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A Scented Home
from Potton October 2020
by Villager Mag
This gift box set fits through the letterbox and contains a pack of four tealights and six melts, all made from vegan soy wax. Each fragrance is unique, and once melted it releases a heavenly scent to revive your senses and your home. Make Your Dreams Happen gift pack, £12.95, Chalk and Cheese.
Hand poured in London, The Pure Scent’s candles are made from organic soy wax, giving a pure, clean and lasting burn, with natural essential oils for an irresistible scent. Scented candle in a tin, £12.50; scented candle in a glass, £25; both Know & Love.
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A Scented Home A home that smells delicious is a great pleasure, and some people swear that the right fragrance will also help you feel relaxed, refreshed, more focused, calm, clear-headed or invigorated. It makes ‘scents’ to give it a try…
A delicate blend of jasmine and tuberose harmonises with nuances of orange flower, carnation and ylang ylang, with opulent musk adding a subtle warmth to the heady floral of this reed diffuser, which lasts for up to nine months. Jasmine and tuberose reed diffuser
500ml, £30, Ashleigh & Burwood. 68
This pretty glass contained a eucalyptusscented candle with a burn time of twenty hours. Small eucalyptus garden boxed candle, £6.99, Gisela Graham London.
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Wax Atelier’s candles are the ultimate in elegant craftsmanship. Hand dipped in their East London studio using beeswax, they each have a burn time of around ninety minutes. Set of eight green tea and beeswax ‘Celebration’ candles, £22, Know & Love. Giving forty hours of burn time, this paraffin/vegetable wax-blend candle releases a crisp scent of juicy fig. Made in Provence by Bastide’s master candlemakers, it is fragranced with top notes of fig leaf and sweet cassis, followed by delicious fig milk and white cyclamen petals, and paired with warm woods and soft musk, all presented in a hand-blown A blend of delicate white amber bubble glass. Bastide figue nectarine and fresh spring d’eté candle, £48, Curated Living. flowers on a base of luxurious manuka honey, this candle is made of soy wax and pure essential oils. White nectarine and honey medium tin candle, £10.50, Marmalade of London.
With a unique, hand-painted lid, this hand-poured soy wax candle is specially made to melt evenly and burn for fortyeight hours. The citrus notes of grapefruit and mandarin are designed to invigorate. Fresh ginger and green tea candle and wax melt set, £24, The Good Aura Company. A refreshing, sweet citrus sorbet of lemon, peach, mandarin and rhubarb, the base of this scent is reminiscent of endless summer days by the coast. With a soy base for six months’ enjoyment, the set includes a reusable bone china jug. Cadgwith reed diffuser, £30, Cream Cornwall. • Using a reed diffuser is an ideal way to provide safe, continual, all-over ambience. If you don’t like the container, simply pour the liquid into one of your own (it’s best if it has a relatively narrow neck). Turn the reeds over every two or three weeks to refresh them. After a while, though, they may become clogged with dust and will need replacing. • Candles provide a more intimate setting, with pretty, flickering light.
But there are safety issues, of course.
Be careful where you place them, keep them away from draughts, and don’t leave them unattended. • When burning a candle, allow the wax on top to liquefy right to the edges before extinguishing the flame – otherwise you may find ‘tunnelling’ of the wax as the wick burns down.
Extra-wide candles should have more than one wick to avoid this effect.
Always keep the wick trimmed short to avoid smoke (especially important on glass-jar candles), and remember to dust your candle as necessary (use rubbing alcohol or a hand sanitiser wipe) so you don’t end up burning dirt next time you light them. • Soy wax candles tend to burn for longer than paraffin ones, emit fewer chemicals, and come from a renewable source. • Wax melts are an alternative to candles and diffusers – they’re scented cubes or bars of wax (sometimes called ‘tarts’), but without a wick. Place them in a special warmer and they will melt and release fragrance safely and without evaporating. Once all the scent has gone, throw the melt away (soy melts are biodegradable) and start again.
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