How to revive a candle.......

Baltimore, MD(Zone 7a)

.....whose innards have melted out, but there is a lot of the candle left all around?

I have had this awesomely fragrant, ball-shaped candle (about 3" dia.) that I have been saving and saving because it smells so wickedly good/seductive.....I finally decided to burn it and enjoy the fragrance. AHHHHH.....

Well--it has burnt and burnt and now the middle is almost burnt/melted to the bottom and the wick is also. I want to, somehow, use up the rest of the candle walls so I can keep enjoying the fragrance.

I started cutting the rims down with a knife and letting the pieces melt in the "pit"....but, of course, it drowned out the wick with all the hot wax in the bottom. Now what???????

Do I have to melt down the whole candle and re-pour it, adding a new wick, so I can enjoy this to the last drip? What else can i do? Don't we all have this problem with any kind of a FAT candle?

ALL suggestions welcome!

Thanks, Gita

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