Honolulu, Hawaii · Est. 2021
Slow-poured fragrance,
made by hand on South Street.
Marc R. Butler is a one-room studio above downtown Honolulu where we pour coconut-wax candles, blend reed diffusers, and cure cold-process soaps in batches of forty-eight. No shortcuts, no synthetic dyes, no rushed cures.
- 48
- candles per batch
- 14 days
- cure time
- 100%
- coconut-apricot wax
Hand-poured in Honolulu
Coconut-apricot wax
Lead-free cotton wicks
No phthalates · No parabens
The shelf
Three quiet collections, made well.
Everything we make starts on a small wooden bench, with two pots, a thermometer and a stack of glass. We keep the range short on purpose.
Made by hand
A studio on the second floor of a quiet building.
Felipe Kinjo Zialcita started Marc R. Butler in 2021 after a decade of pouring candles as a weekend habit. The studio is still small on purpose — two pouring tables, one curing room, and a wall of dried plumeria, pikake, ti leaf and kukui that doubles as scent reference.
Every order is poured, labeled and packed by the same two pairs of hands. When we run out, we run out. We would rather make less than make it badly.
Read the long version →How we make it
Four slow steps, repeated for every batch.
01
Source
Wax from a family supplier in the Philippines. Fragrance oils from a perfumer's bench in Oregon. Glass from a co-op in Oakland.
02
Blend
Coconut and apricot wax melted to 185°F, fragrance folded in by hand and stirred for a full eight minutes.
03
Pour
Forty-eight jars per batch, all poured within nine minutes of each other so the wax sets together.
04
Cure
Two weeks on the curing rack before a wick trim, a final inspection, and a hand-tied label.
Kind words
From the people who keep us pouring.
“The Kona Coffee & Tobacco candle has been on my desk for six months. It smells like my grandfather's lanai. That is the highest compliment I know how to give.”
“I have a sensitive nose and most candles give me a headache. Yours fills the whole apartment and I never notice anything other than the scent itself. Clean burn, clean smoke.”
“Bought the Laulima soap as a wedding favor for our guests. Six months later, three of them have written to ask where to buy more. I told them you make it forty-eight at a time.”
Come visit the studio, or write a note.
We are not a storefront, but we love showing people around when we can. Send a line and we will reply the same week — usually the same day.