The Luxurious Candles to Light Up at Home
As we tuck away indoors with the arrival of cooler climes, the aroma-filled flicker of one of your most-loved, best scented candles can be both meditative and escapist. Case in point? Even if you find yourself city-bound, the most ingeniously designed of the bunch can transport you to a lush orange garden on the C?te d’Azur (in the case of Dior), or Delhi’s humid, narrow streets (thanks to the Parisian ceramics maker Astier de Villatte).To get more news about luxury candle jars wholesale, you can visit luxurycandlejarswholesale.com official website.
But whether you crave the inviting fragrance of a fireplace or the soft, sleep-inducing notes of fresh violets, there’s more to burning a candle than lighting a match. In fact, expert burning requires etiquette—a precise art of what, when, and how. According to Alia Raza, founder of the conceptual fragrance house Régime des Fleurs, sloppy candle maintenance can lead to a lopsided wick that burns more glass than wax, while bad scent judgment could ruin a carefully prepared meal.
Here, from the importance of lids to picking the right fragrance for every room in your home, four simple precepts on how to burn a bougie like a grown-up—and the best scented candles for the job.
Wick length is a kind of goldilocks variable that can swiftly cut the life of your candle short. Especially with larger candles, which provide more surface area for drifting, a curt wick length will ensure a straighter burn. Trim it right before you burn it every time you use it, says Raza. As far as length is concerned, “I’ve heard that wicks should be a quarter of an inch, but in my experience, that’s too short,” she says, describing how a diminutive wick can drown and extinguish in molten wax. “Eyeball it for a third of an inch. You can use a special wick trimmer, but I just use small scissors that I keep in a drawer.”
The urge to light a beautiful candle is hard to ignore, but restraint is occasionally necessary. For example, even the best scented candles should never be burned at the table. “Unless you’ve designed your entire meal to be enjoyed around that scent, it’s not appropriate during a meal,” says Raza. A candlelit dinner should only occur with the help of fragrance-free pillars or tea lights. Dens become more welcoming with masculine notes like wood, leather, and cashmere. “It’s more of a cozy, Old World smell,” says Raza, who developed her first collection of candles, Artefacts, with specific rooms in mind. Bathrooms and offices share olfactory requirements for cool, bright scents that smell clean and keep you alert. “A mint candle is not going to put you to sleep,” says Raza. Meanwhile, bedrooms call for softer notes like iris and iris root, while “violet is nice for a more feminine side.” And white florals will send an inviting message in entranceways, “but really, they’re beautiful anywhere.”
“In general, when you burn a candle, and especially the first time you burn it, you want to burn it for about two hours or more, depending on the size of the candle,” says Raza. The idea here is that the entire top layer becomes molten before you extinguish it. “That means the whole surface will burn evenly so it won’t create those dips,” which can deepen, creating a cavernous hole for the wick to become permanently lost.
Splashes of wax and tilts of wicks are often the result of blowing out a candle with too much force. A snuffer will cut this possibility out of the equation entirely, but Raza recommends gently blowing on the wick and immediately covering the extinguished candle with a lid. “All candles should come with a lid,” says Raza. “There’s nothing worse than blowing out your candle before you go to sleep to find that your entire room suddenly smells like smoke.” A lid will also keep dust and dirt from settling on your candle wax—just further insurance that you and your candle enjoy a long, beautiful life together.
