Simple Scents

The Clue Is Rather Firmly In The Name.

There is a great deal of noise in home fragrance at the moment: elaborate vessels, elaborate origin stories, elaborate prices, and a paragraph on the box explaining what the scent is supposed to make you feel. Simple Scents has taken the opposite line and stuck to it, which requires more nerve than it sounds. Soy wax, hand poured in London, clean contemporary vessels that will not pick a fight with anything else on the shelf, and scent that gets on with the job unaccompanied.

The range goes beyond the candle to wax melts and burners, which is quietly the sensible way to buy home fragrance. The burner stays put, the melts change with the season or the mood, and over a year the whole arrangement costs rather less than replacing a candle every fortnight. The gift sets pairing a candle, a melt and a burner are the ones that move, for the obvious reason that they solve an entire birthday in one box.

For more for a quiet evening, have a browse of our candles and home fragrance and home and decor collections, or carry on to living room, bedroom and gift sets and hampers. There are more good presents in our gifts for her edit, and more close to home in British brands.