Chamomile

A chamomile candle grounded in fresh greens and gardenia rather than the powdery chamomile-tea cliché makes for a different kind of evening entirely. The Shido Chamomile opens with garden greenery and white gardenia, transitions into jasmine and violet laced with spice, and settles on a soft musk that lingers without heaviness. Eight ounces of coconut-soy wax sit inside clear glass with a flat base designed to rest on any surface without wobbling. Dual braided cotton wicks generate two separate melt pools that merge as the burn progresses, pulling fragrance oil from the center outward until the entire surface is liquid. No paraffin means no soot streaking up your walls. No phthalates means the scent comes from the fragrance blend and nothing else. The whole formula is vegan from the wax to the adhesive holding the wicks to the vessel floor. My friend Claudette keeps one in the bathroom where the steam from the shower activates whatever scent remains in the cooled wax between burns. She calls it passive aromatherapy. I call it clever.