About this batch

August in the greenhouse: green fig leaf, crushed tomato stem, a thread of basil. The scent that sells out first every summer, poured into a returnable aluminium tin with a cotton wick and the British beeswax-and-rapeseed blend the studio is built on — no paraffin, no dye, and a warm honey tone that comes from the wax itself.

Burn time is around forty hours when the wick is trimmed to 5mm before each light and the first burn reaches a full melt pool — both stated on the base label, because an honest forty beats a fantasy sixty. The throw is present but polite: it fills a kitchen, not a house, which is exactly what a tomato-stem candle should do.

Tins are returnable through the Famica seller network — send five clean tins back and the sixth candle is half price. They also make excellent pencil pots, which is what most of the studio’s own end up as.

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