Hervé Gambs Ambre Byzance candle at Tessuti—An Eastern-inspired blend of vanilla, sandalwood, cocoa bean, clove and rare black pepper in a sleek metallic gold vessel you’ll want to reuse, this ‘couture parfum’ candle, made by a French perfume house, has a 10% perfume content. Tessuti | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
Fornasetti Il Serpente del Giardino Segreto candle at WORLD Beauty—A very handsome orange snake coils itself around an old stone wall on this beautiful ceramic lidded candle, made by whimsical Italian luxury homeware brand Fornasetti. Inspired by Italian secret gardens, it’s rich with fresh scents of cypress, ivy and cedarwood. WORLD | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
Alchemy candle in copper beaker at La Lumiere Boutique—Hand-crafted in Melbourne using 100% natural soy wax and housed in a reusable copper beaker, this gorgeous candle has clean, calming scents of tangerine rind and lemon myrtle. La Lumiere | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
A potent mix of sweet tuberose and fruity mandarin and cherry with vanilla, frangipani, and blond wood base notes, this is the second of three tuberose-centric options, and the most unapologetically girly. World | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
Hearkening back to old apothecaries, Curio Noir candles come in handblown glass jars stamped with a wax seal design, which make beautiful vases after the candle’s burned away. The lake-blue Feather My Tears, inspired by the ballet Swan Lake, has fresh notes of orchid and water lily, underpinned by cedar and moss Curio Noir | Illustration … Read more
Featuring the Italian fashion brand’s signature chevron stripes, this candle evokes days at the beach, the salty tide moving over heated rocks, with piquant notes of lavender, white cedar and birch leaf. Tessuti | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
20th century artist Piero Fornasetti made groundbreaking, witty, graphic design-inflected paintings, furniture and interior objects, and his son has just launched their first home fragrance collection. Inspired by the profusion of flowers that surround the Fornasetti house in Milan, this candle has notes of rose, lily of the valley, iris and orange blossom, housed in … Read more
For flower lovers, it doesn’t get much more decadent than this subtle mix of soft, fresh may rose (a rare variety highly prized by Grasse perfume makers), lilac, carnation, violet and magnolia with the sharp greenness of basil and mossy chypre, and notes of twiggy wood. Tessuti | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
Legendary product designer Tom Dixon has created a beautiful and unusual container that reflects a petrol-like sheen, and has melting edges and soft dents in it. The woody-smelling candle inside is a full-on blast of cypress, smoky guaiac and pine tar, and leathery styrax. Simon James Design | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
A reissue from Jacobs’ unfussy and enormously popular Splash collection, Rain is a deceptively simple, refreshing blend that evokes nothing so much as rain after a hot day, and the freshness of the road, grass and flowers after it. Simon James Design | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
The richly fruity savour of figs (and, by association, Mediterranean summers) is captured in this sophisticated offering from the Carrière brothers, a French company that’s been making candles since the 19th Century. World | Illustration by Sarah Larnach
