Mini candles and scented tiny gifts

A small candle is an honest present because it makes a promise it can keep: a two-ounce travel tin burns for something between twelve and eighteen hours, which is six evenings, and then it is done. A twelve-ounce jar promises sixty and usually gets lit four times. Three-fifths of this shelf comes as a set, four tins, six tea lights, a boxed dozen, and that is the form to buy when you do not know what a person likes, because a set is four chances at the right scent instead of one. The word to read on the label is the wax: soy and coconut blends burn cooler and slower than paraffin and throw less scent when cold, so a soy tin that smells of nothing in the box is not a fault. Nothing on this shelf should be posted into a hot letterbox in July, and the sets that survive a summer delivery are the ones in tins rather than glass.

Everything on this shelf is one of candle, air freshener or essential oil, and the Tiny Gifts lineup keeps the price, the pack count and the widest measurement on every card so the sums are done before you order.