Literary-Inspired Living
Henry James said it best, “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Remembering summers past at the beach of days collecting shells and sea glass; eating cold plums and building sandcastles; digging up clams with your toes and crabbing off the dock; bonfires and old-fashioned 4th of July celebrations. This is summer at Oldfield Society.
Uncommon Candles
Poetry and prose are the inspiration behind our newest collection, “Poems of the Sea.” Five thoughtfully curated, seaside fragrances to honor summer musings, family memories, and the splendid gift of slowing down.
As always, all Oldfield candles are infused with one or more essential oils, blended with natural coco-soy wax from American farm-grown soybeans, and lovingly hand-poured in small batches in pastoral Princeton, Massachusetts.
Earthy pairing of sandalwood and amber rooted in a woody base of cedar and clove leaf essential oils.
“We sat within the farm-house old,
Whose windows, looking o'er the bay,
Gave to the sea-breeze damp and cold,
An easy entrance, night and day...”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882),
“The Fire of Drift-wood”
100% natural soy wax
100% recycled Spanish glass
Braided, cotton wicks
Burn time:
10oz., 45-50 hours
All Oldfield Anthology candles are infused with one or more essential oils, blended with 100% natural soy wax from American farm-grown soybeans, and lovingly hand-poured and packaged in pastoral Princeton, Massachusetts. Braided, all-cotton wicks contribute to a cleaner and longer burn-time as well.
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Sweet wildflower honey blended with bright notes of rose, lemon, and amber essential oils.
“O gather me the rose, the rose,
While yet in flower we find it,
For summer smiles, but summer goes,
And winter waits behind it...”
-William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), “O Gather Me the Rose”
100% natural soy wax
100% recycled Spanish glass
Braided, cotton wicks
Burn time:
10oz., 45-50 hours
All Oldfield Anthology candles are infused with one or more essential oils, blended with 100% natural soy wax from American farm-grown soybeans, and lovingly hand-poured and packaged in pastoral Princeton, Massachusetts. Braided, all-cotton wicks contribute to a cleaner and longer burn-time as well.
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Briny sea salt combined with calming notes of jasmine, lily of the valley, and orange essential oils grounded with a tonka bean base.
“When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.
My holes were empty like a cup.
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), “At the Sea-Side”
100% natural soy wax
100% recycled Spanish glass
Braided, cotton wicks
Burn time:
10oz., 45-50 hours
All Oldfield Anthology candles are infused with one or more essential oils, blended with 100% natural soy wax from American farm-grown soybeans, and lovingly hand-poured and packaged in pastoral Princeton, Massachusetts. Braided, all-cotton wicks contribute to a cleaner and longer burn-time as well.
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Soothing lemon and orange essential oils balanced with a hint of sea salt and jasmine and imbued with a woody violet and cedar base.
“Anemones, salt, passionless,
Blow flower-like; just enough alive
To blow and multiply and thrive.
Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike,
Encrusted live things argus-eyed,
All fair alike, yet all unlike...”
-Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), “By the Sea”
100% natural soy wax
100% recycled Spanish glass
Braided, cotton wicks
Burn time:
10oz., 45-50 hours
All Oldfield Anthology candles are infused with one or more essential oils, blended with 100% natural soy wax from American farm-grown soybeans, and lovingly hand-poured and packaged in pastoral Princeton, Massachusetts. Braided, all-cotton wicks contribute to a cleaner and longer burn-time as well.
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Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind’s nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea–pirates and mermaids, phantom ships and the sunken city of Atlantis–have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses and shipwrecks, of icebergs and frothing foam and seaweed.
This marvelous collection includes classics old and new, from Homer and Milton to Plath and Merwin. Here are Tennyson’s seductive sea-fairies next to Poe’s beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge’s darkly brooding “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare’s “Full Fathom Five.” And here is Masefield’s “I must go down to the seas again” alongside Cavafy’s “Ithaka” and Stevens’s “The Idea of Order at Key West.” In the wide variety of lyrics collected here–sonnets and sea chanteys, ballads and hymns and prayers–we feel the encompassing power of our planet’s restless waters as metaphor, mystery, and muse.
Product Details
Hardcover
Published by Everyman's Library
Oct. 30, 2001 | 256 Pages | 4.42 x 6.49 in. | ISBN 9780375413292
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Heady top notes of citrus, ozone, and plum infused with cardamom seed and clove leaf essential oils.
“As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
As I wended the shores I know,
As I walk’d where the ripples continually wash you
Paumanok,..."
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life”
100% natural soy wax
100% recycled Spanish glass
Braided, cotton wicks
Burn time:
10oz., 45-50 hours
All Oldfield Anthology candles are infused with one or more essential oils, blended with 100% natural soy wax from American farm-grown soybeans, and lovingly hand-poured and packaged in pastoral Princeton, Massachusetts. Braided, all-cotton wicks contribute to a cleaner and longer burn-time as well.
$7.99 Flat Rate Shipping - Order any quantity of candles and enjoy one flat rate of $7.99 for shipping.
FREE shipping on orders of $60+