21 best autumn candles for living your best autumnal life
Summer's almost over, and there’s no better way to welcome autumn than by lighting the best scented candles and letting them envelop you in a warm, inviting aroma. The kind of fragrance that reminds you of new beginnings — crisp early mornings, freshly fallen leaves, the first page of a back-to-school notebook. After all, autumn isn’t just a time of year; it’s a feeling.
Much like chunky knitwear, cosy socks, and pumpkin-spiced lattes, you can never have too many scented candles when it’s chilly out. So in honour of the best season of the year (sorry, we don’t make the rules), we found the very best seasonal candles to light up. (Pro tip: To make sure you get the most out of whatever candle you choose, let it burn long enough for the entire top to melt on your first light. It’ll burn more evenly the next time).
Ahead, shop our favourite autumn candles, including options inspired by some of the top scents of the season — campfires, soft cashmere knits, and long walks in the woods. There's something for everyone, whether you prefer a budget-friendly pick from Amazon or a luxe luminary from Boy Smells that can basically double as home decor.
Our Top Picks
- Best overall autumn candle: Diptyque Baies Candle, £56
- Best affordable autumn candle: Yankee Candle, Woodland Road Trip, £10.99
- Best fresh autumn candle: Le Labo Cedre 11 Candle, £63
- Best pumpkin-scented autumn candle: Nest Pumpkin Chai Candle, £45
- Best heady autumn candle: Malin + Goetz Cannabis Candle, £50
An oldie but a goodie, Diptyque’s best-selling candle will fill your space with a sophisticated blend of black currant berries, accented with hints of leaves and rose.
- Top notes: Berries, roses, warm spice
- Size: 190g
- Burn time: 60 hours
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While the brand’s beloved teakwood and tobacco candle is a classic autumn scent, we think P.F. Candle Co.’s real star is its fig candle. It has a lovely infusion of spice clove and tobacco, which smells sort of like a leather jacket in a busy bar. But it’s not too smoky, thanks to sweeter notes of lavender and fig.
- Top notes: Evergreen, mission fig, spice
- Size: 204g
- Burn time: 40–50 hours
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Nest’s bestseller takes the pumpkin candle and elevates it with spicy masala chai, cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon. And yes, this glass jar totally counts as Halloween home decor.
- Top notes: Wild pumpkin, spicy masala chai, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon
- Size: 230g
- Burn time: 60 hours
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Imagine if you could take a crackling fireplace or campfire with you everywhere you go. Thanks to this candle’s woodsy mix of pine, birch tar, and ash it’s possible — without all the lingering fireside smoke, of course.
- Top notes: Dwarf pine wood, atlas cedar, smoke, oak, ash, cedar, birch, copaiba, resin, birch tar
- Size: 200g
- Burn time: 60 hours
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Cedre 11 takes you so deep into autumn it’s practically flirting with winter. With its notes of cedarwood, birch, guaiac, and amber, it’s a sweater-weather concoction that’s equal parts earthy, elegant, and romantic. Trust us: A Le Labo candle is worth every penny.
- Top notes: Cedar, birchwood
- Size: 245g
- Burn time: 60 hours
Formulated to make your home smell like an underground jazz club, this candle from Margiela’s fragrance line is accented with pink pepper, rum, tobacco, and vanilla. It’s certainly not intended to blend into the background, so pull this one out when you’re aiming to impress with immaculate vibes.
- Top notes: Pink pepper, primofiore lemon, neroli oil
- Size: 165g
- Burn time: 40 hours
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Bergamot, patchouli, fig, and black pepper are just a few of the notes that make up the complex scent of this candle, but it’s the sum total— including hazy, herbaceous notes of cannabis that may or may not take you back to your misspent youth — that sets the mood.
- Top notes: Oakmoss, sandalwood, amber-patchouli
- Size: 260g
- Burn time: 60 hours
Apart from smelling like a jug of spiced cider, this candle is housed in a gorgeous metallic vessel. Once you light this blend of fresh apples, cinnamon, and vanilla, you won’t even feel the need to visit an orchard this autumn.
- Top notes: Berries, grapes, apple, cinnamon, vanilla
- Size: 538g
- Burn time: 85 hours
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When we think of autumn, our minds almost immediately jump to thinking of pumpkins. This giant gourd candle turns the classic orange pumpkin into sleek silver decor on your countertop (or wherever you place it, obvi). It has five wicks, so you can bet that the sweet, dessert-like scent will encapsulate the room in no time.
- Top notes: Pumpkin, nutmeg, spiced cinnamon, vanilla
- Size: N/A
- Burn time: 56 hours
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“Boy Smells is so, so good at formulating complex, genderless fragrances, and IMO Cinderose exemplifies it the best. It's exactly what the name implies: Rose and tuberose, moss and smoke,” says Glamour's SEO manager, Beau Brink. “If you want to feel like you're being transported to a campfire in a fairy forest — and trust me, you do — this candle is worth every penny,” he adds.
- Top notes: Rose, orange blossom, jasmine with smoke, cedar, birch tar
- Size: 240g
- Burn time: 50 hours
Love Glossier’s perfume? Now your home can smell like it too. As one of the brand’s best-sellers, the mix of pink pepper and warm fruity notes leaves an impression — and reviewers love how long it lasts.
- Top notes: Pink pepper, iris, ambrette seeds, pear, mandarin
- Size: 1.2g
- Burn time: 45 hours
It turns out you don't have to spend loads of money to get a great autumn scented candle. Arran's beautiful candle boasts sweet, musky notes that combine lime, rose and sandalwood to create a unique, lightly floral fragrance that is designed to imitate the scent of a summer garden following a rainstorm. So. Dreamy.
- Top notes: Lime, rose, sandalwood
- Size: 8cl
- Burn time: 12 hours
Sana Jardin was one of the first luxury perfume houses to take a socially responsible approach to candle making through its fair trade “flower recycling” model. The brand's take on tuberose, Jaipur Chant, is a fresh and all-consuming scent with jasmine absolute and narcissus that makes for a sophisticated, grown-up autumn scent.
- Top notes: Tuberose, jasmine, narcisse, lemon, and musk
- Size: 190g
- Burn time: 48 hours
Can’t decide between pumpkin spice lattes or ginger nut biscuits? Now you don’t have to. This sugar-filled candle combines the aroma of spiced pumpkin, sweet vanilla and cinnamon, with the faintest addition of ginger lending warmth.
- Top notes: spiced pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, vanilla
- Size: 280g
- Burn time: 65 hours.
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We just had to add another holiday candle from Nest. Rich with the scent of warm cinnamon, wild plum, spicy patchuli leaf and soft cashmere wood, this super warming scent smells so good that we'll be burning it long into winter. The purple-tinted, glass vessel is super chic and can easily double up as an elegant trinket, too.
- Top notes: cinnamon, patchouli leaf, cashmere wood
- Size: 230g
- Burn time: 50 hours.
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This candle, which pairs sweet orange with smoky cedarwood reminds us of sitting around a toasty fireplace with a warming drink in hand. It’s a truly comforting scent that we envision burning long into the new year.
- Top notes: Cedar wood, sweet orange
- Size: 290g
- Burn time: 50 hours
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If an autumnal road trip through the British countryside could be a candle, it would be this one. This warm-scented blend is filled with enticing notes of jasmine, fir, vetiver, and warm suede that makes for a unique, lightly floral scent.
- Top notes: Green mandarin, frosted jasmine, white rose
- Size: 411g
- Burn time: 75 hours
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Byredo's cult favourite candle blends notes of peach, plum and peony with leather, patchuli and vanilla. The result? A sophisticated scent that spices up the room with a throw that emulates the scent of a collection of old books in a cosy library.
- Top notes: Peach, plum, peony, violet, leather, patchouli, vanilla
- Size: 240g
- Burn time: 60 hours
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Diptique’s new refillable range has arrived, and Temples de Mousses is our pick for autumn. It’s inspired by places around the world, with this blend taking inspiration from the scent of a Japanese garden where varieties of moss thrive. The floral-filled scent is beautifully layered with spicier, heady notes of cedar and matcha that are perfect for welcoming in the new season.
- Top notes: Moss absolute, cedar essence, matcha accord
- Size: 270g
- Burn time: 60 hours
Reach levels of nostalgia you never thought were possible with a wick that emulates the scent of fruit picking around sunset. This botanical-inspired candle is more than just its wick, though; pear, amber and musk combine to create a warming scent that will mark the autumn season each year.
- Top notes: Pear, quince, amber, apricot, musk,
- Size: 660g
- Burn time: 63 hours
