Mistral Candle

A Mistral candle poured by hand in the USA into a thick ceramic vessel in matte black, topped with a lid of ash wood. The wax is a soy-rich blend with an all-natural cotton wick free of lead, and the fragrance oil is perfumed in Grasse, France, at a high concentration. It burns clean and slow, with a long burn time that carries well past the first few evenings.

Mistral is best known for men's soap, and the candles share the same dark, grounded point of view. The four scents run from amber and black patchouli with citrus and warm woods, to bourbon vanilla with smoked oak and golden tobacco leaf, to cedarwood and Atlas pine with a cool marine edge, to iced grapefruit and juniper with white musk and a splash of saltwater. The black vessel and wood lid read like apothecary packaging, and the candle sits easily beside brass, leather and a stack of well-worn books.

Set one on a bar cart, a desk, a bookshelf or the bathroom ledge. The lid keeps dust out between burns and finishes the top of the vessel once the flame is out. Each scent arrives in its own gift box, so it is ready to hand to someone who already has a favorite chair to put it next to.