Golden Coast Soy Candle | Eucalyptus, Sea Salt, Redwood | P.F. Candle Co.

P.F. Candle Co. started in 2008 as a one-woman Etsy operation and became what it is now: a Los Angeles factory run by Kristen Pumphrey and Thomas Neuberger, making candles they think about the way other people think about furniture. This one smells like the California coast — eucalyptus and sea salt air up top, white lavender and sage in the middle, redwood and fir at the base with a thread of palo santo running through it. They use domestically-grown soy wax and fragrance oils without phthalates, cotton-core wicks, and minimal packaging because they care about that sort of thing. Everything gets poured in-house at their California factory. It's the kind of atmospheric scent that fills a room without announcing itself.

Eucalyptus and redwood in the same candle feels like cheating — like someone distilled the entire Pacific Coast Highway into a jar and skipped the part where you sit in traffic near Malibu. Light it when you want your apartment to smell like you live somewhere with better weather.

• 7.2 oz soy wax candle
• 100% domestically-grown soy wax
• Phthalate-free fragrance oils
• Cotton-core wick
• 40–50 hour burn time
• Scent notes: eucalyptus, sea salt air, lime, white lavender, sage, redwood, fir, palo santo
• Amber glass jar with kraft paper label and brass lid
• 3.5" height × 2.9" diameter
• Smells better than actual palo santo, which mostly smells like anxiety about whether you're doing it right
• Poured in Los Angeles, California