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Burn times

Nobody agrees how long a candle lasts

Burn time is the number that decides what a candle costs to use, and it is published by whoever is selling you the candle. Makers and retailers routinely give different figures for the same product. We do not test candles ourselves, so what we do instead is collect every published figure, say who published it, and show you where they disagree.

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A figure only appears here once someone has opened the page it was published on and read it, with the source and the date recorded alongside. We would rather show an empty table than repeat numbers we have not checked.

One conflict is already known and waiting to be sourced properly: Le Labo publishes sixty hours for Santal 26, while at least one retailer listing has stated eighty. That gap is a third of the candle’s working life, and it changes the cost-per-hour maths substantially depending on which number you believe.

How we source these figures

Every figure on this page is someone else’s claim, attributed to them. Ember & Main does not run burn tests, and nothing here is a measurement we performed.