I've got about a million amazing candles to talk about this year, but I thought I'd start off with my carefully selected edit of Ones That Smell Like Christmas. I got into trouble with Mr AMR when I was filming the lit candles - I didn't want any of them to end up...
This candle shoots straight to the very top of my favourites list; the scent is supremely sexy. I adore Bottega Veneta's Eau de Parfum, but until now have been banned from talking about it here on the website. My friend Alex Byrne (supremo makeup artist...
Currently scenting my latest rented holiday "barn" (aka "four tiny rooms-with-annoying-feature-beams"): Mrs Todd's Figs in the Forest candle. It's absolutely beautiful; green and fresh but with a lovely warmth from the cedar, amber and musk that have been blended into...
One for those who want to skip past spring and head straight into summer: the Positano candle by Cire Trudon and Giambattista Valli. It's heady and exotic, packed chockablock full with white florals and jasmine and orange blossom, but it's also somehow very...
I think that the new collection from Jo Malone is just lovely; it's called My Wanderlust and the scent combinations have been inspired by the travels of the brand's style director, fashion stylist Charlotte Stockdale. There's a Night Jasmine & Oregano linen spray...
l'Occitane have launched their winter fragrance, Arlésienne, and I have to tell you that I know more backstory on this fragrance than on pretty much any other beauty product I've ever tried. (Apart from CoLab, of course.) Earlier in the year I visited Arles in the...
This is the first of what will no doubt be a whole slew of candle-related posts; it's getting nearer to Christmas and I'm working up to filming my annual candle video again! Tom Daxon's Under Milk Wood definitely makes the final cut - it has the most...
I didn't think that I'd like the Silk Blossom scent, at first; but then I had to tell my self not to be uncharitable, because for every one of these limited edition candles Jo Malone sells, they are donating the full value* to their various charity garden projects...
It takes quite a lot to get me excited about a candle but this new release from Jo Malone is really worth taking a look at. It's from the new home collection that's been created in collaboration with the talented wallpaper and textile designer, Michael Angove. If...
Now here's a concept that on paper seems completely unessential: a candle that, when melted, doubles up as a massage oil. It's probably not something that you've ever considered to be missing from your life, but let me tell you: massage candles are pretty amazing....
We have finally taken the Christmas tree down (late due to laziness, not through any particular sense of sentiment or nostalgia) and packed away the baubles and the tinsel and all of the other oddments that get dragged from the loft throughout the festive season. This...
I don't know about Ginsberg being God but somebody definitely is - whoever made this candle, for a start. It's absolutely gorgeous! It has a really unusual scent that reminds me of when I used to hide in my granny's greenhouse, tucked into the tangle of branches and...