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    Let there be light

    Nov 24, 2021 5 minutes

    FORGET electricity, candles seem to be the current mood lighting of choice in certain rooms. Soft, subtle, atmospheric, romantic: what snug retreat is complete without a mini flame floating in a lagoon of watery wax and emitting a delicious scent?

    Of course, we exaggerate; electricity hasn’t really had its day, but the light source that pre-dated Thomas Edison’s by several thousand years has seen a surge in buyers drawn like, well, moths to a flame. A report by Vend lends weight to the notion that candle sales are hotting up. Between 2016 and 2018, independent stores noted a 71% hike, and that doesn’t take into account the recent stay-at-home pandemic period, which added up to an even faster burn. Pre-Covid, candle-crazy Britons purchased about half a dozen each a year (The Duchess of Cambridge and Victoria Beckham

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