Virginia Appalachian Candles
Autumn Laurel is a small-batch candle and home fragrance brand rooted in the Blue Ridge, Appalachian Highlands, and Colonial heritage of Virginia. Each candle is hand-poured in Christiansburg, Virginia, in the heart of the New River Valley, using a clean-burning apricot coconut wax blend chosen for both beauty and performance.
Our scents are inspired by the landscapes, seasons, and traditions that have shaped this region for generations, from Southwest Virginia through the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and into the hills of East Tennessee. Misty mountain mornings, woodland herbs, warm hearth fires, orchard fruit, and spiced gatherings all find their way into our fragrance stories.
We proudly serve customers across Southwest Virginia, the Roanoke Valley, the North Carolina foothills, and East Tennessee, including Blacksburg, Radford, Roanoke, Floyd, Galax, Hillsville, Wytheville, Abingdon, Mount Airy, Bristol, and surrounding mountain communities. Autumn Laurel products are available through local markets, pop-ups, and online ordering.
As a regional maker, we believe in small-batch craftsmanship, thoughtful sourcing, and honoring both Appalachian and Colonial traditions while creating something meant to be lived with today. Our candles are designed to slow you down, invite memory, and bring warmth and meaning into everyday life.
Whether you are searching for handmade candles in the New River Valley, Appalachian-inspired home fragrance, or a Virginia-based brand serving the wider Blue Ridge and Appalachian region, Autumn Laurel invites you to discover scent with a story.
What Makes Us Unique
🌿 Earth + Mindful Craft
Every Autumn Laurel product begins with earth, using ingredients drawn from nature, chosen with care, and transformed with intention.
We believe that craftsmanship is a mindful practice, slow, steady, and rooted in respect for what’s real.
Our scrubs, soaps, and candles are poured, whipped, and blended by hand in small batches. They are never rushed or mass produced. Each piece carries the quiet mark of the maker and the story of the mountains that inspired it.
This is more than self-care. It’s a return to craft, to simplicity, and to honoring the beauty found in doing things by hand.
🕯 Heritage Aesthetic
Our style draws from the soulful textures of Appalachian life, worn wood, linen light, and the warmth of a candle at dusk.
We believe beauty lives in the details: the curve of a jar, the story on a label, the balance between tradition and modern design.
Each collection is steeped in history and reimagined for today’s homes, moody, grounded, and quietly refined.
Autumn Laurel exists where heritage meets modern stillness.
🏔 Appalachian Roots
The Blue Ridge runs through everything we make. It is our muse, our backdrop, and our reminder to slow down.
We honor the mountain way of living, resourceful, soulful, and connected to land and season.
Every scent, story, and design carries a piece of that landscape: the morning fog, the woodsmoke, the hush of an old trail.
Autumn Laurel is a love letter to the region that called us home.
💫 Intentional Living
We believe self-care should be simple, soulful, and grounded in presence.
Lighting a candle, drawing a bath, or taking a quiet breath are not indulgences, but small rituals that steady us.
Our products invite you to pause, to reconnect with what matters, and to create moments of peace amid the noise.
Find stillness. Embrace the season. Light with intention.
