Awesome Candles

A truly unique candle, which is filled with channels that direct its flame towards additional wicks, gradually setting off numerous blazes, and burning the whole thing down. Sadly, the Bravit XL candle appears to have been discontinued, but it’s still cool to watch.

Sometimes when you’re living like an outlaw, you get homesick. Good thing the Lucky Bastard makes a candle for those wistful moments. Inhale crisp air, pine and cedar from their soy wax offering; it comes in a travel tin and will calm you, even if you don’t hail from Oregon.

Wary Meyer’s handpoured Mainely Manly candle handles cedar and woodsmoke like a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives (at least Hedley might think so). Subtle balsam undertones for the ladies too.

Brooklyn-based artist Andrej Urem offers a simply gorgeous handmade candle collection to compliment your already dazzling interior spaces. Made of a soy/beeswax blend and lead-free cotton wicks to prevent sooty smoke. Burn times on some can exceed more than 60 hours.

Creepy Candles‘ signature product is a realistic and life-sized hand-shaped candle. As it burns, the blood red wax inside melts and reveals a metal skeleton hand.  Thankfully, you don’t have to worry about smelling burnt flesh, because the candle has a pleasant scent.

Garrett Wade’s portable lantern is a reproduction of a vintage design called “The Stonebridge,” which can be folded to just 3/4″ tall when flat, then pops open to 8-1/2″ tall. It’s made from brass with heat-resistant mica windows, and provides flicker-free airflow.

This cheeky candle from Japan looks just like a cup of Nissin instant ramen, the dining mainstay of students around the globe. It’s supposed to be unscented, but this guy thinks it smells like noodles. Sadly, shipping one from Japan costs more than the candle itself.

When you’ve had it up to here with stupidity, express your hostility and flip ’em the bird. This hand-sized candle has its middle digit extended to let ’em know you’re mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Burns for about 12 hours, so use it wisely.

The dab is one of those dance moves we don’t quite understand, but we’re still impressed that it’s proven as versatile as it has. Renee McDaniel’s son shows us how it can be used to put out candles on a birthday cake. We dare you to try it with 18 candles, kid.

A manly fragrance perfect for your den, media room, or office. Northern Lights‘ paraffin wax candle is infused with two sweet and familiar scents that whet your appetite for drinks and smokes. Burns appx. 35 hours and comes packed with a natural cork lid.

The latest fragrant candle from our beer-loving pals at Swag Brewery offers up the warm and delectable aroma of maple syrup, waffles, cinnamon, coffee, and hand-poured into a recycled beer bottle. Burns for 45+ hours so you can enjoy that breakfast scent all day long.

We’re at the point in life where we’d rather not have a birthday candle to represent every year we’ve been alive. But members from the Sri Chinmoy Center turned their cake into a bonfire with a whopping 72,585 candles on top. CO2 fire extinguishers let the cake remain edible.

US state-themed scented candles. For example, the Southern California candle smells like cactus, oranges and the ocean, the Northern Carolina candle smells like blackberries and BBQ sauce, and we don’t want to know what the New York candle smells like.

Whether you’re the Breaker of Chains, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, or simply The Unburnt, you can now add Mother (or Father) of Dragons to your title with these golden egg-shaped candles, each of which reveals a ceramic baby dragon as it melts.

While you could spill some whiskey on your floor if you like the way it smells, a much better and less sticky solution would be to go for this recycled glass candle that’s scented like whiskey with a touch of maple. Burns for appx. 70 hours. Save 10% in The Awesomer Shop.

This is one candle that you’ll love to watch burn, as the evil Gestapo agent from Raiders of the Lost Ark meets his maker in the most excrutiatingly face-melting way possible. Ark of the Covenant sold separately.

If you enjoy scented designer candles but dislike their hefty pricetags, Fenix West is where it’s at. Their generous 9 oz candles are hand-poured with high quality soy-based waxes, and a multitude of individual scents create elegant complexity, for about half the price of their fancy counterparts.

Designer Lars Beller Fjetland created Moment, an ingenious cast iron candlestick which automatically drops a snuffer over the stub of its candle as it reaches the end of its useful life. Coming soon from Hay.

Because not every celebrant likes cake. NPW’s Floating Birthday Drink Candle is exactly what it says it is. The candle is nearly 3″ long and has a buoyant base. Just be careful when mixing fire and booze.

Swag Brewery’s hand-poured soy wax candles offer beer-inspired scents including a sweet vanilla porter, a fruity apricot wheat, and a spicy, hoppy IPA. Don’t worry, they don’t smell like spilled beer. On the contrary, they smell great.