The art of candle making

Their products are available at several stores in the city including The Bombay Store, Good Earth and Allure. “They have been selling very well. So we decided to promote them,” says Pawan Uttam, owner of Allure, locatedat Crawford Market.

Dimple gives most of the credit to her daughters, “who went around the stores themselves selling their products”. But they decided not to market their products under their names as they did not want people to buy them merely because they are made by a famous person. So Rinke came up with the name `Faraway Tree’, the name of an adventure book she had enjoyed reading as a child. All the candles are homemade, and the Khanna girls do the wrapping themselves. And just because they are made by famous hands these candles are still well-priced. The smaller candles cost just Rs 150.