Burn After Reading: 2013 Holiday Candle Guide
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This holiday season, you can buy burnable wax to suit every mood: candles for bedtime stories (Cire Trudon), candles for family holiday portraits (NEST’s Grand Holiday candle), and even candles scented like your favorite literary heroines (a Brontë sister—inspired set from Jardin D’Ecrivains). Rest assured, these scents went through rigorous testing — at least fifteen different office fire codes were probably violated. Click through the Cut’s slideshow to see the best candles to burn (and gift) this season.
Byredo LANES Collector's Edition Candles A set of graphic votives in three different scents: A leathery woods smell called Bibliotheque, a clean ...
Byredo LANES Collector's Edition Candles A set of graphic votives in three different scents: A leathery woods smell called Bibliotheque, a clean scent called Cotton Poplin, and a musky, mysterious floral called Fleur Fantome.
Byredo LANES Collector's Editor Candles, $95
NEST Holiday Candle If family Christmas photos had scents, they'd smell like NEST's gold-tinged beauty: pine, with notes of citrus, pomegranate, ...
NEST Holiday Candle If family Christmas photos had scents, they'd smell like NEST's gold-tinged beauty: pine, with notes of citrus, pomegranate, Mandarin orange, cloves, cinnamon, and amber.
NEST Grand Holiday Candle, $225
Diptyque Holiday Candles The favored candle of the fashion crowd has three new scents in three festive glasses: Winter Chai, Pine Bark, and India...
Diptyque Holiday Candles The favored candle of the fashion crowd has three new scents in three festive glasses: Winter Chai, Pine Bark, and Indian Incense, created with French design company TSE TSE.
Diptyque Holiday Candles, $32-68
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Juara Hope Candle The blend of sunny jasmine, bergamot, greens, and coconut will transport you to Indonesian beaches, and away from your in-laws'...
Juara Hope Candle The blend of sunny jasmine, bergamot, greens, and coconut will transport you to Indonesian beaches, and away from your in-laws' living room.
Juara Candle, $32
Christian Dior 30 Montaigne Candle This candle was specifically created to scent the House of Dior's legendary address. It is so exclusive and ha...
Christian Dior 30 Montaigne Candle This candle was specifically created to scent the House of Dior's legendary address. It is so exclusive and hard to find, that it's a candle urban myth. Some say you can only buy this rich woodsy incense scent only in Paris. But it's available selectively in the United States.
Christian Dior 30 Montaigne Candle, $65 at Bergdorf Goodman. 212.872.8980.
Jardin D'Ecrivains - Collection Voyage Candle Now your house can smell like your favorite literary sisters, the Brontës, celebrating C...
Jardin D'Ecrivains - Collection Voyage Candle Now your house can smell like your favorite literary sisters, the Brontës, celebrating Charlotte, Anne, and Emily, with these four mini-candles.
Jardin D'Ecrivains Collection Voyage Candle, $95
Jo Malone Blue Spruce Candle Can a pine tree smell romantic? This deluxe candle does, balancing out fir and woodsy notes with vetiver.
Jo Malone...
Jo Malone Blue Spruce Candle Can a pine tree smell romantic? This deluxe candle does, balancing out fir and woodsy notes with vetiver.
Jo Malone Blue Spruce 3-Wick Candle, $195
Archipelago Apple Candle A way to remember apple-picking season without smelling fake or too sweet. Also, apples actually smell good, unlike pump...
Archipelago Apple Candle A way to remember apple-picking season without smelling fake or too sweet. Also, apples actually smell good, unlike pumpkins, a common offender this time of year.
Archipelago Apple Candle, $30
Tocca 'Candele da Viaggio' Holiday Candle Trio The easiest hostess gift to give this season, each gilded votive has pretty, scalloped edges and c...
Tocca 'Candele da Viaggio' Holiday Candle Trio The easiest hostess gift to give this season, each gilded votive has pretty, scalloped edges and comes in three scents: Venice, Chamonix (rosemary and pine), and Marrakesh (tabak and vanilla).
Tocca 'Candele da Viaggio' Holiday Candle Trio, $55
Cire Trudon Sinbad the Sailor Candle This clean, oceanic musk scent comes with an illustrated story book, in French and English, telling the tale...
Cire Trudon Sinbad the Sailor Candle This clean, oceanic musk scent comes with an illustrated story book, in French and English, telling the tale of Sinbad the Sailor.
Cire Trudon Sinbad the Sailor Candle, $95
Fresh Brown Sugar Candle Burn this gourmand scent with undertones of lemon, bergamot, and caramel to make your house smell instantly cleaner (eve...
Fresh Brown Sugar Candle Burn this gourmand scent with undertones of lemon, bergamot, and caramel to make your house smell instantly cleaner (even if you didn't have time to completely finish tidying before everyone came over).
Fresh Brown Sugar Candle, $50
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Joya Porcelain Candles Joya partnered up with ceramic artist Sarah Cihat to create this sweet home fragrance collection. Give these to the artist...
Joya Porcelain Candles Joya partnered up with ceramic artist Sarah Cihat to create this sweet home fragrance collection. Give these to the artist friend you are visiting over the holidays.
Joya Perfume in Porcelain Candles
MoroccanOil Candle MoroccanOil hair products started the whole hair oil trendl, and also smell fantastic. Now you can fill an entire room with th...
MoroccanOil Candle MoroccanOil hair products started the whole hair oil trendl, and also smell fantastic. Now you can fill an entire room with that boho beach glamour you've come to love about your hair.
MoroccanOil Candle, $52 Photo: Richard Pierce/Copyright Richard Pierce. All Rights Reserved.
Capri Blue Mercury Glass Candle With its mottled glass jar and complex citrus scent, this candle looks and smells deceptively expensive.
Capri ...
Capri Blue Mercury Glass Candle With its mottled glass jar and complex citrus scent, this candle looks and smells deceptively expensive.
Capri Blue Mercury Glass Candle, $28
Pacifica Brazilian Mango Grapefruit Candle An Indian Summer is even more prolonged with this delicately scented mando and grapefruit soy candle. ...
Pacifica Brazilian Mango Grapefruit Candle An Indian Summer is even more prolonged with this delicately scented mando and grapefruit soy candle.
Pacifica Brazilian Mango Grapefruit Candle, $19
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