New
Black Coral & Moss
Top: Marine, Camphor, Pineapple. Middle: Lavender, Bamboo. Base: Dark Musk, Vetiver, Amber, Cedar
$24.99
8 oz
Our Story
Born from a house
that always
smelled like home.
TicaScents started in 2019 in a small kitchen in San José. Founder Valeria Montoya was tired of candles that smelled like synthetic approximations of places they'd never been. She wanted cedar that smelled like actual cedarwood. Rain that carried actual petrichor.
Today we operate from a converted coffee warehouse in Alajuela, with a team of five — and the same obsessive commitment to fragrance that started in that kitchen.
01
Sourced locally
Every botanical ingredient we use grows within 80 kilometers of our studio in Alajuela. We partner directly with three family-owned farms.
02
Poured by hand
No machines. Each candle is poured in batches of 24, cooled slowly, and trimmed by the same pair of hands that measured the wax.
03
Carbon balanced
For every candle shipped, we fund the planting of one native tree in the Osa Peninsula through our partnership with Renacer Forestal.