Myrrh & Tonka Botanical Wax Melts

If you want the house to smell expensive, start here. It opens with the aromatic freshness of lavender, melts into a heart of warm resinous myrrh and finishes on a sweet creamy base of tonka bean and vanilla.

The effect is close to wrapping yourself in a cashmere blanket, which makes it a melt for dark evenings, dinner parties and being thoroughly indulged.

These are botanical melts, hand-poured in our Norfolk studio and finished with a scattering of dried botanicals that float in the wax pool as it melts. It is the difference between a burner that works and a burner worth looking at.

One cube in the burner and let the tealight do the rest. Each melt gives hours of steady fragrance; lift it out and replace it once the scent starts to fade.

Use a standard 4-hour unscented tealight rather than an 8-hour maxi, which runs too hot for most burners, scorches the wax and burns the fragrance off early. Never leave a lit burner unattended, and keep it away from children, pets and draughts.