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Floating Candles

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Floating Candles by Dark Tales

Olfactive Profile

Warm Sweet · Smoky · Resinous

About the Fragrance

Warm beeswax, honeyed amber, and a faint trail of candle smoke drifting through a great hall.

Note Pyramid

The composition

Composed by Arina Franzén. A unisex fragrance for autumn & winter.

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Top notes

the opening
  • Beeswax
  • Honey
    Honey
  • Smoke
    Smoke

Heart notes

the soul
  • Vanilla
    Vanilla
  • Tonka
  • Amber
    Amber

Base notes

the trail
  • Sandalwood
    Sandalwood
  • Soft Woods
  • Resins

Scent Profile

The fingerprint.

Freshness50
Warmth50
Sweetness50
Smokiness40
Florality50
Woodiness50

Performance

Longevity3/5
Sillage3/5
Projection3/5

Wearable in

SeasonAutumn · Winter
OccasionSignature
GenderUnisex
FamilyUnspecified

Main accords

Warm SweetSmokyResinous

Signature Moodboard

The world this scent lives in.

Sacred, cold smoke, stone vaults.

Textures

  • — Cold stone
  • — Resin tear
  • — Smoked silk
  • — Warm wax
  • — Spun sugar
  • — Tonka resin

Materials

Frankincense · Limestone · Brushed pewter · Vanilla pod · Amber resin · Toasted oak

Atmosphere

The room

Empty cathedral at the end of vespers

Weather

The air

Fog at dawn, 5°C

Interior Design

Monastic

Stone walls, beeswax candles, a single icon

Season

Autumn · Winter

Wears best in autumn and winter.

City Match

Rome at six in the morning

Also at home in Kyoto, Mount Athos, Lisbon.

Literary Match

Endō — Silence

Silence — Endō · The Cloud of Unknowing — Anonymous

In one line

Dark Tales

Floating Candles — sacred, cold smoke, stone vaults.

Imagery courtesy of Unsplash

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Try Before You Commit

Available samples.

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Available decants.