I’m not really a scented candle girl.  I think that the Yankee Candle Co is the most disgusting place on earth, I dont know how people can work there.  I’ve walked into one and had a full blown headache within minutes.  Maybe their candles are nice in small doses, but I’ll never know since I’m afraid that my brain would hemorrhage before I could get my credit card out to pay for one.  I do, however, have one candle in my bedroom that I like to light occasionally, the Cote Bastide Figuier (a.k.a. fig) candle.  The fig scent is green.  Very green.   It’s definitely not the sickly sweet scent of a Fig Newton, it smells more like a young ficus in the early summer who’s delicious little figs are just starting to ripen, but aren’t quite ready to eat yet.  It’s woody and earthy and fresh with the promise of good things to come.  Ah, I love complicated scents, they are so much more fun than things that smell like “Strawberry”.

This candle is also not one who’s going to knock you on your ass when you light it.  Typically I’ll light mine and forget about it, then 10 minutes later I’ll put my book down because I’ll suddenly catch a whiff of it floating past me and just as suddenly it will subside, only to come back a few minutes later.  TEASE.  But I suppose you can’t expect a complicated scent to be easy, no she plays games.  Anyway, it actually makes me stop and take a moment smell the air occasionally, which is, in reality, what makes scented candles relaxing to begin with.  The other great thing about this candle is it’s white.  Isn’t it the most annoying thing ever when you love the scent of something, but it’s some ugly bright purple and your room is decorated in muted earth tones?  Yeah right, like I’d stick that tacky purple thing in my house… please!  Totally disappointing.  So, yeah.  White wax, plain glass container, totally removable label (I’m a chronic label remover), very unassuming, perfect for anywhere.  Yay fig candle!  And if you aren’t into candles, or aren’t allowed to play with matches, Cote Bastide also makes a divine Fig scented roomspray which I’m tempted to use as perfume (It smells a lot like L’Artisan’s Fig), and also  fig bar soap and fig bath gel.  All the in same church, but different pews… haha.  get it?  pews? ehh…