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> As suggested by a few, I have added a second blue lightsource. Nothing
> else has changed - so far. As you can see, it does look quite a bit
> better. (Unfortunately, it's still unspeakably suckful... but never mind.)
>

It's an improvement!
You could give the candle a patterned texture with a spherical pattern
centered on the flame with ambient to fake  subsurface scattering

texture
      {
         spherical
         texture_map
         {
            [0.0     pigment  { you_pigment    }
               finish{ ambient 0 }
            ]
            [1.0      pigment  { you_pigment    }
               finish{ambient 1  }
            ]
         }

      }

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