Feeling a bit like Marie Antoinette lately? About to lose your head? Relax instead and light your home like Versailles with a candle from Cire Trudon.
Founded in 1643, Cire Trudon served as the Royal wax manufacturer for the Queen and her court at Versailles, utilizing the best wax collected from the beehives of the Kingdom.
In 1811, Napoleon celebrated his son’s birth with a Trudon candle encrusted with three gold coins. Today, Cire Trudon’s motto remains “The bees work for God – and the King.”
You might add “and Me” – because these candles are the crème de la crème. Poured from Trudon’s signature vegetal wax, a mixture of soya and copra (dried coconut kernels), with a pure cotton wick, Cire Trudon’s candles are entirely biodegradable.
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Spiritus Sancti, our favorite Cire Trudon fragrance for the holidays, opens with vapors of incense that will have searching for the thurible.
With a heart note of lily of the valley and a base note of labdanum that evokes the muskiness of amber, Spiritus Sancti evokes one of those services at the cathedral affectionately known as “Smoky Mary’s” where midnight Mass on Christmas Eve is a banquet of bells and smells.
Once the fragrance permeates your rooms, it’s your call as to whether you’ll be singing Handel’s Messiah or declaiming, “Let them eat cake.”
Made in Normandy, France and housed in a gold-crested, hand-blown glass vessel from Vinci, Italy, Cire Trudon’s candles have a 55-hour burn time – which is plenty of time for you to determine if you’re the Queen or the Bishop.
