As my fans know, I love chocolate! At this time of year in particular, however, there is certainly such a thing as too much of a good thing (no matter how good it may be)!
That is why I am so grateful to have found a company called KLEIO who offer a sweet gift that is perfect for the holidays.
Providing a sense of what they call “sensory history,” KLEIO focuses on the sense that really allows us to enjoy the taste of chocolate (or anything else we crave) – the sense smell.
Instead of offering rich, dark, edible amazement, KLEIO offers candles (which are often a popular holiday gift on their own) that are intended to take those who are fortunate enough to receive them to a particular time and place (such as the tour I took of the Callebaut chocolate factory during my honeymoon!). And while it may sound a bit odd, when you learn that KLEIO uses actual historical research to create their candles and recall that smell is the sense most closely attached to memory, the idea of a candle doing things that food may not (which also includes allowing you to keep your weight and sugar intake down) makes sweet sense indeed!
Working with experts at the Fine Cacao and Chocolate Institute, KLEIO developed a Sweet Cacao candle that recreates and recalls fragrances associated with pure of Mesoamerican cacao.
If chocolate is somehow not your thing, KLEIO also offers the sensory-pleasing scents of famous scientist (and apparently botanist) Leonard DaVinci’s garden and (another personal favorite) a Midsummer Night’s Dream candle that can be accompanied by more Shakespearean wonder as part of KLEIO’s Time Traveler collection.
In addition to smelling historically accurate and just plain amazing, Kleio candles also come in lavish packaging that make the admittedly last-minute holiday gift of a candle into an unboxing experience that makes for its own memories to be savored as you enjoy the new smells and the sensations they elicit.