I’m loving: the latest candles on a nature theme that make perfect gifts – or an ideal excuse to treat yourself to divine fragrance around your home…
I’m loving: the latest candles on a nature theme that make perfect gifts – or an ideal excuse to treat yourself to divine fragrance around your home. Bring the garden indoors – or create nature when you may live in a tiny apartment with no garden at all – with these natural scented candles.
Fragrance is famously evocative of memories. This is captured beautifully in the scents surrounding memories of special occasions, in particular Christmas. What are two of the most fragrant things you can think of at Christmas lunch? Food, and the Christmas tree? They come together in Ecoya limited edition Christmas collection candles, which place festive fragrances inside metal lidded jar candles to make the perfect Christmas meal accompaniment. It even smells like dessert!
Below: Ecoya Caramelised Plum Pudding candle and Fresh Pine Needles candle $49.95 each. www.ecoya.com
Ecoya pine tree scented soy candle, with notes of citrus and rosewood.
Below: Source home + object Main Highway Ellerslie are stocking 5 fashion and accessory brands new to New zealand including the Palm Beach Collection, from Sydney Australia, which has this lovely scented soy candle in quince. www.sourcehomeobject.com
Below: The Aromatherapy Co. has perhaps the biggest range of home gift collections I’ve seen. It may sound like a cliche to spout platitudes like "they have something for everyone" but honestly, it is true. There are pops of colour, monochrome ranges, stylish ones and modern ones. If you can’t find a candle you like here, you are a lost cause in the field of candle-buying! This one is clever; chevron and Christmassy on the outside, classic and elegant inside. Therapy Range Natural Wax Candle with lidded jar in gift box. www.thearomatherapycompany.co.nz
Below: The brand new Botanicals by Ecoya collection. The range pictured here is Banksia and Bergamot, and there’s also Midnight Orchid, Palm Leaf & Tiare Flower, Jacaranda & Plum, and Coral & Narcissus. The flowers, which don’t sound very Kiwi at first glance but rather Aussie, are actually based on plants ‘discovered’ on Captain Cook’s voyage in 1770, combined with other exotics from various countries of origin. No catnip is reportedly included, but my cat was pretty interested nonetheless. They retail for Metro Jar Candle $49.95, Mini Metro Candle $24.95, and Reed Diffuser $69.95. www.ecoya.com
Farmers home is somewhere that does spring to mind when I think of buying gifts, candles, and homewares. It seems to hve a well-edited selected all in one place these days. One of their contemporary homewares lines, S&P, has released this pretty ‘5 Tangerine Mandarin’ candle in a glass jar inside a lidded tin. Available from Farmers home. www.farmers.co.nz
Megan Robinson
26 November 2013
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