When you’re stuck indoors, your home tends to amalgamate into one big workplace, childcare, gym, and restaurant. Scent provides a sense of escape from the mundane, resetting the mood and providing a means of differentiating spaces in your home. Whether it’s a clean verdant fragrance for your home office; a woodsy scent reminiscent of a log cabin in the forest for your living room; or a heady, intoxicating iteration for the bedroom, good candles harnesses the power of scent to create different psychological environments and delineate spaces within your home.
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With a plethora of fresh, smoky, clean, woody, and musky candles available, we’ve put together our Albert Review-approved picks of the best candles for men.
1. Hutwoods Wood Sage & Sea Salt
Housed in a luxurious brushed black metal container, the Hutwoods Wood Sage & Sea Salt candle is clean and crisp, yet inviting. Fresh sea salt intermingles with earthy sage, driftwood, and fir leaves, making for an olfactory journey to the seaside. Made with eco-friendly wood wicks, Hutwoods candles make a soft crackling sound reminiscent of a log fire as they burn.
2. Lumira Cuban Tobacco
Warm and masculine, Lumira Cuban Tobacco draws inspiration from the glamour of Old Havana. A heady scent perfect for the evening, cardamom and clove and punctuated with tangy tangerine, fading into a complex scent of tobacco, mahogany, patchouli, and musk.
3. Glasshouse Fragrances Fireside In Queenstown
Take a sensory journey to a cosy cabin in the mountains of New Zealand with Glasshouse Fragrances Fireside In Queenstown. Guaiac wood and tonka bean combined with spicy notes of clove and cinnamon make for a candle akin to the feeling of sitting in front of a roaring fire.
4. Trudon Balmoral
Encapsulating the scent of damp leaves after the rain, Trudon Balmoral is verdant, herbaceous, and fresh. Green notes of foliage, cut grass, and mint are brightened by mild florals and underscored by pine wood and musk; the ideal refreshing, invigorating candle to light up during the day.
5. Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous
Decadent and sensual, this candle iteration lives up to its name. A nuanced, intoxicating candle ideal for setting the tone in the bedroom, Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous starts out with aromatic notes of clary sage and lavender, before descending into gourmand notes of bitter almond and vanilla. Tonka bean, orris root, leather, and amber add a rich warmth, making for a scent you’ll want to linger all night. For best results, pair with the fragrance of the same name.
6. The Busted Gentleman Apollo Candle
For the more visually inclined, The Busted Gentleman Apollo Candle is the way to go. Designed to be looked at (and definitely not burned), it’s the ideal centrepiece for any coffee table.
Words by John Deckard
Feature image courtesy of The Busted Gentleman
