The scents you love. Priced like they should be.
We match the fragrances people pay sixty dollars for, pour them into a heavier vessel, and publish the burn test for every one.
Find your scent's twin
Search the candle you already love. We show the closest match we make, side by side with the burn data.
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.
- Bath & Body Works
Eucalyptus Spearmint
No matches documented
- Bath & Body Works
Sweater Weather
Best match $0.60 per hour
- Boy Smells
Cowboy Kush
Best match $1.13 per hour
- Brooklyn Candle Studio
Santorini
Best match $0.36 per hour
- Byredo
Bibliotheque
No matches documented
- Diptyque
Feu de Bois
Best match $0.60 per hour
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.
We burn every candle before you do
Three units per scent, four hour sessions, weighed before and after. We publish the number we measured, not the number on the box, and we published the method before we had any results to report.
The protocol, in short
- units per scent
- 3
- per burn session
- 4 hr
- scale resolution
- 0.1 g
- 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
- Method published first
- The burn test protocol was public before any results
- 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.
Get the burn test results first
One email a month. New scents, new lab data, no discount noise.