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A lit candle in a frosted glass, its flame warm against a dark room
The first thirty seconds

Sulphur, then paper, then the room.

Every candle we make is built backwards from the smell of a match going out. The wax just carries it for forty hours.

Pitch · Candles · Three scents, one match

Smoke after the match.

Struck match, birch smoke, cold ash.Three candles that smell like the moment after you light them. Soy and coconut wax, cotton wick, poured by hand at 62°. Nothing floral, anywhere.

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01 · The first burn

Burn it to the edge the first time.

Wax remembers. If the first burn stops before the pool reaches the glass, every burn after it stops there too, and the candle tunnels down the middle with half of it unburnt.

0
minutes · lit. The pool is the size of the wick.
40 min
1 h 30
2 h 40 · the edge
02 · Forty hours

Three notes. In the order they arrive.

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hours burned · of forty
Struck.0 – 15 min

The match head. Sulphur, phosphorus, a curl of paper. Loud, and gone before you've sat down. This is the part people buy it for.

Smoke.15 min – 2 h

Birch tar, black tea, a little leather. The room after the fire's caught. This is the part they keep it for.

Ash.2 h onward

Cold cedar, a dry, clean grey. The morning after. Quiet enough to read next to. This is what forty hours mostly smells of.

An amber glass bottle with a dropper standing in dappled light against a pale wall

Eight litres at a time. Poured at 62°.

Fragrance goes in at 62°, not 70, because the top notes burn off above that and you'd never get the match back. Then a day to cure before the lid goes on. Then two weeks in the dark before it's sold.

Three candles

Match, Hearth, After.

The same three notes in three proportions. One is mostly the strike, one is mostly the smoke, one is mostly the morning. Pick the moment you want the room to stay in.

01 · Mostly the strikeMatch

Sulphur, paper, a little smoke behind it. Sharp for the first hour, then settles. For the hallway, or the ten minutes before people arrive.

220 g · 40 h · £34
02 · Mostly the smokeHearth

Birch tar, black tea, leather. The one people mean when they say "the Pitch one". Sitting room, evening, the door shut.

220 g · 40 h · £34
03 · Mostly the morningAfter

Cold ash and cedar. Barely there. Bedroom, bathroom, a desk. For people who find candles too loud, this is the quiet one.

220 g · 40 h · £34
Wax

What's in the glass.

Everything in it is on this list. Nothing on the list is a trade secret.

WaxSoy and coconut, 80/20. Burns cooler than paraffin, throws further than pure soy.
WickFlat-braided cotton, unbleached. Sized to the glass so the pool reaches the edge at 2 h 40.
Fragrance8% by weight. Birch tar, guaiacwood, black tea absolute, cedar, a synthetic for the sulphur because the real thing is unpleasant.
GlassFrosted, 9 cm, refillable. Send it back with the lid and we'll refill it for £22.
BurnForty hours across the first burn to the edge and fifteen more of two to three hours. Trim the wick to 5 mm each time; the tin includes the trimmer.
One candle
£34

Any of the three, in a tin with the wick trimmer. Two weeks cured before it ships.

All three
£90

Match, Hearth, After. One for each room. Post free.

Refill
£22

Send the glass back in the tin it came in. Same candle, poured into your glass, back in ten days.

No seasonal scents. No limited editions. If we made a fourth candle you'd have heard about it, and we haven't.
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Pick the moment: the strike, the smoke, or the morning. Strike the match that comes in the tin. The first thirty seconds will tell you whether we were right.

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