August Moon Rise is a scent studio shaped by stillness, story, and the quiet architecture of inner life. Each piece is created in service of the practice of becoming — the slow, lived evolution that unfolds across the phases of a life, not the pages of a calendar.

What we make is not meant to perform calm.

It is meant to hold it.

Our candles are companions for human thresholds: endings that arrive quietly, beginnings that feel unsure, periods of waiting, moments of return. They are poured for real life — for kitchens with warmth still in the air, for evenings that arrive without ceremony, for breaths taken between who you were and who you are becoming.

Our Philosophy

We believe becoming is not a destination.

It is a practice.

A quiet devotion to what is changing within you.

A willingness to meet your life as it is — not as it should be styled.

Through scent, we work with memory, nervous-system ease, and emotional atmosphere. Through form, we honour restraint, weight, and intention. Through time, we acknowledge that growth moves in phases, not straight lines.

Nothing here is rushed. Nothing is performative.

Everything is designed to be lived with.

The Work

Each August Moon Rise piece is hand-poured in small batches in London, Ontario using clean-burning wax, intentional fragrance compositions, and restrained design. Our collections are shaped around states of being — not trends — allowing each chapter to arrive in its own way and its own time.

What you bring to the flame belongs to you.

We simply tend the condition for becoming.

August Moon Rise exists for those who understand that change is not always visible — and that becoming often happens in the quiet.