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Notes: berries, black currant, rose
Cherry, arguably the sexiest of all fruits, is the main character here, made only more alluring with its bitter complexity. The sweet and tart smell is deepened with patchouli, cardamom, warm oud, and tonka bean. This is most certainly a dinner-date candle, a shaved-my-legs candle, a sleepover candle.
Notes: black cherry, cardamom, sweet patchouli, sandalwood, tonka bean
Any scent that can bring us that windows-down feeling is an instant add to cart. It’s easy to feel like a Californian coasting down Highway 1 with this votive—the smell of wet, effusive eucalyptus, and what they call “young green shoots, long spears, and russet underbrush.”
Notes: coastal rain, eucalyptus shoot, magnolia, pacific spray
A small grain, this candle is both herbaceous and floral—very Mediterranean orchard-smelling. The orange blossom is grounded in green and earthy smells, making it a perfect choice for creating an unobtrusive and calming scent experience.
Notes: orange-blossom, bergamot and white floral
This candle smells more like a tomato vine than a tomato vine does—and it really packs a punch. “After this candle was lit for 5 minutes, my entire living room was subsumed with the lush and peppery smell of tomato,” says commerce writer Julia Harrison. For the herbalists, the chefs, the gardeners, or the garden-missing, this is the perfect gift.
Notes: Tomato Vine, Holy Basil, Black Pepper
Looking to capture summer year-round? This candle brings peak produce to the darkest hours, with notes of fresh bergamot and pink pepper with warm musks, jasmine petals, and soft orris root. “I also own the fragrance version of this candle—I can’t get enough of the scent. It’s light, not overly sweet, and super refreshing,” says Audrey.
Notes: sparkling bergamot, mara strawberry, pink pepper
Gone viral many a time for their perfumes, Aesop is a master of aromatherapy. This candle’s notes of cedar, cypress, and vetiver are for bringing the outdoors in, a forest bathing technique for the city-dweller.
Notes: Cypress, Cedar and Vetiver
This is a candle for the spiritually inclined—“mindfulness meets opulence,” they call it. Its scent profile of palo santo, cistus, and ebony wood is both meditative and transcendent. Light this candle, start your chant playlist, criss-cross applesauce and let your mind wander.
Notes: palo santo, leather, woods
The title says it all, really. This one smells of driftwood and chamomile, but it includes undertones of vanilla bean and sandalwood to sweeten and deepen the smell. We’re also very tempted to purchase this one because of its cute reusable glass container—it would make a good-looking bedside water glass.
Notes: chamomile, vanilla bean, sandalwood, driftwood
Joya always nails its collabs—there’s one from A24 we also love farther down this list. This launch was to celebrate the work of Japanese print designer Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo. The candle itself smells of Japanese forest—damp, herbaceous, chilly. The top notes here are laurel leaf, basil, ice and wild mint, but below that lies a bed of musk, moss, and florals.
