Notes from the atelier.
How to choose a luxury candle in India
Guide · 5 min
Price is the least useful signal. Here is what to look for instead: wax, throw, wick and whether the vessel has a second life.
The first burn is the only one that matters
Care · 3 min
Everything a candle will do for the next seventy hours is decided in the first three.
Australia's natives are perfumery's newest old materials
Materials · 6 min
Boronia, blue cypress, lemon myrtle, desert lime: Australia has been growing the future of fragrance for a very long time.
Kannauj, the city that bottles rain
Origins · 5 min
Three of the ten Désir candles begin in one small town on the Ganges plain.
A candle for Diwali, without the cliché
Gifting · 4 min
The festival of light deserves better than a mass-market jar. A short guide to giving well.
What a refillable candle really means
House · 4 min
A vessel worth keeping is the only honest luxury in home fragrance.