Tree Line Candle Co

The candle is the mountain

Tree Line Candle Co make candles shaped like actual summits. Each peak is 3D-printed from elevation data, a mould is taken from it, and the candle is poured into that mould — so a Tree Line candle is a scale model of a specific mountain that happens to burn. The range covers US national parks, peaks state by state, and mountains abroad.

Who makes them

The company was started in 2017 by an engineer, Jeremy Gilsdorf, who began producing prototypes at home in Fort Collins to represent the mountains of Colorado. It is now run by Chris and Lindsay Dillenbeck, and the candles are handmade in small batches in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Buying one as a gift

These are bought for a place rather than a scent: the mountain someone climbed, the park they got engaged in, the state they grew up in. That makes them unusually easy to choose for someone whose taste in fragrance you do not know — and unusually easy to get wrong if you pick the wrong peak, so it is worth checking the name.

A note on specifications

Tree Line do not publish a standard wax, wick and burn-time sheet across the range the way a single-vessel maker can; a moulded peak is a different object from a filled jar. Where a figure is stated for a particular candle we list it in the product specification, and where it is not, we leave it out rather than estimate it.