How they compare
| Candle | Price | Size | Burn | Per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diptyque Feu de Bois | — | 6.5 oz | 60 hrs | — |
| Pinon (P.F. Candle Co)Best value | $24.00 | 7.2 oz | 40 hrs | $0.60 |
Burn hours are as stated by each maker. Where a Burn Lab test exists we publish the measured figure instead and say so on the page. A dash means we have not verified that price ourselves yet.
The original
What Feu de Bois actually smells like
- Top
- Smouldering embers
- Middle
- Lapsang tea smoke
- Base
- Rare woods
The matches
How close each one gets
Pinon
P.F. Candle CoPine and fir balsam over amber and black pepper, closing on vanilla, cedarwood and cinnamon. The maker publishes those tiers. It is sweeter and more resinous than a pure conifer, and the vanilla is the tell.
Questions
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 is smoke so hard to dupe?
- Because most smoke accords are built from resins and burnt sugar, which smell active and sweet. The dry, mineral, slightly cold quality of a spent fire is expensive to reproduce, and it is the first thing a cheaper interpretation loses.
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