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Amber Outback Bunch With Candle

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$110.00
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A native bouquet in mustard and earth tones, plus an Australian-poured soy candle, arriving together in one box. The bouquet does the visual work the moment the lid comes off. The candle takes over once it is lit.

The bouquet is a hand-bound arrangement of Australian-grown, Australian-dried native stems. The candle is hand-poured by an Australian artisan supplier and labelled by hand. The mustard palette and overall character stay consistent across seasons. No two gift boxes are identical.


What's In The Box

Two Components, One Gift Moment

01
The Native Bunch in Mustard
Australian Natives, Dried
Mustard banksia formosa at the centre, burgundy banksia at the shoulder, papery white ixodia, ochre tea tree. Five Australian native stems, hand-bound at our wholesaler in a kraft wrap with a twine tie. The mustard banksia is the focal stem, holding its colour for years because the species was built by the plant to survive bushfire. The earthy palette suits the gift moments where bright pink would feel wrong.
Full botanical breakdown →
02
Australian Flora Soy Candle
Hand-Poured in Australia
An amber glass apothecary jar, 250ml, hand-poured by an Australian artisan supplier using 100% soy wax and a lead-free cotton wick. Forty-hour burn time. The scent is a native flora fragrance blend with a honey note. Read that as fragrance-oil work designed to evoke Australian bush, not steam-distilled banksia oil. The honest framing matters because soy candles that claim to contain actual native-flower extract are almost always overstating it.
Lit through autumn afternoons, the warm floral notes extend what the mustard bunch is already doing in the room.

Why Soy Wax

A Cleaner Burn, an Honest Wick

Soy wax burns at a lower temperature than paraffin, which means a longer burn time per gram of wax and less soot deposited on the jar rim. For a 250ml candle, that is roughly forty hours of useful burn from each pour. Paraffin would deliver around twenty-eight.

The wick is cotton, lead-free. Worth naming because lead-cored wicks were standard in the cheap-import candle category until the early two-thousands and still turn up occasionally on imported stock. Lead-free cotton is what every reputable Australian candle maker uses, and the lead-free claim is the one detail worth confirming when you buy any candle.


Who Orders This

Three Reasons The Gift Goes Out

The Upgrade From Just Flowers
A regular birthday or thank-you where you would normally send a bouquet, but you want the gift to do more. The candle pushes the unboxing past "thanks for the flowers" into something that lives on the bedside table for the next month.
The Long-Distance Send
For the friend or family member two states away whose birthday you almost missed. A box that arrives with two things to discover instead of one. The candle still gets used after the flowers have settled into the corner of the shelf they will occupy for the next two years.
The Apology That Means It
When "I'm sorry" needs more weight than a single bouquet carries. The mustard palette is the right register for an apology that is not a romantic gesture. Sincere, not performative. The recipient lights the candle the night they forgive you.

Presentation

How It Arrives

Everything ships in a single box. The bouquet sits in its kraft wrap with the Australian Made stamp visible on the front. The candle sits alongside in its amber jar. The buyer is not packing anything; the recipient is not unpacking anything beyond opening one lid.

Bouquet Size
45cm height
Candle
250ml, 40hr burn
Wrap
Kraft, twine, Aussie Made
Ready to Display
Open the box and hand over

Origin

Australian Made, Both Items

The kangaroo on the front of the bouquet wrap is the Australian Made Campaign mark. Third-party certification covering cultivation, drying, and any pigment work done on the stems. Most of the dried flower market outside Australia is dyed offshore and looks it within six months. The stamp is the easy way to verify yours did not.

The candle is hand-poured by an Australian artisan supplier who designs, pours, and labels each one by hand. The fragrance is a native-flora-inspired blend rather than actual extracted bush oils, which is the honest description of what almost every native-flora candle in the Australian market actually contains.

Not available for delivery to Tasmania.

Shipping information

- We cannot delivery to Tasmania, read why
- Ships within 1-2 business days.
- Ships in our fully recycled boxes adn wrapped in eco-tape
- Delivery $15

    Mustard dried native bouquet beside an amber glass Australian Flora soy candle, both wrapped in kraft with Australian Made stamp, on a dark teal background