Nest - Sicilian Tangerine Candle
Sale price$50.00
Archipelago - Lanai Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Nest - Winter Chai Votive Candle
Sale price$23.00
Trudon - Ernesto (Leather & Tobacco) Small Candle
Sale price$58.00
Diptyque - Vanille Candle
Sale price$90.00
Trapp - Wild Currant #24 Candle
Sale price$33.00
LAFCO - Cilantro Orange (Kitchen) Signature Candle
Sale price$80.00
Trudon - Madeleine Candle
Sale price$140.00
Seda France - Japanese Quince 2 Wick Ceramic Candle
Sale price$65.00
Diptyque - Feuille de Lavande (Lavender Leaf) Candle
Sale price$90.00
Diptyque - Figuier Candle 300g (Fig Tree)
Sale price$130.00
Diptyque - Ambre Candle 300g (Amber)
Sale price$130.00
Votivo - Teak Aromatic 6.8oz Candle
Sale price$34.00
Joshua Tree - JT Campfire Luxe Candle
Sale price$38.00
Seda France - Japanese Quince Pagoda Mini Candle
Sale price$17.90
Archipelago - Big Sur Luxe Candle
Sale price$52.00
LAFCO - Rosemary Eucalyptus (Office) Signature Candle
Sale price$80.00
Nest - Ocean Mist & Sea Salt Candle
Sale price$50.00
Trudon - Josephine Candle
Sale price$140.00
Carriere Freres - Orange Blossom (Citrus Dulcis) Candle
Sale price$63.00
Nest - Moroccan Amber Votive Candle
Sale price$21.00
Aquiesse - Moonlit Petals Candle
Sale price$48.00
Niven Morgan - Paris (Blue Cypress & Absinthe) Candle
Sale price$38.00
Archipelago - Eucalyptus Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
P.F. Candle Co. - Golden Coast Candle
Sale price$24.00
Rigaud - Cypres Mini Candle
Sale price$45.00
True Grace - Portobello Oud Candle
Sale price$55.00
Aquiesse - Mandarin Tea Medium Candle
Sale price$29.00
Carriere Freres - Sandalwood (Santalum Album) Candle
Sale price$63.00
Archipelago - Verbena Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
LAFCO - Amber Black Vanilla (Foyer) Signature Candle
Sale price$80.00
Flamingo Estate - Heirloom Tomato Candle
Sale price$64.00
Nest - Grapefruit Votive Candle
Sale price$21.00
Trapp - Water #20 Candle
Sale price$33.00
Carriere Freres - Lily of the Valley (Majalis) Candle
Sale price$63.00
Archipelago - Positano Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Nest - Pumpkin Chai 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$92.00
Cereria Molla - Bergamotto di Calabria 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$99.95
Diptyque - Mimosa Candle
Sale price$90.00
Cereria Molla - Black Orchid & Lily Candle
Sale price$49.95
Malin & Goetz - Leather Candle
Sale price$68.00
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
LAFCO - Sea & Dune (Beach House) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Voluspa - Blond Tabac Large Jar Candle
Sale price$44.00
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.























































