Loewe Home Scents
Spanish fashion house botanicals in glazed earthenware
The most visually distinctive candles in luxury home fragrance. Loewe’s glazed earthenware vessels in saturated colour, filled with single-note botanical compositions that smell startlingly like the actual plant.
The Loewe Home Scents review
Loewe has been a Spanish leather house since 1846, but the home scents line launched under Jonathan Anderson’s creative direction is a thoroughly modern proposition. The vessels are glazed earthenware in colours that no other brand would attempt, deep tomato red, moss green, marine blue, and they function as objects in a room whether lit or not.
The fragrance approach is refreshingly literal. Tomato Leaves smells like crushed tomato vine, sharp and green and slightly bitter. Beetroot is earthy and mineral. Marihuana is resinous and herbal. These are single-idea compositions executed with unusual accuracy, and they work best for people who find traditional amber and vanilla candles tiring.
Burn quality is good without being exceptional, and the earthenware means you cannot see the wax level, which makes it easy to burn past the recommended point. Prices are firmly fashion-house tier. But for design impact and for anyone who wants a green rather than a warm scent profile, nothing else on this list competes.
Signature scents
- Tomato Leaves
- Beetroot
- Marihuana
- Oregano
- Roasted Hazelnut
The verdict
What we like
- The most striking vessel design in the category
- Botanical scents that smell genuinely like the plant
- Excellent option for people tired of amber and vanilla
- Earthenware vessels are highly reusable
- Refillable wax inserts on several formats
Worth knowing
- Fashion-house pricing
- Opaque vessel hides the remaining wax level
- Single-note profiles lack compositional depth