Aquiesse - Moonlit Petals Candle
Sale price$48.00
P.F. Candle Co. - Golden Coast Candle
Sale price$24.00
Nest - Moroccan Amber Votive Candle
Sale price$21.00
Aquiesse - Mandarin Tea Medium Candle
Sale price$29.00
Rigaud - Cypres Mini Candle
Sale price$45.00
Archipelago - Verbena Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
Cereria Molla - Black Orchid & Lily Candle
Sale price$49.95
Nest - Grapefruit Votive Candle
Sale price$21.00
Trapp - Water #20 Candle
Sale price$33.00
Archipelago - Positano Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
P.F. Candle Co. - Piñon Candle
Sale price$24.00
Diptyque - Roses Small Candle
Sale price$48.00
Seda France - Elegant Gardenia Pagoda Candle
Sale price$37.50
Votivo - St. Germain Lavender Aromatic 6.8oz Candle
Sale price$34.00
CLR Los Angeles - Orange Candle
Sale price$48.00
Nest - Amalfi Lemon & Mint Candle
Sale price$50.00
Voluspa - Blond Tabac Large Jar Candle
Sale price$44.00
Voluspa - Blond Tabac Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
Cereria Molla - Raspberry & Black Vanilla Candle
Sale price$49.95
Diptyque - Figuier Small Candle (Fig Tree)
Sale price$48.00
Voluspa - Suede Blanc Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
CLR Los Angeles - Blue Candle
Sale price$48.00
Joshua Tree - JT Campfire Candle
Sale price$21.99
Voluspa - Pink Citron Grapefruit Classic Candle
Sale price$38.00
Maison Louis Marie - No. 04 Bois de Balincourt Candle
Sale price$40.00
Cereria Molla - Basil & Mandarin Candle
Sale price$49.95
Jonathan Adler - Grapefruit Candle
Sale price$48.00
Aquiesse - French Oak Currant Candle
Sale price$48.00
Malin & Goetz - Dark Rum Votive Candle
Sale price$28.00
Archipelago - Lavande Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Votivo - Clean Crisp White Aromatic 6.8oz Candle
Sale price$34.00
Archipelago - Charleston Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Aquiesse - Boardwalk Candle
Sale price$48.00
Archipelago - Currant Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
Voluspa - Pink Citron Grapefruit Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
Voluspa - Baltic Amber Small Jar Candle
Sale price$24.00
Cereria Molla - Tea & Lemongrass Candle
Sale price$49.95
Voluspa - French Cade & Lavender Small Jar Candle
Sale price$24.00
Nest - Rose Noir & Oud Candle
Sale price$50.00
Voluspa - Crisp Champagne Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
Voluspa - Moso Bamboo Small Jar Candle
Sale price$24.00
Voluspa - Saijo Persimmon Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
Voluspa - Goji Tarocco Orange Small Jar Candle
Sale price$24.00
Cereria Molla - Verbena di Sicilia Candle
Sale price$49.95
Archipelago - Jasmine Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
Boy Smells - Hinoki Fantome Candle
Sale price$44.00
Voluspa - Ambre Lumiere Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
Trapp - Teak & Oud Wood #68 Candle
Sale price$33.00
More to know
Luxury Scented Candles
FAQ
Designer Candles: Questions Shoppers Ask
A designer candle is composed like a fine fragrance rather than poured like a commodity: a named fragrance house, a perfumer-built scent pyramid, and a vessel designed to outlive the wax. The designer candles on this page come from houses like Diptyque and Trudon, where the same noses who build eau de parfum compose the wax. The practical difference shows in the burn: cleaner throw, no single-note flatness, and a jar you keep.
Diptyque and Cire Trudon anchor the category, one Parisian and modern, the other pouring since 1643. Voluspa brings the coconut-wax California read, Cereria Mollà works from an 1899 Spanish recipe, and Boy Smells carries the modern identity-brand end. The designer candle brands worth knowing usually have a fragrance identity beyond wax: perfume lines, heritage, or a house style you can spot across a shelf.
Department stores carry a counter of the obvious names; a full designer wall is rarer. Candle Delirium carries more than 1,500 designer candles across 60+ brands at the West Hollywood shop and ships nationwide from candledelirium.com. If a specific scent is sold out, the same house usually has a sibling scent on the shelf beside it, which is most of the reason to shop a deep wall instead of a counter.
A luxury perfume candle borrows fine-fragrance architecture: top, heart, and base notes that develop as the candle burns, usually composed by the same perfumers who build the house’s bottled scents. Houses like Diptyque built their candle lines this way, which is why the wax versions read true to the bottles. Expect fragrance loads in the 8 to 12 percent range, well above commodity candles, and a slower reveal; the scent at hour three is not the one you lit.
Sometimes, and the honest test is fragrance complexity per hour, not the logo. A well-made designer candle burns 50 to 60 hours with a scent that develops instead of flattening, which beats replacing three commodity candles that smell like their first sniff forever. Where the money stops making sense is paying house prices for a single-note scent you could match at a third the cost. Smell before you commit, or start with a house’s smallest format.
The ones whose vessels were designed before the wax was, which is most of the category’s top end. Trudon’s hand-blown green glass and Baobab Collection’s smoked, oversized vessels hold a shelf on their own after the burn, and Diptyque’s oval label has been a styling shorthand for decades. As a rule, a heavier vessel with a lid styles better than bare glass, and the coffee-table test is simple: it should earn the spot unlit.























































