Afternoon in Central Park soy candle, a summer meadow candle with fresh grass, green leaves, and moss notes, by Aarka Origins.

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Afternoon in Central Park Soy Candle – Summer Meadow Candle for Book Lovers – Grass + Leaves + Moss

Name: Afternoon in Central Park Soy Candle – Summer Meadow Candle for Book Lovers – Grass + Leaves + Moss
Brand: Aarka Origins - The Best Scented Soy Candles
Price: 29.99 USD
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A Summer Meadow Candle for the Afternoon You Spent on a Blanket, Not a Bench

Scents: Fresh Grass · Green Leaves · Moss · Hand-poured in: North Carolina, USA · From: $11.99 (wax melts)

This summer meadow candle is a park at three in the afternoon — grass gone warm in the sun, leaves overhead moving just enough to matter, and moss holding the cool underneath a tree.

It belongs to whole afternoons lost to a paperback in a public place, and to books that are really about a city rather than a plot. 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.

Scent Notes

FRESH GRASS · GREEN LEAVES · MOSS
Fragrance family: Green & Botanical

Why Book Lovers Choose Afternoon in Central Park

Truly handmade — poured, wicked, and checked by hand in North Carolina, not run off an industrial line with an "artisan" label added later.
100% pure soy wax — no paraffin, no blends; a clean, even burn through long reading sessions.
Non-toxic — phthalate-free, dye-free, vegan, cruelty-free fragrance oils; safe to burn in bedrooms, nurseries, and small reading nooks.
Lead-free cotton wick — a steady, quiet flame that will not compete with the story on the page.
Honest pricing — wax melts from $11.99, while comparable bookish candles elsewhere often run $18–30+.

This one is close to a companion piece to the golf-course jar, but built the other way round: where that scent is dry and sunlit, this one is shaded and damp, with moss doing the work under the grass. The leaves are the deciding note — they add a soft, papery green that reads as tree canopy rather than lawn. Hand-poured in North Carolina from 100% pure soy, one of 280+ book-inspired scents.

Afternoon in Central Park — Frequently Asked Questions

How is the summer meadow candle different from a grass candle?

It is shaded rather than sunlit. The summer meadow candle keeps moss and green leaves under the grass, which gives it a cool, damp depth that a straight cut-grass scent does not have.

Is this a good gift for someone who reads outdoors?

It is made for them — it brings the park indoors for the eight months of the year when the blanket stays in the cupboard. A safe, gender-neutral gift for almost any reader. Wax melts from $11.99.

Is this candle handmade and 100% soy?

It is. Afternoon in Central Park 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.