Yahoo StyleThe best luxury scented candles to burn now
- 1/19
The best luxury scented candles to burn now
Today’s best scented candles are more than a pretty centrepiece – they have the power to alter and enhance your mood. A clean, crisp fragrance will clear the air when you’re feeling foggy-headed, while a rose-tinted bouquet will bring a flicker of romance to a cosy evening in. For the exhausted, a lavender candle will encourage deeper sleep, and grounding cedarwood notes should slow an anxious mind.
But finding the best scented candle for you (or a lucky recipient) is more than a matter of scent, because not all are created equal in terms of materials, burn time and scent throw.
The new school of soy and coconut-based candles is sure to appeal to those on a clean-beauty path. Brands such as Eym are using aromatherapy oil blends to bolster the soothing effects of a flickering flame, while emerging perfumers Sana Jardin and D.S. & Durga are shaking things up with spectacular, space-filling scents.
And of course, for a candle that looks as good as it smells, the stalwart Diptyque and Byredo still reign supreme. All of the candles below rank high when it comes to burn time and intensity – all you have to do is select the scent that speaks to you.
The best scented candles to burn now
- 2/19
1) Best calming candle
Eym Home
£39
Contentbeautywellbeing.com
Created by a husband-and-wife team in the UK, Eym’s candles blend minimalist appeal with a strict all-natural ethos – from the soy wax to the cotton wicks and pure essential oils (even the prohibitively pricey rose oil can be found here).
Any candle from the collection will be a fail-safe choice, but we especially love the calming rose and chamomile scent of Home.
- 3/19
2) Best limited-edition candle
Diptyque Baies Candle
£56
Spacenk.com
Diptyque's limited-edition candles come with weighty collector's appeal, and this season's offering is well worth snapping up.
The Graphics collection, launched in celebration of the brand's 60th Anniversary, sees four of the brand's most iconic scents reworked with a striking graphic votive. Our choice has to be the best-selling berry and rose blend of Baies.
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- 4/19
3) Best clean candle
Byredo Cotton Poplin
£59
Net-a-porter.com
Byredo's cult candles are loved for more than their status-symbol aesthetic. The brand's most fail-safe scent, Cotton Poplin smells fresh, clean and entirely crowd-pleasing.
Something cosier? Try the equally well-loved, vanilla and bourbon Ambre Japonais.
- 5/19
4) Best sleep-inducing candle
Neom Bedtime Hero
£46
Feelunique.com
This brand-new candle is a fresh alternative to Neom's classic Real Luxury scent. It's formulated with chamomile, rather than lavender, yet will quieten a racing mind just as well.
Three wicks are set into a sustainable vegetable-wax blend, which will burn for up to 50 hours.
- 6/19
5) Best rose candle
Cire Trudon Giambattista Valli x Rose Poivrée Limited Edition
£80
Harrods.com
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A Cire Trudon candle is always a beautiful thing, but this limited-edition collaboration with Giambattista Valli is even more special. Just like one of the designer's fantastical dresses, the specially created scent is pure feminine romance: think fresh, blooming roses with a punch of spicy black pepper for extra impact. Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 7/19
6) Best citrus candle
Jo by Jo Loves
£55
Spacenk.com
Legendary perfumer Jo Malone has created countless cherished scents throughout her career, but this is the first fragrance she made for herself. So popular, the brand released it in candle form, Jo By Jo Loves is citrussy without being overly summery, thanks to the soft cedarwood in the base.
- 8/19
7) Best sweet candle
Acqua di Parma Oh L'Amore
£54
Libertylondon.com
Sweet, heady and entirely romantic, Acqua di Parma's Oh L'Amore scent is destined for cosy nights in. Warming rose, amber and musk combine to intoxicating effect.
- 9/19
8) Best statement candle
Bella Freud 1970
£110
Cultbeauty.co.uk
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As coveted as the designer's slogan sweaters, this supersized gilded candle is so in demand, it rarely stays in stock for long.
The signature scent is an escapist ode to the 1970s, with patchouli and oakmoss combining to entrancing effect. Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 10/19
9) Best value candle
Beauty Pie Clean House
£17.33
Beautypie.co.uk
If you needed proof of Beauty Pie's unfathomably high quality, consider that the oils for these candles are blended in Grasse: the home of fine fragrance. What's more, each one is large enough to burn for 60 hours.
Costing just £17.33 to members, (it costs as little as £5 to join), it's little wonder this one, which smells like crisp, lavender-spritzed cotton sheets, keeps selling out.
- 11/19
10) Best centrepiece candle
Buly 1803 Pater Mateos Candle
£138
Net-a-porter.com
For something truly centrepiece-worthy, look to Buly 1803's exquisite marble creations. This one contains a plant-wax candle that burns with the scent of freshly cut grass, and sits beneath a glass dome for maximum opulence.
- 12/19
11) Best floral candle
L'Artisan Parfumeur Souffle de Jasmin
£60
Artisanparfumeur.com
Striking in their simplicity, L'Artisan's weighty candles are an incredibly chic option.
The scents are outstanding too (unsurprising for such a respected fragrance house). This one is a warm honeyed ode to jasmine, with neroli and tonka to deliver depth.
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- 13/19
12) Best herbal candle
D.S. & Durga Big Sur After Rain
£60
Libertylondon.com
Brooklyn-based D.S & Durga is one of the best-looking niche fragrance brands to invest in today. The scents are remarkable, too – Big Sur After Rain clears the air with a hit of herbal eucalyptus, underpinned by wet grass and dew-kissed plants.
Connecting the dots between sound and scent, the duo have created a playlist to match the mood of each votive – head to the brand's website, and hit play as you ignite.
- 14/19
13) Best opulent candle
August & Piers Libertine
£59
Augustpiers.com
It won't take long for August & Piers' candles to become as coveted as those fine-fragrance behemoths (you know the ones). Brand new, yet already settled on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's very chic shelves, these minimalist votives burn with unique, thoughtful and intriguing scents. Our pick is Libertine, which blends smoky woods with heady patchouli for maximum impact.
- 15/19
14) Best fig candle
Jo Malone Fresh Fig & Cassis
£90
Jomalone.co.uk
Jo Malone has just launched what might be its chicest home-fragrance offering to date. The Townhouse Collection comprises clean white ceramic vessels that house five brand-new scents, each one chosen to enhance the atmosphere of any room.
Our pick is Fresh Fig & Cassis – a fruity ode to the end of summer. Something smokier? Glowing Embers will conjure the cosiness of a crackling log fire.
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- 16/19
15) Best botanical candle
Malin + Goetz Tomato
£42
Malinandgoetz.co.uk
If anyone can make a tomato scented candle work, it's Malin + Goetz. Perfect for anyone who finds sweet notes too cloying, this limited-edition offering conjures vine-ripened fruit laced with basil and pepped up with mint. In short, it's delicious.
- 17/19
16) Best fruity candle
Boy Smells Neopeche
£45
Brownsfashion.com
The sweet peach flesh that stars in this limited-edition scent is perfectly balanced by the earthy oakmoss and spicy pink peppercorns. It's gentle and soft, yet wholly unique.
- 18/19
17) Best tobacco candle
Roots Cuban Tobacco and Oak
£20
Roots-wellness.co.uk
Tiffany Youngs founded her burgeoning wellness brand Roots earlier this year, after finally leaving a relentless experience with cancer behind. The small edit of products spans single-origin manuka honey and turmeric to aromatherapy muscle balms, and a handful of beautiful soy wax candles.
A highlight, this one is sharply peppery with warming woody notes, yet remains surprisingly crisp and clean – perfect for the headache-prone.
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- 19/19
18) Best decorative candle
Fornasetti Ortensia
£155
Net-a-porter.com
Fornasetti's maximalist candles can fill a room with scent like no other. Powerful yet pretty, the white rose and jasmine blend in this hand-poured candle (created by renowned perfumer Emmanuel Philip) feels feminine yet sophisticated. The 60-hour burn time is impressive, too.
From fine perfumery blends to mind-soothing scents
