Our story
From Australian hives to your table.
Miel Cire is a small Australian shop with one material and one idea: candles made from pure beeswax, and nothing else.
Miel Cire is French for honey and wax. We chose the name because it says exactly what we are: honey's quieter companion, shaped by hand into light for the home.
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It begins in Australian hives
Every Miel Cire candle starts with Australian honeybees. Across the country, they forage through native bush, farmland and gardens, much of it in flowering eucalypts. The flowers they visit shape the wax they make, so its colour shifts from pale butter to deep gold and its faint scent of honey changes from season to season.
We never bleach that colour away. The natural variation is the surest sign you're holding real beeswax.
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How beeswax is gathered
Bees make wax themselves and use it to build their comb. When a cell is full of honey, they seal it with a thin cap of fresh wax.
At harvest, beekeepers slice those caps away to release the honey. The cappings are some of the cleanest wax in the hive. They are melted, gently filtered to remove honey and debris, and set into blocks, ready to become candles. Nothing is taken that the hive needs, and nothing is added.
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Made in Killarney, Queensland
Our candles are handcrafted in Killarney, a small town in the hills of Queensland's Southern Downs, close to the New South Wales border and a short drive from Queen Mary Falls.
There, a small independent chandlery works with 100% natural Australian beeswax, pouring and finishing each candle by hand. Sculptural pieces like the Dahlia and the Swirl Sphere are made in moulds that capture every petal and curve, then trimmed and checked one at a time.
Pure beeswax, in every shade of gold.
What we stand by
Pure beeswax
Every candle is beeswax and a wick. No paraffin, no soy, no blends.
Australian made
Australian wax, handcrafted in Queensland and shipped across the country.
Honest labels
Real sizes and burn times on every product, and plain answers to plain questions.
Made to last
Dense, slow-burning wax that gives hours of warm, steady light.
Find your candle
From the Dahlia to the humble tealight, every piece is pure Australian beeswax.