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Wax remembers. If the first pool stops a centimetre short of the glass, later burns tend to stop there too. That is memory burn. It is not mysticism. The unused ring is higher, cooler, and harder to catch up without extra heat.
What to do on night one
Clear the evening. Trim the wick to 5mm. Light it, keep it off draughts, and wait until the liquid wax reaches the glass. Then you can blow it out. Next time, a shorter burn is allowed.
If you only have twenty minutes, do not light a new wide candle. You will regret it. Light a smaller jar, or wait.
Can you reset a bad memory?
Partly. Foil tent, long burn, sometimes a second session. You will not always get the walls down to nothing, but you can stop it getting worse. See fixing tunnels.
What we see from here
Most “this candle doesn’t smell” emails are a twenty-minute first burn in a hallway with the front door open. The wick is fine. The pool never happened. Do the first one properly and our landscape jars — Skye, Ness, the rest — throw the way they were wicked to throw.
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