SCENT TO SOOTHE THE SOUL
Award-winning Cornish company St Eval has developed a new range of candles to captivate your senses and create a little calm amid the chaos
Cornish coast candle-maker St Eval has launched its dreamy new Retreat Collection
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful, the 19th-century designer William Morris famously said. And if there is one thing we have all learned over the past year it’s the importance of those little things that help to make us feel happier or calmer or more at ease at home, whether it’s a pretty china cup for your tea or a cushion with a bold tropical bloom adding a splash of colour and style to the sofa, or an evocative scent that instantly carries you away to the seashore, or the bluebell woods, or a herb garden….
Cornwall-based candle-maker St Eval certainly knows a thing or two about the transformative power of scent. Starting in the 1990s on a farm in St Eval just a few miles from the coast at Newquay, this family business now employs more than 40 people, keeping the artisan craft of candle-making alive while championing sustainable and environmentally friendly production methods, and winning fans worldwide for its gorgeous natural candles. The company generates its own energy via wind, solar and biomass sources, uses recyclable packaging, and its candles are inspired by the ever-changing ocean and the unspoilt Cornish countryside. From the calming Coastal Collection, featuring sea salt and samphire, to the Folk Collection with its oak and moss varieties, there’s something for every mood. St Eval was recently honoured with a Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development – the first candle-maker to win this accolade.
In addition to its existing candles, reed diffusers and hand soaps, St Eval launched its Retreat Collection this spring, with three new fragrances designed to help you clear your mind, escape everyday stresses and rejuvenate your spirits. Purify, Meditate and Renew use ingredients such as sage to soothe, copal for relaxation, and lime and tangerine to awaken, and come either as individual candle tins, or as a set of three. Shop the range at st-eval.com. And breathe…