Good Salt Candle

The coast, without having to own anything nautical.

The Good Salt Candle from Good Olfactory smells like the part of being near the ocean you actually want to bring home:  cool air, salt on your skin, citrus somewhere in the distance, and that strange feeling that everything is approximately 20% better near a large body of water. Cardamom and orange peel give it a bright, lightly spiced opening before sea salt moves in, grounded by palm, amber, and soft musk. The result is clean and mineral with just enough warmth to keep it from smelling like somebody labeled a blue candle “Ocean Breeze” and called it a day. Handcrafted with a clean-burning coconut-soy wax blend and non-toxic fragrance, it’s an easy everyday candle for making the house smell fresher, calmer, and suspiciously closer to the Pacific.

The Details

• Key notes: cardamom, orange peel, sea salt, palm, amber, and light musk
• Handcrafted with a custom coconut-soy wax blend
• Non-toxic fragrance
• Free from phthalates and parabens
• Cruelty-free
  
• 8 oz: up to 50 hours burn time
  
• Trim wick to 1/4–1/8" before burning
• Do not burn longer than 4 hours at a time

About the Brand:  Good Olfactory

Good Olfactory makes hand-poured candles and body goods built around the fairly convincing idea that small pleasures can make an ordinary day a little better. Their candles are handcrafted with coconut-soy wax and non-toxic, phthalate- and paraben-free fragrances, because what you burn in your house probably deserves at least as much consideration as what you put in it. The “good” goes beyond the candle, too:  $1 from every purchase is donated to To Write Love on Her Arms, a nonprofit helping people find hope and support for depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. A candle can only do so much, it’s nice when the company making it decides to do a little more.