Scented Lumos · Made in Bulgaria
A candle should make you laugh before you even light it.
We're a Bulgarian candle studio with a soft spot for inside jokes. We make personalized, 100% soy-wax candles (plus soaps, mugs, and slightly inappropriate greeting cards) for people who'd rather gift a punchline than another "warm vanilla hug."
Our story
It started in a kitchen.
In 2022 I started pouring candles by hand in our home kitchen. One 5kg box of soy wax, a decade of e-commerce behind me, and one stubborn idea: a candle should do more than smell nice. It should make someone laugh.
My husband and I poured those first batches ourselves. Then people kept ordering, and the kitchen ran out of room.
- 2023a small 30m² studio.
- 2024a 90m² workshop.
- 2025our own 135m² production space.
Today: a team of six, around 1,000 candles and 300+ orders on a busy day, and it still feels handmade, because it is.
What we make
We don't sell candles. We sell inside jokes.
We were never interested in the candle you grab next to the supermarket checkout. Grown adults roast their friends, keep weirdly specific inside jokes alive, and say things they'd never dare put on a normal greeting card. So we put them on the greeting card.
That's where our bestsellers come from: the "Manicurist" candle that quietly went viral, the "Professions" line that calls people out by job title, and the 18+ Valentine's designs that (by our very rough math) made a lot of men very happy last February.
Every order is personalized on demand. We invested in proper label-printing gear and a live preview tool, so you see your custom design before we make it. No guessing, no "trust us, it'll look great." Customers kept asking for more, so now there are goat-milk soaps, mugs, and greeting cards with zero filter to match.
Sourcing
Made in Bulgaria, and we keep it that way.
We buy wax by the half-ton and boxes by the thousand now, but we still source close to home. Where a lot of brands just import the cheapest option, we work with Bulgarian suppliers for our raw materials and our packaging. It keeps our quality where we want it, keeps turnaround times short, and puts our money into the local economy instead of a shipping container.
The team
The six people behind your candle.
No call center, no faceless "support team." Just the people who actually make, design, and ship your order.
For business
Two ways to work with us.
Corporate gifts people don't secretly throw away
Let's be honest: nobody's excited about another branded pen. For companies, we make gifts employees actually want to take home.
We're the producer, not a middleman, so quality control is ours and pricing stays sharp. We keep deep stock and turn corporate orders of up to 300 pieces around in 1 to 3 working days. And you talk to a real person who makes sure your logo lands right, not an automated funnel.
Custom runs for OVK Gaz · Ekstrapak · Milka
Get a corporate quote →Stock us in your shop
We love seeing our candles on other people's shelves: gift shops, indie bookstores, little souvenir corners. If that sounds like you, our wholesale minimum is just 10 items, mix and match across any products and designs.
We built it that way on purpose, so a small shop can actually say yes.
Become a stockist →Where we're headed
Bigger workshop, same handmade heart.
We're growing across Europe now, with dedicated EU and Romanian stores. But the part that matters most isn't changing. Whether you're buying one cheeky birthday card or 500 branded holiday gifts, you get a real person and a bit of personality on the other end. That's the whole point of Scented Lumos, and we're not letting go of it.
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