35 of the Most Popular Candle Scents Every Girl Needs for the Holidays
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This post is all about the most popular candle scents every girl needs for the holiday season.
If you’re anything like us you have an obsession with candles, especially during the holiday season. The adorable holiday packaging and delicious scents that come with the holidays is hard to resist.
While some would probably care less about the special design and scent of a candle, we can’t deny a good smelling apartment. Not only do candles incase your home with a delicious scent, but they make it more cozy and inviting for you, your guests and family.
Whether you’re looking for a good-smelling holiday candle for your home, a Christmas gift for a friend, or something to add to a Christmas basket for a family member, these popular candle scents are sure to make your home smell great and feel cozy this holiday season.
This post is about the most popular candle scents.
Most Popular Candle Scents for the Holidays
Thanksgiving Candle Scents
1. Sweet Water Hello Fall Candle
Sweet Water Candles are some of the most popular candles for the holiday season. Their fall-scented candles are one of the bestsellers on Amazon! You won’t be disappointed!
2. Opalhouse Fall Day Candle
We love Opalhouse candles from Target. This one is perfect for the fall and Thanksgiving holiday, because it will bring the aroma for a fall day into your home.
3. Leaves — Bath & Body Works
This is by far one of Bath & Body Works most popular candle scents, and we are obsessed with this scent too! We’ve been buying this candle since high school and it is always a staple in our home for fall holidays.
4. Sweet Water Cinnamon Roll Candle
We can just imagine how delicious this candle smells. We included this candle in our Amazon fall decor post, and couldn’t help but adding it here. It’s one of Amazon’s best sellers. We know the mix of cinnamon, icing and buttery pastry makes such a decedent candle scent.
5. Apothecary 18 Glass Jar Candle
We are obsessed with the look and scent of these candles. The beautiful patterned glass adds elegance to your home, and the warm, rich scents this candle provides will create such a cozy vibe in your home or apartment.
6. Pumpkin Picking Homesick Candle
Have you heard of Homesick candles? We love these candles, because they create scents that transport you to different places and times when you remember smelling that smell. One whiff of this candle will take you to a pumpkin patch. Don’t believe us? Wait till you smell it in real life!
7. Harvest Spice Candle from Pottery Barn
Pottery Barn’s Harvest Spice candle is a perfect blend of cinnamon, clove, all spice and orange peel. This is a classic scent for fall and perfect to burn when friends and family are over for Thanksgiving festivities.
8. NEST Pumpkin Chai Candle
We smelled this candle in a boutique shop the other day and loved the scent of it. It’s the perfect spice and pumpkin scent for fall!
9. Opalhouse Bourbon Pumpkin Candle
This bourbon pumpkin candle is so rich and delicious smelling. This will warm up your house for the holiday season.
10. Capri Blue Pumpkin Clove Jar Candle
We buy this candle every year. We wait for it to be released in the fall time and snatch one up to have in our apartment. It comes in a gorgeous jar and the smell is the best!
11. Vanilla Pumpkin Marshmallow —Bath & Body Works
This is one of the most popular candle scents at Bath & Body Works and is one of our favorites too. It smells like a mixture of vanilla, pumpkin, and a smokey campfire.
12. Harvest —Yankee Candle
Yankee candle is another amazing and popular candle brand. This Harvest flavor in trending this year on their site and for good reason. It’s a mixture of cinnamon, cloves and musk.
13. Mini Pumpkin Latte Honey Orange Candle
How adorable is this mini pumpkin candle. We saw this at Target the other week and love the look and scent. It also looks super cute on a console table or coffee table too.
14. Anecdote Autumn Glass Candle
These candles are simple in design, but look so cute on a stack fo books or on your kitchen counter. They come in several different scents, and to be honest, we want them all.
15. Autumn Hayride Homesick Candle
Like we mentioned before, these Homesick candles transport you to a different time. This one literally smells like you are riding on the back of truck, filled with hay on a crisp autumn day.
16. Cappuccino Sicily Hill Candle
Sicily Hill is a luxurious candle brand that we just found out about through Oprah. We can just imagine how delicious this cappuccino candle smells.
17. Feu de Bois Wood Fire Candle
Diptque candles are also luxury candles from France. This one is one of the most popular candle scents they sell. It’s a wood fire scent, which reminds us of the smell of a crackling fire during the holidays.
Christmas Candle Scents
18. Christmas Cookie — Yankee Candle
Nothing says Christmas like a delicious and sweet Christmas cookie, and this candle smells just like one! We are a sucker for sweeter scents during the holidays and if you are too, you’ll love this scent!
19. Sweet Water Christmas Candle
Sweet Water candles from Amazon also has Christmas scents. Their Christmas candle sounds so dreamy. It’s a mixture of apple cider, cinnamon, Christmas tree, sugar cookie, and orange.
20. White Caramel Cold Brew — Bath & Body Works
How delicious does this scent sound? This candle is an online exclusive for the holidays, but it sounds so delicious smelling. If you love the smell of coffee, this candle is just for you!
21. Sweet Water Warm & Cozy Candle
This warm & cozy candle has notes of orange, vetiver, cinnamon, and pine.
22. Holiday Stroll Homesick Candle
Be transported on a holiday stroll with this amazing Homesick candle. It has notes of sugar plum, red currants, blackberries and sandalwood.
23. Anecdote Holiday Feels Candle Gift Set
This Holiday Feels candle gift set is the perfect gift for your friend or family member this holiday season. If you can’t decide on a holiday candle to buy, this one comes with six mini candles that will put you in the holiday feels!
24. Cypress & Pine Hearth & Hand Magnolia Candle
Cypress and pine are the quintessential scents of winter and Christmas, so if you love those earthy scents, this candle is perfect for you. It also comes in a beautiful jar that will look gorgeous on a coffee table or dresser.
25. Sweet Water Sweater Weather Candle
Winter means it’s sweater weather and this candle will bring some of the scents of winter into your home. It has notes of woods, warm spice and citrus.
26. Susannah Garrod Merry Moments Boxed Candle
These candles are the perfect gift for your best friend, coworker or a Christmas gift for your mom. It comes in a beautifully designed box and a jar to match.
27. Citrus & Clove 3-Wick Candle
If you love the smell of citrus and clove during the holiday season, this candle is perfect for you! It’s warm and cozy and this jar will add a beautiful texture to your living room.
28. The Nutcracker Homesick Candle
This candle that’s filled with spicy clove and vanilla is the perfect scent for Christmas. We love the Nutcracker, so this would be perfect to burn while watching the movie during the holidays.
29. Love/Peace/Joy Ceramic Season Candle Set
This candle set is a perfect stocking stuffer! Each candle is a different earth scent like, bergamot, citrus, pine and cypress.
30. Capri Blue Tinsel & Spice Glitz Jar Candle
Isn’t this glitter Capri Blue Candle so gorgeous and festive for the holiday season? The aroma that fills the room is spicy cinnamon, fir, clove and pomegranate.
31. Home Sweet Home — Yankee Candle
This candle will warm your home for the holidays. It has notes of apple, cinnamon nutmeg and musk. It will make your apartment feel like a warm and cozy home for the holidays.
32. Holiday Candle Tin
We want this milk and cookies holiday candle. Sweet almond and creamy cookie notes fill your home with a delicious smell. Your friends will think you’re baking cookies every time you burn it.
33. Mountain Teakwood —Bath & Body Works
This is another one of the most popular candle scents that Bath & Body works sells. It has a rich earthy tone. We love it because it reminds us of the cologne our grandpa used to use.
34. Winter Mantle Homesick Candle
We love the unique scent of this Winter Mantle candle. With notes of holly berry, fir and sugar, this candle is the perfect candle for Christmas.
35. Oatmeal Cookie Boulangerie Jar Candle
This is by far our favorite candle from Anthropologie. The oatmeal cookie scent will make you melt! It’s so yummy and such a cozy scent for the holidays.
This post is all about the most popular candle scents for the holidays.
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