Six scents, poured in a back room.
Soy and beeswax candles poured by hand in small batches. The list is short on purpose: six scents that were each burned all the way down before they went on it.
The scent list
- Hearth
- Cedar, woodsmoke and a little orange peel. The one for November
- Linen line
- Cotton flower, clean musk, a breath of lavender. Bedrooms and bathrooms
- Orchard
- Green apple, pear skin, a cut stem. Kitchens, and the first warm day of the year
- Black fig
- Fig leaf, dark honey, a dry woody base. Evenings with people over
- Sea salt
- Salt air, driftwood, a faint note of sage. Windows open
- Unscented
- Nothing added. Soy wax and a cotton wick, for the light alone
In wax, four ways
Jar candle, 220 g
from €24.00
- Material
- Soy wax, cotton wick
- Size
- Burns about 45 hours
Pillar, 8 x 12 cm
from €28.00
- Material
- Beeswax, unscented
- Size
- Burns about 60 hours
Rolled taper, pair
from €14.00
- Material
- Rolled beeswax sheet
- Size
- 25 cm, burns 6 hours each
Tapers, box of six
from €34.00
- Material
- Rolled beeswax, unscented
- Size
- 25 cm, burns 6 hours each
The first burn decides the rest
Wax has a memory. Light a new candle and leave it until the melted pool reaches the edge of the glass -- two hours for the jar, three for the pillar -- and it will burn flat and to the bottom for the rest of its life. Blow it out early and it tunnels, and no amount of care afterwards gets that back.
Trim the wick to five millimetres before every light, or it mushrooms and smokes. Snuff it rather than blowing it out. And when there is a centimetre of wax left, stop: below that the glass gets hotter than it should.
Your words on the label
Pick the jar, pick the scent, and type what the label should say: a name, a date, a line only two people understand. Printed and poured to order, which is a week rather than a day.