Home Scents: BURBERRY Smokey Embers Fragranced Candle

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Burberry, Burberry Fragranced Candle Smokey Embers, candle, fragranced candle, gift idea, home scent, review, smokey embers, woody notes

Today, as you can see, I decided to take a break from reviewing all those magnificent dark, bold, sultry lipsticks… And since Miss Winter is just around the corner, I thought what better time than now to talk about one of my favourite home scents. It comes in the form of a fragranced candle, it’s from Burberry and it’s called Smokey Embers.

*Yes! Besides those iconic trenches, shawls, makeup and perfume, Burberry does home scents as well! And you have no idea what you’ve missed on!*

My absolute favourite candle to burn around the holidays has been for the past couple of years was Bibliothèque from Byredo, which I can’t wait to burn this year as well. It smells like smoke and old books and old, used leather… Delicious!

I discovered Smoked Embers last year while I was writing my “Last minute gift guide for Christmas”. Of course I was blindly ordering it from their website as I usually do! But I wasn’t disappointed this time either…

It’s perfect candle to recreate “the mood of an English fireside afternoon”, filled with relaxation and quality time spent with the family. The warm cozy notes of patchouli, birch tar and guiac wood compliment each other in the most harmonious way and they’ll fill your whole house with the most peaceful atmosphere.

This is a single wicked candle, with a white beeswax base, presented in a transparent glass holder “with honey-coloured twill paper inspired by the unique gabardine texture of the Burberry Heritage Trench. The candle’s label references the inner label of the iconic coat.”

To prolong it’s freshness you can top it with this gold metal lid it comes with. It contains 200g of product which is set to burn for 40-50 hours. Since I had several other options, I still have a generous amout to burn this year as well.

The presentation is amazing, as Burberry had us used with! So this would make an excellent, luxurious gift.

This particular scent is not available on their website at the moment, but I’m sure they will restock it soon. But if you’re on a hunt for a woody, cosy, warm scented candle there is another option – the Fire Embers Fragranced Candle.

I’m still waiting for another candle in the mail, from a brand I’ve always wanted to try, NEOM. Fingers crossed it will be as awesome as all m candle picks this far!

What’s your favourite candle to burn in the Winter time? Please let me know in the comments below! I’m taking notes, as always!

See you soon, Beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

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Currently burning: the DIPTYQUE Candles of the moment…

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Diptyque, Diptyque Baies Fragranced Candle, Diptyque Figuier Fragranced Candle, Diptyque Roses Fragranced Candle, home scent, review

Probably one of the most luxurious indulgences all-across our beauty community, the Diptyque candles are the perfect balance between the most beautiful white-clean wax and the most original scents, categorized according to undertones such as floral, herbal/woody, or fruity which are all inspired by nature, memory or journeys of their creators.

They come in a large variety of shapes and forms like this convenient set of 3 scented seasonal candles: Baies, Figuier and Roses ( 3X70g ), which can easily make a great gift for a special someone or even to yourself, or at least to add a little visual and sensorial character to any room…

BAIES

Family: Fruity

Notes: rose and black currant leaves, black currant fruits and ambregris

Olfactory Description:

The scent of this candle can be described best as the most beautiful English Garden, where the sound of the soft wind through the petals is combined – to the ultimate stage of perfection – with the flavours of the delicious berries.

A natural combination of scents, wild, original, rarely encountered in the world of the perfumiers… Yes, a bouquet of roses and blackcurrant leaves!… The irresistible freshness of recently picked roses, sweetened with blackcurrant leaves…

This is Baies – the most sophisticate Diptyque scent.

FIGUIER

Family: Fruity

Notes: fig wood, leaves, and sap

Olfactory Description:

The warmth of fig wood, the freshness of its leaves and the milky sap… Close your eyes and you’ll discover that this candle is everything you’d imagine Fig to be and more!…

Wooded and racy, the nourishing accents from its bark and luxuriant foliage envelop the whole scent making out of Figuier a souvenir from a holiday spent on the Pelion Mountain, from Thessaly, in the sunny Greece.

ROSES

Family: Floral

Notes: roses

Olfactory Description:

An armful of tender, mood-changing roses that lightly evoke world’s most universally loved flowers, in a sophisticate olfactory ambiance. Not overpowering feminine and floral, enriched with grown up, musky, sophisticate, manly, elegant notes this is a candle meant to be tolerated by both men and women.

It represents the perfect balance between the all mighty roses, the tasty lychee, woody notes and the balmy notes of honey, everything spiced up with a tinge of fiery pepper.

And since we’re taking small, shy steps into the long-awaited Spring season, I’ve tried my best at least to mimic the scent of Spring with the precious help of this Seasonal Diptyque Candle Set.

What home scents spice up your days and nights this Spring? Please share!

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

 

 

 

 INTERESTING FACTS:

– all Diptyque scents are created to compliment eachother in the most beautiful way possible. Baies makes a perfect companion for Diptyque Eau de Toilette L’Ombre dans l’Eau, Figuier prolongs the pleasure of Philosykos Eau de Toilette and so on… The amazing combinations are countless!…

– the perfumes can be layered as well as the candle scents. So feel free to light up all the Diptyque candles you like at once! I guarantee you the final result is mesmerising!

– Baies is Diptyque’s best selling candle

Favourite Home Scent: Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s APOM and Aqua Universalis Incense Paper

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APOM, Aqua Universalis, Beautik Haute Parfumerie, home scent, incense paper, luxury, Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Perfume is a piece of art which belongs to the patrimony of intimacy

Francis Kurkdjian

You might have read about this incense papers in my previous blog posts. And seen them in oh, so many of my Instagram photos! They are my favourite ambient perfumes. So easy to use… Definitely the ones I always turn to when I want create a cosy, relaxed atmosphere. They are the luxury home scents from Maison Francis Kurkdjian House of Perfumes and come in the form of an innovative product and very different from the usual candles or room sprays everyone is using.

Incense papers are stripes of paper soaked in the perfume oils from the Maison Francis Kurkdjian perfume collections, dried and then cut in small pieces, and packed in compact, elegant boxes.

APOM Pour Femme, is the short term for the “A Piece of Me” fragrance, one of the best sellers of the House. It is a perfume inspired by the trip the parfumeur took to Liban. APOM is a sophisticate and classy perfume, in which the notes of the Oriental orange blossoms and those of the ylang-ylang flowers create a perfect harmony combined with the woody notes, making this perfume quirky and unique.

Aqua Universalis is a perfume with beautiful woody notes and musk as a base, complemented by fresh bergamot and topped with Sicilian lemon, sweet oranges and lilly-of-the-valley. This is Francis Kurkdjian‘s interpretation of the clean and fresh Aqua Universalis Perfume.

Each strip of paper has small cuts in it and it is better to fold it before burning it! Just one strip is enough to spread the perfume on a surface of over 60 m², so I definitely advise you to burn the small pre cut pieces one by one. Like this you will also have control on the intensity of the perfume inside your space.

Each slim box contains 25 strips of paper and some handy, elegant matches. You only need to light the paper, then blow out the flame. It will continue to burn slow, without a flame, gently discharging a perfumed smoke in the air.

 

Available for purchase in Beautik Haute Perfumerie, Liberty London, or Neiman Marcus.

What are your favourite home scents?

See you soon, beautiful!

xx, Annie

 

INTERESTING FACTS about Monsieur Francis Kurkdjian:

– at the age of 25, Francis created his first perfume for Jean Paul Gaultier, called Le Male.

– also created for Acqua di Parma , Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Guerlain, Jean Paul Gaultier, Juliette Has A Gun, Kenzo, Versace and Yves Saint Laurent.

– at 30, he received the the Coty Prize for his entire career.

– 10 years later, at 40 he received the important distinction of “Chevalier des Arts et Des Lettres”.