Introducing Progress, Not Perfection!
Created from a deeply personal place, Progress, Not Perfection is a tribute to the quiet bravery of showing up exactly as you are. This candle represents releasing the impossible standards set by society and instead, embracing the beauty of becoming through assessing our capacity.
Progress, Not Perfection, serves as a reminder that progress is often not loud or dramatic, but made up of small, meaningful steps that choose authenticity over approval, courage over comfort, and self-acceptance over self-criticism.
This candle opens with a rich, sophisticated blend of bright citrus and ripe plum before unfolding into the heart of powerful, warm amber and dark musk. As it burns, light notes of benzoin and smooth amyris leave behind a soft, empowered, and grounded sense of comfort that reflects the steady nature of personal growth.
Progress, Not Perfection was intentionally created to affirm evolving at your own pace – imperfectly, honestly, and authentically. It asks you to focus on and honor the work, not the flawless finish. That, at the end of the day, progress, no matter how small, messy, or imperfect, is still progress.
Scent Notes:
Top – Plum & Citrus
Middle – Amber & Jasmine
Base – Dark Musk, Benzoin, & Amyris
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This candle is thoughtfully and delicately hand-poured using a premium paraffin/soy wax blend chosen for its exceptional scent performance, smooth finish, and reliable burn quality. Designed to offer a sustainable scent experience, this Signature 8oz candle offers a consistent burn time of 40-50 hours when proper candle care is followed. Check out the “Candle Care & Maintenance” section below to learn how to get the most from your candle!
Additionally, this candle is intentionally formulated to produce a medium-to-strong scent throw that fills your space with comfort without becoming overwhelming. One Signature 8oz candle easily produces enough fragrance to fill a large living room, kitchen, or bedroom. The fragrance oils infused within each candle are known for their clean, high-quality, safe, phthalate-free qualities, ensuring a luxurious and fragrant atmosphere.
Regardless of its qualities, our mission is to spread love, warmth, light, self-care, and comfort throughout your space – one candle at a time.
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Top notes of a fragrance are what you smell first, the aromas that give you an initial impression and draw you in. These notes are usually lighter in smell and tend to be the citrusy or soft floral elements. They are the most volatile notes, meaning that they tend to fade more quickly than the others.
Middle notes, also called the “heart,” provide a balance between the top and base notes. These are usually bright florals, gourmands, fruits, or lighter woods. These notes are usually the most prominent aromas you will smell.
Base notes are the anchor or root of every scent, giving depth and longevity to the overall fragrance. Typically, these notes will be things like vanilla, spices, musks, woods, or amber. Base notes tend to linger in a room for some time after burning a candle, melting a wax melt, or spritzing a room spray.
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Knowing how to treat your candle will dictate how well your candle performs! To ensure the best performance and longest candle lifespan, please follow these care guidelines:
First Burns & Tunneling
During the first few burns, you may notice slight tunneling even when the candle is burned for several hours. This is normal for this wax system. As the candle continues to burn, the melt pool will naturally widen and reach a full, even melt across the container.Because the candle container is thinner and cylindrical in shape, it is naturally prone to soot collecting on its inner walls when proper candle care is NOT followed!
Burn Time
For optimal performance, only burn your candle for 3–4 hours at a time, or until the melt pool reaches/gets close to reaching the edges of the container. Avoid burning for longer than 4 hours in a single session!Wick Care
Trim wicks to approximately ¼ inch before each burn during the first half of the candle’s life. As the candle reaches the halfway point, less trimming is required. Over-trimming at this stage will likely cause the flame to extinguish because the wax level sits deeper in the container. If the flame appears small or goes out before the end of a 4-hour burn cycle, please allow the wick to grow slightly longer before trimming again.Rule of thumb for wick trimming – if the wicks are already ¼ an inch (or shorter), and/or the flames are smaller than ½ an inch, skip the next wick trim.
Need a wick cutter? Purchase one here!
General Safety
Always burn within sight
Keep out of reach of pets and children
Place the candle on a heat-safe surface, away from drafts and flammable objects
Discontinue use when ¼ inch of wax remains in the container
Never, ever, EVER, pour any amount of melted wax down a drain or in the toilet! It will solidify in the pipes and cause major plumbing issues that will be expensive to fix!
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If you like to use every ounce of wax or reuse the candle container, please read the important notes and follow the directions.
Important Notes:
The wax blend in the Signature 8oz candles lacks the properties to create hard wax melts. It will stick to any mold it is poured into, making it very difficult to remove. Do not try to make a wax melt out of the remaining wax at the bottom of the container.
Do not reuse the container for food purposes.
To use the remaining wax:
Place the container under a wax warmer light or on top of a wax warmer appliance and simply let it melt.
You can also try using a double-boiler method on a stove or heating appliance, but that usually causes the wax’s temperature to get too hot, too fast, and will mute or alter the fragrance.
Another option is heating the wax with a heat gun and pouring the wax directly into a wax warmer.
Regardless of the heating method used, any wax remaining at the bottom of the container will eventually evaporate after it’s been melted for several hours.
To reuse the container:
Place the container under a wax warmer light or on top of a wax warmer appliance and let the wax melt. You can also use a heat gun or double-boiler method to melt the wax quickly, but this may cause the container to become too hot to handle without heat-resistant gloves.
Once all the wax has turned into a liquid, soak it up with paper towels, pour it into the trash, or pour it into a non-reusable container that can be thrown away. *Due to this being a small amount of wax, it cools and hardens very quickly. You may have to repeat steps 1 and 2 a few times to ensure all wax has been removed.
Once the wax is removed, soak a paper towel with rubbing alcohol or warm soapy water. Do not use a regular towel unless you are willing to throw it away. It is helpful if the container remains warm at this step. Wipe out the inside until the gold electroplated interior becomes very shiny. The rubbing alcohol will leave a residue that quickly evaporates, leaving a shiny finish.
Use a dry paper towel to dry up any soapy water or excess rubbing alcohol. The container is now ready to be reused!
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The following terms are used throughout the shop:
Scent Throw – Refers to how effectively a candle, wax melt, or reed diffuser emits its fragrance into a space. A throw can be classified as non-existent, faint/subtle, medium/fair, strong, or very strong/overwhelming.
Cold Throw – The fragrance a candle emits when it is unlit or as soon as the lid is taken off.
Hot Throw – The fragrance a candle emits as the candle burns and fills a space.
Tunneling – A term used to describe when a candle’s wax is unable to reach the edges of the container while being burned. If the tunneling does not even itself out after 3-5 burns, the wax-to-flame ratio will become uneven, and the wax will eventually snuff out the flames.
Melt Pool – The melted wax that forms around a burning wick. An ideal melt pool is considered a “full melt pool,” which is when the melted wax reaches the container’s edges during a burn cycle.
Burn Cycle – The amount of time a candle is spent burning. It is recommended that a candle not burn for longer than 4 hours at a time.
Melt Cycle – The amount of time a wax melt is spent melted. It is recommended that a wax melt not be melted for longer than 4 hours at a time.
Soot – A fine black or clear airborne carbon residue often caused by long wicks, drafts, long burn cycles (over 4 hours), and excess fragrance oil. Soot also results from sustained flames larger than 1 inch and mushrooming. Soot either comes straight from the flame and looks like a thin line of black smoke, and/or builds up on the inner walls of the candle container, resembling a black dust/powder. Soot looks black in non-natural waxes like paraffin, and is clear in all natural waxes such as 100% soy.
Mushrooming – A natural reaction in all candles, mushrooming is a buildup of excess carbon at the end of the wick, causing it to curl or burst into a mushroom shape. This is usually due to the flame consuming more fuel (wax, fragrance, or dye) than it can burn.
Over-burning – When a candle burns for longer than 4 hours. This typically results in the candle melting down faster, an increase of soot and mushrooming, muddy/dirty-looking wax, a dirty container, extra-long wicks, and high flames.