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You've held the match to a candle and watched a black bead form on the wick tip before it even catches. That bead is not a defect. It is a report card, telling you exactly how that flame is breathing, and it is a number you can correct with one snip before every single burn. What the black char actually is The char is unburnt carbon. A candle flame..

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..