Byredo City Candles: eight scents, each a city’s story
The Swedish fragrance house releases an intimate collection of eight candles, each one a sensory portrait of a place. Artist Constance Tenvik has designed the series, now available in select retailers and online.
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Byredo’s new City Candles collection arrives as eight intimate olfactory portraits, each one distilled into wax and flame. The Swedish fragrance house, known for its refined approach to scent, has partnered with artist Constance Tenvik to create vessels that feel like small monuments to specific places: the kind of collection that transforms a room into a geography of memory and mood.
The candles themselves are housed in black vessels with paper labels that shift in colour and tone from piece to piece. Each flame burns warm against its designated hue, from terracotta to deep olive, from soft cream to dusty rose. The visual language is deliberately restrained, allowing the scent itself to do the storytelling.
What distinguishes this collection is its philosophical approach to place. Rather than superficial postcards of cities, each candle reads as an intimate character study: the kind of knowledge that comes only from having walked its streets, tasted its air, understood its particular light. Byredo has long trafficked in this specificity, and the City Candles extend that sensibility into a format that belongs equally to the bedside table and the living room shelf.
The collection is available now at selected stockists and online, with availability extending until the beginning of December.
Imagery courtesy of Byredo (@officialbyredo).