GSize, decor, scent – what to look out for with scented candles.
Cire Trudon – Sapin de Noel
There is a smell that belongs to Christmas, like the smell of gingerbread, mulled wine and blown matches: the smell of the Christmas tree. The perfume house Cire Trudon has brought out a candle for this year’s Christmas edition that is supposed to exude exactly this scent. It comes in a glass decorated with gold leaf, embellished with illustrations by the British artist Lawrence Mynott, who illustrated Pierre Bergé’s illustrated book “Yves Saint Laurent: A Morrocan Passion”.
Question marks, playing cards or a rabbit climbing out of a top hat adorn the glass of the fir candle; little Christmassy, but together with the scent of the candle it might remind you of the one Christmas when you were given a magic box and you despaired of the first tricks under the Christmas tree.
In a large room, the fragrance creation actually manages to evoke a strange stream of memories: the Christmas tree, the lights, the excitement just before the presents. The magic trick this candle has is that it actually doesn’t smell like fir as much as it claims to. Instead, a mysterious incense note dominates, which can quickly smell of dominant men’s shower gel in small rooms.
So “Sapin de Noel” is more for large living rooms with space for a sprawling Christmas tree. A candle that is best given to yourself to fuel the anticipation of the festival and to indulge in memories.
A fragrance that unleashes childhood memories of magic sets: candle by Cire Trudon
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Image: Kais Harrabi
Frères Quarry – „Siberian Pine and Smoked Wood“
And green pine scents again, because another traditional French brand has also dedicated itself to conifers. With “Pin de Sibérie et Bois Fumé” (i.e. Siberian pine and smoky wood), Carrière Frères offers a scented candle that brings the smell of wood into the home without having to cut down a tree. When the Carrière brothers founded the company in France in 1884, they wanted to modernize the candle craft.
The industrial revolution was just around the corner, and the two Frenchmen improved the techniques of their ancestors so that their candles could burn as safely as possible throughout the night, so-called “night lights”. Their innovations received awards, and the candle makers were soon supplying the Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Paris.
Today, the brand’s candles are made in a factory in Normandy. According to the manufacturer, each scented candle is equipped with a wick that is tailored to its essential oils in order to achieve an optimal scent and burning result. The result does not soot and brings a fresh needle smell into the apartment that is not obtrusive. A perfect gift for orderly relatives who love the smell of fir, but are otherwise bothered by every falling needle.
Diptyque – Map of the stars
Pine again: Diptyque has a triumvirate of scented candles up its sleeve for the mild winter nights of 2022. The first: “Sapin”. Diptyque’s fir smells very different from Cire Trudon’s, fresher, less smoky and mysterious. The transparent glass is also designed less noble: It is only printed with gold and white stars. When the candle burns, it spreads a warm, woody scent in the room that, to be honest, is little reminiscent of fir and more like the extravagant perfume of a distant relative who only stops by on Christmas Eve to drop off a few presents and then on to others Rushing to relatives, probably her second husband’s family, with whom she feels much better off.