Spiced Apple Cider
8 oz.
$ 28.00
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Spiced Apple Cider
In the foothills east of Knoxville, you’ll find orchards where the air sharpens with the green scent of apple skins and the faint mineral tang of mountain soil. October mornings are thick with humidity, the kind that clings to your arms as you shoulder bushels down Cherokee Boulevard toward the press. Cinnamon bark splits open on the kitchen counter, mingling with cloves and orange peel, their oils catching in the steam above a battered enamel pot. The house fills slowly—first with apple, then citrus, finally a thread of vanilla woven into the warmth, each note distinct but inseparable from the memory of spice lifting through old floorboards.
October in East Tennessee is measured in scent and shadow. Not the sweetness of a jug from the grocery, but something rooted—apples pulled from the cool loam, their skins still dusted with last night’s dew. Somewhere beyond the kitchen, woodsmoke drifts in, softening the edges of the morning. Friends gather without hurry, drawn not by invitation but by the slow, inevitable pull of familiar spice and the promise of warmth seeping into their hands. Time stretches, and the kitchen becomes its own geography—a place to linger, to wait for nothing in particular.
The cider finds its way into heavy mugs, the kind that remember other autumns. It simmers, unhurried, on the back burner, sending ribbons of steam into the afternoon. There’s no prescription here—just the quiet certainty that, as it always has, warmth will gather in the marrow and October will settle in, gentle and unforced, making home feel both nearer and older than before.
Scent Profile: Bright & Fruity | Warm Spice | Universally Loved
Hand-poured in small batches in Knoxville, Tennessee
8oz | Approximate burn time: 45-50 hours
Natural apricot-coconut wax blend | Cotton wick
$ 28.00