Gourmand Soy Candle Set

The Gourmand Soy Candle Set is a trio of three 6oz hand-poured jelly jar candles built around food and kitchen scents: Double Espresso, Nectar+Honey, and Vanilla+Citrus. Each candle has a 30-hour burn time, totaling 90 hours across the set. All three are made with 100% American-grown soy wax, phthalate-free fragrance oil, and 100% cotton wicks. No dyes, no synthetic colors, no petrochemicals. Once burned through, the three jelly jars are reusable for storage. The set has been featured in Hello Beautiful magazine and ships as a complete trio.

"Gourmand" is a fragrance category for scents that smell like food — coffee, vanilla, honey, baked goods, dessert. It's borrowed from the perfume world, where gourmand notes have been a major scent family for decades. A gourmand candle is meant to make your home smell like something delicious is happening, whether that's a coffee shop at 7 AM, a kitchen at the tail end of baking, or honey freshly opened from the jar. It's the opposite of clean, fresh, or floral candles — warm, edible, comforting.

Each of the three takes on a different food angle. Double Espresso smells like freshly ground coffee beans with sugar and cream — think of a coffee shop pulling its first shots in the morning. Nectar+Honey is golden and floral, built around raw honey with orange blossom, jasmine, rose, ylang ylang, vanilla, and tonka — the way honey actually smells when you open a fresh jar. Vanilla+Citrus pairs warm vanilla bean with bright orange and nectarine, plus florals and a touch of coconut. It's sweet without crossing into dessert territory.

Each 6oz jelly jar candle is $18 individually, so three would normally run $54. This Soy Candle Set is priced at $46 — a built-in $8 savings just for buying the trio together. It's the easiest way to try all three summer scents, stock up before warm weather, or hand off a complete gift without thinking about it. Note that the set is excluded from additional store-wide discounts since the savings are already baked in.

It's one of our most reliable gifts for foodies, coffee drinkers, bakers, hosts, and anyone who spends real time in their kitchen. The food-themed scents make it an obvious housewarming pick, and the set has the visual presence of a more substantial gift than a single candle. We hear from people who buy it for hostess thank-yous, holiday gifting, Mother's Day, and "I owe you" moments. Pair it with a jar of our honey or one of our teas if you want to go bigger. The Hello Beautiful feature gave it some recognition, but it earned the gift status long before that.

Our 6oz jelly jar candles have about a 30-hour burn time. To get the full 30 hours, keep individual burns to 1.5 hours maximum and trim the cotton wick to ¼ inch before every light. On the first burn, let the wax melt edge to edge — about an hour — to prevent tunneling down the middle. When roughly ½ inch of wax remains in the jar, retire the candle. Always let it cool fully before moving it, and burn on a heat-safe surface, away from drafts, pets, and anything flammable.

Yes. Our jelly jar candles are made with 100% American-grown soy wax, a phthalate-free fragrance oil, and a 100% cotton wick. Soy burns cleaner than paraffin — no soot ring on your ceiling, no petrochemicals released into the air. There are no dyes, no synthetic colors, and no phthalates. Every batch is hand-poured in our Owings Mills, Maryland facility and inspected before it ships. Safe to burn in kitchens, bedrooms, home offices, or any room you actually spend time in.