Polly loves candles so much and so I have been wanting to give her a candle-related experience for so long, but the timing hasn’t ever been right. Until now.
Video: https://youtu.be/CYqjD0dzMy0
We went to make candles at SOVOS, which is a professional aromatherapy brand here in Hong Kong. For the first part of the activity, we were tasked with choosing the container for our candle. We could choose between two small candles or one big, and we could choose between metallic or transparent glass material.
Next, we had to add an extra 50 grams of wax that we were to heat up, and then we had to choose the exact fragrances we wanted for our candles. We could choose between 4 different smells: Magnolia, Happiness, Velvet Dreams and Rose. We both first picked Magnolia, but to not make the exact same candles, I chose Happiness.
We then had to stir for about 3 minutes to make sure that the essential oils were properly mixed with the liquid wax.
Unfortunately, there had been some miscommunication between the booking agency and the candle workshop instructors. We had paid to make so-called “secret message” candles, but they were not aware of this. But once the mistake had been discovered we were at least able to add a secret message towards the top of the candle under a thinner layer of wax.
Overall, it was fun trying a new experience together – and it’s great to have new candles that we have made ourselves, and we thank Sovos for the experience.
But, being honest to you as I don’t want to sugarcoat any of our experiences, we were a bit disappointed that we could not actually customize the scents, such as mixing fragrances together – and that there were just 4 default options. We were under the impression that this would be a really customized experience with custom candles and with custom fragrances. And because it wasn’t, we also just dropped making it a competition with a winner like we normally do for our activities.
If we had known, we may have picked a different provider such as BeCandle (https://www.becandle.com.hk/collections/candle-workshop) where we know that customization is the main part of the activity, but we picked the Sovos activity as it was branded as a unique activity for girlfriend and boyfriend with sweet gift box, secret messages, custom candles and more – but for various reasons, none of that was really the case.
But, we made the most of it and picked scents that we ultimately liked. And we did have fun together – which is the most important part!
Quick details if you want to do this yourself:
- Website: https://www.sovos.com.hk/
- Address: Unit 2, 1/F, Tak Woo House, 1 Wo On Lane, Central, Hong Kong
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sovostherapy/
- Email: custom@sovos.com.hk
- Alternative provider: https://www.becandle.com.hk/
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