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With stay-at-home orders still valid, the number of DIY kits for making candles among scent lovers has increased. In addition to providing essential items such as soy wax, wicks and decorative vessels for your creation, you also need an aromatic scented oil to make the perfect candle.
With the best scented oils for candles, you can develop your perfect candle scent by customizing your aroma to suit your preferences. With popular scents like sandalwood, bergamot, and rose, these perfume oils harness the soothing and sensory-invigorating aromatherapy benefits of pure essential oils to create a relaxing and serene ambience. They are also combined with a carrier oil to improve their potency and strength, and to ensure that your home is filled with the scent of your choice as soon as your candle is burned. Some of the best scented oils for candles come in curated sets and blends that combine similar scents and inspire moments of calm and recharge. Not only do they make a great addition to your candle making, they can also be used as diffuser oils and to scent your skin.
Discover the best candle scented oils below that will take your DIY candle making game to new heights.
Barnhouse Blue Tropical Bliss Fragrance Oil Set
For those who prefer to fill their home with tropical scents, the Barnhouse Blue Tropical Bliss fragrance oil set consists of tropical fruit-inspired fragrance oils that transport your senses. Inside you will find honeydew melon, pineapple, coconut cream, pear, mango and tropical passion fruit.
Barnhouse Blue Tropical Bliss Fragrance Oil Set
$ 17
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Lagunamoon fragrance oils gift set
The Lagunamoon Fragrance Oils gift set consists of 16 classic fragrances and invites you to channel your inner candle maker and perfumer with his endless fragrance possibilities. Inside, you’ll find ylang-ylang, forrester, sandalwood, black orchid, rosemary, parma violet, peppermint, lily, sea breeze, jasmine, honeysuckle, cinnamon, ginger, gardenia, fresh linen, and freesia.
Lagunamoon fragrance oils gift set
$ 29
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P&J Trading Store men’s set
The P & J Trading Gentlemen’s Set contains popular fragrances for men such as leather, cedar and sandalwood and six fragrance oils that form the perfect base notes for the foundation of your DIY candle scents. The set also includes Bay Rum, Teakwood and Sweet Tobacco.
P & J Trading Gentlemen’s Set
$ 17
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Kiehl’s Original Musk Oil
The original musk oil from Kiehl is described by the brand as a “soft and clean” unisex fragrance and combines refreshing and warm notes of bergamot nectar, orange blossom, rose, lily, ylang-ylang, neroli, clay cane, white patchouli and musk of this characteristic Scent.
Kiehl’s Original Musk Oil
$ 35
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Hotel Collection Black Velvet Fragrance Oil
With fascinating notes of citrus lemon, juicy black fig and flowery rose, the Hotel Collection Black Velvet Fragrance Oil creates a sultry aroma that fills your room with a unique blend of citrus fruits, woods and flowers. It also contains notes of bergamot, freesia, cedarwood, amber, musk, and blonde wood.
Hotel Collection Black Velvet Fragrance Oil
$ 35
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Le Labo Santal 33 perfume oil
Experience the brand’s signature scent in a new and exciting way with Le Labo Santal 33 perfume oil, which consists of cardamom, iris, purple, ambrox crackle, Australian sandalwood and cedarwood to add to its popular, rich and woody blend create.
Le Labo Santal 33 perfume oil
$ 152
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Nest Fragrances Moroccan Amber Reed Diffuser Liquid Refill
Bring home the best-selling Moroccan amber with Nest Fragrances Moroccan Amber Reed Diffuser Liquid Refill, a sultry and rich fragrance that combines notes of Moroccan amber, sweet patchouli, heliotrope and bergamot with a touch of eucalyptus.
Nest Fragrances Moroccan Amber Reed Diffuser Liquid Refill
$ 35
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Capri Blue diffuser oil in the volcano
The Capri Blue Diffuser Oil in Volcano offers the perfect combination of tropical, fruity and woody and contains notes of tropical fruits, sugared oranges, lemons, limes and mountain greens to create an inviting, warm and invigorating fragrance to fill your home with can.
Capri Blue diffuser oil in the volcano
$ 20
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The Body Shop Tuberose & Orange Blossom Home Fragrance Oil
Flower-scented candle fans will enjoy the relaxing and refreshing scent of the tuberose and orange blossom room fragrance oil from The Body Shop, which takes your senses into a serene garden thanks to its feminine blend of orange blossom essential oil and tuberose extract.
The tuberose & orange blossom fragrance oil from the Body Shop
$ 6
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Aēsop Anouk oil burner mixture
The Aēsop Anouk oil burner blend combines the soothing scents of popular citrus flavors such as bergamot, ylang-ylang and lemon, creating a relaxing and calm ambience that relieves stress and refreshes your senses.
Aēsop Anouk oil burner mixture
$ 39
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Vitruvi Unwind Kit
The Vitruvi Unwind Kit consists of four curated fragrances that take advantage of the rejuvenating and restorative aromatherapy benefits of essential oils. With its well thought-out mixes, it ensures a moment of rest and relaxation. The set includes Dusk (wood, frankincense, eucalyptus and lavender), Quiet (ylang-ylang, geranium, amyris and clary sage), Nightcap (black pepper, blood orange and ginger) and Sleep (lavender, frankincense, ylang-ylang, chamomile and vetiver ).
Vitruvi Unwind Kit
$ 54
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Gucci The Alchemist’s Garden A kiss made of purple perfumed oil
Gucci’s The Alchemist’s Garden A kiss of purple perfume oil is luxurious from the first moment thanks to its decorative, vintage-inspired bottle. It delivers a luscious floral scent of iris leaves, violets and musk and creates a delicate, powdery and intriguing aroma that will linger throughout your home.
Gucci The Alchemist’s Garden A kiss made of purple perfumed oil
$ 410
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