Hello, and welcome to Candlegraph!

My name is Terry, and I love scented candles. They’re a great way to turn your house into a warm and inviting home. However, not all scented candles are created equal, which is the idea behind this site. I can’t tell you exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way I started measuring how long certain candles would burn for, and how much value I was getting from these (sometimes expensive) candles. An Excel sheet was born, and out of that, a PowerPoint presentation and Toastmasters speech entitled Candle Burn Times: A Value Proposition

The more people I shared my idea with, the more encouragement I got to go all in. A friend tore apart my initial ‘methodology’ and I revised and updated my measurements for 2022. In the summer I got even more serious and took a course in SQL, and now my candle readings live in databases. And as a final measure, this site is meant to link everything together

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