Scents: Fresh Coffee · Croissant · Caramel Cream · Hand-poured in: North Carolina, USA · From: $11.99 (wax melts)
This bookshop cafe candle is the counter at the back where the shelves stop — coffee going through the machine, croissants warming under glass, and caramel cream stirred into something you are drinking far too slowly.
Light it for browsing afternoons, the stack you carry to a table, and the receipt you fold into the first book as a bookmark and forget about entirely. Like every Aarka Origins candle, it is truly handmade: hand-poured in small batches in North Carolina from 100% pure soy wax, with no paraffin and no blends.
FRESH COFFEE · CROISSANT · CARAMEL CREAM
Fragrance family: Gourmand & Coffee
This is the sweetest of the three coffee scents in the range, and deliberately so — the caramel cream gives it a milky, sugary body that the plainer cafe blends do not have. It is a room scent built for comfort rather than accuracy. Poured, wicked, and inspected by hand in North Carolina from 100% pure soy, part of a 280+ scent catalog.
It is the sweetest of them. The bookshop cafe candle carries a caramel cream base under the coffee and pastry, where the plain cafe scent is drier and more roast-forward.
It is close to the definitive gift for one, and it works well with a gift card to an actual shop. Wax melts from $11.99 make it easy to pair with a book.
It is. Bookshop Cafe is hand-poured in small batches at Aarka Origins' North Carolina shop from 100% pure soy wax — no paraffin, no wax blends, no dyes, and a lead-free cotton wick. The fragrance oils are phthalate-free, vegan, and never tested on animals.
Trim the wick to 1/4" before each burn and keep burns to about two hours at a time for the cleanest, most even melt pool. Browse the full book lover soy candle collection, or keep reading through the full soy candle range.
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Love this fragrance! Perfect for the kitchen. Am going to order a larger size.
A rich and powerful scent that has all the traits of a fond memory
Love this candle! I think the scent and the description match well, and I also seem to get a hint of chocolate as well.