Lilium Valley stands for natural sunflower-wax candles made in a studio in Gdynia. The brand was founded in December 2023, and each of its scents has its own name and story. Since October 2026 its candles have been at Locus Artis in Gdańsk.
Lilium Valley grew out of a fresh start. Its maker founded the company in December 2023, but life put her dreams and plans to the test — so she began again, on her mother’s birthday. It was her mother, with her sensitivity to scent and her collection of perfumes, who helped shape what the studio makes today: “stories enchanted in glass”.
The name is a nod to the tiger lilies that grew in her grandmother’s garden. “And though the garden and my grandmother are gone, the scent has stayed.” As she puts it, Lilium Valley “was born of a love of the scents that go with us through every moment of life — travel, a cake baked with grandma, hours spent in a library among old books”.
She makes her candles from sunflower wax with added olive oil, and every scent gets a name and a story of its own. There is Grandma Zosia’s apple sponge cake, “Jane Austen” with rose and vanilla, “Bratnie dusze” (Kindred Spirits) with sandalwood, “Chwila relaksu” (A Moment to Relax) and a spring palo santo with freesia.
The maker of Lilium Valley is also a photographer, and she signs her photographs as @nocneatelier. Above all she photographs Gdynia’s modernist architecture: she loves catching moments she is happy to wait for, and bringing out details you’d miss at first glance. Her biggest compliment? When someone says her photographs made them look differently at the (extra)ordinary everyday around them.
What she brought to Locus Artis.
Large and small sunflower-wax candles came to Locus Artis, along with her photographs.