The Studio
A second beginning.
Pavos began, paused, and returned with a quieter idea of what a candle could be — not decoration, not background scent, but a small ritual for the room and the person inside it.
This morning’s pour, holding its wicks straight.
The studio table · Pune
From the Founder
a letter, before anything else.
i started pavos a few years ago. then i stopped.
not for any one big reason — life happened, the way it does. i’d built it to break-even, which felt like a quiet kind of win, and then i set it down.
what i didn’t expect was how often it kept coming back to me. in the middle of unrelated mornings. the smell of wax.
the small good feeling of pouring something with your hands and watching it set.
the way a candle, lit at the end of a long day, gives you permission to pause that nothing else quite does.
so here we are again — a second beginning that feels less like a launch and more like coming home. same studio in pune. same person picking the scents, writing the labels, packing the boxes, replying to your dms. a little older, hopefully a little better.
pavos is small on purpose. small enough that i can pour every candle, smell every batch, and answer every message. small enough to feel like mine.
if you light one and it makes a corner of your day feel softer, that’s the whole point.
— chhaya · founder, pavos
How We Work
Small on purpose.
No production line, no warehouse, no anonymous middle. Four quiet rules keep it that way.
Small on purpose
Small enough that one person can pour every candle, smell every batch, and answer every message. That is not a constraint. It is the point.
Poured by hand
Natural soy wax, a cotton wick, a steady hand. Every jar is filled, levelled, and labelled at the same table in the Pune studio.
Tested by flame
Cold throw, hot throw, a real room, a real evening. Nothing leaves the studio until it has earned its place in yours.
Made for rooms, not shelves
A Pavos candle is not decoration. It is the moment a room turns warmer, softer, and a little more yours.
Small Batch Process
From wax to wick to your room.
Six steps, none of them rushed. This is everything that happens between an idea for a scent and the evening you light it.
Cotton wicks, waiting their turn
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Choose & blend the fragrance
IFRA-compliant oils, weighed and blended until the scent matches the moment it was written for.
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Pour in small batches
Natural soy wax around a cotton wick — a batch small enough to be smelled, checked, and known.
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Cure
The jars rest in the dark while the scent settles into the wax. Patience is an ingredient.
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Test by flame
Cold throw, then hot throw — lit in a real room, at the hour it was made for.
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Label & pack by hand
Written, wrapped, and boxed at the same table it was poured on.
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Send from Pune
And when you write to us, the person who poured your candle is the person who replies.
six steps. no shortcuts.
The Whole Point
if you light one and it makes a corner of your day feel softer, that’s the whole point.