About Me

A Note from Danielle Green

I built Lucasta Candles from my home in upstate New York. It was something I needed to do, and something I chose to do.

I live with agoraphobia and panic disorder. Leaving the house isn't always possible for me, and for a long time, that felt like a wall between me and the life I wanted to build. I needed income. I needed purpose. I needed something that didn't require the world outside my door.

But there was something else, too.

I lost my mom, and grief has a way of making the world feel impossibly small and quiet all at once. Lucasta was born after she passed. She had a garden she adored. I never had a green thumb, but her love of beautiful, natural things stayed with me.

Most of my candles and wax melts are made with soy or coconut-apricot wax and premium fragrances because the quality of what goes into your home matters. I wanted to smell her again. I wanted something that could bring me back to a place of peace.

Scent does that. It reaches somewhere words can't.

I found candle making, and the first time I poured a candle, something shifted. The process was slow and deliberate. The fragrances were grounding. For the first time in a long time, my mind went still.

What started as a way to cope became something I am genuinely proud of.

Lucasta Candles launched in May 2023. Every candle is made with care and intention, and with the belief that you don't have to have it all figured out to build something real.

If you're someone who struggles to leave the house, who fights battles most people can't see, who has loved and lost. I want you to know that you can still create. You can still build. You can still have something that's yours.

That's what Lucasta is to me. Maybe it can be something to you too.