The Best Luxury Scented Candles
Are you exploring scented candles and home fragrances? The point is smell matters. You can look terrible, but you always have to smell good – never the other way around. Scented candles and Home fragrances create an atmosphere; they tell stories and speak of something deeper. They are as powerful a force on us as they are romantic.
“Redolence” is a concept that’s as beautiful as the sound of the word itself. Taken from Old French, from re(d)- ‘back, again’ and olere ‘to smell’, it means the emotions and memories created upon smelling a scent. The classic example is the thoughts and feelings evoked from freshly brewed coffee in the morning, or a passing fragrance from a person in the street that transports you to a time or place in childhood.
While fragrances for the person have consistently been seen as necessary, it’s only in the last few years that scented candles and home fragrances for our spaces have taken on a similar import level. You might attribute this to the rise in independent, boutique fragrance brands, but whatever the reason, there’s now a wealth of beautiful scents for us to experience and light up our living spaces.
From the more established independent brands empowering everyone in their supply chain to small, hyperlocal family labels nestled in ancient city streets, we gathered some of our favourite scented candles and home fragrances.
ZAHA HADID DESIGN Prime Small Candle
The Zaha Hadid Design range unites glass design with statement pieces in their candles. The Prime scented candle is arranged in a matte bone China to emulate an articulated exoskeleton. The scent is of tonka beans, wood and gardenia, combining a unique scent with a unique vessel.
SAINT CHARLES Mind Balance Natural Scented Candle
Like the Mood Balance Room Spray, the Saint Charles Mind Balance Scented Candle combines lavender geranium and frankincense to create a calming scented candle.
ORMAIE Sarong
Identifiable for its unique appearance and its individual scent, the Ormaie Sarong will transport you back to your gap year in Thailand. Featuring notes of patchouli, Vanilla Bourbon and Myrrh.
GINORI 1735 The Lady Large Candle
This white porcelain vessel is adorned with an expressive and elegant face known as The Lady. With top notes of mandarin and bergamot and base notes of white flowers and white wood, this scented candle has around 130 hours of burn time.
Fornasetti Bacio Scented Candle
This scented candle has a bold Bacio print with a red, white, and black colour scheme synonymous with Fornasetti. The scented candle can act as a work of art and a way of filling your home with a warm tonal scent.
MALIN + GOETZ Dark Rum Candle
A perfect gift for the bachelor in your life, this dark rum-scented candle smells delicious and looks rugged, too. Each candle is handmade and has up to 60 hours of burn time.
BYREDO Bibliothèque Candle
Transporting you back to your study days spent in the library, this candle has notes of peach, plum and vanilla. All blended with a base note of patchouli. The black glass vase with a bold white label makes this candle appear above the rest.
Gucci Esotericum Scented Candle
This candle is known for its striking gold and duck egg blue vessel and its unique scent. With top notes of orange and jasmine and base notes of leather and sea salt, this candle smells and looks spectacular!
BYREDO Fleur Fantôme Candle
This is another beautiful, scented candle by Byredo. The Fleur Fantome scent is a blend of rhubarb, and tulips. Lemon and heliotrope.
Fornasetti Regalo – Otto
From the combined skill and flair of the legendary Milanese atelier Fornasetti and master Chanel perfumer, Olivier Polge comes the Regalo Otto scented candle. Housed in a ceramic lidded container with Fornasetti’s iconic visage motif, the Regalo Otto mixes Mediterranean herbs, wood, and incense — all connected to the atelier itself. For a Milanese, Fornasetti may need no introduction, but for everyone else, it’s crucial to understand Fornasetti’s place in contemporary Milan. Founded by Piero Fornasetti in the post-war moment, the atelier is now headed by his son, Barnaba Fornasetti. It continues to design and produce all of its wares proudly and meticulously within Italy. Place the Regalo Otto candle in your home, and you’ll truly enjoy a multisensorial experience.
Byredo Chai – Candle
Following a chance encounter with perfumer Pierre Wulff, native Swede Ben Gorham left a painting career to pursue an alternative creative endeavour based on olfactory senses rather than visual. Teaming up with industry leaders Olivia Giacobetti and Jerome Epinette, luxury brand Byredo was founded in Stockholm in 2006. Its inviting scents and sleek design have gained global attention, showing that Gorham’s aesthetic eye hasn’t gone to waste. Nothing quite exudes warmth like the fragrance of Chai, and Byredo’s has a feel of nostalgia behind it, sparked by Gorham’s childhood memories of time spent with his grandmother and mother in their home country of India. The bold spices of Indian Chai Tea are bottled into the distinct Byredo monochrome candle for a familial, recognizable feel coupled with a chic aesthetic.
Best Smelling Scent Diffuser and Room Spray
SAINT CHARLES Raumspray Mood Balance
The Saint Charles Mood Balance Spray is designed to help lift the room's mood with the 100% natural essential oil blend, including geranium, ylang-ylang, and clary sage.
TRUDON Spiritus Sancti Colorless Classic Reed Diffuser
Combining incense, Lily of the Valley and Labdanum, the Spiritus Sancti diffuser is designed to transport you to a 16th-century Parisian Cathedral. The hand-blown glass vessel and gold foiled label complete the look.
Best Scented Candles and Home Fragrances, the Bottom Line
Now is the time to buy one of the best luxury scented candles or home diffuser fragrances, settle into your favourite comfortable nook and let your fragrance of choice fill the room – give in to nostalgia, let yourself be transported to another time, another place, or simply another headspace. A straightforward addition to your mantelpiece and a whole world of experience awaits you.
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Last Updated on April 2, 2025 by Editorial Team
