Oh, I love love love this place!!! I have been buying candles from Handorf Candlemaker for years, and have always been super-pleased with my purchases. This is a successful family business, and they are always friendly and helpful. The candles themselves are the highest quality I have ever tried — they are non toxic, and the scents are gorgeous and subtle. The candles burn in such a way that they create beautiful patterns out of the wax, so when the candle is finished you have an interesting wax sculpture — bonus! Candles are available in many sizes with different burning times — they are great value for money. In the last few years they have expanded their range to include imported German folk art — not really my thing, but definitely original and interesting! They also sell a lot of beautiful candle holders and lanterns.
Brad J.
Place rating: 3 Adelaide, Australia
I’m hardly a candle enthusiast. My only real need for candles occurs when two annoying things coincide — blackouts and dead torch batteries. That’s about it. I understand all that romantic stuff, but as much as my wife might like me to be that romantic type of dude, it’s just not me. They’ve got some cool gift ideas, though. I think that’s the reason why I go into this place. There’s always something cool to look at. I did a very small amount of xmas shopping there this year, and the gifts were well received, so I’ll probably do the same next year. Not bad, but definitely a niche store.
Rebecca F.
Place rating: 3 Australia
This is an interesting candle shop, with all sorts of weird and wonderful creations. The scented candle range includes a candle that’s supposed to help rejuvenate you, but I opted for a little Algerian cheery scented candle that can burn for 30 hours. I could’ve got a bigger candle but I’m not a die-hard candle user. MORETHANJUSTCANDLES It also features German folk art and traditional wooden toys. Kids will love the cute wooden teddy bear and rabbit range. The miniatures range of tiny little characters in matchbox scenes are particularly cute, and I bought a friend a wedding scene matchbox for her big day.
Elissa L.
Place rating: 4 South Australia, Australia
I really like this store, it’s aesthetically pleasing with a very Moroccan mystical vibe and it smells pretty enchanting too. One side of the shop has a wall dedicated to different scented and sized candles which are priced by the amount of hours they burn for. It isn’t cheap but there are scents here that you wont find cheaper anywhere else, like Greentea, Lemongrass and their Christmas Spice which smells kinda churchy. There are outdoor candles available too which are designed to keep the bugs away. The Hahndorf Candlemaker also stocks a range of candle holders such as lanterns, plate stands and candelabras so you can display your new waxen purchases. on the other side of the shop you can find a whole range of wooden folk art gifts which are all imported from Germany. They’re really quite cute, especially the music boxes and you can get folk art candle holders too.