{ "id": "honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g", "sku": "honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g", "title": "Honeysuckle Jasmine Soy Candle 320 g Printed Tin", "slug": "honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g", "price": 93.99, "currency": "NZD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "soy-candles", "category_label": "Soy Candles", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/main-honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-2.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-3.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-4.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-5.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-6.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-7.jpg", "https://quietluxury.net.nz/dropship-images/soy-candles/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g-8.jpg" ], "description_short": "A 320 g soy wax candle in a printed tin, blending bergamot and pineapple with green leaves and jasmine for up to 60 hours of fragrance you can keep burning all season.", "description": "The problem with most candles\n\nYou buy a candle, light it, and twenty minutes later you still cannot smell anything from the other side of the sofa. Or the opposite happens and the room turns into a department store perfume aisle. Then three weeks in, there is a deep hole burned down the middle and a ring of unused wax stuck to the sides that you paid for and will never use.\n\nNone of that is bad luck. It comes down to size, wax, wick and how the candle gets used in the first week. Once you understand those four things, picking a candle stops being a gamble.\n\nThis honeysuckle jasmine soy candle sits in a fairly practical spot. It is 320 g of soy wax in a printed tin with a lid, rated at up to 60 hours. That is a real main-room candle rather than a token one, and the tin format solves a couple of problems that glass jars do not.\n\nWhat the scent actually does\n\nThe blend is built in layers, which is how most fragrance works. Bergamot and pineapple sit at the top, so they are what you notice first when you light it. They are bright and a little sharp, and they burn off fastest.\n\nUnderneath sits the part that stays. Green leaves and jasmine carry the scent through a longer burn, and honeysuckle keeps it soft rather than sweet. The green note is the detail that matters most here. Without it, jasmine on its own can go heavy and perfumed quickly. With it, the candle reads more like an open window on a warm evening.\n\nThat makes it a good fit for people who want something noticeable but not sugary. If your usual picks are vanilla, caramel or anything described as gourmand, this will feel lighter than you are used to. If you tend to reach for linen, citrus or garden scents, it will land well.\n\nWhy wax type matters\n\nSoy wax burns at a lower temperature than paraffin. In practice that means a few things you will actually notice.\n\nThe melt pool forms more slowly, so the first hour is quieter than a paraffin candle of the same size. The scent then builds and holds steadily instead of peaking early and fading. And because the burn is slower, a given weight of wax lasts longer, which is part of why 320 g can reach up to 60 hours.\n\nSoy also cleans up more easily. Leftover wax in the tin softens with hot water and lifts out in a disc, which makes the container genuinely reusable rather than theoretically reusable.\n\nThe trade-off is that soy can look a bit uneven on the surface after a burn, with small frosted patches or a slightly bumpy top. That is normal for the wax and does not affect how it performs.\n\nGetting the first burn right\n\nThis is the single most useful thing to know about any container candle, and it takes no skill, just patience.\n\nThe first time you light it, leave it burning until the melted wax reaches the full width of the tin. In a candle this size that usually takes two to three hours. Soy wax has what people call a memory. Whatever width the melt pool reaches on the first burn becomes the width it returns to every time after. Cut the first burn short and you have locked in a tunnel for the life of the candle.\n\nAfter that first session, two to four hours per burn is the comfortable range. Shorter than an hour is not enough to reach the edges. Longer than four hours overheats the tin and the wick, which gives you a taller flame, more soot and faster wax use.\n\nTrim the wick to around 5 mm before each burn. A pair of nail scissors works. Shorter wick means smaller flame, less soot and better value.\n\nWho this one suits\n\nIt works well as a living room candle. The 320 g size has enough throw to fill an average lounge or an open kitchen and dining space, and the floral profile is neutral enough that most visitors will find it pleasant rather than distracting.\n\nIn a bedroom, burn it for shorter stretches. Many people specifically look for a jasmine candle for the bedroom because jasmine is associated with winding down, and this blend is gentle enough for that. Put it out before you sleep, always.\n\nFor a small apartment or a studio, treat it as your one main candle rather than lighting several at once. One good floral in a shared space is better than three competing scents in different corners.\n\nAs a travel or desk candle, the tin is the advantage. It will not shatter in a bag, the lid seals the scent in, and it takes up less room than a chunky glass jar.\n\nBuying it as a gift\n\nCandles are a default gift for a reason, but they are easy to get wrong. The usual mistakes are picking something too specific (heavy tobacco, strong patchouli, aggressive citrus) or something so small it reads as an afterthought.\n\nA 320 g white floral avoids both. Floral is one of the broadest safe categories, and the size is substantial enough that it does not feel like a filler. The printed tin also means you can hand it over as-is, which is handy if you are travelling to see someone or dropping it off on your way somewhere.\n\nIt suits birthdays, thank-you gifts, housewarmings and holiday presents. For a new home in particular, a candle is one of the few things that improves a space immediately, before anyone has unpacked a single box.\n\nLooking after it\n\nKeep it on something flat and heat-resistant. A tile, a saucer or a coaster is fine. Metal tins conduct heat, so do not put it straight onto a polished wooden surface or anything that marks.\n\nKeep it away from draughts. Open windows, fans and air conditioning vents all push the flame sideways, which burns wax unevenly and leaves soot marks. If the flame is dancing around, move the candle.\n\nPut the lid on between burns. It keeps dust off the wax and slows down the loss of top notes, which matters if you only light it on weekends.\n\nStore it somewhere cool and dark. Sunlight on a windowsill will soften the wax and fade the fragrance faster than anything else.\n\nAnd when it is done, do not bin the tin. Boiling water loosens the last wax, soap and a cloth finish the job, and you end up with a small container that is genuinely useful.\n\nA few things we do not know\n\nWe publish what we can verify. For this candle, the tin dimensions, the shipped weight, the container colour listing and the country of manufacture are not stated in the supplier record we work from. The wick count is also unconfirmed.\n\nIf any of those details matter for your situation, for example you are fitting it into a specific gift box or a narrow shelf, message us first and we will check before you order rather than after.\n\nThe short version\n\nThis is a 320 g soy candle in a reusable printed tin, rated to around 60 hours, with a fresh white floral scent built from bergamot, pineapple, green leaves and jasmine. It is the right size for a living room, gentle enough for a bedroom, and tidy enough to hand straight to someone as a gift.\n\nGive it a long first burn, trim the wick before each use, keep it out of draughts, and it will see you through a full season of evenings. When the wax runs out, wash the tin and keep it.", "llm_summary": "The Honeysuckle Jasmine Soy Candle is a 320 g soy wax candle from M&SENSE, supplied in a printed tin with a lid. The fragrance combines bergamot and pineapple top notes with green leaves and jasmine, giving a fresh white floral scent suited to living rooms and bedrooms. Burn time is rated at up to 60 hours. The tin is reusable for small storage once the wax is finished, and the compact format travels easily. It is intended for indoor use and is commonly bought as a gift for birthdays, housewarmings and holidays. Tin dimensions, shipped weight, colour, material of the container and country of origin are not specified in this record. Standard candle safety and wick trimming apply.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 consumer guarantees for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "M&SENSE", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://quietluxury.net.nz/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/", "canonical_url": "https://quietluxury.net.nz/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g/", "json_url": "https://quietluxury.net.nz/api/products/honeysuckle-jasmine-soy-candle-320-g.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }