When you can't light a fire in your fireplace, because you don't actually have a fireplace, these woodsy-essenced votives are here to save the winter day (or, night). Ahead, find a seasonally strategic candle lineup that reviewers claim smell like everything from freshly ignited logs to big ole bonfires in the woods. Scroll on to cozy up somewhere in between that annual fall dream and reality with the swipe of a match.
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Outdoor Fellow No. 1 Fireplace + Clove Candle
Reviewers claim that this hand-poured, coconut-wax candle with notes of black pepper, cedarwood, and clove is reminiscent of a cozy-warm night during the cold-weather months.
Outdoor Fellow No.1 Fireplace and Clove, $, available at Outdoor Fellow
Diptyque Feu De Bois Candle
According to this Nordstrom review, this popular scent from Diptique can warm up the grayest of London days; "Smells like a crackling fire and is my favorite candle to have burning during autumn and winter. Makes even my London home feel as though there's a crackling, cozy fire going and makes snuggling up on the sofa when it's too grim outside that much more of a pleasure. It's also one of the longer-lasting candle scents from Diptyque. I always ask for this for Christmas!"
Diptyque Feu de Bois/Wood Fire Candle, $, available at Nordstrom
Illume Woodfire Candle
Reviewers claim that this "seductive cedarwood and smoke accords" candle is "almost like having a fireplace!" With one enthusiast, in particular, raving "If you love the smell of a real wood fire, then you’ll love this candle. It burns evenly too. My favorite candle for winter." Other scent notes worth mentioning are "heady" patchouli leaves and "warm" vanilla that, apparently, "kindle the ultimate fireside fragrance."
Illume Woodfire Mercury Glass, 9 oz Candle, Demi, $, available at Amazon
Brooklyn Candle Studio Woodsmoke Minimalist Candle
Described as a "mini fireplace", this vegan and cruelty-free candle has notes of cedar leaf, labdanum, incense, and leather rounding out its rich smokiness.
Brooklyn Candle Studio Woodsmoke Minimalist Candle, $, available at Brooklyn Candle Studio
Wine Wix Fireside Candle
This handmade soy candle combines notes of smoke and wood into a warm mix of clove, amber, sandalwood, and patchouli all wrapped up in a repurposed wine bottle.
Wine Wix Fireside Candle, $, available at Etsy
West Elm Naturalist Collection Hearth Candle
This sleek-looking candle carries notes of lemony pine, dried tobacco, warm incense, smoky cedar, dried timber, and crackling amber.
West Elm Naturalist Collection Hearth Candle, $, available at West Elm
Anecdote Candles Cabin Fever Candle
If a cabin on the beach is more of your winter vibe, this candle made from a coconut-soy wax blend is a woodsy-fragrance layered with notes of sea salt and ocean moss.
ANECDOTE CANDLES Cabin Fever Candle, $, available at Nordstrom
Makers of Wax Goods Smoked Vanilla & Cedar Candle
This woodsy scented candle is a smokey aroma of tobacco leaf embellished with ginger, crushed clove, plum, and warm vanilla amber topped with fresh-cut cedar and hops.
Makers of Wax Goods Smoked Vanilla & Cedar Glass Candle, $, available at Anthropologie
Boy Smells Ash Candle
Made with a coconut and beeswax blend, this modern smokey scented candle smells of firewood, smoke, charcoal, palo santo, and hay.
Boy Smells Ash Candle, $, available at Amazon
Hearth & Hand With Magnolia Fireside Candle
"It's lovely! Reminds me of a fall day, burning leaves with just a hint of spice," one enthused reviewer raves about this woodsy, pine, and clove-essenced candle.
Hearth & Hand with Magnolia Seasonal Ceramic Candle Fireside, $, available at Target
Nest Fragrances Hearth Candle
This festive votive said to contain "the aroma of a wintertime fire" is infused with rich oud wood with frankincense and hints of smoky embers.
NEST New York Hearth Scented Candle, $, available at Nordstrom
Paddywax Amber & Smoke Candle
We'll just leave you with this Amazon review: "Close your eyes and imagine that you live in a cabin in the woods, surrounded by towering pine trees and creeping wildflowers. You live with your handsome, bearded husband who built the cabin with his own two hands. You go inside holding a basket of vegetables that you just picked from the garden, and a wave of warmth embraces you. You take in the scene: dried herbs hanging from the ceiling, shelves, and shelves of all your favorite books, and your husband sitting by the fireplace. He had been outside chopping firewood, and his strong muscles are glistening with sweat in the light. He looks up at you warmly as you enter, and you see a smear of soot on his cheek from building the fire. He sits in his favorite rocking chair smoking a pipe, and as he pulls you into his lap you watch the tobacco smoke drift lazily towards the ceiling. You take a deep breath, and it smells sweet, musky, and earthy. It smells like home."
Paddywax Apothecary Collection Candle, Amber & Smoke, $, available at Amazon
Confetti Candle Co. Campfire Vegan Soy Candle
This 4.7-star rated scent is hand-poured in Brooklyn, NY, and contains notes of blackberry wine, sweet tobacco, whiskey, cocoa and marshmallows, sandalwood, and cedar with hints of amber and patchouli.
ConfettiCandleCo Campfire Vegan Candle Soy, $, available at Etsy
Maison Margiela 'REPLICA' By The Fireplace Candle
This warm and woodsy scent is supposed to evoke "the warmth of a cozy fireplace in midwinter" — and as one satisfied reviewer put it, "I can't stop smelling this candle. Reminds me of cozying up, by a fire, next to a really hot guy."
Maison Margiela 'REPLICA' By The Fireplace Candle, $, available at Nordstrom
Wax & Wick Fireside Candle
For an even more authentic fireside experience, this smoke, amber, sandalwood, and patchouli-scented candle comes with a wooden wick (you know, to mimic lighting up a tiny log).
Wax & Wick 100% Pure Soy Wax Candle, Fireside, $, available at Amazon
Terrain Woodfire Candle
As one reviewer claims, this soy wax infused with notes of patchouli and warm vanilla really "does smell like a burning campfire."
Illume Mercury Glass Candle, Woodfire, $, available at Terrain
D.S. & Durga Portable Fireplace Candle
This luxe candle is scented with notes of pine, cedar, ash oak, and birch wood that one Amazon reviewer claims, "really does smell like a wood fire."
D.S. & Durga Portable Fireplace Candle, $, available at Amazon
WoodWick Fireside Candle
This top-rated and wood-wicked candle, as one R29 reader attested in the comments below, "both smells like and sounds like a real crackling fireplace!"
woodwick Candle Fireside Large Jar, $, available at Amazon
World Market Linen & Tobacco Flower Candle
If your idea of a cozy-smoke smell skews more towards wood-burning pipe than it does fireplace, then this candle has your number — as one reviewer says, "The best way I can think to describe the smell of this candle is the smell of a wood tobacco pipe."
World Market Linen & Tobacco Flower Candle, $, available at Cost Plus World Market
Brick & Mortar Campfire Candle
Wondering how to recall, "the welcoming aroma of a campfire with scents of cedarwood and vanilla accented with soft smoke," into your fireplace-less space? Just light up this candle.
Brick & Mortar Campfire Candle, $, available at Crate and Barrel
Herland Home Bonfire Candle
Coconut wax infused with amber, clove, patchouli, and sandalwood blend together inside this craft votive for a top-rated candle that reviewers describe as, "a very warm and cozy scent," to, "beautifully subtle and calming," and "intoxicating."
HerlandHome Handpoured Coconut Wax Candle, Bonfire, $, available at Etsy
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