CANDLE CAFE SOCIETY

A long fur coat slinks through a half-open door on Paris’ rive gauche. A man approaches to gently lift the fur off her shoulders, careful to avoid touching her skin, while a waiter offers her a glass of champagne. Following the music, she steps into the library where friends and lovers whisper in dark corners and lie draped over one another in sensuous heaps on velvet cushions. Patchouli, amber and a hint of lavender carry the festive warmth of a party with your inner circle, and the promise of more to come.   Notes: Patchouli, Amber, Lavender   Perfumer: Carlos Benaïm   Frédéric Malle’s candles are both beautiful decorative objects and powerful fragrance diffusers. The wax, specifically suited to each fragrance oil, is hand-poured around a wick that burns with a clean and defined flame. The jar has a minimalistic color dichotomy, white on the outside and red on the inside, in matte porcelain. Lit, these candles transform a room into a place of warmth and comfort: your own safe-haven. - Burning time: 50 hours   - 220g single-wick candle. - Vegetal and tallow waxes are used in unique recipes to optimally diffuse each of the scents to their highest olfactory potential.   - Every detail is carefully thought out: the atmosphere created by the light and the magical diffusion of the perfume combine to create a playful everyday surrealism. The candle has a fascinating relationship to time: unlike the perfume that reveale itself with use and grows deeper, it slowly grows to gradually spread throughout your home.   - Objects of design that are almost as beautiful as the scents they encase, to make every day a special occasion.   - The way to perfume your home is not the same as the way to perfume your body, which is why home fragrances are developed and produced very differently from perfumes. For Frédéric Malle, star perfumers have taken on these new challenges and entered a different perfume world. An infinitely refined way to enchant everyday life. Each fragrance enlivens spaces in its own way and gives them that certain something of soul.   - Perfumer: CARLOS BENAÏM   Carlos Benaïm is considered to be America’s greatest living perfumer. He owes his success to a great intellectual curiosity that has always pushed him to embrace a world beyond the boundaries of perfume making. He discovered perfumery as a child through his father, who was a pharmacist in Morocco and had a passion for extracting essential oils. “Every summer,” Carlos Benaïm remembers: “my father and I would drive our Jeep through the countryside, in and out of picking and distillation spots, and I would feel his enthusiasm intensifying." He later acquired a deep knowledge of perfume composition under the tutelage of the renowned American perfumer Ernest Shiftan. When lighting a candle for the first time, leave it to burn for 2 to 3 hours to liquefy the entire surface of the wax and avoid the formation of a crater. Trim the wick regularly to avoid soot deposits on the jar. After use, center the wick regularly so that the candle burns evenly. It is recommended to ventilate the room after burning a candle.