The aroma of baked peaches sprinkled with sugar is what Pêche de Vigne releases upon being lit. The luscious, mouthwatering scent fills the air quickly, conjuring preparations of a peach cobbler. At first, it is a fragrance of ripe fruit ready to be sliced and arranged under vanilla scented crumbs. However, it deepens quickly to attain a sugared quality as well as a touch of milky richness. It is as if caramelized peaches are layered with apricot scented cream.

Peaches are among my favourite fruit, and I associate their scent with summers spent on the Black Sea coast. For this reason, Pêche de Vigne has a comforting and relaxing effect on me. While the scent is gourmand, it is not overly sweet. Yet, I do not tend to burn the candle for more than 30-40 minutes at a time, given the fact that the fragrance is rather potent. Half an hour more than suffices for scenting a room, which makes Pêche de Vigne one of the longer lasting candles from Côté Bastide, beyond its stipulated 60 hours of burning time…

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When it comes to candles, the scents not only should be interesting, potent and lingering, but also should serve an aromatherapeutic function. Figuier by Côté Bastide is a perfect relaxing candle, with the scent that conjures associations with sunny days of summer. The white wax is permeated with the aroma of verdant leaves, young twigs and sticky green figs. This is not a honeyed scent of a ripe fruit, but a spicy crisp fragrance of a green fig that oozes milky sap onto the hot stones underneath the tree. A hint of green almond adds a pleasant subtle sweetness that swirls in the air like a gentle Mediterranean breeze…

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