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Luxist Giveaway: Harry Slatkin Candles

Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

Interested in igniting a romance? How about increasing your energy? Scents and color can alter your mood, according to President of Home for Bath & Body Works and Luxist Awards Expert Panelist, Harry Slatkin. Indeed, a scented candle can instantly uplift your mood and please your senses, he says.

Rekindle a romance with the red Summer Melon candle. It is a fresh and fruity blend of peach, watermelon and pineapple, enhanced with creamy vanilla, papaya and rich cedarwood. Decorate your room in red hues to reignite the passion in your life.

Increase your energy with the yellow Sunflower candle. It has undertones of mandarin, grapefruit and green tea that will instantly increase your energy.

Quench your thirst with the Strawberry Patch candle. Its scent is a blend of ripe strawberries, juicy mango and tropical white peach gently layered with rich vanilla.

Relax with the blue Seaside Escape scented candle. It is a delightful blend of bright citrus, jasmine and rum layered with hints of guava, rich vanilla and musk that will leave you feeling calm and relaxed.

Escape to a tropical paradise and feel instantly renewed and refreshed by burning a green Island Margarita candle. It is an exotic blend of mandarin, blue iris and plum highlighted with sweet tangelo and sandalwood.

Follow Harry Slatkin on the Happy Hour Blog Tour. Don't miss Harry's next two tips posting tomorrow on Beauty Sundae and on Wednesday at Stylist. Harry will be on his Facebook page this Thursday from 7 pm to 8 pm (EST).

Please post a comment below. We have five Harry Slatkin candles provided to us by Bath & Body Works to give away as a goodwill gesture to our readers.

* The comment must be left and confirmed before May 21, 2010 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
* Five readers will receive a figural candle from Slatkin & Co's Fresh Picked Collection, valued at $12.50 each.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

This offer is now closed. Thank you for your participation.

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Jaime Hayon for Gaia & Gino: Valencia Collection

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Coming this May is the latest from designer Jaime Hayon for Gaia & Gino called the Valencia collection. Featuring a combination of Tealight holders and candlestick holders, all the pieces are meant to fit into each other to be stacked and arranged in any number of creative ways. Handmade and sandblasted by hand, the pieces all use clean lines, varying textures, and angles and clefts to play up the light and make the most of the crystal structure. Varying heights and lopsided arrangements also give off a sense of what I would call "sophisticated whimsy." Priced from $55 - $200 each.

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Gallery: The Valencia Collection

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Lafco New York's Avenue Candle Collection

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Lafco New York's Avenue Candle Collection

Lafco New York has just the thing to help shopping mavens destress after a tough day of swiping the Amex -- a new collection of eight candles named after the world's most famous shopping streets. Appropriately named the Avenue Candle Collection, the collection comprises Canton Road, Ave Montaigne, Bloor Street, Madison Avenue, Via Condotti, Bond Street, Stoleschnikov, and Bahnhofstrasse. All boast 75 - 85 hours burn time from a clean-burning soy wax blend, and the hand-blown glass vessels are hand-dipped in platinum or gold. $48 each

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Slatkin & Co. Tropical Escape Collection

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Slatkin & Co. Tropical Escape Collection

Luxist Beauty Expert and "Home Fragrance King" Harry Slatkin and his Slatkin & Co. have released -- in the nick of time to beat the winter blues -- the Tropical Escape Collection. And I admit, after just one whiff of these concentrated scents, I had a vision of myself on a beach, far away from the cold temps and dry air of NYC.

Slatkin & Co.'s three new island-inspired fragrances (think fruit, florals, and spice) are available in candles, home fragrance oils, concentrated room fragrances, and plug-in electric diffusers. In addition to the new scents, some classic favorite fragrances will round out the collection, which comprises:

Caribbean Escape (new): A tropical blend of melon, raspberry nectar, and Italian lemon, tempered with creamy coconut milk and raw sugarcane.
Island Margarita (new): An exotic blend of mandarin, blue iris, and green plum highlighted with sweet tangelo and rare sandalwood.
Seaside Escape (new): A delightful blend of bright citrus, jasmine, and dark rum layered with guava, rich vanilla, and musk.
Cool Tropical Breeze (odor-eliminating): A light, fruity blend of citrus, berry, and papaya layered with warm rum, sheer white freesia and musk

Big Wine Bottles Make Beautiful Lights

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Filed under: Decor, Wine

Here at Luxist we love big wine bottles and here's a new way to use them. NapaStyle is selling oversized wine bottles recast as hurricane lamps. The bottles are designed to fit over pillar candles up to 5" in diameter. The sizes range from 14-20" in height. The bottle prices range from $99 - $249. They can be used indoors but might be nice for the outdoors because the wine bottles offer the candles some protection from the elements.

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Godiva Candle Collection, Mmmm

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Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

Chocolatier Godiva recently introduced its Home Fragrance Collection of five candles, in collaboration with Laura Slatkin, wife of Harry, of Slatkin & Co.

The nicely-packaged candles come in five scents: Holiday Peppermint Bark, Milk Chocolate Truffle, Black Almond Truffle, White Chocolate Magnolia, and Raspberry Ganache.

The candles are the brand's first foray into the home fragrance category in its more-than 80-year history and represent a departure from Godiva's traditional culinary products.

Neiman Marcus carries the collection. One of these would make a lovely host gift. Reasonably priced at $22.50 each.

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Celebrity Restaurant Grease Fuels Growing Business

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Is there a market for celebrity restaurant grease? Further makes hand soap and candles from waste grease of some of Los Angeles's finest restaurants. The business began when Marshall Dostal began using restaurant grease and converting it to biofuel for his car. His wife Megan, a former event planner for Vogue Magazine, saw the drums of glycerin, a byproduct of the process and a business was born. Further products use an aromatic scent of bergamot, olive and exotic grasses. The Further candle is made from purified waste grease from Mario Batali and Nancy Silverton's delicious Mozza restaurant and sells for $24. I love this idea, I think there could be a whole line of signature candles for various restaurants.

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Diptyque Spring 2009 White Candle Coffret

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Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

Ultra-luxe Parisian parfumeur Diptyque is offering a White Candle Coffret gift box (above) for Spring 2009 evoking the fresh scents of the season. The three scented mini candles offer a "fragrant harmony of floral and herbal notes", comprised of Roses, Freesia and Lierre (Ivy). Presented in a crisp white box, the trio can be burned together or individually; each candle burns for 30 hours. Roses "evokes the world's most universally loved flower", Lierre "evokes the branches of ivy leaves running on the walls of an antique house", and Freesia "presents the scent of delicious, peppery white flowers wafting in the air of a beautiful spring morning." Priced at $98, the Coffret is available at the Diptyque stores in San Francisco and New York, as well as select boutiques. The firm was founded on Paris' famed Boulevard Saint-Germain in 1961.

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Valentine Essentials: Scented Candles

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Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance

The other day I heard a couple of talk show hosts, a man and a woman, talking on the radio about romance and whether it is "manly" for a man to light scented candles. I like to think we are beyond such narrow viewpoints, pleasant scents and mood lighting should be for everyone. Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion to light fragrant candles in the name of love and it can be wonderful if you do it right, which may mean a little planning ahead. You won't find truly transcendent scents at the local grocery store.

We'll start this off with the obvious choice, a chocolate scented candle. Chocolate is a popular scent but one that is pretty hard to get right. The Flare Chocolate Bark candle is chocolately without being overly sweet or fake. It sells for $22. Check the gallery for ten more ideas.

Gallery: Ten Valentine's Day Candle Ideas

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Flammable Wood Gift Box

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This nifty Flammable Wood Gift Box by Baxter of California could help you cross a few people off your Christmas shopping list this year, possibly even including a few hard-to-shop-for bachelors who like to keep a nice place. The box was designed by Mark Atlan and comes with three "Flammable" soy-based candles inside in the scents Cassis Noir, Jasmin Noir, and Tubereuse Noire.

Candles can seem a little stale when given as a gift these days but the truth is people do like using them and the packaging is what makes this set unique. $135

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The Either-Or Dish Set

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Filed under: Decor, Dining

This Either-Or Dish Set by by troels seidenfaden for magppie and available from Unica Home is insanely simple considering it's designed to serve two very different purposes: beautiful candle-lit centerpiece or classic serving dish. Made of sleek, tough, and timeless stainless steel, the set consists of three bowls, three tea light holders that double as lids, and a specially-shaped tray designed to hold them all in elegant style. A high-quality and uber-useful party staple for yourself, plus it could make a great gift for the friend or hostess who already seems to have everything. $158

Gallery: Either-Or Dish Set

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Bravit Candles Shift Shape While Burning

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These very cool "pathing" candles -- Bravit Decoration Candles, by Authentics ($28) -- leave you in the dark as to what shape they will become while burning. Due to the weaving wick, they will continually change shape as the wick moves about. The wick formation also will cause the flame to split into two at any intersection. Available in a number of patterns on different Web sites, and also available in the numbers 0-9 ($24); great idea for birthday parties! You'll also want a base ($6-8), available on the same page as the first candle linked in this post. As seen on youTube!

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Isabelle Helping the Children, Charity of the Day

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Filed under: Charity, Charity of the Day, Children

Isabelle Fields was inspired by the story of a little girl named Alex from Philadelphia who successfully raised a staggering 6 million dollars for cancer research through sales from her lemonade stand! Isabelle vowed to do the same, she began making scented soaps and candles, sales took off instantly... and every penny goes straight to cancer research programs and children's hospitals. Her cause is getting quite a bit of press, I first heard about her products in Us Magazine. Check out this little girls charming products, prices range from $14-$24, and help her realize her dream of helping others! Isabellehelpingthechildren.com

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Candle Trousseau by Jo Malone

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Filed under: Decor, Cosmetics and Fragrance, Preferred

Jo Malone is famous for their luxurious skin care products and delicious fragrances. Products are always presented exquisitely, the signature cream packaging evokes a similar response as the little blue Tiffany & Co. box! This mothers day, Jo Malone has designed the perfect luxury mothers day gift. Candle Trousseau offers a collection of the most popular scented candles (Pomegranate Noir, Grapefruit, Wild Fig & Cassis) and Jo Malone matches, along with a sterling silver candle snuffer and a key, all presented in a timeless leather box. This is a stylish and stunning gift that will be remembered for a long time. Available on BergdorfGoodman.com for $575.

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The Michael S Smith Collection for Agraria

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There's no easier or simpler way to both boost your mood and give an entire room a makeover than to infuse it with a beautiful scent. The Michael S. Smith Collection for Agraria is a great way to do that, with two scents available in your choice of mix and match candle, fragrance sheets, and AirEssence options. The new fragrances, Angkor and Palma, are born of quite different inspirations -- Angkor coming from deep in the Cambodian rainforests and Palma heralding from sunny Mallorca. Prices range from $28 to $105, depending.

Gallery: The Michael S. Smith Collection for Agraria