Back
Meik Wiking: The Little Book of Hygge (Hardcover, 2017, William Morrow) 3 stars

"The Danes are famously the happiest people in the world, and hygge is a cornerstone …

Hyggelige as they may be, there is one serious drawback to being crazy about candles: the soot. Studies show that lighting just one candle fills the air with microparticles more severely than traffic in a busy street.

The Little Book of Hygge by  (5%)

Oof, that's a lot of soot! I love the idea of candles, but this feels like a non-starter unless I were to get an air purifier too.