Assouline - St. Tropez Candle
Sale price$80.00
Nest - Sicilian Tangerine 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$89.00
Archipelago - Jasmine Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Archipelago - Lindenwood Boxed Candle
Sale price$50.00
Aquiesse - Boardwalk Medium Candle
Sale price$29.00
Aquiesse - Santa Barbara Candle
Sale price$48.00
Cereria Molla - Velvet Wood 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$99.95
Mad et Len - Graphite Candle
Sale price$195.00
Archipelago - Santorini Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Flamingo Estate - Agrigento Olive Tree Candle
Sale price$64.00
Aquiesse - Sandalwood Vanille Medium Candle
Sale price$29.00
Voluspa - Milk Rose Large Jar Candle
Sale price$48.00
Nest - Ocean Mist & Sea Salt Votive Candle
Sale price$21.00
Nest - Birchwood Pine Candle
Sale price$50.00
Archipelago - Mango Tangerine Credenza Candle
Sale price$48.00
Trapp - Orange Clove Candle
Sale price$33.00
Flamingo Estate - Petrichor Candle
Sale price$75.00
Cereria Molla - Bergamotto di Calabria Votive Candle
Sale price$19.95
Aquiesse - Shoreline Candle
Sale price$48.00
Cereria Molla - Provence Lavender Candle
Sale price$49.95
Voluspa - Bourbon Vanille Classic Candle
Sale price$36.00
Cereria Molla - Tuberose & Jasmine Votive Candle
Sale price$19.95
Coreterno - The Female Energy Candle
Sale price$85.00
DS & Durga - Concrete After Lightning Candle
Sale price$75.00
Carriere Freres - Siracusa Lemon (Citrus Syracusis) Candle
Sale price$63.00
Voluspa - Temple Moss Large Jar Candle
Sale price$38.00
Tocca - Feu de Touch Candle
Sale price$50.00
Voluspa - Milk Rose Classic Candle
Sale price$30.00
Voluspa - Casa Pacifica Classic Candle
Sale price$36.00
Trudon - Gabriel Candle
Sale price$140.00
LAFCO - Champagne (Penthouse) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Archipelago - Verbena Jar Candle
Sale price$32.00
Niven Morgan - London (English Rose) Candle
Sale price$38.00
Nest - Pumpkin Chai Votive Candle
Sale price$23.00
Trudon - Salta Candle
Sale price$140.00
Cereria Molla - Santal & Tonka Votive Candle
Sale price$19.95
Cereria Molla - Bulgarian Rose & Oud Votive Candle
Sale price$19.95
Diptyque - Mimosa Small Candle
Sale price$48.00
Voluspa - Jasmine Midnight Blooms Classic Candle
Sale price$34.00
LAFCO - Duchess Peony (Powder Room) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
LAFCO - Marine (Bathroom) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Voluspa - Jasmine Midnight Blooms Large Jar Candle
Sale price$38.00
LAFCO - Star Magnolia (Guest Room) Classic Candle
Sale price$56.00
Archipelago - Pomegranate Citrus Credenza Candle
Sale price$48.00
Cereria Molla - Bois de Santal 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$119.95
Moodcast - Sinner Candle
Sale price$28.00
Molton Brown - Black Pepper Re-charge 3 Wick Candle
Sale price$125.00
Cereria Molla - Velvet Wood Votive Candle
Sale price$19.95
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.























































