Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl
This week’s topic: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make (Pick a book and assign it a fragrance or fragrance combo that would make a nice candle.) (Submitted by Heather @ The Frozen Library)
Ok, this sounds super cool but also like really hard. I am hoping I can do this! I will light one of my candles (Mythologie, Alchemist because I LOVE it) as inspiration, and settle in with it and my tea. I am also going to use the website Bramble Berry to help me with scent profiles. I love to make soap and they have an awesome selection of scents and molds and whatever for making soap and candles. My combos might make for wild and weird candles, I have no idea. It would be sort of neat to try them out though!
The Honey Witch: Honey, marigold, and rose, with maybe a touch of vanilla. Light scents, reminiscent of the florals used in the book, and of course honey.
Wormwood Abbey: This one feels very earthy to me, which are my own favorite scents to wear and use. Amber, sandalwood, and a little bit of bonfire would be perfect.
Of Salt and Shore: Obviously this one is of the sea. Sea salt, sea moss, with a drop of thyme to make it a bit more earthy.
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries: I think of cold freezing weather and breads and stews and food when I try to capture this book into scents. So maybe Silver Fir, rosemary, and almond.
The Spellshop: Again, more baking and of course fruity jam! Let’s say raspberry jam and cinnamon, a touch of citrus?
The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells: This is another cold book, mountain air, smokey. Hmm. How about spruce, palo santo, and cedar.
How many do I have left? Four. I can do this.
Other Birds: This book is set on Mallow Island, where it is said it smells of its history and sugar and confectionaries. So a candle would need to embody this as well. So sugar and marshmallow of course!
The Berry Pickers: Blueberry jam. Done.
The Easy Life in Kamusari: Cedar and green tea.
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking: Gingerbread obviously. And cinnamon and a bit of cranberry as well? Nah. Let’s leave it at the gingerbread smells, the ginger and vanilla and cinnamon and cloves. Yum. I want this candle! Maybe I will try to make it. Or try to make it into soap. Or just make gingerbread and eat it.
And with that I am done!
I can’t wait to see what you all came up with!
Fabulous!
Thanks Joanne!
I wouldn’t know where to begin!
It was challenging but that made it fun!
Oh my gosh that sounds so hard! I mean I could pick any “beach read” and assign it a smell of the actual salty ocean waves but other than that I’d be at a total loss. I’m reading The Spellshop right now and that sounds like a delicious scent to go with it. You did really well with this!
Thank you!! This was challenging but I had a lot of fun with it!!
I didn’t know scent profiles were a thing for candles. How interesting.
To be honest, I don’t know if they are! Lol. It feels like they should be though?
I don’t think I could do this, especially not as detailed as you!
Thanks Cat! It was fun to do!
I love books by Sarah Addison Allen, but I haven’t read that one, so that’s the scent for me today!
Here’s a link to my TTT post
It is my favorite Sarah Addison Allen book. 🙂
I love the candle you came up with for A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. How could it not be gingerbread based?
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/bookish-candles-i-want-based-on-recent-reads/
My husband couldn’t believe I didn’t say sourdough. Lol. Gingerbread is much better I think. Lol. And thnak you!
You did a great job with this! So many of these fit so well. I wonder if someone is watching these posts to make some candles. haha
Lol! Hmm. I wonder if they are! I was thinking about making some soaps of some of them.
You did great! I couldn’t wrap my head around this topic, so I went a different route.
Once I realized I didn’t need to do this perfectly or that the scents had to blend well I had a lot more fun. 🙂
Oh these sound amazing! I have a few location or book based candles and I wish there were more.
After this prompt, I wish there were too!
This was so much fun to read, Erin! When I saw another post, I thought it would be so difficult! I love A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking. I need to see if she/he has more books out in this series!
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I love that book too. I want a gingerbread friend! Lol. And thank you!
I love the sound of the combinations for The Honey Witch and Defensive Baking! I guess I like foodie candle scents! 😂
Lol. I would definitely love a gingerbread candle! And thank you!
Ohhh, your choices are lovely! I especially adore the one for Emily Wilde 🙂
Thank you!!
I would love to smell the candle from Of Salt and Shore—it sounds beautiful…I can almost hear the waves. The cedar with tea sounds amazing, too.
Thanks Deb!! I think I would really actually like to see what those would smell like as well.
Sounds like this topic is right up your alley! My favorite scented candles are the ones that make my house smell like I’ve been making yummy treats all day, although my family hates it because they feel tricked when there are no actual treats to be had, LOL.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
That happens to me too! I burn a candle that smells yummy and I then I end up baking because I am hungry. Lolol.
Great list and scents! I love anything citrus, especially pineapple and watermelon. Happy Wednesday!
Oo I do love watermelon anything!!!
This is incredible!! I love the books you’ve chosen for the prompt and I can actually imagine the smells you’ve described for them! I love it!
Haze
https://thebookhaze.com/
Erin, this list is wonderful! I love how creative you got, and it’s cool that you make candles and soaps – I want to learn how to make candles at some point. So many of these sound fantastic I couldn’t even pick one out on its own, but I’d buy a candle made with any of these scents!
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I haven’t even read The Spellshop (though it’s been a popular title on MANY lists), but that scent profile seems fitting. 🙂 So fun to see everyone creatively put this together. Thanks for visiting my list!