One of the very first questions we ask ourselves before creating any product for RavenSong Soap and Candle is simple: Does this connect to our family's story?
The Inspiration Behind Our New Moon Candle
We receive incredible and diverse scent and soap requests from our community every season, and while we love hearing your ideas, we rarely create something unless it feels rooted in a memory, a place, or a moment that genuinely means something to us. When many of you began requesting a fresh mint candle and soap, we immediately started thinking about the scents that accompany our summers at sea. As we developed our New Moon Candle, we wanted every scent note to reflect a memory from life on the water.
Fresh crushed mint reminds us of watermelon salads. The vanilla is used in baking cakes (aside from Anise which was traditionally used to mask the smell of fisherman) and the scent is carried across the galley to the wheel house upstairs. As for the coconut, we are a nomadic family and love travelling the world with our kids.
Life Aboard The Haida Girl
For salmon fishing, our family lives and works aboard our fishing vessel. We are raising our children on the ocean while commercial fishing on their dads boat — The Haida Girl. From octopuses, sharks seabirds our children witness a different kind of playground for summer.
Some nights, after the work is done and the engine is finally shut off, a rare kind of silence settles over the water. It's the kind of silence that only exists far from roads, the bright city lights and loud horns.The boat rocks gently with the ocean's movement. The children are asleep in their bunks. The darkness is complete. Those nights give us the deepest sleep we know.
And sometimes, when everyone else has gone to bed, we'll quietly bring two chairs onto the deck. We sit together under a new moon, surrounded by darkness so vast that the horizon disappears. There is nothing to look at except the stars above and the black water below. Nothing to hear except the ocean breathing around us. In those moments, the world feels wonderfully simple.
No notifications, no meetings to attend and no outside distractions. Just family, partnership, and the sea. When we began developing this scent, we wanted to capture that feeling and share it with you.
Not just a candle, but a moment.
A reminder to slow down.
To sit outside a little longer.
To listen to the quiet.
To find beauty in the stillness.
Our New Moon Candle captures the magic of high tides and moonless coastal skies, where cool ocean air drifts across the shoreline and soft warmth lingers long after sunset.
Handcrafted on Vancouver Island, the New Moon Candle was created to bring this peaceful feeling of life at sea into your home. Every scent note reflecting a memory, place, or moment that has shaped our family's story.
What Does the New Moon Candle Smell Like?
Notes of Soft Mint, Coconut, and Creamy Vanilla create a fragrance that is fresh, comforting, and quietly nostalgic.
From our family at sea to your home on shore, we hope this candle brings a little piece of that peaceful darkness, gentle sway, and ocean calm into your everyday life.
