{"product_id":"fable-candles-the-giant-lemon-pair","title":"Fable Candles: The Giant Lemon Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor anyone who’s ever fallen for something in the fruit aisle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSunny yellow · Cast in my kitchen · Less fruit bowl, more objet d’art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLate one lemon season, there it was: sitting in a crate in the fruit aisle, the biggest lemon I had ever seen. I had to have it. It became my first ever casting, done in our kitchen with lots of mistakes, lots of learning and a great deal of silicone. My husband is now mildly terrified every time I come home from the shops. Lemons were always going to matter to me. I spent much of my childhood in the Middle East and Cyprus, where they were everywhere: on trees, in bowls, shading the doorways. That might explain the limoncello habit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lore\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGolden apples. Renaissance writers linked citrus to the golden apples of the Hesperides, guarded by a dragon at the edge of the world. Botanists still call a citrus fruit a hesperidium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original show-off. Lemons reached Rome around the first century, and their remains have been found in the grand houses around Vesuvius. They were so rare that only the rich had them. They’ve been showing off ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOranges and lemons. London’s church bells have been ringing out “Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement’s” for centuries. Read to the end of the rhyme. It takes a turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat’s in it, and what isn’t\u003cbr\u003eNZ beeswax and soy, coloured with German-made candle dye, with a cotton wick. That’s the whole list: no fillers, no nasties. No fragrance either. Not “natural fragrance”, not a “botanical blend”. None. Just a faint scent of honey from the beeswax. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive it for\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA limoncello lover. All of the sunshine, none of the hangover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA housewarming. A little Mediterranean light for the new place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnyone life’s handed lemons. Upgrade them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe details\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12.5 cm long, 9 cm wide, 9 cm tall, 530g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApprox. 55+ hours. Indulgent but well-behaved, so let it burn on a tray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCast from a real lemon and hand-finished in Auckland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere it all started: see the Little Lemon, my very first produce candle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fable Candles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52993837400280,"sku":"180745","price":219.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0161\/2974\/files\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-at-2-56-05-PM.jpg?v=1794543957","url":"https:\/\/www.worldbrand.co.nz\/products\/fable-candles-the-giant-lemon-pair","provider":"WORLD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}