  • Soy wax
  • White-label heritage

Wax base

Soy wax

From

$42 NZD

Typical burn

50 hours

Trading

11 years

Team

Founder + 3 pourers + 1 wick technician

The studio.

Te Aro Candle Studio is the trade name behind several Wellington homewares stockists' own-brand candles, plus a small directly-sold range under their own name. They've been pouring out of the same Te Aro space for eleven years and know more about wick chemistry than most NZ makers — it's their reason for existing.

Signature.

Coastal-spray, kānuka-citrus, beeswax wood blends — clean and technical

Vessel.

Standard apothecary jar, frosted finish

Scent families they work in.

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Where to find Te Aro Candle Studio.

3 stockists carry this maker — physical and online.

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Te Whanganui-a-Tara — small city, big candle scene. Te Aro studios pour for half the homewares boutiques in Cuba St, and a coastal-spray brief comes naturally to a town this windy.

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