Shearer Candles

Shearer Candle’s is a fantastic addition to Byres Road. I buy candles as gifts from here very frequently and find the selection available absolutely excellent. I use the candles from here at home all the time — Amber Noir is a particular favourite!
The displays are accessible and pretty with lots of opportunities to smell before you buy! There are also lots of candle related accessories like holders, snuffs, reed diffusers and even t-​light tongs which I must say are a first for me! There’s a really lovely range of Scottish themed candles called things like «Ae Fond Kiss» and «Hogmanay» which I think are lovely for visitors or people who live abroad.
The shop itself smells absolutely divine and the service is friendly and not in the least overbearing — I’m always left alone to browse but feel I could ask for help if I wanted to.
The location of the shop is fantastic — close to lots of other brilliant and quirky gift shops on Byres Road it is a really handy wee place to add to a goody bag of gifts or buy a larger candle for a bigger present.

I quite like shops that sell scented items such as candles & defuser oils, they make such great gifts when you can’t think of anything else.
A lot of the candles where fruit based scents where I was looking for more of sandalwood or musk scented candles & oils.
One thing was that this shop had quite a selection on offer with a few quirky items also on sale such as candle snuffer’s and stands.
The prices where about the same as John Lewis and house of Fraser.