Transform Your Bathroom Into A Spa With These Scented Candles
The Best Scented Candles To Transform Your Bathroom Into A Spa
Our bathrooms are our sanctuaries; the place where we go to relax, unwind and indulge in everything from a steaming hot shower to escaping reality with a romantic bubble bath. But what makes your bathroom feel like a spa when nothing is working? A good scented candle.
I think most people would agree that a visit to a spa is the ultimate way to relax and unwind. They offer an array of services but my favourite part of the day is the relaxing hour at the end spent in a luxurious bath.
Of course, we can’t all escape to a fabulous hotel spa when we need a dose of chill, so how do we take our bog-standard bathroom at home and give it a spa-like upgrade? You’ve probably guessed it – adding scented candles to your self-care ritual is a fantastic place to start.
Tips To Make Your Bathroom Smell Amazing
- Open the windows daily. Bathrooms can get a little damp and stagnant without a blast of daily fresh air, so make sure you open your windows each day to let the breeze blow any dank smells away.
- Light a candle. Bet you didn’t see that one coming!
- Add a reed diffuser to the space. To add 24 hour fragrance to your powder-room, pop some reeds into a diffuser and enjoy the subtle scent. You can increase or decrease the scent strength by adding or removing reeds, and don’t forget to turn the reeds over every week.
- Dry your towels and floor mats. Making sure the fabric elements in your bathroom are able to dry when not in use will help avoid them getting that dank musty smell we all hate.
- Add flowers to the space. Plus they brighten things up!
Our Favourite Scented Candles For Your Bathroom
Aery’s Serene candle allows you to bask in a soft and inviting glow, bringing you comfort and tranquility when lit at bathtime. With notes of violet, lilac and spa water, along with hints of jasmine and balsam, this candle is an effective remedy to a busy day.
The Charleston Candle by 42Pressed combines notes of tea olive, sea salt, rosemary, and magnolia. Inspired by the vibrant cobblestone streets resplendent with magnolia of the US city, this fragrance perfectly balances fresh and floral notes making it spot on for your restroom.
This isn’t a strong scent, so may get lost if you have lots of perfumed bath oils on the go. However, with its warm cashmere, earthy vetiver, sandalwood, amber, and cedarwood notes entwined with eucalyptus and lilac, it creates a wonderful background ambiance for your pamper session.
The Love Is the Drug Candle by Bella Freud sets the tone for treating yourself to some luxury me-time. Its heady cocktail of sweet and sensual maraschino cherry, violet, and musk notes feel elegant and sumptuous, and the scent is strong enough to rise above the fragranced potions you fill your tub with.
The Goa Scented Candle by Boheme is a spicy, warm fragrance designed to transport your senses to pristine beaches where serenity rules supreme. The scent of bergamot sparkles while the warm blend of nag champa and white musk soothes the soul.
A moment of peace among lily of the valley, lilac, rose and jasmine. The Do Not Disturb Scented Candle by Cancelled Plans is filled with floral notes – it’s a peaceful moment amid nature where calls and notifications will be silenced until further notice.
It’s always so hard choosing which Boy Smells candle to light but for me, Cashmere Kush is the perfect addition to a home-spa experience thanks to its elegant floral notes. This Kush adaptation adds molecular wood notes and powdery musk to the bestselling original’s notes of amber, tulip and cannabis flowers: a fragrance for the gods.
This candle is a combination of cardamom, vanilla, clove, incense and orange blossom. It’s inspired by the scents in a bustling Italian pasticceria.
Elm Rd.’s Amira Scented Candle is inspired by the desert. Green mandarin with geranium balance out the rich aromas of oud and patchouli. A luscious floral arrangement that calls to mind dreams of Arabian Nights.
Restorative scents infused with eucalyptus, lavender, and mandarin essential oils are what make the Sulis Candle by Cedar so popular. This candle is perfect for moments of quiet peace and reflection.
Eucalyptus is invigorating, and in this fragrance, it’s paired with delicate florals and warmed woods. Field Kit’s Sauna Scented Candle features eucalyptus, rose, cedar, lily, and balsam notes. It’ll transform your bathroom into a revitalising space.
Evermore’s Venus Candle blooms with a light floral composition of gardenia, jasmine, and carnation, delicately married with velvet musk, and amber, on a tuberose base.
The It’s Casual Scented Candle by Cheeky is fresh and sweet with notes of lemon, eucalyptus, mint, vanilla, amyris, and dark musk. If you’re looking to create a chilled vibe, this airy fragrance is a lovely choice.
The colourful and beautiful mimosa blossoms that grow wild on the hillsides of Esterel Massi inspired Cire Trudon’s Estérel Candle. The flowery notes are placed over a foundation of iris and bergamot peel to produce a fragrance that exudes summer brilliance.
Tatine’s Sanctuary Candle exudes serenity thanks to Orientalist scent characteristics. The candle is perfumed with ginger, coriander, and sparkling mimosa. The fragrance is enhanced by delicate iris petals and temple sandalwood.
Smooth matcha green tea and earthy maté leaves are combined with crushed mint and vivid ginger in LAFCO’s Retreat Scented Candle to provide enlightened freshness. Clary sage herbal tones entwine with mystical palo santo wood to convert your bathroom into a spa-like sanctuary, uplifting and cleansing.
This Tuberose fragrance adds a hint of mystery to the air, perfect for enhancing your nighttime rituals. D.S. & Durga’s Tuberose Myrrhder Candle is a darkly floral scent with tuberose, spiced Ethiopian myrrh, cacao, currant, and Madagascar vanilla.
Earl of East’s Viagem Candle has an aroma inspired by late summers in Lisbon. A delightful, laid-back city. Along with the earthy fig, sweet coconut, green oregano, and vetiver create the impression of hazy and balmy summer nights.
Eym’s Laze Scented Candle features the calming, peaceful scent of frankincense and patchouli. The relaxing fragrance urges you to unwind, infusing any area with a sense of peaceful reflection. This natural candle, made with pure essential oils and clean soy wax, will undoubtedly relax you, guiding you towards tranquility.
The pure scent of fresh seaweed, chalk reef, and saltwater carry you along the coast thanks to the Walpole Bay Scented Candle from Haeckels. The scent is aromatic and fresh, with a foundation of resinous musk and rich green sweetness.
The invigorating scent of cedarwood, lemon, and lemongrass pervades Hobo + Co.’s Roam Candle. This travel-sized aromatherapy candle, made with essential oils, is the ideal way to relax no matter where you are in the universe.
L:A Bruket’s Grapefruit Candle provides the beautiful perfume of Citrus aurantium paradisii, which has a strong influence on the senses and emotions. It’s invigorating, euphoric, and refreshing all at the same time.
Notes of fennel, bergamot, rosemary, mountain pepper and rockrose are among the wild, fragrant mountain flora included in La Montaña’s First Light Scented Candle.
The Golden Hour Candle from Our Lovely Goods is inspired by that wonderful time when the light is just right, in the mellow glow of late summer, as the slow change of seasons gently happens. The fragrance is soft, sweet, and earthy, with citrus, sandalwood, and moss as notes.
Skandinavisk’s LEMPI Candle features a classic combination of rose and strawberry, garden peony, and oakmoss. This candle is the ideal companion for your daydreams and giving thanks for life’s bright rays of bliss.
P.F. Candle Co’s Sunset line includes the Dusk Candle. With notes of clary sage, iris, and palo santo, Dusk is a mysterious, dreamy, and seductive fragrance. This scent is ideal for unwinding before bedtime and getting nostalgic in the evening.
R O E N’s Palisades Scented Candle is a beautiful combination of honeyed flowers that begins with the deep scent of freshly blossoming tuberose and gardenia. Softened by white wood undertones and a refreshing aquatic accord, this scent captures the spirit of its namesake.
Saint Fragrance’s Powdery Skies Scented Candle is made up of delicate bergamot and musk notes that float about in a velvety blanket of orris powder and white tea. Sustainable Sri Lankan black pepper and warming Indian ginger mingle with beautiful Virginian cedarwood to create a subtle yet comforting scent.
SOH Melbourne’s Grace Le Rose Candle is a blooming utopia packed with the aromas of juicy berry and vivid rose. Jasmine, pine, and patchouli are subtle notes that fill out this scent, reflecting nature’s bountiful beauty and elegance.
The Nomad Society’s Nocturna Candle evokes the lovely floral scent of night-flowers and gardens bathed in moonlight. Green notes mingle with delicate blossoms before giving way to woody base notes, that feel warm and comforting.
Bustle’s Jenny White knows “if you’re looking to make your bathroom feel like a tranquil sanctuary, the best bathroom candles can add soothing scents or ambiance.” In her roundup of “The 10 Best Bathroom Candles To Make Your Home Feel Like A Spa” she chose a number of fragrances that smell like the coast. Jenny also pointed out it’s nice to add additional ambiance by lighting unscented candles alongside your fragranced favourites.
Alicia Kort at Stylecaster picked a few floral candles for her roundup “Transform Your Bathroom Into a Spa with These Luxury Candles” – lavender and jasmine notes came out on top.
The team at CandleJunkies wrote a great article about “How to Choose The Best Candle For Your Bathroom” which featured tips such as keeping to lighter scents in small spaces, and choosing fresh notes such as citrus and mint.
The team at Eater are experts in restaurants and picked up on the way dining establishments use candles in their washrooms to enhance the experience. In “The Seductive Magic of Restaurant Bathroom Candles” they point out how candles from brands like Boy Smells, D.S. & Durga and Cire Trudon not only add a hint of luxury but “help restaurants tap into a broader sensory experience.”
