Forget the mundane and everything you have previously encountered in the home fragrance arena. Cire Trudon, is a scented candle line so artistic, steeped in history and utterly unique that there can be no comparison to anything else. Its emergence onto the global luxury market in the last year is due to the re-branding genius of Ramdane Touhame, a renegade fashion designer turned candle maker.
Personally, I can’t get enough of Roi Soliel. Clean and elegant this scent was created to evoke the memory of Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors on a sunny day – waxed wooden floors warmed with sunshine and a light green scent suggesting formal gardens just outside the open windows. In the wide range of candles that make up the collection, this scent is destined to become their signature and an elegant classic.
Versailles Hall of Mirrors
As a counterpoint to some of the elegantly charming aromas, there are some really offbeat but intellectually intriguing scents. Odeur de Lune, was imagined from the components NASA found on the moon’s surface. It’s dark, gothic, otherworldly and somewhat dangerous. In it I smelled resin and camphor. This is not a candle for the faint-of-heart and, while I liked it, it elicited visceral responses from several friends. This candle will just have to be burned when I am alone and in a state of chic-but-broody-darkness.
The line, sold at Barneys, is offered under individual clear glass cloches. The ritual of selecting a frangrance by lifting and smelling the scent captured in the cloche is as lovely as the line itself.
Cire Trudon, purveyor of high quality wax products to kings, courts, churches and couturiers since 1643. Cire Trudon at Barneys New York