Candles and Home Fragrance: Purple shrine

-- Home Accents Today, 1/1/2008

All other hues will bow down before purple this season as candle and home fragrance offerings become drenched in this royal color. Various shades of violet, lilac and lavender graciously adorn the beautifully designed packages with matching scented treasures inside that smell as good as they look. Watch for purple to continue carrying the torch of glory, snuffing out other competition along the way. — Lindsey Strader

1. The Sealily aromatic reed diffuser from Illume Candles comes in a glass bottle decorated with Illume's signature floral motif and is packaged in a tall lavender box with silver floral designs ($30).

2. Delicate scents of vanilla, orris root, lavender, violet and rose are released from the Lavender and Vanilla reed diffuser from La Luz ($15). Also offered in Ginger Fig, this diffuser is fragranced with hints of plum, clover, heliotrope, vanilla and sandalwood ($15).

3. Presented in an Italian glass container, the ElizabethW Lavender room diffuser comes in a lavender box with hand-tied brown ribbon and reeds accompanied in their own case ($85). The Lilac Perfume candle from ElizabethW is hand-poured with specially formulated scent holding wax and packaged in a mauve box with chocolate hand-tied bow ($30).

4. Full of grace and elegance, the Lavender Square sachet from ElizabethW shelters handfuls of French lavender and other botanical seeds between the mist of silk organza and a fine layer of European linen ($22).

5. The scented Wisteria & Lilac hand-poured candle from Slatkin & Co. enclosed in a lavender box with silver bordering is also offered in a sugary Figue scent ($28 each).

6. Fragranced with freesia, iris, cassis, hyacinth, violet and peach, the Cassis & Viola candle from MOR Cosmetics is hand-poured into a violet Moroccan tea glass with gold accent designs and features a divine, draw-handle gift box ($29).

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