Christmas isn’t without a festive candle, from traditional pine-inspired, warming spices, sweet strawberries, with Champagne. The best candles help conjure up what matters during the festive season - fabulous gatherings with friends and family and a room filled with beautiful aromas, by editor Trudi Brewer.
Glasshouse White Christmas Cedar Leaf & Fruity Clove Candle image BeautyEQ
Lighting a beautiful candle and letting the scent float through your home – will prepare your olfactives for the best festive season. Christmas. Here are the best festive-inspired candles.
MOR Boutique BOHEMIENNE FRAGRANT SOY CANDLE, $64.
As chic as candles come, this aroma is the greeting your guests will adore. It’s a fruity blend of strawberry, mandarin, cassis and orange with jasmine and apple - it looks as good as it smells.
ECOYA Fresh Pine Goldie Candle, $65.
This brand knows how to whisk you into the festive season by capturing the essence of Christmas with their traditional, fresh pine needles, forest woods, rosewood, citrus and cedar. And this year, it’s housed in a beautiful gold vessel.
Diptyque Sapin Scented Candle, from $72 - $123.
Diptyque never disappoints on the Christmas candle front. This pine and cedar-inspired aromatic offering is no exception. Thank you, Diptyque, for always giving us a sensorial delight for our favourite time of the year.
Jakob Carter STRAWBERRY ROSE & CHAMPAGNE TRIPLE SCENTED SOY CANDLE, $49.
Fashion designer Jakob Carter’s foray into home fragrance has been a huge success. This candle, the designer’s favourite was created to transport you to a garden in summer full of wild strawberries and roses celebrating with Champagne - the kind of Christmas day we all wish for.
Pure Fiji Soy Wax Candle Coloured Glass, $50.
Beyond Christmas Day, these new tropical-inspired candles in five brightly-coloured vessels will bring that summer holiday vibe to any home. We can’t go past the White Gingerlily, reminiscent of honey-like gardenia.
Glasshouse Night Before Christmas Dancing Sugar Plums Candle, $65
There is a divine Christmas offering of six limited-edition candles, each adorned with a bespoke Christmas village theme by Melbourne-based artist Michelle Pereira. In traditional festive red, the scent of this blend is spicy blackcurrant, redcurrant, plum, lemon, lavender, and rose, with musky oak and spice.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Mon Beau Sapin Scented Candle, $184.
Francis Kurkdjian has taken the traditional scent of Christmas and turned it into something truly indulgent. This renowned perfumer's ode the woody aroma of pine, smells like you have been transported to a forest of winter fir trees.
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