Custom Manufacturing

Create a scent that tells your story. At Lyttelton Lights, we specialise in crafting custom fragrances and branded candles that elevate your brand experience. Whether you’re looking to develop a signature scent, offer a luxurious corporate gift, or create an exclusive retail product, we bring your vision to life with the finest craftsmanship.

From concept to completion, we manage every detail in-house at our Christchurch HQ, ensuring the highest quality and attention to detail. Our services include:

Fragrance Development - Work with us to create a bespoke scent that embodies your brand, or select from our refined fragrance library. We have worked closely with our fragrance house in Australia for years, and have the knowledge and expertise to help you select the perfect fragrance for you.

Custom Vessel & Packaging - Elevate your candle with tailored jar designs and premium packaging solutions. Or, for a more cost effective solution, we can use our packaging with your logo and brand/company name added to the design.

Sourcing & Production - We handle the entire process, from sourcing materials to hand-pouring each candle with care.

End-to-End Project Management – Our expert team guides you through every stage, ensuring a seamless experience.

Whether you’re a boutique brand, corporate business, or hospitality group, we collaborate with both local and international partners to craft candles that leave a lasting impression.

Let’s create something exceptional together. Get in touch to start your custom candle journey, or view our recent projects below.

Scent marketing, or fragrance marketing uses unique and strategically developed scents to create an emotional connection between customers and brands. It is an extremely influential and efficient marketing tool with many benefits recognised by major global brands such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Sofitel Resorts or Cathay Pacific just to name a few.

The human sense of smell is the closest linked sense to memory. In contrast to our other senses, smell is immediately and directly processed in the brain. Humans can distinguish up to 10.000 different smells and remember a certain scent to 65% accuracy after a whole year, compared to the sense of vision with only  50% accuracy after just 3 months.

• Memory: 

Research has shown that scent can create a long lasting and memorable customer experience with a 65% accuracy after a whole year, compared to just 50% accuracy after only 3 months of a visual experience.

• Influence Behaviour: 

Scent branding has the power to influence customers brand perception, shopping behaviour and memory almost instantaneously.

• Increase Sales:

Research has shown that scent can trigger emotional responses that lead to higher spending and impulse purchasing

• Increase Brand & Product Perception: 

Strengthens brand identity by establishing an emotional connection between brand and products and customers.

• Increase Dwell Time: 

Pleasant scents can enhance a customer's dwell time and therewith increase the chances of a purchase.

• Unique Customer Experience: 

Carefully developed brand scents can create a unique brand experience which customers will associate directly and uniquely with the brand and their experience for long beyond the experience.

New Zealand skincare and supplement brand Jeuneora is renowned for its innovative products and loyal customers. One of their bestsellers, the GoNightly Overnight Repair Cream, has earned over 1,000 five-star reviews - and one thing their customers love, aside from the benefits, is its signature, patent-pending fragrance.

To extend this beloved scent beyond skincare, Jeuneora partnered with Lyttelton Lights to create a luxurious, limited-edition candle - a seamless complement to the GoNightly experience. The result? A beautifully crafted candle that captures the soothing essence of their signature fragrance, designed to transform any space into a tranquil retreat.

This collaboration is a testament to the power of scent in deepening brand connection and enhancing customer experience. By translating their iconic fragrance into a candle, Jeuneora gave their customers a new way to indulge in the ritual of relaxation.

Jeuneora loved our premium glass jars and magnet closed boxes, so we simply added their branding and logo to our existing packaging, as well as a pantone colour to suit the GoNightly cream.

A bespoke fragrance, crafted for an icon.

Ballantynes, New Zealand’s oldest department store, is synonymous with quality, elegance, and heritage. Known for its curated selection of designer fashion, beauty, and homewares, it was only fitting that their exclusive candle reflected this same level of sophistication.

In collaboration with Ballantynes, Lyttelton Lights designed a luxurious, custom fragrance - a rich and refined blend of blackberry, succulent plum, and cassis, elevated by soft peach and finished with indulgent notes of maple, musk, and caramel.

The packaging mirrors the timeless elegance of Ballantynes itself. A minimalist glass jar with a refined branded label sits inside a sleek, card box, ensuring an elevated unboxing experience. The result? A candle that embodies both luxury and legacy, created exclusively for Ballantynes.