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There used to be a time when a party hostess could fire up a couple of tea lights, put them in small glass holders and call it a night. No more.
Scented candles are becoming an increasingly important component of the living space, beyond lining the edge of a bathtub or the top of a dining table. The new trend is about luxury and layering.
The Rare collection from Burn, which is sold at Fred Segal's prestige beauty emporium Studio (www.beautyhabit.
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com) in Los Angeles is a case in point. Retailing at US$95, the thick, multi-wick, glass-enclosed candles (below right) will burn for 150 hours and have names such as Golden Copal, Mahogany Palisander and Cascarilla Bark. They release the heady aromas of Peruvian balsam, Brazilian tonka bean, French cypress needles and chestnut honey.
Sage Machado (www.sagejewelry.com), an LA-based jewellery and clothing designer and perfumer, incorporates her whimsical sensibilities into a line of illuminating gems. Presented in beautiful boxes (above right), the US$56 candles are filled with exotic ingredients; the signature Sage candle has Kenyan musk and tonka bean while Moonstone includes gardenia, amber and oak moss.
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It takes Rosy Rings (www.rosyrings.com) two days to produce many of its hand-poured candles, which are filled with spices, flowers and fruits that are visible in the beeswax-and-paraffin mix. The Fig and Teakwood combination contains cedar tips, hemlock cones, red roses, fig, bergamot and earthy teak, and burns for 150 hours. Cherries and Chestnuts combines orange peel, red rose petals and cinnamon sticks in sunny gold wax, perfumed with cherries and chestnuts. Beach House has shells and starfish embedded in pale blue wax and can burn for up to 200 hours. The candles cost US$20 to US$50.
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