From Nette, the Laide Tomate soy wax candle: "Laide Tomate transports you to a sun-baked summer garden with heady notes of ripe tomato vines, cucumbers, mimosa, violet leaf, orange flower and ylang-ylang." $68 at Nordstrom.
Hot & Humid: Astier de Villatte Tucson Incense & Arquiste Nocturnal Green Candle ~ home fragrance reviews
The hottest I’ve been on Earth was in Tucson, Arizona, one July, long ago. My partner and I were driving from Virginia to Los Angeles, and one day, near the end of our journey, we stopped for gasoline and lunch in Tucson. Nearing the city, the car’s air conditioning was overwhelmed; the inside of the car became stuffy, warm like an…oven. Perspiration dripped from my nose. When we stepped outside the car, we were stupefied and in the dry heat all sweat evaporated. The air was as still as the inside of a tomb (and speaking of tombs, Tombstone, Arizona, was just an hour’s drive south). Heat, visible waves of it, attacked us from all directions: below, above, sideways. We were in Hell’s reception room: 113 degrees Fahrenheit. All we needed to complete the scene was the sound of a rattlesnake’s tail in full swing…
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From Otherland's new Garden Party collection, Verdant Verve: "Past the old stone walls bathed in ivy and moss lies a childhood fantasy seen with fresh eyes: our take on a secret garden. Get ready to hop the gate and fall headfirst into the dreamy, diaphanous soirée within." With neroli blossom, oakmoss and thyme, $36 for 277g. (And, the Spring Awakening collection Kevin wrote about in 2019 is back in stock.)
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From the Convo collection at Ginger June (you pick one of their messages, you pick one of their scents), the Hey Mom, Sorry About My Teenage Years candle. There are 12 scents (my picks: Apricot + Fig, or maybe Havana), and two sizes ($21 or $28).
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From Aesop, the Callippus candle: "...titled for an astronomer of Ancient Greece famed for refining the planetary theory of his time. Its woody, earthy, green fragrance alludes to rituals overlaid with the drifting smoke of incense. // Scented candle redolent of ritual in its inclusion of Frankincense, Guaiacwood, and fresh notes of Shiso." 300g for $110. (Written on the inside: 'Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.' Blaise Pascal)