Golden Hour Candle

Wandering is considerably more romantic when nobody mentions the logistics.

Golden Hour smells like the version where everything works out. Cinnamon and clove bring the warmth, lily slips something unexpectedly floral into the equation, and tobacco leaf, patchouli, and sandalwood settle underneath with a dry, earthy richness. The result is spicy and bright at the same time, like late-afternoon sun coming through the windows of a place you hadn't planned on staying very long. Light it when you're home but would prefer the room to suggest you've been somewhere. The wooden wick provides the requisite crackle, the sandalwood hangs around after the brighter notes disappear, and for a few hours your living room can participate in the fantasy that you are a person with few permanent ties. You can deal with the mortgage tomorrow.

The Details

• Spicy, woody + unexpectedly bright fragrance
• Scent 
  • Top: Cinnamon, Lily + Clove
    Middle: Cassia + Tobacco Leaf
    Base: Patchouli + Sandalwood
• Hand-poured
• Natural soy wax
• Sustainably sourced wooden wick with a soft crackle
• Free from petroleum, preservatives + cruelty
• Recyclable packaging with minimal plastic
• Made in the USA
• 6 oz: 25+ hour burn time
• 13 oz: 50+ hour burn time

About the Brand:  LIT LÁB CO.

LIT LÁB CO. operates on the fairly persuasive theory that changing how a room smells can change how the room feels. The brand creates fragrance for homes, hotels, cafés, and other spaces where atmosphere is doing more work than anyone admits. Its scents are layered, intentional, and designed to live in a space rather than assault everyone who enters it. Because the difference between “the living room” and “the living room at 8 p.m. with a candle burning” is technically just fragrance and fire, yet somehow we continue to fall for it.