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Luxury designer candles that will spruce up any home

Celine is the latest fashion brand to create a room candle to bring consumers into their olfactory universe

By Lynette Koh - 

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Processed by a region of the brain directly connected to areas linked to emotions and memory, smells — more than anything — can trigger recollections of moments and feelings from one’s past. In other words, scents are powerful stuff. Coupled with the fact that many of us have been spending more time at home since the pandemic, it explains the slew of new room candles by luxury brands, whose success is largely intertwined with their ability to capture the emotions of customers.

After launching Celine’s Haute Parfumerie fragrance collection in 2019, creative director Hedi Slimane has followed up with a six-scent range, which was recently launched here. Produced in a process created by the brand’s in- house wax maker and presented in black faceted glass containers, each candle is inspired by moments and memories Slimane holds dear.

One of the scents, L’Inventaire, features woody notes of oak, cedar and rockrose, a combination that channels the spirit and smells of the designer’s Parisian home. As the press notes dramatically detail, these include elements such as “the Versailles parquet lit by parchment lampshades and golden wood chandeliers” and “the streamlined wood on the Eyre de Lanux chairs”. Users can choose to make the experience even fancier with accessories such as a candle snuffer and wick trimmer.

Here are others labels looking to infuse your space with their scents:

Loewe: Cucumber

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The clean, invigorating scent of cucumber characterises the latest addition to Loewe’s popular room candles. It was developed in collaboration with perfumer Nuria Cruelles and global brand ambassador and Chinese actor Leo Wu.

Like Loewe’s other picturesque candles, this one comes in an artsy glazed terracotta vessel, which in this case has been painted a cheerful pale green. Featuring images created by French artist and photographer Erwan Frotin, even the cardboard box the candle is packaged in is visually striking.


Dior: Toile De Jouy

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Pretty up the scent and look of your home with the latest room candles by Dior. The collection features the sweet scent of hydrangea, accompanied by fresh notes of citrus and moss. They come in mouth-blown glass jars silkscreened by hand.

Available in blue, red or grey, the holders are decked out with the house’s popular Toile De Jouy design — creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri’s reinterpretation of the naturalistic motif that once decorated the interiors of Christian Dior’s first boutique.


Balenciaga: Balenciaga Candle

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Fans of the late couturier Cristobal Balenciaga can now enter his olfactory universe. In a chic, mirror-polished holder, the Balenciaga Candle’s scent was created by artist and scientist Sissel Tolaas, using “olfactory recordings” of the house’s recently reopened couture salon on 10 Avenue George V. Devices were used to extract molecules from the salon’s walls, as well as pieces from the brand’s archive and items that once belonged to Balenciaga himself. The final product is a heady combination of notes such as burnt incense, tobacco smoke, old paper, tanned leather, furs, and silks.

This article was originally published in The Peak.

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