This is not a tutorial channel — it is my actual life. Running the businesses and the challenges that come with them: candles and the supply shop, washing cars and PPF, and passing on what I have learned along the way. One video every 7–12 days. The step-by-step teaching lives on Instagram and the blog; this is what the days themselves look like.
Subscribe on YouTubeCandles and the supply shop, the mobile car wash, the software. Five ventures sharing one week, and the scheduling that is most of the job.
What goes wrong and what it costs — a batch that fails, a shipment that is not good enough, a decision to downsize one thing to grow another.
The Washii side: washing, detailing and paint protection film, the vans and the kit — and a 2002 Porsche 996 Turbo that gets its share of screen time.
Grasse-trained perfumer, self-taught at most of the rest. The lessons get passed on as they happen rather than packaged into a course.
A graduated perfumer based in Dubai, running Belles Âmes Dubai (luxury candles), CandleStart (candle and perfume making supplies), Olfactal (perfumery intelligence), WaxHippo (tools for candle makers) and Washii (a mobile car wash app). Past private-label candle projects include Kayali, Chanel, Netflix, Porsche and Eucerin.
If you came here to learn the craft rather than watch the days, the blog and the book are the places to start.
It is a day-in-the-life channel about running businesses in Dubai. Ahmed Al Hassoni films his actual days: making candles and selling candle-making materials, the mobile car wash and paint protection film work, and the challenges that come with running several businesses at once.
Roughly one video every 7 to 12 days.
No. The videos follow the day-to-day rather than teaching step by step. The hands-on tutorials and short-form tips live on Instagram, and the written guides are on the Candle Man Dubai blog.
A certified perfumer trained at the Grasse Institute of Perfumery in France, based in Dubai. He runs Belles Âmes Dubai (luxury candles), CandleStart (candle and perfume making supplies), Olfactal (perfumery software), WaxHippo (tools for candle makers) and Washii (mobile car wash and detailing).
On YouTube at youtube.com/@candlemandubai. The latest videos are also embedded on candlemandubai.com/day-in-the-life.