Rustic Candle Company

Was buying my candles on line and spending a fortune. Discovered Rustic Candle walking my dog and Emanuel, who assisted, did a stellar job in directing me towards some great purchases. Home made and obviously local along with incredibly low prices for excellent workmanship so had a great day finding this venue. A little bit like out of a Harry Potter movie as well. Sadly, they don’t sell wands!

This place was a pleasant surprise! My dad came down to visit from Phoenix for a day so we spent some time walking around downtown and 4^th and came across this little shop. We could smell candles just by walking close to it, and being a candle lover that I am, I knew I needed to stop to take a look. I had so much fun looking around and smelling all the candles. The shop was unique and super cute. The candles themselves have AMAZING throw. I will always go back to Rustic Candles when I need some pillar candles. I had such an awesome experience.

We love shopping on 4^th Ave. and Rustic Candle is one of our favorite stops. In fact, I don’t ever remember shopping on 4^th Ave. without making a purchase there.
They have a great selection of candles and other items with some very unique décor items. I frequently buy votives, incense and drip candles at Rustic Candle.
The prices are also very reasonable so you won’t break the bank shopping for all your candle needs!

Rustic Candles are great, but you have to be here in Tucson to buy them at the store on 4^th. It seems they are impossible to order.
I stopped in on July 25^th, a Sunday. The women working was nice. I let her know I wanted to place a custom order. I wanted candles for wedding favors. The wedding was for the end of October. She said it sounded great, but I needed to talk to the owner who would be in the shop that Wednesday. It sounded reasonable.
She took my phone number and info on a sheet of paper. I waited for a call, but didn’t receive one. I called the store, in the afternoon during business hours, about a week and a half later. I gave the person who answered the phone all my information again. It sounded like it was being written down. I was told for a second time that I needed to talk to the owner. This was my second attempt to place an order.
People go on vacation in the summer in Tucson, so I wasn’t super concerned. Well, I was a little concerned. At this point the wedding was only three months away and the favors needed to be ordered.
I tried for a third and last time to place an order. This time I used the Internet. I found an email address online and took the time to write a short but detailed email. I waited two weeks and it was never answered. My original visit to the store, my phone call, and my email never got a response.
I wanted to order normal/​medium sized pillar candles (not votives) for about 150 people. This small store doesn’t have that many candles in stock on the shelf, so a custom order was necessary. I didn’t want scented candles and I would have liked to have incorporated my wedding colors. It would have been a nice order.
I ended up doing something totally different that worked out very well. However, it is still frustrating that I was ignored.
Last week, I met a woman who loves Rustic Candles. She has moved from Arizona to California. She tried to order candles online and never received the candles. Her order was a regular order not a large one.
I recommend the cute store on 4^th Ave if you find what you are looking for in person. I would not recommend trying to order anything custom.

Mo could run this place out of a cardboard box and I would still show up. I am glad that the Streetcar didn’t destroy this business. What a fantastic local spot and the selection is immense. The quality of her candles and other crafts is second to none.

How can you not fall in love with a little boutique candle shop like this! Friendly & helpful staff, great selection, and you can tell a lot of the items are made right there in the back of the store. Perfect for that one of a kind unique gift. It’s a small space, so watch where you step, and sometimes parking can be catch as catch can, but I usually combine this stop with a drink at the sandwich place next door, or the bar on the corner. Whenever I’m in town I have to stop in.

The only candle shop IMO. The owner single handedly keeps this beautiful little shop stocked with hand made candles of some exciting scents. Some favorites of mine are lemongrass, cranberry, boyfriend’s jacket, pumpkin pie, and eucalyptus. Expect to find new varieties near holidays, including Valentines day. You can even bring in your leftover candle wax from burned out candles to be recycled here and you get a discount towards your next purchase. Horray recycling! Horray local business!

If you are looking for high quality candles for a great price, this is the place to go. The employees are super friendly, and the music always adds a great vibe to the environment. I would give them 100 stars if I could! Love Rustic Candle!

Awesome prices for awesome candles!

I wish I had unlimited money, because I would buy everything in this store and then I would wait until they got more stock, and buy some more. They make their candles onsite in the very back. Over the years I’ve purchased many of their candles and right now I’m working on a collection of star shaped candles in various sizes for myself as decoration. When I bring my items to the counter I’m always greeted with appreciation and my candles/​glass are always wrapped carefully. I love so many of their candle scents (which I call flavors). Right now I’m head over heels for «Rain,» «Desert Sage,» and «Dragon’s Blood.» Rustic Candle has so many candle holders, and I want to own them all, but some of my favorites have always been the stoneware holders/​plates with vibrant colors.
The only downside is that the perfume smell inside this tiny shop can be overwhelming at times. It’s a beautiful smell, but man is it potent! Lots of respect for this locally owned and operated candle store.

I love this little place on Fourth. The smell that greets you when you enter is heavenly. The candles, as has been said before, are made on site. You can even peek at the little workroom in the back– it’s tiny! The prices are amazing considering that these are handmade, local and truly unique candles. Come on, a medium candle for 7.95 is such a deal! They have wonderful scents such as Mexican Vanilla and Nag Champa but also other quirky scents such as dirt and grass. The dirt candle smells like earth post-​rain!
Rustic recently started trying out stenciling their candles, available on one scent when I was there; I hope they continue this because the stenciled candles look so cute.
I also have to comment on the shop itself-​it is dark, moody, and has a very «gothic» feel to it. Amazing atmosphere!
Great quality candles, great prices, and local-​what else could one ask for?

This Shop is on fiiiiiire! Seriously, this place is insanely awesome and so is the owner Monica. Rustic Candle Company has been making hand-​crafted candles for 10 years and thriving! Candles of every shape, size, color and scent are made on the premises. Shocking, right? It’s such a tiny little shop with an enormous selection and soooo much to look through. Monica is as sweet as pie and gladly helped me pick out some holiday candles and also showed me her work space. It’s impressive that she can make so much product and high quality in her little workshop.
I think that candles make for great gifts and there’s no better place to shop locally for a candle, or candle holders, wall sconses, votives, trays and more than at this charming store with old world craftsmanship… literally :)
And as if this place couldn’t get any cooler, you can also drop off your candle «leftovers» and Monica will recycle them into a brand new candle! There’s an entire shelf dedicated to the recycled product. You’ll find anything from multi-​colored to glittery candles in this section! Plus, you can receive $ 0.50 per pound of wax in store credit and put it towards your next purchase. But please be mindful and don’t drop off old candles/​wax that have been sitting outside and have dirt and bugs in the mix.
I can’t wait to light my lime-​vanilla candles! Next purchase will be Cranberry-​Pomegranate and Mexican-​Vanilla candles.
As Eric G Unilocal: «Hoorah for local business!»

This is by far my favorite candle shop!
I love how they make some of their own candles and because of that when you walk in it smells wonderful! Even when you walk out of their the smell stays with you and I love that!
Weirdly my 5 year old even loves going in there!
The women I have seen in there are very friendly and helpful!

This is a great little candle shop that we stop by when we’re in Tucson. I particularly recommend the roundish candles on the back wall (bottom left, the last time we were in) for sconces. They have an indent where the candle fits over the little «spike» on the sconce, and they burn well without much leftover wax.
Rustic Candle also has a decent selection of non-​paraffin candles, plus a ton of cool candle accessories.

What a great place to find and buy candles! As I was talking to Shannon who works there. She told me that the owner makes all the candles herself, and its all done in the back of the shop!
I enjoying going there and smelling all the different kinds of candles!

Very nice handles that are high in quality, at least from what I could tell. They had some crazy rustic candle holders on the wall. Service was non-​existent, we walked in to two employees behind the counter and no one said anything to us. We looked around for awhile and I was amazed by the selection of candles and oils in the store. This is definitely the right place to stop if you need to buy a gift for someone who likes candles. Or it seems like candles are the right gift if you don’t know what the heck to get someone or are lazy in your gift giving. Either way, this place holds true to its name.

Hoorah for local business! Get your candles here knowing that they were made as locally as possible – in the back of the store. Scents available for all tastes, err, noses. And boy do they smell good! And that smell will last and last.
Yeah, the prices are higher than at other places, but again, this is a small, LOCAL business. I’d rather give them a little extra if it keeps shops like this around. And really, the candles seem to last longer than those you’d get from some box store.
All sorts of other candle-​related items available as well.
4^th Ave scores again!

Super cool owner, super cool inside, super cool candles, this place is on fire!
I like that they make the candles in the back, makes the whole experience feel just that much more local. I like that the owner really enjoys her work, because boy does that show… er uh smell. There are a crazy ton of candles of all different shapes, sizes and scents. Even better, there are really cool metal and rustic candle holders. The wall sconces might seem a little out of sight for those that are vertically challenged, so look up! There a ton to see there and you’ll want to make sure you have enough time to get through everything.

I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area. The Rustic Candle Company is a unique find in Tucson ~ and reminds me of a shop that you’d find in the Haight-​Ashbury in San Francisco. I love this place!

This place is awesome! They make their candles right there and they are very unique and high quality. They also have candles from other manufacturers. They are friendly too. Check it out!