EARTH
Warm and centering, EARTH is a candle for quiet moments of grounding.
Rooted in TCM’s philosophy, the EARTH element represents nourishment, stability, and harmony. EARTH channels this energy through a fragrance that comforts and soothes.
Notes of rose and geranium melt into soft cardamom and warm patchouli, creating an enveloping scent that anchors the senses.
Top: Fir Needle, Elemi
Middle: Rose, Geranium, Cardamom, Clove Bud, Black Pepper
Base: Musk, Chinese Cedar, Patchouli
FIRE
FIRE is formulated as a tool for transition. A measured ritual designed to refocus the mind and cultivate inner momentum.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Fire element embodies transformation, passion, and connection. This candle interprets that principle through a precise aromatic composition.
The fragrance evolves in clean phases: opening with smoked blood orange, moving into scorched cedar and clove, and settling into a grounded base of amber and sandalwood. Each layer is calibrated to awaken focus and elevate creative practice.
Top: Blood Orange, Hiba
Middle: Clove, Coriander
Base: Sandalwood, Patchouli, Amber, Cade, Chinese Cedar
WATER
Serene and fluid, WATER is designed for moments of quiet focus.
Guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine, the WATER candle embodies the element of fluidity and wisdom, encouraging reflection and inner peace.
The fragrance opens with delicate neroli and bergamot, drifts into petitgrain and caraway, and lingers with Chinese cedar accords. A clean, contemporary scent that washes over the senses and calms the mind.
Top: Bergamot, Neroli, Petitgrain
Middle: Rain, Lotus, Caraway
Base: Chinese Cedar
WOOD
Fresh and expansive, WOOD captures the spirit of new beginnings.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wood symbolises growth, flexibility, and vision. The WOOD candle reflects this energy with a crisp, green scent that lifts the mind and fosters creative flow.
It opens with pine and hinoki, evolves into ho leaf and cypress, and settles into Chinese cedar and vetiver. A modern fragrance that reconnects you to nature and possibility.
Top: Pine, Hinoki
Middle: Ho Leaf, Clary Sage, Cypress
Base: Chinese cedar, Patchouli, Oakmoss, Vetiver
MEET THE MAKER
Homework
Homework is a London-based sensory studio founded by Stephanie Hannington-Suen, whose work explores the relationship between design, ritual, and wellbeing. The name ‘Homework’ captures the brand’s central idea – the meeting point between home and work, between stillness and activity. Each product is created with the intention of transforming everyday spaces into places of grounding and reflection, blurring the line between what we use and how we live.
At its heart, Homework is a fragrance brand. Its collection includes candles, essential-oil blends, diffusers and perfumes, all carefully composed to evoke atmosphere and emotion. Each product is made in small batches using natural ingredients – like rapeseed and coconut wax, pure essential oils, and recycled glass vessels – to ensure a clean, mindful, sensory experience. Scents such as Wood, a blend of pine, ho leaf, cedar and vetiver, embody calm and renewal, while others draw from the shifting balance of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
Stephanie’s creative vision is deeply informed by her Chinese heritage and family history. Her grandmother, Popo, gathered herbs in the mountains of Tai Po, and her parents, who migrated to Manchester in the 1980s, established a clinic rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Homework pays homage to this lineage, weaving ancient wisdom into contemporary form. Each scent is a quiet dialogue between past and present — a sensory language that honours nature, balance, and care for the body and spirit.
Sustainability is another cornerstone of Homework’s philosophy. The brand operates with transparency and responsibility, choosing renewable materials, avoiding excess packaging, and encouraging customers to reuse or recycle containers. As a member of 1% for the Planet, Homework donates a portion of its revenue to environmental causes, aligning its ethos of balance with tangible ecological action. This commitment reflects the same values that underpin its scents: interconnectedness, awareness, and respect for natural cycles.
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