The World of Luxury Scented Candles

The Best Luxury Home Fragrance Brands, Ranked by a Retailer

Ten luxury home fragrance houses ranked from a West Hollywood sales floor: who does candles, reed diffusers and room sprays best, which diffusers last longest, which houses match your perfume, and ...

How to Make Your House Smell Good, the Way a Luxury Hotel Does: Room by Room

The method luxury hotels use to smell the way they do, applied room by room at home: one signature scent kept low and constant, with the in-stock diffuser, candle or spray we would choose for the e...

Types of Candle Scents: How to Choose the Right One for You and Your Room

The six types of candle scents, from fresh citrus to smoky leather, with the one candle we would start with in each, plus how to match a scent to the room and test it before you buy.

How to Layer Room Sprays, Diffusers, and Candles for a Cohesive Scent

Most customers walk into the store, buy one luxury candle, and leave thinking they've solved their home fragrance problem. Two weeks later, the same customers come back asking why the kitchen still...

I Tested 12 Luxury Reed Diffusers. Here's What Actually Throws Scent

A reed diffuser works a 24-hour shift. A candle gives you two or three hours of scent in the evening; a good diffuser is still working at 4 a.m., on your desk during calls, and in the entryway ever...

What Are the Best Santal Candles? A Curator's Honest Ranking

Le Labo launched Santal 26 as a candle in 2006 and Santal 33 as a perfume in 2011, and the two together built the modern santal candle category. Fifteen years later, Santal 33 is still the single f...

How to Choose a Signature Home Fragrance for Your Living Room

A signature home fragrance is the one or two scents you burn 80% of the time. The other 20% is variety: seasonal candles, occasional moods, a gift you are using up. Most people skip the 80% and onl...