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“Smells happy and calming. Great combination. Will be buying again in future. 👏”
Vanilla+Citrus is the everyday candle in the catalog. Warm and bright at the same time, easy to live with.
You're making something with vanilla extract and accidentally spill some on the counter next to a bowl of oranges. That mix—warm vanilla with bright citrus cut—that's this candle.
Vanilla+Citrus has actual vanilla bean in there, not vanilla frosting scent. There's orange and nectarine running through it. Some flowers underneath that keep it from being too simple. Coconut at the base adds cream without making it smell like sunscreen.
It's sweet without being dessert. Bright without being cleaning product. The kind of scent that works in kitchens and living rooms and doesn't announce itself from three rooms away.
Pick one up for the room that needs something quiet and consistent.
How to Use: Trim the wick to ¼ inch before the first light. Let the wax melt edge to edge on that first burn — about an hour — to prevent tunneling. Keep individual burns to 1.5 hours maximum and let the candle cool completely before moving it. When roughly ½ inch of wax remains, retire the candle, wash the jar with hot soapy water, and put it to use.
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Vanilla+Citrus smells like spilling vanilla extract on the counter next to a bowl of oranges — warm vanilla cut through with bright citrus. The scent is built around real vanilla bean (not bakery-frosting vanilla), with orange and nectarine running across the top and soft florals underneath that keep it from feeling one-dimensional. Coconut at the base adds cream without veering into sunscreen territory. A returning customer described it as "happy and calming" — sweet without being dessert, bright without being cleaning product. It's a quiet, consistent scent that doesn't announce itself from three rooms away.
Real vanilla. Most vanilla candles fail because they lean on the cake-frosting or cupcake version of the scent — sweet, syrupy, and one-note. Vanilla+Citrus is built around actual vanilla bean: warmer, deeper, a little earthy. Orange and nectarine on top keep the sweetness in check, and the coconut base adds cream without crossing into food-candle territory. The citrus and vanilla balance each other — the fruit brightens the vanilla, the vanilla rounds out the fruit. If "vanilla candle" usually sounds like a hard pass to you because they all smell like cupcake batter, this is the version worth trying.
Year-round, in just about any room. Vanilla+Citrus is one of our most versatile candles — the food-adjacent notes layer naturally with cooking, so it's a strong kitchen pick, but customers burn it everywhere. Bathrooms get the bright citrus lift. Bedrooms and offices get the warmth of the vanilla without anything overwhelming. The scent is intentionally quiet — strong enough to fill a room, soft enough not to fight with food, conversation, or focus. Burn it morning or evening, summer or winter. It adapts to whatever the day is.
About 30 hours for the 6oz jelly jar. To get the full 30, keep individual burns to 1.5 hours maximum and trim the cotton wick to ¼ inch before every light. Retire the candle when roughly ½ inch of wax remains in the jar.
The vessel and the burn time. Both are the same soy wax, the same cotton wick, and the same fragrance. This one is a 6oz glass jelly jar with a metal lid and about a 30-hour burn. French Lavender Luxe is a 10oz smoke glass tumbler with about a 75-hour burn. Start with the jelly jar if you are new to the scent. Move to the Luxe if you burn it most nights.
100% American-grown soy wax, a phthalate-free fragrance oil, and a 100% cotton wick. Soy burns cleaner than paraffin. 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.
Three things make the biggest difference. First, trim the cotton wick to ¼ inch before every light. Long wicks cause smoke and uneven burning. Second, on your first burn, let the wax pool reach the edges of the jar, about an hour, so the candle doesn’t tunnel down the middle. Third, keep individual burns to 1.5 hours maximum and let the candle cool completely before moving it. Burn on a heat-safe surface, away from drafts, pets, and anything flammable.
100% American-Grown Soy Wax, Phthalate-Free Fragrance Oil, 100% Cotton Wick
2.75 x 2.75 x 3.875 inches
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You can also order and pick up from Honey House in Owings Mills, MD.
