AURA Candle Bar is Chicago's premier fragrance and candle making studio, a sensory destination where guests compose custom scents and pour hand-crafted candles alongside perfumers trained by the iconic Grasse Institute of Perfumery, the epicenter of global fragrance for over 200 years.
Inside our sunlit Southport Corridor studio, a fragrance library of 110+ uniquely curated fragrances invites guests to explore, blend, and create something entirely their own. Every experience is guided by Scent Consultants highly trained in the art of perfumery, fragrance creation, and the science of candles and scents. The result is part craft workshop, part olfactory journey, part celebration. Every candle leaves the studio as a one-of-one creation, poured, named, and signed by the guest who made it.
Since opening, AURA has welcomed more than 125,000 guests from all 50 states and 58 countries. Corporate clients include Nike, Netflix, Google, Marriott, Reddit, Compass, Hallmark, Hyatt, Instagram, Pinterest, @Properties Belmond Hotels, and Hard Rock Hotels. The studio has earned five consecutive Yelp People Love Us Awards and Top Local Workplace recognition in 2024 and 2025.
AURA is family-founded, co-founded by Tom Pendrey and Linda Pendrey, Chandlers and Perfumers who built the studio around a simple belief: fragrance is personal, and the act of creating it should be too.
We host private reservations, corporate team-building experiences, client entertainment, executive gifting, wholesale partnerships, and custom fragrance development for brands seeking a signature scent.
Visit us at 3338 N Southport Ave in Chicago, IL 60657 Southport Corridor in Lakeview, or reserve your experience at auracandlebar.com/pages/candle-making-experience.

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