Strange Gent - Fancy Nancy Candle
Sale price$44.00
Glasshouse - Arabian Nights Mini Candle
Sale price$20.00
Voluspa - Jardin de Verveine Classic Candle
Sale price$38.00
Tocca - Tangier Candle
Sale price$50.00
Mad et Len - Night Souk Candle
Sale price$195.00
Carriere Freres - Rose Mint (La Rose Aime le Menthe) Diffuser
Sale price$78.00
LAFCO - Balsam Black Pepper Candle
Sale price$120.00
Baobab Collection - Platinum Max10 Candle
Sale price$145.00
Archipelago - Charcoal Rose Credenza Candle
Sale price$48.00
Michael Aram - Pine Cone Candle
Sale price$75.00
Mad et Len - Lili Neroli Candle
Sale price$195.00
Michael Aram - Lemonwood Candle
Sale price$75.00
Trudon - Gabriel Intermezzo Candle
Sale price$340.00
LAFCO - Saffron Sandalwood (Lounge) 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$125.00
Voluspa - Ambre Lumiere Large Jar Candle
Sale price$40.00
Maison Louis Marie - No. 01 Scalpay Candle
Sale price$40.00
Strange Gent - Sentimental-Geek Candle
Sale price$44.00
Strange Gent - Novena Candle
Sale price$44.00
Trapp - Ginger Sage #78 Candle
Sale price$33.00
Cereria Molla - Fig & Citrus Candle
Sale price$49.95
Votivo - Bamboo Leaf Aromatic 6.8oz Candle
Sale price$34.00
LAFCO - Rose de Mai Candle
Sale price$120.00
Joshua Tree - Prickly Pear Luxe Candle
Sale price$38.00
Baobab Collection - Encre de Chine Max16 Candle
Sale price$195.00
Joshua Tree - Cactus Flower Candle
Sale price$21.99
Michael Aram - Calla Lily Candle
Sale price$75.00
Tocca - Marrakesh Candle
Sale price$50.00
Hollow Tree - Trails End (Cedar Grove) Candle
Sale price$38.00
Diptyque - Café (Coffee) Candle
Sale price$90.00
Adlan - Crowd Pleaser Petite Candle
Sale price$55.00
Voluspa - Bewitching Banyan Forest Boxed Candle (Wicked Collection)
Sale price$48.00
LAFCO - Fresh Cut Gardenia (Living Room) Votive Candle
Sale price$20.00
Voluspa - Temple Moss 3 Wick Tin Candle
Sale price$32.00
Glasshouse - Kyoto In Bloom Mini Candle
Sale price$20.00
Glasshouse - The Hamptons Candle
Sale price$55.00
Glasshouse - One Night In Rio Candle
Sale price$55.00
Voluspa - Sparkling Cuvée Classic Candle
Sale price$36.00
Joshua Tree - Prickly Pear Travel Tin Candle
Sale price$12.00
Flamingo Estate - Mini Three Sisters Candle Set
Sale price$104.00
Mar Mar Los Angeles - Lovers Only Candle
Sale price$55.00
Glasshouse - Perfect Palm Springs Mini Candle
Sale price$20.00
Adlan - Into The Briar Patch Candle
Sale price$85.00
Cereria Molla - Verbena di Sicilia 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$99.95
LAFCO - Sea & Dune (Beach House) Votive Candle
Sale price$20.00
DS & Durga - Portable Fireplace Candle
Sale price$75.00
Voluspa - Sparkling Cuvée Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
House of Nur - Capri Candle
Sale price$39.00
Rukske - Willow Candle
Sale price$65.00
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.























































