The Jidge
$6,150
18.2 cu. ft. refrigeration · 37 pairs · Braided-hem gasket
Studio photography for this piece is in production.
Kitchen
Jented Jandles
The honest answer to "what does denim smell like" is not a candle anybody would buy.
$54
Refills $28. The vessel is meant to be kept.
Cotton, dust, and a faint metallic note off the rivets. That is what our workshop actually smells like, and the entire difficulty of this product was building something recognisably that without reaching for the vanilla that would have made it easy. Sixty hours, in a cuff vessel, with a sealed glass insert between the flame and the fabric.
Development
Sixty-one formulations, and no vanilla
Four years. Sixty-one formulations. The temptation at every single review was to add something warm and legible — vanilla, tonka, amber — because a candle that smells of dry cotton and metal is a hard thing to sell across a counter. We declined it sixty-one times. Formulation 61 is dry, slightly mineral, and smells like the third bay of our Greensboro workshop at about four in the afternoon, which is what the product claims to be and therefore what it had to be.
- 4 Years in development
- 61 Formulations
- 0 Grams of vanilla
Fabric near a flame
A candle in a cloth vessel is, on the face of it, an obviously bad idea, and we treated it as one. The wax sits in a sealed borosilicate insert that lifts out of the cuff entirely. The flame never has line of sight to fabric, the cuff never gets above 41 degrees at its hottest point, and the insert has a shoulder that stops the burn 18 millimetres before the wax reaches the base.
We ran two hundred full burns to establish that, and we publish the number because a candle is the one product in this catalogue that could hurt somebody. Everything else we make fails by looking bad. This one has a flame in it, and it is engineered accordingly, and it is still the cheapest thing on this site.
In the crate
- Sealed borosilicate insert, removable, dishwasher safe
- A brass snuffer, because blowing it out throws soot into the cuff
- A scent card describing the four notes and where each came from
- Refill instructions, and refills at $28 for the life of the vessel
- Vanilla, tonka, amber, or anything else that would have made this easy.
- A lid. A lid traps the smell you paid for.
Ownership
Care
- First burn until the pool reaches the full width. Two hours, roughly.
- Trim the wick to 5 mm before every burn.
- Snuff, never blow. Soot marks the inside of the cuff permanently.
- Lift the insert out to wash it. The cuff never goes near water.
Questions we are asked
Before you commit
Is it safe to burn a candle inside fabric?
The wax is in a sealed glass insert and the flame never has line of sight to cloth. The cuff peaks at 41°C and the insert stops the burn 18 mm above the base. Two hundred full burns established those numbers, and it is the only product we make that could hurt anyone, so it is the one we tested hardest.
What does it actually smell like?
Dry, slightly mineral, faintly sweet from the cedar. Raw indigo and cotton dust on top, warm brass underneath. It does not smell like a shop, and several customers have told us they expected to like it more than they do. We would rather that than the vanilla version.
Can I refill it?
Yes, indefinitely. Refills are $28 and the vessel is meant to outlast any number of them. Roughly a third of Jandle revenue is refills, which we regard as the product working correctly.
Why is there no lid?
A lid keeps the scent inside the vessel, which is where you are not. Snuff it with the brass snuffer and leave it open.
Will it make the whole house smell of denim?
No. It scents a room, not a house, and it is deliberately restrained. A candle that announces itself from another floor is a candle doing something we did not want done.
