Hi friends,
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Today’s theme is: Literary/Bookish Candles I’d Make BUT I own bookish candles that I adore so I will talk about them instead!
The are all from the Flikerwix shop!
The first three are from the Throne of Glass series.
I have MANON who smells like amber, citrus, moon blossom and of course Iron teeth! She is a beautiful red color.
THE THIRTEEN is a vivid turuoise and smells of blackberries, chilled wine and of course sisterhood.
And THE GREAT LIBRARY OF TERRASEN is prairie green and smells of leather tomes, Terrasen pines and lost histories. Very fresh!
Another series I love is ACOTAR and my two favorite candles from that fandom are
NESTA of course black with sparkles and smelling spicy of spicy amber, vanilla bean and stolen power.
The SURIEL TEA EMPORIUM has a violet color and smells of black currant, bergamot, white tea and secrets.
On of my favorite book also got my favorite scent! Very regressive and smelling of childhood! For THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA we get berry ice cream!
The only danger is that you will want to eat that one!
ZODIAC ACADEMY has one of the most unique scent I have ever experienced for THE AWAKENING. Sadly it’s content is mysterious and described as air, water, fire and earth.
THOMAS CRESSWELL is my book boyfriend with Rowan Whitethorn and his candle smells very manly of bergamot, beguiling charm and citrus.
NIKOLAI LANTSOV has also a divine scent also very mysterious and described as deep sea, water and pirate prince.
Now a general scent for lovers of biker romances is YOU’RE MY RIDE OR DIE and that one is a real cocktail of blood orange, lime tequila and best bitches!
Thanks for reading!
Sophie
Oh man your scents sound absolutely heavenly! I especially love the last one because I can’t resist fruity/citris-y smells!
So many of these sound really good! Looks like I have a bookish candle shop to visit now. Thanks for the heads up.
I’m going to have to look up this candle shop. :)
For some reason your list had me thinking that publishers should put little fragrance inserts in special editions of books. I bet they would sell so fast.
I had no idea until this prompt came up that there were fandom-based candles. How fun!
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I really wish Flickerwix was still open! Katie had the best candles!
LOL, yes sometimes the candles smell good enough to eat or drink. My husband and I love both love candle shopping.
Evidently I don’t get out much. I didn’t know bookish candles were a thing.
I don’t have any book candles but im impressed by your collection!
I don’t think I’ve ever bought a bookish candle, but I have seen shops that sell them so maybe someday I need to add one or two to the candle scene rotation. :) Thanks so much for visiting my list today!
I’m a fan of citrus based scents, so I would like the one for Stalking Jack The Ripper.
Here’s a link to my TTT post
https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/%f0%9f%93%9a-toptentuesday-10-books-matched-with-candle-scents-tuesdaybookblog-booktwitter-booktwt-bookx/