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A draught does three things to a candle, all of them annoying. The flame leans, so you get a trench instead of a disc. The lean soots the glass. The extra oxygen makes the wick mushroom and then smoke. People send us photographs of black jars and “faulty soy”. There is usually a door, a stairwell, or an extractor in the shot they did not take.
Highland houses are draught specialists. We know this because we live in them.
Where not to put it
- Windowsills with a sash that never quite shuts.
- The hall table in the line of the front door.
- Next to a kitchen extractor on full.
- On the floor by a stove that is pulling air under a door.
A still sideboard in a room you actually sit in is the job. If the flame is dancing, the candle is in the wrong place. Move it before you trim it into oblivion.
What you will see if you ignore this
A tunnel down one side. Black on the rim. A burnt smell that is not the fragrance. That burnt smell is the wick and a bit of cooked top-note. Trim, relocate, relight. Black jars and flicker are the same family.
Our landscape candles were wicked for a still room — Ullapool included. They will not win against a gale. Nothing will.
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