HMB CANDLES

lovingly designed
with memory in mind

Welcome to HMB Candles
A memory-inspired home fragrance brand rooted in storytelling, science, and the power of scent.

Inspired by scent science and the memories that shape us, HMB Candles creates personalized fragrance experiences that invite people to explore scent with intention, create a signature fragrance uniquely their own, and transform meaningful memories into custom home fragrance, with every Fragrance Flight supporting the fight against Alzheimer's.

What is a Hummingbird
Fragrance Flight?

The Hummingbird Fragrance Flight is a first-of-its-kind personalized fragrance experience inspired by moments, moods, and memories.

Thoughtfully designed with scent science in mind, each Flight invites you to slow down, explore fragrance with intention, and create something uniquely your own.

Begin by selecting scents you love, especially the ones tied to meaningful memories, then explore custom blends by melting different fragrances together at home.

As you experiment, you are engaging in olfactory enrichment, a gentle sensory exercise known to spark memory, emotion, and connection through scent.

Once you discover a blend that feels just right, send your custom formula our way and we will hand-pour your signature scent into a flameless candle or wax melts to enjoy at home or gift to someone you love. Your story, told through scent.

experience scent
in a more mindful way

Not sure where to start? Our Fragrance Finder helps recommend memory-inspired scents for yourself or someone special.

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Find Your Fragrances

how it works

Explore Scents

Start by experiencing each fragrance on its own by placing one large melt in a blending tin under your warming lamp. What does each scent bring to mind? How will you blend these scents to create your own custom signature scent?

Play with Blends

Remove the large melts from your tins and place two different smaller melts under your warming lamp. Love this combination? Mark it down on your blend card! There are no wrong answers so have fun mixing and matching until you discover your favorite.

Your Signature

Once you’ve discovered a custom blend that you love, share it with us using the qr code on your my blend card, and we will hand-pour your choice of a flameless candle or wax melts with your unique signature scent! (Don't forget this part - it's included with your Fragrance Flight!)

A warming lamp is required to melt fragrances. view lamps

what's included

Three beautiful fragrances poured into three large and fifteen blending melts will serve as the heart of your custom signature scent.

Five additional blending melts complement your heart scents for mixing and layering

Three aluminum blending tins for experimenting with blends

One candle vessel - choice of cement or recycled glass

One note card and personalized pencil for documenting your custom blends

One custom flameless candle poured with your signature fragrance formula (shipped separately)

All beautifully packaged using eco-friendly materials.

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CANDLE WARMING LAMP NOT INCLUDED

All of our products are flameless, so a warming lamp is essential to enjoy your Hummingbird Fragrance Flight, wax melts or flameless candles.

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faq

All-Natural
Custom Wax Blend

High Quality
Fragrance Oils

Hand-Crafted
& Made to Order

Eco-Friendly
Packaging

100%
Made in the USA

Portion of
Proceeds Donated

Scents that are Safe
for you and your family

phthalate-free • vegan • cruelty-free

Ingredients matter. That’s why we only use fragrance oils that are not only 100% phthalate-free, but also vegan and cruelty-free, so you can enjoy scent without compromise.

Clean, consciously crafted, and safe for the spaces you love.

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'my memory loves you,
it asks about you all the time.'

- j. carroll

Your Sense of Smell is
more powerful than you think.

Smell isn’t just a sense.
It’s the gateway to memory, emotion and brain health.

Studies have found that engaging in regular olfactory enrichment can enhance memory, improve attention, and even reshape the parts of your brain linked to emotion and learning.

Hummingbird Fragrance Flights were inspired by this research and we are sharing what we have learned with you so you can be inspired too.

the journal

$5 from every Fragrance Flight

donated to the Alzheimer’s Association

The Hummingbird Fragrance Flight was created out of a love for preserving life’s fleeting moments and the joy that comes from sharing the memory of those moments with the ones that we love.

Today, nearly 1-in-5 older adults live with some form of memory loss, making it difficult to revisit the moments that once brought them light, laughter and connection.

That’s why we have committed to donating $5 from every HMB Fragrance Flight to the Alzheimer’s Association to support groundbreaking research and compassionate care for families touched by memory loss.

Thank you for helping us bring the gift of memory home through beautiful scents and meaningful impact.

The Gift of Memories
wrapped in fragrance.

We are all memory-keepers in our own ways.

Some of us safeguarding family albums filled with fading photographs, others finding nostalgia in the passed down furniture or trinkets that fill our homes.

A personalized Hummingbird Fragrance Flight is a one-of-a-kind gift that softly whispers:

I remember, and I always will.

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a flight inspired by

my grandmother

Esker Point (ocean breeze)
Clyde’s Cider Mill (macintosh apple)
Camping at Burlingame (campfire s’mores)

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a flight inspired by

my grandfather

Campin' & Pishin' (oak moss & amber)
Campfire Stories (campfire marshmallow)
Hiking Trails (fallen leaves)

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a flight inspired by

salty breezes

Bonnet Shores (coastal cottage)
Misquamicut (ocean breeze)
Captiva (jamaican me crazy)

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a flight inspired by

spooky season

Trick-or-Treat (sweet vanilla caramel)
Bobbing for Apples (apple harvest)
Sweet Treats (pumpkin spice buttercream)

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a flight inspired by

holiday traditions

Christmas Trees (fraser fir)
Gingerbread People (hansel & gretel's)
Christmas Cookies (creme brulee)

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a flight inspired by

grandma's kitchen

Grandma's Applesauce (mcintosh apples)
Breton Banana Bread (banana bread)
Solo Sleepovers (maple walnut pancakes)

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a flight inspired by

spring

Grandma's Daffodils (flowering fields)
Lilacs on Ashby St. (french lilac)
Roger Williams Park (fresh cut grass)

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Explore Scents

Play with Blends

Your Signature