Kacey Musgraves is reading me a poem, and I’m doing my absolute best to withhold giddy shrieks on my end of the phone call: “Shimmery. Dark, but it has a glow. Earthy yet expensive. A little dank, a hint of crisp, a satisfied sigh. Commanding, but not in a hurry. A walk in the summer to your favorite bar. Savoring every last drop of the deep orange negroni in your glass in the fading bits of the evening. Strangers on the other side of the globe in Beijing are heading into work. This song is about not giving a shit about any other timeline than the one that feels good.”

The scene set here is a reflection of her song “Slow Burn,” the one off her four-time Grammy-winning album Golden Hour—and what Musgraves sent to the fragrance house that developed her first candle with Boy Smells. Called “Slow Burn,” after the song, the candle is Musgraves’s first-ever collaboration and a reflection of her synesthetic songwriting. “The candle itself has black pepper, a little bit of tonka, amber, and kind of a slightly burnt quality to it. It’s not masculine and it’s not feminine. It’s somewhere in the middle, but it’s earthy,” she continues. “It was really a kind of a fun way to bring a song to life, almost in another dimensional sense, you know what I mean? If the song was 3D already, now it’s 4D.” She pauses for a laugh before adding, “Now it’s got the Smell-O-Vision, if that makes sense!”

The ombré-packaged candle is the result of Musgraves’s love of another Boy Smells scent, Kush. (That one is, of course, markedly marijuana scented.) “I’ve been a fan of the brand for a long time, so I DM’ed them and was like, ‘Hey, if you ever want to collab, I think it’d be really fun. I have a song called ‘Slow Burn,’ and that’d be a really obviously great name for a candle,’” she says.

There are some of us who could only imagine what it would feel like to receive an unsolicited Instagram DM from Kacey Musgraves, but for Boy Smells cofounder Matthew Herman it was real. “As soon as she reached out to us via Instagram DM to let us know that she was a fan of the brand and was interested in collaborating with us, we knew we wanted to do something amazing together, no hesitation,” Herman tells Vogue. “Working so closely with her only proved how strongly our values align. Her authenticity and promotion of self-expression without shame garnered immediate respect from us, as they are what Boy Smells stands for as well.”