Welcome to Our Village

Our Family. Our Home. Our Aroma Story.

 

Meet the Family Behind Le Maire

Hi, I’m Myles Mayor, the creator and maker behind Le Maire. My wife, Andrea, works beside me, and our son, Henry Alaric, is at the heart of why we continue building this family-owned aroma business.

Le Maire is more than a company name. It represents our family, our purpose and the scent world we are creating from our home studio in Smyrna, Tennessee.

The Meaning Behind Le Maire

Le Maire means “The Mayor,” and Mayor is our family’s last name.

The words may be French, but the story belongs to our Tennessee family. We are not a large French perfume house or a distant manufacturing company. Le Maire is a small, family-owned business established in 2023 and built by the Mayor family.

The name also gives our brand its identity:

The Mayor. Our village. Our characters.

Le Maire is our village, and every aroma we create becomes one of its characters. Each character has a name, personality, story and distinct aroma profile. Some are bold and commanding. Others are comforting, mischievous, mysterious, nostalgic or playful.

Together, characters such as Mr. Baja Cactus, Sacred Smolder, Mystery Scent, Monarch No. 13 and Éris help turn Le Maire into something larger than a collection of scented products.

They make up a world customers can explore.

The people who support us are part of that village too. Every customer who shops online, meets us at a Tennessee market, recommends a character or returns for another aroma helps our family continue building this world.

Why I Started Making Aroma Products

For years, I have lived with anxiety and panic attacks. During some of my hardest moments, when everything around me felt uncertain, aroma gave me something familiar to focus on.

Vanilla was especially meaningful to me. Its soft and comforting aroma helped me slow down, reconnect with my surroundings and feel present again. It became more than something that simply smelled good. It became part of the atmosphere I created when I needed familiarity, comfort and a moment to reset.

That experience changed how I understood aroma.

I realized that aroma is not only about making yourself or a room smell good. It can become connected to a person, place, memory or daily routine. A familiar aroma can remind you of home, bring back a moment you had nearly forgotten or help establish the atmosphere you want around you.

We do not present aroma as a treatment or promise that it can solve what someone is experiencing. We simply understand from personal experience that familiar aromas can become meaningful parts of everyday life.

That understanding became the foundation of Le Maire. We want to help people create spaces, routines and moments that feel more personal.

The Tacoma Moment That Started Le Maire

I have always loved aroma. Long before Le Maire existed, I regularly burned candles and incense. I enjoyed experimenting with different scent profiles and changing the atmosphere of a room.

The moment that turned that interest into a serious direction happened unexpectedly in Tacoma, Washington.

One day, I was walking through Fred Meyer when I noticed a gondola display filled with handmade candles and soaps. I walked over out of curiosity and began smelling the different products.

As I stood there, something clicked.

I thought, “If they can do this, why can’t I?”

It was a simple question, but I could not let it go.

That display showed me that aroma could become more than something I purchased and enjoyed. It could become something I learned, created and shared with other people.

I started researching ingredients, studying aroma materials, testing combinations and learning how small adjustments could change the way an aroma opens, develops and remains in a space.

What started as curiosity gradually became discipline. I wanted to understand why certain materials worked together, how an aroma developed from its opening to its base and why some combinations left a stronger impression than others.

I did not want to make products just to say that I made them. I wanted to create memorable aromas with personality—aromas that people could connect with and make part of their own stories.

That spark in Tacoma eventually followed us home to Tennessee and became Le Maire.

A Family Business Built at Home in Tennessee

Le Maire began with my personal experience, but it has grown into our family’s journey.

Andrea works beside me through production, packaging, market preparation and the countless details required to keep a small business moving. She has been there through the testing, mistakes, improvements, late production nights and early market mornings.

On March 27, 2026, we welcomed our son, Henry Alaric. Becoming parents gave Le Maire an even deeper purpose.

We are no longer building only for ourselves. We are working to create something lasting for our family and to show Henry what persistence, creativity and ownership can build from the ground up.

Running a home business while raising a family is not always polished. Business life and family life often happen in the same rooms. There are orders waiting to be packed, products being prepared for markets and new ideas being tested while we handle the responsibilities of everyday family life.

That is also what makes Le Maire real.

This company is being built inside our home, around our family and through the work of our own hands. Every order moves us closer to our goal of making Le Maire our full-time family business.

Handmade Candles and Wax Melts From Smyrna, Tennessee

Le Maire products are created in small batches at our Tennessee home studio.

We mix, pour, label, engrave, inspect and pack our products ourselves. Our labels and character artwork are developed for the world we are building, and we use our own laser equipment for engraving.

Our collection includes:

Making everything in small batches keeps us directly involved in every stage. We can inspect our work, learn from each production run and continue improving as the business grows.

Nothing about Le Maire is intended to feel disconnected from the people making it.

Full-Brick Soy Wax Melts

Our handmade soy wax melts are sold as full bricks instead of standard plastic cubes.

The full-brick design gives each character a distinctive presentation and allows customers to portion the wax according to their warmer and aroma preference. Each brick is wrapped in compostable parchment and placed inside recyclable kraft packaging.

Our wax-melt village includes fruity, woody, herbal, earthy and food-inspired characters. Customers can explore everything from Blueberry Yum Yum and Scrumptious Spiced Apples to Euca & Minty, Likelihood and Hazelnut Hug in Mug.

Every character is designed to offer its own recognizable direction rather than disappearing into a collection of nearly identical aromas.

Handmade Wood-Wick Soy Candles

Our handmade soy candles are poured with dye-free soy wax and finished with wood wicks.

Characters such as Sacred Smolder, Mr. Baja Cactus, Mystery Scent and The Grump can bring their personalities into a room through candlelight and aroma.

We keep the wax surface smooth and free from decorative toppings. The focus stays on the character, the wood wick and the aroma inside the jar.

Every candle is poured, inspected and prepared by our family in Smyrna.

Room Sprays and Car Air Fresheners

Le Maire extends beyond candles and wax melts.

Our room sprays provide a quick way to change the atmosphere of a space without lighting a wick or using a warmer. Characters and blends such as Le Bouquet, Bean’s Begone, Burnt Skies and Buttery Breeze give customers several aroma directions to explore.

Our car air fresheners bring the village onto the road. They are designed to release aroma through their wooden tops after a controlled turn of the bottle. Slower, less frequent turns help conserve the aroma oil and make the product last longer.

These products allow customers to experience Le Maire at home, at work or during the daily drive.

Eau de Parfum and Essential Oils

Personal aroma is another part of the Le Maire village.

Monarch No. 13 Eau de Parfum is our masculine woody-amber parfum, built around bergamot, subtle spice, sea salt, plum, mahogany, warm woods, amber and smooth musk.

Its message is direct:

Rule the day. Command the night.

Éris Eau de Parfum brings a feminine floral-musk direction to the collection, pairing floral character with a creamy, structured base.

Her message is:

Spark the moment. Change the course.

Our essential oils give customers another way to explore individual botanical aromas, including Atlas cedarwood, eucalyptus, lavender and lemongrass.

Each category strengthens the village while giving customers different ways to experience aroma.

Why Le Maire Uses Characters

We never wanted Le Maire to become a wall of forgettable product names and nearly identical labels.

Aroma is emotional, personal and imaginative. We believe its presentation should reflect that.

Each Le Maire character gives an aroma a face, attitude and place within the village. The character helps communicate the experience waiting inside before someone warms the wax, lights the wick, turns the car-air-freshener bottle or sprays the room.

Some characters represent confidence. Others carry comfort, humor, mystery, nostalgia or seasonal energy.

They also give adults permission to reconnect with imagination and their inner child. Life becomes busy, serious and repetitive. An unexpected character or playful name can interrupt that routine and make an everyday aroma feel personal again.

Le Maire is designed to be fun and welcoming. You do not need to be an aroma expert to enter our village. You only need to know what you enjoy and how you want your space—or yourself—to feel.

Thoughtful Materials and Packaging

We want our products to have strong identities without relying on unnecessary extras.

Our soy candles and wax melts are made without dyes. We use wood wicks in our candles and kraft-forward packaging throughout the collection where appropriate. Our full-brick wax melts are wrapped in compostable parchment and packaged in recyclable kraft boxes.

These decisions reflect the company we want to build: imaginative, memorable and thoughtful about the materials we use.

Sustainability is not a claim that everything we do is perfect. It is an ongoing commitment to make better choices where we can while keeping our products functional, well-presented and true to Le Maire.

Our Mission Is to Help People Through Aroma

Our purpose is not simply to sell products that smell good.

We want to help people create moments that feel intentional and personal.

That could mean lighting a wood-wick candle after a difficult day, warming a familiar soy wax melt while cleaning the house, making the morning commute more enjoyable with a car air freshener or wearing an Eau de Parfum that helps you step into the day with confidence.

Aroma can become part of how you begin your morning, welcome people into your home, prepare for work, celebrate a season or settle into the evening.

Those moments may seem small, but small moments shape everyday life.

If one of our characters brings back a good memory, creates joy, helps someone feel more present or simply makes home feel more like home, then Le Maire is doing what we created it to do.

What Supporting Le Maire Means to Our Family

When you order from Le Maire, you are not ordering from a faceless warehouse.

You are supporting Myles, Andrea and Henry. You are supporting a home studio in Smyrna, Tennessee. You are helping us purchase materials, improve our craft, attend local markets and continue developing original characters and aromas.

Every purchase, review, recommendation and return visit matters to us. We notice them because we are the people making the products, packing the boxes and meeting many of our customers face-to-face.

Le Maire began with anxiety, vanilla and one unexpected moment beside a display of handmade candles in Tacoma. It became a family business built around purpose, imagination and the belief that aroma can make everyday moments feel more personal.

We are still learning. We are still growing. We are still making everything from home.

We are grateful that you are here to grow with us.

The Mayor. Our village. Our characters.

Welcome to Le Maire—handmade aroma, made at home in Tennessee.