The Souvenir Affair

One flame is enough
to change a whole room.

Hand-poured soy wax. Eight fragrances pressed in Kannauj. Made in Jaipur and Gurugram since 2026.

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Eight oils, pressed in Kannauj

Every scent is a
different light.

Hover one. The room changes colour ~

  • नूरAMBER
  • ऊदOUD
  • पवित्रSANDALWOOD
  • मधुरिमाVANILLA
  • सुकूनLAVENDER
  • गजराJASMINE
  • अनंतBLUE OCEAN
  • महकLIGHT MUSK
The Jharokha jar in blue, beside its white dome lid

The one people photograph

The Jharokha

A window, in wax and brass ~

₹999

One shape, made a few at a time. It is not always in stock.

Moulded flowers on a lit pillar candle
Moulded by hand
Pearls pressed into a spiral candle
Moulded by hand
Gold leaf and pearls laid on a lotus urli
Gold leaf, laid by hand
A small candle under a blue glass bell
The small ones

Where the making happens

Follow the pour

Every batch, every new shape, and the ones that do not survive the mould ~

One batch, setting@the_souvenir_affair
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Small batches, and a lot of waiting

Nothing here is poured
faster than it should be.

The Souvenir Affair began in 2026 with one pot of soy wax and a stubborn idea: that a candle is a memory you can light twice.

Two wicks burning in a lotus urli on a brass tray

How these are made

By hand, and slowly

  • PouredBy hand
  • Premium soy waxNot paraffin
  • Fragrance oilsFrom Kannauj
  • Poured inJaipur & Gurugram
  • Making since2026
  • DeliveryAcross India

One jar at a time

Poured warm,
then left alone

The waiting is most of the work ~

Wax goes in at pouring temperature and is not touched again. It has to fall to room temperature on its own, over hours. Rush it and the top sinks, the sides pull away from the glass, and the candle burns badly for the rest of its life. There is no way to hurry this part, which is why a batch is small.

The white bloom

Frosting is not
a fault

It is how you know it is soy ~

A pale crystal bloom sometimes appears on the surface or against the glass. It is the natural crystal structure of a vegetable wax settling as it cools, and paraffin does not do it. It does not affect the scent, the burn or the life of the candle. We could add hardeners to stop it. We would rather you had the soy.

A candle burning in a glass painted with gold

Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh

Where the scent
comes from

The oldest perfume town in India ~

Kannauj has distilled attar for centuries. Our eight oils come from there, and each carries a Hindi name before it carries an English one — नूर, सुकून, गजरा. The name is the point. The translation is only for convenience.

The things people ask

Before you buy

Which fragrance should I start with?

Tell us the room and the hour. सुकून for the last hour before sleep, गजरा when the house is full, महक for the afternoon. At our stall, smell all eight before you decide.

How long does one burn?

It depends on the vessel, not the wax. Ask us about the specific piece and we will tell you honestly rather than quote a number that suits us.

Is it really soy wax?

Premium soy wax, not paraffin. Poured by hand in small batches in Jaipur and Gurugram.

Can you make something for a wedding or an office?

Yes. Bulk and corporate orders are a large part of what we do. Send us the number, the budget and the date.

Do you deliver outside Gurugram?

Across India, by courier. We confirm the delivery charge on WhatsApp before anything is dispatched.

The range

Every way we know
to hold a flame.

Add what you like to your list, then send the whole thing to us in one WhatsApp message.

Dried rose petals around a lotus urli candle

Candles start at ₹99 at our stalls. The pieces below are the current made-to-order range, delivered across India — we confirm delivery charges on WhatsApp before anything is dispatched.

IN GLASS

Light through the wall of the jar ~

  • Glass Jar₹259
  • Glass Jar, Gold Cap₹259
  • Frosted Jar₹499
  • Bell Jar₹699
  • Champagne Glass₹499

IN METAL AND ART

Vessels you keep long after the wax is gone ~

  • Tin Jar₹399
  • Golden Art Jar₹399
  • Lotus Urli₹399
  • Hammered Urli₹499
  • Urli₹399
  • Premium Aluminium₹399

THE PREMIUM COLLECTION

Made slowly, and few of ~

  • Midnight Prism₹499
  • Azure Relic₹499
  • Celestial Crown₹499
  • Heirloom Bell₹499
  • Jharokha Jar₹999

SHAPED BY HAND

Wax was never required to be a cylinder ~

  • Feather₹129
  • Unicorn₹149
  • Easter₹199
  • Snowflake₹249
  • Pearl Spiral₹249
  • Little Angel₹399

PILLARS AND TAPERS

They burn down into a shape of their own ~

  • Stripped Pillar₹299
  • Melted Glacier₹299
  • Floral Pillar₹399
  • Tapers, a pair₹299

BEYOND WAX

For the corners a candle cannot reach ~

  • Reed DiffuserAsk
  • Wax SachetAsk

Six hours worth lighting one for

The moments,
not the products.

We do not sell wax. We sell the hour that happens around it.

A three-wick Hammered Urli glowing on a candlelit dinner table
A lotus urli burning on a brass tray at night

THE LAST HOUR
BEFORE SLEEP

One wick. Nothing else on ~

सुकून · LAVENDER

A floral pillar candle beside bath oil and warm towels

AN HOUR
IN THE BATH

The door shut. The phone face down ~

पवित्र · SANDALWOOD

A hammered urli candle on a dinner table

A HOUSE FULL
OF PEOPLE

Light three. Let the room do the rest ~

गजरा · JASMINE

A golden art jar candle lit in daylight

FOUR IN THE
AFTERNOON

A candle is not only for the evening ~

महक · LIGHT MUSK

A floral pillar candle held in the hand

THE PILLARS

They burn down into a shape of their own ~

STRIPPED ₹299 · FLORAL ₹399

Two sealed tin candles on gift paper

WRAP A
MEMORY

Have you ever wrapped a memory that lasts a lifetime?

HAMPERS ₹599 – ₹1,499

In our customers' own words

What people say,
when they say it.

Every review on this page is a real message from a real buyer, published with their permission. There are no invented ones.

A Lotus Urli with sea shells, held in a buyer's hand

This page is waiting

Our first reviews go here

We would rather show you nothing than show you something we wrote ourselves. If you have bought from us, send us a line and we will put it up with your name on it.

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The journey so far

From scratch
to stars.

A Chartered Accountant, a pot of soy wax, and a stubborn habit of leaving the workshop to meet the people our candles are for.

Next stall · Club Vita · 17 October 2026 · 3 to 10 PM

The open boot of a hatchback turned into a candle stall, strung with fairy lights

Act 1Scratch

CA by profession.
Artist by heart.

That is what the chalkboard at our stall says, and it is the shortest honest account of how this began. By day, numbers. In the evenings, wax, wicks and fragrance oil, one small batch at a time.

We could have sold from a screen and never met anyone. We chose not to. A candle is only half made when it leaves the pot. The other half happens when someone lifts the lid, breathes in, and tells us what it reminds them of.

Act 2The smallest shop in Gurgaon

From the diary · Sector 31, Gurugram

One hatchback,
parked near Om Sweets.

The raised boot lid strung with fairy lights against the night sky

No counter and no walls. Just a cardboard box still open in the boot and the city switching its lights on behind us.

Then the shelf goes up. Jars on two wooden steps. Boxed candles along the back seats. A small bouquet of tulip candles on either side. Fairy lights looped from the lid, and a chalkboard on a tripod, written by hand.

A momo stall glows next door. People walk past, stop because something in the boot is glowing too, and lean in to smell.

The boot with the packing box still open
Candle jars arranged on a two-step wooden shelf inside the boot
Boxed candles and tulip candle bouquets along the back seats, under fairy lights

What you told us

  • Blue Ocean, again and again. It was the fragrance people asked for more than any other.
  • The evening is when you come. The stall only really woke up after dark.
  • Some scents waited quietly. A few fragrances were smelled, admired and left on the shelf.

What we took home

  • The next pour leans blue. More Blue Ocean, fewer of the quiet ones.
  • We set up for the night. Lights, testers and the best jars saved for the late hours.

Act 3Three days, three nights

From the diary · Sector 66, Gurugram

A real stall,
at a real address.

WhereM3M International Financial Centre, Stall No. 2
When11, 12 and 13 September 2026
HoursFrom noon until late
On the table8 testers, numbered

  1. Morning, day one

    Cartons stacked on bare black tables under an empty canopy

    It began as cartons. Taped shut, stacked on a bare black cloth, under a canopy that did not have our name on it yet.

  2. Late morning

    The stall table half dressed, open cartons behind it and three posters along the front

    Then the tape came off. Every piece in those boxes had been poured by hand in the weeks before, and each one came out of its paper like a small reveal.

  3. Afternoon

    Small shaped candles and reed diffusers on the table, with the plaza behind

    The small shapes went down first. A bell, a boot, a star, a tree, a feather in a red glass holder. The table was still half empty, and behind it the plaza was still waking up.

  4. Dusk

    The Souvenir Affair sign hanging under the canopy, with fairy lights strung beneath it

    The lights went up under the canopy, and our name went up with them.

  5. Night

    The full stall table seen from above: lotus urlis, jars, bell jars and wax sachets

    By night everything was out. Lotus urlis in rows, jars under glass bells, reed diffusers on their wooden steps beside the little bear and the sunflower, wax sachets in their little paper windows.

  6. And then, you

    Children leaning in close to smell the candles

    This is the part we came for. Children leaned in, nose first. Grown-ups lifted a jar, breathed in, and looked at each other. Somebody always said it reminded them of a place. Eight testers stood in a row, numbered, so nobody had to choose a candle from a description.

  7. Three nights later

    87

    candles, sachets and diffusers went home with the people who chose them. The busiest hour of all came after ten at night. We packed the rest back into the same cartons, and drove home with everything you told us.

What you told us

  • The smallest thing won. The wax sachet was added on the first day and went home in nearly half of all bags.
  • Diffusers, please. Reed diffusers sold faster than anything else on the table, most of them in Light Musk, and two more were ordered before we had even packed up.
  • The blue bell jar. Of all the candles on the table, it was the favourite.

What we took home

  • The wax sachet stays. It is now a permanent part of the range.
  • More Light Musk. More reed diffusers for the next stall.

Act 4The stars

The stars were never the stall, or the address, or the number of jars that sold. They are the people who stopped. Every stall ends the same way: the lights come down, the jars go back in their boxes, and we drive home with a notebook full of what you said. The next batch is poured from that notebook.

The next stall

Club Vita · Saturday 17 October 2026 · 3 to 10 PM

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