The forty-candle rule
We never pour more than forty.
Anna ran a bakery. Tomasz fixed bikes. In 2019 we rented Arch 14 on Cumberland Road because it was cheap and nobody else wanted a room that smelled of diesel. It took eleven months to get the diesel out and the first batch right. That batch was forty jars, because forty is how many fit on the bench, and we've kept to it since: every jar is stirred, poured and trimmed by one of us, and if a scent drifts even slightly, the batch doesn't ship.
“A candle is the cheapest way to change a room. It should at least be honest.”
40jars per batch
11months to batch one
2people, one dog
