Kobé. Sun is setting on the Rokko Mountains. In the old neighbourhood of Kitano, you stroll among curious European houses built by former nostalgic foreign residents. From the streets overlooking Osaka Bay rises a warm, spicy scent of crystallised ginger, a cool, tingly fragrance of coriander root and the unctuosity of sweet fig.

• 100% natural wax, free of paraffin
  
• 100% braided cotton wick
• 9cm x 9cm x 10cm
• 260g
• 60-70 hr burn time

Astier de Villatte's candles are free of paraffin, and other petrochemical byproducts. The mixture of soy oil, secret plant ingredients and a smidgeon of bees wax, formulated by their master candle-maker in the south of France, is perfectly adapted to the scent.