

We offer hand-pour our candles and wax melts with a proprietary soy wax blend and phthalate free custom blended fragrances. Ivory, as Strettell and Polish envision it, is redolent of patchouli and amber midnight blue bears whiffs of black and red currant. Our mission is to let our words speak for themselves All of our sayings are always inspired by pop culture, poetry, motivational quotes, etc. “It’s a whole experience,” adds Polish.įor the final step, the women convene with a fragrance blender and devise a custom scent that perfectly evokes the mood of the board. “It’s pulling it all together,” explains Strettell, who counts longtime clients Demi Moore and Brooke Shields among the candles’ fans. “Then we create inspiration boards that help us zero in on the fragrance.” A cavalcade of fine art and high fashion eye candy, the Pinterest-style inspiration boards on the brand’s website include everything from Hellenistic urns and photographs by David Sims to Rodarte frocks and eighteenth-century ivory chess pieces. “We start by getting a vibe on the color we want,” explains Polish, who hand-blends the dyes with Strettell in their Glendale studio. whose ad really spoke to him, so he invited her over for a candle lit dinner. Use a double boiler to melt down the left over wax (or melt it in the jar over a candle warmer) and then dip pine cones in it (or drizzle it over the pine cones). 06 Storm / Pom Pom Squad Ow I, like most reasonable people, love soy candles. Stuff each apple with a premixed amount of 2 tablespoons brown sugar and 1 tablespoon butter. Posted: 23rd March, 2021 by The Editor Wax Poetic is Eric Bennett’s bimonthly column where they suggest pairings of various scented candles with a great album or EP.

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claiming that there had been no candle or wax but that the fire had. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Polish, a designer and illustrator, and Strettell, a well-known makeup artist, take a holistic, multisensory approach to their newfound craft. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Febru March 24, 1882) was an American poet and. Outfitted with a hemp/cotton wick and a soy wax core, the end result, the women proclaim proudly, is the world’s first mold-less candle. “It’s like watching the Grand Canyon being formed within seconds,” says Polish of the dramatic process, which her father, an inventor, originally conceived. Le Feu de L’eau, their new L.A.-based scented candle line, relies on rushing currents of water to contour the wax into organic shapes. Longtime friends Wendy Polish and Jo Strettell like to joke that they broke the mold, and in a sense, it’s true.
