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Our curated selection of candles to make your home smell like the Holidays© Agencies

Our curated selection of candles to make your home smell like the Holidays

Scents that will make your home Santa’s first stop


Shirley Gomez
Senior Writer
NOVEMBER 12, 2021 9:15 AM EST

Happy holidays! The most beautiful time of the year is fast approaching, and the best way to enjoy it is by awakening your senses. Did you know that the sense of smell or olfaction plays a role in taste?

Although this is not an article about food, imagine burning a candle, and suddenly you want to start baking or cooking something festive. The truth is that smelling something delicious can be very inspirational, and making your home smell like the holidays should be a must.

Find below a curated selection of candles that will make your home Santa’s first stop.

Christmas Cheer - Opalhouse© Target

Christmas Cheer - Opalhouse

This holiday season, spend your days with some golden glow and warmth with the Core Lidded Glass Jar Christmas Cheer Candle from Opalhouse. This candle will surely help you have a soothing experience as it fills the room with pleasant scents of clove, vanilla and orange. The container is made up of glass so it can be a pretty decor piece in any room, light it up and enhance your Christmas spirit.

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RareLumiere Aspen Candle

RareLumiere makes it even better with their newest candle offering, Aspen, arriving just in time for the holidays and winter season. Experience the beauty of Aspen in winter with the scents of quaking Aspen, smoky oud wood, and clove leaf nestled together like this lovely town and the mountains that surround it. This beautifully scented candle will remind you of a delightful holiday celebration of fragrant pine, crackling fires, and simmering spice and fruit. Luxurious yet quaint, like the city itself, Aspen will surely bring holiday warmth into the homes of your friends and family.

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FEBE Candles

Nothing says boujee like a gold jar candle! FEBE Candles is a new brand that recently launched its vegan, eco-friendly, and cruelty-free candle collection. There is something for everyone, from luscious aromas of cocoa butter cashmere to, yes, man cave notes! Handpoured in gold glam vessels, the coconut wax candles are perfect for any home decor and heat up quickly to blissfully envelope a room.

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Zalenas

The vision of Zalenas Candles was born through the convergence of love for hand-poured candles, beautiful aesthetics, and safety for families enjoying their scents. Light up your moments with a bright, crisp, and sweet aroma of sweet caramel, floral gardenia, and zesty apple that will transform you into the holiday spirit.

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The Worthington Collection

The Worthington Collection’s richness in quality is perfect for your boujee-est friends. It is specially designed to remove odors permanently from any room! Give your friends the gift of relaxation and let them enjoy a fresher home while transforming it with these beautifully fragranced, odor-eliminating candles, all featuring a clean burn.

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Wild Flicker: Winter & Holiday Collection

Candles perfected for all candle-lovers! All candles are hand-made and poured into small batches to ensure maximum perfection. Wild Flicker takes pride in only using high-quality ingredients and removing all unnecessary chemicals. Check out their Winter + Holiday Candle Collection and fill your home with holiday cheer! All candles are made from all-natural soy wax, lead-free wicks, and are phthalate and paraben-free fragrance and contain no animal by-products or testing. All jars are recyclable and reusable for all other needs!

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Mise en Scènt: Macabre

Candles curated for the film buffs! Mise en Scènt started with a movie fanatic with an idea to immerse viewers in their movie to create a primary character environment you never want to leave. All candles are eco-friendly, produced using soft, natural soy wax, organic wicks, phthalate-free fragrance oils, and US-produced glass. Get swept up in the warming scents of spicy cinnamon, delicious apple, and comforting cedarwood, and fill your home with the holiday spirit. All fragrances and themes are inspired by iconic films perfect to set the scene for all movie nights.

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Chalkfulloflove: The Holiday Collection

It’s soon time to bundle up with a comfy pullover, fall candle, and a cute mug filled with a pumpkin spice latte! Can we BE any more excited?! What a perfect time to reinvigorate our lifestyles with color as Chalkfulloflove unveils its fall collection, and we’re so on board to enjoy the colors and flavors of the season. Their collection has an amazing line of beautiful items that include a touch of sarcasm here and there. Grab your morning cup of joe in one of the brand’s amusing offerings, send a thoughtful hand-lettered gift to that best friend, or set up a perfect Insta-ready backdrop. It’s all here, and you’ll love it!

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Ojas & Woo: Harvest Candle

Ojas & Woo’s newest seasonal drop for the holiday season! Harvest brings coziness and crispness with a curated scent for autumn. The holiday season has notes of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, pumpkin, and vanilla; this candle is reminiscent of Pumpkin Chai and a dash of Frankincense for balance. Think of a pumpkin patch while sipping hot apple cider on a crisp fall afternoon, but even better! Evoking warmth, this eco-friendly, zero-waste scent has a 65 hour burn time.

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Well Told: Winter Sweater Candle

The Winter Sweater Candle is reminiscent of cutting down a holiday tree as you prepare for the most festive season of the year. Each pine-scented candle is hand-poured into our 11 oz. Holiday Sweater glass etched with a classic winter knit design. The aroma of Fresh Cut Pine is the perfect complement to the holiday season and the glorious winter that follows. Features a wooden wick for a crackling burn, each 10 oz. pine-scented candle is crafted in small batches in San Diego, California, and burns for 60 hours.

R+Co x Ashley Streicher, STARS ALIGN Scented Candle© Agencies

R+Co x Ashley Streicher, STARS ALIGN Scented Candle

Like the moment when dusk hits—a fragrance so exquisite, yet so simple. With an addicting top smoky tobacco that weaves into an elegant heat of fresh pine needles and waterlily, the fragrance delivers an unexpected, slightly mysterious effect. The real signature comes from the beautifully wood back of white cedar wood and Palo Santo that effortlessly carry on the night, making for a truly captivating scent.

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SKYLAR

Known for their consciously created, nature-inspired scents, Skylar has just unveiled a total brand restage with longer-lasting Eau de Parfum formulas, custom sustainable packaging, major retail expansion, and more. The brand has also introduced a 100% transparent ingredient policy, clearly disclosing all product information for consumers on their site. Skylar has just released two brand-new signature scents – Pink Canyon and Fall Cashmere, along with the total brand makeover.

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Beloved by Love Beauty and Planet

Beloved by Love Beauty and Planet is committed to small acts of love that make you and our planet a little more beautiful, every day. Their Beloved Cranberry & Orange Flower collection is an immersive sensory experience for bath and body! This nature-inspired Bath & Body collection is infused with essential oils and 92%+ naturally derived ingredients. What‘s more, our products are vegan, paraben-free, and crafted with ethically sourced oils and extracts. It also comes packaged in bottles and jars made from 100% recycled plastic. Globally, Love Beauty Planet does not test on animals and is PETA certified Cruelty-Free.

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leVerden

Founded by Helen Lee and Soyoung Cho, each leVerden collection is based on a Place, an ingredient and a Practice - a rejuvenating ritual discovered on a physical and inner journey. The Bamboo Forest Collection is fragranced with green, rejuvenating notes, much like a bamboo forest, with a bit of saltiness.

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Life in Lilac

The expertly blended scent of spice and cedar would put you in a welcome state of mind. You will feel anchored with the warm base of cedar and refreshed by the spiced top notes. Always Welcome will take you to a place of cozy belonging, sitting by a fire, wrapped in a soft blanket, and sipping your coffee.