D'ORSAY candles

Don’t know about you, but we’re still #WFH – Wafting From Home. It’s one of the perks of the new style of working: being able to tap at our computers, file papers and make Zoom calls in a ‘scentscape’ of our choosing. (Not many shared offices, in our experience,

These candles recently landed on our desks from a French heritage fragrance name that’s had a stylish makeover, introducing amber glass candles alongside their new look. (D’ORSAY’s first fragrance debuted in 1830, created for founder Alfred d’Orsay’s paramour, Margeurite Blessington. Wish we could have smelled that – but it’s impressive that the new owner, a perfume-loving entrepreneur by the name of Amélie Huynh is working with some of the world’s leading perfumers on D’ORSAY’s smells, including olfactive luminaries Olivia Giacobetti, Mark Buxton, Bertrand Duchaufour and Fanny Bal, as well as Vincent Ricord, who worked on the home fragrance line.

The candles take their inspo from the different times of day. Thus, you have lunchtime in the form of 13:30 Au Même Endroit (it translates as ‘in the same place), designed to conjure up the scent of ‘a horse ride in the forest’, a super-green and leathery scent with notes of hay and fresh grass, alongside black suede.

Or for later on, there’s the super-smoochy 21:30 Sous Les Draps (‘under the sheets’),  evoking – as D’Orsay put it – ‘a skin-to-skin moment.’ How so? Via notes of cumin, rose and moss.

And later still…? 23:15 À l’Abri des Regards is gorgeously feminine candle – the name means ‘behind closed doors’, but we’d equally describe this as a ‘Mummy’s handbag’ of a scent, with gorgeous heliotrope, lavender and a touch of forest-y birch.

These are definitely splurge-priced, but would make a wonderful gift if you can’t justify the indulgence. But the quality’s really impressive – and the waft factor, which means you can enjoy the scent from the other side of the room.

Or rather, office.

From £54 each for 190g – buy here

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