Grand Candles

Who makes them

Grand Candles is a husband-and-wife company in Palm Coast, Florida. Brandon Weidinger started it in 2018 and still hand-pours the candles in small batches, drawing on places he has travelled and the seasons in Florida; Stacia joined in 2022 and shapes how each scent is presented. The range is poured in soy wax and scented with fragrance oils, and the makers publish an ingredient page of their own rather than leaving it to the listing.

One scent across the shelf

This is the practical reason to browse Grand Candles by scent rather than by product: a fragrance is rarely tied to a single object. Lavender Cedar or Lilac Breeze will turn up as a candle, as a room and linen spray, as a reed diffuser and as a car diffuser, so you can run one scent through a whole house without lighting anything in the rooms where a flame is awkward.

Their own care figures

• Candles — trim the wick to a quarter of an inch before every lighting, let the wax melt right across the top on the first burn so it does not tunnel later, and burn for no more than four hours at a time.
• Reed diffusers — the makers put these at roughly two to four months, depending on the room, the airflow, the temperature and how often you turn the reeds.
• Room and linen spray — the scent lasts several hours and lingers longest sprayed straight onto fabric rather than into the air. Test an unseen patch first on anything delicate.

A note on the specification

Where Grand Candles state a wax, size or burn time for a product we list it in the specification. Where they do not, we leave it blank rather than estimate.