Candle Making
If you are like us, we are obsessed with a beautifully smelling home.
And scented candles 90% of the time fall into two unfortunate categories of artificially sweet, floral wafts or just plain duds that don't envelop the room at all.
Babel is an upstart local Somerset company with an incredible panache for bringing the fragrance of the natural world from your favourite exotic adventures to vibrant technicolor in your living room. Scents that are beguiling, complex and unexpected, yet moreish and enticingly comforting. Can you tell we are obsessed?
So this is not just an essential oil candle class, it is a journey of scents and learning to uncover, layer, twist and reinvent how you perceive scent. And of course use your newfound knowledge to create something personal and magical all of your own.
Am session: Fundamentals and exploration of scent and how perfumes are constructed and layered
Lunch
Pm Session: Planning your individual scent and pouring your own candle
What you get: Welcome drink. Expert tuition and all materials needed. Tea, Coffee and homemade biscuits throughout the day. Extravagant lunch in the formal dining room with water and wine. Your bespoke scented candle to take home.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER The company founder, Henri started out by making candles in his garage in rural Somerset, trying out different blends of wax and different scent mixes for the best quality product with the cleanest burn and the largest scent throw. Through his interest in Babylonian Art, as well as his interest in languages, the idea to call the company Babel came about. Babel is a word intrinsically linked with language; the Book of Genesis recounts the story of the Tower of Babel, which is an origin myth explaining why the world's people came to speak so many different languages. Whether describing a particular moment of joy, love, longing or melancholy, Henri aims to capture the nuances that each language has to offer in his set of truly original scents, imbued with the feelings and senses of place that such words have the power to conjure up. Henri manufactures Babel candles in small-scale batches to ensure the highest levels of quality in each product.
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