About KAIYA

In March of 2020, we started KAIYA as a creative outlet— a way to combine our love for music, mixology, & fragrance. Based in Los Angeles, our clean-burning candles each come with a custom playlist and unique cocktail pairing. Originally known as Caia Candle Co, we recently relaunched our brand to embrace our vision of what our dream candle would look like. We realized that the energy we were spending on trying to fit in with other candle brands was burning us out, so we scrapped our old look for more colorways, more character, and our true name— KAIYA. Our origin story begins over a decade ago when our founder, Kaiya Peralta, began pouring candles in her parents’ kitchen. After years of experimenting, Kaiya moved to New York City and launched her own company out of her tiny kitchen nook. A year and a half later, she returned to her roots in Los Angeles and upgraded to a workshop in her garage where the new vision for KAIYA was born. Today, each of our candles are hand-poured by our women-led team with the goal of creating a curated experience for anyone who makes a purchase from us. Whether one of our candles reminds you of the smell of your first apartment or the hours after it rains, our candles are inspired by the memories that make us wax nostalgic (pun intended). When we’re not covered in coconut wax, you can find us adding songs to our candle playlists, or “researching” new cocktail combinations until the wee hours of the morning. What can we say? We’re dedicated.Read their story