Weather in the house: Sprays, candles and plates with spring aromas
Text: Moore Sobolev, author of the telegram channel and beauty blog Fierce & Cute
If, like us, YOU count the days until spring, it's time to adjust a little reality for themselves. Home fragrances are great helpers in creating a mood, no matter what bad weather happened outside the window. At our request, Moore Soboleva shares the smells of confectionery, the sea and the fatal rose in various form factors - with them it will definitely become a little easier on the soul.
Diffuser Selection Excellence Cut Off Grass
1600 rubles
Sélection Excellence is a small perfumery brand invented by Russian Maria Borisova (Maria does the briefs, and makes them in a laboratory in Belgium). In addition to the actual perfume, the brand offers a short but spectacular line of diffusers for the house in beautiful ceramic bottles. The aromas are simple, mostly mono-saps, and pleasant - for example, the grassy and meadowy Cut Off Grass creates a pleasant contrast with the snow apocalypse outside the window.
Kobo Candles Cultured Saké Candle
3900 rubles
The American brand Kobo Candles has a huge range, and a very successful one: the brand manages to create complex aromas, but not annoying, bright, but not suffocating. Cultured Saké is conceived as a dedication to Japan, the main notes are sake, lotus and white tea. The smell turned out not solemn and formal, but merry and promising a quick spring. Classic Kobo candles are designed for eighty hours of burning (the travel version is twenty), so until spring, in fact, should be enough.
Mugler Angel Étoile des Rêves spray perfume
from 5950 rubles
Brand Mugler loves to rethink their own hits and every year releases updated versions of Angel and Alien, featuring bottles, a set of ingredients and notes. In 2016, the main smells were rethought several times: first, candles appeared (very elegant and fragrant), and second, the brand presented an inhuman beauty bottle of Angel Étoile des Rêves. "Star of Dreams" is positioned as the nightly version of Angel. It is lighter than a classic fragrance and is intended for flavoring linen, as well as for putting it on yourself before going to bed - in some way perfumery philosophy in a boudoir.
Paddywax Leo Tolstoy Candle
2900 rubles
The figure of the disgraced graph and the chief singer of the Russian spirit for some reason especially excites the creators of candles: Jardins d'Écrivans made a wonderful tar, and the American brand Paddywax - sweetish, which smells of fruit and oak moss, summer wood and slightly damp leaves. Leo Tolstoy is part of the Library series, which gathered the favorite writers of American intellectuals: Edgar Poe, Oscar Wilde, John Steinbeck. Only eight authors, of which Tolstoy is the only non-English speaking.
Aromatic records Santa Maria Novella Melograno
2352 rubles
The noble brand Santa Maria Novella has grown from a pharmacy of the same name of the 17th century and is proud that in its assortment there are still means that have not changed recipes since those very times. Few places in the public domain you can now find lavender smelling salt or monk lozenges, and here you are welcome. Among the many aromas of Santa Maria Novella for the house - sprays, candles, incense in ceramic pots - there are wax plates with herbs and flowers, similar to cakes. They need to hang in the closet, as if there are heavy brocade dresses and silk stockings.
Spray Amouage Smile
9800 rubles
The Omani brand Amouage makes not only complex, multifaceted and luxurious perfumes, but also a congenial line of home fragrances. Means from their most "light" series, Midnight Flower Collection, which includes candles and sprays, have simple names like Smile and Happy, but in fact justify their noble origin. So, today's hero; Smile at first seems to be an uncomplicated gourmet smell, but being sprayed in a room becomes much more interesting: the aroma of a warm pastry shop - cookies, berries and spices - appears a musky note, hinting that there is not only eating, but also sleeping, and doing something more interesting.
Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt Candle
5300 rubles
Jo Malone makes clear and light fragrances, devoid of snobbery characteristic of selective brands - that is why they are often recommended to beginners in perfumery. Even candles - a genre that implies bright, noticeable and often heavy smells - Jo Malone turns out to be unobtrusive and tender, as if the house itself smells great. The bitter and cold Wood Sage & Sea Salt opens with a sea wind, seaweed and wood — Christine Naichel, who made the scent, says she was trying to convey the smell of a British beach. He will rather remind us of the aromas of the Baltic Sea - but in the conditions of our winter any sea is good.
Frédéric Malle Chez Monsieur Candle
6700 rubles
A serious perfumery brand, which was made by a serious person, Frederick Mall, has everything seriously - including the line of fragrances for the house, which are made by the favorite perfumers of Mall and which do not coincide with his main line. Malle says that smells for the house should not be “sexy”, but stipulates that the Chez Monsieur candle is a small exception to this rule. Chez Monsieur, smelling of tobacco smoke and book dust erupted into the walls, was made by Bruno Jovanovic, who also composed Monsieur for Mallya.
Candle Elie Saab Essence № 1 Rose
5300 rubles
In addition to various variations on Elie Saab Le Parfum, the outstanding Lebanese designer in the perfumery portfolio has two exclusive lines: La Collection des Cuirs and La Collection des Essences (all fragrances for Saab are made by Francis Kyurkjyan). Several scents from the Essence line also exist in the form of candles - heavy black glasses, oriental luxury and deep, enveloping, all-filling aromas. Our heroine is a shameless, heavy, languid and all-devouring rose, devoid of the tremulousness inherent in this flower and turning any bedroom into an alcove of a femme fatale.
Photo: Central Department Store (1, 2), Aedes, Farmacia Internacional, Mugler, Jo Malone, Candlesbox, L'occitane, Aizel, Spadream, Paddywax