Lumière: Turning a Wedding Candle Project into a Luxury Home Fragrance Brand

StartUp Magazine | 11.11.2026 09:45
Lumière: Turning a Wedding Candle Project into a Luxury Home Fragrance Brand. Some businesses begin with a detailed market plan, while others emerge from a personal experience that reveals an unexpected passion. Lumière belongs to the latter category. The Cape Town candle brand began when its founder started creating candles for their own wedding. What was initially a meaningful personal project gradually became something much bigger: a desire to build a luxury candle brand and share the experience of beautiful fragrances with homes across South Africa.