Candle Performance Testing & Validation

Starting at $300

Beautiful Fragrance. Exceptional Performance.

Creating a beautiful fragrance is only the beginning. Ensuring that it performs safely, consistently, and beautifully in a finished candle is where experience, craftsmanship, and careful testing come together.

At Walston Ridge Candles, we believe every candle should be as thoughtfully tested as it is created.

Our Candle Performance Testing & Validation service is designed to evaluate your selected fragrance in your chosen candle vessel before moving into production. Each fragrance and vessel combination is individually tested to achieve the best possible balance of fragrance performance, burn quality, and safety.

What's Included

Your $300 performance testing investment includes:

• Fragrance & Vessel Evaluation: Assessment of your selected fragrance, wax formulation, and candle vessel.

• Professional Wick Selection: Selection and adjustment of wick types and sizes to achieve optimal performance.

• Test Candle Preparation: Pouring and curing of test candles under controlled conditions.

• Comprehensive Burn Testing: Repeated burn cycles to evaluate the candle throughout its usable life.

• Fragrance Performance: Evaluation of hot throw and overall fragrance performance.

• Burn Quality & Safety: Monitoring of flame behavior, melt pool development, soot, and vessel temperatures.

• Performance Documentation: Recording observations, results, and any necessary adjustments.

• Final Formulation Approval: Production recommendations once the candle meets our performance and safety standards.

Why Is Testing Necessary?

Every fragrance behaves differently when introduced into candle wax. Even when using a vessel and wick combination that has performed successfully in the past, a new fragrance can affect the way a candle burns.

Our testing process helps ensure that each fragrance and vessel combination receives the individual attention it deserves.

Additional Vessels

Performance testing begins at $300 for one selected fragrance in one candle vessel.

Additional vessel styles or sizes are quoted separately based on their individual testing requirements.

What Happens If a Fragrance Doesn't Perform Successfully?

While we make every effort to achieve a successful candle formulation, not every fragrance will perform satisfactorily in every vessel or wax combination.

If a selected fragrance cannot meet our performance and safety standards, we'll discuss available alternatives, which may include selecting another fragrance concept, modifying the formulation, or exploring a different vessel.

A new fragrance selection or significant formulation change may require a separate round of performance testing and additional fees.

Important Information

• Performance testing is a separate service from Custom Signature Fragrance Development.

• Testing fees cover the professional evaluation, materials, and development work performed and do not guarantee successful production approval.

• Each new fragrance and vessel combination requires individual validation.

• Additional fragrance development, product applications, and finished-product manufacturing are quoted separately.

• Custom candle production requires a minimum order of 24 candles per fragrance and vessel style.

• Testing fees are nonrefundable once testing begins.

Quality Is Never an Afterthought.

Our commitment is simple: to create candles that not only smell beautiful but are carefully developed, thoroughly evaluated, and crafted with attention to every detail.

Light a path, ignite a story.

Before You Purchase

We recommend contacting Walston Ridge Candles before purchasing this service to discuss your project, fragrance preferences, and product requirements.

Following your purchase, we will contact you to review your project details and provide our Development & Testing Agreement for approval.

Development or testing will begin once the project scope has been confirmed and the agreement has been signed.

Please note that this purchase covers the service described above. Finished products, additional services, and production are priced separately.