From Trudon, I recommend Ernesto for everyday use and Gloria from their festive collection. For me, I can’t go back to another brand after using a Trudon - your whole home smells incredible from 1 regular sized candle 💕
House of Sillage is hard to find outside the USA and expensive international shipping, but their candles are HANDS DOWN the best scented candles ever! They burn a long time, fill rooms fully, and burn evenly and fully every single time.
@@Tatiperez78 Honestly, I buy whichever ones are on sale. Wonder Woman (Vanilla predominantly), Benevolence (like love don’t be shy) might be my favorites
Diptyque is legendary. Diptyque's candle scents and fragrances waft like butterflies but, however, they're highway robbery. Here's why... This from Diptyque: "In addition to natural fragrances, Diptyque candles can also boast a high quality that is hard to match." Read between the lines. Natural fragrance does not mean essential oils. If Diptyque used essential oils they would say so. Diptyque uses synthetic oils, which almost all high-end perfumers use. There's an argument too that pure essential oils don't have a strong throw but that's another discussion. My main critique with Diptyque is that their candles are dry and very little oil is used, whether synthetic or natural. Many candles have little to no smell at all. Diptyque was once a small company making small batch artisanal candles. The amount of oil in their candles used to bead up on the wax surface. When lit, their candles filled the room with extraordinary fragrance. When unlit, their candles had a strong cold throw. No more. Diptyque's quality is gone but it's no surprise. Diptyque expanded to some 100 stores all over the world and with expansion comes compromise. Diptyque candles are mass produced, of poor quality, and sold for exorbitant prices. Then there's this. "Diptyque candles are all hand-poured and made of high-quality paraffin wax." This is crazy. You're paying $80 for a candle made with petroleum based paraffin wax. Is this paraffin wax from China or from France? Does it matter and how do we know? Oh, and thank you Diptyque for not using "poor-quality" paraffin wax. I can't make this stuff up if I tried. Of course, Diptyque couldn't use soy wax or beeswax because, “this would be too costly for them and they'd have to have to raise their prices” beyond what is already extraordinary. Better to pinch pennies at the factory and maximize profits. Sounds like something something an equity firm would do, not an artisanal French candlemaker. It goes on. "Each candle is carefully prepared individually and hand poured to ensure that a qualified person can spot any problems and flaws." Does it matter if a candle is hand poured or poured from a machine? Again, with 100 stores and candles being made en masse, all that matters is precision. Great candles must use high quality wax, high quality oils and fragrances, and high quality wicks centered on their bases. This is marketing gobbledygook and Diptyque knows it. It gets worse. Sure enough, in 2005, Diptyque was bought by... you guessed it... a private equity firm, Manzanita Capital. Their CEO, William S. Fisher's worth is $1.85 billion. He worked at the Gap and he's a hedge fund manager. It's Fisher's job to maximize profits at all costs, definitely not what I would associate with an artisanal, high quality candlemaker. There are salaries to be paid. I'm not talking about the pittance that Diptyque's staff are paid, though they're the heart of the company and should be well compensated. The real money is made at the top of the food chain. It explains why Diptyque's candles cost $80 and if you want to buy a lid for the candle, that's an extra $30 - $60 for a cheap piece of... whatever. If you're not careful, you can spend up to $140 for a 190g paraffin wax candle. Like I said, highway robbery. Diptique is no longer a French candle company. They are owned by a London-based conglomerate. Diptyque's gorgeous looking products and their extraordinary history keeps them from being a 1-star company, but their candles suck purple Twinkies. There are many better alternatives at all price points. Here are a few high-end candlemakers that use quality ingredients: Cire Trudon, Mad et Len, Maitre Gantier, Christian Tortu, Le Labo (update: Le Labo lost their stuff too), & Carrière Frères ...and many come with lids.
So basically Diptyque is overpriced, inauthentic and unethical (they don’t pay their staff well but pay the CEO & shareholders too much). Good to know!
So glad to hear you mention Aldi. I think they smell really good - great value for money. Of course I love the expensive ones more but I burn the Aldi ones in the summer when I have the doors open to the garden and they are great. I love the rose one from floral street I got it for Valentines last year - I liked it.
I am currently burning the white company wild rhubarb, amazing. I also have the pine, which I have not burn yet, but I can smell it all over the downstairs of my home. Le labo noir 29 is good.
@Monika Cire Trudon makes a candle called Solis Rex if you love the historic smell of Bibiloteque from Byredo--Solis Rex will blow your mind lol. It was the very first one I tried and it makes my whole apartment smells great even the next day. I’m hooked lol! Worth the experience to try at least once. I just bought a Carriere Freres Tomato candle (which is owned by Cire Trudon) haven’t tried it yet, but I love the smell of it and I bought the perfume as well. Hoping to try Glasshouse candles soon. Not sure what scent to try first. I do love Jo Malones ‘Red Roses’ when I say it travels throughout the house even downstairs (spent a week at a friend’s house out of town-traveled with this candle lol) and lingers all day the next day. Now I know why they charge $90 for the standard size lol. I would buy again! The rose smell is a great everyday burn type of scent for me and puts me in a great mood ☺️ You have over 600 scents. I have about 400-500 candles of different brands. It’s hard to have a favorite candle. My favorite scent I’d say is a true Rose scent as a base then mixed with nearly anything--especially something smoky like Oud, Incense, woodsy/herbal or Vanilla. I like most scents except intense deeply, woodsy straight up tree manly cologne scents.
If you ever get the opportunity, I would go and smell the reed diffusers from a Dutch interior store called Riviera Maison in the scent Ibiza. The notes are jasmin, citrus, fig, and cedar and the diffuser is very fragrant. Haven't tried it as a candle yet, but I am really enjoying the diffuser.
Cire Trudon is fantastic. My favorite is Ernesto “masculine” if you ask me. There is also Josephine which is a clean scent. They have a wide variety of scents and they somehow all have that old world feel (like straight from the 1700s.) Top tier “bougie”
Astier de Villatte is also another good brand. Le Labo’s laurier 62 is one of favorite. Profumum Roma, D.S Durga, and Fueguia 1833 are three perfumes houses that also do candles.
I prefer Santal 26 to Santal33 personally. I like Santal33 but not enough to buy it for $500 (Au) but I love burning Santal26 at home. My best Le Labo candle is the Petit Grain 21, it's so clean and fresh and makes me so happy like a summer day (I'm an Eau des Sens gal and love sophisticated citrus and orange blossom fragrances). Le Labo Figue 15 is creamy and gorgeous and much better than the Diptyque Fig - agree it's not strong enough for the price. Nice enough but I never repurchased it. Jo Malone home candles are also wonderful and worth the price.
So I bought one from Fragonard, it was called Star anise and lavender or something like that, and it completely filled 3 adjacent rooms, very pleasant and rly loved it
My favorite from diptyque is 34. Is smells SOO wonderful and sensual. It’s relaxing and invigorating at the same time. Idk why but it makes me feel so confident and yummy in my own house 😂
Love your videos so so much. You could do voice overs or commercials because your voice is so beautiful. I love candles. Inexpensive and expensive. Quality is important to me over price I also adore room spray. I recently ordered Trudon, dypritique and lavant room spray. There are a few others I am Excited to try as well. I want to try nest room spray and many others. Selvain delacourt makes stunning candles. Some I would love to try. L'OBJET Bibliotheque Gold Candle Stucco creek candles. Sooooo beautiful. Michael Aram. Evo-Voto Baobab L’objet Sooooo so many more. May I ask what do you do with your empty candle vessels, especially the beautiful vessels?
Thank you for watching. With empty vessels I usually use them with tea lights inside as decoration. I keep the vessels that I really love, like the Christmas edition Diptyque candles etc.
I would love people to recommend/comment on scents that really fill room. I’m a home fragrance nut and have tried water diffusers and plug ins but most scents come off cheap or are too sweet for my liking. I like complex scents but not into the sweet gourmand trend that seems to be so popular now. I was thinking of getting the waterless diffuser like hotels use for lobbies but would like input if it’s really worth it and reliability?? Thx 😉😁👍
Diptyque is highway robbery. Here's why... This from Diptyque: "In addition to natural fragrances, Diptyque candles can also boast a high quality that is hard to match." Read between the lines. Natural fragrance does not mean essential oils. If Diptyque used essential oils they would say so. Diptyque uses synthetic oils, which almost all high-end perfumers use. There's an argument too that pure essential oils don't have a strong throw but that's another discussion. My main critique with Diptyque is that their candles are dry and very little oil is used, whether synthetic or natural. Many candles have little to no smell at all. Diptyque was once a small company making small batch artisanal candles. The amount of oil in their candles used to bead up on the wax surface. When lit, their candles filled the room with extraordinary fragrance. When unlit, their candles had a strong cold throw. No more. Diptyque's quality is gone but it's no surprise. Diptyque expanded to some 100 stores all over the world and with expansion comes compromise. Diptyque candles are mass produced, of poor quality, and sold for exorbitant prices. Then there's this. "Diptyque candles are all hand-poured and made of high-quality paraffin wax." This is crazy. You're paying $80 for a candle made with petroleum based paraffin wax. Is this paraffin wax from China or from France? Does it matter and how do we know? Oh, and thank you Diptyque for not using "poor-quality" paraffin wax. I can't make this stuff up if I tried. Of course, Diptyque couldn't use soy wax or beeswax because this would be too costly for them and they'd have to have to raise the price beyond what is already extraordinary. Better to pinch pennies at the factory and maximize profits. Sounds like something something, wink-wink, a private equity firm would do, not an artisanal French candlemaker. It goes on. "Each candle is carefully prepared individually and hand poured to ensure that a qualified person can spot any problems and flaws." Does it matter if a candle is hand poured or poured from a machine? Again, with 100 stores and candles being made en masse, all that matters is precision. Great candles must use high quality wax, high quality oils and fragrances, and high quality wicks centered on their bases. This is marketing gobbledygook and Diptyque knows it. It gets worse. Sure enough, in 2005, Diptyque was bought by... you guessed it... a private equity firm, Manzanita Capital. Their CEO, William S. Fisher's worth is $1.85 billion. He worked at the Gap and he's a hedge fund manager. It's Fisher's job to maximize profits at all costs, definitely not what I would associate with an artisanal, high quality candlemaker. There are salaries to be paid. I'm not talking about the pittance that Diptyque's staff are paid, though they're the heart of the company and should be well compensated. The real money is made at the top of the food chain. It explains why Diptyque's candles cost $80 and if you want to buy a lid for the candle, that's an extra $30 - $60 for a cheap piece of... whatever. If you're not careful, you can spend up to $140 for a 190g paraffin wax candle. Like I said, highway robbery. Diptique is no longer a French candle company. They are owned by a London-based conglomerate. Diptyque's gorgeous looking products and their extraordinary history keeps them from being a 1-star company, but their candles suck purple Twinkies. Be careful, there are several once vaunted candlemakers that have fallen into the hands of capital investment companies, more concerned with profits than with quality. Another befallen favorite is Le Labo. There are many better alternatives at all price points. Here are a few high-end candlemakers that use quality ingredients: Cire Trudon, Mad et Len, Maitre Gantier, Christian Tortu, & Carrière Frères ...and many come with lids.
I agree it’s highway robbery but I bought it for the aesthetic and once it’s all used up I won’t buy another one but put a cheaper brand tea light candle inside the empty glass 😅😂😅
