Tag: Candles

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1st June 2015

Cire Trudon Josephine Candle

Me, I can’t resist a candle at any time of the year.  I know that some people think candles are just for winter, but in this dark and damp late “spring” that we’re having at the moment, it seems like an ideal time for having candles around to brighten up the dark afternoons, and cool evenings.  Josephine, the latest fragrance from Cire Trudon (long one […]

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5th December 2014

Neom Perfect Peace Candle

Christmas, quite frankly, really isn’t a proper Christmas without a Neom Christmas candle on the go.  Every year I buy and light a 3-wick  Christmas Wish, and that’s how I know that the festive season is really underway.  I didn’t finish last years Christmas Wish, so I still have that to look forward to this year. This year’s addition to the Christmas collection is Perfect […]

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4th December 2014

Ormonde Jayne Etoile Candle

  Housed in a handsome, but unexpectedly brown glass jar, the Ormonde Jayne Christmas candle this year is a creamy-smooth blend of cardamom, amber and tonka.  Slightly spicy, with a hint of smoke, Etoile is a gorgeously grown-up scent for Christmas. It is smooth-burning, and comes with an incredibly high percentage of perfume oils in the formula, so this is one candle this will make […]

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3rd December 2014

Jardins d’Ecrivains “Dickens” Christmas Candle

 Possibly the most “traditional” Christmas scent we’re featuring this week, the Jardins D’Ecrivains Christmas Candle inspired by Charles Dickens is a gloriously spicy mandarin, pine, clove and … oud(!) scent.   Set up in 2012, and inspired by founder Anaïs Biguine’s love of literature and fictional characters, Jardins d’Ecrivains is an unusual and lovely little niche fragrance house to keep an eye on over the […]

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2nd December 2014

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Scented Candle Set

If you’re looking for a cute and pretty candle set, which is also well made, and will definitely give huge delight to the lucky recipient, this is the set for you.  Maison Francis Kurkdjian do lovely candles, and this box of little ones is no exception. Scented with a mix of powdery iris, spicy gingerbread, and with hints of peppery cedar – all of which, […]

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1st December 2014

Miller Harris Rose en Noir Candle

U It’s the first of December, and in Lippie-land, that means candles.  Christmas is coming, the nights are drawing in, the weather is getting colder, and tradition is all.  We don’t bother with a tree, but we do have candles on every available surface in Lippie Mansions.  Over the next week or so we’ll be bringing you our picks of the best candles for Christmas […]

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21st November 2014

It’s Christmas!

Well, nearly … To the left: Candles of Christmas future.  To the right: Candles of Christmas past And Christmas at Lippie Mansions means candles.  LOADS of them. Coming up over the next few weeks we’ll be featuring candles from Cire Trudon, Neom, Elemis, Ormonde Jayne, Rachel Vosper, SpaceNK, Miller Harris, Fornasetti and much more besides. How do you guys get ready for Christmas? This post: It’s […]

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22nd May 2014

A Life With a View Scented Candles

By Get Lippie :sigh: Very few people love candles as much as me.  I rented my last abode purely because it had little cubbies I could display my candle collection on, and the love of the “candle wall” has remained with me ever since.  I love candles.  But, they have to be scented well, and they must burn cleanly.  There are a couple of cult […]

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8th October 2013

Lucy Annabella Organics – Spearmint & Lemongrass Candle

I love discovering new brands, especially new organic brands.  When Lucy Annabella got in touch, I knew there were lots of things from the brand that I wanted to try as soon as I looked that their lovely clean, and easy to read website, but I settled on this Spearmint and Lemongrass candle, as has been well-documented previously, I go a little bonkers for mint-scented […]

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5th December 2012

Smells Like Christmas 3 – The Spitalfields Candle Company

All this week, and next, I’m talking about how to decorate your home (and yourself!) in scent ready for the festive season, bringing you my picks of the best scented products around. Today is the turn of the gorgeously sharp and citrussy Spitalfields Candle Company in Orange and Clove, which is bright, beautiful, and extremely cheerful. I found that it evokes wonderful memories of spiking […]

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4th December 2012

Smells Like Christmas 2 – Melt Christmas Candle

This week and next I’m showing you the best way to scent your home (and yourself!) ready for Christmas, and bringing you the best in Christmas smells traditional and modern. Today it’s the turn of the Christmas Candle from Melt, which is a blend of cinnamon, clove, vanilla, nutmeg, orange and spice, which is a traditional blend of ingredients that gives an almost “mulled” scent […]

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3rd December 2012

Smells Like Christmas 1 – NEOM Christmas Wish

It’s December, and to get into the Christmas mood this year, I’m mainly scenting the flat with the flavours of Christmas.  We don’t have much of a budget for decorations, and, being the creativity-free zones that we are, scent works much better for us.  So, for this week and next, I’ll be bringing you a series of mini-reviews of the products (including candles, body products, […]