Our votives of choice are vetted to make whatever room you light them up in smell like a compelling range of festive material: a pine tree forest; a cookie/biscuit bakeshop; a private jazz club; a symbolic snowflake. Some are bougie and arguably overpriced, others are less so. Click ahead into a potpourri of candles that, regardless of being budget-friendly or not, will smell like Christmas incarnate.
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Home Sick Holiday Stroll Candle
Homesick boasts a bounty of very specific Christmas-scented candles — from a Ski Trip to a Winter Mantle and even a Nutcracker (...Ok) — but our holiday candle scent of choice is the brand's good old classic Holiday Stroll. Judging by its scent profile (containing notes of things like red currants, sugar plums, wild ivy, and winter rose), we imagine this candle will spark up visions of shopping in one of those quaint Christmas villages while Frank Sinatra croons softly from an omnipresent sound system.
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Homesick Holiday Stroll Candle, $, available at Homesick
Diptyque Limited Edition Holiday Candles 2021
For the ultimate Christmas-sensory overload, light up this limited-edition trio from the OG-status candle brand. Diptyque's newest holiday votives invoke the whimsical fragrance profiles of biscuits, pine trees, and...snowflakes (symbolic ones, of course).
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Diptyque Set of Three Holiday Scented Candles - Limited Edition, $, available at Diptyque
Otherland Dessert First Candle
As part of comparatively affordable (yet still status-y cool) candle brand Otherland's new holiday collection, Adorned, we find another one of our Christmas favorites: Dessert First. This self-explanatory candle will have your living room smelling like a mix of gingersnap cookies and milky black cardamom tea.
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Otherland Dessert First Candle, $, available at Otherland
Anecdote Winter Glass Candle
Now here are two candles that smell like the wintry anecdotes of champagne toasts and merry moments. What do those two things smell like, exactly? Well, thanks to the imaginative product descriptions, we know that one smells like "clinking glasses and long-awaited reunions" and the other like "family gatherings." It's powerful Christmasy stuff, people.
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ANECDOTE CANDLES Anecdote Winter Glass Candle, $, available at Anthropologie
D.S. & Durga Portable Xmas Tree
This one's for the peeps who can't (or won't) have a real pine tree inside their living space. D.S. & Durgas fancy-ass candles are at it again with this very cool looking (and we assume smelling!) Portable Xmas Tree votive. Its woody fragrance profile includes standout notes of grand pacific fir (Oooh), Silesian forest (Aaah), and Siberian pine cone (Oh my!).
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D.S. & Durga Portable Xmas Tree Candle, $, available at Violet Grey
Outdoor Fellow No.25 Winter Fir
Handcrafted in the U.S., Outdoor Fellow's natural-coconut-wax candles often feature such seasonally evocative scent profiles as our top Christmas pick here: Winter Fir. We'll let the brand's product description for this particular votive do the talking: "Transport yourself to a fresh snow covered, conifer forest. The sharp, sweet and refreshing scent of conifer needles from Balsam Fir and Cypress is carried on the crips, arctic wind of winter to create a refreshing and invigorating scent." Are you there yet?
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Outdoor Fellow No.25 Winter Fir, $, available at Outdoor Fellow
Snif Old Saint Wick Candle
Reviewers attest that Snif's cheekily named holiday candles with 60-hour burn times smell "incredible," "festive," and "woody." Old Saint Wick's specific scent profile features Siberian pine, creamy sandalwood, fir balsam, and apple blossom that (according to the site) "pairs well with a cozy snowstorm or an unexpected visit from extended family."
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Snif Old Saint Wick, $, available at Snif
Maison Margiela Replica Jazz Club Scented Candle
Jazz, although not a quintessential Christmas scent, is something that often stirs the festive wintry spirit inside of us. And, there's just something undeniably cozy about Maison Margiela's description of a candle that smells like "Chic and heady cocktails. Honey and woody notes of cigar boxes. An anthology of classic notes and coppery tones, between deep armchairs and a handful of bar stools, with subdued lighting reflected on the piano where some cocktails linger, wafting their liquory notes." Music to our thirsty holiday ears.
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Maison Margiela Replica Jazz Club Scented Candle, $, available at Nordstrom
Yankee Candle Balsam & Cedar Scented Candles, Large 2-Wick Tumbler
Okay, you want affordable? Then let's talk Yankee Candle's big-boy, two-wick tumbler. This under-$20 Christmas-scented candle boasts nearly 50,000 reviews on Amazon with an 84% 5-star-approval rating. (Let that light your wick.) According to the novelty candle brand's superfans: "This candle transplants me instantly to the dark Canadian wilderness. Trees, pine cones, and even a hint of snow come alive in a true treat for your nostrils." Yes, yes, YES!
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Yankee Candle Balsam & Cedar Scented Candles, Large 2-Wick Tumbler, $, available at Amazon
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