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CLR is a beloved brand in the candle community, which is a corny opening sentence but also completely true. They’re inclusive and diverse, owned and operated by LGBTQIA+ people of color who donate a percentage of their profits back to the community, so this isn’t Big Candle, this is Cool Candle....
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I started this account four years ago (!) so I could have a place to talk about candles and scents and all the ways they make me feel. I also wanted to review candles honestly, because I google the hell out of anything I’m tempted to purchase without smelling first, and I always appreciate finding...
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It’s time for a late spring/early summer meeting of candle club! Candle club is like the Babysitters Club only we’re all adults who are allowed to have candy in our rooms and there are no children involved; we just talk about candles. In the olden days, we just called this a blog post with an...
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I didn’t even bother with a Top Candles of 2022 post because I knew my number one candle was no longer for sale. It was an Anthropologie seasonal candle called Sequoia Cypress that was already sold out on their website the day I bought it in-store in late September. I loved it so much that I went...
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My friend Millie DM’d me the other night asking for candle recs. This is my favorite kind of ask and I went to town with my answers, and then realized the next day duh, I have a blog where I could post this. Disclaimer: if you are able to sniff first in person, I always recommend that....
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The newest addition to my spring candle roster (do we need a 2023 roster update? we probably do) looks like October but smells like May. Burke & Hare Co’s Cemetery Gates is a fresh blend of sweet grass, hay, and earth wrapped in a label that looks straight out of Sabrina (the Sally Draper one,...
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I never thought, when starting this blog three years ago, that through it I’d discover my nemesis. And I never ever thought that in all the realms of possibility, my nemesis would be Candles Who Claim To Smell Like Tennis Balls. This feels anti-climactic, in the grand scheme of nemeses, but...