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Amiya Baratan

Should You Light a Scented Candle With Dinner? Here's How Not to Ruin Your Menu With an Incompatible Fragrance

A dining area with a wood table set with rosey-pink glassware and placemats with a vase of flowers, raised serveware, and a trio of lit taper candles.

Take it from me, home fragrances are rarely, if ever, meant to stand on their own. Instead of simply serving up a cocktail of scents, they are meant to act in tandem with your decor, and in the case of a dinner party, your menu, too. But this is often left to be an afterthought.

Leaning into home fragrance trends can help, however, it isn't enough. In order to have the best scented candles to complement your menu and the overall ambiance of the evening, there are some intentional considerations to be made.

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