Rathborne Seanchai Dun Candle/Luxury

The world's most beautiful shelter for a story. In Irish, the seanchaí (pronounced Shannakey) is the storyteller, keeper of the old tales, and a dún is a stronghold; Seanchaí Dún is the place where stories are kept safe.

In the old houses they watched for the purple flame in the hearth, the sign that a stranger was on the road or the good people were near, and that was when the story began. We've kept that flame in the fig-dark glass. Green fig leaf and a touch of cardamom over soft, worn leather, settling into sandalwood, amber and a whisper of smoked tea. Light it, let the flame settle, and shut the door on the world. The story has its proper home.