Still looking for vacation inspiration for those lingering PTO days? Consider taking a trek to Portland, home to the International Rose Test Garden. Here, new blooms are fostered and grown every year, creating an Instagram-worthy point of interest for travelers. If you can't quite make it to this part of the country before fall arrives, this candle is the next-best thing. It's three-part creation is made of botanical roses, fresh-cut grass and garden soil... and is a lot easier to keep alive than those houseplants you adopted while tipsy on frosé a week ago.
When you were a kiddo and free from the school bells, there was nothing quite as exciting as the moment your mom *finally* said "yes" to ice cream. When posed with the endless array of flavors, did you go with orange dreamsicle? If so, this candle will have you feeling all sorts of nostalgia. Just don't try and eat it!
Otherland founder Abigail Cook Stone used to bring back Nantucket Wild Beach Jam as a souvenir from her vacations at the beach in Sconset. In an effort to recreate this childhood treasure, she partnered with infamous perfumer Clément Gavarry and made this plum, peach and brown sugar candle. It'll have you wishing you could rewind time to simpler days with a single sniff.
Yep, we're talking about that Mrs. Meyer! Believe it or not, this soap company makes a pretty impressive line of candles — and this one exudes the countryside days of summer lovin'. Made of vegetable soy wax and poured in cute jelly jars, this sweet scent will take you down gravel roads lined with honeysuckle bushes and wild flowers.
OK so maybe you can't afford a beach house — yet. But you can invite the shore inside with this UK candle company. Notes of geranium, neroli, cedarwood and moss will have you thinking about nautical adventures and the maritime second-home life you're saving up those pretty pennies to have.
