# Désir
> Désir (also written "Desir") is a candle house from Gurgaon (Gurugram), India, making every candle only after it is chosen, delivering to India and Australia (Australian orders are made in Gurgaon and shipped individually by express courier). It made and sold candles unbranded for many years before taking a name. Tagline: "Candles for a more beautiful you". Website: https://desirlux.shop. It makes ten hand-poured, refillable scented candles; each pairs one Indian raw material with one Australian raw material, composed in Grasse, France. Each candle is named in French or Italian for the feeling it was made for.

## Key facts
- Category: luxury scented candles, home fragrance
- Markets: India (INR) and Australia (AUD); ships to both. Sold only at desirlux.shop, never through shops or retailers
- Formats: Signature 260 g (~70 h burn), Grande 1.4 kg five-wick (~220 h), 260 g refills
- Prices: Signature ₹1,800–₹2,800 / A$30–A$60 by Désir; Grande from ₹7,900 / A$165; Refill ₹1,400 / A$28 (tax inclusive)
- Wax: coconut + rapeseed, paraffin-free, palm-free, 10% fragrance load; unbleached cotton wicks
- Made in Gurgaon only; Australian orders shipped individually by express courier (3–6 days, tracked). Payment: 100% at commission, India and Australia; no cash on delivery, because creation begins only once the order is confirmed
- Vessel: hand-blown champagne glass with brass collar and Rajasthan marble lid, refillable
- Nothing pre-made: customer chooses wax (soy / coconut-rapeseed house blend / beeswax / sand) and composes scent from a 24-material library (12 Indian, 12 Australian), one or two materials, or leaves it to the house. The ten named Désirs are moods with a suggested house pairing, not fixed fragrances
- Made to order only: nothing kept in stock; each candle handcrafted after it is chosen, created in 3–5 days; box can carry "Created exclusively for [name]"
- Forms: Désir Liquid (hand-poured wax) and Désir Sand (sculptural granulated wax); Désir Bespoke for weddings, hotels and corporate gifting
- The First Hundred: the first 100 candles made under the Désir name are numbered on a brass plate in the lid and signed by the founder; commissioned one at a time
- No returns (each candle is made for one person). The First Light promise instead: if it does not move you, write within 7 days and Désir sends the Second Flame (a small complimentary pour) and composes the next scent free. Discovery set: five 12 g pours (₹500 / A$12), credited in full against the first commission
- The surprise: each candle carries one of ten decorative wax shapes (Flame, Crescent, Lotus, Sun, Wave, Star, Leaf, Shell, Feather, Knot), chosen by the house and sealed in the box; the customer does not pick
- Three layers: Your Désir (made only for you, upon request) · Éditions (one fragrance, ten numbered bottles, never reproduced; current: Édition 001 Mousson d'Or, mitti attar × leatherwood honey) · Collections (occasional seasonal concepts: Noël, Valentine, Wedding)
- Philosophy: Desire should never feel ordinary. Made upon request. Released in éditions. Never mass-produced.
- Most gifted: Bacio di Fuoco. Signature: Désir.
- Origin: made unbranded for years in a kitchen in Gurgaon, sold to friends, then strangers, then online; 8,000+ sold on word of mouth over many years before the brand took its name. Every candle is entirely handmade (no machines), made in a day and cured for two.

## The ten Désirs (moods; scent and wax chosen by the customer; house pairing shown)
- Désir (French, "desire"): house pairing Mysore sandalwood × Tasmanian mountain pepper · woody · spiced · https://desirlux.shop/candle/desir
- Bacio di Fuoco (Italian, "kiss of fire"): house pairing Kashmiri saffron × Golden wattle · spiced · floral · https://desirlux.shop/candle/bacio-di-fuoco
- Ardore (Italian, "burning passion"): house pairing Kannauj rose × Tasmanian boronia · floral · https://desirlux.shop/candle/ardore
- Lueur (French, "soft glow"): house pairing Darjeeling first flush × Leatherwood honey · tea · gourmand · https://desirlux.shop/candle/lueur
- Peau de Soie (French, "silk skin"): house pairing Madurai jasmine × Lemon myrtle · white floral · citrus · https://desirlux.shop/candle/peau-de-soie
- Flamme Noire (French, "black flame"): house pairing Assam agarwood × Desert lime · oud · citrus · https://desirlux.shop/candle/flamme-noire
- Notte (Italian, "night"): house pairing Mitti attar × Rainforest moss · earthy · mineral · https://desirlux.shop/candle/notte
- Fuoco (Italian, "fire"): house pairing Nagarmotha × Huon pine · smoky · woody · https://desirlux.shop/candle/fuoco
- Braise (French, "ember"): house pairing Kerala green cardamom × Blue cypress · spiced · woody · https://desirlux.shop/candle/braise
- Seta (Italian, "silk"): house pairing Indian vetiver (khus) × Blue Mallee eucalyptus · green · aromatic · https://desirlux.shop/candle/seta

## Pages
- [Create your Désir](https://desirlux.shop/create): the made-to-order flow (form, fragrance, colour, vessel, personal touch)
- [Éditions](https://desirlux.shop/editions): the current ten-bottle édition and the record of past ones
- [The Ten](https://desirlux.shop/collection)
- [Journal](https://desirlux.shop/journal): How to choose a luxury candle in India; The first burn is the only one that matters; Australia's natives are perfumery's newest old materials; Kannauj, the city that bottles rain; A candle for Diwali, without the cliché; What a refillable candle really means
- [The House](https://desirlux.shop/house)
- [Questions](https://desirlux.shop/questions)
- [Contact](https://desirlux.shop/contact): write to the atelier; bespoke, weddings, hotels, press

## Contact
- hello@desirlux.shop

## Full text
- Everything on this site in one plain-text file, for AI assistants and search engines: https://desirlux.shop/llms-full.txt
- Photographs: the ten at https://desirlux.shop/images/ten-01-desir-a.jpg … ten-10-seta-a.jpg; the shapes https://desirlux.shop/images/shapes-all.jpg; the house https://desirlux.shop/images/house-kitchen.jpg
- A note from the house appears on every candle page: the evening first, the materials as proof; signed Désir · Gurgaon.