Why six.

We are asked, often, when the seventh candle is coming.

It isn't. Not this year, probably not next.

The simplest reason is logistics: we pour by hand, in batches of forty, in a single room. Six candles is what fits — between the ordering of fragrance oils, the curing schedule, the labels, the post days. A seventh would mean a second pourer, a second room, or a different week. We are not ready to be that.

Six is enough for a year of weather.

But there is a deeper reason. A house with thirty candles is a shop. A house with six is a position. Each one stands in relation to the others — Marais against Hôtel Bleu, Vesper against Jardin d'Hiver, Atelier 6 holding the smoky end. The collection has shape because it is small.

If we add a seventh, we will lose that shape, and we will have to find it again somewhere else. That is the work of a different kind of company. It is not the company we want to be.

So: six. For now, and for what's coming.