Voluspa

Voluspa was founded in 1999 in Southern California by Traci and Troy Arntsen, who began blending candles in their kitchen before the brand grew into an Irvine-based operation distributed in more than eighty countries. The name borrows from Norse mythology, but the visual language is firmly West-Coast: pastel ceramics, embossed tins, art-nouveau florals. The core business is scented home fragrance — coconut-wax candles and reed diffusers built around accessible gourmand, fruit and floral accords — and the company is widely credited with helping push specialty candles into American department stores. A perfume collection arrived in 2024, translating signatures such as Goji Tarocco Orange and Baltic Amber into eau de parfum format. Voluspa remains independently owned and family-run, with manufacturing kept in California and a stated emphasis on proprietary wax blends and in-house compounding.