Autumn Midnight Candle

[thekittenkat]

Frankincense, honeycomb, black copal, and myrrh veiled in night-blooming jasmine, dusky amber, black rose, smoky patchouli leaf, bitter cacao, and a dribble of red wine.

What can I say? This is a divinely beautiful candle! It's like standing at midnight in the middle of October in a hothouse garden devoted to the night-blooming jasmine and the black rose, both in full bloom. Over on the workbench is burning a beeswax candle that was made with the best autumnal resins and spices, stuck about with pieces of a bitter cacao pod. In one's hand is a crystal goblet with only dregs of a red wine left. This is part of that marvelous scent of autumn that Ray Bradbury wrote of in such evocative language.