Hand Poured in Nashville, TN
What started in 2015 in the garage of a refurbished ranger station has grown to a fragrance lab, production facility, and retail storefront on 12 South, but today 100% of Ranger Station candles are still hand poured in Nashville, TN.
Nash isn't just RS's home, it's its DNA. Over 90% of the company's current staff either have been -- or currently are -- artists and musicians chasing their dreams in the town. Anyone who's lived in or come to love Music City (including us, this is Easyday speaking) will immediately see its character in the brand's story, scents, style and swagger.
Ingredient Honesty
The folks behind Ranger Station are their own consumers, and everything they craft by hand in their Fragrance House is done with a priority on your health and the safety of your home and family.
Ranger Station candles feature soy-based wax, lead free wicks, phthalate free fragrance oils, and 100% vegan and cruelty free ingredients with fragrance oils sourced sustainably worldwide. All of their diffusers and other fragrance products are phthalate free, vegan and cruelty free with ingredients sourced sustainably. Any hand and body products, to the extent Easyday features them, are strictly paraben free, sulfate free, and toxicity tested in addition to the above.
Made for Memories
What do candles have to do with human health, performance and endurance, you ask?
Well for starters, we agree with Ranger Station on some core things. E.g., life is meant to be an adventure, good times with good friends are good (great) for you, and in the long run little things are big things.
Specifically, though, RS's marketing team will tell you that fragrance happens to be one of those "little things" that has the power to bring extra beauty into your journey, elevate your productivity and presence day to day, and help you make (and remember) great memories. Turns out the research behind olfactory-driven performance and recall is pretty strong, so we buy it.
Signature Cocktail Glasses.
The health research behind drinking craft cocktails is less strong (jk, it is strong...but not in favor), but the trademark feature of every Ranger Station candle is that, when you're done burning it, it converts to a classic collector cocktail glass that you can keep and use forever. Each candle comes beautifully packaged in a box with a set of RS matches and a foldout artisan cocktail recipe card.
Just don't look to Easyday to endorse your whiskey habit. But c'mon now, this is VALUE. It's QUALITY. It's FUN. It's ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE. And it's uniquely Ranger Station. So go pour yourself a double shot of kombucha and get lit (get it, lit...), you animal.
Hand Poured in Nashville, TN
What started in 2015 in the garage of a refurbished ranger station has grown to a fragrance lab, production facility, and retail storefront on 12 South, but today 100% of Ranger Station candles are still hand poured in Nashville, TN.
Nash isn't just RS's home, it's its DNA. Over 90% of the company's current staff either have been -- or currently are -- artists and musicians chasing their dreams in the town. Anyone who's lived in or come to love Music City (including us, this is Easyday speaking) will immediately see its character in the brand's story, scents, style and swagger.
Ingredient Honesty
The folks behind Ranger Station are their own consumers, and everything they craft by hand in their Fragrance House is done with a priority on your health and the safety of your home and family.
Ranger Station candles feature soy-based wax, lead free wicks, phthalate free fragrance oils, and 100% vegan and cruelty free ingredients with fragrance oils sourced sustainably worldwide. All of their diffusers and other fragrance products are phthalate free, vegan and cruelty free with ingredients sourced sustainably. Any hand and body products, to the extent Easyday features them, are strictly paraben free, sulfate free, and toxicity tested in addition to the above.
Made for Memories
What do candles have to do with human health, performance and endurance, you ask?
Well for starters, we agree with Ranger Station on some core things. E.g., life is meant to be an adventure, good times with good friends are good (great) for you, and in the long run little things are big things.
Specifically, though, RS's marketing team will tell you that fragrance happens to be one of those "little things" that has the power to bring extra beauty into your journey, elevate your productivity and presence day to day, and help you make (and remember) great memories. Turns out the research behind olfactory-driven performance and recall is pretty strong, so we buy it.
Signature Cocktail Glasses.
The health research behind drinking craft cocktails is less strong (jk, it is strong...but not in favor), but the trademark feature of every Ranger Station candle is that, when you're done burning it, it converts to a classic collector cocktail glass that you can keep and use forever. Each candle comes beautifully packaged in a box with a set of RS matches and a foldout artisan cocktail recipe card.
Just don't look to Easyday to endorse your whiskey habit. But c'mon now, this is VALUE. It's QUALITY. It's FUN. It's ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE. And it's uniquely Ranger Station. So go pour yourself a double shot of kombucha and get lit (get it, lit...), you animal.
Specs
- 8 oz. premium soy wax candle
- Whiskey gass holder
- Double-wicked, 30+ hour burn time
- Poured by hand in Nashville, TN
Product Tips & Care
The First Burn
- The first burn is the most important. Make sure the melt pool reaches all sides of the candle before extinguishing otherwise tunneling can occur.
Subsequent Burns
- Try to make a habit of letting the melt pool always reach the sides of the candle to ensure you capture the candles whole potential. Never exceed 4 hours of burning.
Trim Yo' Wicks
- Always trim your wicks to 1/4" before every burn so that the candle does not burn faster than it should.
Candles to Cocktails
- All of Ranger Station's 8 oz glass candles are hand poured into cocktail glasses. Here's how to transform them.
- Place candle in freezer overnight.
- Run hot tap water over wax to loosen and then remove with wooden utensil.
- Remove wick tabs from base of glass (they may have come out with the wax already). If they do not remove easily, fill the glass with warm water and dish soap and let them soak.
- Clean out glass with soap and water.
- Pour your drink of choice and say 'cheers'
About the Makers
Steve and Jordan Soderholm first crossed paths as undergrads at Belmont University in Nashville.
By 2015, after reconnecting post graduation, they were dating and pursuing respective careers in music and fashion when Steve hand-poured his first candle into a spare cocktail glass in the garage of the refurbished park ranger station he and his bandmates had found to rent outside of Nash.
Fast forward to today, and they're the husband-wife team behind Ranger Station, Nashville's hottest fragrance house with a devout local (and increasingly national) following around their creative Nash-inspired scents, honest ingredients, and the same signature cocktail glasses that started it all.
All that's to say: it doesn't get more real, more indie, more cool, or more Nashville than Ranger Station. Which is why we love them.
(On a personal note, I first met Steve and Jordan in 2023 while living in Nash and writing the business plan for Easyday. It's been my goal ever since then to make an RS x Easyday drop a reality. High-quality & high-character products with even higher-quality, higher-character people behind them...RS is as good as it gets. - Nate M.)
