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Candles don’t expire the way food does, but their scent does. The 3 clocks that kill candle fragrance (heat, light, air), the storage specs that actually work, and a 12-month aging protocol to run before you print any best-before date.
Your candle is solid in 24 hours — but that does not mean it is ready to judge. Why day-1 burn tests on soy candles produce false scent and false wick data, and the 7-14 day window that makes your first burn the real one.
The defect nobody catches on the line Every candle in the batch passed QC. Full melt pool on the test jars, clean wicks, throw measured out of the room at distance. The wax was correct. Two months later the customer opens the carton and one in four jars is wrong: white snowflake patterns on the surface, a wet smear of oil inside the box, or a scent so faint it reads as “empty.” The complaint arrives with a photo and
A black cap on the wick tip is not a defect — it is a report. Three ratios build it, one diagnostic isolates the wick, and a sizing table that actually matches the vessel.
