RePete Candle & Coffee Bar

A candle bar with a coffee bar in it

RePete is run by Cass in Warsaw, Illinois. It began with a candle-making kit bought online for her own house and grew, over about nine years, into a brick-and-mortar candle and coffee bar — a woman-owned business that also tows a coffee trailer and supplies boutiques across the Midwest. That is the reason the scent list leans the way it does: coffee, bakery and autumn notes run through most of it.

One scent, four ways

• Soy candles — poured in reusable glass jars, including their mason-jar style.
• Wax melts — the flame-free version; RePete reckon a single square lasts three to four days if you never switch the warmer off.
• Reed diffusers — continuous scent for a hallway or a bathroom.
• Car diffusers — worth bringing indoors in summer, because a closed car cooks the oil.

The maker’s own burn figures

RePete ask for no more than four hours per burn and put the life of a candle at 50+ hours when it is looked after. Trim the wick back to a quarter of an inch before each lighting — their guidance covers both cotton and wooden wicks, so check the listing to see which one your candle has, since a wooden wick is pinched and snapped rather than cut.

A note on the specification

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