Gathered Table is the hour the dining room is ready: tart cranberry and green pear, a crush of clove and cinnamon, and the cool green of pine. Apple and dried apricot open underneath, with rose and carnation keeping it from reading as a bakery candle. Frosted raspberry, vanilla bean, and balsam fir finish it, like a table set before anyone sits down.

Hand-poured in apricot-coconut wax and filled generously, it belongs on a dining table, a sideboard, or a kitchen island once the cooking is done. The 7 oz candle comes in frosted amber glass; the 14 oz candle comes in frosted white. Both are phthalate-free, with a clean burn and a vessel that still looks intentional after the evening is over.

Light it when the table is set, not while the oven is running. Trim the wick to 1/4 inch before each lighting, burn on a stable surface, and keep the flame in sight.

• 7 oz frosted amber, about 35–40 hours
• 14 oz frosted white, about 70–80 hours
• Notes: cranberry, green pear, clove, cinnamon, pine, apple, apricot, rose, carnation, raspberry, vanilla, balsam fir
• Soy-coconut wax, phthalate-free fragrance, cotton wick