Eleven candles, four regions, and three ways of building a fragrance. None of this is a quality ranking or a price ladder. It describes how many things are happening in the jar.
Single note. One material, held for as long as we can hold it. Nothing to hide behind.
Two notes. Two materials in conversation, where the point is the relationship between them rather than either one alone.
Layered. Three or four materials arranged so the candle does not smell the same at the end of an evening as it did at the start.
Here is the whole range, written out.
North
Royal Rose. Single note. Rose, and only rose. Deep at the start, softer as the wax opens.
Kashmir Bloom. Two notes: rose and sandalwood. The valley rose is a colder rose; it smells less of sugar than of the air around it. Rose arrives first, sandalwood comes up underneath and stays. Cool at the top, warm at the base.
Ganga Aarti. Layered: naag champa, sandalwood, lavender and vanilla. Varanasi at dusk, when the lamps go up together and the smoke sits over the water before it lifts. Naag champa leads, sandalwood holds it down, lavender opens the top so it does not sit heavy, and a little vanilla keeps it warm rather than solemn.
South
Madurai Jasmine. Single note. The flower market opens before dawn and jasmine arrives in quantity, strung into garlands while the air is still cool enough to hold the smell. Green at the top, heavy and sweet underneath.
Kerala Calm. Two notes: lemongrass and jasmine. Green, clean and softly floral, the feeling of open windows after rain. The candle for resetting a room.
Mysore Deva. Layered: sandalwood, jasmine and lemongrass. Warm wood softened by flowers and lifted by something green. It settles rather than announces itself.
East
Oceanic Bloom. Two notes: Oceanic Mist and jasmine. Salt air with something flowering in it, the coast before the day heats up.
Puri Temple Air. Two notes: naag champa and jasmine. Incense that has been burning long enough to be in the stone of a temple courtyard, with jasmine cutting through it from the flower sellers at the gate. Quiet and resinous.
Bay of Bengal Breeze. Layered: Oceanic Mist, jasmine and sandalwood. Salt air first, jasmine carried in on it, sandalwood underneath holding it steady.
The East has no single-note candle in this range yet. It is a real gap, and we would rather say so than pretend the map is finished.
West
Nagpur Pineapple. Single note. Pineapple cut open: sharp first, then sugary, with the faint green bite of the skin still in it. The brightest thing we make.
Palace Nights. Layered: rose, sandalwood, pineapple and vanilla. The most layered candle in the range and the one that moves most while it burns. Built for an evening with the lamps low.
The West has no two-note candle yet either. Same answer as the East.
How to read the list
If you want to know whether you like a material, start with a single note, where there is nowhere for it to hide. If you want a candle that keeps your attention across a long evening, go layered. Two notes is where most people end up living: enough to be interesting, few enough to stay recognisable across a whole room.
We name the materials in every candle; the proportions stay in the workshop. Every one is poured to order in Indore with a wooden wick. Trim it to about 3 mm before each lighting, and on the first burn let the melted wax reach the edge of the vessel.