The Crown & Ember Collection
Crown & Ember is the signature collection of Highlands Candle Company — a line devoted to thoughtful fragrance composition and craftsmanship.
Each candle is designed as an experience rather than a product, inspired by landscapes, memories, and moments of stillness. From mountain forests and misted ridges to distant coastlines and garden paths, Crown & Ember fragrances are created to evoke atmosphere and a sense of place.
Every candle is hand-poured in Highlands, North Carolina using a premium coconut-apricot wax blend selected for its smooth finish, excellent fragrance release, and consistent burn. Small-batch production allows each fragrance to be refined carefully and poured with intention — ensuring a candle that feels personal, considered, and enduring.
The Vessel
Crown & Ember candles are poured into substantial glass vessels designed for both beauty and performance. Each vessel is paired with carefully selected cotton wicks to create a steady flame, even melt pool, and consistent fragrance release throughout the life of the candle. When the candle has finished burning, the vessel is designed to live on — easily cleaned and repurposed as a bar glass, keepsake holder, or refilled candle.
Hand-Poured in Highlands
Crown & Ember candles are poured into substantial glass vessels designed for both beauty and performance. Each vessel is paired with carefully selected cotton wicks to create a steady flame, even melt pool, and consistent fragrance release throughout the life of the candle. When the candle has finished burning, the vessel is designed to live on — easily cleaned and repurposed as a bar glass, keepsake holder, or refilled candle.
A Candle with Purpose
Crown & Ember is committed to supporting the community that inspires its fragrances.
$1 from every Crown & Ember candle supports the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society.
$1 from each Frank Vickery collaboration vessel supports The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts.
$1 from every Magnolia State of Mind & Tomatopolis Crown & Ember candle supports Camp Kamassa: A camp designed for Children & Adults living with Chronic Illness & Special Needs
Crafted with Care
Crown & Ember candles feature:
Premium coconut-apricot wax blend
Lead-free cotton wicks
Phthalate-free fragrance oils
Small-batch production
Clean, even burn performance
Each candle is designed to provide approximately 60–70 hours of burn time.
Featured Products
Floral & Tea - Soft White Petals, Garden Air, Citrus
Fragrance Notes
Top: White currant, mandarin zest
Heart: White tea leaves, soft rose petals
Base: Sheer musk, pale woods
Scent Story
Cotillion captures the elegance of a Southern evening in bloom — white dresses sweeping across polished floors, garden doors open to warm twilight air, and petals drifting softly through the night. Clean white tea and bright currant open the fragrance with light and grace, while delicate rose and citrus linger like blossoms carried on a gentle breeze. The result is airy, refined, and quietly romantic — a fragrance that feels luminous rather than floral, fresh rather than sweet. Soft, timeless, and effortlessly elegant.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot— a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Floral & Green — Fresh, Lush Garden
Fragrance Notes
Top: Green apple, fresh basil, dewy greens
Heart: White peony, freesia, jasmine petals
Base: Soft musk, cedar, light white amber
Story
Bloom evokes a peaceful garden in full flourish — a place where cool morning light gleams on fresh blossoms and tender leaves. The scent begins with crisp green apple and herbal basil, like breezes stirring perfectly tended greenery. In its heart, white peony and freesia unfold beautifully alongside subtle jasmine petals. A base of soft musk and cedar gently supports the florals, making this a luminous, uplifting fragrance that feels like first light through garden glass.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Aquatic & Mineral — Rocky Coastline
Fragrance Notes
Top: Sea spray, fresh citrus zest, ocean air
Heart: Saline mineral, driftwood, sea lavender
Base: Mineral amber, grey musk, weathered stone accord
Story
Granite Tide tells the story of sea meeting stone — the collision of salt and rock that defines a rugged shore. At first strike, cool ocean air and a hint of citrus breeze awaken your senses. The heart reveals mineral salt and wind-bruised driftwood softened by delicate sea lavender. At its base, weathered rock and grey musk sit like tide-kissed granite under a cloudy sky. This is a scent of open horizons and bracing coastlines — elemental and quietly powerful.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Shadowed Floral & Sacred Woods — Rose, Palo Santo, Sandalwood
Fragrance Notes
Top: Blackened rose petals, Crushed green stem, Dry cedar leaf
Heart: Bohemian rose, Palo santo smoke, Soft resin accord
Base: Aged sandalwood, Dark amber, Velvet musk
Scent Story
Thornwood is a study in depth and restraint — a rose that grows in shadow rather than sun. Dark petals unfold against polished woods and quiet smoke. Palo santo lends a sacred warmth while sandalwood settles into the air like aged timber in a silent room. The rose is present but never sweet — textured, restrained, and mysterious. This is not a familiar floral. It is a rose shaped by earth and wood — elegant, contemplative, and quietly intense. Thornwood lingers like the memory of a place half-hidden: a stone path beneath old trees, dusk settling into the grain of the wood, the glow of a single flame in a darkened room. Refined and deliberate, Thornwood is a fragrance for those drawn to depth over brightness — a scent that reveals itself slowly and rewards attention.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Smoky & Woody — Charred Wood, Resin & Smoked Oud
Fragrance Notes
Top: Smoked clove, warm spice, faint incense smoke
Heart: Smoked oud, guaiac wood, resinous labdanum
Base: Charred cedar, dark amber, dry musk
Story
Black Timber evokes the lingering warmth of a fire long after the flames have settled. Smoke drifts through cool evening air, clinging softly to worn timber and darkened beams. At its heart, smoked oud and resinous woods create depth and intrigue — rich without heaviness, refined rather than rugged. As the candle burns, charred cedar and dark amber settle into a smooth, grounding warmth, reminiscent of quiet nights beside a fading hearth or the scent of distant campfires carried on mountain air. Mysterious yet comforting, Black Timber brings a sense of strength and stillness — a modern expression of fire, wood, and shadow.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Woody & Atmospheric — Misty Mountain Air
Fragrance Notes
Top: Fresh rain-kissed cypress
Heart: Sandalwood, rosewood, cedar
Base: Soft grey musk, weathered stone accord
Scent Story
Greymont opens in the cool hush where fog drapes over a high ridge, tending the forest like a breath of rain. Cypress tops the air with its crisp, green clarity, while sandalwood, rosewood, and cedar entwine in the heart — a rich and grounding wood-land embrace. At its base, soft musk and echoing stone lend quiet depth, like lingering fog settling against ancient granite. Atmospheric and meditative, Greymont is where mountain mist meets quiet woods, and time feels still.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Woody & Serene — Refined Cypress & Soft Cedar
Fragrance Notes
Top: Hinoki cypress, airy citrus, green leaves
Heart: Cypress wood, soft cedar, gentle herbs
Base: Pale musk, light amber, dry woods
Story
Hinoki Cypress is a study in quiet elegance — a fragrance inspired by the serene character of hinoki wood and the calming presence of still air among the trees. The scent opens with the clean, luminous character of hinoki cypress — smooth and gently aromatic with a natural sense of balance. Soft cedar and cypress form the heart, creating a composed and tranquil atmosphere reminiscent of finely crafted wood and peaceful interiors. A base of pale musk and dry woods lingers softly, leaving a refined impression that feels calm, grounded, and enduring. Hinoki Cypress is understated and timeless — a fragrance defined by clarity, balance, and quiet luxury.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
““The special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.” — Willie Morris
Tomato Vine — Packing Shed Woods & Black Pepper
Fragrance Notes
Top: Crushed tomato leaf, green vine, black pepper
Heart: Sun-warmed earth, cedar planks, soft magnolia air
Base: Weathered woods, warm smoke, worn leather, lingering spice
Story
Tomatopolis is rooted in the red earth and railroad tracks of Crystal Springs, Mississippi — a town once proudly known as the Tomatopolis of the World.
In the early morning hours, the packing sheds came alive. Wooden floors creaked beneath work boots. Tomatoes moved down long sorting tables beneath hanging lights and open rafters while freight trains stood waiting nearby to carry the harvest from Mississippi to cities all across America. The air held the unmistakable scent of green tomato vine — sharp, alive, sunlit — softened by sawdust, old timber, warm soil, and smoke woven into the walls over generations.
The fragrance opens with vivid tomato leaf and cracked black pepper, bright and unmistakably Southern. At its heart, weathered wood and sun-warmed earth evoke the packing sheds themselves — long summer days, open doors, and the rhythm of a town built around hard work, family, and the movement of commerce through the rail lines that once defined Crystal Springs.
Hints of magnolia air drift quietly through the composition, grounding the fragrance in memory rather than nostalgia alone. Beneath it all, warm woods, soft smoke, worn leather, and lingering spice settle into something familiar and enduring — like packing sheds glowing beneath hanging lights, freight trains rolling through town at dusk, and the unmistakable pleasure of a Crystal Springs tomato sandwich with plenty of black pepper at the kitchen table.
Tomatopolis is not simply a tomato fragrance. It is the scent of a hometown carried forward through vine, timber, smoke, and memory — a tribute to the people, labor, and Southern summers that shaped Crystal Springs for generations.
$1 from every Tomatopolis candle benefits Camp Kamassa: Mississippi’s Toughest Kids Foundation, a camp designed for children & adults living with chronic illness and special needs — campkamassa.com
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Warm Gourmand — Bourbon, White Oak & Vanilla Woods
Fragrance Notes
Top: Soft citrus peel, green palm, warm air
Heart: White oak, aged bourbon accord, worn leather
Base: Madagascar vanilla, soft smoke, ambered woods
Story
Vanille Réserve is a fragrance of warmth and quiet refinement — inspired by the smooth character of aged bourbon and the richness of true vanilla. The scent opens with a gentle brightness that quickly settles into the depth of white oak and soft leather, evoking the atmosphere of a well-worn barrel resting in a cool, dim rickhouse. Subtle hints of bourbon warmth emerge at the heart, adding depth without sharpness. At the base, Madagascar vanilla and lightly smoked woods create a finish that is smooth, enveloping, and enduring — a refined sweetness balanced by structure and restraint. Vanille Réserve is comforting yet composed — a fragrance shaped by wood, warmth, and time.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
Green & Woody — Mountain Fog, Fern & Moss
Fragrance Notes
Top: Dew-kissed fern, green mist, bergamot
Heart: Moss, rain-washed oak leaf, violet leaf
Base: Cedarwood, patchouli, soft amber
Story
Mossveil captures the quiet mystery of early morning forest fog. It opens with the clean, green whisper of fern and mist, like stepping into silent woods at first light. At its heart, deep moss and rain-washed foliage transport you to the forest floor — cool, breathing, untamed. Warm cedar and soft amber linger at the base, grounding the experience in a memory of earth, humidity, and ancient timber. This is a candle that evokes calm and clarity: a breath of forest wherever you are.
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.
“One place understood helps us understand all places better.” — Eudora Welty
Magnolia Blossom — Soft Green Leaves & Gentle Citrus
Fragrance Notes
Top: Gentle citrus, fresh green leaves
Heart: Magnolia blossom, soft white petals
Base: Sun-warmed woods, clean air, southern breeze
Story
Some memories don’t fade — they bloom. There’s a certain kind of stillness that only magnolia brings — soft, familiar, and unforgettable.
For me, it begins in Crystal Springs, Mississippi… a backyard, a towering magnolia tree, and long afternoons spent climbing its branches with family and friends — the air thick with that unmistakable scent. It’s laughter carried on warm air… the feeling of being young… and the kind of memory that stays with you long after the moment has passed.
This fragrance is a reflection of that time and place — but more than that, it’s an invitation.
Clean, floral, and effortlessly Southern — a scent that feels like home, wherever home may be for you. Maybe it reminds you of where you grew up… or somewhere you’ve been… or simply a moment you wish you could hold onto a little longer. A subtle nod to where I come from — and a quiet reminder of the places that shape us all.
$1 from every Magnolia State of Mind candle benefits Camp Kamassa: Mississippi’s Toughest Kids Foundation, a camp designed for children & adults living with chronic illness and special needs — campkamassa.com
Local Pickup
For our Highlands and Plateau community, we're pleased to offer complimentary local pickup at The Business Spot: 472 Dillard Road, Highlands, NC 28741 — for current hours and directions, please visit their website prior to pickup. Simply select Local Pickup at checkout, and your order will be ready for collection at your convenience. We're grateful to partner with The Business Spot — a locally owned resource for packing, shipping, printing, and everyday business services. While you're there, we encourage you to take a look around; it's a thoughtfully run space with a beautiful selection of handcrafted greeting cards, notepads, and other giftable finds — along with practical essentials like electronic accessories and chargers.