{ "id": "eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g", "sku": "eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g", "title": "Eucalyptus Sage Soy Blend Candle 290 g", "slug": "eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g", "price": 71.99, "currency": "SGD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "soy-candles", "category_label": "Soy Candles", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "290 g", "images": [ "https://quietluxury.asia/dropship-images/soy-candles/eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g/main-eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g.jpg", "https://quietluxury.asia/dropship-images/soy-candles/eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g/eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g-2.jpg" ], "description_short": "290 g of soy and palm wax in a reusable glass jar, paraffin free, with a single cotton wick. The maker states a burn time of up to 55 hours.", "description": "The problem with most candles in a flat\n\nHere is the usual story. You buy a candle because the jar looks nice, you light it, and within twenty minutes the room smells like a dessert trolley. Or the opposite happens: you can only smell it if you lean directly over the glass. A few weeks later there is a deep hole down the middle and a thick ring of unused wax stuck to the sides.\n\nMost of that comes down to three things. The scent profile was wrong for the room. The wick was wrong for the jar. And nobody told you how the first burn works.\n\nA eucalyptus sage soy blend candle tackles the first problem by leading with eucalyptus. The maker describes the scent as fresh, and its scent card lists eucalyptus in the top, middle and base, with green tea, lemon, rose, honey, peach and cedar around it. A fresh scent is a good match for a home that is closed up and air conditioned for most of the day, where a heavy sugary scent has nowhere to go and just builds up.\n\nWhat is actually in this candle\n\nThe wax is a blend of soy wax and high-melting-point palm oil. That is worth saying plainly, because a lot of listings use the word soy loosely. This is a soy blend candle, not a pure soy one.\n\nWhy blend it at all? The maker says the candle is carefully blended from soy wax and high-melting-point palm oil, and links the blend to how long the fragrance lasts. That is the maker's description, and we pass it on as stated.\n\nThe maker states the candle is paraffin free, and the wick is cotton. The jar is glass, 9.9 cm across and 11.3 cm tall, and the candle weighs 290 g, which is about 10.2 oz. There is one wick, and the maker states a burn time of up to 55 hours.\n\nHow one wick and 290 g actually behave\n\nWick count should match jar diameter, and at just under 10 cm wide a single wick is the right call. One flame can pull a melt pool out to the glass wall on a jar this size. Add a second wick and you would be burning through wax faster for no real gain in scent.\n\nThat melt pool is the whole game. Wax has what people in the trade call memory. The first time you burn a candle, it learns how wide to melt, and every burn afterwards follows roughly the same line. If your first session is only forty minutes, the candle remembers a narrow circle and digs down from there.\n\nSo give the first burn two to three hours, or however long it takes for the liquid wax to touch the glass all the way round. After that, two to four hours per session is a sensible range. Shorter than two and you are not getting the full surface liquid. Much longer than four and the glass is just getting hotter than it needs to be.\n\nOn 55 hours: that is the maker's figure, so treat it as the ceiling. Burn it in long sessions near a vent and you will get less. Burn it in steady two-hour stretches in still air and you will get closer to the number.\n\nWhere to put it\n\nAir movement is the single biggest thing people get wrong. A flame that is being nudged by a fan or an air-conditioning vent burns taller, flickers, soots the inside of the glass and eats wax unevenly. Worse, the scent you paid for gets pushed straight across the room and out of it.\n\nPut the jar somewhere still. A bedside table, a bathroom shelf, a desk corner, a console near the entrance. Away from the vent, away from the standing fan, away from curtains that lift when the air kicks on.\n\nThen close the door. A medium bedroom or study is the kind of moderately sized space the maker recommends for a single 290 g candle. In a big open-plan living space you have a lot more air to fill, and you will either want two jars placed apart or you will need to accept a softer effect. In a small flat, the right room matters more than a bigger candle.\n\nSurface matters too. Glass gets warm. Use something flat and heat resistant, keep it clear of anything that can catch, and never leave it burning when you leave the room or go to sleep.\n\nWho this scent suits\n\nThink about who you are buying for, including yourself.\n\nIf the person reaches for vanilla, caramel and bakery scents, this may not be their candle. It suits people who like fresh, green scents: a spa changing room, a eucalyptus bundle in the shower, or just a room that has had the windows open.\n\nIt works especially well in a bathroom, where a fresh scent feels at home. It works in a study or a home office, where a green scent sits in the background more easily than a rich one. It works in a bedroom if you prefer something fresh and not heavy.\n\nAs a gift it is a safe bet. A fresh eucalyptus scent is an easy one to give. The green glass looks finished without extra wrapping. And 290 g is a size people recognise as a real gift rather than a sample.\n\nLooking after it\n\nThe maintenance is small but it makes a visible difference.\n\nTrim the wick to about 5 mm before every burn. A long wick makes a tall, unstable flame that smokes and burns fast. Trimming takes five seconds with nail scissors and keeps the flame a neat point.\n\nLet the candle cool completely before you relight it or cover it. Putting a lid on warm wax traps heat and moisture. A cover on cold wax, though, is useful for keeping dust off between uses.\n\nStop burning when about 10 mm of wax is left in the base. Past that, too much heat goes into the bottom of the glass with not enough wax to absorb it.\n\nIf you do end up with a bit of hangup on the sides after a short burn, do not panic. Give it one longer session and the wall usually melts back down.\n\nGetting the jar back\n\nWhen the wax is spent, warm water does most of the work. Fill the jar with hot tap water, wait, and the last disc of wax will loosen and float. Lift it out with the wick tab, pour the water away (not down the sink if there is loose wax in it, into a bin), then wash with warm soapy water and dry.\n\nWhat you have left is a solid little green tumbler about 10 cm wide. Makeup brushes stand in it well. So do pens, hair clips, cotton buds, loose change and a propagating cutting. It is a small thing, but it is the reason jar candles feel less wasteful than most scented products.\n\nThe short version\n\nThis is a 290 g eucalyptus and sage candle in a 9.9 by 11.3 cm green glass jar, made from a soy and palm wax blend rather than pure soy, paraffin free, with one cotton wick. The maker states a burn time of up to 55 hours.\n\nBurn it the first time until the wax reaches the glass edge. Trim the wick to 5 mm before each light. Keep it out of moving air and in a room with the door shut. Stop at 10 mm of wax, then wash out the glass and keep it.\n\nDo those few things and you give the candle a good chance of burning flat instead of tunnelling, and you keep a piece of glassware to use after the wax is gone.", "llm_summary": "This is a 290 g (10.2 oz) eucalyptus and sage scented candle in a green glass jar. The wax is a blend of soy wax and high-melting-point palm oil, so it is a soy blend candle and not pure soy, and the maker states it is paraffin free. It has one cotton wick. The maker states a burn time of up to 55 hours. The jar measures 9.9 cm wide by 11.3 cm high, and the photos show a matching lid. It is a container candle listed for indoor use, and the maker recommends a moderately sized space away from strong ventilation. The maker's scent card lists green tea, petitgrain, lemon and eucalyptus at the top, nutmeg, rose, honey and fruity notes in the middle, and floral, peach and cedar notes at the base.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; your protection under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 for faulty goods is unaffected. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Quiet Luxury Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://quietluxury.asia/eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g/", "canonical_url": "https://quietluxury.asia/eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g/", "json_url": "https://quietluxury.asia/api/products/eucalyptus-sage-soy-blend-candle-290-g.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-21" }