Winter Candle

With this new candle, in its clear-coloured, hand-blown, bubbled glass holders, Rose Uniacke has captured and distilled the atmosphere of the season. 

In winter, vases holding tall sprays of pine and eucalyptus fill the rooms of Rose’s house with the sharp freshness of outside. The sweetness of olive-wood fires, bowls of clementines with their citrus fragrance, breakfasts of porridge and spiced-fruit mingle through the days. In the evenings there are leisurely family dinners, the glow of red wine and the luxury of cherries on ice. And at the day’s end, the scented steam of candle-lit baths before bed enfolds the soul with notes of warmth and comfort.  

For the winter candle, the glass vessel is the fresh green of winter pine-fronds. Hand-blown in the Jizera mountains of Northern Bohemia, whose wooded slopes supply the necessary quartz and potash, its soft shape is modelled on an antique piece in Rose’s own collection. 

The lead-free glass, with its glowing colour, is individually hand blown so that no two pieces are the same. Its bubbled texture, made by trapping tiny pockets of air in the glass while it is still in a molten state, gives the little bowl a lively delicacy and charm. 

The candle itself is a natural blend of soy, cocoa, rapeseed and beeswax, hand-poured in London. Its bespoke fragrance was created, using samples of the flowers, scents, and products in daily use in Rose’s own house. These samples were adjusted, refined and distilled by an expert perfumer in Somerset, using a mix of essential oils, to create the glowing warmth and spice-filled freshness of Rose’s house in winter. 

Its four notes are as follows:

Chord 1 - Chamomile, Lemon scented ironbark
Chord 2 - Apothecary rose, Ylang ylang, Clove
Chord 3 - Cedarwood, Benzoin