Sometimes the smallest comforts become something much bigger.

It started with something I had always loved.

I have always loved candles — not simply how they look, but what happens when you light one. A familiar room changes. The light softens. A beautiful fragrance drifts through the house and, somehow, everything feels a little more settled.

Living in the small Essex market town of Thaxted, surrounded by countryside, old buildings and changing seasons, there is inspiration everywhere. I began making candles because I wanted to create that feeling for myself.

At first, that might have been the whole story.

But then life changed, and fragrance began to mean something rather more.

When words weren't quite enough.

After losing my eldest brother to Covid, our family went through a time when, like so many families, we were simply trying to find our way through loss.

I had become increasingly interested in essential oils — the individual aromas, the way they could be blended, and the different atmosphere a blend could create. So I began making essential-oil candles and blended oils for the people closest to me.

They were small things. A candle. A fragrance. Something made by hand and given with care.

But my family began describing them in a way that stayed with me.

A name — and the beginning of an idea.

That thought became The Essential Oils Gift Company. And, in time, that became Teog Co.

What began around my own family slowly grew into something I could share with other homes. I kept experimenting, learning and refining — always looking for the balance between beautiful fragrance, quality ingredients and that feeling I had wanted from the beginning: a moment in the day that feels a little more special.

And Teog Co kept evolving.

Because I realised there didn't have to be only one way to fall in love with fragrance.

Natural essential oils. Luxurious fragrance. One philosophy.

Today, Teog Co has two sides that are equally important to me. There are our essential-oil blends, created for those who love naturally aromatic fragrance, and our luxury fragrance collection, for those moments when you want scent to be richer, more indulgent and wonderfully atmospheric.

Every candle and wax melt is now made with coconut wax and hand-poured in small batches here in Thaxted. That small-batch approach matters to me. It means Teog Co can remain personal, considered and a little different from something made by the thousand.

But despite everything that has changed, the reason behind it hasn't.