Warm Glow Candle Company

Home of the giant candle! It’s a great place for gifts ranging from candles to jams to country bumpkin doo dads. The place just keeps getting bigger and bigger!
The eatery inside is actually pretty tasty, too. And we love the koi ponds outside!
Warm Glow is easy to find; just look for the big ol’ candle off I-​70 in Centerville. You’ll see it!

My family and I first stumbled upon Warm Glow back in 2003 when I was an 18 yr. old girl going off to college in Ohio. Ohhhh the memories!
This was a stop that my family made fairly regularly; every time I was picked-​up from or dropped back off at school.
Fast forward 10 years. My husband and I find ourselves living in Indiana again. I knew I had to visit Warm Glow (now as an adult with my own $$$ to spend-​yippee!)
We visited a couple of weeks before Christmas and stocked up on candles; our hefty supply covered about 6 – 8 gifts for various family members. We purchased various sizes of candles, as well as some of their car air fresheners. Although I can attest to how good the room sprays are, I didn’t purchase any during this trip.
Not only do they carry candles and other goodies to make your house smell like a home, but they also stock gourmet dip/​soup mixes, sauces, oils, jewelry and other décor (that change seasonally). There’s even a café if you need to take a snack break!
If I remember correctly, we spent under $ 150; or less than $ 20/​per gift. The staff here is super friendly (especially the adorably cute little old lady that checked us out) and you really can’t go wrong with candles, can you?
I highly recommend visiting during the fall months when everything is covered in autumn décor-​mums, pumpkins and much more. I also suggest stocking up on your favorite scent (s) (especially limited edition or seasonal candles) that you can’t purchase year round.
We live nowhere near Warm Glow now (our wallets thank us :), but I miss it terribly. I personally love the baked goods scents; apple, banana bread, blueberry pie, pumpkin, etc. but my all-​time favorite is orange clove.
Go during a weekday afternoon; not as busy and you can stay for hours. If you do have the time, make a day of it and check-​out the local wineries after your shopping trip!

***This review is solely on the little café of the right side of the business. I can not tell you are how wonderful the pies are. They are not only home made, but just created with pure heavenliness. I ordered the Lemon Meringue Pie. I ate the pie and I thought I died and gone to heaven. Hubbs agrees that the pies are divine. I mean the meringue was like a mile high. I was grinning from ear to ear because I felt like a kid again. The man who served us was so humble, he was one of the pie makers… we talked about the pies for a good while. They also serve a lot of home made foods, but we had ate dinner already and just wanted a slight snack. I wish they were way closer, so I would be able to order pies every week to share with my friends and loved ones.

If there were a heaven dedicated solely to candles — it would look quite similar to Warm Glow Candle Corp. It would smell of butter rum, candied apples, sandalwood and winter pines. The angels would ask you questions like — «Can I get you a basket to hold those?»
Warm Glow is one of the Smith Sisters key stops on our route home. You’ll find us in the back right corner of the store scavenging through the clearance and seconds — not that the regular-​priced items are too high.
I tend to stick to food-​smelling candles. If you share this taste, I’d recommend snickerdoodle, butter rum and sugar maple. They’re the next best thing to eating snickerdoodles and drinking butter rum and sugar maple.
Set aside a good half an hour or so for roaming.