Welcome to Candle University!

Gentle / Bold:

Our candles are purposely designed to quietly enhance and not overpower your spaces. We're not in the business of shipping out headaches, we will leave that to the other guys! Our gentle to bold sliding scale refers to the feeling of the candle - 'gentle' will feel light and airy and 'bold' will feel heavier and more encompassing. 

Why Size Matters:

Choose the right size candle based on your room size! Smaller 8 oz candles will have a  lighter hot throw with a scent radius of around 3ft - 5ft, perfect for desks, coffee tables, dressers and larger 12 oz candles will be stronger and throw up to 9ft, perfect for larger spaces.

Why wax type matters in your candle experience:

If you're used to store bought candles, you may notice a difference when burning a hand-crafted candle made with 100% plant-based waxes. Store-bought candles are typically made with 100% paraffin or a "wax-blend" with a high-paraffin content. The high paraffin-content is what allows for a stronger scent throw but  with little nuance in what you're smelling - they're only designed to be "strong".

While hand-crafted candles made with 100% plant waxes like ours emit a subtler fragrance, they are often preferred for a more gentle and nuanced scent experience, one that makes the absolute most of all notes in the fragrance with every single burn.

Cold Throw:

How a candle smells while it sits unlit.

Hot Throw:

How a candle smells while it's burning.

Top Notes:

These are the scents you'll notice most when you first light your candle or before lighting it. Their job is to intrigue and provide a gentle introduction as to what lies ahead. As your candle sits cool, these are the elevating notes that will subtly enhance your living spaces. Like all delicate things a top note is fleeting, they evaporate quickly making way for the middle and base notes.

Heart Notes:

Heart Notes, also referred to as Middle Notes appear quickly after your candle has been lit. These notes are far more stable and evaporate slower to keep your attention. They gently mingle with those fleeting top notes to give your candle it's personality. 

Base Notes:

Base notes come in right after the middle notes. They are powerful and invigorating and often linger well after your candle has been extinguished, this is because at a molecular level they are much heavier than the other notes and evaporate the slowest. Base notes are what add complexity and much needed depth to your candle fragrance.

Olfactory Family:

Olfactory simply relates to your sense of smell. The Olfactory Family places fragrances on the 'fragrance wheel' which groups fragrances into four 'families'; Floral, Amber, Woody and Fresh. Each family is made up of aromas that are either similar to each other, share the same characteristics or have complementary aspects. Under each family are sub-groups, which describe a particular scent in much detail.

Phthalates:

Phthalates are little scent carriers, they were typically used to disperse the fragrance molecules further to give a better hot throw. In recent years phthalates have been linked to some potential not nice side effects such as reproductive issues and hormone disrupting, so you will never find them in our fragrances. Instead we use coconut wax which is a light molecule and ask you to place your candle in an area that takes advantage of the natural air flow of a room - this does the job just as well without nasty effects.