The Journal

Notes on craft, scent, and the things we make.

The Hearth

The Optimist's Morning: A Start Worth Getting U...

The alarm goes off and for a second you have a choice. You can meet the day already behind, reaching for the phone, scrolling into someone else's morning before you've...

The Hearth

The Optimist's Morning: A Start Worth Getting U...

The alarm goes off and for a second you have a choice. You can meet the day already behind, reaching for the phone, scrolling into someone else's morning before you've...

The Craft

The Role of Curing Time in Candle Quality

There's a step in candle production that happens after the work is done, requires no labor, and can't be shortened without degrading the product. That step is curing, the period...

The Craft

The Role of Curing Time in Candle Quality

There's a step in candle production that happens after the work is done, requires no labor, and can't be shortened without degrading the product. That step is curing, the period...

The Craft

Candle, Room Spray, or Wax Melt: Which One for ...

People sometimes ask which of our products is best. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends on the moment. A candle, a room spray,...

The Craft

Candle, Room Spray, or Wax Melt: Which One for ...

People sometimes ask which of our products is best. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends on the moment. A candle, a room spray,...

Scent Stories

Setting Out at First Light: A Scent for Optimists

There is a specific quality to the first hour of an early morning outdoors, before the sun is fully up, before the day's heat arrives, before you know how the...

Scent Stories

Setting Out at First Light: A Scent for Optimists

There is a specific quality to the first hour of an early morning outdoors, before the sun is fully up, before the day's heat arrives, before you know how the...

The Hearth

How to Pair a Candle with a Moment (Not Just a ...

The standard advice for choosing a candle is to match it to a room. Kitchen candles, bathroom candles, bedroom candles. The underlying logic is that different spaces have different needs....

The Hearth

How to Pair a Candle with a Moment (Not Just a ...

The standard advice for choosing a candle is to match it to a room. Kitchen candles, bathroom candles, bedroom candles. The underlying logic is that different spaces have different needs....

In the Shop

Cherry, Up Close: The Wood We Chose for the Cat...

Hold a piece of cherry in good light and run your thumb across it. It is smooth in a way that does not feel sealed or slick. It feels like...

In the Shop

Cherry, Up Close: The Wood We Chose for the Cat...

Hold a piece of cherry in good light and run your thumb across it. It is smooth in a way that does not feel sealed or slick. It feels like...