About Us
Brass tacks.
Lafayette Square Public House was formed in 2020 with one simple goal: to produce the best candle in the United States. Everything we do is in aid of that goal. Our candles are 100% hand crafted and poured. We distill our own essential oils, pour and label by hand and spend months crafting our scents. Nothing is automated, mass produced or done cynically. We hope to distribute candles that do more than make a space smell wonderful. We want to capture powerful, essential sense memories beneath a wick.
The name.
Lafayette Square is our favorite square in the picturesque waterfront city of Savannah, GA. It is small, but pleasant. Quaint, but impactful, and manages to fully encapsulate everything that is wonderful about a Southern oddity that has managed to not lose its charm despite its fame of late.
The logo.
Rosa laevigata, the Cherokee rose, is a white, fragrant rose native to southern China and Taiwan south to Laos and Vietnam, and invasive in the United States. It is an evergreen climbing shrub, scrambling over other shrubs and small trees. The flowers are fragrant, with pure white petals and yellow stamens, and are followed by bright red and bristly hips. The flower stem is also very bristly. The species was introduced to the southeastern United States in about 1780, where it soon became naturalized, and where it gained its English name. It is the state flower of Georgia.