Hi. I'm a former professional ballet dancer turned professor and educator and now artistic director of a small nonprofit ballet company...and new Etsy shop owner! I've always dabbled in crafts during "off times" from the performing arts/academic world so when the Shut Down of 2020 happened and I found an old teenage List, I decided to cross off one of the items...no, not to own an Etsy shop, but to create my own signature scent. Through research, I realized one of the best ways to smell aromas is through pure soy so I picked up one of my all-time favorite hobbies of making candles. After a few months, I was burning candles all around the house and noticed my boyfriend starting to viscerally react to different scent combinations. Anise made him angry and satsuma made him irritable....and I remembered something from my grad school days about scents and emotions so I began investigating this more. I thought it would be very cool to create candles that would fill my space with creative scents that would trigger different emotions--the emotions I wanted-- throughout my day. I wanted a candle to burn as I get ready for my morning workout and another to burn when I need tons of creativity for choreography. At the same time, I also wanted one to burn to celebrate the end of a hard work week yet another for the peace of mediation. After about eight months of testing products, scent combos, gifting candles and getting feedback, I am happy to offer my candles to everyone through 3Ten Candles.