Basil Bed Candle · The Garden Collection

A soft, sweet-herb soy candle that becomes a planter. Light it through the season, then sow the seeds inside.
 
Basil Bed smells like brushing past a basil plant on a kitchen windowsill — sweet, slightly clove-warm, with that unmistakable green softness that only comes from leaves crushed between your fingers. It's the scent of a quiet Sunday afternoon when dinner is simmering and the windows are open, captured in 7 ounces of hand-poured soy wax.
 
Inside the box, you'll find the candle, a matchbook of wooden matches to light it, and a second matchbook tucked alongside, filled with sweet basil seeds. When the wax is gone, wash the jar, fill it with soil, and plant what you smelled. The candle becomes a vessel. The scent becomes a plant.
 
Basil thrives indoors with surprisingly little fuss, a sunny window and weekly watering are enough. Pinch the leaves as it grows and the plant gets bushier; let it flower and it gets sweeter. By the time you've burned through one candle, you could be growing the basil for your next batch of pesto.
 
Part of The Garden Collection — a small line of candles paired with the seeds of the plant that inspired each scent.
 
Scent notes Sweet basil · green stem  · sun-warmed leaf
 
The details · 7 oz · 100% soy wax · cotton wick · phthalate-free fragrance · Approximately 50 hours of burn time · Glass jar designed to be reused as a planter · Includes one matchbook of wooden matches and one matchbook of sweet basil seeds (approximately 10 seeds) · Hand-poured in small batches · Packaged in a 4 × 4 × 4 inch rigid gift box
 
Burn · Plant · Grow Trim the wick to a quarter-inch before each light. Burn in four-hour stretches. When the candle is finished, wash the jar with warm soapy water, remove the wick tab, fill with potting soil, and sow seeds a quarter-inch deep — about 4-6 seeds per jar. Place in your sunniest window. Basil germinates in 5-10 days and is ready to harvest in roughly 60 days. Pinch the top leaves regularly to encourage bushier growth.