Your Guide to a Better-Smelling Home
Let’s be honest. Most of us have lit a cheap supermarket candle on a grey Tuesday evening, watched it gutter out in forty minutes, and been left with a faint headache and a wax-stained jar. Not exactly the cosy sanctuary we were after. The thing is, that headache isn’t your imagination. Conventional paraffin candles — … Read more
There’s a candle on most British mantelpieces right now. Probably more than one. And chances are, nobody in that household has ever given a second thought to what it’s actually made of — until the day a friend mentions something about “toxic smoke” over a Sunday roast, and suddenly you’re standing in your living room … Read more
There is a particular kind of magic in lighting a candle on a grey Tuesday evening in October, when the rain is doing that British thing of being simultaneously aggressive and pathetic, and the scent unfurls across the room before you’ve even taken your coat off. Not all candles deliver that magic, of course. The … Read more