Vixen

Vixen

by Chive
$28.85
Sold by Chive chive.comQuality 79
A jasmine candle that arrives through vanilla blossom and bergamot skips the slow build most jasmine fragrances attempt — tuberose is already present by the second breath, confident from the start, and the middle register never pretends to be anything other than floral at full volume. Creamy musk and whipped amber close the base with a richness that rounds the jasmine without smothering it, and the combined effect fills a room as if the candle has been burning for hours when only twenty minutes have passed. The wax began at a single-origin American soy farm, crop pressed and combined with coconut at a ratio engineered for jasmine's indolic compound, which requires a low-melt carrier to unfold properly. Eight ounces of glass, two wicks sharing the surface to bring the tuberose trapped at the edges into rotation. Over sixty hours of clean, vegan burning from cotton wicks and plant wax that leaves no dark film on the glass.