The scents you love. Priced like they should be.
Find what a sixty dollar candle actually smells like, what else smells like it, and what an hour of burning costs from each. Every figure attributed to whoever published it.
Find your scent's twin
Search the candle you already love. We show the closest alternatives we can verify, side by side with the burn figures and who published them.
- Maker
- Retailer
Nobody agrees how long a candle lasts
Burn time decides what a candle costs to use, and it is published by whoever is selling it to you. Makers and shops routinely give different figures for the same product. We collect every published number, say who published it, and show you where they disagree.
How we rank a conflict
- outranks the retailer
- Maker
- bound on any range
- Lower
- and date on every figure
- Source
Scents people are trying to replace
Each page compares the original with its closest alternatives on price, size, and what an hour of burning costs.
The houses people already love
Every comparison here starts with a candle someone owns and wants again for less. These are the ones we have done the work on, with the number of comparisons behind each.
What these candles actually smell like
Note pyramids, stated burn times, and where every figure came from, for the candles people ask about most. Listed alphabetically, because we will not imply a ranking we cannot support.
- 37
- candles documented, with note pyramids and their sourcing
- 26
- with a burn time we can attribute to whoever published it
- 11
- where nobody has published one, and we say so rather than guess
- Prices are dated
- We show the day we checked, because prices go stale
- Maker figures labelled
- Stated burn times are the maker's, never ours
- Sources named
- Every burn figure is attributed to whoever published it
- No paid placement
- Comparisons rank on cost per hour, nothing else
Not sure what you like yet
Six questions about the rooms you live in and the scents you already own. We match you to three candles and tell you why.