Wick
A theme for shops that sell things you light, lather and give: hand‑poured candles, wax melts and reed diffusers, cold‑process soap, bath salts and body butter, and small luxury home‑fragrance houses. Scent notes on every product, a scent family to shop by, the burn time, ingredients and allergens in plain view, and a gift box shoppers fill themselves. Products stand in glowing wells tinted by their scent, and every name, note and price sits on a cream apothecary label with notched corners.
One theme, four color palettes.
Pick one in Theme settings › Colors. Change any single color to make an exception.
Switch at any time
The palettes are one setting, not separate installs. Three are light and one is dark, and you can override any of their twelve colors.
Checked for contrast
Every palette is measured against WCAG AA contrast. Eight scent family colors tint the glowing wells, and you can change those too.
Unhurried motion
Sections fade in and the logo flame flickers on load. Both stop for visitors who ask for reduced motion.
Three presets, one theme.
Each preset is a complete starting store, with its own home page, palette and fonts. Every section, block and setting is in all three.
Wick
For hand‑poured candles, wax melts and diffusers, with portrait cards glowing in each product’s scent family color.
Lather
For cold‑process soap, bath and body, with square cards and an “In the bar” label: cure time, oils and essential oils.
Vesper
For luxury home fragrance in small editions, with tall cards lit by candlelight and the house scent in a spotlight.
Built for the way people buy scent.
Scent notes, the burn label and safety text read product metafields that you set up once, with no app. Until that data is there, those parts stay hidden, so nothing shows half‑empty.
Scent notes on every product
A scent notes label with Top, Heart and Base rows, the scent family and a five‑flame strength meter (“Strong, 4 of 5”). Every product card shows a short notes line and glows in its family’s color, and variants can carry their own notes.
Shop by scent
A row of scent family tiles, each with a built‑in drawing or your own photo, that open your products filtered by family, and scent chips above every collection and search grid. Both use Shopify’s own filtering through the free Search & Discovery app, or a collection per family.
Build a gift box
Shoppers choose a box size, fill its slots from a collection you pick, add a gift note and add the whole box to the cart in one go. In the cart the box stays together as one group, and every line carries a “Gift box” label and code, so you know what to pack together.
Burn, care and safety
A paper burn label with a big “50 hours of burn time” row and rows for wax, wick, vessel, net weight and size, read from your product or variant data. Beside it, care instructions and a safety and allergens panel for your own statements, with a highlighted warning line.
What’s in the theme.
Everything below ships in version 1.0.0, and the documentation covers every section and setting.
Pages and sections
- Header with the search on the left, your logo (or your name under a small flame) in the middle, and a mega menu with promo cards and scent chips
- Announcement bar with an optional countdown
- Hero: scene, split or spotlight
- Slideshow, gift sets, testimonials, shop the shelf, promises, as seen in, FAQ, newsletter and blog posts
- Gift box, contact and compare page templates, and a password page
Product page
- A glowing gallery with image zoom, video and 3D models
- Option tiles with each size’s weight and burn time
- Sticky add‑to‑cart bar, pickup availability and back‑in‑stock requests
- Pre‑orders, gift card recipients, and subscriptions with a subscriptions app
Collections and search
- Vessel product cards with quick add, quick view, swatches and a second image on hover
- New, Bestseller and low‑stock badges
- Filters as chips, in a drawer on phones, that update without reloading the page
- Predictive search with notes and prices
- Compare up to three products
Cart and gifting
- Cart drawer with a free‑shipping meter and gift box groups
- Gift wrap with one switch, priced or free
- The order note becomes a gift note with a character count
Trade and B2B
- Quantity rules, volume pricing and a quick order list for Shopify’s B2B features
Accessibility and languages
- Every palette measured against WCAG AA contrast
- Keyboard friendly, and motion that stops when visitors reduce it
- Right‑to‑left languages
At a glance.
- Version
- 1.0.0, an instant download from Etsy
- In the download
- Three theme files, one per preset (Wick, Lather and Vesper), a user guide (PDF, 37 pages) and a license for one store
- Built on
- Online Store 2.0
- Color palettes
- Four in one theme: Beeswax, Sage, Smoke and Rosewater (three light, one dark)
- Fonts
- Fraunces and Nunito Sans, Marcellus and Nunito Sans, or Cormorant and Nunito Sans, depending on the preset. Font pickers for headings and body text.
- You’ll need
- A Shopify store on any plan that can publish a theme, and a computer to upload it (phones can’t upload theme files). Filters, including the scent chips and shop by scent filtering, need Shopify’s free Search & Discovery app.
- Your data
- Scent notes, families, strength, burn label rows and safety text read product and variant metafields that you set up once, with no metaobjects or apps; the user guide walks you through it. The gift box’s “Save 10%” tags are only words, so create the discount itself in Shopify admin. The theme shows the safety and allergen text you write; what your labels must state is up to you.
- Support
- Message us on Etsy or email hello@buglyph.com. We reply within two business days, Monday to Friday, Australian Eastern Time.
Documentation and support.
Documentation
Installing the theme, every section and setting, and setting up Wick’s data, chapter by chapter. The same guide comes as a PDF in the download.
Support
Questions, bugs and setup help. Message us on Etsy or email us. We reply within two business days, Monday to Friday, Australian Eastern Time.
Wick
Sold on Etsy as an instant download. Each purchase licenses one Shopify store.