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Parfum du Voyage Arles Scented Candle

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Parfum du Voyage Arles Scented Candle

Clean · Luminous · Quietly Ancient

Parfum du Voyage Arles 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 / Clean · Profile: Clean · Soothing · Airy Elegance
Notes: Sage + cotton blossom / lavender + patchouli / amber + cedar + palo santo
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)

Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 and immediately understood something the city had known for centuries: that the quality of light here is unlike anywhere else on earth. It comes off the white stone of the Roman amphitheatre and the bleached walls of the old town with a particular crisp luminosity, the light of a place that has been dried and brightened by the Mistral until everything unnecessary has been removed.

ARLES opens on a morning of effortless clarity: sage and cotton blossom, clean and serene as laundered linen drying in a warm Provençal wind. Lavender breathes through the heart with the generous, unhurried confidence of the Provençal countryside itself, earthed by patchouli into something grounded and real rather than merely pretty.

The base is amber and cedar and the quietly luminous mystery of palo santo: the smoke of something ancient and good, the lingering warmth of a day that was simple and therefore perfect. This is the fragrance of a life lived without unnecessary complexity, and the particular elegance that comes from that.
Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes
Sage, Cotton Blossom

Heart Notes
Lavender, Patchouli

Base Notes
Amber, Cedar, Palo Santo

Sage in the opening carries the green, camphoric brightness of the garrigue: not culinary sage but wild sage, sun-warmed and slightly resinous, the smell of the hillside above the Roman theatre on a dry summer morning. Cotton blossom beside it adds an airy, laundered cleanliness that keeps the opening from becoming too dense: this fragrance is light as a quality, not just as an absence of darkness.

Lavender in the heart brings the Provençal countryside into the room with characteristic generosity, and patchouli, used here with restraint, as an earthing agent rather than a dominant note, keeps it grounded in the actual landscape rather than floating free into something merely pleasant. The base trio of amber, cedar, and palo santo is where the fragrance becomes genuinely ancient: amber’s warm resinous depth, cedar’s dry structural gravity, and palo santo’s luminous, slightly sacred smokiness combine into something that carries the weight of the city’s two thousand years without being oppressive about it.
Specifications

Vessel: Frosted Glass with Natural Wood Lid
Wax: Coconut Apricot Wax Blend (coconut, apricot, soy, and a trace of highly refined food-grade paraffin)
Wax Color: Natural, No Dyes
Wick: Natural Wooden Wick, Trim to 1⁄8” before each burn
Size: 11 oz. · 2.93” W × 3.75” H
Burn Time: Approximately 60 Hours
Origin: Made in the USA
The First Burn
Allow the wax to melt fully to the edge of the vessel on the first burn, generally two to three hours. This prevents tunneling and engages the full wax pool for every subsequent burn. A candle given this small courtesy at the outset will honor the full sixty hours of its intended life.

Safe Burning
Never leave a burning candle unattended. Never burn on or near anything that might catch fire. Keep out of the reach of children and pets. For comprehensive guidance, the National Candle Association maintains an excellent resource at candles.org.

The Vessel After
The frosted glass vessel is worth keeping when the candle has run its course. Warm water and dish soap remove any remaining wax cleanly, and what remains is a small, beautifully finished object that deserves a second life: as a vase, a vessel for pencils, or simply a reminder that good things are worth the space they occupy.
A Note from Jeff

I have returned to Arles more times than I can accurately count, always for the brocantes, the Théâtre Antique market in particular, which has the particular virtue of being set inside a Roman theatre and therefore makes even mediocre faïence look like an archaeological find. But what brings me back is not only the market. It is the city itself: the way the Roman stones catch the morning light, the way the old town narrows into lanes that open without warning onto a square you did not know was there, the way the whole place moves at a pace that seems constitutionally resistant to urgency.

I bought a drawing in Arles once, a small academic study of hands, nineteenth century, unsigned, nothing remarkable by any objective measure, and it has been on my wall for fifteen years. Each time I observe it, I am transported to the market: the scent of sage and aged paper, and the distinctive warmth of limestone basking in direct sunlight. That is, more or less, what ARLES smells like. It is not a coincidence.

Parfum du Voyage Arles Scented Candle