Grande Bougie - Cannabis Laurier

DETAILS

640g ceramic vessel. Handcrafted in small batches in the Haute-Savoie. All perfumes produced in Grasse. Burn time approximately 90 hours. We recommend 2 hours for the first burn, trim wicks to between 5mm-10mm.

A NOTE FROM THE PERFUMER

Note that the cannabis is not at the top. It would have been easy (and easy is the word) to lead with it. Instead the candle opens as a herb garden: laurel, thyme and rosemary, dry and Mediterranean, the sort of thing you brush past on a path in August. The cannabis only surfaces at the heart, once the room has warmed, and by then it reads as what it actually is olfactorily: green, resinous, a little bitter. The violet beside it was the last thing we added and the thing that made the formula hold; it takes the raw edge off without turning it sweet. Cedarwood and patchouli at the base keep it earthed. People either love this one immediately or never come round to it. We have stopped trying to fix that.