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You did not buy a candle to babysit it. You want to light it, sit down, and forget it is there. So when it starts smoking, when the room takes on that acrid bite, when you find a black ring on the vessel and a fine dust of soot on the sill, your first thought is that your candle is defective. It usually is not. You broke the one rule that actually ..

Every manufacturer who pours wax knows the first complaint that lands the day after a new batch ships: it does not smell strong enough on the first burn. The reflex is to blame fragrance load. It is not. Weak first-light throw is almost always a wick-sizing and wick-type problem that has a measurable answer hidden in the first thirty minutes of th..