LAFCO - Celery Thyme (Dining Room) Signature Candle
Sale price$80.00
Cereria Molla - Verbena di Sicilia Candle
Sale price$49.95
Archipelago - Jasmine Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
Jonathan Adler - Muse Noir Candle
Sale price$88.00
Cereria Molla - Bois de Santal Candle
Sale price$69.95
LAFCO - Fresh Cut Gardenia (Living Room) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Voluspa - Ambre Lumiere Mini Tin Candle
Sale price$16.00
Archipelago - Havana Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
Nest - Bamboo Votive Candle
Sale price$21.00
Trudon - Madurai (Indian Jasmine) Candle
Sale price$140.00
Trapp - Teak & Oud Wood #68 Candle
Sale price$33.00
Archipelago - Savannah Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Diptyque - Tubereuse Small Candle (Tuberose)
Sale price$48.00
Votivo - Champaca Aromatic 6.8oz Candle
Sale price$34.00
Aquiesse - Cherimoya Candle
Sale price$48.00
Seda France - Japanese Quince 3 Votive Candle Set
Sale price$21.00
Boy Smells - Citrush Candle
Sale price$44.00
LAFCO - Chamomile Lavender (Master Bedroom) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Nest - Cedar Leaf & Lavender 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$89.00
Boy Smells - Hinoki Fantome Candle
Sale price$44.00
LAFCO - Amber Black Vanilla (Foyer) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Cereria Molla - Tobacco & Amber Candle
Sale price$69.95
Votivo - Smoked Wood & Amber Aromatic 6.8oz Candle
Sale price$34.00
Rigaud - Cypres Demi Candle
Sale price$70.00
Cereria Molla - Mediterranean Blue Candle
Sale price$49.95
Seda France - Hyacinth Pagoda Candle
Sale price$37.50
Voluspa - Makassar Ebony & Peach Classic Candle
Sale price$36.00
Trudon - Ernesto (Leather & Tobacco) Great Candle
Sale price$710.00
Archipelago - Birch Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
LAFCO - French Lilac (Pool House) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Archipelago - Arugula Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
P.F. Candle Co. - Sandalwood Rose Candle
Sale price$24.00
Trudon - Abd el Kader (Moroccan Mint Tea) Intermezzo Candle
Sale price$340.00
House of Nur - Santal Candle
Sale price$39.00
P.F. Candle Co. - Sweet Grapefruit Candle
Sale price$24.00
Molton Brown - Orange & Bergamot Candle
Sale price$52.00
Carriere Freres - Tiare (Gardenia Tahitensis) Candle
Sale price$63.00
LAFCO - Champagne (Penthouse) Signature Candle
Sale price$80.00
Boy Smells - Hard Wood Candle
Sale price$30.00
Niven Morgan - Palm Springs (Palo Santo & White Sage) Candle
Sale price$38.00
Seda France - French Tulip 2 Wick Ceramic Candle
Sale price$65.00
Coreterno - The Gift of Love Candle
Sale price$85.00
Archipelago - Birch Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Molton Brown - Black Pepper Re-charge Candle
Sale price$52.00
Archipelago - Lindenwood Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Diptyque - Narguilé Candle
Sale price$90.00
Harlem Candle Company - Langston Candle
Sale price$52.00
LAFCO - Duchess Peony (Powder Room) Signature Candle
Sale price$80.00
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.























































