True Love scented jar candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Self-love first: read the affirmation aloud each morning while the candle burns, as a working to make yourself ready for the kind of love you want.
• Name paper: write the qualities you want in a partner (not a specific person) on pink paper, fold it toward you and set it under the jar.
• Rose petal sachet: once the candle is spent, gather any petals that did not burn and keep them in a small pink bag under your pillow.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Dressing: rub a little love oil around the rim of the jar and on your hands before each lighting.
• Honey jar companion: burn it on the lid of a honey jar holding your petition to keep the work sweet over its three-and-a-half days.

A Simple Working

• Write on a slip of paper the qualities of the love you are calling in.
• Fold the paper toward you three times and put it under the jar.
• Dab a little rose oil on your wrists and on the jar rim.
• Light the candle and read the affirmation on the back aloud.
• Sit with the flame for a few minutes and picture an ordinary day spent with the person you are describing.
• Snuff it and repeat on each following day until the candle is spent, then keep the paper in your bedroom.

Pairs Well With

• True Love oil: to dress the jar, your wrists and your petition.
• Rose petals: for a bath or sachet alongside the candle.
• Rose quartz: a heart stone to sit beside the jar.
• Honey: to sweeten the work in a honey jar spell.

What You Receive

One pink hand-poured jar candle in a romance scent, topped with pink rose petals and howlite crystals, with a love affirmation printed on the back. Burns approximately 3 1/2 days and can be burned in one go or relit across several sessions.

Origin & Lore

Pink candles are the colour of affection, tenderness and romantic love rather than raw passion, and rose has been the flower of love goddesses since antiquity. A candle like this one is made for steady, lasting love: drawing a partner who means it, or deepening a relationship already in place. The affirmation on the jar gives you words to speak each time you light it.

Pink is love with the fever taken out: affection, tenderness and the kind of devotion that lasts well past the first month.

The rose was sacred to Aphrodite and to her Roman counterpart Venus, and the Greek poet Bion wrote that roses sprang from the blood of the dying Adonis and anemones from the tears she wept for him. Medieval poets made the rose the very emblem of courtly love in the Roman de la Rose. The phrase “sub rosa”, under the rose, records the old custom of a rose hung over a gathering as a pledge that what passed there stayed there.