How they compare
| Candle | Price | Size | Burn | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bath & Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom | — | 14.5 oz | 25 hrs | — |
| Sunday Morning (Brooklyn Candle Studio)Best value | $34.00 | 7.5 oz | 50 hrs | $0.68 |
| Love Potion (Brooklyn Candle Studio) | $34.00 | 7.5 oz | 50 hrs | $0.68 |
| Santal (Brooklyn Candle Studio) | $34.00 | 7.5 oz | 50 hrs | $0.68 |
Burn hours are as stated by each maker, never measured by us. Where a shop publishes a different figure we record both and say so. A dash means we have not verified that price ourselves yet.
What Japanese Cherry Blossom actually smells like
- Top First impression, fades fastest
- Middle The body of the scent
- Base What lingers in the room
How close each one gets
Sunday Morning
Brooklyn Candle StudioPear and bergamot over jasmine and gardenia. Pear is the note the original is built on, and few candles carry it this clearly.
Love Potion
Brooklyn Candle StudioMandarin over lavender and jasmine blossoms. The powdery floral half, sweeter and with lavender in place of the pear.
Santal
Brooklyn Candle StudioSandalwood and vetiver under hinoki and cedar. The blushing sandalwood base with none of the blossom, for a much drier reading.
What people ask about this scent
- Are those the maker's note tiers?
- No. The maker publishes these notes as a flat list without a top, middle and base. The grouping shown here is ours, arranged to make the accord readable, and it should not be read as the maker's own structure.
- Why do cherry blossom candles smell so different from each other?
- Because cherry blossom has almost no extractable scent, so every version is a reconstruction. What the perfumer builds around it, pear here, does more to define the result than the blossom accord itself.
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