How to store your festive perfumes and candles
I am *done* with fur coat fragrances and Christmas pud candles - HBY?
Don’t know about you but I am sick to death of spraying or burning anything remotely festive-smelling. I need to consciously uncouple myself from all my favourite glam winter perfumes as they feel all kinds of wrong right now: too rich, too heady, too vanilla-laden and generally far too lipstick-powder-and-paint for January. Likewise with the Christmas candles: I had burnt through dozens throughout the season to create Instagram edits of ones that projected well and melted evenly, and every day in the dP household over the holidays we had our favourites glowing up the mantelpiece. But now? Urgh. No thanks. Even a mere whiff of pine or cinnamon makes me recoil. They need to go into temporary hiding for a good few month until, like a great ex-boyfriend, I’ll remember how much fun we had together and fall back in lust for a few carefree, naughty weeks of mischief and debauchery… before we all sober up and come to our senses yet again. Some of my candles are only a third melted, and most of my perfumes aren’t anywhere near finished, so here’s how I store mine safely to maintain their freshness until Mariah bellows that shuddering dulcet “I-ay-ay-ay-ay” chord come November 1st.