It’s official! It’s officially the cosiest time of the year! In our opinion, there is nothing better than curling up in front of the fire, with a hot chocolate and an Eddo & Dandy candle!

At Eddo & Dandy HQ, when we do Christmas, we really do Christmas and go all out! We’ve already started watching Christmas movies, looking at festive recipes and slowly but surely I’m sneakily starting to put decorations up!

With the darker evenings and winter drawing in, we love making the house all cosy and festive. We are delighted to bring our festive fragrances back on our shelves!

Our Christmas Collection has been carefully curated to provide a range of both familiar, yet distinctive fragrances that get you ready for Christmas!

Mulled Wine Candle

A rich composition of fruits and winter spices with top notes coming from the fruity zest of orange, encased in the richness of spicy, yet homely, cinnamon sticks. Perfect for a cosy night in, or a night wrapped up at the Christmas Markets.

Frankincense & Myrrh Three Wick Candle

A dark, mystical fragrance with notes of frankincense, tuberose, violets, myrrh and amber. The ultimate luxury fragrance!

White Christmas Candle

Scents of fresh snow and cool, crisp winter mornings are encapsulated in this scent. We have carefully blended White Christmas to bring back those crisp winter mornings after a fresh snow fall.

Gingerbread Wax Melt

Exquisitely balance sweet and spicy notes create this festive blend reminiscent of festive gingerbread houses.

When I was in college every Christmas one of the pastry classes would make the most spectacular gingerbread scenes for the front entrance of college. To this day, every time I see any form of a gingerbread house, I’m automatically transported back to there!

Christmas Market in Vienna

We love nothing more than wandering around a Christmas market with a some chimney cake, roasted chestnuts and a glug of mulled wine! With it’s crackling wooden wick, we’ve encapsulated those crisp evenings browsing stalls in Christmas Market in Vienna.

Christmas Market in Prague

Christmas markets in Prague have some of the best gingerbread houses and decorations ever! The buzz of Christmas songs and crackle of festive energy is something we love!

Christmas Market in Prague has sweet notes of anise, brown sugar, maple syrup and coumarin.

It’s hard to believe that Christmas is literally just around the corner. Usually we’ve concerts and festivals and holidays to look forward to and act as markers throughout the year. This year, like last year, had very few of these markers what with, well you know.

So with Christmas only a few weeks away, this means that this time of year will the busiest for lots of small businesses. We’ve heard lots of our small business pals taking about the ongoing global supply chain issues and stressing the importance of shopping early. At Eddo & Dandy we want to be completely honest with you about how the next few weeks may play out.

We have been squirreling away supplies such as glass, wax and packaging since the summer, so much so the studio is bursting at the seems. We have placed large orders with our suppliers for raw materials, which as a small business, was a tremendously brave step. These supplies won’t last for long though and we can see the impact of shortages already beginning to take effect in the wider candle industry. Throw Brexit on top of this and overflowing ports, it’s a bit worrying.

This all sounds pretty scary and for a small business owner, it’s kept me up a lot! Along with plenty others!

What Does All This Mean?

-We will always maintain the same quality that we have worked so hard to perfect. That is a guarantee!

-We are going to going to be with you guys until Christmas Eve for local deliveries and dispatching national orders until the 20th December. We will also be at a variety of Christmas Markets, check out Eddo & Dandy on Tour for a full list of dates and locations

-If there is a particular product you are looking for which is out of stock, turn on the out of stock notification for the product and be the first to hear when it’s back in stock.

-Shopping early is key and this goes for most businesses. We are also acutely aware that the luxury of shopping early or at all isn’t always an option for everybody. If you have gifts in mind, reach out to us and if we can, we will hold items for you until closer to Christmas.

We will never put any pressure on anybody to buy anything. Whether you follow us on Instagram or Facebook or you stop by to say hi at any of our farmers market stalls, we are so grateful to have you with us! It means so much to us!

As much as I love the summer, not needing to wear a jacket, finding the balance between glasses and sunglasses and the long evenings. I am embracing the cooler autumn days! I love the crisp autumn air, the colors of the leaves and the trick or treaters at Halloween!

For Autumn (aka sweater weather!) we have developed two limited edition fragrances. We are bringing back everybody’s favorite Autumn Leaves from last year and introducing Sandalwood & Orange.

Autumn Leaves

Embrace the cooler autumn days with this warming fragrance combining a subtle base of creamy vanilla with spicy notes of clove, ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon, rounded out with top notes of mandarin and lemon.

Autumn Leaves is a stunning late autumn leading into winter fragrance. The cosy glow of an Autumn Leaves candle is perfect on long evenings. Our diffusers offer up to three months of fragrance, making them ideal to see autumn out and welcome in winter!

Sandalwood & Orange

With smooth hints of chocolate warm the zesty tones of mandarin and bergamot as the fragrance blooms. A sweet heart of jasmine and amber is wrapped in floral notes of lavender and lily, before drying to reveal a soft base of vanilla musk.

Each Sandalwood & Orange candle has a burn time of approximately 40 hours, perfect for early autumn! Want this scent for longer, why not try a diffuser

Our autumn fragrances are also available in wax melts, diffuser refills and in our gift sets!

We are also delighted to introduce our new range of wax melt burners! Two designs available in both white and grey!

No wax melt burner is complete without a selection of Eddo & Dandy wax melts!

Happy Earth Day!

At Eddo & Dandy we are passionate about being as sustainable as possible, while also offering beautiful collection of products. Below are some of the ways we do this:

The Wax We Use

We use only sustainably sourced soy wax in our candles and wax melts. This wax is sourced from the US where the soy bean crop is grown on farms where they have invested heavily in irrigation systems to reduce water waste. Soy wax is a better choice compared to stearin (made from animal or vegetable fats) or paraffin wax, which creates toxic chemicals when it burns. These chemicals can be as harmful to you as second hand smoke.

Glass & Wick

While glass is sustainable, the process to recycle glass does produce some chemicals, to minimize our impact we offer candle and diffuser refills for our Eddo & Dandy glasses.

The wicks we use are pure cotton with a paper core, which produce less soot than standard wicks. If you see some soot at the top of the glass, simply trim your wick for the next burn as it may be too long!

Packaging and Labels

All our candles and diffusers are packaged in boxes that are fully recyclable and are shipped to us unfolded and flatpack, reducing space required and extra packaging. Our wax melts are packaged in clamshells, made from 100% corn oil, which is completely biodegradable. The labels we use on all products are made a using vegan adhesive and paper from responsibly managed forests, a more ethical choice.

Tree Planting

While we make every effort possible to source materials from suppliers who share the same ethical and environmentally friendly ethos as ourselves, we aim to further reduce Eddo & Dandy’s impact on the environment. Which is why we are proud to support tree planting on the island of Ireland, by planting one tree for every order received or purchase made at any of our farmers markets.

The scent of an Eddo & Dandy candle can beautifully transform a room. But you may be missing out on hours of burn time by making these common mistakes.

We all love nice smelling candles and want to keep them for as long as possible. But by blowing them out too soon, your candle won’t last as long. Not allowing your candle to reach a full melt pool can result in candle tunneling. This can leave a well in the candle and can often cause the wick to drown.

When you first light your Eddo & Dandy candle, be sure to light the candle for 4 hours, or until you reach a full melt pool. A full melt pool is when the top of the candle has completely melted to the edge of the container. For every subsequent burn, light candles for between 2 to 4 hours or until you reach a full melt pool.

Ensure you trim your wick! Wick trimming is so important and we cannot stress this enough! If the wick is too long, the flame will be larger than it should be. This will burn through the candle more quickly and may cause the container to get hotter than it should. We recommend trimming your wick to 5mm each time before your burn your candle.

Lastly, make sure your lit candles are not placed near a draught. If you notice that you are left with wax on one side of your candle, it may be that your candle was in a draught. If you notice your flame ‘dancing’, blow the candle out and carefully move it* to an alternative spot. Then relight to achieve a full melt pool.

*be careful when moving your candle, as the draught may have caused one side of the container to become hotter than normal.