Always on the hunt for candle perfection, alas, I arrive at:
Alexa Rodulfo’s candles have been the go-to interior accessory for connoisseurs of sophisticated fragrance and chic design. Her latest scent debuts, BOIS NU and BOIS DE ROSE, are two extraordinarily sensual candles. True luxury items. Alexa has personally worked with the most revered French noses in the industry to create a pas de deux of fragrances that are provocative, complex and unique. The result is at once primal and elegant, soft, yet sexy. And always evoking calmness, and pleasure.
BOIS DE ROSE is the one I'm burning now and it's literally changing the whole vibe in this kid/baby infested apartment cluttered with primary colored plastic toys that makes me want to jump off the balcony hire a live-in housekeeper that I can't afford this very second. So not happening on two writer's budgets. It's meant to evoke a walk in the Provençal countryside, classically feminine and alluring, but with just enough edge to keep it modern. The bouquet of fresh mint and aromatic geranium, violet leaves, jasmine, white lily, peony petals and, of course, roses is offset by wood winds of cedar and vetiver. I'M IN EFFEN HEAVEN!!
As Alexa describes it, “It is the feeling you have when you arrive at a place you love and there is an arrangement of fresh flowers on the table. You know you have been there before, but there is something new and beautiful that surprises you.”
The handcrafted candles are mixed and poured in Grasse, France, by the village’s world-renowned candlemakers using cotton wicks. They are then carefully poured into French glass with an elegant lead-free pewter lid, which is hand etched by artisans. Each candle burns for approximately 50 hours.