About Us

LITOTES soy candles are a luxurious love letter to literary giants such as Maya Angelo, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. Crafted by hand in Chicago, this fine aroma collection is the child of the LIT Society Podcast and its co-host Kari Herrera.

Each candle is 12 ounces, double the size of the best-selling Parisian candle, averaging over 85 hours of burn time and relaxation. Our aroma recipe includes clean, safe fragrance oils.

We design each LITOTES luxury candle to draw you into the story that inspired its creation. We do this by approaching our fragrances as a passionate reader approaches a book:

Top Notes: Remember your first introduction to the book you now love? On the LIT Society Podcast, we call these "First Thoughts." They're similar to the aroma you experience first when opening a candle. We select for top notes oils and solutions that recall our favorite mellow florals.

Middle Notes: This is the heart of your book, the moment of no return, the page that stops you from putting the book down until you've finished the story. Middle notes are the most prominent aromas. For these, we like to invoke feelings of deep satisfaction with optimistic florals and fruits.

Base Notes: You've finished the last page, closed the book, and are smiling to yourself as you recall each character and phrase. Within our candles, these are the fragrances that linger after you've extinguished the flame. Perfect here are our warm musk, embracing vanilla, and deep wood aromas.