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Candelabra by Amorphous Perfume
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Amorphous PerfumeUnited States

Candelabra

Perfume OilOil

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SizeVolumePriceAvailability
5ml apothecary bottle5 ml$31In stock
10ml rollerball bottle10 ml$51In stock
12ml Glass Wand Bottle12 ml$62In stock

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Aroma palette is woody and liturgical. Highlights include burning beeswax candles, frankincense and myrrh, and rosewood.

Enter a dim chapel at dusk, where the only illumination comes from beeswax tapers flickering in a large candelabra, its golden smoke curling into the vaulted air. This haunting and meditative atmospheric glows with the resinous breath of a quiet church in winter.

At the heart of this composition is a hydrothermally carbonized frankincense extract that captures the unforgettable scent of resin burned in ritual. Rather than a typical incense note, this is the true smell of frankincense as it meets intense heat: a rising column of smoke from a brass censer, tinged with metal, wood, and ash. The frankincense is scorched but never acrid, complex but never overwhelmingly smoky. Alongside it, pyrogenated frankincense adds a deeper layer. This is frankincense stripped of adornment and left to burn, transformed by fire into something ancient and almost elemental. The effect is weightless and atmospheric, like the scent that clings to robes and stone after the ritual has ended.

A touch of myrrh lends a solemn balsamic warmth while the beeswax absolute gives a golden sweetness that never turns gourmand. It smells not of honey but of wax that has burned slowly through the night.Threaded through this atmosphere is a beautiful rosewood that gleams with the polished clarity of carved wood like the scent of an altar or a worn pew warmed by centuries of touch. This is a soft, haunting fragrance that lingers close to the skin.

*Non-vegan. Contains beeswax absolute.

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