Red Flower’s visionary founder Yael Alkalay is the godmother of all gorgeous candles. Each scent comes beautifully topped with petals.
$38, www.redflower.com
This super-cool Chicago candlemaker pours super intriguing (and unisexy) scents into recycled glass by hand.
$35, www.florapdx.com
Is your host a spinning junkie? Bring her this candle and see if she doesn’t start to just break a sweat at the scent.
$42, available at SoulCycle locations
It’s made, er, grown from the eco-coolest materials: mushrooms. And the three scents are outrageously high-quality clean.
$32, www.liteandcycle.com
We love the double wick, the 60-hour burn time, and the scent of “winter,” a blend of spruce, mint, citrus, and vanilla.
($30), www.abchome.com
The pick-me-up scent of this soy-wax candle is also evocative of a far-flung spa.
($30), www.skinnyskinny.com
Brooklyn-based Love Nature is holding our feet to the fire over which holiday-appropriate scent we like best—Spice? Nutmeg & Cedarwood? Vanilla Fig? We’ll let you decide.
$28, www.lovenaturenyc.com
This spicy ginger scented spa-lifestyle candle, made by the popular nail and beauty line, has serious wow-factor.
$34, www.amazon.com
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