Up in flames: how expensive can a candle get?

Potent perfumes, elaborate holders and heritage appeal are driving scented-candle prices ever higher.

At the 450-year-old Cire Trudon factory, everything is done by hand.

Dan F. Stapleton

Apr 29, 2019 – 9.36am

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Nick Smart was a luxury-candle sceptic when he founded the perfume and home-fragrance distribution company Agence de Parfum in 2008. “I would burn a French candle and think, ‘This is nice, but is it worth four times what you might pay for a regular scented candle?’ I didn’t really understand,” he says.