The Aroma Quartz Story - Our Story

I did not start Aroma Quartz because I spotted a gap in the market. I started it because I needed somewhere to land.

I had been cabin crew for years. I loved the life until suddenly I did not have it anymore. The pandemic took the job and with it the structure, the movement, the sense of knowing who I was and what came next. I found myself back at my parents house in Shropshire with a lot of quiet and a grief I had not been ready for. My gran, who had been my mum growing up, died during that time too. It was a lot to sit with.

So I started making candles. In my bedroom. Just for me.

I was obsessive about what went into them from day one. Coconut wax because I had done the research and I was not willing to burn anything else in my home. No phthalates, no parabens, no hormone disrupting fragrance oils. Not because it was a good story. Because once you know what is in most candles you cannot unknow it.

I got my job back and kept making candles in the bedroom of a Manchester house share, selling a few on Etsy on the side. Then came unpaid leave, then a decision. I was not going back to the skies. I took over my parents garage, threw everything into this and it started working.

The garage became a kitchen. The kitchen became a market barrow in Shrewsbury. The barrow became a unit. The unit became a double. For five years we had a real space, a proper community of people who came back every month and knew us by name.

Last year I closed the shop. My mental health needed me to and I have learned the hard way not to ignore that. It was not failure. It was choosing myself, which is when I think about it exactly what Aroma Quartz has always been about.

Now we are back to where it started. A studio in the Shropshire countryside, everything made by hand, the same coconut wax, the same obsessive approach to ingredients, the same intention behind every single pour.

To give you a genuine moment of calm in a world that rarely stops to offer one.

One of our customers told me our candles felt like a warming cuddle from nature. I have never described it better myself.

That is what we are here for.

Dan x