Scented Candle Review: Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle

Posted by candledelirium on Aug 29 2011 | candles - news and reviews

Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco CandleThe Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle combines notes of tobacco and bergamot. Bergamot is the fragrance of earl grey tea, and it is citrus and light. Tobacco leaves have a sweet, rich, almost leathery scent. The result of combining the two fragrances is the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle: a sweet but spicy-scented candle that is masculine and perfect for any home. If you love scented candles but want to stay away from fruity and flowery scents, the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle is a great option. It is also a great candle to give that special man in your life. If you are a guy, lighting the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle makes your home smell terrific instantly – without smelling like cleaning products or a flower garden.

In fact the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle is a great option for customers who don’t usually like scented candles. Unlike candles that are overpowering or sweet, this candle has a unique and rich scent that many customers love.

Like all Archipelago candles, the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle is hand poured, ensuring fewer flaws in the wax. As well, Archipelago uses only the best quality fragrance oils and the best wax blends, ensuring a clean-burning candle with a true-to-life fragrance. In fact, every Archipelago candle is made from over 70% natural soy wax. Soy wax is natural and sustainable as a wax solution, and also provides a clean burn with fewer toxins.

The Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle is designed to be beautiful as well. Part of the Signature Collection, this candle comes in a beautiful pastel box. The glass jar is reusable and a clear stylish glass, perfect for any décor. The jar is decorated with the Archipelago logo in a stylish way. Overall, the style of the candle is simple and sophisticated, perfect for any room.

Customers will also find that the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle offers great value. The 5.25 oz. candle offers 50 hours of burn time, and since Archipelago uses the finest waxes and fragrance oils, the fragrance of the candle stays true and rich until the last moment. If you really love the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle, the same scent is also available as an Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Votive Candle, with 18 hours burn time. If you love the fragrance of the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Candle, but are somewhere where candles are not permitted, the Archipelago Bergamot Tobacco Diffuser is also available in the same fragrance.

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High End Candle Review: Diptyque Figuier (Fig) Candle

Posted by candledelirium on Aug 18 2011 | candles - news and reviews

Diptyque Figuier CandleFiguier is the French word for “fig” and the Diptyque Figuier (Fig) Candle is a Paris-made luxury scented candle that perfectly captures the scent of figs. While figs may seem like an unusual scent for a candle, the Diptyque Figuier Candle is a pure treat; the scent is fresh and green, without being overpowering or too feminine. The Diptyque Figuier Candle is designed to be slightly fruity, but with fresh woody and green notes for a rich and vibrant character.

Like all Diptyque candles, the Figuier Candle is designed with the highest quality in mind. Made with only natural ingredients, since Diptyque has never used synthetic scents, the Diptyque Figuier Candle fragrance rivals the quality of scent you would find in the best perfumes. And it’s no wonder: the Diptyque Figuier Candle is hand poured in Paris, home of some of the best fragrances and perfumeries in the world.

If you want to bring a little romance into your life, the French Diptyque Figuier Candle is the perfect option. Unlike many candles, the Diptyque Figuier Candle is beautifully designed with elegant simplicity. The candle is poured in a reusable glass jar and the distinctive black and white Diptyque label is understated sophistication sure to fit in beautifully in any décor. In fact, Diptyque candles have been featured in many magazines and interior decorating publications for their amazing beauty. Gwyneth Paltrow recently blogged about the Diptyque Figuier Candle, naming it one of her favorite fragrances and candles. Many other celebrities also adore the Diptyque Figuier Candle.

In addition to bringing charm and style into your home, the Diptyque Figuier Candle also offers excellent quality. The 6.5 oz. candle has more than 50 hours of burn time, allowing you to enjoy the scintillating scent for a long time. With a cotton wick and special natural wax blend, the Diptyque Figuier Candle is also safe to burn in your home and produces minimum soot. The special wax blend and hand pouring technique ensures that the Diptyque Figuier Candle burns evenly and cleanly, allowing you to enjoy every last drop of wonderful scent.

If you have been looking for luxury candles that capture the romance and beauty of Paris and a candle that makes your whole home smell amazing, the Diptyque Figuier Candle is a great choice. A favorite of celebrities and designers, it blends fragrance, style, and value perfectly. It’s a great choice for any home.

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High End Candles: News and Reviews

Posted by candledelirium on Aug 12 2011 | candles - news and reviews

While candles can seem like a simple thing, not all candles are made the same. There is in fact a world of difference in candles, and if you want to introduce the beauty and light of candles in your home, there are many reasons why you will want to consider high end candles.

Low-cost and discount candles are often made in factories overseas, and are often made to be inexpensive. This can mean lead and other toxins are contained in the candles. It can also mean that scented candles are simply dipped in scent at the end of the candle-making process, so that the fragrance lasts for a very short period of time.

High end candles such as Archipelago and Diptyque, to name just two brands, are made with the highest quality ingredients. This means that they burn more evenly and produce less soot. However, it also means that they are made from cotton wicks and natural waxes that produce fewer toxins in your home. Quite simply, high end candles can be safer.

High end candles also produce an entirely different experience. They are designed to burn for dozens of hours, so one high end candle provides excellent value by offering many hours of light and fragrance. Luxury candles also have much better quality fragrances. In fact, several brands, including Votivo and Voluspa candles, have very high quality fragrances that are as richly layered as fine perfumes. Since the fragrances are layered with the wax, the fragrance is rich – but never overpowering – from the moment you open the candle to the very last drop of wax. In addition, high end candle manufacturers are always producing new fragrances and new types of candles to explore, so that you can always introduce something new into your home. To learn about new luxury candles, be sure to check out a candle site such as Candle Delirium.

Luxury candles are also made by manufacturers who take their responsibilities seriously. As a result, the candles are made in ethical conditions and are often made at least partly by hand, ensuring the highest quality possible. Some candle makers, such as Chilanthropy, even give back some of the proceeds from their candles to charities, so that you can feel good about buying these candles.

Or, stay tuned to this blog, where we will be reviewing luxury candles and related products that you might enjoy. Read about the candles that everyone is talking about right here and get a sense of which candles are perfect for you and your home.

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Summer Fragrances for Your Home

Posted by candledelirium on Jul 26 2011 | summer candles

Summer is the perfect time to light some beautiful candles in your home. Whether you want to enjoy a beautiful, relaxing moment without spending a fortune on a trip or want to create a beautiful alfresco dining experience on your patio with a few candles, luxury candles are an affordable way to add a touch of class to the summer months. Here are some candles you will want to try this summer:

1) The Diptyque Figuier (Fig) candle.  Actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently featured this candle on her Goop newsletter, calling it one of her favorite candle products. It’s not hard to see why this candle is a celebrity favorite for summer – with its green and woody notes, it is a perfect green scent for when the world is rich and in bloom. The 50 hour burn time, carefully hand-poured wax and classic glass jar make this high-quality luxury candle the perfect addition to your home.

2) A Scent of Scandal Rock the Boat Candle. Nothing captures the summertime quite like a visit to the ocean and a boat ride. A Scent of Scandal Rock the Boat Candle perfectly captures the summer fun with scents of citrus, jasmine, lavender and sea salt. Made in the US from soy wax, every Scent of Scandal candle burns for up to 35 hours and is encased in a clever tin – perfect for traveling. Metal-free, all-cotton wicks ensure that you get a clean burn and minimal toxins in your home. Plus, you can feel great about buying this candle, since A Scent of Scandal Rock donates profits from this candle to a charity.

3) The Carrière Frères Cucumis Melo (Melon) Candle. Summer is the time for sitting on the porch and biting into icy pieces of watermelon or your favorite melon. The Carrière Frères Cucumis Melo (Melon) Candle perfectly captures that summer fun. The candle is made to burn cleanly, with 50 hours of burn time. The fine vegetable wax and beautiful frosted flass make this 6.7 oz. candle a perfect addition to your home.       

4) The D.L. & Co. Lady Rhubarb Candle. Fresh strawberry and rhubarb desserts are the very soul of summer, and the D.L. & Co. Lady Rhubarb Candle perfectly captures this favorite summer scent with notes of blood orange, mandarin, grapefruit, sandalwood, and Japanese shiso. With a dramatic red and black glass vessel and red and black box, this candle is also sure to add some sizzle to your summer evenings.

5) The Cire Trudon Manon (Fresh Laundry) Candle. If you want the fresh smell of laundry on a summer’s day but don’t want to start scrubbing, just light a Cire Trudon Manon (Fresh Laundry) Candle. With notes of linen, lavender, and orange, it’s the perfect summery light fragrance. With a pure vegetable wax, a gold-crested jar, and a long 80 hour burn time, this candle is sure to delight you through the summer months.

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The Wonderful World of Home Fragrances by Aquiesse

Posted by candledelirium on Jul 17 2011 | aquiesse candles

Aquiesse candles are created by a Santa Barbara designer, working with some of the best perfumers in the world. These luxury candles are designed to be inspired by nature, but at the same time are created to be innovative and unique. Originally, Aquiesse candles were fragranced with perfumes inspired by the scents of Central California. Citrus, ocean, mountains, and florals from the region went into every Aquiesse candle. Each candle is made using candle making technique that has been around for hundreds of years and eah candle is made from a carefully-guarded soy wax blend.

The technique and wax blend used in Aquiesse candles have taken years to perfect but this attention to detail has created an exceptional burn quality and a rich true-to-life fragrance for every Aquiesse candle made today. All Aquiesse candles are made with lead-free wicks and organic soybean oil, which not only ensures an exceptionally clean-burning candle, but also keeps toxins out of your home. Each Aquiesse candle is also packaged beautifully, ready for gift giving or just for a treat for yourself.

Aquiesse candles come in two collections, so that you can more easily find the home fragrance products that suit your home. Aquiesse Portfolio Candles is the vintage collection, inspired by the Central California seascape and fragrances that inspired Aquiesse designers in the first place. Candles from this collection feature over 100 hours of burn time, thanks to the over-sized 10 oz candle jars. Aquiesse’s Portfolio candles have all the same high quality you would expect from Aquiesse — proprietary soy wax blend and the careful attention to packaging and quality are all here. However, Aquiesse’s Portfolio candles are beautifully packaged in a brown glass jar and in a vintage gift box. The glass cover also can be used as a beautiful candle pedestal when your candle is lit.

Aquiesse’s Portfolio candles also features some stunning, natural scented candles. For example, the Aquiesse Alpine Meadow candle combines notes of grass, fruit, alpine floral, balsam fir, wood, mountain pepper, and musk. The Aquiesse Cherimoya candle combines the fragrances of green leaf, cherimoya mélange, and musk. With innovative fragrances like these, you will want to try all the candles in this collection.

Aquiesse Souvenir Candles include candles with mystical and exotic fragrances. Every candle in this collection is inspired by travels to oceans and the world’s waterways. All candles in this collection are packaged in square vessels with glass lid and travel boxes. Whether you are traveling or just want a vacation without leaving home, try the Aquiesse English Bay Candle. With its notes of forest, cucumber, parsley, smoke, irises, dogwoods, cedar, patchouli, and sandalwood, it captures the Pacific Northwest’s English Bay. Or, try the Aquiesse Mustique Candle. With notes of orange flower blossoms, mandarin, citrus, jasmine, balsam, and amber, it perfectly captures the beauty of Mustique Island. If you love the North Sea, try the Aquiesse North Sea Candle, with its fragrance of pomegranate, sage, woods, wildflowers, patchouli and smoke.

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Trump Home Candles Collection by Aquiesse

Posted by candledelirium on Jul 11 2011 | aquiesse candles

Donald Trump is known for creating many luxury brands, from hotels to other products. Now, Trump Candles offer the same attention to luxury and sophistication. Designed by Aquiesse candles, Trump Candles are elegant, refined, and sophisticated, with several carefully designed fragrances. If you are a fan of the luxury candles made famous by Aquiesse, you will love the new line of Trump Candles for your home. Trump candles can also help transform your home with fragrance, as each scent in the collection comes in the form of a large 10 oz candle with 100 hour burn time, a 3-wick, 11 oz candle with 80-hour burn time, a small candle with 50 hour burn time, and a diffuser. You can create beautiful centerpieces with these products or combine different fragrances by choosing different size candles or diffusers in different scents.

The Acacia Flower & Wild Strawberry Candle, for example, is one of the luxury candles in the collection. With notes of berries, citrus, and green meadow grass, it is a perfect summery scent, light and not overpowering. Each Trump Acacia Flower & Wild Strawberry Candle is packaged in thick octagonal glass and beautiful white boxes, making it ideal for gift giving and for wedding gifts. All Trump candles feature a glass candle cover, which can be used to extinguish the candle and protect it when it is not in use. When you are burning your luxury candles, you can use the cover as a pedestal. The Trump Acacia Flower & Wild Strawberry scent is also available as a diffuser, with a natural alcohol-free formula that can quickly fill your home with fragrance. Perfect for travel and for anywhere you can’t use candles, the diffuser features a beautiful decanter with a glass stopper, sure to add a touch of elegance and luxury to any home.

If you want a greener fragrance, consider the Trump Home by Aquiesse Bergamot & Vetiver Candle. With notes of a herbs, florals, and exotic grass, it is a sophisticated and fresh fragrance with a touch of sophistication. For a masculine fragrance, try the Trump Home by Aquiesse Black Tea & Cognac Candle. With fragrances of fine liqueur, vanilla tea, and tobacco, it has the hint of a gentleman’s room or study. An exotic, spicy choice is the Trump Home by Aquiesse Cardamom & Red Cedar Candle, with notes of Indian spices and wood. For a summer evening, try the Trump Home by Aquiesse Wild Jasmine & Kiwifruit Candle, with its mixture of evergreen florals and honey fruits, which combine into a sophisticated and luxurious scent.

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Aromatherapy in Everyday Life

Posted by candledelirium on Jun 27 2011 | aromatherapy

If you want to bring aromatherapy into your life every day, you don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars for expensive sessions or consultants. Candles are a wonderful way to bring aromatherapy into your life. Quality scented candles are especially good for this, as manufacturers of these candles often use natural fragrances and scents – just like your favorite aromatherapy oils.

There are many advantages to using candles for your aromatherapy needs:

1) It’s less messy. Toying with small vials of aromatherapy oils often leads to spills and frustrations. With luxury scented candles, there’s no problem with mess. You can just light a candle and start breathing in the rich scent as your worries melt away.

2) It’s easy. Lighting a candle is much easier than trying to combine different aromatherapy oils. If you need more than one scent, you can simply light a few candles. It literally only takes seconds.

3) There are so many candles to try. Candle manufacturers make an endless array of luxurious scents, including wonderful scent combinations that can help soothe you and entrance you. For example, if you want to invigorate yourself with a citrus scent, the Baroness von Neumann Fete Candle combines scents of navel orange, Seychelles cinnamon, Zanzibar clove, Norwegian pine, Indonesian patchouli, and amberwood for an incredible scent sensation.

4) Candles are portable. You can easily pack your candles into your luggage when traveling and can bring them with you to your lake house, home, or anywhere else you may need to unwind.

5) Candles engage all your senses. Aromatherapy oils work by scent, but luxury candles deliver a dose of beauty, fragrance, and light. You can light them by a bath for a complete experience in de-stressing and pampering. You can even meditate with luxury scented candles to enjoy even more powerful benefits. For example, light the beautiful Agraria Balsam Crystal Petite Candle to create a beautiful soft light and to surround yourself with notes of balsam, Californian redwood, French sage, and white flowers. The American Society of Perfumers selected this candle as the Best Home Fragrance of the Year in 2005, and the beautiful glow of the candle, the stunning glass jar, and the scent will pamper your every sense.

6) The makers of luxury candles now offer an array of products to help you surround yourself with the fragrances of your choice. Diptyque room sprays, for example, can be used on any type of fabric, including pillows and curtains. A few squirts are all it takes to transform any room into a wonderful haven of scent. Diptyque room sprays are also very portable, so they are perfect for your trips to the cottage or for traveling (when you might need to freshen up that hotel room).

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My Favorite Diptyque Candles

Posted by candledelirium on Jun 20 2011 | diptyque candles

Diptyque candles are one of the best-known and most respected names in luxury candles worldwide. Made only from all natural fragrances and ingredients, Diptyque candles and products have been made the same way for hundreds of years. They are routinely featured in glossy magazines as one of the best candles to buy, and many celebrities count these candles as among their favorites. Diptyque candles are made from a blend of fragrance and special waxes, so that one candle can fill your room with scent in only 30 minutes. Made from a carefully-created 12-step process, Diptyque candles burn for over 60 hours and burn cleanly and evenly to the last drop.

While Diptyque is best known for candles, the company also creates luxury room sprays in some of the same popular fragrances as their famous candles. If you are somewhere where candles are not allowed or if you have children and pets and worry about the safety of candles, Diptyque room sprays are a wonderful option that allow you to bring the luxury of Diptyque wherever you are.

Diptyque candles make perfect gifts or a wonderful luxury gift for yourself. If you have never tried Diptyque before, you are in for a treat. Since the brand offers many choices, however, you may wonder which scents to try first. All are wonderful, but you might especially want to consider:

1) The Diptyque Ambre (Amber) candle. This candle was originally a limited edition candle for the 2008 holidays. However, it was so overwhelmingly popular that it became a permanent part of the Diptyque collection. With notes of tonka bean, rockrose, and incense, this is a rich and spicy candle that is perfect for the holidays, for fall, and for anytime. It is not too sweet or too feminine, but is full of an exotic fragrance and sophistication.

2) The Diptyque Cyprés candle. If you love the smell of the Mediterranean and want to dream of the beauty of that part of the world, this candle, which is reminiscent of Mediterranean cypress with notes of resin and honey, is perfect. It’s clean and fresh warm scents will make you feel as though you are on vacation.

3) The Diptyque Gardenia candle. This very popular candle is a very popular scent in the collection. If you love the spicy and sweet fragrance of gardenias, you will love this candle. Lighting this candle is like burying your nose in a fresh bouquet of white flowers. This is a fresh, floral candle scent that is perfect for spring, summer, and any time of year. It also makes a wonderful candle for weddings, thanks to its sweet scent and classic white packaging.

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Why Candle Quality Matters

Posted by candledelirium on Jun 11 2011 | scented candles

Some people believe that a candle is a candle and stock up on scented candles at discount stores and grocery stores. However, those in the know realize that quality, luxury candles are worth it to pay a little more. If you want to know why Oprah Winfrey gives away luxury scented candles to guests and why celebrities adore quality, luxury candles, just consider all the advantages of buying a better candles:

1) Quality, luxury candles are safer. Brands such as Votivo candles and others have a reputation to keep up and these makers genuinely care about candles. As a result, they tend to use high-quality manmade waxes, cotton wicks, natural waxes, and other quality materials. Imported, cheap candles have sometimes been found to contain lead and other toxic substances which an harm your indoor air quality. Quality, luxury candles are made to be safe – manufacturer’s reputations depend on it.

2) Quality, luxury candles tend to be made ethically. Very often, cheap products are made cheaply because manufacturers cut corners or employ very low-cost labor. With quality, luxury candles, this is often not an issue. These candles are often made in countries with strict labor laws – such as the US – so that while labor costs a little more, there is less likelihood of exploitation. Many quality candles are in fact hand poured and some manufacturers even contribute some of their proceeds to charitable causes, so that you can feel good about buying these candles.

3) Quality, luxury candles have better scents. The scents that you find in a drug store candle tend to be cloying and plain – scents such as orange or lavender are the order of the day. In contrast, quality candle makers pay the same attention to candle scents as perfume masters pay to scent. In fact, many brands of luxury candle, including Diptyque, use natural perfume-quality scents. Adding these quality candles to your home is like introducing a fine perfume to your home – these candles are richly scented but never cloying and the scent is always true to nature. As well, many manufacturers take great care in creating unique, innovative scents that will truly delight you.

4) Quality, luxury candles offer better value. While you may pay less for discount candles, in the end luxury candles offer more value. These candles are designed carefully so that they produce less soot and burn evenly, so that you enjoy very long burn times. Richly scented luxury candles are also designed to ensure that the scent of the candle is rich all the way to the final drop of wax. This is because the scent is fused with the wax. In some inexpensive candles, complete candles are sometimes only dipped in scent, so that by the time the candle has been burning an hour or two, most of the fragrance is gone. In contrast, many luxury candles offer up to 60 hours (or more) of a rich scent that fills your whole home.

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Summer Candle Scents

Posted by candledelirium on May 25 2011 | summer candles

Summer is the perfect time to light candles. There are plenty of ways to make beautiful scented candles work for you this season:

1) Dine alfresco with scented candles. Now that the weather has gotten warmer, it’s a great time of year to eat outdoors. Dinner alfresco can become a wonderful experience if you add a little light with scented candles. Try grouping candles together at the center of your table for a centerpiece or light a few large candles for a more dramatic look. Scented candles are especially wonderful for summer nights as they fill the night with fragrance, making you feel as though you are in a garden, even if you live in the city.

2) Light up your life and scent your home with scented candles. Scented candles are wonderful indoors. Many people choose the warmer weather to do some home cleaning. To get out odors and to create a pleasant, fresh atmosphere, light some candles.

3) Celebrate the season with fresh, light scents. Even if it’s rainy or overcast outside, you can bring in some summer indoors all season long. This is the time to put away the heavier, muskier scents and time to fill your home with light, fresh, summery scents. Light, fresh floral scents such as the Nest Peony Blanche Candle or the Diptyque Muguet Lily of the Valley Candle are perfect for this time of year.

4) Bring a few candles when you travel. It’s a secret that celebrities and frequent travelers know: when you travel, bringing along a candle or two can make your hotel room or vacation home smell cozy and fresh, no matter where you travel. Another tip: if you’re traveling with kids who might get homesick, bring along a candle scent that you often burn at home to make your travel accommodations more home-like.

5) Open up your beach house with candles. If you have a lake house, cabin, or cottage, this is likely the time of year when you will be opening up your second home. To make your vacation home instantly fresh and inviting, light a few scented candles. Fresh scents, such as the famous Votivo Red Currant Candle will instantly freshen up your vacation home and chase away any stale or musty odors.

6) Get ready for those summer storms with scented candles. Summer often means summer storms and power outages, especially if you are headed to the cabin or cottage. Stock up on luxury scented candles as well as regular candles. When the power goes out, luxurious scented candles such as the very summery Jonathan Adler Palm Beach Sunshine Candle transform any power outage into a wonderful event, with a beautiful light, luxury scent, and coziness.

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