The Journal

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

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...

The Hearth

The Rainy Afternoon: Making the Most of Being S...

The rain started sometime before noon. Not a storm, just a steady gray that settled over the windows and decided to stay. You had plans. They've quietly dissolved. The road...

The Hearth

The Rainy Afternoon: Making the Most of Being S...

The rain started sometime before noon. Not a storm, just a steady gray that settled over the windows and decided to stay. You had plans. They've quietly dissolved. The road...

Scent Stories

Mountain Trail at Dusk: Capturing the End of a ...

Some moments have a specific color of light. Mountain Trail at Dusk was built around one of them: the hour or so after dark has settled at elevation, when the...

Scent Stories

Mountain Trail at Dusk: Capturing the End of a ...

Some moments have a specific color of light. Mountain Trail at Dusk was built around one of them: the hour or so after dark has settled at elevation, when the...

The Craft

Why We Made Room Sprays (And When to Reach for ...

For a long time, we made one thing. A 10oz candle. 100% soy, a wood wick, a straight-sided matte black glass jar, and a handmade red oak lid finished in...

The Craft

Why We Made Room Sprays (And When to Reach for ...

For a long time, we made one thing. A 10oz candle. 100% soy, a wood wick, a straight-sided matte black glass jar, and a handmade red oak lid finished in...