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Tablescapers, artists, sustainability experts, and budgeting aficionados; here’s our guide for buying the best Autumnal dinner tapered candles.
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There’s nothing like candlelight to set the tone and atmosphere of a dinner party, a bath, or just for a autumnal working from home companion. We’re looking specifically at tapered dinner candles (that means the shape of the candle gradually elongates and thins out as you get nearer the top). Here’s our round up of the finest.
Best For: If you’re looking to spend your money on small businesses, Retroverse Vintage (of Etsy), are selling gorgeously long tapered dinner candles in soft pastel colours of lilacs, pinks, turquoises, that’ll add a pop of dopamine onto your tablescaping.
£5.50 per candle, Retroverse Vintage on Etsy, etsy.com
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Crafted in Cumbria, Toast’s take to the tapered dinner candle is going old school. These candles (which come in a pair tied together), are made from English beeswax, where the traditional hand-dipping technique is used (which has been done at the Cumbrian workshop for over 40 years).
This means you repeatedly dip the wicks (that are suspended from a frame) eventually until the molten wax cools, only for another layer to be added, until you eventually end up with a beautiful candle. Oh, and it also arrives in a recycled box.
Best For: This one’s makes a fabulous gifting option.
English Beeswax Dinner Candles, £10.50, Toast, toa.st
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Glassette’s stocking BZZWAX & Co’s tapered dinner candles, and we’ve got a particular penchant for this elongated noir candle.
It’s also good to know that this one’s a sustainable option. It’s made from organic beeswax, and for every candle lit, one pollinates an acre of flowers to provide fertile habitat for bees.
Best For: Tarot card readings, summer solstice dinners, or any gatherings of a more witchy note.
Very Thins Black Organic Beeswax Dinner Candle Set, £22, Glassette, glassette.com
Bianca (of Babel Candles, @bableit) hand paints little motifs on her dinner candles; we’re taking our cue with her zesty zingy citrus number.
Best For: If you’re hosting a no holds barred knees up dinner extravaganza, and want a little ‘artiste’ touch to the table.
Simply the Zest, £16, Babel Candles, bableyourtable.com
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Best For: Low key evenings, matched with a white tablecloth and paired back décor for a minimalist but make it chic moment.
50 Dinner Candles for £33.99 at Price’s Candles, prices-candles.co.uk
These hand marbled tapered dinner candles, crafted By Alice, are the ultimate choix if you’re all about dramatic spectacle for your tablescape.
Best For: If you’re really wanting to push the boat out with the aesthetics, why not indulge in a matching marbled tablecloth and matching napkin set from a moody but beautiful number by Summerill & Bishop.
Hand Marbled Dinner Candles, £12, Collagerie, collagerie.com
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