York 1349

Scent Notes:

Floral spectrum, faunal spectrum, ozonic tone, incense, dirt, mould and human decomposition

York 1349 explores a very dark time in world history, when the black death was raging across the planet, causing devastating effects to the global population. The cloying smell of rotting human remains is unmistakable in this scent profile, but it is used as an accelerant, to push the delicate floral tones to new, stronger highs. Plague doctors would cram their masks full of herbs and flowers, believing them to give protection to the illness. We know now that doing so didn't offer any protection, but it did have a different effect. It allowed plague doctors to experience herb and floral tones in completely new ways - the smell of the rot passing through the flowers pushed their scents to unbelievably beautiful places, never before experienced in a scented candle, until now.

York 1349 was the first candle Room Spell created, and it was created from memory. Once you have smelt the sickly sweet smell of death, it becomes imprinted on your olfactory nerves forever.