Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Candles I Would Make

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Uncategorized

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!

36 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Candles I Would Make”

  3. Joanne's avatar Joanne

    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!

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  18. 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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  20. 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!

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