This is it, this is the beginning of the week of blogs. This is an exercise that only this reading audience and my wife can keep me accountable to, to write a blog every day this week. What better thing to write about than to highlight a small business? Especially in a time where small businesses are impacted by this virus and need a little uplifting.
A little background on my family is that my wife and I LOVE candles. Personally, I am very keen on smell. For whatever reason, smell is one of the first things that is associated with rooms and memories. The smell of a freshly mown golf course, the smell of coffee in the morning and the smell of Lilacs in the spring are three of the smells that I have great memories associated with. In addition to that, I will obsessively do laundry in order to remove certain smells from our bed sheets or clothes. Similarly, my wife is obsessed with smell. She always has candles going in her studio, the bathroom and around the living room. It is always great to come home to a well scented house or walk into a pleasant smell when coming up from the basement.
So with all of that background, it is obvious that smell is very big in our house. Candle’s need to meet a certain threshold in our house to be bought and burned. My wife loves candles from Anthropologie, Target, and other expensive candles from big national chain stores. So one day when I nagged her to let me buy a candle from this small company I found on instagram, you can understand why she was reluctant. LIke anything, you want to know that you are getting a good product and “test” the good you are purchasing whenever possible. So when you purchase candles online you are obviously robbing yourself of the trial sniff in the store and making sure you are happy with the smell.
The company that I found on instagram was Out of Bounds Candle Company. Of course the first critique from my wife was I just wanted a candle because they were a golf oriented company to which I responded, “You’re right.” The company advertises the idea to associate parts of the game with certain smells. After I convinced my wife to let me purchase one, I bought the scent ‘Locker Room’. Upfront, it sounds like it would be disgusting. For a nongolfer, a locker room is a place that is sweaty, damp and reeks of body odor but in golf, a locker room is very different. It is an area to take a load off, a place to collect yourself after the round and is usually a high class area. So fittingly, this candle smelled of cedar wood, tobacco and other warm, manly smells. My wife and I loved it (admittedly, me more than her) and this candle was our go-to when we were looking to light a candle. Because of this, it was gone rather quickly. Which obviously led to us getting a second candle called ‘Dew Sweeper’. A dew sweeper is someone who is the first out on the golf course removing all of the dew as they play. So this candle smells like coffee and tones of bright vanilla underneath. It is a sweet candle that my wife and I will look forward to burning in the morning. It just adds an intensity to the coffee aroma already in our house.
Unintentionally this blog post has kind of unraveled into a long winded review of Out of Bounds Candles, I personally do not really care. When you find something that is praiseworthy, you can’t help but express that satisfaction publically to others. That is what I do with golf, my wife and many other things that I delight in. So if you are in the market for a new candle or looking to support a golf orientated company in a time where small businesses are hurting, I would advise you to check out Out of Bounds Candles at https://outofboundscandles.com and on instagram @outofboundscandles.
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-Mason
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