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Parfum du Voyage Honfleur Scented Candle

$56.00
$56.00
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  • Honfleur Candle with Seashell illustration
  • Parfum du Voyage Honfleur Scented Candle
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  • Parfum du Voyage Honfleur Scented Candle
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Parfum du Voyage Honfleur Scented Candle

Salt-Clean · Luminous · Coastal Intimate

Parfum du Voyage Honfleur Scented Candle

$56.00
$56.00
The Candle Itself

A fragrance is only as honest as the wax that carries it. Ours is a coconut–apricot blend — a vegan composition of coconut, apricot, and soy waxes, made in the USA from renewable sources and fully biodegradable. We chose it for the way it behaves: a low, even melt that releases fragrance steadily rather than all at once, the way a room should fill — gradually, and then completely.

The fragrance oils are blended and tested in the United States to the strictest clean standard we could find: free of phthalates and parabens, and formulated without a single ingredient on California's Proposition 65 list. No dyes in the wax. Nothing in the vessel but what belongs there.

Each candle is hand-poured in small batches in the USA into frosted glass, finished with a natural wood lid. The wick is wood, not cotton — it burns with a soft crackle that does for a quiet evening what a fireplace does for a winter one. Trim it to 1/8" before each burn, give the first burn two to three hours to reach the edge of the glass, and the candle will return the favor for roughly sixty hours.

One note, because we work with natural waxes and no industrial stabilizers: you may occasionally see a soft, translucent veil where the wax meets the glass. It is the signature of a clean wax cooling at its own pace — a fingerprint, not a flaw. And when the last hour has burned, keep the vessel. Warm water and soap will clear it, and it deserves a second life on your desk or shelf.
Description

Scent family: Fresh / Coastal · Profile: Serene · Coastal · Simply Home
Notes: Sea air + citrus + fresh linen / freesia + green leaves + sea salt / driftwood + amber + soft musk
The candle: 11 oz frosted glass · natural wood wick · ~60 hr burn · coconut-apricot wax · hand-poured in the USA
Wholesale: $28 / candle · Case of 4 · MSRP $56 (50% margin)

Honfleur has always known how to make you feel at home in a place you have never been. The old harbour tilts its slate-roofed houses toward the water like an audience leaning forward, and the light on the Vieux Bassin in late afternoon is the light that made the Impressionists understand, finally, what they were trying to paint.

HONFLEUR opens with the exhale of a cottage door swung open onto a salt-clean morning: fresh sea air and citrus meeting warm linen inside, the domestic and the elemental in perfect, habitual conversation. The heart is the cottage itself: sun-warmed linen, a jar of garden flowers on the sill, the floorboards that creak in the right places.

The base settles into the particular contentment of a coastal room at the end of the day: soft driftwood and warm amber, the smell of a fire that does not need to be grand to be exactly what you need. This is the scent of belonging somewhere beautiful.
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A Note from Jeff

I have spent many afternoons by the Vieux Bassin, watching the masts sway against those impossibly tall, narrow houses and trying to understand what Boudin and Monet found here that they couldn’t find elsewhere. I think it is this: the harbour light in Honfleur has a quality of being both reflected and absorbed simultaneously — the water takes the sky and gives it back slightly altered, slightly warmer, slightly more considered than it was. It is the kind of light that makes you want to stay still and pay attention, which is probably why painters kept coming back.

There is a specific feeling of belonging that happens in Honfleur even for a traveller who has no particular claim on the place. I wanted to capture the transition at the centre of that feeling — from the salt air of the quay to the warmth of a quiet room, from the elemental to the domestic, from outside to in. HONFLEUR is best lit when the day is winding down and the world feels newly washed. It is a fragrance for the threshold, and for the particular ease that comes from having crossed it.

Parfum du Voyage Honfleur Scented Candle