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No. 05 Floral The Hill

Ling

Heather in flower on the Pentlands, and the bees working it.

£72$100€85CA$140A$140¥16,000 Prices include VAT. Free UK delivery over £75.Prices exclude sales tax and import duties. Free US delivery over $150.Prices include VAT. Free EU delivery over €125.Prices exclude GST/HST and import duties. Free Canadian delivery over CA$225.Prices exclude GST and import duties. Free Australian and New Zealand delivery over A$300.Prices exclude consumption tax and import duties. Free Japanese delivery over ¥25,000.

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Orders placed before 1 pm on a working day leave the workshop the same day. Standard UK delivery takes 2–3 working days.

  • Poured by hand in Edinburgh
  • Gift wrap and a handwritten note, £5$7€6CA$9A$9¥1,100
  • Unused items returnable within 30 days
Details
Size
400 g · about 80 hours, Ø 9.6 × 10.4 cm
Vessel
Slip-cast stoneware from Stoke-on-Trent, fired to 1,240 °C. Glaze: heather, a dusty plum-grey. Glazed inside so it can be reused once the candle is finished.
Wax
British rapeseed wax and Perthshire beeswax, 70/30 by weight. Undyed.
Wick
Flat-braided unbleached cotton, sized to each vessel and burn-tested over twelve four-hour burns.
Fragrance
9% fragrance load, composed with an independent perfumer in London and blended in Edinburgh. Compliant with the IFRA 51st Amendment standards for candles.
Care
Trim the wick to 5 mm before every burn. Burn for no more than four hours at a time.
Burning and care
  1. Trim the wick to about 5 mm (¼ in) before every burn.
  2. On the first burn, let the melt pool reach the edge of the vessel: about 2½ hours for 220 g, 3½ for 400 g.
  3. Burn for no more than 4 hours at a time.
  4. Keep away from draughts, children and pets, on a heat-resistant surface.
  5. Stop when about 1 cm (½ in) of wax remains.

The full care guide

Delivery and returns
Delivery rates by destination, in the currency each is charged in
Destination Standard Express Standard is free over
United Kingdom £5.95 £9.95 £75
European Union €14 €28 €125
United States $21 $43 $150
Canada CA$34 CA$68 CA$225
Australia and New Zealand A$41 A$79 A$300
Japan ¥4,200 ¥8,000 ¥25,000

Unused, unburnt items can be returned within 30 days. Faulty items, always.

Delivery and returns in full

Fragrance and allergen safety

Contains Linalool, Limonene, Coumarin, Evernia Prunastri (Oakmoss) Extract. May produce an allergic reaction.

Never leave a burning candle unattended. Keep out of the reach of children and pets. Burn on a heat-resistant surface, away from draughts and anything that can catch fire. Don’t move the candle while it’s lit or while the wax is liquid. Dispose of contents and container in line with local regulations. If you have a known sensitivity to any of the ingredients above, don’t burn it.

A Safety Data Sheet for this candle is available on request from support@lanthorn.shop.

Why Ling smells the way it does

Ling is the old Scots name for common heather. For a few weeks in August the Pentland Hills, twenty minutes south of the city, turn purple with it, and the air on a still afternoon smells of honey. The bees know before anyone else.

Real heather has almost no scent you can extract, so we built it: a light, slightly bitter floral with a honeyed edge from beeswax absolute. Bog myrtle, which grows in the wet ground at the bottom of the same hills, adds a resinous, almost eucalyptus freshness. Oakmoss and hay bring it back to earth.

It’s the most floral candle we make, and even so, nobody has ever called it sweet.

The notes

Top first minutes

Heart the evening

Base the last hours

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