Large Jar 22oz

Burn Time 110 – 150 Hours
RRP £17.99 each
 

Medium Jar 14.5oz

Burn Time 65 – 90 Hours
RRP £14.99 each
 

Small Jar 3.7oz

Burn Time 25 – 40 Hours
RRP £7.49 each

Samplers / Votives 49g

Burn Time 15 Hours
RRP £1.60 each

Each Votive 170g
Filled Votives Pack of 3
Each Votive 170g
Burn Time 15 – 20 Hours
RRP £9.99

Floating Tea-lights

Burn Time 6 Hours
RRP £5.99 box of 12

It all started in December 1969. I was sixteen, and had a big problem; just days remained before Christmas, and I was broke. While considering my options for Mom's gift, inspiration struck. I gathered my childhood crayons and found an empty quart milk container. I melted them in a pot on the kitchen stove, poured the hot liquid into the carton and added a wick "borrowed" from a candle in our dining room.

The broken bits of wax from that ill-fated dinner candle went into the milk carton as well. Several hours later, my first candle sat proudly on the kitchen table.

A visiting neighbour admired it and asked me, (to my astonishment), if I d sell it to her. I did for $1.36, and instantly spent the proceeds on a box of proper paraffin at the local grocer's. Thus armed, I made two more milk-carton candles, sold one and gave one to my Mom for Christmas. Again I reinvested my profits in more wax. Friends and neighbours enjoyed my simple candles and continued to purchase them as swiftly as my family could drink quarts of milk and orange juice!

By 1973 my hobby had turned into a one-man business. Blocks of wax and boxes of finished candles nearly filled my parent’s cellar and garage. At their not-so-gentle urging I moved my operation into a former paper mill in nearby Holyoke, Massachusetts. For the next year or so, I worked alone. I would pour candles in the morning, and then change into my sales clothes for an afternoon of sales calls on gift shops. That night would often see me finishing and wrapping the morning's production.

Eventually I could afford to hire help, and by 1982 the Yankee Candle Company employed over thirty workers. We occupied all three floors of the mill and had no room to grow. Our first-floor retail store was catching on, but the inner-city location made it difficult for customers to find us. It was time to seek greener pastures.

In August 1983 we broke ground in rural South Deerfield, Massachusetts, twenty miles to the north. Our new 1,600 square foot factory store opened in November, with our factory slated for start-up three months later. Worries about moving to the country were quickly put to rest, our ten-space retail parking lot overflowed with customers on our first day! And to think, it all started with a gift for my Mom . . .
The Yankee Candle Brand Promise

A Passion for Fragrance®
Season after season from reliving favourite memories setting the mood, Yankee Candles share your passion for fragrance®. It's what drives them to search the world for fresh inspiration in creating evocative, long-lasting scents that will help make your house feel like home.

From Humble beginnings
Christmas of 1969. Seventeen-year-old Mike Kittredge too broke to buy his mother a present melted some crayons to make her a candle. A neighbour saw it and convinced Mike to sell the candle to her. With that small stake, he bought enough wax to make two candles - one for his mom, and another to sell. That was the birth of Yankee Candle.

To America's favourite brand of premium scented candles …

Yankee Candle has become the most-recognized name in the candle business and the country's best selling candle brand by sharing our customers' “passion for fragrance” in every product we bring to market.

Today with over 150 fragrances, Yankee offer the world's largest and most compelling selection of candle and home fragrance scents. In addition to the renowned Housewarmer® line of scented candles, they also provide a wide range of seasonal and specialty scented candles, home fragrance products, car fresheners and candle accessories.

Along with the regular introduction of new Yankee Candle® products and fragrances, they have also grown by adding other brands to the portfolio, including Beeswax brand of pure, natural candles and related products + Home Remedies and added to the premium scented candles, candle accessories, and other home decor products.

The majority of candles are made by master chandlers (candle makers) in advanced manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts.

Performance Tested
Master perfumers develop Yankee Candle® fragrances for optimal performance in our products. All of the fragrances are rigorously screened, reviewed and tested by a highly experienced team of fragrance professionals to achieve the best strength and quality.

The Ultimate Fragrance Experience
Authentic. True-to-life. Bold. Long-lasting. Made with fragrance extracts and real essential oils, Yankee's scents are the standard by which all other fragrances are judged. Developed to take you on a journey to the familiar and unfamiliar, the known and the unknown, whether real or imagined, these scents span a range of fragrance categories, including specific fruits and flowers, fresh, clean and outdoor types, and festive fragrances that enhance the holiday season. These fragrances also encompass new, trendy or trend forward scents and concepts interspersed among classic favourites.

With every fragrance Yankee Candle introduces, their reputation is on the line. It is not enough for a Yankee® fragrance to be as good as competitors' scents. It must be better, because it's what you expect of Yankee Candles …Each fragrance has to possess the realism, accuracy and pleasantness of the true flower, food, fruit, place, or experience that inspired it.

This is the fragrance experience that has made Yankee Candle® the benchmark for quality in the candle world.

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