Welcome to gold + ivy
We believe your home should smell like coming back to yourself at the end of a long day. Scent should elevate your space, support your routines, and make everyday moments feel softer, calmer, and well-lived.
Scent for the Spaces You Actually Use
We create unisex soy candles and room sprays. From coffee tables to nightstands to tiny nooks that need comfort, our scents are designed to settle intentionally and linger gently without harsh, overpowering notes. Our room sprays are concentrated and long-lasting, created for fabrics, linens, and everyday moments when the air needs a quick reset without overpowering chemicals.
Clean Ingredients, Cozy Results
We chose clean ingredients because we don’t want to work, rest, or live around harsh synthetics either.
Our candles are poured with 100% American-grown soy wax and cotton wicks that are always lead-free and zinc-free
Our products are phthalate-free and formulated without paraffin, parabens, mutagens, carcinogens, known hormone or endocrine disruptors, or chemical additives all within IFRA safety standards and never tested on animals.
Clean doesn’t mean boring, or weak — it means scents that feels intentional, cozy and safe.
2016: Making With No Roadmap
I left college in 2016 craving something hands-on again, unsure what would be next for me. That summer, I experimented with every handmade craft my budget could stretch to, working out of a coat closet in my parents’ home and pouring candles in their kitchen. Candles weren’t the plan — they were simply one of many things I was trying to make as I was slightly candle obsessed.
2017: Making It Real
Six months later in 2017, I made it official — registering gold + ivy as a legal business while working random part-time jobs. Markets became my playground for testing scents and designs, learning what connected with people. It was the year I said “let’s try this,” even if I had no idea what I was doing.
2018: The Big Move
In 2018, I moved to Nashville, giving myself six months to see if I could make this full time, all while learning a new city where I knew no one. I set up my first studio space in a spare bedroom at home, mixing pours between part-time jobs. Nashville wasn’t just an address change — it was where I finally proved that gold + ivy could exist beyond experiments + dreams.
2019: Design Shift, Same Name
2019 was when I finally stepped back and realized my design and scent identity needed to grow with me. The early days of gold + ivy lived in clear mason jars, gold + green accents, and cursive script labels, and the brand name itself was born from that first coastal farmhouse look. When I rebranded, I transitioned to a more minimal, modern, unisex style, but kept the name to honor where my story started.
2020: The Year I Thought It Might End
2020 was the year I truly thought the studio might shut down — supplies were scarce, and uncertainty was loud. Then suddenly, everyone was home, craving small comforts and scent moments to brighten their desks, rooms, and routines. Gold + ivy grew quietly, steadily, unexpectedly thriving in a world that needed cozy, intentional fragrance more than ever.
2021: Big Leaps, Bigger Belief
By 2021, the studio had spilled out of the spare room and into every corner of my home. That year, I found the warehouse studio where we still work today, but more importantly, I learned how to hire and work alongside people who started as strangers. Trusting them with the heart and soul of the business felt terrifying at first, like handing someone else something you built with your whole heart, but it became the year I realized you can’t grow alone.
2022–2024: Growing the slow way
The business grew slowly because I research the living shit out of everything before I bring a product or idea into the world. These years were filled with trial pours, supply detours, immense hours of testing, obsessive-level research, and learning how to build a team without losing the heart of what the business started as. Slow never meant unsure — it meant intentional, tested, and steady, because I wanted every new piece to feel intentional, trusted and thoughtful when it finally reached someone’s hands and home.
2025: Our Most Streamlined Chapter
Now we’re finally here — a studio built on small moments, clean fragrance, and handcrafted care. And yes, I still read every message, pour every candle, ship every package. Growth took time, testing took years, but the goal never changed: Make something clean, cozy, and intentional you not only love, but also feel good about breathing in.
2016: Making With No Roadmap
I left college in 2016 craving something hands-on again, unsure what would be next for me. That summer, I experimented with every handmade craft my budget could stretch to, working out of a coat closet in my parents’ home and pouring candles in their kitchen. Candles weren’t the plan — they were simply one of many things I was trying to make as I was slightly candle obsessed.
2017: Making It Real
Six months later in 2017, I made it official — registering gold + ivy as a legal business while working random part-time jobs. Markets became my playground for testing scents and designs, learning what connected with people. It was the year I said “let’s try this,” even if I had no idea what I was doing.
2018: The Big Move
In 2018, I moved to Nashville, giving myself six months to see if I could make this full time, all while learning a new city where I knew no one. I set up my first studio space in a spare bedroom at home, mixing pours between part-time jobs. Nashville wasn’t just an address change — it was where I finally proved that gold + ivy could exist beyond experiments + dreams.
2019: Design Shift, Same Name
2019 was when I finally stepped back and realized my design and scent identity needed to grow with me. The early days of gold + ivy lived in clear mason jars, gold + green accents, and cursive script labels, and the brand name itself was born from that first coastal farmhouse look. When I rebranded, I transitioned to a more minimal, modern, unisex style, but kept the name to honor where my story started.
2020: The Year I Thought It Might End
2020 was the year I truly thought the studio might shut down — supplies were scarce, and uncertainty was loud. Then suddenly, everyone was home, craving small comforts and scent moments to brighten their desks, rooms, and routines. Gold + ivy grew quietly, steadily, unexpectedly thriving in a world that needed cozy, intentional fragrance more than ever.
2021: Big Leaps, Bigger Belief
By 2021, the studio had spilled out of the spare room and into every corner of my home. That year, I found the warehouse studio where we still work today, but more importantly, I learned how to hire and work alongside people who started as strangers. Trusting them with the heart and soul of the business felt terrifying at first, like handing someone else something you built with your whole heart, but it became the year I realized you can’t grow alone.
2022–2024: Growing the slow way
The business grew slowly because I research the living shit out of everything before I bring a product or idea into the world. These years were filled with trial pours, supply detours, immense hours of testing, obsessive-level research, and learning how to build a team without losing the heart of what the business started as. Slow never meant unsure — it meant intentional, tested, and steady, because I wanted every new piece to feel intentional, trusted and thoughtful when it finally reached someone’s hands and home.
2025: Our Most Streamlined Chapter
Now we’re finally here — a studio built on small moments, clean fragrance, and handcrafted care. And yes, I still read every message, pour every candle, ship every package. Growth took time, testing took years, but the goal never changed: Make something clean, cozy, and intentional you not only love, but also feel good about breathing in.