Stories Behind The Candle Fragrances
Palmetto Candles
Signature Candles:
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Pine Tree (Twinkling Blossom & Deep Woods): South Carolina is the home to several trees, but that one that sticks is the pine tree. This brings memories of children in the neighborhood, when outside was fun and climbing pine trees was the best to climb. This exquisite smell has a touch of spruce, lemon, fir, amber, pine, and oak.
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Magnolia Plantation (Garden Dreams & Pink Peony): This is one of South Carolina's historic plantation with lovely gardens. This delightful fragrance is full of gardenia, lemon peel, jasmine, powder, amber, magnolia, and cherry blossom.
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The Lizard Man (Lilly of the Valley & Swamp Water): This myth began in 1988 and still lives today. The tales of the lizard man had every little boy and girl scare to go out at night. Especially, if you lived near a swamp or creek. This delicate smell has lily, light musk, ozone, clove, and jasmine.
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Fried Seafood (Sea Salt and Orchid & Ozone): Straight off the Charleston shores, you can get fresh seafood. South Carolina is one of popular state of Fried Seafood and its many seafood restaurants. You can't go to South Carolina without eating fish and grits or shrimp and grits. This smell has a combination of sea salt, jasmine, lilac, wood, and amber.
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Buttermilk Biscuits ((Fresh Baked Bread & Vanilla Bean): In most of childhood days, how excited you were to wake up to Grandma grits, eggs, bacon, and handmade biscuits with White Lily flour. This fascinating candle has a blend of lilac, green leaves, jasmine, sea salt, and tonka bean.
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The Battery (Before the Storm & Ocean Driftwood): This landmark in Charleston was a defensive seawall from the civil war. This is a long stretch to do some running or get a fresh breath of sea water to do some thinking. This candle fragrance was encouraged from smell of eucalyptus, sea salt, freesia, lavender, sage, and amber.
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Palmetto State (Island Hibiscus & Tropical Fusion): South Carolina is called the Palmetto State because it states tree is the Sabel Palmetto tree that dates back to the Revolutionary War. This stunning candle smell is motivated with lime, agave, violet, palm wood, and banana puree.
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Weaving Basket (Sweet Grass & Teak Bamboo): Charleston, SC is very popular for its city market. You often see women from Gullah Island working hard on weaving baskets that takes sometimes years to complete. This scented is cultivated by the fragrance of grass, sage, moss, white amber, and teak.
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Pickin' Cotton (Cotton Blossom & Clean Laundry): South Carolina is known for picking cotton from slavery time. It is the #1 major crop of America still today. This scent is roused with cotton blossom, lemon, linen, powder, and light musk.
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Gullah Island (Herbal Essence & Exotic Hemp): The Gullah/Geechee language began as a simplified form of communication among people who spoke many different languages including European slave traders, slave owners and diverse. This language still exists in the Lowcountry. This scent is inspired by Charleston finest Herbalists that consist of hemp, lemon, lime, green leaves, cassia, and patchouli.
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Shacks (Cedar Wood and Bergamot & Mahogany Shea): One thing about South Carolina and in the woods is that you can still come across and old shack from slavery days that hasn't been torn down. You can find some landmark shacks today in Charles Towne Landing. This appealing scent is implemented with oakmoss, camphor, cedar, amber, smoky wood, and pine birch.
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Hurricane (Passion Fruit & Floral Rain): South Carolina is one of the major states that experiences hurricanes along the coast. South Carolinians believes that the hurricanes are all the slaves who have been dump along the sea was coming for revenge. This scented is blended with peach, blackberries, orange peel, lemon peel, and petitgreen leaf.
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Catfish (Mountain Lake & Cool Water): South Carolina is known for several lakes, but it wasn't a fishing trip if can't get a big catfish to have a fish fry. This fragrance has a combination of amber, wood, amber, jasmine, geranium, and sandalwood.
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Deer Hunting (Oakmoss and Amber & Dauntless): South Carolina is one of the dangerous states to drive at night on what they call the back roads. Deer's are always jumping in front of cars for a quick suicide. Deer hunting is also very popular in South Carolina. This scent is merge with sage, lavender, black currant, leather, and oakmoss.
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Witch Doctor (White Sage and Lavender & Palo Santo): Traditional West African folk medicine and magic were adapted by African American (Voodoo, Hoodoo, Witchcraft, Black Magic) healers and conjurers on the plantation to fill a void of health care and to supplement Western religious practices. This scent is merged with lavender, chamomile, sage, rosemary, violet, smoke, wood, and amber.
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Hole in the Wall (Leather & Whiskey): If you ever been to the south all clubs aren't in the cities, or the best location on a strip. If you ever visit, you will know that some of the best clubs in the country are off the dark roads. Some people would use a barn or just turn and old house into a juke joint. Some off the best music played by Betty Wright, Mel Waiters, and Lewis Clark.​ This smell is combined with an aroma of fine leather and smoke oak.
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Fall & Holiday Candles:
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Campground (Chimney Smoke & Sweet Amber): Also, known as campmeeting, this tradition is one of the longest traditions in certain locations of South Carolina (St. Paul, Shady Grove, Cattle Creek, Indian Field, Mount Carmel, Camp Welfare, and Cypress Methodist. These campgrounds that were built in the 1800's comprised of cabins, or "tents," arranged around open- air tabernacles. This was a place to worship and eat for a week with family and friends. Each tent is passed down through families. This scent brings you a swift of oud, incense, leather, amber, musk, sandal, and coconut.
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Wooden Stove Tea (Bazaar & Candied Ginger): Remember those old days with grandma sitting in front of a wooden stove cooking, getting warm, and making some tea with sassafras roots all at the same. South Carolinians still hold on to this tradition with wooden stoves. This scent has a combination of ginger, vanilla, nutmeg, clove, cardamon, and vanilla.
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Grandma's Sweet Potato Pie (Sweet Potato Pie & Pie Crust): I think every southern Grandma had a sweet potato pie that made you want to "slap yo momma," with handmade pie crust top with sweet potatoes picked fresh from the garden. This sweet scent is mixed with lemon, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, sweet potato, brown sugar, and nutmeg. Rarely would you see pumpkin pie, but the sweet potato pie always outweighs other pies during the holidays.
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Holiday Cabin (Woods & Apple Orchid): In the upper southwest area of South Carolina is where you would find the most beautiful and remote cabins for the Holidays. There are mountains in South Carolina, it's not just flatland. This forestry fragrance brings you a eucalyptus, cypress, pine, smoke, green leaves, pear, apple, vanilla, bourbon nature aroma.
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Raking Leaves (Autumn Breeze & Evergreen): South Carolina is popular for its oak, cedar, and pine trees. But can you imagine waking up early in the morning having to do yard work and raking all leaves that fell from the many trees around your yard. We had real chores growing up. This scent has a fresh breeze of green leaves, citrus, cedar, amber, moss, berry, cypress.
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Auntie's Peach Cobbler (Just Peachy & Pound Cake): Every aunty in the family had that special dish they had to bring to Thanksgiving dinner. Southerner's all-time favorite is a good peach cobbler. You can't have a family gathering without this dish. This scent lingers with peach, plum, sugar, vanilla, mandarin, buttercream, and sugar.​
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Spring & Summer Candles:
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Beach Time (Mai Tai & Beach Santal): If you really want to enjoy a nice beach with off the east coast, South Carolina has the most popular beaches between Isle of Palm, Myrtle Beach, and Hilton Head. This scent brings you a tidal wave of orange, apple, honeydew melon, cedar, coconut sandal wood, and jasmine.
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Bike Week (Leather & Moroccan Cashmere): Myrtle Beach, SC is famous for its famous bike week. If you want to have a good time with bikers, this is the place for you. Tires burning, and you just enjoying the beach and the nice resort off the ocean is just the best placed to imagine. This scent brings you a flow of saffron, incense, leather, amber, bergamot, lavender, vanilla, powder, sandalwood, and amber.
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Botanical Garden (White Rose & Garden Escape): Wake up and smell the roses! Nothing is quite as tranquil as a retreat to one of the picturesque botanical gardens of South Carolina. Filled to the brim with all kinds of flora, find a beautiful botanical garden in Columbia, SC. This elegant smell is fluttered with papaya, rose, peony, powder, lilac, jasmine, vanilla, and carnation.
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Spring Cleaning (Aloe and Agave & Citrus): This is what we as southerners called, "out with the old and in with the new." Wiping down walls and releasing all bad spirits from the atmosphere. This cleaning was opening up all the windows of the house, wiping down walls in every room, and then moving to the yard to plant flowers. This ravishing fragrance had a combination of agave, aloe, green leaf, honeydew melon, and oakmoss.
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Blossom Flowers (Lavender Fields & White Pine and Sage): South Carolina is one of the most beautiful states that has flowers that blossom so pretty during spring and summer. This fresh scent is gathered with citrus, lavender, bergamot, eucalyptus, green floral, and sage.
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Backyard BBQ (Sandalwood and Musk & Teakwood): Yes! This is some of the best times ever. When we say backyard bbq's, it's just what it means. You would have those uncles who would slay the pig itself and prepare it for cooking on the grill. Some of the best times of our childhood. This backyard smell brings you back to the old days with a hint of ozone, citrus, sandalwood, amber, peppercorn, dark musk, and cedar.