Bayberry is the scent of an old New England winter: wax pressed from the berries of the wax myrtle, cool and green with a faint sweetness that reads more like a forest floor than a fruit bowl. The superstition goes back to colonial New England. A bayberry candle burned to the socket on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve brings luck to the house and gold to the pocket, which is why the tapers come out once a year and rarely last past January. We stock bayberry from the houses we carry as the holidays approach, so this shelf fills in late autumn and empties fast. Gift wrapping is free.