Origin/About

Origin

Hey, I'm Alicja.

Manic didn't come from a business plan, and it definitely didn't come from wanting to put yet another nice-smelling candle on the market. It came the way most things in my life do: from a pile of little dots I'd been collecting for years that suddenly connected.

You know that feeling of being too...?

  • too much
  • too intense
  • too lazy
  • too fast
  • too slow
  • too free
  • too messy
  • too rigid
  • too unmarried (?)
  • too wicked
too... tooooo?

Manic HYPERSCENTS is for exactly that. Here you can be too whatever-the-heavens you want to be. Nothing needs toning down.

Each scent is made with its own intention, and I'd love for you to tune into it. But honestly? Use them however feels right. They're yours now.

Manic is born and made in Szczecin, Poland, where every candle is hand-poured in small batches from 100% rapeseed wax. It's shaped by life in Berlin, a city that's contradictory, unpolished and completely unbothered by what anyone thinks of it. A good role model, if you ask me.

What I truly believe in
01

Feeling fully is not a flaw.

Your intensity isn't a problem to fix. It's a signal to follow. The people who feel everything at full volume are the ones who change things, and I'd love for you to be one of them.

02

Being yourself is contagious.

When you choose real emotion over fitting in, something shifts, in you and in everyone around you. That's not small. That's how things start to change.

03

Tiny rituals are tiny revolutions.

Striking the match. Watching the wax melt edge to edge. Trimming the wick. Little moments of being fully here in a world that keeps trying to distract you.

So this is for you if...

...you feel things at full volume.

If you've ever been told, directly or not, to turn it down. If your body feels things before your brain catches up. If you're still figuring out what you're made of and find that more exciting than scary.

Freaking well done for choosing to feel. Seriously.

Go on, strike the match!

Take a peek at all four scents, see which one (or ones!) gives you that little spark, and let them keep you company while you discover the parts of yourself that are ready to come out and play.

Clean Slate Come in, Stranger I Know Paradoxos
Can't choose? Try them allThe Heightened Set

And when you light yours, show me @manic.hyperscents! No pressure. (But I'll definitely swoon a little when you do.)

— Alicja & the Manic team