Intoxicated

An incense candle whose first impression is juniper berry, cypress, and red berries before saltwater and the actual incense note carry the middle somewhere heady and deliberately loose — a scent profile that justifies the name before the first session is half over. Intoxicated finds its base in oud minerals, guaiacwood, amber, and cedarwood, each of them settling dark and low enough to change the character of a room entirely once the lighter opening notes clear. The coconut-soy wax keeps the incense from turning acrid by releasing heavier resin molecules at a gentle thermal threshold rather than scorching them the way a paraffin formula would. Two wicks form a complete surface melt within forty minutes of lighting, the soy comes from one domestic farm and was refined on site before coconut wax joined the blend, and the eight-ounce glass absorbs sixty-plus hours of recurring heat without stress. Vegan from wax to wick to oil, hand-poured, with no phthalates or paraffin in the formula.