Shop the Collection by Type
Candles are the core of the collection, with 42 pieces, followed by 24 luxury reed diffusers, as well as room sprays, matches and a candle snuffer. Several houses also have their own dedicated edits if you already know the name you are looking for.
Fornasetti Candles — the decorated Milanese vessels, with ten pieces in the collection.
Ortigia Sicilia Candles and Ortigia Sicilia Diffusers — a celebration of Sicilian fragrance, with six candles and nine diffusers.
L'Objet Candles — including the Mamounia and Grand Bazaar scents.
The Luxury Candle Brands We Carry
Our collection of luxury candles and luxury home fragrance brings together twelve houses, falling into three distinct groups. First are heritage candle makers, led by the French house Trudon. Then come design and porcelain houses including Fornasetti, Ginori 1735, L'Objet, Stories of Italy, Ortigia Sicilia and Ricciocaprese. Finally, fashion and lifestyle names that treat scent as part of the wardrobe include Anya Hindmarch, Missoni, Giambattista Valli, Rhea Kalo and Susanne Kaufmann.
Heritage Houses and Italian Makers
Trudon is the French reference point in this category and the reason a candle can be a serious object rather than a scented accessory. The Italian side of the collection is where it gets specific: Ginori 1735 pours into Florentine porcelain, Fornasetti wraps a vessel in its own graphic language, Stories of Italy works in Murano glass, and Ortigia Sicilia and Ricciocaprese bring Sicilian and Capri fragrance traditions. If you are looking for Italian candles rather than a generic luxury label, that is the shortlist.
Room Diffusers, Sprays and Home Fragrance
A diffuser does the work a candle cannot, which is holding a room's scent without being lit. Twenty four of them are in the collection, including the Murano glass perfume diffusers from Stories of Italy and the Anya Hindmarch Anya Life range, alongside room sprays from Trudon and Susanne Kaufmann for the fast change of air. Most people end up pairing one of each, a candle for the evening and a diffuser for the rest of the week.
The Vessel Matters as Much as the Scent
This is where a designer candle separates from a well made one. Porcelain from Ginori 1735, hand decorated ceramic from Fornasetti, Murano glass from Stories of Italy: these are objects that earn their place on a shelf empty. It is worth choosing a vessel that suits the room it will sit in, because that is the part you keep. A candle snuffer and matches finish the ritual, and the rest of the surface can be built out from decorative objects.
How to Choose a Luxury Candle
Three questions get you there. What is the room for, since a study and a bathroom want different scents. How long do you want it to last, because a larger format burns longer and reads better on a big surface. And what happens to the vessel afterwards, which is the difference between a candle you buy once and a house you come back to. If it is a first purchase, start with a single wick from a house whose look you already like, then move up in size.
Candle Gifts and Gift Sets
Scent is the easiest thing to give well, because it does not need a size and it does not need to match anything. The gift shop pulls the strongest pieces from across the site together in one place, and a candle plus a diffuser from the same house makes a set without being sold as one. For anyone who prefers fragrance on the body rather than in the room, the fragrance edit and the bathroom collections sit alongside this one.
Buying With Confidence
As an official retailer of every brand we carry we guarantee the authenticity of each product, and full-price items bought on the site can be replaced or refunded within 15 days of purchase unless stated otherwise. The full home collection sits one level up if you want to see the fragrance pieces in context.
