Ithaca Wax Melts

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Inspired by Odysseus’s unyielding journey home from Homer’s The Odyssey, Ithaca is a tribute to the legendary Greek island and the resilience of the people who call it home. For tw enty years in exile, Odysseus survived on a single lifeline: the memory of his homeland. In the epic, Ithaca is described as a wild, rocky place, yet a "good nurse of men"—a land of ancient cypress trees, sun-baked wild sage, and the comforting, smoky hearth fires that anchor a traveler’s soul. These wax melts captures the psychological landscape of a traveler driven by absolute motivation, caught between the pull of memory and the power of the sea. It is deeply aquatic, rugged, and atmospheric—the literal collision of a raging ocean storm against the sacred, smoking hearth fire pulling him home. TOP: Coastal Greens & Spruce HEART: Cypress, Sage & Dewy Florals BASE: Ozone, Smoky Palo Santo & Earthy Musk, Marine Show more