Light Up Your Life With These 6 Cool Candle Brands

Custom candles? Yes, please! Scent Lab uses data from user questionnaires to build the perfect scent blend for each person. You get to choose from a wide range of pretty vessels, some of which even come in cool iridescent shades. You can provide feedback on each purchase, and the algorithms will adjust your candles to better suit your scent preferences.

If you’re looking for extremely unique scents, The New Savant is your answer. Take, for instance, the limited Summer Splendor candle, which smells just like a themed dinner party with notes of white wine, green olives and charred artichokes; or the Heatwave candle, with an intriguing blend of dill, basil, damp earth, cucumber and summer peaches. With a The New Savant candle burning, you can always expect guests to ask, “Oooh, what is that smell?”

Imagine a Saturday afternoon spent sketching next to a candle that smells like plaster, oil paint and amaretto liqueur. Or how about curling up on a rainy day while a candle that smells like fresh rain on marble burns in the background? Goest, an L.A.-based fragrance house, may be better known for its perfumes, but its candles are perfect for setting a scene with their innovative scent combinations.

Candle-obsessives can’t rave enough about Nette. These sustainable candles are luxurious, with options like Sunday Chess, a blend of incense and vanilla and Chai Milk, a dreamy gourmand. With Barbie all over your social media feeds, you don’t want to miss out on the brand’s limited Dream Land candle, a Barbie-inspired scent with notes of pink pepper, roasted chestnut, vanilla and woody leatherwood.

Lighting a candle, turning on a favorite song — these small tasks can really set a scene, which is what East York Street is all about. Each inventive scent blend (hello, tomato + tobacco leaf!) is accompanied by a specific playlist curated by Hannah, the candlemaker. Or, you can select playlists based on mood to mix-and-match the jams to your favorite scents. An added bonus? The candles always come beautifully and thoughtfully packaged, so each purchase is truly a gift to future you.

Do you ever wish you could travel through time? While a candle can’t actually help you do that, it can at least let you travel in your mind. Lighting each of the beautiful candles by KLEIO is like taking a trip to the past. Sail on an 18th-century ship with notes of salty air, dried tobacco and antique wood with the Sail the Stars candle, or take in hints of honey, fig, cinnamon and myrrh from the She is Pharaoh candle, which is designed to evoke Hatshepsut’s ancient Egyptian temple.